100th Congress (1987 - 1988)

1988/01/25
Daily Digest - Monday, January 25, 1988; pages D12 - D16  (Bound vol. D1-D2)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 
  
NATO DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on strategy and
capabilities for NATO defense, focusing on the implications for the Alliance
of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, receiving testimony
from Frank C. Carlucci, Secretary of Defense; and Admiral William J. Crowe,
Jr., USN, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee began hearings on the Treaty between
the United States and the USSR on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and
Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. No. 100-11), receiving testimony from
George P. Shultz, Secretary of State. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

No Joint hearings noted.




1988/01/26
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 26, 1988; pages D18 - D22  (Bound vol. D3-D5)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 
  
NATION'S WETLANDS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development
and Related Agencies concluded hearings on the implementation of the
Swampbuster provision of the 1985 Farm Act, which denies farm program benefits
to farmers who convert wetlands to cropland, after receiving testimony from
Milton Hertz, Administrator, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
Service, and Wilson Scaling, Chief, Soil Conservation Service, both of the
Department of Agriculture; and numerous public witnesses. 

NATO DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on strategy and
capabilities for NATO defense, focusing on the implications for the Alliance
of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, receiving testimony
from James R. Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Energy,
and Director of Central Intelligence. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Foreign Relations: On Monday, January 25, committee ordered
favorably reported an original  [*D20]  resolution (S. Res. 356) requesting
$2,438,915 in operating expenses for 1988. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued hearings on the Treaty
between the United States and the USSR on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc., No. 100-11),
receiving testimony from Max Kampleman, Counselor, Department of State, and
Chief U.S. Negotiator, Negotiations on Nuclear and Space Arms; and Maynard W.
Glitman, U.S. Negotiator on Intermediate-Range Nuclear Arms, Department of
State.

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported an
original resolution requesting $1,802,055 in operating expenses for 1988. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/01/27
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 27, 1988; pages D23 - D28  (Bound vol. D5-
D9)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NATO DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on strategy and
capabilities for NATO defense, focusing on the NATO-Warsaw Pact military
balance, NATO military strategy, and NATO force improvements, receiving
testimony from Senators Levin and Quayle; Ambassador David M. Abshire, former
Permanent Representative to NATO; and Phillip A. Karber, The BDM Corporation,
McLean, Virginia. 

Hearings continue on Friday, January 29. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original resolution (S. Res. 358) requesting $1,705,000 in
operating expenses for 1988. 

CELLULAR LICENSING 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings to review proposals to change the rules
under which the Federal Communications Commission will award rural cellular
"non-wireline" licenses, after receiving testimony from Gerald Brock, Chief,
Common Carrier Bureau, Federal Communications Commission; William C. MacLeod,
Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission; John E.
McCaw, McCaw Cellular Communications, Kirkland, Washington, Steven S. Seltzer,
Modern Communications Corporation, Altoona, Pennsylvania; E. William Henry,
Ginsburg, Feldman, and Bress, on behalf of the U.S. Independent Cellular
Telephone Association, Robert W. Maher, Cellular Telecommunications Industry
Association, Thomas A. Stroup, Telocator Network of America, all of
Washington, DC; H. Robert Neff, Billings Cellular Telephone Company, Billings,
Montana; Thomas C. Blum, Bell Atlantic Mobile Systems, Inc., Basking Ridge,
New Jersey; and John McAllister, W. Carolina Rural Telephone Cooperative,
Abbeville, South Carolina. 

 [*D25]  BUSINESS MEETING 

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

An original resolution (S. Res. 357) requesting $2,464,068 in operating
expenses for 1988; and 

S. 1889, to encourage geothermal development by extending geothermal leases,
with amendments. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued hearings on the Treaty
between the United States and the USSR on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc., No. 100-11),
receiving testimony from William P. Rogers and Cyrus R. Vance, both former
Secretaries of State; Lt. General Edward L. Rowny, USA (Ret.), Special
Representative for Arms Control and Disarmament Negotiations; and David M.
Abshire, former U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Anthony M. Kennedy, of California, to be an Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of the United States. 

Also, the committee approved for reporting an original resolution (S. Res.
360) requesting $4,373,629 in operating expenses for 1988. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Wade Brorby, of Wyoming, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth
Circuit, Suzanne B. Conlon, to be United States District Judge for the
Northern District of Illinois, Richard J. Arcara, to be United States District
Judge for the Western District of New York, and Paul V. Niemeyer, to be United
States District Judge for the District of Maryland, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Brorby was
introduced by Senator Simpson, Ms. Conlon was introduced by Senator Dixon, Mr.
Arcara was introduced by Senator D'Amato, and Mr. Niemeyer was introduced by
Senators Sarbanes and Mikulski. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following measures: 

S. 1721, to improve the congressional oversight of certain intelligence
activities, and to strengthen the process by which such activities are
approved within the Executive Branch, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute; and 

An original resolution (S. Res. 359) requesting $2,138,034 in operating
expenses for 1988. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/01/28
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 28, 1988; pages D29 - D35  (Bound vol. D9-
D12)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original resolution requesting $1,719,586 in operating expenses
for 1988. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations
of Grant S. Green, Jr., of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Force Management and Personnel, and J. Daniel Howard, of Tennessee, to be
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 362) requesting $3,384,299
in operating expenses for 1988. 

MERCHANT MARINE ACT 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Merchant
Marine concluded hearings on S. 1988, to require vessels used to transport
sewage sludge and the dredge material removed from and redeposited between any
two points within the exclusive economic zone to be built in the United
States, after receiving testimony from William A. Creelman, Deputy
Administrator for Great Lakes and Inland Waterways, Maritime Administration,
Department of Transportation; Kathryn C. Peterson, Chief, Carrier Rulings
Branch, United States Customs Service; Richard F. Albers, Standard Marine
Services, Bayonne, New Jersey, on behalf of American Waterways Operators,
Inc.; Eric P. Tanzberger, Bean Dredging Corporation, and Kenneth B. Dupont,
Avondale Industries, Inc., both of New Orleans, Louisiana; Gerard D. Blomberg,
B&B Dredging Corporation, New York, New York; Frank Pecquex, Seafarers
International Union, Camp Springs, Maryland; James E. Franklin, McDermott
Marine Construction, Morgan City, Louisiana; Leon C. Heron, Jr., Gulf Marine
Fabricators, Inc., Ingleside, Texas; Mayor Cedric S. LaFleur, Morgan City,
Louisiana; and John J. Stocker, Shipbuilders Council of America, Washington,
DC. 

COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on
S.J. Res. 231, to authorize the entry into force of the "Compact of Free
Association" between the United States and the Government of Palau, after
receiving testimony from James D. Berg, Director, Office of Freely Associated
State Affairs, Department of State; Larry Morgan, Director of Legislative and
Public Affairs, Department of the Interior; Lazarus E. Salii, President,
Republic of Palau; Santos Olikong, Speaker, Palau House of Delegates; and
Isabella Sumang and Rafaela Sumang, both of Koror, Palau. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original resolution (S. Res. 363) requesting $2,381,014 in
operating expenses for 1988. 

 [*D31]  COMMITTEE BUDGET 
  
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
resolution (S. Res. 361) requesting $2,503,993 in
operating expenses for 1988. 
  
INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued hearings on the Treaty
between the United States and the USSR on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. No. 100-11),
receiving testimony from Paul H. Nitze, Special Adviser to the President and
Secretary of State for Arms Control Matters, and Special Representative for
Arms Control and Disarmament Negotiations. 

Hearings continue on Monday, February 1. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Richard S. Williamson, of Illinois, to be Assistant Secretary of State for
International Organizations Affairs, after the nominee testified and answered
questions in his own behalf. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported an
original resolution (S. Res. 364) requesting $4,548,210 in operating expenses
for 1988. 

ORGANIZED CRIME 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
held closed hearings on organized crime activities, receiving testimony from
officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, Department of Justice. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

PANAMANIAN DRUG TRAFFICKING AND MONEY LAUNDERING 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
held hearings to examine the alleged role of officials of the Panamanian
government in drug trafficking and money laundering, receiving testimony from
William P. Rosenblatt, Assistant Commissioner of Enforcement, Steve Basha,
Chief Counsel, Janet M. Gunther, Chief, Financial Intelligence Branch, and
Laura Sherman, Special Agent, all of the U.S. Customs Service, Department of
the Treasury; Sam Buffone, Asbill, Junkin, Myers, and Buffone, Washington, DC;
and Steven M. Kalish, a Government witness. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

CANCER DETECTION IN WOMEN 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to review
procedures for cancer detection in women, focusing on mammography and the
early detection of breast cancer, and problems in the medical testing industry
concerning pap tests, receiving testimony from Charles Smart, Chief, Community
Oncology Rehabilitation Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes
of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; Jill Ireland, American
Cancer Society, Lea Thompson, WRC-TV News 4, and Dr. Cyril A. Schulman, George
Washington University, all of Washington, DC; Rose Kushner, Breast Cancer
Advisory Center, Kensington, Maryland; Philip Strax, University of Miami
School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; Dixie Melillo, Pasadena Bayshore Medical
Center, Houston, Texas; Robert Hasselbrack, Accu-Pap Diagnostic Services, and
Barbara Arbuckle, both of Seattle, Washington; Patricia Ashton, Cell
Diagonistics, Inc., Durham, North Carolina, representing The American Society
for Cytotechnology; and Herbert Dickerman, New York State Department of
Health, Albany. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INF TREATY 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on U.S.
monitoring capabilities with respect to the Treaty Between the United States
and the USSR on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range
Missiles (Treaty Doc. 100-11), receiving testimony from Max Kampleman,
Counselor, Department of State, and Chief U.S. Negotiator, Negotiations on
Nuclear and Space Arms; and Maynard Glitman, U.S. Negotiator on
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Arms, Department of State. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Special Committee on Aging: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution requesting $1,111,255 in operating expenses for 1988. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/02/01
Daily Digest - Monday, February 1, 1988; pages D37 - D42  (Bound vol. D12-D15)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NATO DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on NATO-Warsaw Pact
military balance, NATO military strategy, and NATO force improvements,
receiving testimony from General Bernard W. Rogers, USA (Ret.), former
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. European Command. 

Also, on Friday, January 29, the committee resumed hearings on strategy and
capabilities for NATO defense, focusing on the implications for the Alliance
of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, receiving testimony
from Harold G. Brown, former Secretary of Defense; and Jeane J. Kirkpatrick,
former U.S. Representative to the United Nations. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Ronald F. Lehman II, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Policy, after the nominee testified and answered
questions in his own behalf. 

Also, on Friday, January 29, the committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Grant S. Green, Jr., of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Force Management and Personnel, J. Daniel Howard, of Tennessee, to
be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, and 5,253 nominations in
the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, and an original resolution (S.
Res. 367) requesting $2,501,901 in operating expenses for 1988. 

PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATORY POLICIES ACT 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resouces: Committee held oversight hearings to
review proposals before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to clarify
certain requirements of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978,
provide guidelines for the use of competitive bidding systems to acquire
non-utility power under the Act, and create a new category of Independent
Power Producers (IPPs) who would be subject to reduced regulation under the
Federal Power Act. Receiving testimony from Martha C. Hesse, Chairman, and
Charles A. Trabandt, Charles G. Stalon, C.M. Naeve, and Anthony G. Sousa, all
Commissioners, all of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Edwyna G.
Anderson, Michigan Public Service Commission, Lansing, representing the
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; Robert J. Keegan,
Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, Boston; and Elizabeth Lacy,
Virginia Corporation Commission, Richmond. 

Hearings continue tommorrow. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on the Treaty
Between the United States and the USSR on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. No. 100-11),
receiving testimony from Frank C. Carlucci, Secretary of Defense; and Paul H.
Nitze, Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State for Arms
Control Matters, and Special Representative for Arms Control and Disarmament
Negotations. 

Also, on Friday, January 29, the committee concluded hearings on the
aforementioned Treaty from William H. Webster, Director of Central
Intelligence, who was accompanied by several of his associates. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: On Friday, January 29, the Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Major General William F. Burns, USA, of
Pennsylvania, to be Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency,
Leonard H.O. Spearman, Sr., of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Rwanda, and Chester E. Norris, Jr., of Maine, to be Ambassador to the Republic
of Equatorial Guinea, after the nominees testified and answered questions in
their own behalf. Major General Burns was introduced by Senators Heinz and
Specter, Mr. Spearman was introduced by Senator Gramm, and Mr. Norris was
introduced by Senator Cohen. 

 [*D39]  NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Friday, January 29, Subcommittee on
Labor held hearings to review practices and operations under the National
Labor Relations Act, receiving testimony from Gregory Harm, Lincoln, Nebraska;
Norman Medows, Jacksonville, Florida; Michael Kodluboy, St. Paul, Minnesota;
William Dickens, University of California, Berkeley; Maxine Hicks, Windsor,
Ohio; Robert Encinas, Las Cruces, New Mexico; John Delaney, Columbia
University and William Ragen, both of New York, New York; Frederick Swan,
Lexington, North Carolina; and Matthew Finken, Southern Methodist University
School of Law, Dallas Texas. 

Hearings continue on Friday, February 5. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Small Business: On Friday, January 29, the committee approved for
reporting an original resolution (S. Res. 366) requesting $983,492 in
operating expenses for 1988. 

INF TREATY 

Select Committee on Intelligence: On Friday, January 29, the committee
continued closed hearings on U.S. monitoring capabilities with respect to the
Treaty Between the United States and the USSR on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. 100-11), receiving
testimony from Frank C. Carlucci, Secretary of Defense; and Admiral William J.
Crowe, Jr., USN, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

Closed hearings continue on Wednesday, February 3. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/02/02
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 2, 1988; pages D58 - D64  (Bound vol. D16-
D20)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NATO 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on strategy and
capabilities for NATO defense, focusing on the NATO-Warsaw Pact military
balance, NATO strategy, and NATO force improvements, receiving testimony from
General John R. Galvin, USA, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. European Command. 

Also, the committee continued hearings on strategy and capabilities for NATO
defense, focusing on European perspectives on NATO's security posture,
including the implications for the Alliance of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear
Forces (INF) treaty, receiving testimony from Ambassador Richard R. Burt, U.S.
Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany. 

Committee will meet again tomorrow. 

FINANCIAL MARKETS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee began hearings to
review recent developments in the securities markets, focusing on events
surrounding the stock market crash of 1987, focusing on proposals for
structural and regulatory reforms, receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan,
Chairman, Federal Reserve System; and Nicholas F. Brady, Dillon, Read and Co.,
Inc., New York, New York. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

PUBLIC UTILITIES REGULATORY POLICIES ACT 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight
hearings to review proposals before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
to clarify certain requirements of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act
of 1978, provide guidelines for the use of competitive bidding systems to
acquire non-utility power under the Act, and create a new category of
Independent Power Producers (IPPs) which would be subject to reduced
regulation under the Federal Power Act, after receiving testimony from William
McCollam, Jr., Edison Electric Institute, John A. Anderson, Electricity
Consumers Resource Council, Larry Hobart, American Public Power Association,
and Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of America, all of Washington, DC; Jerry
E. Geist, Public Service Company of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Richard E.
Disbrow, American Electric Power Service Corporation, Columbus, Ohio; William
B. Ellis, Northeast Utilities, Hartford, Connecticut; Michael Peevey, Southern
California Edison, Rosemead, California; Martin N. Duggan, Hydra-Co
Enterprises, Inc., Syracuse, New York, representing the Cogeneration and
Independent Power Coalition of America, Inc.; Peter Borre,  [*D60]  J.
Makowski Associates, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, representing the Independent
Power Producers Working Group; Ken Lay, Enron Corporation, Houston, Texas;
John D. Kuhns, Catalyst Energy Corporation, New York, New York, representing
the National Independent Energy Producers; Joseph Cresci, Environmental Power
Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts; William J. Nicholson, Potlatch
Corporation, San Francisco, California, representing the American Paper
Institute; and Bernard H. Cherry, Oxbow Geothermal Corporation, Reno, Nevada. 

CONTRA AID 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered reported, unfavorably, S.J.
Res. 243, to provide additional assistance for the Nicaraguan Democratic
Resistance. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued hearings on the Treaty
Between the United States and the USSR on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. No. 100-11),
receiving testimony from Caspar W. Weinberger, Harold Brown, James R.
Schlesinger, Elliott Richardson, and Robert S. McNamara, all former
Secretaries of Defense. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

JUDICIAL SELECTION PROCESS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to review the
Administration's performance in nominating women and minorities as judicial
appointees, receiving testimony from Stephen J. Markman, Assistant Attorney
General, Office of Legal Policy, Department of Justice; Estelle Rogers,
Federation of Women Lawyers Judicial Screening Panel, Thomas Duckenfield,
National Bar Association, Robert E. Jordan, III, District of Columbia Bar,
Martha Saenz-Schroeder, D.C. Women's Bar Association, Iverson Mitchell,
Washington Bar Association, and Wiley A. Branton, all of Washington DC; and
Judith C. Chirlin, National Association of Women Judges, Los Angeles,
California. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee approved for reporting an
original resolution (S. Res. 373) requesting $4,581,000 in operating expenses
for 1988. 

YOUTH SERVICES EMPLOYMENT 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity held hearings on S. 1731, to establish a demonstration program to
provide educational and job-training services for severely disadvantaged
youths, receiving testimony from Robert Jones, Acting Assistant Secretary for
Employment and Training, Department of Labor; Mayor Kurt Schmoke, Baltimore,
Maryland, on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Mayors; Ohio State Senator
Michael R. White, Cleveland; Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Defense Fund,
Washington, DC; O.F. Wenzler, Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey,
representing the Greater Raritan Private Industry Council; and Dorothy
Stoneman, Youth Action Program of the East Harlem Block Schools, New York, New
York. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

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: 

Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: (S. Res. 370 -- $1,719,586) Senators
Leahy and Lugar; 

Indian Affairs: (S. Res. 374 -- $1,802,055) Senators Inouye and McCain; 

Finance: (S. Res. 361 -- $2,503,993) Senators Bentsen and Packwood; 

Governmental Affairs: (S. Res. 364 -- $4,548,210) Senators Glenn and Roth; 

Energy and Natural Resources: (S. Res. 357 -- $2,464,068) Senators Johnson and
McClure. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT 

Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings on S. 1993, to improve
the growth and development of small business concerns owned and controlled by
socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, especially through
participation in the Federal procurement process, and H.R. 1807, to set forth
specified small business eligibility requirements with respect to the Small
Business Administration's small business and capital ownership development
program and the award of Government procurement contracts under the small
business set-aside program, receiving testimony from James Abdnor,
Administrator, and John F. Moffitt, Associate Deputy Administrator for
Management and Administration, both of the Small Business Administration;
Robert P. Bedell, Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, Office of
Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget; and Parren
Mitchell, Minority Business Enterprise Legal Defense and Education Fund, and
Ray Kline and Thomas D. Morris, both of the National Academy of Public
Administration, all of Washington, DC. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

 [*D61]  INTELLIGENCE 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community. 

Committee will meet again tomorrow. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/02/03
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 3, 1988; pages D65 - D70  (Bound vol. D20-
D23

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Wendy L. Gramm, of Texas, to be Chairman of the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senators Inouye and Bentsen, testified and answered questions in her own
behalf. 
  
NATO 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on NATO force
deficiencies and improvements, receiving testimony from General Carl E. Vuono,
USA, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army; Admiral Carlisle A.H. Trost, USN, Chief of
Naval Operations; General Alfred M. Gray, Jr., USMC, Commandant of the Marine
Corps; and General Larry D. Welch, USAF, Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

FINANCIAL MARKETS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued hearings
to review recent developments in the securities markets, focusing on events
surrounding the stock market crash of 1987, and on proposals for structural
and regulatory reforms, receiving testimony from David S. Ruder, Chairman,
Securities and Exchange Commission; and Kalo A. Hineman, Acting Chairman,
Commodities Futures Trading Commission. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee began consideration of
proposed legislation relating to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 
  
 [*D66]  FEDERAL JUDICIARY BUILDING 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure concluded hearings on S.1934, to authorize
construction and leasing of a proposed building to house agencies of the
Judicial Branch of the government, after receiving testimony from George M.
White, Architect of the Capitol; L. Ralph Mecham, Director, and Raymond A.
Karam, Assistant Director for Administration, both of the Administrative
Office of the United States Courts; Warren E. Burger, former Chief Justice,
United States Supreme Court; and Elizabeth Rowe, Committee of 100 on the
Federal City, and David Sellin, Citizens Planning Coalition, both of
Washington, DC. 

NOMINATIONS 
  
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of John R. Davis, Jr., of California, to be U.S. Ambassador to
Poland, Chester E. Norris, Jr., of Maine, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Equatorial Guinea, Leonard H.O. Spearman, Sr., of Texas, to be Ambassador to
the Republic of Rwanda, Richard S. Williamson, of Illinois, to be an Assistant
Secretary of State, and two foreign service promotion lists received by the
Senate on January 26, 1988. 
  
INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued hearings on the Treaty
Between the United States and the USSR on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. No. 100-11),
receiving testimony from General John R. Galvin, Commander-in-Chief, U.S.
European Command; Richard R. Burt, U.S. Ambassador to Federal Republic of
Germany; Alton G. Keel, Jr., U.S. Representative on the Council of NATO; and
Evan G. Galbraith, former U.S. Ambassador to France. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 1904, to limit the use of lie detector examinations by employers involved
in or affecting interstate commerce, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute; and 

The nominations of Thomas G. Pownall, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Board
of Trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education
Foundation, Esther K. Everett, of New York, and Helen J. Valerio, of
Massachusetts, each to be a Member of the National Advisory Council on Women's
Educational Programs, Carolynn-Reid Wallace, of the District of Columbia, to
be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities, and Robert L. McElrath,
of Tennessee, and J. Wade Gilley, of Virginia, each to be a Member of the
National Advisory Council on Educational Research and Improvement. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET REQUESTS 

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

Foreign Relations: (S. Res. 356 -- $2,438,915) Senator Pell; 

Labor and Human Resources: (S. Res. 373 -- $4,581,000) Senator Hatch; 

Budget: (S. Res. 371 -- $3,027,546) Senators Chiles and Domenici; 

Small Business: (S. Res. 366 -- $983,492) Senators Bumpers and Weicker; 

Appropriations: (S. Res. 369 -- $4,119,856) Senators Stennis and Hatfield; 

Environment and Public Works: (S. Res. 363 -- $2,381,014) Senators Burdick and
Stafford. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to discuss
pending committee business, but made no announcements. 
  
INF TREATY 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed joint hearings with
the Committee on Armed Services on U.S. monitoring and verification
capabilities with respect to the Treaty Between the United States and the USSR
on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty
Doc. 100-11), receiving testimony from William Webster, Director of Central
Intelligence. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 16. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/02/04
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 4, 1988; pages D72 - D78  (Bound vol. D23-
D27)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NATO 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on the NATO-Warsaw
Pact military balance, NATO military strategy, and NATO force improvements,
receiving testimony from Richard N. Perle, former Assistant Secretary of
Defense for International Security Policy. 

Also, the committee met in closed session to receive testimony on the
NATO-Warsaw Pact military balance from Andrew W. Marshall, Director, and
Lieutenant Colonel Jeff S. McKitrick, USA, Military Assistant, both of the
Office of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

FINANCIAL MARKETS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued hearings
to review developments in the securities markets, focusing on events
surrounding the stock market crash of 1987, and on proposals for structural
and regulatory reforms, receiving testimony from Leo Melamed, John F. Sander,
and William J. Brodsky, all of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and Karsten
Mahlmann and Thomas R. Donovan, both of the Chicago Board of Trade, all of
Chicago, Illinois; Joseph R. Hardiman, National Association of Securities
Dealers, Washington, DC; and Kenneth R. Leibeer, American Stock Exchange, New
York, New York. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

CBO ANNUAL REPORT 

Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings to review the Congressional
Budget Office Annual Report, receiving testimony from James Blum, Acting
Director, Congressional Budget Office. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee continued consideration
of proposed legislation relating to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but
did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday, February
17. 
  
NOMINATION 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Charles L. Grizzle, of Kentucky, to be Assistant Administrator
for Administration and Resources Management of the Environmental Protection
Agency, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Ford and McConnell,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 
  
PENNSYLVANIA OIL SPILL 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection concluded hearings to review the facts of the recent oil spill from
the Ashland Oil Company terminal in Pennsylvania, and the subsequent discharge
of diesel oil into the Monongahela and Ohio Rivers, after receiving testimony
from Senators Heinz, Specter, and Daschle; Representative Walgren; J. Winston
Porter, Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency Response, and
James M. Seif, Regional Administrator, Region III, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
both of the Environmental Protection Agency; Rear Admiral J.W. Kime, Chief,
Office of Marine Safety, Security and Environmental Protection, U.S. Coast
Guard; Mark McClellan, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources,
Harrisburg; Richard Golob, World Information Systems, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; and John Hall, Ashland Oil Company, Ashland, Kentucky. 
  
NOMINATION 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Sydney
J. Olson, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human
Services, after the nominee testified and answered questions in her own
behalf. 
  
WELFARE REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on how to improve the
existing welfare system and how to promote the well-being of families with
children,  [*D74]  after receiving testimony from Senators Bingaman and
Cochran; Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox, Austin; Pierce A. Quinlan,
National Alliance of Business, Gerald W. McEntee and Stanley Hill, both of the
American Federation of State and County Municipal Employees, Robert
Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and David L. Levy,
National Council for Children's Rights, all of Washington, DC; Carl B.
Williams, California State Department of Social Services, Sacramento; Cindy C.
Haag, Utah State Department of Social Services, Salt Lake City; Reginia S.
Lipscomb, West Virginia Department of Human Services, Charleston; Robert G.
Williams, Political Studies Inc., Denver, Colorado; and Margaret Prescod,
Black Women For Wages For Housework, Los Angeles, California. 
  
NOMINATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Ronald F. Lehman II, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of
Defense for International Security Policy. 
  
INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued hearings on the Treaty
Between the United States and the USSR on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. No. 100-11),
receiving testimony from Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr., USN, Chairman, Joint
Chiefs of Staff; General Carl E. Vuono, USA, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army;
Admiral Carlisle A.H. Trost, USN, Chief of Naval Operations; General Larry D.
Welch, USAF, Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force; and General Alfred M. Gray, Jr.,
USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 16. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

The nominations of Wade Brorby, of Wyoming, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the
Tenth Circuit, Edward F. Harrington, to be U.S. District Judge for the
District of Massachusetts, Suzanne B. Conlon, to be U.S. District Judge for
the Northern District of Illinois, Richard J. Arcara, to be U.S. District
Judge for the Western District of New York, Paul V. Niemeyer, to be U.S.
District Judge for the District of Maryland, Robert J. Kabel, of Virginia, to
be a Member of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, Tony M. Graham, to be
United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma, James E. Wilson,
to be United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, Daniel F.
Romo-Lopez, to be United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, and
Romolo J. Imundi, to be U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of New York; 

S.J. Res. 206, to designate April 8, 1988 as "Dennis Chavez Day"; 

S.J. Res. 214, to designate the week of February 7-13, 1988 as "National Child
Passenger Safety Awareness Week"; 

S.J. Res. 218, to designate March 25, 1988 as "Greek Independence Day: A
National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy"; 

S.J. Res. 222, to designate the week of May 1-7, 1988 as "National Older
Americans Abuse Prevention Week"; 

S.J. Res. 223, to designate the week of April 10-16, 1988 as "National
Productivity Improvement Week"; 

S.J. Res. 224, to designate the week of September 5-11, 1988 as "National
School Dropout Prevention Week"; 

S.J. Res. 242, to designate the week of May 2-8, 1988 as "Public Service
Recognition Week"; 

S.J. Res. 245, to designate April 21, 1988 as "John Muir Day"; 

S.J. Res. 246, to designate the month of April 1988 as "National Child Abuse
Prevention Month"; 

S.J. Res. 190, to designate the week of June 6-12, 1988 as "National Fishing
Week", with amendments; and 

S. 450, to grant the status of a Federal corporation to the National Mining
Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc., to be located in Leadville, Colorado. 

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: 

Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: (S. Res. 358 -- $1,705,000) Senators
Proxmire and Garn; 

Aging: (S. Res. 368 -- $1,106,591) Senators Melcher and Heinz; 

Veterans' Affaris: (S. Res. 365 -- $1,016,583) Senator Cranston; 

Commerce, Science, and Transportation: (S. Res. 362 -- $3,384,299) Senators
Hollings and Danforth; 

Intelligence: (S. Res. 359 -- $2,138,034) Senators Boren and Cohen; 

Armed Services: (S. Res. 367 -- $2,501,901) Senators Nunn and Warner; and 

Judiciary: (S. Res. 360 -- $4,353,296) Senator Thurmond. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/02/08
Daily Digest - Monday, February 8, 1988; pages D80 - D82  (Bound vol. D27-D28)

Committee Meetings 

FINANCIAL MARKETS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Friday, February 5,
Committee continued hearings to review recent developments in the securities
markets, focusing on events surrounding the stock market crash of 1987, and on
proposals for structural and regulatory reforms, receiving testimony from
Richard L. Fogel, Assistant Comptroller, General Accounting Office; and John
J. Phelan, New York Stock Exchange, New York, New York. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: On Friday, February 5, Subcommittee on
European Affairs held hearings on the Treaty Between the United States and the
U.S.S.R. on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles
(Treaty Doc. No. 100-11), receiving testimony from Ton Frinking, Member of
Parliament, The Netherlands, John Cartwright, Member of Parliament, United
Kingdom, Francois Fillon, Deputy of the National Assembly, France, and Karsten
Voigt, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Republic of Germany, all on behalf of
the North Atlantic Assembly. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

DRUGS, LAW ENFORCEMENT AND FOREIGN POLICY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations resumed hearings to review international drug control
programs, focusing on law enforcement and foreign policy in Panama, receiving
testimony from General Paul Gorman, USA (Ret.), former Commander, Southern
Command, Charlottesville, Virginia; Robert Morgenthau, New York County
District Attorney, Manhattan; Leigh Ritch, Miami, Florida; and Gerald Loeb,
Salinas, California. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Friday, February 5, Subcommittee on
Labor concluded hearings to review practices and operations under the National
Labor Relations Act, after receiving testimony from Richard Reeves, Atlanta,
Georgia; Chris Majors, Mission Viejo, California; Kermit Beckwith, Tampa,
Florida; Frank Sullivan, and Eileen Hanson, both of Charlotte, North Carolina;
Humberto Salinas, Chicago, Illinois; Joline Kitski, Earlville, Illinois; Myron
Roomkin, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; and William Cooke,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 

Joint Meeting 

JANUARY EMPLOYMENT 

Joint Economic Committee: On Friday, February 5, Committee held hearings to
review the employment/unemployment situation for January, receiving testimony
from Janet L. Norwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of
Labor. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 



1988/02/09
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 9, 1988; pages D84 - D86  (Bound vol. D28-
D30)

Committee Meetings 

DRUGS, LAW ENFORCEMENT AND FOREIGN POLICY 
  
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations continued hearings to review international drug
control programs, focusing on law enforcement and foreign policy in Panama,
receiving testimony from Jose Blandon, former Consul General, Panama, Queens,
New York. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/02/15
Daily Digest - Monday, February 15, 1988; pages D87 - D88  (Bound vol. D30)

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/02/16
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 16, 1988; pages D90 - D96  (Bound vol. D30-
D33)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings in connection with the
Treaty Between the United States and the USSR on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. 100-11), receiving
testimony on allied perspectives on NATO's security posture from Rozanne L.
Ridgway, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs;
Ronald F. Lehman II, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security
Policy (designate); and Edward L. Rowny, Special Advisor to the President and
Secretary of State on Arms Control Matters; and receiving testimony on
strategy and capabilities for NATO defense, with emphasis on European
perspectives from Zbigniew Brzezinski, former Assistant to President Carter
for National Security Affairs. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

SPACE SHUTTLE 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held oversight hearings on the restoration of the space
shuttle to flight status, focusing on space shuttle anomaly resolution
activities, the proposed test program, and the tentative launch schedule,
receiving testimony from J.R. Thompson, Director, George C. Marshall Space
Flight Center, Arnold D. Aldrich, Director, National Space Transportation
System, Captain Frederick H. Hauck, Commander of STS-26, and Norman R. Parmet,
Deputy Chairman, NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, all of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration; and H. Guyford Stever, Chairman, Panel
for the Technical Evaluation of the Redesign of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket
Motor, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research
Council. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

1988 TAX FILING 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Private Retirement Plans and Oversight
of the Internal Revenue Service held hearings to review the status of the
current tax filing season, receiving testimony from Lawrence B. Gibbs,
Commissioner, Michael J. Murphy, Senior Deputy Commissioner, and Robert
LeBaube, Director, Taxpayer Service Division, all of the Internal Revenue
Service, Department of the Treasury. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 14. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on the Treaty
Between the United States and the USSR on the Elimination of
Intermediate-range and Shorter-range Missiles (Treaty Doc. 100-11), receiving
testimony from Richard N. Perle, former Assistant Secretary of Defense;
General Bernard W. Rogers, former Commander-in-Chief, U.S. European Command;
and Walter B. Slocombe, former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

[*D92]  BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
approved for full committee consideration the following bills: 

S. 612, to repeal provisions of the Department of Defense Authorizations Act
of 1985, relating to the civil liability of Government contractors for
injuries, property losses, or deaths arising out of nuclear weapons testing
programs, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 950, to establish a specialized corps of judges necessary for certain
Federal proceedings falling within the purview of the Administrative Procedure
Act to guarantee due process and promote public confidence in the hearing
process; and 

S. 951, to establish the Federal Courts Study Commission on the future of the
Federal Judiciary, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. 

INF TREATY 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on the
provisions of the Treaty Between the United States and the USSR on the
Elimination of Intermediate-range and Shorter-range Missiles (Treaty Doc.
100-11), receiving testimony from intelligence officials. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/02/17
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 17, 1988; pages D98 - D104  (Bound vol.
D33-37)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nomination of Wendy L. Gramm, of Texas, to be Chairman of the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission. 

Also, the committee began consideration of S. 1516, authorizing funds for
fiscal years 1988 through 1992 for programs of the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), but did not complete action thereon,
and recessed subject to call. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on the implications
for the Alliance of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty,
focusing on conventional arms control and confidence-building measures in
Europe, receiving testimony from Ambassador Robert D. Blackwill, former Chief
Negotiator and Head of the U.S. Delegation, Mutual and Balanced Force
Reduction Negotiations; Karl Kaiser, German Council on Foreign Relations,
Bonn; and Phillip A. Karber, BDM Corporation, McLean, Virginia. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 854, to authorize the exchange of specified public lands in Clark, Lincoln,
and Mineral Counties, Nevada, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S.J. Res. 225, to approve the location of the Korean War Memorial; and 

S.J. Res. 216, to approve the location of the Black Revolutionary War Patriots
Memorial. 

Also, the committee resumed consideration of proposed legislation relating to
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but did not complete action thereon, and
recessed subject to call. 

ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection concluded hearings on S. 1804, to designate the coastal plain of
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska as wilderness, after receiving
testimony from Tim Mahoney, Alaska Coalition, Gaylord Nelson, The Wilderness
Society, and Elizabeth Raisbeck, National Audubon Society, all of Washington,
DC; William J. Van Ness, Jr., Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, Barrow,
Alaska; Roger Herrera, Standard Alaska Production Co., Anchorage, Alaska; and
Roy Moses, Old Crow, Yukon Territory, Canada. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, to the Vienna
Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (Treaty Doc. No. 100-10); and 

The nominations of Charles F. Dunbar, of Maine, to be Ambassador to the Yemen
Arab Republic, Milton Frank, of California, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of
Nepal, Jay K. Katzen, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of
the African Development Foundation, David C. Miller, Jr., of the District of
Columbia, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the African Development
Foundation, William F. Burns, of Pennsylvania, to be Director of the U.S. Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency, Donley L. Brady, of California, to be a Member
of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation,
Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., of Indiana, to be a Member of the Board of Directors
of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Priscilla L. Buckley, of
Connecticut, to be a Member of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public
Diplomacy, Tom C. Korologos, of Virginia, to be a Member of the U.S. Advisory
Commission on Public Diplomacy, Hershey Gold, of California, to be a Member of
the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, and Richard H. Melton, of
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Nicaragua. 

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the aforementioned
treaty, after receiving testimony from Senators Stafford, Chafee, and Baucus;
and Lee M. Thomas, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed closed hearings on the
Treaty Between the United States and the U.S.S.R. on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. No. 100-11),
receiving testimony from William  [*D100]  H. Webster, Director of Central
Intelligence; Lt. General Leonard H. Perroots, USAF, Director, Defense
Intelligence Agency; and Lt. General William E. Odom, USA, Director, National
Security Agency. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION EFFECTIVENESS ACT 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed hearings to review the
implementation of the Presidential Transitions Act of 1963, and on S. 2037, to
eliminate the use of private resources in the transition process and to
provide for the orderly transfer of power between administrations, receiving
testimony from James C. Miller III, Director, Office of Management and Budget;
Paul G. Kirk, Jr., Democratic National Committee, Frank Fahrenkopf, Jr.,
Republican National Committee, Sheldon S. Cohen and Mark Abramson, both on
behalf of the Center for Excellence in Government, Harrison W. Wellford,
Wellford, Wegman, Krulwich, and Hoff, and William E. Timmons, Timmons and Co.,
Inc., all of Washington, DC. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Paul R. Michel, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Federal
Circuit, Malcolm J. Howard, to be United States Distict Judge for the Eastern
District of North Carolina, Rudy Lozano, to be United States District Judge
for the Northern District of Indiana, and Stephen M. Reasoner, to be United
States District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Michel was
introduced by Senator Specter, Mr. Howard was introduced by Senators Helms and
Sanford, Mr. Lozano was introduced by Senators Lugar and Quayle, and Mr.
Reasoner was introduced by Senators Bumpers and Pryor, and Representative
Hammerschmidt. 

MINIMUM HEALTH BENEFITS FOR ALL WORKERS ACT 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
S. 1265, to provide minimum health benefits for all workers in the United
States, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items: 

An original resolution authorizing $47,856,813 in operating expenses of
standing, select, and special committees of the Senate, in lieu of S. Res.
356, S. Res. 357, S. Res. 358. S. Res. 359, S. Res. 360, S. Res. 361, S. Res.
362, S. Res. 363, S. Res. 364, S. Res. 365, S. Res. 366, S. Res. 367, S. Res.
368, S. Res. 369, S. Res. 370, S. Res. 371, S. Res. 373, and S. Res. 374. As
approved by the committee, the resolution provides funds, as follows: 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry -- $1,719,586; 

Committee on Appropriations -- $4,119,856; 

Committee on Armed Services -- $2,490,812; 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs -- $1,690,000; 

Committee on the Budget -- $3,022,846; 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation -- $3,379,375; 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources -- $2,446,068; 

Committee on Environment and Public Works -- $2,381,014; 

Committee on Finance -- $2,503,993; 

Committee on Foreign Relations -- $2,438,915; 

Committee on Governmental Affairs -- $4,529,719; 

Committee on the Judiciary -- $4,336,859; 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources -- $4,549,148; 

Committee on Rules and Administration -- $1,304,043; 

Committee on Small Business -- $972,617; 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs -- $1,001,553; 

Special Committee on Aging -- $1,094,591; 

Select Committee on Intelligence -- $2,105,072; 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs -- $916,501; and 

An original resolution to pay a gratuity to the widow of a deceased Senate
employee. 

INF TREATY 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued closed hearings on the
provisions of the Treaty Between the United States, and the U.S.S.R. on the
Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc.
100-11), receiving testimony from Robert Gates, Deputy Director of Central
Intelligence. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

Joint Meeting 

OMNIBUS TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS ACT -- TRADE AND TARIFF PROVISIONS 

Conferees continued to resolve the differences between the Senate and
House-passed trade and tariff laws and trade agreements provisions of H.R. 3,
Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1987, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 



1988/02/18
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 18, 1988; pages D106 - DD112  (Bound vol.
D38-D42)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on the implications
for the Alliance of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty,
focusing on conventional arms control and confidence-building measures in
Europe, receiving testimony from Charles H. Thomas, Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs and U.S. Representative
to NATO's High Level Task Force on Conventional Arms Control;  [*D107]  and
James A. Thomson, The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California. 

Hearings continue on Monday, February 22. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee began hearings to review those programs
which fall within the jurisdiction of the committee as contained in the
President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1989 for defense programs, and to
review the restructuring of the U.S. military and the five-year rearmament
program, receiving testimony from Frank C. Carlucci, Secretary of Defense; and
Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr., USN, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.  

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nomination of Charles L. Grizzle, of Kentucky, to be Assistant
Administrator for Administration and Resources Management, Environmental
Protection Agency. 

OCEAN DUMPING 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection held joint hearings with the Subcommittee on Superfund and
Environmental Oversight on the implementation of Title I of the Marine
Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act, focusing on the issue of ocean
disposal of municipal sewage sludge, receiving testimony from Senator Roth:
Representative Florio; Tudor T. Davies, Director, Office of Marine and
Estuarine Protection, and Christopher J. Daggett, Regional Administrator,
Region II (New York), both of the Environmental Protection Agency: Major
General Henry Hatch, Director of Civil Works, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers;
New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean, Trenton; Mayor Edward I. Koch, New York,
New York; Sheldon Lipke, Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission, Passaic, New
Jersey; David Borden, New England Fishery Management Council, Saugus,
Massachusetts; Richard S. Magee, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark;
and Cliff Curtis, The Oceanic Society, Washington, DC. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on the Treaty
Between the United States and the U.S.S.R. on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. 100-11), receiving
testimony from William E. Colby, former Director of Central Intelligence;
Sidney Graybeal, former U.S. Representative to the Standing Consultative
Commission; Joseph Douglass, former Deputy Director, Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency, Department of Defense; Sidney Drell, Stanford University,
Stanford, California; Raymond Garthoff, former U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria;
Marshall Shulman, Columbia University, New York, New York; William Scott,
former Military Attache, U.S. Embassy-Moscow; and William Harris, Rand
Corporation, Santa Monica, California. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

BERNE CONVENTION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and
Trademarks held hearings on S. 1301 and S. 1971, bills to implement the Berne
Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, focusing on the
effect the Berne Convention has on U.S. Copyrights, receiving testimony from
Representative Kastenmeier; C. William Verity, Secretary of Commerce; Clayton
Yeutter, U.S. Trade Representative; Allen Wallis, Under Secretary of State for
Economic Affairs; Ralph Oman, Register of Copyrights, Copyright Office,
Library of Congress; and Irwin Karp, Rye Brook, New York. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, March 3. 

VOLUNTARY STANDARDS FOR TEACHER EXCELLENCE 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and
Humanities held hearings on the proposed establishment of voluntary, national
standards of competence for public school teachers, receiving testimony from
Chester E. Finn, Assistant Secretary of Education for Educational Research and
Improvement; New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean, Trenton; James B. Hunt, Jr.,
Raleigh, North Carolina, and James A. Kelly, Washington, DC, both on behalf of
the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; Susan Adler Kaplan,
Providence, Rhode Island; Alan K. Campbell, Committee for Economic
Development's Task Force on the Teaching Profession, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; Gordon M. Ambach, Council of Chief State School Officers, Mary
Hatwood Futrell, National Education Association, and Albert Shanker, American
Federation of Teachers, all of Washington, DC; James A. Wilsford, Orangeburg
School District No. 5, Orangeburg, South Carolina, on behalf of the American
Association of School Administrators; Barbara Hatton, Ford Foundation
Education and Culture Program, New York, New York; and Bradley Blanchette,
Colchester, Vermont. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM REFORM ACT 

Committee on Small Business: Committee resumed hearings on S. 1993, to improve
the growth and development of small business concerns owned and controlled by
socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, especially through
participation in  [*D108]  the Federal procurement process, and H.R. 1807, to
set forth specified small business eligibility requirements with respect to
the Small Business Administration's small business and capital ownership
development program and the award of Government procurement contracts under
the Small Business set-aside program, receiving testimony from Senator Levin;
Representative LaFalce; John H. Luke, Associate Director, Resources, Community
and Economic Development Division, who was accompanied by Richard A. Hart,
Group Director, and Paul K. Elmore, Evaluator, all of the U.S. General
Accounting Office; C. Michael Gooden, Integrated Systems Analysts, Inc.,
Arlington, Virginia; Weldon Latham, Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, McLean,
Virginia; and Robert Saucedo, Casde Corporation, Torrance, California,
representing the Latin American Manufacturers Association. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, February 25. 

INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on Amendment
No. 1399, to authorize demonstration projects for interested tribes to
experiment with new methods of using Bureau of Indian Affairs funds to meet
tribally determined needs and goals to S. 1703, to amend the Indian
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (pending on Senate calendar),
after receiving testimony from Ross O. Swimmer, Assistant Secretary of the
Interior for Indian Affairs; Lionel John, United South and Eastern Tribes,
Nashville, Tennessee; Melvin Sampson, Yakima Indian Nation, Toppenish,
Washington; Delia Antone, Intertribal Council of Arizona, Phoenix; Joe De La
Cruz, Quinault Indian Nation, Taholah, Washington; Ed Thomas, Tlingit-Haida
Indian Tribes of Alaska, Juneau; and Alex Lunderman, Rosebud Sioux Tribe,
Rosebud, South Dakota. 

INF TREATY 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued joint closed hearings
with the Committee on Armed Services on the provisions of the Treaty Between
the United States and the U.S.S.R. on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range
and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. 100-11), focusing on Soviet incentives
and intentions to comply with the Treaty, receiving testimony from Robert
Gates, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence; Lt. General William E. Odom,
USA, Director, National Security Agency; Lt. General Leonard H. Perroots,
USAF, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency; and Morton Abramowitz, Director
of Intelligence and Resources, Department of State. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

Joint Meeting 

OMNIBUS TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS ACT -- TRADE AND TARIFF PROVISIONS 

Conferees continued to resolve the differences between the Senate- and
House-passed trade and tariff laws and trade agreements provisions of H.R. 3,
Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1987, but did not complete action
thereon, and recessed subject to call. 



1988/02/19
Daily Digest - Friday, February 19, 1988; pages D113 - D120  (Bound vol. D42-
D44)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

1989 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee began hearings in preparation for reporting
the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1989 budget, receiving
testimony from James C. Miller III, Director, Office of Management and Budget. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 1. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued hearings on the Treaty
Between the United States and the USSR on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. 100-11), receiving
testimony from William Schneider, Jr., Member, General Advisory Committee of
the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Paul C. Warnke, former Director,
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Ralph Earle II, Chief U.S. Negotiator on
SALT II and former Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Jonathan
Dean, former U.S. Representative to Mutual Balanced Force Reductions Talks;
Eugene Rostow, former Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; John
Rhinelander, former Legal Adviser to SALT I Delegation; Sven Kraemer, former
Director of Arms Control, National Security Council; John Steinbruner,
Brookings Institution; Washington, D.C.; and William Van Cleve, Southwest
Missouri State University, Springfield. 

Hearings continue on Monday, February 22. 

GENOCIDE CONVENTION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 1851, to implement
in the United States the International Convention on the Prevention and
Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, receiving testimony from Senator
Proxmire; Richard Schifter, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and
Humanitarian Affairs; and Hyman Bookbinder, Ad Hoc Coalition on the Genocide
Treaty, Joseph Griffin and John F. Murphy, both on behalf of the American Bar
Association; and Trisha Katson, The Liberty Lobby, all of Washington, DC. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INF TREATY 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued closed joint hearings
with the Committee on Armed Services on the provisions of the Treaty Between
the United States and the USSR on the Elimination of the Intermediate-Range
and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. 100-11), receiving testimony from
intelligence officials. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 24. 

Joint Meeting 

1988 ECONOMIC REPORT 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings on the 1988 Economic
Report of the President and the Annual Report of the Council of Economic
Advisers, after receiving testimony from Beryl Sprinkel, Chairman, and Thomas
G. Moore and Michael L. Mussa both Members, all of the Council of Economic
Advisers. 



1988/02/22
Daily Digest - Monday, February 22, 1988; pages D122 - D125?  (Bound vol. D44-
D46)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

BAHAMAS/PUERTO RICO -- DRUG INTERDICTION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on the issue of Federal drug interdiction and
enforcement activities in the Bahamas and Puerto Rico, receiving testimony
from Admiral Paul  [*D123]  A. Yost, Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard; George D.
Heavey, Regional Commissioner, Southeast Region, and William Rosenblatt,
Assistant Commissioner for Enforcement, both of the U.S. Customs Service,
Department of the Treasury; David L. Westrate, Assistant Administrator for
Operations, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice; Ann B.
Wrobleski, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters;
Bahamian Ambassador Margaret E. McDonald, and Bahama Attorney General Paul L.
Adderley, both of Nassau, Commonwealth of the Bahamas; and Carlos Lopez,
Superintendent of Police for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and Hiram
Sanchez, Assistant to the Governor of Puerto Rico for Security Affairs, both
of San Juan. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, February 26. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on the implications
for the Alliance of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty,
receiving testimony from Ambassador Maynard W. Glitman, Chief Negotiator on
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NRC -- AUTHORIZATIONS/REORGANIZATION 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation
approved for full committee consideration proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
and to provide for the reorganization of the NRC. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on the Treaty
Between the United States and the USSR on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty. Doc. 100-11), receiving
testimony from Rabbi David Saperstein, Religious Action Center of Reform
Judaism, Arie R. Brouwer, National Council of Churches, Reverend William
Sloane Coffin, SANE/FREEZE, E. Phillip Riggin, The American Legion, Nancy M.
Neuman, League of Women Voters, Anne H. Cahn, The Committee for National
Security, Burt Pines, The Heritage Foundation, Rear Admiral Robert H. Spirow,
on behalf of the American Security Council, Martin Colman, The American
Resistance International, and John Joyce on behalf of the AFL-CIO, all of
Washington, DC; Reverend Roger Mahony, Los Angeles, California, on behalf of
the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops; Jerome Grossman, Council for a
Livable World, Boston, Massachusetts; Edward Teller, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory, Livermore, California; and Betty Lall, Council on
Economic Priorities, New York, New York. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

SOCIAL SECURITY NOTCH 

Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine the impact
of the Social Security notch inequity within the Social Security Amendments of
1977, and provisions of S. 1830 and H.R. 3788, bills to provide for a period
of transition (and a new alternative formula with respect to such transition)
to the changes in benefit computation rules enacted in the Social Security
Amendments of 1977 as they apply to workers born in years after 1916 and
before 1930 (and related beneficiaries) and to provide for increases on their
benefits accordingly, after receiving testimony from Senator Sanford; Michael
Carozza, Deputy Commissioner for Policy and External Affairs, Social Security
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; James Roosevelt, Jr.,
National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, and Arthur S.
Fleming, Save Our Security, both of Washington, DC; J. Daryl Cooper, Committee
to Correct Inequities in Social Security and Medicare, Council Bluffs, Iowa;
Anthony Purcell, Sr., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Notch Babies
Grass Roots National Coalition; and Mary Alice Magness, Anaconda, Montana. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/02/23
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 23, 1988; pages D127 - D136  (Bound vol. D47-
D56)  [This entry contains Senate committee meetings held 2/24 and 2/25.]

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

(Wednesday, February 24) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1989 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, Department of Agriculture. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March1. 

1989 BUDGET 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee held hearings on the President's
proposed budget for fiscal year 1989, receiving testimony from James C. Miller
III, Director, Office of Management and Budget. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 1. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on the implications
for the Alliance of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty,
receiving testimony from Ambassador Maynard W. Glitman, Chief Negotiator on
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued hearings on the Treaty
Between the United States and the U.S.S.R. on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. 100-11), receiving
testimony from Henry A. Kissinger, former Secretary of State. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on the implications
for the Alliance of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty,
receiving testimony from Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., former Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy; Ambassador
Evan G. Galbraith, former U.S. Ambassador to France; William R. Van Cleave,
Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield; and receiving testimony on
strategy and capabilities for NATO defense from Henry Kissinger, former
Secretary of State and Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

SOUTH PACIFIC TUNA ACT/FISHERMEN'S PROTECTIVE ACT 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded joint
hearings with the National Ocean Policy Study on S. 1989, to provide for
various measures in connection with the Treaty on Fisheries Between the
Governments of Certain Pacific Island States and the United States, and S.
1695, to extend, under the Fishermen's Protective Act, provisions for certain
reimbursements to owners of commercial fishing vessels seized by a foreign
country, after receiving testimony from Edward E. Wolfe, Jr., Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for Oceans and Fisheries Affairs; William E. Evans,
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, and E. Charles Fullerton, Director,
Southwest Region, Terminal Island, California, National Marine Fisheries
Service, both of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Department of Commerce; and David G. Burney, United States Tuna Foundation,
and James P. Walsh, American Tuna Boat Association, both of Washington, DC. 

[*D130]  VIETNAM WOMEN'S MEMORIAL PROJECT 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 2042, to authorize the
Vietnam Women's Memorial Project, Inc., to construct a statue at the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial in honor and recognition of the women of the United States
who served in the Vietnam conflict, after receiving testimony from Senator
Durenberger; William Penn Mott, Jr., Director, National Park Service, and J.
Carter Brown, Chairman, Commission of Fine Arts, both of the Department of the
Interior; Reginald W. Griffith, Executive Director, National Capital Planning
Commission; John P. Wheeler, III, Chairman, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund,
Inc., E. Philip Riggin, The American Legion, James N. Magill, Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the United States, Richard F. Schultz, Disabled Vietnam
Veterans, Mary R. Stout, The Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc., and Robert W.
Doubek, all of Washington, DC; Donna-Marie Boulay, Vietnam Women's Memorial
Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Evangeline Jamison, Walnut Creek, California;
Karen K. Johnson, Little Rock, Arkansas; Maya Lin, New York, New York; Mary
Evelyn Bane and Diane B. Stoy, both of Arlington, Virginia; Donald W. Kilgus,
Alexandria, Virginia; and Shelley S. Mastran, Great Falls, Virginia. 

GROUND-WATER MANAGEMENT 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure held joint hearings with the Subcommittee
on Hazardous Wastes and Toxic Substances on S. 20, S. 1105, and H.R. 791,
bills to provide for the protection of groundwater through State standards,
planning, and research activities, receiving testimony from Lee Thomas,
Administrator, and Lawrence J. Jensen, Assistant Administrator for Water, both
of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; James W. Ziglar, Assistant
Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science; Harold Reheis, on behalf of
Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administration,
and John Morris, Interstate Conference on Water Policy, both of Washington,
DC; Craig Bell, Western States Water Council, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Thomas
J. Buchanan, Reston, Virginia, on behalf of American Waterworks Association. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

MONETARY POLICY 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings on
the Federal Reserve's first report on the conduct of monetary policy for 1988,
receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed consideration of
proposed legislation relating to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued hearings on the Treaty
Between the United States and the U.S.S.R. on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. 100-11), receiving
testimony from Senator Byrd. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

HATCH ACT AMENDMENTS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee began hearings on H.R. 3400, to
provide for participation of Federal employees in political activities,
receiving testimony from Senators DeConcini and Mikulski; Representatives
Clay, Horton and Taylor; Constance Horner, Director, Office of Personnel
Management; Mary Wieseman, Special Counsel, Merit Systems Protection Board;
John C. Keeney, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division,
Department of Justice; Ron Swisher, National League of Postmasters, Earl W.
Ogle, National Association of Postmasters of the United States, and Dallas N.
Fields, National Rural Letter Carriers Association, all of Alexandria,
Virginia; and Rubin Handelman, National Association of Postal Supervisors,
Joseph L. Fisher and Ray Kline, both of the National Academy of Public
Administration, Ann McBride, Common Cause, C.A. Howlett, U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, Morton Halperin and Anthony Califa, both of the American Civil
Liberties Union, Vincent R. Sombrotto and Steve Trower, both of the National
Association of Letter Carriers, and Moe Biller, American Postal Workers Union,
all of Washington, DC. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on H.R. 3400,
to provide for participation of Federal employees in political activities,
after receiving testimony from Gerald McEntee, American Federation of State,
County, and Municipal Employees, Kenneth T. Blaylock, American Federation of
Government Employees, James M. Peirce, National Federation of Federal
Employees, Robert Tobias, National Treasury Employees Union, Edward L. Murphy,
National Association of Government Employees, John E. Tarburton, American Farm
Bureau Federation, Jim T. Bland, Federal Bar Association, and Adele
Spielberger, Federal Executives Institute Alumni Association, all of
Washington, DC;  [*D131]  and Julie Tagen, Federal Managers Association,
Arlington, Virginia. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

The nominations of Paul R. Michel, of Virginia, to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for
the Federal Circuit, Malcolm J. Howard, to be U.S. District Judge for the
Eastern District of North Carolina, Rudy Lozano, to be U.S. District Judge for
the Northern District of Indiana, Stephen M. Reasoner, to be U.S. District
Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas, John E. Fryatt, to be U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Patrick J. Fiedler, to be U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, Edgar W. Ennis, Jr., to be
U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, and Charles A. Banks, to be
U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas; 

S.J. Res. 199, to designate the month of May 1988 as "Trauma Awareness Month"; 

S.J. Res. 212, to designate the week of May 8-14, 1988, as "National Tuberous
Sclerosis Awareness Week"; 

S.J. Res. 227, to emphasize that May 1, 1988, is "Law Day U.S.A." and express
gratitude for law enforcement personnel; 

S.J. Res. 229, to designate April 1, 1988, as "Run to Daylight Day"; 

S.J. Res. 234, to designate the week of April 17-23, 1988, as "Crime Victims
Week"; 

S.J. Res. 237, to designate May 1988 as "Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month"; 

S.J. Res. 240, to designate the week of May 16-22, 1988, as "National Safe
Kids Week"; 

S.J. Res. 244, to designate the month of April 1988 as "National Know Your
Cholesterol Month"; 

S.J. Res. 247, to authorize the President to proclaim the last Friday of April
1988 as "National Arbor Day"; 

S.J. Res. 249, to designate June 14, 1988, as "Baltic Freedom Day"; 

S.J. Res. 250, to designate the week of May 8-14, 1988, as "National
Osteoporosis Prevention Week of 1988"; 

S.J. Res. 251, to designate March 4, 1988, as "Department of Commerce Day",
with an amendment; 

S.J. Res. 252, to designate the week of June 5-11, 1988, as "National NHS
Neighbor Works Week"; 

S.J. Res. 254, to designate the week of May 15-21, 1988, as "National Rural
Health Awareness Week"; 

S.J. Res. 255, to designate the week of April 24-30, 1988, as "National Organ
and Tissue Donor Awareness Week"; 

S.J. Res. 257, to designate March 21, 1988, as "Afghanistan Day"; 

S.J. Res. 260, to designate the week of April 10-16, 1988, as "National Child
Care Awareness Week"; 

S.J. Res. 262, to designate the month of March 1988 as "National Women's
History Month"; 

S.J. Res. 59, to designate the month of May 1988 as "Foster Care Month", with
an amendment; 

S.J. Res. 147, to designate the week beginning on the third Sunday of
September in 1988 as "National Adult Care Center Week", with an amendment; 

S.J. Res. 253, to designate April 9, 1988, and April 9, 1989, as "National
Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day", with an amendment; 

S. 1609, to provide relief for James P. Purvis; and 

S. 1611, to revise the numerical limitation and preference system for
immigrant admissions, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. 

Also, the committee ordered reported, without recommendation, the nomination
of Susan W. Liebeler, of California, to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the
Federal Circuit. 

CHILD ABDUCTION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
concluded hearings on S. 1347, to facilitate implementation of the 1980 Hague
Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, after
receiving testimony from Senator Dixon; Peter H. Pfund, Assistant Legal
Advisor for Private International Law, Department of State; Kevin R. Jones,
Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Assistant Attorney General for Legal
Policy, Department of Justice; Patricia M. Hoff, Rockville, Maryland, on
behalf of the American Bar Association's Child Custody Committee Section of
Family Law; David W. Lloyd, National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children, Washington, DC; and Phillip Schwartz, American Academy of
Matrimonial Lawyers, Arlington, Virginia. 

EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation to provide early childhood education benefits, after
receiving testimony from New York Governor Mario M. Cuomo, Albany; Minnesota
Governor Rudolph G. Perpich, St. Paul; New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean,
Trenton; Michigan Governor James J. Blanchard, Lansing; and Richard Riley,
former Governor of South Carolina, Columbia. 

INDIAN PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT CONTRACTING 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to
review the barriers to Indian participation in government procurement
contracting, after receiving testimony from Hawaii  [*D132]  Governor John
Waihe'e, Ilima Pi'ianaia, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Myron Thompson,
Alu Like, Inc., and Murray Towill, all of Honolulu, Hawaii; Conrad Edwards,
Council for Tribal Employment Rights, Seattle, Washington; Steve Stallings,
United Indian Development Association, El Monte, California; Carl McKay,
Devils Lake Sioux Tribe, Fort Trotten, North Dakota; Ronald J. Solimon, Laguna
Industries, Inc., Laguna, New Mexico; Steven A. Johnson, Kootznoowoo, Inc.,
Angoon, Alaska; Jim Sloan, Raytheon Services, Burlington, Massachusetts; and
Herbert E. Ennis, Brunswick Corporation, Skokie, Illinois. 

CISPES -- FBI INQUIRY 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held hearings to review the
conduct of the Federal Bureau of Investigation inquiry into activities of the
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), receiving
testimony from Oliver B. Revell, Executive Assistant Director of
Investigations, and William A. Gavin, Assistant Director, Inspection Division,
both of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

CORPORATION FOR SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT 

Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings on S. 1929, to create the
Corporation for Small Business Investment (COSBI), to fund the existing Small
Business Investment Company (SBIC) loan program, by replacing the Small
Business Administration as the guarantor of SBIC bonds, receiving testimony
from David B. Jones, InterVen Partners, Inc., Los Angeles, California,
representing the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies;
Divakar R. Kamath, Equico Capital Corporation, representing the National
Association of Investment Companies, and Howard S. Altarescu, Goldman, Sachs
and Company, both of New York, New York; Robert W. Philip, Arthur Andersen and
Company, Dallas, Texas; and Arthur D. Little, Narragansett Capital
Corporation, Providence, Rhode Island. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, March 17. 

(COMMITTEES NOT LISTED DID NOT MEET) 

(Thursday, February 25) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AGENCIES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from M.J. Brodie,
Executive Director, Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation; Glen T.
Urquhart, Chairman, National Capital Planning Commission; Lyle Ryter,
Executive Director, Holocaust Memorial Council. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, February 29. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TRANSPORTATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings to review proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1989 for the Department of Transportation, receiving testimony from James H.
Burnley IV, Secretary of Transportation; and Janet Hale, Assistant Secretary
of Transportation for Budget and Programs. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 3. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings in connection with
the Treaty Between the United States and the USSR on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. 100-11), receiving
testimony on resource policies for NATO force improvements from Alton G. Keel,
Jr., U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO; and Dennis Kloske, Special Advisor
to the Deputy Secretary of Defense on NATO Armaments; and receiving testimony
on compliance with, and enforcement of, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
(INF) Treaty from Paul H. Nitze, Ambassador at Large and Special Advisor to
the President and the Secretary of State on Arms Control Matters. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

MONETARY POLICY 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the Federal Reserve's first report on the conduct of monetary policy for
1988, after receiving testimony from Robert Barbera, Shearson Lehman Hutton,
and Neil Soss, First Boston Corporation, both of New York, New York; and
Richard Cooper, and Jeffrey Sachs, both of Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. 

DRUG AND ALCOHOL TESTING 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on proposed legislation to require mandatory random drug and alcohol
testing of safety-related railroad, airline and motor carrier employees,
focusing on recent accident report findings and their relation to drug and
alcohol abuse, and the Federal Railroad Administration's current drug and
alcohol testing program, after receiving testimony from John H. Riley,
Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration, Department of Transportation;
Ricky L. Gates, Donna P. Shearer, Carl R. Schlaich, and Deidre Bosley, all on
behalf of the Maryland State Public Defender,  [*D133]  Towson; Edward W.
Cromwell and Dan Goldstein, both on behalf of the Maryland Bar Center,
Baltimore; Lawrence Mann, Railway Labor Executives' Association, Daniel
Collins, United Transportation Union, both of Washington, DC; Roger Horn, Hunt
Valley, Maryland, Arthur Johnson, Potomac, Maryland, and Thomas Colley,
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, all representing Safe Travel America. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

An original bill to authorize competitive oil and gas leasing and development
on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, in a manner
consistent with the protection of the environment; 

H.R. 1495, to designate certain lands in the Great Smoky Mountains National
Park in North Carolina and Tennessee as the Great Smoky Mountains Wilderness,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, in lieu of S. 693; 

S. 1493, to clarify the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to make
land exchanges within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with an amendment
in the nature of a substitute; and 

An original bill (S. 2097) to provide for a viable domestic uranium industry,
to establish a program to fund reclamation and other remedial actions with
respect to mill tailings at active uranium and thorium sites, and to establish
a wholly-owned Government corporation to manage the Nation's uranium
enrichment enterprise. (As approved by the committee, the bill incorporates
certain provisions of S. 1846, as reported to the Senate on November 4, 1987.) 

GRAYS HARBOR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection held hearings on S. 1979, to establish the Grays Harbor National
Wildlife Refuge in the State of Washington, receiving testimony from Senators
Evans and Adams; Representative Bonker; Steve Robinson, Deputy Director, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior; David G. Davis,
Director, Office of Wetlands Protection, Environmental Protection Agency;
Mayor Phyllis Shrauger, Hoquiam, Washington; Stan Lattin, Port of Grays
Harbor, Aberdeen, Washington; David Ortman, Friends of the Earth, Seattle,
Washington; and William C. Reffalt, The Wilderness Society, Washington, DC. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

SPEED LIMIT 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure held hearings to review certain speed limit
issues, receiving testimony from Senators Heinz, D'Amato, and Hecht; Kenneth
M. Mead, Associate Director, General Accounting Office; Thomas B. Deen,
Executive Director, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council;
R.D. Morgan, Executive Director, Federal Highway Administration, and Jeffrey
R. Miller, Deputy Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, both of the Department of Transportation; Elden G. Spier,
North Dakota State Highway Department, Bismarck; Franklin E. White, New York
Department of Transportation, Albany; Matthew J. Gill, Jr., Rhode Island
Department of Transportation, Providence; Maurice J. Hannigan, California
Highway Patrol, Sacramento; James J. Baxter, Citizens for Rational Traffic
Laws, Inc., Dane, Wisconsin; Henry Jasny, Center for Auto Safety, and Brian
O'Neill, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, both of Washington, DC. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Mark
Sullivan III, of Maryland, to be General Counsel for the Department of the
Treasury, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Karnes, testified
and answered questions in his own behalf. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy,
Trade, Oceans and Environment concluded hearings on the nomination of Eugene
J. McAllister, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Economic
and Business Affairs, after the nominee testified and answered questions on
his own behalf. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Bernard H. Siegan, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
Ninth Circuit, after the nominee, who was introduced by Samuel R. Pierce, Jr.,
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, testified and answered questions
in his own behalf. 

MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM REFORM ACT 

Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1993, to
improve the growth and development of small business concerns owned and
controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, especially
through participation in the Federal procurement process, and H.R. 1807, to
set forth specified small business eligibility requirements with respect to
the Small Business Administration's small business and capital ownership
development program and the award of Government procurement  [*D134] 
contracts under the Small Business set-aside program, after receiving
testimony from Esmeralda Santiago, CANTOMEDIA Corporation, Hingham,
Massachusetts; Alfred C.W. Daniels, H.H. Aerospace Design Company, Inc.,
Bedford, Massachusetts, representing the Black Corporate Presidents of New
England; Lamar Henderson, Henderson Electric, Inc., Detroit, Michigan; Julio
Jo, J&J Engineering, Inc., Miami, Florida, and Ralph C. Thomas, III,
Washington, DC, both representing the National Association of Minority
Contractors; Elizabeth Pan, National Federation of 8(a) Companies, Arlington,
Virginia; Tom Velez, Computer Technology Associates, Inc., Englewood,
Colorado; and Edward M. Marshall, TRG, Inc. Washington, DC. 

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 1989, after receiving
testimony from Everett R. Rhoades, Director, Melbourne Roach, Associate
Director for Administration and Management, and Bill Pearson, Associate
Director, Office of Environmental Health and Engineering, all of the Indian
Health Service, Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of
Health and Human Services; Ross O. Swimmer, Assistant Secretary of the
Interior for Indian Affairs; John Sam, Director, Office of Indian Programs,
Department of Education; James E. Baugh, General Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development for Public and Indian Housing; Bert Steeves,
Hunter Health Clinic, St. Paul, Minnesota, on behalf of the American Indian
Health Care Association; Judy Knight, Council of Energy Resource Tribes,
Denver, Colorado; Joseph A. Myers, National Indian Justice Center, Petaluma,
California; Robert L. Miller, Intertribal Agriculture Council, Beggs,
Oklahoma; Carmen Taylor and Dan Wiesen, both of the National Indian School
Board Association, Fort Worth, Texas; Edward Parisien, National Indian
Education Association, Box Elder, Montana; and Janine Pease Wendyboy, American
Indian Higher Education Consortium, Virginia Spencer, National American Indian
Housing Council, and Suzan Shown Harjo, representing the Health Committee of
the National Congress of American Indians, all of Washington, DC. 

INF TREATY 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on the
provisions of the Treaty Between the United States and the USSR on the
Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc.
100-11), receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 2. 

Joint Meeting 

DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS 

Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs held joint hearings with
the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, to review legislative priorities of
the Disabled American Veterans, receiving testimony from Gene A. Murphy, Sioux
Falls, South Dakota, National Commander, Disabled American Veterans. 

Committees will meet again tomorrow. 



1988/02/24
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 24, 1988; pages D137 - D142  (Bound vol.
D56-D59)

The Senate was not in session on 2/24.  The Daily Digest recorded Senate
committee meetings held on 2/24 and 2/25 in the 2/23 issue, above.

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/02/25
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 25, 1988; pages D144 - D148  (Bound vol.
D59-62)

The Senate was not in session on 2/24.  The Daily Digest recorded Senate
committee meetings held on 2/24 and 2/25 in the 2/23 issue, above.

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/02/26
Daily Digest - Friday, February 26, 1988; pages D150 - D158  (Bound vol. D63-
D65)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held  [*D152]  hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1989 for the U.S. Customs Service, receiving testimony from
William von Raab, Commissioner, United States Customs Service, Department of
the Treasury.  

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 3. 

HIGH SPEED TRANSPORATION SYSTEMS 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure held hearings on the use of the Interstate
Highway System right-of-way for magnetic levitation high speed transportation
systems, receiving testimony from Henry H. Kolm, Electromagnetic Launch
Research, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts; James R. Powell and Gordon Danby,
both of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York; Larry R. Johnson,
Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois; Carl H. Rosner, Intermagnetics
General Corporation, Guilderland, New York; Richard J. Gran, Grumman
Corporation, Bethpage, New York; and Richard Welch, on behalf of the City of
Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Frank E. Schwelb, to be an Associate Judge of the District of
Columbia Court of Appeals, and Cheryl M. Long, to be an Associate Judge of the
Superior Court of the District of Columbia, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. 

JUDICIAL IMMUNITY FROM ATTORNEYS' FEES 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
concluded hearings on S. 1482 (sec. 614), S. 1512, and S. 1515, bills
concerning the issue of judicial immunity from liability for attorneys' fees
in actions seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, after receiving
testimony from Kevin R. Jones, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Office of
Legal Policy, Department of Justice; Judge George E. Danielson, Associate
Justice, California Court of Appeals, on behalf of the Judicial Conference of
the United States; Justice Edwin J. Peterson, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of
Oregon, Portland, on behalf of the Conference of Chief Justices; Judge Ira J.
Raab, Woodmere, New York, on behalf of the American Judges Association;
Justice Joseph R. Weisberger, Supreme Court of Rhode Island, Providence, Judge
Philip J. Roth, Circuit Court of Oregon, Portland, and Thomas A. Harnett, New
York, New York, all on behalf of the American Bar Association; and Morton H.
Halperin, American Civil Liberties Union, Washington, DC. 

CONTRA-AID PROGRAM 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in a closed joint session with
the Committee on Foreign Relations to receive a briefing on the contra-aid
program from officials of the intelligence community. 

Committees recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/02/29
Daily Digest - Monday, February 29, 1988; pages D159 - D163  (Bound vol. D65-
68)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Major
General A.J. Adams, USA, Secretary, American Battle Monuments Commission; John
Doyle, Principal Deputy Assistant, Secretary of the Army (Cemeterial
Expenses); Samuel K. Lessey, Jr., Director, Selective Service System; and
Roger W. Jepsen, Chairman, National Credit Union Administration. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 14. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FISH AND WILDIFE SERVICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, receiving testimony from William P. Horn, Assistant
Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, and Frank H. Dunkle, Director, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, both of the Department of the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence held closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, receiving testimony in behalf
of funds for Tactical Nuclear Forces from Ronald F. Lehman II, Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy; and Brig. General
Frank A. Partlow, USA, Representative to the INF Talks, and Maj. General
Martin J. Ryan, USAF, Director, Force Structure, Resources, and Assessment
Directorate, both of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

REACTORS -- SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence concluded hearings on reactors at the Savannah River Plant, after
receiving testimony from Paul W. Kaspar, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Energy for Operations, Defense Programs; and Robert L. Morgan and Joseph D.
Spencer, both of the Savannah River Plant, South Carolina. 

FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION BUDGET REQUEST 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings to review
those programs which fall within their jurisdiction as contained in the
President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1989, focusing on the Federal
Highway Administration, receiving testimony from Robert E. Farris, Deputy
Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation;
Everett M. Ehrlich, Assistant Director for Natural Resources and Commerce,
Congressional Budget Office; John S. Hassell, Jr., and Ray A. Barnhart, both
former Administrators, Federal Highway Administration; Leno Menghini, Wyoming
Highway Department, Laramie, on behalf of the American Association of State
Highway and Transportation Officials; James W. Supica, Associated General
Contractors of America, and Daniel J. Hanson, Sr., American Road and
Transportation Builders Association, both of Washington, DC. 

Committee will meet again on Wednesday, March 2. 

CIVIL PENALTIES -- INFLATION ADJUSTMENT 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management held hearings on S. 1014, to increase civil monetary penalties
based on the effect of inflation, receiving testimony from Senator Lautenberg;
Joseph R. Wright, Jr., Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget, and
Chairman, President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency; Richard P.
Kusserow, Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services, and Vice
Chairman, President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency; Stuart E. Schiffer,
Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Department of Justice; and
Michael Waldman, Congress Watch, and Jim E. Lapping, AFL-CIO, both of
Washington, DC. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Emmett Ripley Cox, of Alabama, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
Eleventh Circuit, Kenneth M. Hoyt, to be United States District Judge for the
Southern District of Texas, George M. Marovich, to be United States District
Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, and Roger J. Marzulla, of
California, to be Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Hoyt was
introduced by Senator Gramm, Mr. Marovich was introduced by  [*D161]  Illinois
Governor James R. Thompson, and Mr. Marzulla was introduced by Senator Bond.
Testimony was also received on the nomination of Mr. Cox from Morton Stavis,
New York, New York. 



1988/03/01
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 1, 1988; pages D165 - D174  (Bound vol. D68-D74)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

HUNGER IN AMERICA 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings on
national nutrition programs and their impact on the homeless and people living
in poverty, receiving testimony from Senators Bond, Metzenbaum, DeConcini, and
Heinz; Sara Barwinski, Missouri Food and Stamp Outreach Task Force, Missouri
Statewide Hunger Task Force, St.  [*D166]  Louis; Matthew Habash, Mid-Ohio
Food Bank, Columbus; Tom McDonough, Cleveland Food Bank, Cleveland, Ohio;
Ginny Hildebrand, Association of Arizona Food Banks, and Mary Jo Henny,
Arizona Department of Economic Security, both of Phoenix; Janet Ney, Lehigh
Valley Food Bank, Pennsylvania Association of Regional Food Banks, Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania; James Stephenson, Pennsylvania Coalition on Food and Nutrition,
Harrisburg; Jane Wynn, Broward County, Florida, Shirley Watkins, Memphis,
Tennessee, Mary Klatko, Howard County, Maryland, and Marshall Matz, Holland
and Knight, Washington, DC, all on behalf of the American School Food Service
Association; and Charles Hughes, New York, New York, on behalf of the American
Federation of State County Municipal Employees. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

1989 BUDGET 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee held hearings on the President's
proposed budget for fiscal year 1989, receiving testimony from James A. Baker
III, Secretary of the Treasury. 

Hearings continue on Friday, March 4. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1989 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony from Orville
G. Bentley, Assistant Secretary for Science and Education, Jerry B. Kinney,
Jr., Administrator, Agricultural Research Service, John Patrick Jordan,
Administrator, Cooperative State Research Service, Myron D. Johnsrud,
Administrator, Extension Service, and Steve Dewhurst, Budget Office, all of
the Department of Agriculture. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 3. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NATIONAL ENDOWMENTS/MUSEUM SERVICES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Frank
Hodsoll, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities; Lynne V. Cheney,
Chairperson, National Endowment for the Arts; and Lois Burke Shepard,
Director, Institute of Museums Services. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence continued closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on military
requirements for strategic defenses and relationship to Phase I plans and
capabilities, receiving testimony from Lt. General James A. Abrahamson,
Director, Strategic Defense Initiative Organization; and Gen. Robert T.
Herres, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

Hearings continue on Friday, March 4. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of Paul Freedenberg, of Maryland, to be Under
Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration, Frank G. Zarb, of New York,
to be a Director of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation, and Mark
E. Buchman, of California, to be President, Government National Mortgage
Association. 

Also, the committee began consideration of proposed legislation to reform the
regulation of financial services, but did not complete action thereon, and
will meet again tomorrow. 

1989 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1989 budget,
receiving testimony from Robert Hale, Assistant Director, National Security
Division, Congressional Budget Office; Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, American
Enterprise Institute; and Paul Kennedy, Yale University, New Haven,
Connecticut.  

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

INTERIOR/ENERGY BUDGET REQUESTS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings to review
those programs which fall within its jurisdiction as contained in the
President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1989, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from Donald P. Hodel,
Secretary of the Interior; and John S. Herrington, Secretary of Energy. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, March 3. 

NUTRITION MONITORING 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on proposals to
establish a national nutrition monitoring and related research program,
receiving testimony from Michael McGinnis, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Health, Office of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, and Peter
Greenwald, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Cancer
Institute, both of the Department of Health and Human Services; Walter
Willett, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Colin Campbell, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York; John LaRosa, George Washington University
Medical  [*D167]  Center, Washington, DC; Myron Winick, Columbia University,
New York, New York; and Irwin H. Rosenberg, Tufts University, Medford,
Massachusetts. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 22. 

SMALL MANUFACTURERS -- ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY 

Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Innovation, Technology and
Productivity held hearings to examine the use of advanced manufacturing
technologies by small business, and the difficulties small business capital
formation and tax policy have on small business use of advanced technology,
receiving testimony from Robert B. Costello, Under Secretary of Defense; D.
Bruce Merrifield, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Productivity, Technology
and Innovation; Harold Corner, C&J Industries, Meadville, Pennsylvania,
representing the National Tooling and Machining Association; Pat V. Costa,
Robotic Vision Systems, Inc., Hauggauge, New York; William C. Norris, Control
Data Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota; George N. Hatsopoulos, Thermo
Electric Corporation, Waltham, Massachusetts; and Alan Auerbach, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed hearings on S. 1818, to
make requirements for the preparation, and transmittal to the Congress, of
Presidential findings for certain intelligence operations, to provide
mandatory penalties for deceiving Congress, and to establish an Independent
Inspector General for the Central Intelligence Agency, receiving testimony
from William H. Webster, Director of Central Intelligence; June Gibbs Brown,
Inspector General, Department of Defense; Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller
General, United States General Accounting Office; and Sherman M. Funk,
Inspector General, Department of State. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/03/02
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 2, 1988; pages D175 - D184  (Bound vol. D75-
D81)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

CORPS OF ENGINEERS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings to review those programs administered by the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, receiving testimony from Robert W. Page, Assistant Secretary of the
Army for Civil Works; Lt. General E.R. Heibert III, Chief of Engineers; and
Major General Henry J. Hatch, Director of Civil Works.  

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DOE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Chandler L.
van Orman, Deputy Administrator, Economic Regulatory Administration, Helmut A.
Merklein, Administrator, Energy Information Administration, and George B.
Breznay, Director, Office of Hearings and Appeals, all of the Department of
Energy. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 16. 

DOD -- SPECIAL ACCESS PROGRAMS 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence concluded closed joint hearings with the Subcommittee on
Conventional Forces and Alliance Defense to review special access programs of
the Department of Defense, and the assessment of the INF Treaty's possible
impact on DOD's special access programs, after receiving testimony from
officials of the Department of Defense and the Armed Services. 

1989 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1989 budget,
receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal
Reserve System. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported H.R. 2629, to clarify the conveyance and ownership of submerged lands
by Alaska Natives, Native Corporations and the State of Alaska. 

EPA/NRC BUDGETS 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings to
review those programs which fall within its jurisdiction as contained in the
President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1989, after receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from Lee M. Thomas,
Administrator, and A. James Barnes, Deputy Administrator, both of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency; Lando W. Zech, Jr., Chairman, and Thomas M.
Roberts, Kenneth M. Carr, Frederick M. Bernthal, and Kenneth C. Rogers, all
Commissioners, all of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

An original bill to authorize funds for the Community Health Centers Program; 

H.R. 3097, to authorize grants to assist organ procurement organizations, with
an amendment;  [*D177]  

H.R. 3235, to revise the program of assistance for health maintenance
organizations, with an amendment; 

S. 1943, to revise and extend the authority with respect to block grants and
other matters concerning alcohol abuse and alcoholism, drug abuse, and mental
health services, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and 

The nomination of Howard W. Cannon, of Nevada, to be a Member of the Board of
Trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education
Foundation. 

TIMBER SET-ASIDE PROGRAM 

Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings to review the U.S. Forest
Service proposed changes in the small timber sale set-aside program, receiving
testimony from Senator DeConcini; Monika Edwards Harrison, Associate
Administrator for Procurement Assistance, Small Business Administration;
George Leonard, Associate Chief of the Forest Service, Department of
Agriculture; Charles Thomas, Shuqualak Lumber Company, Inc., Shuqualak,
Mississippi; Joe Miller, Western Forest Industries Association, Washington,
DC; Richard G. Bennett, Bennett Lumber Products, Princeton, Idaho; Marlin
Clausner, Potlatch Corporation (Western Division), Lewiston, Idaho; C.D.
Fisher, Bohemia, Inc., representing the Public Timber Purchasers Group, and R.
Dennis Hayward, North West Timber Association, both of Eugene, Oregon; and
James L. Matson, Kaibab Forest Products Company, Phoenix, Arizona. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/03/03
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 3, 1988; pages D185 - D194  (Bound vol. D81-
D89)

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 1989 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Kenneth Gilles, Assistant Secretary
for Marketing and Inspection Services, James W. Glosser, Acting Administrator,
Animal and Plant Inspection Service, W. Kirk Miller, Administrator, Federal
Grain Inspection Service, Lester M. Crawford, Director, Food Safety and
Inspection Service, and J. Patrick Boyle, Administrator, Agricultural
Marketing Service, all of the Department of Agriculture. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 15. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony from William H. Taft IV, Deputy Secretary of Defense. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 15. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TRANSPORTATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for
the Department of Transportation, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for
their respective activities from Diane K. Steed, Administrator, National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and Robert E. Farris, Deputy
Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, both of the Department of
Transportation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 17. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- BATF/FEC/FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1989, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Stephen E. Higgins, Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms,
and Charles F. Rinkervich, Director, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center,
both of the Department of the Treasury; and Thomas J. Josefiak, Chairman, and
Danny Lee McDonald, Vice Chairman, Finance Chairman, both of the Federal
Election Commission. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 18. 

[*D187]  NOMINATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Jack Katzen, of Connecticut, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Production and Logistics, after the nominee testified and answered questions
in his own behalf. 

DOD OFFICER PROMOTIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel concluded
hearings to review the Department of Defense officer promotion procedures,
after receiving testimony from David J. Armor, Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Force Management and Personnel. 

REGULATION OF FINANCIAL SERVICES 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Wednesday, March 2,
committee ordered favorably reported an original bill to reform the regulation
of financial services. 

1989 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1989 budget,
receiving testimony from Frank C. Carlucci, Secretary of Defense; and Admiral
William J. Crowe, Jr., Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of William Evans, of California, to be Under
Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, after the nominee testified
and answered questions in his own behalf. 

MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ACT 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on S. 1848, to authorize a Minority Business Development
Administration in the Department of Commerce, after receiving testimony from
Donald A. Clarey, Deputy Administrator, Small Business Administration; James
H. Richardson Gonzales, Director, Minority Business Development Agency,
Department of Commerce; Willie Cam Nimmons, Infinite Creations, Inc., Bamberg,
South Carolina; Louis Gnecco, Tempest, Inc., Vienna, Virginia; Evan Williams,
Dalton Construction Company, Compton, California; Elizabeth Lazaro, National
Association of Minority Contractors, Washington, DC; Ron Homer, Boston Bank of
Commerce, Boston, Massachusetts, and John Kelly, Jr., Washington, DC, both
representing the National Bankers Association; and S. Kent Gibson, San Diego
State University, San Diego, California. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. Con. Res. 82, urging the German Democratic Chief of State to repeal
permanently the order directing East German border guards to shoot to kill
anyone who, without authorization, attempts to cross the Berlin Wall, and to
issue an order to tear down the Berlin Wall; 

S. Con. Res. 99, condemning North Korea's support for terrorist activities,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S.J. Res. 235, deploring the Soviet Government's active persecution of
religious believers in Ukraine; and 

The nominations of Eugene J. McAllister, of Virginia, to be an Assistant
Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, Bill K. Perrin, of
Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cyprus, and Edward Morgan Rowell,
of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Portugal. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on the Treaty
Between the United States and the U.S.S.R. on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. 100-11), receiving
testimony from Senator Grassley. 

Hearings continue on Monday, March 14. 

FERC/FOREST SERVICE BUDGET REQUESTS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
review those programs which fall within its jurisdiction as contained in the
President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1989, after receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from Martha O. Hesse,
Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy; and F.
Dale Robertson, Chief, and George Leonard, Associate Chief, both of the U.S.
Forest Service, Department of Agriculture. 

MANAGEMENT OF FEDERAL LANDS/SALEM MARITIME HISTORIC SITE 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 1544, to provide for
cooperation with State and local governments for the improved management of
certain Federal lands, and H.R. 2652, to revise boundaries of Salem Maritime
National Historic Site in Massachusetts, after receiving testimony from
Representative Byron; William Penn Mott, Jr., Director, National Park Service,
Department of the Interior; F. Dale Robertson, Chief, Forest Service,
Department of Agriculture; Paul McCray, Northern Virginia Regional Park
Authority,  [*D188]  Fairfax; Steven M. McKee, Gorman Nature Center,
Mansfield, Ohio; Derrick Crandall, American Recreation Coalition, David G.
Burwell, Rails-To-Trails Conservancy, and Susan A. Henley, The American Hiking
Society, all of Washington, DC; Stuart J. Northrop, Huffy Corporation, Dayton,
Ohio; Richard Welsh, National Association of Reversionary Property Owners,
Issaquah, Washington; and Richard L. Krause, American Farm Bureau Federation,
Park Ridge, Illinois. 

PUBLIC BUILDING REFORM 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure held hearings on proposals to improve the
efficiency and effectiveness of management of public buildings, receiving
testimony from Terence C. Golden, Administrator, General Services
Administration; Douglas F. Collins, National Association of Realtors,
Washington, DC; and Ralph Silverman, Charles E. Smith Management, Inc.,
Arlington, Virginia. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

The nomination of Mark Sullivan III, of Maryland, to be General Counsel,
Department of the Treasury; and 

S. Con. Res. 94, to express the sense of the Congress with respect to the
subsidization of European Community soybean products. 

1989 BUDGET 

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to review those programs which
fall within its jurisdiction as contained in the President's proposed budget
for fiscal year 1989, receiving testimony from Otis R. Bowen, Secretary of
Health and Human Services; James C. Miller III, Director, Office of Management
and Budget. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

FORMER PRESIDENT'S ACT 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Spending, Budget,
and Accounting held hearings on S. 1647, to revise provisions of Federal law
relating to the official expenses of former Presidents and the protection of
former Presidents and former Vice Presidents, receiving testimony from Joseph
R. Wright, Jr., Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget; Gerald L.
Hilscher, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Law Enforcement;
Johnny Finch, Deputy Director, General Government Division, General Accounting
Office; and Michael Endicott, Hohokus, New Jersey. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 15. 

BERNE CONVENTION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and
Trademarks concluded hearings on S. 1301 and S. 1971, bills to implement the
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, after
receiving testimony from Kenneth Dam, Armonk, New York, and C.L. Clemente, New
York, New York, both of the Coalition for Adherence to Berne; David Brown,
Motion Picture Association of America, Andrew Neilly, John Wiley and Sons,
Inc., Donald Kummerfeld, Magazine Publishers of America, and John Mack Carter,
American Society of Magazine Editors, all of New York, New York; David Ladd,
Coalition to Preserve the American Copyright Tradition, Washington, DC; Steven
Spielberg, Director's Guild of America, Universal City, California; George
Lucas, Lucasfilm Ltd., San Rafael, California; and Bo Goldman, Writers' Guild
of America, West, West Hollywood, California. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported, with
an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 721, to provide for and promote
the economic development of Indian tribes by furnishing the necessary capital,
financial services, and technical assistance to Indian owned business
enterprises and to stimulate the development of the private sector of Indian
tribal economies. 

Also, the committee began consideration of S. 802, to transfer ownership of
certain lands held in trust for the Blackfeet Tribe, but did not complete
action thereon, and recessed subject to call. 

INTELLIGENCE 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meeting 

OMNIBUS TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS ACT -- SMALL BUSINESS PROVISIONS 

Conferees resolved the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 3, Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1987, dealing
with the small business provisions. 



1988/03/04
Daily Digest - Friday, March 4, 1988; pages D196 - D204  (Bound vol. D89-D92)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

1989 BUDGET 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee concluded hearings on the President's
proposed budget for fiscal year 1989 after receiving testimony from James L.
Blum, Acting Director, Congressional Budget Office. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on Soviet
strategic force developments, receiving testimony from Lawrence K. Gershwin,
and Steve Davila, Assistant Production Manager, both of the National
Intelligence Office for Strategic Programs. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

1989 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1989 budget,
receiving testimony from James A. Baker III, Secretary of the Treasury. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 16. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. Res. 384, regarding the banning of political activity in South Africa; and 

S.J. Res. 267, in support of democracy in Panama, with amendments. 

PANAMA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the situation in Panama from Michael H. Armacost, Under Secretary
of State for Political Affairs. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

U.S. CLAIMS COURT IMPROVEMENT ACT 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
held hearings on S. 1608, to revise the Federal judicial code with respect to
the administration of the United States Claims Courts, and the salaries and
benefits of Claims Court judges, receiving testimony from Loren Smith, Chief
Judge, United States Claims Court; Stephen J. Markman, Assistant Attorney
General, Office of Legal Policy, Department of Justice; Clarence T. Kipps,
Jr., Chairman, Advisory Council to the United States Claims Court, Washington,
DC; and Randolph W. Thrower, United States Claims Court Bar Association,
Atlanta, Georgia. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

1989 BUDGET/VETERANS' HOME LOAN PROGRAM 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to review the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1989 for veterans'
programs, and on S. 2049, to establish an independent national commission on
the Veterans' Administration home loan guaranty program, to authorize
reductions in the interest rate on loans made by the Veterans' Administration
to finance the sales of properties acquired by the Veterans' Administration as
the result of foreclosures, and to establish credit worthiness requirements
for assumptions of VA vendee loans, after receiving testimony from Thomas K.
Turnage, Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, Veterans' Administration; Donald
E. Shasteen, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment and
Training; James N. Magill, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Jesse Brown, and David W.
Gorman, both of the Disabled American Veterans, R. Jack Powell, Paralyzed
Veterans of America, Noel C. Woosley, AMVETS, John F. Sommer, Jr., Dennis
Rhoades, and Samuel J. Walsh, all of the American Legion, Thomas A. Sherwood,
and Paul Egan, both of the Vietnam Veterans of America, and Robert M. O'Toole,
Mortgage Bankers Association of America, all of Washington, DC; Jennie L.
Stabile, Tarzana, California, on behalf of the National Association of
Realtors; Shirley McVay-Wiseman, Lexington, Kentucky, on behalf of the
National Association of Home Builders; and Capt. Daryl B. Magid, and Capt.
William H. Bowler, both of Fort Gordon, Georgia. 

Joint Meeting 

EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT 

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

Committee recessed subject to call. 



1988/03/07
Daily Digest - Monday, March 7, 1988; pages D206 - D208  (Bound vol. D92-D93)

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/03/08
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 8, 1988; pages D209 - D214  (Bound vol. D93-D96)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

Joint Meeting 

VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS 

Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint hearings
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, to review legislative
priorities of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, after
receiving testimony from Cooper T. Holt, Executive Director, Frederico Juarbe,
Jr., Director, National Veterans Service, James N. Magill, Director, National
Legislative Service, and Earl L. Stock, Jr., National Commander in Chief, all
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Washington, DC. 



1988/03/09
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 9, 1988; pages D216 - D222  (Bound vol. D96-
D100)

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

Joint Meeting 

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings on the national economic
outlook for 1988, receiving testimony from James A. Baker III, Secretary of
the Treasury. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 15. 



1988/03/10
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 10, 1988; pages D223 - D233?  (Bound vol. D100-
D104)

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/03/14
Daily Digest - Monday, March 14, 1988; pages D236 - D242  (Bound vol. D104-
D108)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Veterans'
Administration, receiving testimony from Thomas K. Turnage, Administrator,
Veterans' Administration. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense,
receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United
States, General Accounting Office. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

[*D238]  NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of T.S. Ary, of Oklahoma, to be Director of the Bureau of Mines,
Department of the Interior, Ernest C. Baynard III, of Virginia, to be
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environment, Safety and Health, and C. Anson
Franklin, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of Energy for Congressional,
Intergovernmental and Public Affairs, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Ary was introduced by Senator
Nickles, and Mr. Baynard and Mr. Franklin were introduced by Senator Warner. 

FEDERAL LAND EXCHANGE FACILITATION ACT 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on H.R. 1860, to require the
Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture to promulgate regulations relating
to the exchange of land or land interests, after receiving testimony from
George M. Leonard, Associate Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture;
Robert F. Burford, Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the
Interior; Thomas R.H. Glass, Western Land Exchange Company, Denver, Colorado;
and Destry Jarvis, National Parks and Conservation Association, and Mark Rey,
National Forest Products Association, both of Washington, DC. 

IRS CODE PENALTY REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Private Retirement Plans and Oversight
of the Internal Revenue Service held hearings on the reform of Internal
Revenue Service code penalties, receiving testimony from O. Donaldson
Chapoton, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy, and Lawrence Gibbs,
Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, both of the Department of the
Treasury; W. Henson Moore, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Donald C. Alexander,
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, and Herbert J. Lerner, American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants, all of Washington, DC; James W. Childs, E. Earle
Burke, and Cynthia Davis, all of the University of Akron, Akron, Ohio; Thomas
M. Nee, American Home Products Corporation, on behalf of the Tax Executives
Institute, Inc., and David J. Silverman, National Association of Enrolled
Agents, both of New York, New York; Charles W. Hall, American Bar Association,
Houston, Texas; Glenn W. White, Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan, on
behalf of the National Association of Manufacturers; and Gary C. Rohrs,
Independence, Missouri, on behalf of the National Society of Public
Accountants. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's Annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR),
and certification, after receiving testimony from Ann B. Wrobleski, Assistant
Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters; William von Raab,
Commissioner, United States Customs Service, Department of the Treasury, and
Thomas G. Byrne, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Intelligence, Drug
Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on the Treaty
Between the United States and the U.S.S.R. on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. 100-11), receiving
testimony from George P. Shultz, Secretary of State. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 16. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/03/15
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 15, 1988; pages D243 - D252  (Bound vol. D108-
D115)

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 1989 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Richard W. Goldberg, Acting Under
Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs, Milton J. Hertz,
Administrator, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, George
Wilson Scaling, Chief, Soil Conservation Service, and Stephen Dewhurst,
Director, Office of Budget and Program Analysis, all of the Department of
Agriculture. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 22. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- THE JUDICIARY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for
the Judiciary, receiving testimony from L. Ralph Mecham, Director,
Administrative Office of the United States Courts; and Thomas J. Meskill,
Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 23. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DOE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Department
of Energy, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Donna R. Fitzpatrick, Assistant Secretary, Conservation and
Renewable Energy, James F. Decker, Acting Director, Office of Energy Research
Programs, including Superconducting Super Collider and Magnetic Fusion, and
Garry W. Gibbs, Acting Assistant Secretary, Environment, Safety and Health,
all of the Department of Energy. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 18. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- CONSUMER PROGRAMS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Terrence
Scanlon, Chairman, Carol G. Dawson, Commissioner, and Anne Graham,
Commissioner, all of the Consumer Product Safety Commission; Virginia H.
Knauer, Director, Office of Consumer Affairs; and Teresa Nasif, Director,
Consumer Information Center. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 21. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INDIAN PROGRAMS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Everett B.
Rhoades, Director, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human
Services. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 21. 

CHILDHOOD IMMUNIZATION PROGRAM 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on the childhood immunization
program, receiving testimony from Representative Waxman; James O. Mason,
Director, Centers for Disease Control, Department of Health and Human
Services; Kay Johnson, Children's Defense Fund, Washington, DC; and numerous
other public witnesses. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of
Defense, receiving testimony from Adm. Ronald J. Hays, USN,
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Command;  [*D245]  Gen. George B. Crist,
USMC, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Central Command; Lt. Gen. Harry A. Goodall,
USAF, Deputy Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Special Operations Command; Adm. Lee
Baggett, Jr., USN, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command; and Gen. Thomas
C. Richards, USAF, Deputy Commander-in-Chief, U.S. European Command. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings on S. 2114, authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1991-1993 for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, after receiving
testimony from Donald Ledwig, Corporation For Public Broadcasting, Douglas J.
Bennett, National Public Radio, David Brugger, National Association of Public
Television Stations, and Lynn Chadwick, National Federation of Community
Broadcasters, all of Washington, DC; David Britt, Children's Television
Workshop, Alfred Vecchione, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, and Larry Sapadin,
National Coalition of Independent Broadcasting Producers, all of New York, New
York; Arnoldo Torres, Latinos in Public Telecommunications, Sacramento,
California; Frederick Wiseman, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Marlon Riggs, San
Francisco, California; and Bruce Christensen, Public Broadcasting Service,
Alexandria, Virginia. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Hazardous Wastes
and Toxic Substances approved for full committee consideration S. 1792,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1987, 1988, and 1989 for the Council on
Environmental Quality, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. 

ASBESTOS HAZARD EMERGENCY RESPONSE ACT 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Hazardous Wastes
and Toxic Substances held joint hearings with the Subcommittee on Superfund
and Environmental Oversight to investigate the Environmental Protection
Agency's efforts to implement the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (P.L.
99-519), receiving testimony from Senator Melcher; Representatives Oxley,
Fields, and Florio; John A. Moore, Assistant Administrator, Office of
Pesticides and Toxic Substances, Environmental Protection Agency; Rosilyn
Schleife, Lake Holcombe Public School, Holcombe, Wisconsin, on behalf of the
National Education Association; Ann Lynch, Las Vegas, Nevada, on behalf of the
National Parent Teachers Association; Reuben A. Guttman, Service Employees
International Union, AFL/CIO, James August, American Federation of State and
County Municipal Employees, and John Welch, Safe Buildings Alliance, all of
Washington, DC; Robert L. Anderson, Montana School Boards Association, Helena,
on behalf of the National School Boards Association; William Echols, Gobbell
Hays Partnership, Nashville, Tennessee; and Richard Mc- Donough, Fidelity
Environmental Insurance Company, Princeton, New Jersey. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

TAX INCENTIVES FOR EDUCATION 

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on proposals to provide tax
incentives for higher education, including S. 39, S. 628, S. 1533, S. 1572, S.
1660, S. 1661, S. 1662, S. 1659, S. 1817, and S. 2149, receiving testimony
from Senators Pell, Kennedy, Stafford, and Grassley; O. Donaldson Chapoton,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Michigan Governor
James G. Blanchard, Lansing; Abraham Ribicoff, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays
and Handler, New York, New York, on behalf of Morgan Bank; Michael S.
McPherson, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts; Patricia A. Hayes,
St. Edwards University, Austin, Texas, on behalf of the National Association
of Independent Colleges and Universities, Judith Eaton, Community College of
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the American Council of
Education; William L. Davis, South Texas Higher Education Authority, McAllen;
Roger N. Begin, Rhode Island General Treasurer, Providence; and John D.
Finnerty, College Savings Bank, Princeton, New Jersey. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on proposed
legislation to elevate the Veterans' Administration to Cabinet status,
receiving testimony from Richard Fogel, Assistant Comptroller General, General
Government Programs, General Accounting Office; and Howard Messner, Executive
Officer, American Consulting Engineers Council, both of Washington, DC. 

Hearings continue on Monday, March 28. 

TRADEMARK LAW REVISION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
concluded hearings on S. 1883, to improve the U.S. trademark registration
system and the ability of the trademark law to protect the interests of the
public and trademark owners, after receiving testimony from Robert J. Eck, The
United States Trademark Association, New York, New York; Ronald R. Kranzow,
Frito-Lay, Inc., Plano, Texas; Debra J. Fields, Mrs. Fields Inc., Park City,
Utah; C. DeForrest Trexler, Mack  [*D246]  Trucks, Inc., Allentown,
Pennsylvania; Herbert A. Hedden, International Franchise Association, and
Michael A. Grow, Ward, Lazarus and Grow, both of Washington, DC; Beverly W.
Pattishall, Pattishall, MacAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson, and John K.
Uilkema, American Bar Association, both of Chicago, Illinois; and Joseph A.
DeGrandi, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Arlington, Virginia. 

CHILD CARE SERVICES 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Families,
Drugs and Alcoholism held hearings on S. 1885, to establish a Federal program
for assisting States in providing licensed and regulated child care services,
receiving testimony from Minnesota Lt. Governor Marlene Johnson, St. Paul;
Mayor Carrie Saxon Perry, Hartford, Connecticut, on behalf of the United
States Conference of Mayors; Jimmy White, Lexington, Kentucky; Joy Majied, and
Diana Pearce, Institute for Women's Policy Research, both of Washington, DC;
Debra and Michael Brooks, Gunnison, Colorado; Russ Young, Baltimore, Maryland;
Diane Adams, Community Coordinated Child Care, Madison, Wisconsin; Harry
Freeman, American Express, Dana Friedman, Fran Haynes, and Ellen Galinsky,
Bank Street College, all of New York, New York; Sandra Salyer, Mervyn's of
Dayton Hudson Corporation, Hayward, California; Sheryl Smith, Corporate Kids,
Olathe, Kansas; Martha Eshoo, Hill, Holliday, Connors, and Cosmopulos,
Massachusetts; William Bentely Ball, Association of Christian Schools
International, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; and Lynn Lyss, National Council of
Jewish Women, St. Louis, Missouri. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

COCHITI PUEBLO -- CORPS OF ENGINEERS DAM PROJECT 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings on
the Cochiti Pueblo -- Corps of Engineers Dam Project, after receiving
testimony from Senators Bingaman and Domenici; Maj. Gen. Henry J. Hatch,
Director of Civil Works, and Lt. Col. Kent Gonser, District Engineer
Albuquerque District Office, both of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers;
Governor John Bowannie, Pueblo de Cochiti, Cochiti, New Mexico; and Ron
Bliesner, Keller and Bliesner and Associates, Logan, Utah. 

Joint Meetings 

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings on the national
economic outlook for 1988, after receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan,
Chairman, Federal Reserve System. 

ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT ACT 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 5, to improve elementary and secondary education, but did 
[*D250]  not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Monday, March 21. 

OMNIBUS TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS ACT -- AGRICULTURAL TRADE 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
agricultural trade provisions of H.R. 3, Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act
of 1987, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call. 



1988/03/16
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 16, 1988; pages D254 - D264  (Bound vol. D115-
D122)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LEGISLATIVE BRANCH 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Legislative Branch,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Walter J. Stewart, Secretary of the Senate; and Henry Kuualoha Giugni, Senate
Sergeant at Arms. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of
Defense, receiving testimony from John O. Marsh, Jr., Secretary of the Army;
H. Lawrence Garrett III, Acting Secretary of the Navy; Edward C. Aldridge,
Jr., Secretary of the Air Force; Gen. Carl Vuono, USA, Chief of Staff, United
States Army; Adm. H. Hardisty, USN, Chief of Naval Operations; Gen. Alfred M.
Gray, USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps; and Gen. Larry D. Welch, USAF,
Chief of Staff, United States Air Force. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

1989 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1989 budget,
receiving testimony from Gilbert S. Omenn, University of Washington, Seattle;
Lewis Branscome, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Soloman
Buchsbaum, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

FISHERIES ENFORCEMENT IN THE BERING SEA 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded joint
hearings with the National Ocean Policy Study to review foreign fishing
activities in the Bering Sea, after receiving testimony from Senator
Murkowski; Representative Don Young; Adm. Paul A. Yost, Commandant, and Rear
Adm. Clyde E. Robbins, Chief, Office of Operations, both of the U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Transportation; James E. Douglas, Jr., Deputy Assistant
Administrator for Fisheries, William Aron, Director of Science and Research,
Alaska Region, and Morris Pallozzi, Chief Enforcement Officer, all of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce;
Edward E. Wolfe, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and Fisheries
Affairs; Edward D. Evans, Alaska Factory Trawler Association, Sam Hjelle,
Glacier Fish Co., Ltd., Dayton Alverson, Natural Resources Consultants, and
Robert Alverson, Fishing Vessel Owners Association, all of Seattle,
Washington; John G. Peterson, North Pacific Fishery Management Council, and
Henry Mitchell, Bering Sea Fishermen's Association, both of Anchorage, Alaska;
Steven Pennoyer, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Juneau, Alaska; and Barry
Collier, Pacific Seafood Processors Association, Washington, DC. 

[*D256]  NOMINATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Joseph T. Nall, of North Carolina, to be a
Member of the National Transportation Safety Board, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senator Sanford and Representative Lancaster, testified and
answered questions in his own behalf. 

FAA 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
held oversight hearings on the Federal Aviation Administration, focusing on
safety and security initiatives, receiving testimony from T. Allan McArtor,
Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

WATER RESOURCES PROJECTS 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure held hearings on S. 2100, to authorize
programs for the conservation and development of water resource projects of
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and S. 2101, to provide for the construction
of various projects for improvements to rivers and harbors of the United
States, receiving testimony from Robert W. Page, Assistant Secretary of the
Army for Civil Works; James L. Emery, Administrator, Saint Lawrence Seaway
Development Corporation; John Harris, American Federation of Government
Employees, Washington, DC; Salvatore L. Pisani, Ogdensburg Bridge and Port
Authority, Ogdensburg, New York; Brendan W. O'Malley, Port Authority of New
York and New Jersey, New York, New York; Dave Sprynczynatyk, North Dakota
State Water Commission, Douglas K. Eiken, North Dakota State Parks and
Recreation Department, and Paul R. Feyereisen, Missouri River Adjacent Land
Owners Assn., all of Bismarck, North Dakota; and Ivan Boe, B.O.M.M.M. Joint
Water Resources Board, Turtle Lake, North Dakota. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

MOTOR FUEL EXCISE TAX COLLECTION PROCESS 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Energy and Agricultural Taxation held
oversight hearings on the possible changes in the collection procedures for
Federal excise taxes on gasoline, diesel, and aviation fuel, receiving
testimony from Senators Exon, Domenici, Murkowski, Nickles, Gramm, and Karnes;
Representatives Lott, and Daub; Dennis E. Ross, Tax Legislative Counsel,
Department of the Treasury; Robert E. Farris, Deputy Administrator, Federal
Highway Administration, Department of Transportation; S.M. True, Jr., Texas
Farm Bureau, Plainview, representing the American Farm Bureau Federation;
Daniel B. Scherder, Peabody Holding Company, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri, on
behalf of the National Coal Association and the American Mining Congress; R.
Timothy Columbus, Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America; James
C. Day, Noble Drilling Corporation, Tulsa, Oklahoma, on behalf of
International Association of Drilling Contractors, Association of Oilwell
Servicing Contractors and International Association of Geophysical
Contractors; Jack Kelsey, Oklahoma Farmers Union, and Ellis D. Edwards,
Oklahoma State Treasurer, on behalf of Government Finance Officers
Association, National Governors Association, National League of Cities,
National Association of State Treasurers, and National Association of Fleet
Administrators, both of Oklahoma City; Jerdy Gary, Sooner Oil Company,
Denison, Texas, representing the Petroleum Marketers Association of America;
and R. Michael Bright, Citgo Petroleum Corporation, Tulsa, Oklahoma. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on the Treaty
Between the United States and the U.S.S.R. on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. 100-11), receiving testimony from
Howard R. Swearer and Daniel Yankelovich, both on behalf of the Public Agenda
Foundation, New York, New York. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

INFORMATION POLICY AND COMPETITIVENESS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology and the Law held
hearings to review the restrictions on the flow of scientific and technical
information imposed for national security reasons, receiving testimony from
Mitchel B. Wallerstein, Associate Executive Director, Office of International
Affairs, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences; William R.
Graham, Jr., Science Advisor to the President, Director, Office of Science and
Technology; Lewis I. Branscomb, Kennedy School of Government, and Muriel
Morisey Spence, Harvard University, both the Cambridge, Massachusetts; Robert
L. Park, American Physical Society, Washington, DC; Dean Eastman, IBM, Armonk,
New York; Bill Gear, University of Illinois, Champaign; and David A. Wilson,
University of California, Los Angeles. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/03/17
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 17, 1988; pages D266 - D276  (Bound vol. D122-
D131)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FINANCIAL MARKET EVENTS 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings to
review the current state of U.S. financial markets, focusing on the problems
surrounding the October 1987 market break, receiving testimony from Wendy L.
Gramm, Chairman, and Kalo A. Hineman, Commissioner, both of the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission; David S. Ruder, Chairman, U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission; and Nicholas F. Brady, Dillon, Read & Co., Inc., New
York, New York. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LEGISLATIVE BRANCH 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Legislative
Branch, after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from John H. Gibbons, Director, Office of Technology Assessment;
James L. Blum, Acting Director, Congressional Budget Office; Ralph E.
Kennickell, Jr., Public Printer, Government Printing Office; Charles Bowsher,
Comptroller General of the United States; General Accounting Office; James H.
Billington, Librarian of Congress; Joseph Ross, Director, Congressional
Research Service, Library of Congress; and George M. White, Architect of the
Capitol. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TRANSPORTATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Jim Burnett, Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board; and M. Cynthia
Douglass, Administrator, Research and Special Programs Administration,
Department of Transportation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 24. 

NICARAGUA/HONDURAS BRIEFING 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the current Nicaragua/Honduras situation from William H. Taft IV,
Deputy Secretary of Defense; and officials of the Central Intelligence Agency
and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of
Defense, and the five-year defense plan, receiving testimony from William H.
Taft IV, Deputy Secretary of Defense. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel held
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for
the Department of Defense, focusing on manpower requirements for the total
force, receiving testimony from Grant S. Green, Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Force Management and Personnel; Lt. Gen. Allen K. Ono, USA, Deputy Chief
of Staff for Personnel;  [*D268]  VAdm. Leon A. Edney, USN, Chief of Naval
Personnel; Lt. Gen. John I. Hudson, USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel;
and Maj. Gen. Larry D. Dillingham, USAF, Assistant Deputy Chief of Personnel. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

SHAREHOLDER VOTING RIGHTS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on a uniform voting rights standard for all corporate issuers whose securities
are traded in the nation's securities markets, after receiving testimony from
New York City Comptroller Harrison J. Goldin, Richard A. Grasso, New York
Stock Exchange, and Richard H. Troy, American Society of Corporate
Secretaries, all of New York, New York; Robert A.G. Monks, Institutional
Shareholder Services, Inc., and A.A. Sommer, Jr., Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius,
both of Washington, DC; Richard Ruback, Harvard Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts; Manning G. Warren III, Emory University School of Law, Atlanta,
Georgia; Jeff Coors, Adolph Coors Company, Golden, Colorado; and John
Hechinger, Hechinger Company, Landover, Maryland. 

1989 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1989 budget,
receiving testimony from George P. Shultz, Secretary of State; Alice Rivlin
and Joshua M. Weiner, both of Brookings Institution, and Daniel Borque,
Voluntary Hospitals of America, on behalf of the Task Force on Long Term
Health Care Policies, all of Washington, DC; and Barbara Matula, North
Carolina Division of Medical Assistance, Raleigh. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- AMTRAK 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (AMTRAK), after receiving
testimony from John Riley, Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration; W.
Graham Claytor, Jr., President and Chairman of the Board, National Railroad
Passenger Corporation; Mayor Hal Smith, Jr., and Michael E. Sullivan, both of
Hastings, Nebraska; and William T. Druhan, American Association of State
Highway and Transportation Officials, William G. Mahoney, Railway Labor
Executives' Association, and Ross Capon, National Association of Railroad
Passengers, all of Washington, DC. 

FEDERAL LANDS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 1508, S. 1570, and H.R.
1548, bills to withdraw and reserve certain Federal lands for military
purposes, after receiving testimony from John O. Rittenhouse, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force for Installations Management; A. Jeffrey Roth,
Director of Navy Real Estate, Navy Facilities Engineering Command, United
States Navy; Robert F. Burford, Director, Bureau of Land Management,
Department of the Interior; Courtland Lee, Minerals Exploration Coalition,
Landover, Maryland; T.C. Osborne, ASARCO Incorporated, New York, New York; and
Dale Zimmerman, McDade, Warran and Zimmerman, Washington, DC. 

WATER RESOURCES PROJECTS 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure concluded hearings on S. 2100, to authorize
programs for the conservation and development of water resource projects of
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and S. 2101, to provide for the construction
of various projects for improvements to rivers and harbors of the United
States, after receiving testimony from Senators Ford, McConnell, and Dixon;
George E. Evans, Jr., Kentucky Energy Cabinet, Frankfort; Charles Lehman,
American Commercial Barge Line Co., Jeffersonville, Indiana; Gary P. La
Grange, West St. Mary Parish, Port, Harbor and Terminal District, Louisiana;
Don Salsbury, Mid-South Towing Co., Metropolis, Illinois; David H. Gambrel,
Peabody Development Company, St. Louis, Missouri; Marc Gabor, United Mine
Workers of America, David C. Campbell, National Wildlife Federation, Ed Osann,
National Wildlife Federation, Albert A. Grant, American Society of Civil
Engineers, and Donald L. Stokley, American Public Power Association, all of
Washington, DC; Donald L. Hey, Wetlands Research, Inc., Lake County, Illinois;
Gary L. Failor, American Association of Port Authorities, Toledo, Ohio; J.
Stanley Payne, Jr., Virginia Port Authority, Norfolk; Nicholas J. Melas,
Metropolitan Sanitary District, Chicago, Illinois; Kenneth L. Edwards,
Riverside County Flood Control and Sanitary District, California; Gary Gagnon,
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Virginia
Valentine, Clark County, Nevada, Regional Flood Control District, Nevada;
Dennis McDuffey, Rancho Palos Verdes, California; Judith Meister, Santa
Monica, California; Councilmember Kay Horrell, Redondo Beach, California; R.
Barry Palmer, DINAMO, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and J. Henry Sather, Macomb
College, Macomb, Illinois. 

[*D269]  U.S.-CANADA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT 

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the U.S.-Canada Free Trade
Agreement signed on January 2, 1988, to provide increased economic activity,
higher trade levels, jobs, and enhanced competitiveness for the U.S. and
Canada, receiving testimony from James A. Baker III, Secretary of the
Treasury; and Clayton Yeutter, United States Trade Representative. 

Hearings were recessed, subject to call. 

NICARAGUA/HONDURAS SITUATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the current Nicaragua/Honduras situation from Michael Armacost,
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued hearings on the Treaty
Between the United States and the U.S.S.R. on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. 100-11), receiving
testimony in open session from Michael J. Matheson, Deputy Legal Adviser,
Department of State; Maynard Glitman, U.S. Negotiator For Intermediate-Range
Nuclear Forces; and David F. Forte, Cleveland State University, Cleveland,
Ohio; and in open and closed session from William F. Burns, Director, and
Manfred Eimer, Assistant Director, Bureau of Verification and Intelligence,
both of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 22. 

CABLE TV 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business
Rights held hearings to discuss competitive issues affecting the cable
television industry, receiving testimony from William B. Finneran, New York
State Commission on Cable Television, Albany; James M. Theroux, Wireless Cable
Association, and Milton Maltz, Malrite Communications Group, on behalf of the
Association of Independent Television Stations, Inc., both of Cleveland, Ohio;
Mark Foster, The Microband Companies, Inc., New York, New York; George Kocian,
Home Satellite Television Association, Tiverton, Ohio; Thomas Burke, United
Satellite Industry Association, North Little Rock, Arkansas; James P. Mooney,
National Cable Television Association, and Joseph Collins, Home Box Office,
Inc., both of Washington, DC; Amos B. Hostetter, Jr., Continental Cablevision,
Inc., Boston, Massachusetts; Robert Thomson, Tele-Communications, Inc.,
Denver, Colorado; Gary R. Chapman, National Association of Broadcasters,
Riverside, Rhode Island; Wendell Triplett, WWAT-TV, Chillicothe, Ohio; and
John Siegel, KBHK-TV, San Francisco, California. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded
hearings on S.J. Res. 21, S.J. Res. 130, and S.J. Res. 166, measures proposing
amendments to the Constitution of the United States relative to contributions
and expenditures intended to affect Congressional, Presidential, and State
elections, after receiving testimony from Senators Hollings, McConnell, Roth,
Cranston, and Kassebaum; Representative Schumer; Lloyd N. Cutler, Wilmer,
Cutler & Pickering, Washington, DC; Walter Dellinger, Duke University Law
School, Durham, North Carolina; and Joel M. Gora, Brooklyn Law School,
Brooklyn, New York, on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered the following measures
favorably reported: 

S. 2049, to establish an independent national commission on the Veterans'
Administration home loan guaranty program, to authorize reductions in the
interest rate on loans made by the Veterans' Administration to finance the
sales of properties acquired by the Veterans' Administration as the result of
foreclosures, and to establish credit worthiness requirements for assumptions
of VA vendee loans, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and 

An original bill to allow Veterans' Administration access to certain IRS and
SSA information records for income verification for pension eligibility
determination. 

Also, the committee completed its review of those programs which fall within
the committee's jurisdiction and agreed on recommendations which it will make
thereon to the Committee on the Budget. 

Joint Meeting 

OMNIBUS TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS ACT 

Conferees resolved the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 3, Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1987, dealing
with worker adjustment provisions. 



1988/03/18
Daily Digest - Friday, March 18, 1988; pages D277 - D286  (Bound vol. D131-
D134)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

SOYBEAN MARKET 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Production and Stabilization of Prices and the Subcommittee on
Domestic and Foreign Marketing and Product Promotion held joint hearings to
review recent developments in the nation's soybean industry and the effects of
farm policies on soybeans, receiving testimony from Peter C. Myers, Deputy
Secretary of Agriculture; Abner W. Womack, University of Missouri, Columbia;
Richard A. Loewy, Prudential-Bache Securities, Inc., New York, New York; Wayne
Bennett, American Soybean Association, Lonoke, Arkansas; Rene Niese, National
Farmers Organization, Corning, Iowa; C. Lockwood Marine, National Soybean
Processors Association, Ft. Wayne, Indiana; and Floyd Anderson, National
Sunflower Association, Brocket, North Dakota. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- GENERAL GOVERNMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1989, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Daniel R. Levinson, Chairman, U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board; Mary
F. Wieseman, Special Counsel, Office of the Special Counsel; Jerry L. Calhoun,
Chairman, and Dennis M. Devaney, General Counsel, both of the Federal Labor
Relations Authority; Samuel B. Sterrett, Chief Judge, United States Tax Court;
Martin L. Duggan, Chairman, Advisory Committee on Federal Pay; Frank Gearde,
Jr., Chairman, and Charles W. Fletcher, Executive Director, both of the
Committee for the Purchase from the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped; and
Robert B. Hawkins, Chairman, John Kincaid, Acting Executive Director, and
Franklin A. Steinko, Jr., Budget and Management Officer, all of the Advisory
Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 21. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed closed hearings in connection
with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, including issues
related to the negotiating record, receiving testimony from Maynard W.
Glitman, Chief Negotiator on Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces; and  [*D279] 
representatives from the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. 

DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY BASE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
held hearings to review management of the nation's defense technology base,
receiving testimony from Robert C. Duncan, Director, Defense Research and
Engineering, Department of Defense; Brig. Gen. Paul Cavanaugh, Acting Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Military Application; Alan Shaw, Senior
Analyst, Office of Technology Assessment; James Davis, Executive Officer,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Siegfried S. Hecker, Director, Los
Alamos National Laboratory; Irwin Welber, President, Sandia National
Laboratories; and Michael D. Rich, Rand Corporation, Washington, DC. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the state of
U.S. strategic deterrence, receiving testimony from Gen. John T. Chain, USAF,
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Strategic Command. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 22. 

1989 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1989 budget,
receiving testimony from John D. Steinbruner, Brookings Institution,
Washington, DC; and Fred C. Ikle, former Under Secretary of Defense for
Policy. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 22. 

TAXPAYER BILL OF RIGHTS 

Committee on Finance: Committee completed consideration of proposed
legislation to promote and protect taxpayer rights, but did not take final
action thereon, and will meet again on Monday, March 21. 

AFGHANISTAN 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the situation in Afghanistan from Michael H. Armacost, Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs. 

LEAVE SHARING 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post
Office, and Civil Service concluded hearings on S. 1595 and S. 2140, bills to
provide for a Federal employee leave sharing program, after receiving
testimony from Senator Domenici; Michael P. Dolan, Assistant Commissioner,
Human Resources Management and Support, and Peter K. Scott, Deputy Chief
Counsel, both of the Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury;
Anthony F. Ingrassia, Deputy Associate Director, Personnel Systems and
Oversight, Office of Personnel Management; Peter Rozantes, Connecticut State
Department of Administrative Services, Hartford; Mirim K. Cameron, Montgomery
County Department of Employee Assistance Service, and Richard Bank, Montgomery
County Education Association, both of Rockville, Maryland; Mollie H. Bowers,
University of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland; and John Mulholland, American
Federation of Government Employees, Robert Tobias, National Treasury Employees
Union, and Beth Moten, National Federation of Federal Employees, all of
Washington, DC. 

JUDICIAL BRANCH IMPROVEMENTS ACT 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
held hearings on S. 1482, to make certain improvements with respect to the
Federal Judiciary, receiving testimony from Stephen J. Markman, Assistant
Attorney General, Office of Legal Policy, Department of Justice; Elmo B.
Hunter, Judge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, and
Richard M. Bilby, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court of Arizona, both on behalf
of the Judicial Conference of the United States; and Robert M. Landis,
American Bar Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Hearings continue on Friday, April 22. 

INF TREATY 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on the
provisions of the Treaty Between the United States and the U.S.S.R. on the
Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc.
100-11), receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/03/21
Daily Digest - Monday, March 21, 1988; pages D288 - D294  (Bound vol. D134-
D137)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the National
Science Foundation, receiving testimony from Erich Bloch, Director, National
Science Foundation. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the
National Park Service, receiving testimony from William Penn Mott, Jr.,
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 Wednesday, March 23. 

BASE RIGHTS AND BURDEN SHARING 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on the future of the  [*D289]  F-16 Wing, basing rights negotiations
with Greece and the Philippines, and the overall defense burden sharing issue,
receiving testimony from Richard L. Armitage, Assistant Secretary of Defense
for International Security Affairs; John Woodworth, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense for European and NATO Policy; Gen. Thomas Richards, USA, Deputy
Commander-in-Chief, European Command; and Adm. Ronald J. Hays, USN,
Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Command. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 30. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1989 for the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from William E. Douglas, Commissioner,
Financial Management Service, Lawrence B. Gibbs, Commissioner, Internal
Revenue Service, Richard L. Gregg, Commissioner, Bureau of the Public Debt,
Jerrold B. Speers, Executive Director, U.S. Savings Bonds Division, Donna
Pope, Director, United States Mint, Jill E. Kent, Acting Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury for Management, and Gerald Murphy, Fiscal Assistant Secretary,
all of the Department of the Treasury. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 25. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
William L. Ball III, of South Carolina, to be Secretary of the Navy, after the
nominee, who was introduced by former Senator Talmadge, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf. 

CLOSE AIR SUPPORT MODERNIZATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance
Defense concluded hearings on requirements and plans for close air support
modernization, after receiving testimony from Donald N. Fredericksen, Deputy
Under Secretary of Defense for Tactical Warfare Programs; Maj. Gen. W.A.
Shoffner, USA, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans (Force
Development and Integration), Department of the Army; Maj. Gen. A.L. Logan,
USAF, Director of Plans, Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Operations,
Department of the Air Force; Maj. Gen. Michael Sullivan, USMC, Commanding
General, Second Marine Aircraft Wing, (Cherry Point, North Carolina); and
Brig. Gen. John I. Hopkins, Director, Operations Division, United States
Marine Corps. 

NATION'S FORESTS -- MONTANA 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests held hearings on S. 1478, and H.R. 2090, bills to
designate certain National Forests Systems lands in the State of Montana for
release to the forest planning process, protection of recreation value, and
inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System, receiving testimony
from Senator Baucus; Representative Williams; James Overbay, Deputy Chief,
National Forest System, U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture;
Montana State Representative Charles Swysgood, Dillon; Linda Stoll-Anderson,
Lewis and Clark County Board of County Commissioners, Chris Deveny, Helena
Forest Conservation Coalition, Ed Madej, Sierra Club, Jannelle K. Fallan,
Montana Petroleum Association, and Gary A. Langley, Montana Mining
Association, all of Helena, Montana; Clifford G. Nelson, Granite County Board
of Commissioners, Drummond, Montana; Brad DeZort, Teton County Board of
Commissioners, Choteau, Montana; Don Valiton, Powell County Board of
Commissioners, Deer Lodge, Montana; Michael Scott, Wilderness Society, and
Edward M. Lewis, Greater Yellowstone Coalition, both of Bozeman, Montana;
Chris Marchion, Montana Wildlife Federation, Anaconda, Montana; Bud Moore,
Condon, Montana; Edward Neibauer, EPS Resources Company, Englewood, Colorado;
John R. Warne, Billings, Montana; Eugene D. Smith, U.S. Borax, Los Angeles,
California; and Terrence Belton, Texaco Inc., Denver, Colorado. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

DEBT COLLECTION/DIESEL FUEL TAX 

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

An original bill to provide an extension of the Internal Revenue Service
refund offset program under which the IRS collects debts owed to Federal
agencies, and to provide an alternate means of collecting the excise tax on
diesel fuel. 

DEFENSE CONTRACTOR SUPPLY SYSTEM 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to review the
program of furnishing government property to defense contractors, receiving
testimony from Derek J. Vander Schaaf, Deputy Inspector General, Department of
Defense; Robert B. Costello, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition; Frank
C. Conahan, Assistant Comptroller General, National Security and International
Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; and Richard L. Shaffer, Auditor
General, Navy Audit Service. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

[*D290]  EDUCATION OF THE DEAF 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on the Handicapped
concluded hearings to review a report by the Commission on the Education of
the Deaf, after receiving testimony from Madeleine C. Will, Assistant
Secretary of Education for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services;
Frank G. Bowe, Chairperson, William Johnson, Commissioner, Gertrude S.
Galloway, Chairperson, Precollege Programs Committee, and William Gainer,
Chairperson, Postsecondary and Adult Education Programs Committee, all of the
Commission on the Education of the Deaf; I. King Jordan, Gallaudet University,
Washington, DC; William E. Castel, National Technical Institute for the Deaf,
Rochester, New York; and Robert R. Lauritsen, St. Paul Technical Institute,
St. Paul, Minnesota. 

INF TREATY 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to further
discuss the provisions of the Treaty Between the United States and the
U.S.S.R. on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles
(Treaty Doc. 100-11), but made no announcements. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/03/22
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 22, 1988; pages D295 - D306  (Bound vol. D137-
D145)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE -- BUDGET 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings to review the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year
1989 for the Department of Agriculture, after receiving testimony from Richard
E. Lyng, Secretary of Agriculture; and Stephen B. Dewhurst, Director, Office
of Budget and Program Analysis, Department of Agriculture. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1989 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Richard Goldberg, Acting Under
Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and Commodity Programs,
Thomas O. Kay, Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service, Joan S. Wallace,
Administrator, Office of International Cooperation and Development, Melvin E.
Sims, General Sales Manager, and Dennis Kaplan, Chief, Budget Control and
Program Analysis Division, all of the Department of Agriculture. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 24. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NAVY/MARINE CORPS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings to review
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of the Navy
and the U.S. Marine Corps, receiving testimony from H. Lawrence Garrett III,
Under Secretary of the Navy; Adm. C.A.H. Trost, Chief of Naval Operations; and
Gen. A.M. Gray, Commandant of the Marine Corps. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the
National Science Foundation, receiving testimony from Erich Bloch, Director,
National Science Foundation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 29. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered the following nominations
favorably reported: 

Everett Alvarez, Jr., of Maryland, to be a Member of the Board of Regents of
the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences; 

Jack Katzen, of Connecticut, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense; 

William L. Ball III, of South Carolina, to be Secretary of the Navy; and 

3,974 nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. 

Also, the committee completed its review of those programs which fall within
the committee's jurisdiction as contained in the President's proposed budget
for fiscal year 1989, and agreed on recommendations it will make thereon to
the Committee on the Budget. 

[*D297]  ABM TREATY 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence concluded hearings on proposals for an anti-ballistic missile
system compliant with the Anti-Ballistic Missiles (ABM) Treaty, after
receiving testimony from Dean D. Hofferth, McDonnell-Douglas Astronautics
Company, Huntington Beach, California; William C. Loomis and Kenneth A.
Fisher, both of the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, Sunnyvale,
California; and Anne H. Cahn, Committee for National Security, Washington, DC. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on ICBM
modernization programs and strategic warning indicators, receiving testimony
from Brig. Gen. Charles A. May, USAF, Deputy Director of Strategic, Special
Operations Forces and Airlift Programs; Maj. Gen. William L. Doyle, Jr., USAF,
Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence Strategic Air Command; John Welch,
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisitions; and Lt. Gen. George
Monahan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisitions. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 25. 

COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACT 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held oversight
hearings on the effectiveness of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), private
sector initiatives to comply with its prescriptions and potential refinements
of CRA, receiving testimony from Jane Vebelhoer, Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), New Orleans, Louisiana; Gale Cincotta,
National Training and Information Center, Elspeth Revere, Woodstock Institute,
and Richard C. Hartnack, First Chicago Corporation, all of Chicago, Illinois;
Mayor Tony Reyes, San Luis, Arizona; Shanna Smith, Toledo Fair Housing Center,
Toledo, Ohio; Calvin Bradford, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Allen
Fishbein, Center for Community Change, Washington, DC; and John M. Kolesar,
AmeriTrust Development Bank, Cleveland, Ohio. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

1989 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1989 budget,
receiving testimony from Susan Tolchin, George Washington University,
Washington, DC; and James Powell, New Canaan, Connecticut. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, March 24. 

NASA -- BUDGET 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings to review the President's proposed
budget request for fiscal year 1989 for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, after receiving testimony from James C. Fletcher,
Administrator, Dale D. Myers, Deputy Administrator, and Thomas Campbell,
Comptroller, all of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 

NATION'S FORESTS -- MONTANA 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 1478 and H.R. 2090, bills
to designate certain National Forest System lands in the State of Montana for
release to the forest planning process, protection of recreation value, and
inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System, after receiving
testimony from Representative Marlenee; Woodrow Kipp, Blackfeet Tribe,
Browning, Montana; Bill Maloit, Back Country Horsemen of Montana, Jim
Posewitz, Wildlife Society, Robert Bushnell, Montana Snowmobile Association,
Mike Micone, Western Environmental Trade Association, and John Gatchell,
Montana Wilderness Association, all of Helena, Montana; John Dagget, Montana
Wildlife Federation, Shepard, Montana; Tom Heintz, Montana Outfitters and
Guides Association, Robert Garner, Montana Trail Bike Riders Association, and
Sam Harvey, Gallatin Valley Snowmobile Association, all of Bozeman, Montana;
Steve Kelly, Friends of the Wild Swan, Swan Lake, Montana; Robert E. Lamley,
Champion International Corporation, and Marvin McMichael, Stone Container
Corporation, both of Missoula, Montana; Mark Simonich, F.H. Stoltze Land and
Lumber Company, Columbia Falls, Montana; Bill Crapser, Darby Lumber Company,
Darby, Montana; Anthony C. Colter, Louisiana-Pacific Corporation, Deer Lodge,
Montana; Fred Hutchison, Sequoia Forest Industries, Townsend, Montana; James
S. Riley, Intermountain Forest Industry Association, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; Don
Allen, Montana Wood Products Association; 

Jack Salmond, Choteau, Montana; Richard A. Kuhl, Montana Wilderness
Association (Flathead Chapter), and Keith L. Olson, Montana Logging
Association, both of Kalispell, Montana; Al Luebek, Big Hole Watershed
Coalition, Butte, Montana; J. B. Anderson, Dillon, Montana, and Clayton
Huntley, Wisdom, Montana, both on behalf of the Big Hole Ranchers'
Association; Joseph R. Keating,  [*D298]  CENEX, Billings, Montana; Norm
Burnett, Phillips Petroleum, and Sally M. Sommers, Chevron, U.S.A.
Incorporated, both of Denver, Colorado; Jonathan A. Hanson, Superior Area
Chamber of Commerce, and Joe Rickett, DBA Varco Logging Incorporated, both of
Superior, Montana; and Webb Scott Brown, Trout Creek, Montana. 

MEDICAID COVERAGE 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health held hearings on S. 1673, to
require States to provide Medicaid coverage of community and family support
services for severely disabled individuals, receiving testimony from Senator
Weicker; Representative Bartlett; K. Charlie Lakin, Minnesota University
Affiliated Program on Developmental Disabilities, Minneapolis; Valerie J.
Bradley, Human Services Research Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Ronald
Welch, Maine Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Augusta, on
behalf of the National Asssociation of State Mental Retardation Program
Directors; George L. O'Donnell, Wisconsin Parents Coalition, Milwaukee; W.
Robert Curtis, New School for Social Research, New York, New York, on behalf
of the Congress of Advocates for the Retarded, Inc.; Janelle Jordan,
Association for Retarded Citizens of Texas, Houston; Jerry D. Klepner,
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO,
Washington, DC; J. Gary Mattson, Exceptional Persons, Inc., Waterloo, Iowa, on
behalf of the National Association of Private Residential Resources; Floyd
Sorg, United Cerebral Palsy of Pittsburgh, Elizabeth, Pennsylvania; Alice
Demichelis, National Head Injury Foundation, Reston, Virginia; R. Wayne
Gilpin, Autism Society of America, Dallas, Texas; Irene Carney, Virginia
Institute of Developmental Disabilities, Richmond; and Nancy A. Ward, People
First of Nebraska, Inc., and Patricia Crawford, Nebraska Chapter of the
Mentally Retarded Association of America, both of Lincoln. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee began consideration of the Treaty
Between the United States and the U.S.S.R. on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. 100-11), but did
not complete action thereon. 

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings in open and closed
session on the aforementioned Treaty, after receiving testimony from Senator
Boren, Chairman, Senator Cohen, Vice Chairman, and Senator Bradley, all of the
Select Committee on Intelligence; and Senator Nunn, Chairman, and Senator
Warner, Ranking Minority Member, both of the Committee on Armed Services. 

Committee will meet again tomorrow. 

NUTRITION MONITORING 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 1081, to
establish a national nutrition monitoring and related research program,
receiving testimony from Representative George E. Brown; J. Michael McGinnis,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Office of Health Promotion and Disease
Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services; John W. Bode, Assistant
Secretary for Food and Consumer Services, Department of Agriculture; Laurence
Finberg, American Academy of Pediatrics, Brooklyn, New York; Patricia B. Swan,
American Institute of Nutrition/American Society for Clinical Nutrition,
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Janice Nevile, The American Dietetic Association,
Cleveland, Ohio; Larry Gordon, Association of State and Territorial Public
Health Nutrition Directors, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Patricia O'Malley, Hunger
Services Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Ernst Wynder, American Health
Foundation, New York, New York; Chuck Ball, National Cattlemen's
Association/American Meat Institute/National Grange, Denver, Colorado; and
Bill Perry and Debbie DeLacy, both of Milk Marketing Incorporated,
Strongsville, Ohio. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION -- BUDGET 

Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings to review the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1989 for the Small
Business Administration, after receiving testimony from James Abdnor,
Administrator, Lawrence R. Rosenbaum, Comptroller, Edwin T. Holloway,
Associate Administrator for Finance and Investment, and John F. Moffitt,
Associate Deputy Administrator for Management and Administration, all of the
Small Business Administration; and Joann Price, National Association of
Investment Companies, Washington, DC. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/03/23
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 23, 1988; pages D308 - D318  (Bound vol. D145-
D153)

[*D310]  Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NOAA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
William E. Evans, Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, and Kay Bulow,
Assistant Secretary for Administration, both of the Department of Commerce. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 30. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- U.S. ARMY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of the Army,
receiving testimony from John G. Marsh, Secretary of the Army; and Gen. Carl
E. Vuono, USA, Chief of Army Staff. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- MINERALS MANAGEMENT/INDIAN EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from William D.
Bettenberg, Director, U.S. Minerals Management Service, Department of the
Interior; and Beryl Dorsett, Assistant Secretary of Education for Elementary
and Secondary Education (Indian Education programs). 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 28. 

NATO DEFENSE/INF TREATY 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to discuss
recommendations for inclusion in the committee report on NATO defense and the
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, but made no announcements. 

Committee will meet again tomorrow. 

EARLY CARRIER RETIREMENTS 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional
Defense held hearings regarding possible savings associated with early carrier
retirements as contained in the fiscal year 1988/1989 Department of Defense
Authorization Act, receiving testimony from Maj. Gen. Martin J. Ryan, Jr.,
USAF, Director, Force Structure Resource and Assessment Directorate, Office of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Vice Adm. John W. Nyquist, USN, Deputy Chief of
Naval Operations for Surface Warfare; Vice Adm. R.F. Dunn, USN, Deputy Chief
of Naval Operations for Air Warfare; Robert F. Hale, Assistant Director for
National Security, Congressional Budget Office; and William Thurman, Deputy
Director, National Security and International Affairs Division, General
Accounting Office. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 30. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support held open and closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the
readiness and sustainability posture of selected unified combatant commands,
receiving testimony from Gen. Thomas C. Richards, USAF, Deputy
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. European Command; Maj. Gen. Christian J. Patte, USA,
Director of Logistics and Security Assistance, U.S. Central Command; Rear Adm.
Hugh L. Webster, USN, Director, Logistics and Security Assistance, U.S.
Pacific Command; and Brig. Gen. H.C. Stackpole, USMC, Director of Policy and
Plans, U.S. Atlantic Command.  

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 25. 

COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACT 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued
oversight hearings on the effectiveness of the Community Reinvestment Act
(CRA), private sector initiatives to comply with its prescriptions and
potential refinements of CRA, receiving testimony from Martha R. Seger,
Governor, Federal Reserve Board; L. William Seidman, Chairman, Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation; M. Danny Wall, Chairman, Federal Home Loan Bank Board;
Robert L. Clarke, Comptroller, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency;
Leland C. Brendsel, President, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation; and
Dale P. Riordan, Federal National Mortgage Association, and J. Edward Carlton,
Jr., Mortgage Insurance Companies of America, both of Washington, DC. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Barbara M. Barrett, of Arizona, to be Deputy
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, after the nominee, who
was introduced by Senators DeConcini and McCain, and Representative Kyl.

[*D311]  FAA 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
held hearings on S. 1600, to create an independent Federal Aviation
Administration, receiving testimony from James H. Burnley IV, Secretary of
Transportation; Robert Crandall, American Airlines, Inc., Washington, DC; and
Najeeb Halaby, Dulles Access Rapid Transit, Inc., Vienna, Virginia. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 1508, to include the withdrawal of certain public lands in Nevada for use
by the United States Air Force; 

S.J. Res. 231, to authorize the President of the United States to seek
agreement with the Government of Palau on a date to implement the Compact of
Free Association between the United States and Palau, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute; and 

The nominations of T S Ary, of Oklahoma, to be Director of the Bureau of
Mines, Department of the Interior, Ernest C. Baynard III, of Virginia, to be
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environment, Safety and Health, and C. Anson
Franklin, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of Energy for Congressional,
Intergovernmental and Public Affairs. 

Also, the committee completed its review of those programs which fall within
the committee's jurisdiction as contained in the President's proposed budget
for fiscal year 1989, and agreed on recommendations it will make thereon to
the Committee on the Budget. 

CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE ISSUES 

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to review the effectiveness and
costs of selected strategies for promoting and maintaining the health of
children and on efforts to combat infant mortality, receiving testimony from
William L. Roper, Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration, and
Robert E. Windom, Assistant Secretary for Health, Public Health Service, both
of the Department of Health and Human Services; Sarah S. Brown, Study
Director, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences; Judith L.
Wagner, Senior Associate, Health Program, Office of Technology Assessment;
Mississippi Governor Ray Mabus, Jackson, on behalf of the National Governors
Association; Gail R. Wilensky, Project Hope, and Douglas S. Peters, Blue Cross
and Blue Shield Association, both of Washington, DC; Paul W. Newacheck,
University of California, San Francisco; and Arthur Lifson, Equicor, Inc., on
behalf of Health Insurance Association of America, New York, New York. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

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

April C. Glaspie, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued consideration of the
Treaty Between the United States and the U.S.S.R. on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. 100-11), but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

FEDERAL MANAGEMENT OF MEDICAL LABORATORIES 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management held hearings on the Health Care Financing Administration's quality
of medical laboratory testing in labs it regulates and inspects, receiving
testimony from Robert Johnson, Bernice, Florida; Kathy and David Astor,
Sunnyside, New York; George C. Hoffman, American Society of Clinical
Pathologists, Judith Barr, American Society of Medical Technology, and
Patricia Aston, representing the American Society for Cytotechnology, all of
Washington, DC; Paul Fischer, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta; Virginia
Worrest, Corvallis, Oregon; Herbert W. Dickerman, New York State Department of
Health, Albany; and Josephine Bartola, Pennsylvania State Department of
Health, Harrisburg. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENTS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, held hearings on
S.J. Res. 3, S.J. Res. 4, S.J. Res. 8, S.J. Res. 11, S.J. Res. 112, S.J. Res.
25, S.J. Res. 50 and S.J. Res. 161, measures proposing amendments to the
Constitution of the United States relating to a balanced Federal budget,
receiving testimony from Senators Thurmond and Exon; New Hampshire Governor
John H. Sununu, Concord, on behalf of the National Governors' Association; and
William A. Niskanen, Jr., CATO Institute, Charles L. Schultze, The Brookings
Institution, and Roy L. Ash, former Director, Office of Management and Budget,
all of Washington, DC. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meeting 

OMNIBUS TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS ACT 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act provisions of H.R. 3, Omnibus Trade and
Competitiveness Act of 1987, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed
subject to call. 



1988/03/24
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 24, 1988; pages D319 - D328  (Bound vol. D153-
D160

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

CONSERVATION PROGRAMS 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Conservation and Forestry concluded oversight hearings on the implementation
of the conservation provisions of the 1985 Farm Bill, after receiving
testimony from Senator Nunn; Representative Lancaster; G. Wilson Scaling,
Chief, Soil Conservation Service, and Milton J. Hertz, Administrator,
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, both of the Department of
Agriculture; Linda J. Fisher, Assistant Administrator, Environmental
Protection Agency; Ronald E. Lambertson, Assistant Director, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior; North Dakota State Senator
William S. Heigaard, and Jeffrey Weispfenning, on behalf of the Office of the
Governor of North Dakota, both of Bismarck; Jim Nichols, Minnesota State
Commissioner of Agriculture, St. Paul, representing National Save the Family
Farm Coalition, National Farmers Organization, and the League of Rural Voters;
Monty Burke, North Dakota Farm Bureau, McKenzie; Donald E. Henderson, Indiana
Farm Bureau, Inc., Indianapolis; Robert J. Gray, American Farmland Trust,
Maureen K. Hinkle, Audubon Society, Kenneth A. Cook, Conservation Foundation,
Sid Moss, National Association of State Foresters, Wayne Baron and Jan G.
Carter, both of the National Wildlife Federation, Robert Wetherbee, National
Association of Conservation Districts, all of Washington, DC; R.L. Webster,
National Cotton Council, Waynesboro, Georgia; Michael E. Berger, Ducks
Unlimited, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee; Gary Rudningen, Minnesota Association
of Wheat Growers, Murdock; and Gary Bales, Wildlife Habitat Charitable Trust,
Devine, Texas.    

APPROPRIATIONS -- FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for  [*D321] 
fiscal year 1989 for the Farm Credit Administration, receiving testimony from
Frank W. Naylor, Jr., Chairman, and Marvin R. Duncan and Jim Billington, both
Members, all of the Farm Credit Administration Board. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 30. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NATIONAL GUARD/RESERVES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the National Guard and Military
Reserves, receiving testimony from Stephen M. Duncan, Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Reserve Affairs; Lt. Gen. Herbert R. Temple, Jr., Chief, National
Guard Bureau; Maj. Gen. Donald Burdick, Director, Army National Guard; Maj.
Gen. William F. Ward, Jr., Chief, Army Reserve; Maj. Gen. John B. Conaway,
Director, Air National Guard; Maj. Gen. J.W. Moore, Deputy Chief of Marine
Corps Staff for Reserve Affairs; Maj. Gen. Roger P. Scheer, Chief of Air Force
Reserve; and Rear Adm. F.N. Smith, USNR, Director of Naval Reserve. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 29. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION/AMTRAK 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
John H. Riley, Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration; and W. Graham
Claytor, Jr., President and Chairman of the Board, National Railroad Passenger
Corp., (AMTRAK). 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 31. 

INF TREATY ISSUES 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded closed hearings on
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty issues related to
ground-launched cruise missiles, and Department of Defense special access
programs and future weapons systems, after receiving testimony from Gen.
Robert T. Herres, USAF, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Ronald F.
Lehman II, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy. 

NATO DEFENSE/INF TREATY 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to further
discuss recommendations for inclusion in the committee report on NATO defense
and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, but made no
announcements, and recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel resumed
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for
the Department of Defense, focusing on recruiting, retention, and compensation
programs for the total force, receiving testimony from Grant S. Green,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management and Personnel; Lt. Gen.
Allen K. Ono, USA, Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel; Vice Adm. Leon A.
Edney, USN, Chief of Naval Personnel; Lt. Gen. John I. Hudson, USMC, Deputy
Chief of Staff for Personnel; Lt. Gen. Thomas J. Hickey, USAF, Deputy Chief of
Staff for Personnel; Stephen M. Duncan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Reserve Affairs; Lt. Gen. Herbert R. Temple, Jr., ARNGUS, Chief, National
Guard Bureau; Maj. Gen. William F. Ward, Jr., USAR, Chief, Office of Army
Reserve; Maj. Gen. Donald Burdick, ARNGUS, Director, Army National Guard; Rear
Adm. F.N. Smith, USNR, Chief, Naval Reserve; Maj. Gen. J.W. Moore, USMC,
Deputy Chief of Staff, Reserve Affairs; Maj. Gen. John B. Conaway, ANG,
Director, Air National Guard; Maj. Gen. Roger P. Scheer, USAFR, Chief of Air
Force Reserve; and Rear Adm. Paul A. Welling, USCG, Chief, Office of Readiness
and Reserve. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 29. 

1989 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1989 budget,
receiving testimony from John Palmer, Urban Institute, Barry Bosworth,
Brookings Institution, Robert Myers, former Chief Actuary, Social Security
Administration, and Bob Bergland, National Rural Electric Cooperatives
Association, all of Washington, DC; North Carolina Lt. Governor Robert Jordan,
Raleigh; Gene Koepke, Kearney State College, Kearney, Nebraska; and Luther
Tweeten, Ohio State University, Columbus. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

FOREIGN INVESTMENT COLLECTION INFORMATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings to
review Federal collection procedures of information relating to foreign
investment in the United States, receiving testimony from Senator Harkin;
Representative Bryant; Robert Ortner, Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic
Affairs; Susan Tolchin, George Washington University, Elliott Richardson,
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy, Alexander B. Trowbridge, National
Association of Manufacturers, and John Hall,  [*D322]  Verner, Liipfert,
Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, all of Washington, DC; and Anthony M. Solomon,
S.G. Warburg (U.S.A.), Inc., New York, New York. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NEW MEXICO -- NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE/TRAILS SYSTEM/MUSEUM 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 1593, to designate the
site of the Glorieta Battle in the Civil War as a national historic site, S.
1693, to provide for a study of the Coronado Trail for inclusion in the
National Trails System, S. 2157, to authorize three feasibility studies to be
conducted in New Mexico dealing with the San Gabriel Historical Landmark, the
significance of the Los Luceros Hacienda, and the establishment of an
interpretive center to highlight the first colonization of the interior of the
United States in New Mexico, and S. 1912, to authorize a study of the
feasibility of establishing a National Mimbres Museum in Silver City, New
Mexico, after receiving testimony from Jerry Rogers, Associate Director of
Cultural Resources, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Robert
McC. Adams, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution; Thomas Merlan, New Mexico
Historic Preservation Office, Santa Fe; Herbert Hart, Council of America's
Military Past, Fort Myer, Virginia; Bruce Craig, National Parks and
Conservation Association, Washington, DC; Conn Brown, Grant County, New
Mexico; Jerry Brody, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; and Andrew
Culliford, Western New Mexico University, and John D. Lopez, both of Silver
City, New Mexico. 

GROUNDWATER PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure resumed joint hearings with the
Subcommittee on Hazardous Wastes and Toxic Substances on S. 20, S. 1105, and
H.R. 791, bills to provide for the protection of the nation's groundwater
resources through State standards, planning, and research activities,
receiving testimony from Edwin H. Clark II, The Conservation Foundation, Velma
M. Smith, Environmental Policy Institute, Scott S. Cunningham, Chemical
Manufacturers Association, Al Giese, on behalf of the Fertilizer Institute,
Erik D. Olson, and Gerald V. Poje, both of the National Wildlife Federation,
Bruce R. Leavitt, American Mining Congress, and Roger Strelow, National
Environmental Development Association, all of Washington, DC; and Jay H. Lehr,
National Water Well Association, Dublin, Ohio. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

HIGH SPEED RAIL TRANSPORTATION 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1245, to authorize
the issuance by States of tax-exempt bonds for high-speed intercity rail
transportation projects under certain circumstances, after receiving testimony
from Senators Chiles, Graham, and Reid; David Blumbert, Florida High Speed
Rail Transportation Commission, and Richard A. Davenport, AmeriFirst
Development Corporation, both of Miami, Florida; John Pike Powers, Jr.,
Fulbright and Jaworski, Austin, Texas; Harriet Stanley, High Speed Rail
Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Robert W. Blanchette, TGV of Florida,
Inc., Washington, DC; and Robert R. Swann, American Pioneer Savings Bank,
Orlando, Florida. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued consideration of the
Treaty Between the United States and the U.S.S.R. on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. 100-11), but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Monday, March 28. 

FEDERAL MANAGEMENT OF MEDICAL LABORATORIES 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management continued hearings on the Health Care Financing Administration's
quality of medical laboratory testing in labs it regulates and inspects,
receiving testimony from Louis B. Hays, Associate Administrator for
Operations, Health Care Financing Administration, and Paul J. Wiesner,
Director, Training and Laboratory Program Office, Centers for Disease Control,
both of the Department of Health and Human Services; Dennis S. O'Leary and
Clifford Houser, both on behalf of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of
Healthcare Organizations, Loyd R. Wagner, College of American Pathologists,
Harry C. Groome and Edward Kaufman, both on behalf of the American Clinical
Laboratories Association, and William R. Smith and Stephen Kroger, both on
behalf of the American Society of Internal Medicine, all of Washington, DC;
and Mark Birenbaum and Nicholas T. Serafy, Jr., both on behalf of the American
Association of Bioanalysts, St. Louis, Missouri. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 612, to repeal provisions of the Department of Defense Authorizations Act
of 1985, relating to the civil liability of Government contractors for
injuries, property losses, or deaths arising out of nuclear  [*D323]  weapons
testing programs, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 951, to establish the Federal Courts Study Commission on the future of the
Federal Judiciary, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 794, to establish criminal penalties for damaging or destroying religious
property or interfering with any person's free exercise of religious beliefs,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and 

The nominations of Emmett R. Cox, of Alabama, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Eleventh Circuit; Kenneth M. Hoyt, to be United States District
Judge for the Southern District of Texas; George M. Marovich, to be United
States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois; Roger J.
Marzulla, of California, to be an Assistant Attorney General; Deborah J.
Daniels, to be United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana;
and Grover W. Garrison, to be United States Marshal for the Middle District of
Louisiana. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
David M. Ebel, of Colorado, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth
Circuit; Lowell A. Reed, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania; Kimba M. Wood, to be United States District Judge
for the Southern District of New York; and Jack T. Camp, Jr., to be United
States District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Ebel was introduced
by Senators Wirth and Armstrong, Mr. Reed was introduced by Senators Heinz and
Spector, Ms. Wood was introduced by Senator D'Amato, and Mr. Camp was
introduced by Senator Fowler. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- FEC 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the Federal
Election Commission, after receiving testimony from Thomas J. Josefiak,
Chairman, Danny Lee McDonald, Vice Chairman and Lee Ann Elliott, Member, all
of the Federal Election Commission. 

SILVER HAIRED CONGRESS 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on S. Con.
Res. 88, to facilitate the convening of a Silver Haired Congress in
Washington, DC, after receiving testimony from Senator Melcher; Representative
Rahall; Neel Buell, Chairman, Fountain Valley, California, Norma Keil, Region
VIII Co-Chairman, Conrad, Montana, representing the States of Colorado, Utah,
Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana, Thelma Crump-Wilson, Region
III Chairman, Quinton, Virginia, representing the States of Delaware, West
Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, and Matthew Ross, Region IX
Chairman, Newport Beach, California, representing the States of Arizona,
Nevada, Hawaii, California, and the Territories of Guam, the Marianas, and
American Samoa, all of the National Silver Haired Congress Steering Committee;
and William A. Strauss, National Taxpayers Union, Washington, DC. 

ZUNI-CIBOLA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded joint hearings with
the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources' Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests on S. 2162, to provide for the establishment of the
Zuni-Cibola National Historical Park in the State of New Mexico, after
receiving testimony from Jerry Rogers, Associate Director of Cultural
Resources, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Robert
McC.Adams, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution; Robert Lewis, Governor, Pueblo
of Zuni, New Mexico; Thomas Merlin, New Mexico Office of Historic
Preservation, Santa Fe; and Bruce Craig, National Parks and Conservation
Association, Washington, DC. 

AUTHORIZATION -- INTELLIGENCE 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from certain intelligence
officials. 

Hearings continue tommorrow. 

Joint Meeting 

SALT RIVER PIMA-MARICOPA INDIAN -- WATER RIGHTS 

Joint Hearing: Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs held joint hearings
with the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs on S. 2153 and H.R.
4102, bills to provide for the settlement of the water rights claims of the
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in Maricopa County, Arizona,
receiving testimony from James W. Ziglar, Assistant Secretary of the Interior
for Water and Science; Gerald Anton, Alfretta Antone, Richard Wilks, and
Phillip Shea, all of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, Maricopa,
Arizona; Mayor Harry Mitchell, Tempe, Arizona; Mayor Al Brooks, Mesa, Arizona;
Mayor Richard Dugan, Chandler, Arizona; Mayor James Farley, Gilbert, Arizona;
Vice Mayor Mary Rose Wilcox, Phoenix, Arizona; Councilman Joe Falbo, Glendale,
Arizona; Councilwoman Janet Marcus, Tucson, Arizona; John R. Lassen, Salt
River Project, Phoenix, Arizona; Mark Dodson, Roosevelt Water Conservation
District, Higley, Arizona; Burce Heiden, Roosevelt Irrigation District,
Buckeye, Arizona; John Smith, Maricopa-Stanfield Irrigation District,
Maricopa, Arizona; and C1L. Gould and Tom Choules, both of the Wellton Mohawk
Irrigation and Drainage District, Wellton, Arizona. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 



1988/03/25
Daily Digest - Friday, March 25, 1988; pages D329 - D338  (Bound vol. D160-
D162)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE PROGRAMS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
closed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for atomic
energy defense programs, including nuclear weapons research and development,
testing, and production of new reactors, receiving testimony from Troy Wade,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Defense Programs; and Robert E.
Barker, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 28. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- SECRET SERVICE/NATIONAL ARCHIVES/ADMINISTRATIVE CONFERENCE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1989, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from John R. Simpson, Director, U.S. Secret Service, Department of the
Treasury; Donald W. Wilson, Archivist of the United States; Claudine J.
Weiher, Deputy Archivist of the United States; and Marshall J. Breger,
Chairman, Administrative Conference of the United States. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 28. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support resumed open and closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, receiving testimony
from Gen. Louis C. Wagner, Jr., USA, Commander, U.S. Army Materiel Command;
Gen. Alfred G. Hansen, USAF, Commander, U.S. Air Force Logistics Command; and
Vice Adm. Stanley R. Arthur, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
(Logistics), Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 28. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the Air Force
revised space launch program and policy, receiving testimony from Edward C.
Aldridge, Jr., Secretary of the Air Force; Gen. Thomas Moorman, Director of
Air Force, Space, and SDI Programs; and Dale D. Myers, Deputy Administrator,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 31. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Frank DeGeorge, of Maryland, to be Inspector
General, Robert H. Brumley II, of Virginia, to be General Counsel, and Marc G.
Stanley, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary, all of the Department of
Commerce, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Stanley was introduced by Senator Weicker.

SINGLE-PREMIUM LIFE INSURANCE 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Taxation and Debt Management held
hearings on the tax treatment of single-premium and other investment-oriented
life insurance, receiving testimony from Dennis E. Ross, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Richard S. Schweiker and Richard V.
Minck, both of the American Council of Life Insurance, Washington, DC; Rhode
Island State Senator William V. Irons, Rumford, and William Regan III, New
York Life Insurance Company, San Francisco, California, both representing the
National Association of Life Underwriters; Mark V. Heitz, American Investors
Life Insurance Company, Inc., Topeka, Kansas, on behalf of the National
Association of Life Companies; Barbara T. King and Kevin King, both of A.L.
Williams Corporation, Duluth, Georgia; Robert G. Sharp, Keystone Provident
Life Insurance Company, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of the Committee of
Life Insurers; Gordon N. Oakes, Jr., Monarch Capital Corporation, Springfield,
Massachusetts; Albert J. Schiff, MONY Financial Services, New York, New York;
and Donald C. Alexander, Caldwaiter, Wickersham, and Taft, Washington, DC. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Daniel G. Amstutz,  [*D331]  of New York, for the rank of Ambassador during
his tenure of service as chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Uruguay Round of
Multilateral Trade Negotiations, after the nominee testified and answered
questions in his own behalf. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- OFFICE OF FEDERAL PROCUREMENT POLICY 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Spending, Budget,
and Accounting concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, after receiving testimony from
Charles Bowsher, Comptroller General, General Accounting Office; Robert B.
Costello, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition; Robert Bedell,
Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy; Hugh Witt, Lester Fettig,
Karen H. Williams, and Don Sowle, all former Administrators, Office of Federal
Procurement Policy; Jean A. Caffiaux, Electronic Industries Association,
Clarence Kipps, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Robert Trimble, Martin Marrietta,
Inc., and Stanley C. Dees, American Bar Association, all of Washington, DC;
and M.R. Sullivan, Jr., American Subcontractor Association, Alexandria,
Virginia. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- INTELLIGENCE 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from certain intelligence
officials. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 29. 

DRUG REACTIONS -- THE ELDERLY 

Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings to review health and cost
concerns related to adverse drug reactions among the elderly, receiving
testimony from Ann Little, Gray, Tennessee; Wilda Henry, Golden Gate, Florida;
J.W. Colinger, Jr., Life Care Center Nursing Home, Erwin, Tennessee; Jerry
Avorn, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and William Simonson,
Oregon State University, Corvallis. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/03/28
Daily Digest - Monday, March 28, 1988; pages D339 - D346  (Bound vol. D162-
D167)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Bonneville
Power Administration, receiving testimony from James J. Jura, Administrator,
Bonneville Power Administration. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 11. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING/BUREAU OF MINES/PETROLEUM RESERVES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Robert
Gentile, Acting Director, Office of Surface Mining, and David C. Brown, Bureau
of Mines, both of the Department of the Interior; and in behalf of funds for
the Naval and Strategic Petroleum Reserves from J. Allen Wampler, Assistant
Secretary of the Interior for Fossil Energy. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- OMB/FEDERAL PROCUREMENT POLICY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1989, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from James C. Miller, Director, Office of Management and Budget; and Robert P.
Bedell, Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, April 15. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded consideration of and agreed
on recommendations for inclusion in the committee report on NATO defense and
the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support resumed open and closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on Army and
Air Force ammunition programs, receiving testimony from Brig. Gen. Paul L.
Greenberg, USA, Program Executive Officer for Ammunition, United States Army;
Maj. Gen.  [*D341]  Edward R. Bracken, USAF, Director of Logistics, Plans and
Programs, United States Air Force; Angelo Catani, Committee of American
Ammunition Manufacturers, East Alton, Illinois; Ken Bernhardt, General Defense
Corporation, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and Robert Mockenhaupt, Honeywell, Inc.,
Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 31. 

BUDGET RESOLUTION 

Committee on the Budget: Committee began markup of a proposed concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1989 budget for the Federal Government, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Robert L. Pettit, of the District of Columbia,
to be Associate Deputy Secretary of Transportation, and Edward R. Hamberger,
of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of Transportation, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Pettit was
introduced by Senator Danforth, and Mr. Hamberger was introduced by
Representative Shuster.

OFFICE OF CIVILIAN RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT -- BUDGET 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of
Energy's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management and plans to
implement the amendments to the nuclear waste program enacted by P.L. 100-203
(Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, 1987), after receiving testimony from
Charles E. Kay, Acting Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste
Management, Department of Energy; and Hugh L. Thompson, Jr., Director, Office
of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

EXPIRING TAX PROVISIONS 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Taxation and Debt Management held
hearings to review certain tax provisions which have recently expired or will
expire this year, focusing on the exempt treatment of mortgage revenue bonds
and targeted jobs tax credit, receiving testimony from Senator Domenici;
Representative Bilirakis; Dana L. Trier, Acting Tax Legislative Counsel,
Department of the Treasury; M. Danny Wall, Chairman, and Lawrence J. White,
Board Member, both of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board; David C. Cooke, Deputy
to the Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; John H. Luke,
Associate Director, Housing and Community Development, Richard L. Cooperstein,
and James Ratzenberger, all of the General Accounting Office; Rodney R.
Shinkawa, First Federal Savings and Loan Association of America, Honolulu,
Hawaii, on behalf of the United States League of Savings Institutions; Carel
Otte, Unocal Corporation, Los Angeles, California, on behalf of the Geothermal
Resources Association; Elizabeth H. Mitchell, Maine State Housing Authority,
Augusta, on behalf of the National Council of State Housing Agencies; Bernard
L. Tetreault, Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County,
Montgomery County, Maryland, on behalf of the Association of Local Housing
Finance Agencies; Mark E. Tipton, Raleigh, North Carolina, on behalf of the
National Association of Home Builders; Colleen R. Brown, and Betsy Kindness,
both of the Dayton Hudson Corporation (Teen-Mom), Minneapolis, Minnesota, on
behalf of Targeted Jobs Tax Credit Coalition; Charles Stradford, on behalf of
the National Restaurant Association, and Alec M. Schwartz, American Bar
Association, both of Chicago, Illinois; and Jack Curran, Laborers'
International Union of North America, Washington, DC. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

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

Daniel G. Amstutz, of New York, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure
of service as Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Uruguay Round of
Multilateral Trade Negotiations. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed consideration of the Treaty
Between the United States and the U.S.S.R. on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. 100-11), but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation to elevate the Veterans' Administration to Cabinet status, after
receiving testimony from Senator Simpson; Joseph R. Wright, Deputy Director,
Office of Management and Budget; John Gronvall, Chief Medical Director, Frank
Conrad, Director, Office of Quality Assurance, R.J. Vogel, Chief Benefits
Director, Raymond Avent, Deputy Chief Benefits Director for Field Operations,
and Grady Horton, Deputy Chief Benefits Director of Program Management, all of
the Veterans' Administration; Roy Ash, former Chairman, President's Advisory
Council on Government Reorganization; Arthur Flemming, former Secretary of
Health, Education, and Welfare, and former Special Advisory to President
Carter on Aging; and  [*D342]  Dwight Marshall, Wilmington, Delaware,
representing the Disabled American Veterans. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Bernard A. Friedman, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern
District of Michigan, Emilio M. Garza, to be United States District Judge for
the Western District of Texas, and Thomas S. Zilly, to be United States
District Judge for the Western District of Washington, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Friedman was
introduced by Senators Levin and Riegle, Mr. Garza was introduced by Senator
Gramm, and Mr. Zilly, was introduced by Senators Adams and Evans.

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/03/29
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 29, 1988; pages D348 - D358  (Bound vol. D167-
D174)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FORCE STRUCTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on force structure, receiving testimony from William H. Taft IV, Deputy
Secretary of Defense; Maj. Gen. William Shaffner, USA, Assistant Deputy Chief
of Staff, Force Development and Integration; Vice Adm. Henry Mustin, USN,
Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Plans, Policy and Operations; Maj. Gen. Carl
Mundy, USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans, Policies and Operations; and Lt.
Gen. Michael J. Dugan, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans and Operations. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NASA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, receiving testimony from James Fletcher,
Administrator, NASA. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, receiving
testimony from Ross O. Swimmer, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian
Affairs. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
held hearings to review the Department of Defense policies and international
agreements that affect the Defense Industrial Base, receiving testimony from
Robert B. Costello, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition; Paul
Freedenberg, Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration; and
Stephen D. Bryen,  [*D350]  Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Trade
Security Policy. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel resumed
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for
the Department of Defense, focusing on the military medical system, receiving
testimony from William Mayer, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health
Affairs; Lt. Gen. Quinn H. Becker, USA, Surgeon General of the Army; VADM
James A. Zimble, Surgeon General of the Navy; and Lt. Gen. Murphy A. Chesney,
USAF, Surgeon General of the Air Force. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 1989, to provide for various measures in connection with the Treaty on
Fisheries Between the Governments of Certain Pacific Island States and the
United States, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 1988, to require vessels used to transport sewage sludge and the dredge
material removed from and redeposited between any two points within the
exclusive economic zone to be built in the United States, with an amendment in
the nature of a substitute; 

H.R. 1430, to award decorations and medals for individual acts or service in
the United States Merchant Marine; and 

The nominations of Joseph Trippe Nall, of North Carolina, to be a Member of
the National Transportation Safety Board, William Evans, of California, to be
Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, Barbara McConnell
Barrett, of Arizona, to be Deputy Administrator of the Federal Aviation
Administration, Robert H. Brumley II, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of
the Department of Commerce, Marc G. Stanley, of Maryland, to be Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, Frank
DeGeorge, of Maryland, to be Inspector General, Department of Commerce, Robert
L. Pettit, of the District of Columbia, to be Associate Deputy Secretary of
Transportation, Edward R. Hamberger, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of
Transportation for Governmental Affairs, Rear Adm. Clyde E. Robbins as
Commander, Pacific Area, United States Coast Guard, with the grade of vice
admiral, nominations of officers of the United States Coast Guard to the upper
half and lower half grades of rear admiral received by the Senate on December
18, 1987, routine Coast Guard nominations received by the Senate on March 14,
1988, and routine National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration nominations
received by the Senate on February 2, 1988. 

ENERGY CONSERVATION STANDARDS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Regulation and
Conservation held hearings on S. 2167, to provide for Federal energy
conservation standards for fluorescent lamp ballasts, receiving testimony from
Anthony J. Pucillo, MagneTek Universal Manufacturing Co., Paramus, New Jersey;
and Richard Geissler, National Electrical Manufacturers Association, Howard
Geller, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, and Peter Miller,
Natural Resources Defense Council, all of Washington, DC. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 1960, to designate a Federal building in Omaha, Nebraska, as the "Edward
Zorinsky Federal Building"; 

S. 2100, to authorize programs for the conservation and development of water
resource projects of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, with an amendment; 

S. 2158, to amend the authority of the Corps of Engineers with respect to bank
stabilization and shoreline erosion along the Missouri River; 

S. 2186, to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of management of public
buildings; 

An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission; and 

An original bill relating to the lease purchase authority of the General
Services Administration for two Federal buildings in New York City at Foley
Square. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued open and closed
consideration of the Treaty Between the United States and U.S.S.R. on the
Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc.
100-11), but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- NIH 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
2222, authorizing funds for the National Institutes of Health, after receiving
testimony from James Wyngaarden, Director, Steven A. Rosenberg, Chief of
Surgery, National Cancer  [*D351]  Institute, and Sue Hinshaw, National Center
for Nursing Research, all of the National Institutes of Health, Department of
Health and Human Services; Chase Peterson, University of Utah, Salt Lake City,
representing the American Association of Universities, and the National
Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges; David Satcher,
Meharry University, Nashville, Tennessee; John Ultman, National Coalition for
Cancer Research, Chicago, Illinois; Bruce Gans, Medical Rehabilitation
Research, Tufts New England Medical Center, Medford, Massachusetts; Marlee
Matlin, Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Research, Toluca Lake,
California; and Bruce J. Gantz, University of Iowa, Iowa City. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- INTELLIGENCE 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from certain intelligence
community officials. 

Hearings continue on tomorrow. 

[*D355]  Joint Meetings 

OMNIBUS TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS ACT 

Conferees continued to resolve the differences between the Senate- and
House-passed trade and tariff laws and trade agreements provisions of H.R. 3,
Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1987, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

OMNIBUS TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS ACT 

Conferees resolved the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
education and labor (plant closing) provisions of H.R. 3, Omnibus Trade and
Competitiveness Act of 1987. 



1988/03/30
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 30, 1988; pages D360 - D370  (Bound vol. D174-
D181)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AGRICULTURE TRADE WITH U.S.S.R. 

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

S. Res. 377, to express the sense of the Senate regarding negotiations on a
new long-term agreement on agricultural trade with the Soviet Union. 

Also, the committee resumed consideration of S. 1516, Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide and Rodenticide Act Reform of 1987, but did not complete action
thereon, and recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- REA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1989 for the Rural Electrification Administration, receiving testimony
from Roland R. Vautour, Under Secretary for Small Community and Rural
Development, Harold V. Hunter, Administrator, Rural Electrification
Administration, Jack Van Mark, Deputy Administrator, Rural Electrification
Administration, and Stephen B. Dewhurst, Budget Officer, all of the Department
of Agriculture. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 13. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LEGAL SERVICES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989, for
the Legal Services Corporation, receiving testimony from John H. Bayly, Jr.,
President, and Clark Durant, Chairman, Board of Directors, both of the Legal
Services Corporation; and John J. Curtin, Jr., on behalf of the American Bar
Association, Chicago, Illinois. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 20. 

[*D362]  APPROPRIATIONS -- AIR FORCE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on Air Force programs, receiving testimony from Edward C. Aldridge, Jr.,
Secretary of the Air Force; and Gen. Larry D. Welch, USAF, Chief of Staff. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

MULTILATERAL INVESTMENTS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
to review multilateral development bank replenishment and policy issues,
activities of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, and the
International Monetary Fund quota increase, receiving testimony from James A.
Baker III, Secretary of the Treasury. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 12. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NASA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, receiving testimony from James
Fletcher, Administrator, NASA. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 11. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION/WILSON CENTER 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Robert McC.
Adams, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution; and Pross Gifford, Acting Director,
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
 
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
continued hearings to review the Department of Defense policies and
international agreements that affect the Defense Industrial Base, receiving
testimony from Thomas Murrin, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; Gen. Robert T. Marsh, USAF (Retired); Clyde Prestowitz, Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, Matt Schaffer, D.M. Schaffer Corporation,
and William G. Phillips, National Council for Industrial Defense, all of
Washington, DC; and Dennis M. Biety, on behalf of ABEX Aerospace, Boston,
Massachusetts. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

BUDGET RESOLUTION 

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

An original concurrent resolution on the budget setting forth recommended
levels of total budget outlays, Federal revenues, and new budget authority for
fiscal year 1989. 

STRATOSPHERIC OZONE 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Hazardous Wastes
and Toxic Substances held joint hearings with the Subcommittee on
Environmental Protection to discuss the current status of knowledge concerning
the Earth's protective ozone layer, receiving testimony from Senator Bumpers;
Robert T. Watson, Office of Space Science and Applications, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration; Fred Urbach, Temple University,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; F. Sherwood Rowland, University of California,
Irvine; Sayed El Sayed, Texas A&M University, College Station; Elwood P.
Blanchard, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, Delaware; Marilyn I.
Montgomery, Allied Signal, Inc., Morristown, New Jersey; and David D. Doniger,
Natural Resource Defense Council, Washington, DC. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INF TREATY 

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

Treaty Between the United States and U.S.S.R. on the Elimination of
Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. 100-11), with a
condition. 

CONTRACTING OUT -- GOVERNMENT POLICIES 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post
Office, and Civil Service concluded hearings on S. 909, to require government
agencies to turn back to the Treasury any savings generated from contracting
out, after receiving testimony from Senator Boren; Representative Skelton;
Robert P. Bedell, Administrator, Office of Procurement Policy, Office of
Management and Budget; Douglas Hansen, Director, Installation Services, Office
of the Secretary of Defense; and Gary D. Engebretson, Contract Services
Association, Washington, DC. 

VOTER REGISTRATION STANDARDS 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings on S. 2061, to
establish national standards for voter registration for elections for Federal
office, receiving testimony from Senators Cranston and McConnell; Kentucky
Secretary of State Bremer Ehrler,  [*D363]  Frankfort; Minnesota Secretary of
State Joan Anderson Growe, St. Paul; Richard Rifkin, Office of the New York
Attorney General, and Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York, both of
New York, New York; Commissioner Kathleen Braaten, Richland County, North
Dakota, Barney, on behalf of the National Association of Counties; Ernest R.
Hawkins, Sacramento, California, representing the National Association of
County Recorders and Clerks; and Arthur Flemming, Citizens Commission on Civil
Rights, Washington, DC. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INTELLIGENCE 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from certain intelligence
community officials. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

INTELLIGENCE 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to discuss
certain intelligence matters, but made no announcements, and recessed subject
to call.

Joint Meetings 

BRIEFING 

Joint Meeting: Senate Committee on Armed Services held a closed joint briefing
with the House Committee on Armed Services on unauthorized appropriations, but
made no announcements. 

OMNIBUS TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS ACT 

Conferees resolved the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
international financial policy provisions of H.R. 3, Omnibus Trade and
Competitiveness Act of 1987. 

OMNIBUS TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS ACT 

Conferees continued to resolve the differences between the Senate- and
House-passed trade and tariff laws and trade agreements provisions of H.R. 3,
Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1987, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 
  
OMNIBUS TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS ACT 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
investment, competitiveness, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (section 7093
of the House bill ("Bryant amendment")) provisions of H.R. 3, Omnibus Trade
and Competitiveness Act of 1987, but did not complete action thereon, and
recessed subject to call. 



1988/03/31
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 31, 1988; pages D372 - D378?  (Bound vol. D181-
D187)

[*D374]  Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- SDI 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on the Strategic Defense Initiative program, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen.
James Abrahamson, USAF, Director, Strategic Defense Initiative Organization. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 14. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from David B.
Waller, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for International Affairs and
Energy Emergencies; and Dallas Peck, Director, U.S. Geological Survey,
Department of the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 11. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FAA/GAO 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from T.
Allan McArtor, Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration; and Kenneth
Mead, Associate Director, and Daniel C. White, Deputy Director, both of the
General Accounting Office. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 14. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Energy, focusing on atomic energy
defense activities, receiving testimony from John S. Herrington, Secretary of
Energy; Troy E. Wade III, Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Defense
Programs; and Robert B. Barker, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Atomic
Energy. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support resumed open and closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on overseas
base agreements and associated military construction programs, and on the GAO
review of the administration of U.S. maneuver damage claims in Europe,
receiving testimony from David G. Wigg, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Policy Analysis; Ambassador John A. Woodworth, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense for European and NATO Policy; Joseph E. Kelley. Associate Director,
Donald Hunts, Evaluator in Charge, both of the General Accounting Office; Maj.
Gen. William K. Suter, USA, Assistant Judge Advocate General, United States
Army; Col. Thomas P. DeBerry, Commander, United States Army Claims Service,
Europe; Gary Flora, Associate Director for Assistant Deputy Chief of Air Force
Staff for Logistics, Engineers, and Services; Col. Carl Franklin, Deputy
Director of Bases and Units Division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Air Force
Staff for Programs and Resources; and Raymond Murphy, Atlantic Liaison
Division Director, Naval Facilities Engineering Command. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

OCTOBER MARKET BREAK 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings to
discuss initiatives to strengthen financial markets in response to the events
of last October, receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of
Governors, Federal Reserve System; David S. Ruder, Chairman, U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission; and Wendy Gramm, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading
Commission. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

GROSS INCOME TAX GAP ESTIMATES 

Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to discuss estimates by
the Internal Revenue Service of the size, scope and composition of the income
tax gap, after receiving testimony from Lawrence B. Gibbs, Commissioner,
Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury; Jennie S. Stathis,
Associate Director, General Government Division, United States General
Accounting Office; and Donald C. Alexander and Jerome Kurtz, both former
Commissioners, Internal Revenue Service. 

HEARING AID COMPATIBILITY ACT 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings on S. 314, to require all telephones sold, 
[*D375]  rented, or distributed in the United States to be hearing aid
compatible, after receiving testimony from Gerald Brock, Chief, Common Carrier
Bureau, Federal Communications Commission; Peter H. Bennett, Electronic
Industries Association, and Karen Peltz Strauss, Gallaudet University, both of
Washington, DC; David Saks, Organization for the Use of the Telephone, Owings
Mills, Maryland; and Freeman Robinson, GTE Consumer Communications Products
Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Robert E. Farris, of Tennessee, to be Administrator of the
Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation, after the
nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business
Rights resumed hearings on S. 1407, to expand and strengthen remedies in
antitrust cases, and to improve antitrust enforcement, and sections 201
through 217 of S. 635, to protect intellectual property rights, receiving
testimony from Charles F. Rule, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust
Division, Department of Justice; Daniel Oliver, Chairman, Federal Trade
Commission; John D. Ong, B.F. Goodrich Company, on behalf of the Business
Roundtable, Akron, Ohio; John Satagaj, Small Business Legislative Council,
James F. Rill, American Bar Association, and Jonathan W. Cuneo, Committee to
Support the Antitrust Laws, all of Washington, DC. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

CORPORATION FOR SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT 

Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1929, to
provide for the transfer of the Small Business Investment Company and Section
301(d) of the Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Company programs
to a newly created Corporation for Small Business Investment, after receiving
testimony from James Abdnor, Administrator, Small Business Administration;
Charles O. Sethness, Associate Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Affairs;
Donald Greene, National Association of Investment Companies, Thomas H.
Stanton, Wellford, Wegman, and Hoff, and James E. Murray, Brown and Wood, all
of Washington, DC; and David B. Jones, InterVen Partners, Los Angeles,
California, on behalf of the National Association of Small Business Investment
Companies. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INTELLIGENCE 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from certain intelligence
community officials. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, April 12. 

Joint Meetings 

ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT ACT 

Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 5, to improve elementary and
secondary education. 

OMNIBUS TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS ACT 

Conferees resolved the differences between the Senate- and House-passed export
control provisions (licensing issues, oil export, and Toshiba) of H.R. 3,
Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act. 

OMNIBUS TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS ACT 

Conferees agreed to disagree on the differences between the Senate- and
House-passed Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (section 703 of the House bill
(Bryant amendment)) provisions of H.R. 3, Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness
Act of 1987. 



1988/04/11
Daily Digest - Monday, April 11, 1988; pages D381 - D390  (Bound vol. D188-
D191)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony from Senators Hatch, Heflin,
and Shelby.


Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- U.S. FOREST SERVICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the U.S.
Forest Service, receiving testimony from F. Dale Robertson, Chief, U.S. Forest
Service, and George S. Dunlop, Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources and
Environment, both of the Department of the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

[*D382]  AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on the balanced technology initiative and NATO cooperative
research and development programs, receiving testimony from Robert C. Duncan,
Director of Defense Research and Engineering, Department of Defense; and
Dennis E. Kloske, Special Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of Defense for
Armaments. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BANK HOLDING/DIVERSIFIED FINANCIAL HOLDING COMPANIES 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on proposed legislation to limit certain owners of banks grandfathered under
the Competitive Equality Banking Act of 1987 from acquiring an equity
ownership in entities not engaged in financial services, after receiving
testimony from Charles R. Pullin, Koppers Company, Inc., Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; Harry L. Freeman, American Express Corporation, New York, New
York; and Brian C. Beazer, Beazer PLC, Bath, England. 

STATUS OF ORGANIZED CRIME 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
began hearings on the status of organized crime and the effectiveness of law
enforcement, focusing on labor racketeering, narcotics trafficking and other
crime groups, receiving testimony from William S. Sessions, Director, Oliver
B. Revell, Executive Assistant Director of Investigations, and Anthony E.
Daniels, Deputy Assistant Director, Criminal Investigations Division, all of
the Federal Bureau of Investigations, and John C. Keeney, Acting Assistant
Attorney General, and David Margolis, Chief, and Paul Coffey, Deputy Chief,
both of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, Criminal Division, all
of the Department of Justice; David C. Williams, Director, Office of Special
Investigations, Donald J. Wheeler, Assistant to the Director, Office of
Special Investigations, and Thomas Ciehanski, Special Agent, all of the
General Accounting Office; and Tommaso Buscetta, Palermo, Sicily. 

Hearings continue on Friday, April 15. 

Joint Meeting 

EMPLOYMENT IN THE YEAR 2000 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Investment, Jobs, and Prices held
hearings to examine current national policies on education, employment and
training and their effectiveness in the future, receiving testimony from Janet
L. Norwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor;
Bernard Anderson, Urban Affairs Partnership, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and
Calvin George, National Committee for Full Employment, Robert Lawrence,
Brookings Institution, and Stuart K. Tucker, Overseas Development Council, all
of Washington, DC. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 



1988/04/12
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 12, 1988; pages D391 - D400  (Bound vol. D192-
D197)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for
energy and water development programs, receiving testimony from Senators
Metzenbaum, Bond, Danforth, McCain, Pryor, Breaux, and Armstrong;
Representatives Rhodes and Brooks; and Arizona Governor Rose Mofford, Phoenix. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, April 14. 

MULTILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for multilateral economic
assistance programs, focusing on funds for the Inter-American Development
Bank, Asian Development Bank and Fund, and African Development Bank and Fund,
receiving testimony from David Malpass, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Developing Nations. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 14. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- EPA/CEQ 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Lee M.
Thomas, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; and A. Alan Hill,
Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 18. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ENERGY CONSERVATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for energy
conservation research and development programs of the Department of Energy,
receiving testimony from Donna R. Fitzpatrick, Assistant Secretary of Energy
for Conservation and Renewable Energy. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 14. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional
Defense held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on strategic mobility
issues, receiving testimony from John Gaughan, Administrator, Maritime
Administration, Department of Transportation; Gen. Duane Cassidy, USAF,
Commander in Chief, U.S. Transportation Command; and Vice Adm. Stanley Arthur,
USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Logistics). 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 14. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, receiving testimony in open
and closed sessions on the chemical weapons modernization and demilitarization
programs from Thomas Welch, Deputy to the Assistant to the Secretary of
Defense for Atomic Energy; Capt. Larry Pfitzenmaier, USN, Program Manager,
BIGEYE Chemical Bomb; Col. Robert Orton, USA, Program Manager, Binary Weapons;
Dee Ritchee, Directorate of Operational Test and Evaluation, Department of
Defense; John W. Shannon, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations
and Logistics; and Brig. Gen. David Nydam, USA, Program Manager, Chemical
Demilitarization; and in open session on the civil defense program from Julius
W. Becton, Jr., Director, and Grant Peterson, Associate Director, State and
Local Programs, both of the Federal Emergency Management Agency; and Craig
Alderman, Jr., Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, April 15. 

NATIONAL HOUSING TASK FORCE 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs held oversight hearings to review a recent report of the
National Housing Task Force entitled "A Decent Place to Live", receiving
testimony from James W. Rouse and David Maxwell, both of the National Housing
Task Force; John M. Teutsch, CompuFund/Network Funding Corp., Seattle,
Washington, on behalf of the Mortgage Bankers Association;  [*D393]  Dale
Stuard, National Association of Homebuilders, Washington, DC; Nestor R.
Weigand, Jr., Wichita, Kansas, on behalf of the National Association of
Realtors; William A. Simpson, Republic Mortgage Insurance Co., Winston-Salem,
North Carolina, on behalf of the Mortgage Insurance Companies of America; and
Leonard Shane, Mercury Savings and Loan Association, Huntington Beach,
California, on behalf of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, April 14. 

SUPERCONDUCTING SUPER COLLIDER 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development concluded oversight hearings on the President's proposed budget
request for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Energy, focusing on the
Superconducting Super Collider and the basic science budget, after receiving
testimony from James F. Decker, Acting Director, Office of Energy Research,
Department of Energy; Leon Lederman, FERMI National Accelerator Laboratory,
Batvia, Illinois; Michael Fishner, University of Maryland, College Park;
William F. Brinkman, AT&T Bell Laboratory, Murray Hill, New Jersey; and Andrew
M. Sessler, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and Stanley Wojcicki, and Chris
Quigg, both of the SSC Central Design Group, all of Berkeley, California. 

U.S.-CANADA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on the U.S.-Canada Free Trade
Agreement signed on January 2, 1988, to provide increased economic activity,
higher trade levels, jobs, and enhanced competitiveness for the U.S. and
Canada, receiving testimony from Jack Sheinkman, and Arthur Gondersheim, both
of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, AFL-CIO, New York, New
York; Max Turnipseed, The Ethyl Corporation, Richmond, Virginia, on behalf of
the Office of the Chemical Industry Trade Advisor; Carl F. Schwensen, National
Association of Wheat Growers, and R.M. Cooperman, Independent Zinc Alloyers
Association, both of Washington, DC; and Benjamin Y. Cooper, Printing
Industries of America, Inc., Arlington, Virginia. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

An original joint resolution (S.J. Res. 292) to disapprove the certification
by the President with respect to the Bahamas, in lieu of S.J. Res. 279; and 

S.J. Res. 285, to identify Haiti as a major drug-transit country. 

Also, the committee failed to order reported S.J. Res. 268, to disapprove the
certification by the President with respect to Mexico. 

ETHICS IN GOVERNMENT ACT 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the
Office of Government Ethics, and to review the operation of the Federal
Government's public integrity program, receiving testimony from John C.
Keeney, Acting Assistant Attorney General, and Joe Gangloff, Trial Attorney,
Public Integrity Section, both of the Criminal Division, Department of
Justice; Archibald Cox and Ann McBride, both of Common Cause, Marshall J.
Breger and Jeffrey Lubbers, both of the Administrative Conference of the
United States, and James D. Carroll, The Brookings Institution, all of
Washington, DC; Lloyd N. Cutler, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Michael Josephson, Josephson Institute
for the Advancement of Ethics, Los Angeles, California; and Robert N. Roberts,
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

HEAD INJURED PERSONS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on the Handicapped
concluded hearings on the education and rehabilitation of persons with head
injuries, after receiving testimony from Larry Marshall, University of
California, San Diego; Sarah and James Brady, Washington, DC, Gerald Bush,
Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, and Charles Haynes, Houston,
Texas, all on behalf of the National Head Injury Foundation; Cynthia Mulvey,
East Haven, Connecticut; Howard Katz, Mississippi Methodist Rehabilitation
Center, Jackson; and Walter Verduyn, Covenant Medical Center, Waterloo, Iowa. 

PREFERRED SURETY BOND GUARANTEE PROGRAM 

Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings on S. 2259, to encourage
expanded participation in the Small Business Administration Surety Bond
Guarantee Program by standard surety companies, receiving testimony from Edwin
T. Holloway, Associate Administrator for Finance and Investment, Robert G.
Lineberry, Deputy Associate Administrator for Investment, and Howard F.
Huegel, Director, Office of Surety Guarantees, all of the Small Business
Administration; Edward W. Bowen, Jr., Cornerstone Financial Group, Atlanta,
Georgia, representing the National Association of Minority Contractors; M.R.
Sullivan, Sullivan Mechanical Contractors, Shenandoah, Virginia, representing
the  [*D394]  American Subcontractors Association; Lloyd Provost, The Surety
Association of America, Iselin, New Jersey, representing the American
Insurance Association; John J. Curtin, Jr., Cambridge, Massachusetts,
representing the National Association of Surety Bond Producers; and Elaine
Stevens, Transamerica Premier Insurance Company, Orange, California,
representing the American Surety Association. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NAVAJO-HOPI RELOCATION PROGRAM 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1236,
to authorize funds for fiscal year 1988 for housing relocation under the
Navajo-Hopi Relocation Program, after receiving testimony from Ross O.
Swimmer, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; Hawley
Atkinson, Ralph A. Watkins, Jr., and Sandra Massetto, all of the Navajo-Hopi
Indian Relocation Commission, Flagstaff, Arizona; Ivan Sidney, Hopi Indian
Tribe, Kykotsmovi, Arizona; and Peter MacDonald, Navajo Tribe, Window Rock,
Arizona. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- INTELLIGENCE 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the
intelligence community, after receiving testimony from certain intelligence
community officials.  

Joint Meeting 

EMPLOYMENT IN THE YEAR 2000 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Investment, Jobs and Prices
continued hearings to examine current national policies on education,
employment and training and their effectiveness, receiving testimony from
Nancy Barrett, American University, and Mary Hatwood Futrell, National
Education Association, both of Washington, DC; Carlton Braun and John
Robinson, both of Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, Illinois; and Ernest J. Savoie,
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan.  

Hearings continue on Monday, April 18. 



1988/04/13
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 13, 1988; pages D402 - D412  (Bound vol. D197-
D205)

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 1989, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Roland R.  [*D404]  Vautour, Under Secretary for Small
Community and Rural Development, Vance L. Clark, Administrator, Farmers Home
Administration, John Marshall, Manager, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation,
and Steve Dewhurst, Budget Officer, all of the Department of Agriculture; and
Eric P. Thor, President and Chief Executive Officer, Farm Credit System
Assistance Board. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 19. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LABOR/RELATED AGENCIES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1989, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Ann Dore McLaughlin, Secretary of Labor; J. Brian Hyland,
Inspector General, Department of Labor; Donna M. Alvarado, Director, ACTION;
Howard D. Gutin, Chairman of the Board, and Donald E. Ledwig, President, both
of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Robert A. Gielow, Chairman, and
William J. Doyle III, Inspector General, both of the Railroad Retirement
Board; and Kay McMurray, Director, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, April 15. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for reserve
components' military construction and defense agencies' military construction
and family housing programs, receiving testimony from John B. Rosamond, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Guard and Reserve Material and Facilities;
Brig. Gen. William A. Navas, Jr., Deputy Director, Army National Guard; Brig.
Gen. Ross G. Pickus, Deputy Chief, Army Reserve; Capt. James D. Olson, Deputy
Director, Naval Reserve; Brig. Gen. John G. McMerty, Deputy Director, Air
National Guard; and Brig. Gen. Shirley M. Carpenter, Deputy Director, Air
Force Reserve. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 20. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance
Defense held open and closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on armor
and anti-armor programs, receiving testimony from Gen. Donn A. Starry, USA,
Ret., former Vice Chairman, Defense Science Board Study on Armor/Anti-Armor;
Lt. Gen. Donald S. Pihl, USA, Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of
the Army (Research, Development, and Acquisition); and Maj. Gen. W.A.
Shoffner, USA, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans (Force
Development and Integration). 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

DOD ACQUISITION POLICY 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
held hearings on S. 2254, to make miscellaneous improvements in the management
of Department of Defense acquisition, and related issues, receiving testimony
from Robert B. Costello, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition; H.
Lawrence Garrett III, Under Secretary of the Navy; Jay R. Sculley, Assistant
Secretary of the Army for Research, Development, and Acquisition; John J.
Welch, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition; Derek J.
Vander Schaaf, Deputy Inspector General, Department of Defense; Harvey
Kushner, ORI, Inc., Rockville, Maryland; Jerome M. Kwiatkowski, Corvus
Systems, Inc., San Jose, California; and William Purple, Allied-Signal
Corporation, Washington, DC. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

ARMY COMBAT SUPPORT 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support and the Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel concluded closed joint
hearings on the readiness of Army component combat support and combat service
support units, after receiving testimony from Richard A. Davis, Associate
Director, Charles J. Bonanno, Group Director, and Julia Denman, Evaluator in
Charge, all of the National Security and International Affairs Division, U.S.
General Accounting Office; Maj. Gen. James D. Smith, USA, Director of
Operations, Readiness and Mobilization, Office of the Deputy Chief of Army
Staff for Operations and Plans; Maj. Gen. William F. Ward, USAR, Chief, U.S.
Army Reserve; and Maj. Gen. Donald Burdick, ARNGUS, Director, U.S. Army
National Guard. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- MARINE MAMMAL PROTECTION ACT 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings in
conjunction with the National Ocean Policy Study on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for the Marine Mammal Protection Act, receiving testimony
from James E. Douglas, Jr., Acting Assistant Administrator for Fisheries,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; Gary
Edwards, Assistant Director for Fisheries, U.S. Fish  [*D405]  and Wildlife
Service, Department of the Interior; William W. Fox, Jr., Commissioner, Marine
Mammal Commission; James Joseph, Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, La
Jolla, California; Michael Bean, Environmental Defense Fund, David G. Burney,
United States Tuna Foundation, and James P. Walsh, Davis, Wright, and Jones,
all of Washington, DC; Lesley Scheele, Greenpeace, Fort Lauderdale, Florida;
Sam LaBudde, Earth Island Institute, San Francisco, California; and August
Felando, American Tunaboat Association, San Diego, California. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

COAL DISTRIBUTION AND UTILIZATION ACT 

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

S. 801, to facilitate the national distribution and utilization of coal, with
amendments. 

MOTOR CARRIER ADMINISTRATION 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
provisions of S. 747, to establish a motor carrier administration in the
Department of Transportation (pending on Senate calendar), after receiving
testimony from Robert E. Farris, Deputy Administrator, Federal Highway
Administration, Department of Transportation; Kermit V. Kiebert, Idaho
Transportation Department, Boise; Glenn M. Gershaneck, Vermont Agency of
Transportation, Montpelier; Robert A. Innocenzi, New Jersey State Department
of Transportation, Trenton; Thomas J. Donohue, American Trucking Associations,
Inc., Alexandria, Virginia; and Richard D. Henderson, Private Truck Council of
America, Inc., Washington, DC. 

U.S.-CANADA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT 

Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings on U.S.-Canada Free Trade
Agreement, signed on January 2, 1988, to provide increased economic activity,
higher trade levels, jobs, and enhanced competitiveness for the U.S. and
Canada, focusing on the energy aspects, receiving testimony from Senator
Domenici; Nicholas Bush, National Gas Supply Association, and Thomas Altmeyer,
National Coal Association, both of Washington, DC; Danny Conklin, Independent
Petroleum Association of America, Amarillo, Texas; Charles Gentry, Texas
Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association, Dallas, Texas; William
McCormick, Consumers Power Company, Jackson, Michigan, on behalf of the
American Gas Association; John G. Buckley, on behalf of Citizens for the
Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, Westboro, Massachusetts; and Robert A.
Hiney, New York Power Authority, New York, New York. 

Hearings continue on Friday, April 15. 

U.S. DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy,
Trade, Oceans and Environment held hearings to review the advancement of
environmentally sustainable development worldwide through United States
foreign assistance policy, receiving testimony from Duane Acker, Assistant to
the Administrator for Food and Agriculture, U.S. Agency for International
Development; David R. Malpass, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Developing
Nations, Department of the Treasury; James Gustave Speth, World Resources
Institute, Lester R. Brown, Worldwatch Institute, and Donald R. Lesh, Global
Tomorrow Coalition, all of Washington, DC; and Harold J. Corbett, Monsanto
Company, St. Louis, Missouri. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 27. 

ETHICS IN GOVERNMENT ACT 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management continued hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
the Office of Government Ethics, receiving testimony from Frank Q. Nebeker,
Director, Donald E. Campbell, Deputy Director, and F. Gary Davis, Chief
Counsel, all of the Office of Government Ethics; Rosslyn S. Kleeman, Senior
Associate Director, and Lynn Gibson, analyst, both of the General Government
Division, U.S. General Accounting Office; Kathleen A. Buck, General Counsel,
Department of Defense; David H. Martin, former Director, Office of Government
Ethics; and Joseph D. Shine, South Carolina Chief Deputy Attorney General,
Columbia, former Designated Agency Ethics Official and the Special Counsel for
Ethics for the General Services Administration. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 1301, to implement the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and
Artistic Works, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As approved
by the subcommittee, the bill incorporates certain provisions of S. 1971); 

S. 1883, to improve the U.S. trademark registration system and the ability of
the trademark law to protect the interest of the public and trademark owners,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and 

S. 2201, to make permanent certain record rental provisions contained in title
17, U.S. Code. 

[*D406]  BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 1966, to improve information and research on biotechnology and the human
genome, with an amendment; 

H.R. 2881, to establish the National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 2222, to authorize funds for the National Institutes of Health, with
amendments; 

S. Con. Res. 95, to express the sense of the Congress with respect to the
denial of health insurance coverage for disabled adopted children; 

S. 1828, for the relief of San Juan County Nursing Home in Blanding, Utah; and 

The nominations of Hans M. Mark, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Board of
Trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education
Foundation, and Walter C. Wallace, of New York, to be a Member of the National
Mediation Board. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered the following measures
favorably reported: 

S. 802, to transfer ownership of certain lands held in trust for the Blackfeet
Tribe, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 2273, to provide for the transfer of certain funds to the Secretary of the
Interior for the benefit of certain members of the Crow Tribe; and 

S. 1722, to establish the National Museum of the American Indian, Heye
Foundation, within the Smithsonian Institution, and to establish a memorial to
the American Indian, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As
approved by the committee, the bill incorporates the provisions of S. 1723.) 

CISPES-FBI INQUIRY 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed hearings to review the
conduct of the Federal Bureau of Investigation inquiry into activities of the
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), receiving
testimony from officials of the intelligence community. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meetings 

AMVETS/VIETNAM VETERANS/JEWISH WAR VETERANS -- LEGISLATIVE RECOMMENDATIONS 

Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs held joint hearings with
the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs on the legislative recommendations
and priorities of certain veterans' organizations, receiving testimony from
James King, National Commander, American Veterans of World War II, Korea, and
Vietnam (AMVETS), Lanham, Maryland; and Mary R. Stout, National President,
Vietnam Veterans of America, and Jack Litz, National Commander, Jewish War
Veterans of the United States of America, both of Washington, DC. 

Joint hearings were recessed subject to call. 

VETERANS' BENEFITS AND SERVICES ACT 

Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 2616, to improve health-care
programs of the Veterans' Administration. 



1988/04/14
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 14, 1988; pages D413 - D422  (Bound vol. D205-
D212)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DOD 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on Selected Special Access Programs, receiving testimony from L. Paul
Dube, Deputy Comptroller, Program Budget, Office of Assistant Secretary of
Defense; Brig. Gen. Keith Glenn, Director, Special Programs Office of the
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition; Jack Welsh, Jr., Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition; and Lt. Gen. George L. Monahan,
Jr., Deputy Chief of Staff, Research, Development, and Acquisition, USAF. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 21. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for
energy and water development programs, receiving testimony from Senators
Cranston and Wilson; Representative Anderson; and North Dakota Governor George
Sinner, Bismarck. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for U.S. participation in
international organizations and programs, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for the United Nations Development Program, United Nations Children's
Fund, United Nations Environment Program, and the International Atomic Energy
Agency from Dennis Goodman, Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
International Organizations; and in behalf of funds for the International Fund
for Agricultural  [*D415]  Development and the Special Program for Africa from
Richard Bissell, Assistant Administrator for Program and Policy Coordination,
Agency for International Development. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April26. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FINE ARTS/HISTORIC PRESERVATIONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Senator
Levin, and Representative Green, both on behalf of the Franklin Delano
Roosevelt Memorial Commission; J. Carter Brown, Director, National Gallery of
Art, and Chairman, Commission on Fine Arts; and Robert D. Bush, Executive
Director, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 18. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Armed Service: Committee resumed closed hearings on the
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, and future weapon systems,
receiving testimony from Ambassador Maynard W. Glitman, Chief Negotiator on
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces; and representatives from the Office of the
Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance
Defense concluded hearings on budgeted and unbudgeted alternatives for
improving conventional defenses in NATO, including air defenses, after
receiving testimony from Ambassador John A. Woodworth, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense for European and NATO policy; Maj. Gen. Charles J. Fiala,
USA, Chief of Staff, United States Army (Europe and 7th Army); Lt. Gen. John
F. Wall, USA, Commanding General, United States Army Strategic Defense
Command/PEO; and Brig. Gen. Larry R. Capps, USA, Program Executive Officer,
High to Medium Air Defense (HIMAD). 

DOD ACQUISITION POLICY 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
concluded hearings on S. 2254, to make miscellaneous improvements in the
management of Department of Defense acquisition, and related issues, after
receiving testimony from Paul Math, Associate Director, National Security and
International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; Robert N. Anthony,
Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Jeffrey Joseph, United
States Chamber of Commerce, Washington, DC; Joseph Campbell, Jr., Paine Webber
Group, New York, New York; and John D. Rittenhouse, GE/RCA Aerospace and
Defense, Cherry Hill, New Jersey. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional
Defense concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the state of and
plans for the United States Marine Corps, after receiving testimony from Gen.
Alfred M. Gray, USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps.    

NATIONAL HOUSING TASK FORCE 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs concluded oversight hearings to review a recent report of the
National Housing Task Force, entitled "A Decent Place to Live," after
receiving testimony from Barry Zigas, National Low Income Housing Coalition,
Charles L. Edson, Lane and Edson, and David M. Capozzi, Paralyzed Veterans of
America, all of Washington, DC; Roland Turpin, Richmond Redevelopment and
Housing Authority, Richmond, Virginia; F. Lynn Luallen, Kentucky Housing
Corporation, Frankfort; Paul J. Carling, University of Vermont, Burlington;
Thomas Perkins, New Orleans Commission on Housing, New Orleans, Louisiana, on
behalf of the American Association of Homes for the Aging; Father Joe Carroll,
St. Vincent dePaul Center, San Diego, California; and Michael Freid, Related
Companies, New York, New York. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on S. 1632, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the National
Science Foundation, after receiving testimony from Erich Bloch, Director,
National Science Foundation; Albert E. Smith, South Carolina State College,
Orangeburg; Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut;
Mary Maples Dunn, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts; Thomas B.
Courtice, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon; James J. Brophy,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City; and Philip Speser, Foresight Science and
Technology, Inc., Washington, DC. 

[*D416]  PARKS AND HISTORIC SITES 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills: 

S. 1052, to establish a National Center for the United States Constitution
within the Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and S. 1513, to include Washington Square within the
Independence National Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after receiving
testimony from Senators Specter and Heinz; Malcolm Lazin, Rubin, Quinn and
Moss, and Thomas F. McCallum, Friends of Independence National Historical
Park, both of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Joan Challinor, Washington, DC, and
A.E. Wolf, Thorofare, New Jersey, both on behalf of the National Constitution
Center; and William E.W. Gowen, Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the
Revolution, New York, New York; 

S. 1690, to provide financial assistance for the restoration and
reconstruction of Fort Abraham Lincoln and related structures in Fort Lincoln
State Park, Mandan, North Dakota, after receiving testimony from Doug Eiken,
North Dakota Parks and Recreation Department, Bismarck; and Pat Ness, Fort
Abraham Lincoln Foundation, Mandan, North Dakota; and 

S. 1682, to increase the amount authorized to be appropriated for the
Sewall-Belmont House National Historic Site, District of Columbia, after
receiving testimony from Elizabeth L. Chittick, National Woman's Party,
Washington, DC. 

Testimony was also received on all the aforementioned bills from Jerry Rogers,
Associate Director, Cultural Resources, National Park Service, Department of
the Interior. 

RECYCLED HAZARDOUS WASTE 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Hazardous Wastes
and Toxic Substances held hearings to review the Environmental Protection
Agency's statutory and regulatory authority concerning sham recycling and the
recycling exemption in the Resources Conservation and Recovery Act, receiving
testimony from J. Winston Porter, Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and
Emergency Response, Environmental Protection Agency; Alex Cunningham,
California Department of Health Services, Sacramento; George Vander Velde,
Chemical Waste Management, Inc., and Richard Fortuna, Hazardous Waste
Treatment Council, both of Washington, DC; Jacqueline Warren, Natural
Resources Defense Council, New York, New York; John W. Roberts, Solite
Corporation, Richmond, Virginia; Walter Greer, Lone Star Industries, Houston,
Texas; John Chadborne, Systek/LaFalce, Dallas, Texas; and George B. Eldredge,
Marine Shale Processors, Inc., Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

PANAMA -- BRIEFING 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on U.S. policy and the current situation in Panama from Michael
Kozak, Principal Deputy Legal Advisor, Department of State; Robert S.
Pastorino, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Inter American Affairs;
and Col. Paul W. Harbison, USAF, Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered the following business
items favorably reported: 

The nominations of Frank E. Schwelb, to be an Associate Judge of the District
of Columbia Court of Appeals, Cheryl M. Long, to be an Associate Judge of the
Superior Court of the District of Columbia, and Frank DeGeorge, of Maryland,
to be Inspector General, Department of Commerce; 

S. 2037, to eliminate the use of private resources in the transition process
and to provide for the orderly transfer of power between administrations, with
an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 1856, to authorize funds for programs of the National Historical
Publications and Records Commission, with an amendment;

S. 1381, to improve Federal cash management and ensure equity in funding
Federal programs administered by the states, with an amendment; 

S. 533, to elevate the Veterans' Administration to Cabinet status, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and 

S. 1081, to establish a national nutrition monitoring and related research
program, with amendments. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered the following measures favorably
reported: 

The nominations of David M. Ebel, of Colorado, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for
the Tenth Circuit, Lowell A. Reed, to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania, Kimba M. Wood, to be U.S. District Judge for the
Southern District of New York, Jack T. Camp, Jr., to be U.S. District Judge
for the Northern District of Georgia, Bernard A. Friedman, to be U.S. District
Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, Emilio M. Garza, to be U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Texas, and Thomas S. Zilly, to be
U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Washington;  

S. 1851, to implement in the United States the International Convention on the
Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute; 

[*D417]  S. 1378, to provide for setting aside the first Thursday in May as
the date on which the National Day of Prayer is celebrated; 

S. 1301, to implement the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and
Artistic Works, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 2201, to make permanent certain record rental provisions contained in title
17, U.S. Code. 

IMMIGRATION REFORM 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year
1989 for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, on the implementation of
the Immigration Reform and Control Act, on S. 2275, to prohibit the payment of
Federal benefits to illegal aliens, on S. 972, S. 973, S. 974, and S. 975,
bills relating to the apprehension, detention, and deportation of alien
felons, and S. 976, to provide a computer linkage between the Immigration and
Naturalization Service and the National Crime Information Center, after
receiving testimony from Senators Exon and Chiles; Alan C. Nelson,
Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice;
Arnold P. Jones, Senior Associate Director, General Accounting Office; Dave
Smith, Orlando Police Department, Orlando, Florida; Wade J. Henderson,
American Civil Liberties Union, Doris Meissner, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, and David S. North, TransCentury Development Associates,
all of Washington, DC. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- NURSE EDUCATION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
2231, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1989, 1990, and 1991 for nurse
education programs, after receiving testimony from David N. Sundwall,
Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of
Health and Human Services; Sonja Nielson, University of Utah College of
Nursing, and Robert C. Gross, First Interstate Bank, both of Salt Lake City,
Utah; Geraldene Felton, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; Ellen Strachota,
Grand View College, Des Moines, Iowa; Gloria S. Hope, American Nurses
Association, Kansas City, Missouri; Jan Towers, Adams County Migrant Health
Program, Bigglerville, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the American Academy of
Nurse Practitioners; Barbara Ott, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia,
on behalf of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses; and Judith
Miller, New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of
the American Organization of Nurse Executives. 

SMALL BUSINESS CONTRACTING RESTORATION ACT 

Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1559, to
revise requirements for the small business set-aside program for Federal
contracts, after receiving testimony from Robert P. Bedell, Administrator,
Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget; Monika
Edwards Harrison, Associate Administrator for Procurement Assistance, Small
Business Administration; Karen Hastie Williams, Crowell and Moring,
Washington, DC, former Administrator, Federal Procurement Policy, Office of
Management and Budget; E. Colette Nelson, American Subcontractors Association,
Alexandria, Virginia; Lester H. Smith, Jr., Smith, Seckman, and Reid, Inc.,
Nashville, Tennessee, representing the Committee on the Federal Procurement of
Architectural/Engineering Services; and John Bishop, Gurnee Heating and Air
Conditioning, Inc., Closter, New Jersey, representing the Associated Builders
and Contractors, Inc. 

Joint Meeting 

MEDICARE CATASTROPHIC LOSS PREVENTION ACT OF 1987 

Conferees met on the differences between the Senate- and House-passed versions
of H.R. 2470, to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act, to provide
protection against catastrophic medical expenses under the medicare program,
but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call. 



1988/04/15
Daily Digest - Friday, April 15, 1988; pages D423 - D432  (Bound vol. D212-
D215)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LABOR/RELATED AGENCIES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1989, receiving testimony on behalf of funds for their respective
activities from James M. Stephens, Chairman, and Rosemary M. Collyer, General
Counsel, both of the National Labor Relations Board; E. Ross Buckley,
Chairman, Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; Helen M. Witt,
Chairman, National Mediation Board, Donald A. Young, Executive Director,
Prospective Payment Assessment Commission; Karen Davis, Commissioner,
Physician Payment Review Commission; Ford B. Ford, Chairman, Federal Mine
Safety and Health Review Commission; Jerald C. Newman, Chairman, and Bessie B.
Moore, Vice Chairman, U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information
Science; Sandra S. Parrino, Chairperson, National Council on the Handicapped;
Lt. Gen. George H. McKee, Governor, United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home;
and Samuel W. Lewis, President, United States Institute of Peace. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 20. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- GSA/OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1989, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Raymond A. Fontaine, Comptroller, and William B. Early, Deputy
Comptroller for Budget, both of the General Services Administration; Gordon G.
Riggle, Deputy Assistant to the President for Management and Administration,
and Director, Office of Administration, and Ron R. Rasmussen, Director,
Financial Management Division, both of the Executive Office of the President;
and Manus J. Fish, Jr., Regional Director, National Park Service, National
Capital Region, Department of the Interior (on behalf of the Executive
residence). 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 18. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, receiving testimony on the
B-1B test plan and program mandated by the fiscal year 1988 authorization Act,
and the success to date in meeting test objectives from Lawrence Woodruff,
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, (Strategic and Theater
Nuclear Forces); John E. Krings, Director, Operational Test and Evaluation,
Department of  [*D425]  Defense; and Maj. Gen. Michael D. Hall, Deputy for
Strategic Programs to the Military Deputy for Air Force Acquisition; and Brig.
General Robert E. Dempsey, Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Planning
Analysis, Strategic Air Command. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 18. 

U.S.-CANADA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on U.S.-Canada Free Trade
Agreement signed on January 2, 1988, to provide increased economic activity,
higher trade levels, jobs, and enhanced competitiveness for the U.S. and
Canada, focusing on the provisions governing trade in automotive products,
receiving testimony from Senator Symms; Marc Santucci, Advisor to the Governor
of Michigan for Trade Policy, Lansing; Linda J. Hoffman, Automotive Parts and
Accessories Association, Lanham, Maryland; Steve Beckman, United Automobile,
Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, Thomas H. Hanna,
Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of the United States, Inc. and
Christopher M. Bates, Motor and Equipment Manufacturers Association, all of
Washington, DC; Robert J. Muth, Non-Ferrous Metals Producers Committee, New
York, New York; and Jeffrey L. Zelms, Doe Run Company, St. Louis, Missouri. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, April 21. 

STATUS OF ORGANIZED CRIME 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
resumed hearings on the status of organized crime and the effectiveness of law
enforcement, focusing on labor racketeering, narcotics trafficking and other
organized crime groups, receiving testimony from James F. Ahearn, Special
Agent-in-Charge (Boston Division), Joseph E. Griffin, Special Agent-in-Charge
(Cleveland Division), and Robert B. Davenport, Special Agent-in-Charge (Kansas
City Division), all of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of
Justice; Frederick T. Martens, Pennsylvania Crime Commission, Conshohocken;
and Angelo Lonardo, former Underboss of the Cleveland, Ohio La Cosa Nostra. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, April 21. 

GOVERNMENT DEBT COLLECTION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administration
concluded hearings on S. 1961, to establish a uniform system of procedures to
facilitate the collection of debts owed to the United States, after receiving
testimony from Arnold P. Jones, Senior Associate Director, General Government
Division, General Accounting Office; Joseph R. Wright, Jr., Deputy Director,
Office of Management and Budget; Richard Kusserow, Inspector General,
Department of Health and Human Services; Martin D. Teckler, Deputy General
Counsel, Small Business Administration; Donald L. Ivers, General Counsel,
Veterans' Administration; Frank W. Donaldson, U.S. Attorney for the Northern
District of Alabama; Stephen M. McNamee, U.S. Attorney for the District of
Arizona; and Roy C. Hayes, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/04/18
Daily Digest - Monday, April 18, 1988; pages D433 - D438  (Bound vol. D215-
D218)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HUD 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Department
of Housing and Urban Development, receiving testimony from Samuel R. Pierce,
Jr., Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

[*D434]  APPROPRIATIONS -- FOSSIL ENERGY/COAL TECHNOLOGY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for fossil energy research and development and
for clean coal technology from J. Allen Wampler, Assistant Secretary of Energy
for Fossil Energy. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 20. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TREASURY/POSTAL SERVICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1989, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from James A. Baker III, Secretary of the Treasury; Robert M. Tobias,
President, National Treasury Employees Union; and Anthony M. Frank, Postmaster
General, U.S. Postal Service. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, April 29. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence concluded hearings in open and closed sessions on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on the pace and direction of the Strategic Defense
Initiative, and compliance with the ABM Treaty, after receiving testimony from
Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson, USAF, Director, Strategic Defense Initiative
Organization; and Robert B. Costello, Under Secretary of Defense for
Acquisition. 
  
OSHA SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARDS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee began oversight hearings on
the development and promulgation of safety and health standards and the
enforcement of those standards by the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), receiving testimony from Earl S. Pollack, Study
Director, Panel on Occupational Safety and Health Statistics, Committee on
National Statistics, National Academy of Science -- National Research Council;
Lynn Williams, United Steelworkers of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on
behalf of the AFL-CIO Standing Committee on Safety and Occupational Health;
Franklin E. Mirer, United Auto Workers of America, Detroit, Michigan; Eric
Frumin, Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, AFL-CIO, and Philip J.
Landrigan, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, both of New York, New York; and
John Moran, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown,
West Virginia. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

LONG-TERM HEALTH CARE 

Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings on long-term health
care for the elderly, focusing on adult day health care, after receiving
testimony from Ellen Shillinglaw, Director, Office of Legislation and Policy,
Health Care Financing Administration, Department of Health and Human Services;
Jean and George Glakas, Falls Church, Virginia; Lou Glasse, Older Women's
League, Washington, Virginia; Donald A. Peterson, St. John's Lutheran Home,
Billings, Montana; Kay Larmer, Fairfax County Adult Day Health Care Centers,
Fairfax, Virginia, representing the National Institute on Adult Daycare and
National Council on the Aging, Inc.; and Carol H. Kurland, New Jersey
Department of Human Services, Trenton. 

Joint Meeting 

EMPLOYMENT IN THE YEAR 2000 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Investment, Jobs and Prices resumed
hearings to examine current national policies on education, employment and
training and their effectiveness, receiving testimony from Mayor Donald
Fraser, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Mildred D. Henry, California State University,
San Bernardino, on behalf of Provisional Educational Services, Inc.; John
Denning, American Association of Retired Persons, Raul Yzaguirre, Council of
La Raza, and Ronald Mincy, The Urban Institute, all of Washington, DC. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 



1988/04/19
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 19, 1988; pages D439 - D448  (Bound vol. D218-
D225)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on prolonged budget estimates for fiscal
year 1989, receiving testimony from John W. Bode, Assistant Secretary for Food
and Consumer Services, Anna Kondratas, Administrator, and George A. Braley,
Deputy Administrator for Special Nutrition Programs, both of the Food and
Nutrition Service, Laura Sims, Administrator, Human Nutrition Information
Service, and Dennis Kaplan, Division Chief, Budget Control and Analysis
Division, Office of Budget and Program Analysis, all of the Department of
Agriculture. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, April 21. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE PRODUCTION RATES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony on Defense production rates from Robert B. Costello, Under Secretary
of Defense for Acquisition. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 21. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HUD 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, receiving further testimony from
Carl Covitz, Under Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 25. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel completed
its review of those programs which fall within the subcommittee's jurisdiction
of proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the
Department of Defense, and agreed on recommendations it will make to the full
committee thereon. 

INTERMARKET COORDINATION ACT 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on S. 2256, to provide a structure of coordination between the markets for
stock, stock index futures and stock options, and to provide for an improved
response to the international regulatory issues arising from the increasing
worldwide linkage between markets, after receiving testimony from John W.
Bachmann and Edward I. O'Brien, both of the Securities Industry Association,
St. Louis, Missouri; John Damgard, Futures Industry Association, Washington,
DC; Robert E. Rubin, Goldman Sachs and Co., and Thomas A. Russo, Cadwalader,
Wickersham and Taft, both of New York, New York. 

INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communication concluded hearings on current issues in international
telecommunications, focusing on the imbalance in equipment trade, the
strengths and weaknesses in the telecommunications provisions in the
U.S.-Canada Free Trade Pact, and the VAN discussions with Japan and the United
Kingdom, after receiving testimony  [*D441]  from Dennis R. Patrick, Chairman,
Federal Communications Commission; Alfred C. Sikes, Assistant Secretary of
Commerce for Communications and Information; Parker Borg, Acting Coordinator
and Director, Bureau of International Communications and Information Policy,
Department of State; and Marian Barell, Deputy Assistant for the U.S. Trade
Representative for Industry, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. 

U.S.-CANADA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held oversight hearings
on the implementation of the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement and the
potential impacts on energy and natural resources industries, receiving
testimony from Ambassador Clayton Yeutter, U.S. Trade Representative, Robert
Reinstein, Director of Energy Policy, and Charles Roh, Assistant General
Counsel, all of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; and William F.
Martin, Deputy Secretary of Energy, and Scott L. Campbell, Director, Office of
Policy, Planning and Analysis, both of the Department of Energy. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, April 21. 

WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS SYSTEM 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills: 

S. 1720 and H.R. 900, bills to protect and enhance the natural, scenic,
cultural, and recreational values of certain segments of the New, Gauley,
Meadow, and Bluestone Rivers in West Virginia for the benefit of present and
future generations, after receiving testimony from Senator Rockefeller;
Representative Rahall; Robert Stanton, Associate Director of Operations,
National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Doug Maddy, Fayette County
Chamber of Commerce, Oak Hill, West Virginia; and John Purbaugh, West Virginia
Highlands Conservancy, Charleston; 

S. 1850, to designate a section of the Columbia River, in Washington, as a
study area for inclusion in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, after
receiving testimony from Senator Adams; Washington State Senator George
Sellar, Wenatchee; Laura Smith, The Nature Conservancy, Seattle, Washington;
S. Timothy Wapato, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, Portland,
Oregon; and Lonnie Selam, Sr., Yakima Indian Nation, Toppenish, Washington;
and 

S. 1914, to designate the Wildcat River, in New Hampshire, as a unit of the
National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, after receiving testimony from
Senators Humphrey and Rudman; and Roger French, Jackson Conservation
Commission, and Frank DiFruscio, Jackson Board of Selectmen, both of Jackson,
New Hampshire. 

Testimony was also received on all the aforementioned bills from G. Edward
Dickey, Deputy for Program Planning, Review and Evaluation, Office of the
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works; George Leonard, Assistant
Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; and W. Kent Olson, American
Rivers, Inc., Washington, DC. 

FAMILY SECURITY ACT 

Committee on Finance: Committee began markup of S. 1511, to redesignate the
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program as the Child Support
Supplement program and require recipients of program benefits to participate
in a State job opportunities and basic skills training program, and to set
forth provisions affecting the determination, review, and collection of child
support and the establishment of paternity, but did not complete action
thereon, and will continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of George F. Murphy, Jr., of Maryland, to be Deputy Director of
the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and Frederick M. Bernthal, of
Tennessee, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International
Environmental and Scientific Affairs, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Bernthal was introduced by Senator
Domenici. 

COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ACT 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to review the
Department of Defense/Strategic Defense Initiative Organization compliance
with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (P.L. 96-523), receiving testimony
from David O. Cooke, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration, and Arthur
H. Ehlers, Director, Organizational and Management Planning, Defense Committee
Management Officer, both of the Department of Defense; William Carroll,
General Counsel, Strategic Defense Initiative Organization; Rosslyn Kleeman,
Senior Associate Director, and Greg Ziombra, Assignment Manager, and Lynn
Gibson, Senior Attorney, both of the Office of General Counsel, all of the
General Accounting Office; Paul Weiss, Associate Administrator for
Administration, and James Dean, Director, Committee Management Secretariat,
both of the General Services Administration; F. Gary Davis, Chief Counsel, and
Donald Campbell, Deputy Director, both of the Office of Government Ethics; and
David L. Parnas, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

[*D442]  GOVERNMENT IN SUNSHINE ACT 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Spending, Budget
and Accounting concluded oversight hearings on the implementation of the
Government in Sunshine Act, after receiving testimony from Anne Graham,
Commissioner, Consumer Product Safety Commission; Eric R. Glitzenstein, Public
Citizen Litigation Group, Ellyn R. Weiss, Union of Concerned Scientists, and
Claudia Withers, Women's Legal Defense Fund, all of Washington, DC; and Peter
Prichard, Gannett Newspapers, representing the American Society of Newspaper
Editors and the National Publishers Association, Reston, Virginia. 

GAO FRAUD HOTLINE 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Governmental Efficiency,
Federalism, and the District of Columbia concluded hearings to review the
operation of the General Accounting Office Fraud Hotline, focusing on Hotline
statistics and examples of substantiated causes, after receiving testimony
from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General, and Gary Carbone, Director,
Fraud Hot Line, and Hugh Delaney, Evaluator, both of the Office of Special
Investigations, all of the General Accounting Office; Richard P. Kusserow,
Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services; Robert W. Beuley,
Inspector General, Department of Agriculture; Derrick J. Vander Schaaf, Deputy
Inspector General, Department of Defense; and Norman A. Zigrossi, Inspector
General, Tennessee Valley Authority. 

OSHA SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARDS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee continued oversight hearings
on the development and promulgation of safety and health standards and the
enforcement of those standards by the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), receiving testimony from James Scully, Safety
Specialist, Safety Standards Division, Sheldon Weiner, John Martonik, Susan
Harwood, Jennifer Silk, Peter Infante, and Imogene Rodgers, all Scientists,
Ronald Sarnacki, Compliance Safety Officer (Irving, Texas), Michelle Vallon,
Industrial Hygienist (Irving, Texas), and John Barry, Industrial Hygienist
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), all of the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, Department of Labor; Mrs. David Snyder, Alliquippa,
Pennsylvania; Mrs. John Simon, Rochester, Pennsylvania; Eileen Paumier, North
Canton, Ohio; Dennis Herlyn, Parker, South Dakota; David Kellen, Sioux Falls,
South Dakota; Mary Wall, Roslindale, Massachusetts; and Juanita Cox, San Juan,
Texas. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered the following
measures favorably reported: 

An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the Federal
Election Commission (As approved by the committee, the bill authorizes
$15,433,000); 

S. Con. Res. 88, to facilitate the convening of a Silver Haired Congress in
Washington, DC, in 1989, with amendments; 

S. Con. Res. 114, to permit the Law Enforcement Torch Run for the Special
Olympics Spring Games to use the Capitol grounds en route to Gallaudet
University campus, on May 20, 1988; 

An original resolution to authorize the purchase of U.S. Capitol Historical
Society wall calendars for the use of the Senate; 

An original resolution to amend S. Res. 28 (99th Cong.), relating to
television and radio coverage of the Senate, to clarify the prohibition on the
use of tape duplications of radio or television coverage of Senate
proceedings; 

An original resolution to pay a gratuity to the survivor of a deceased Senate
employee; 

An original resolution to pay a gratuity to the survivors of a deceased Senate
employee; 

S. 1722, to authorize establishment of the National Museum of the American
Indian, Heye Foundation, within the Smithsonian Institution, and to establish
a Memorial to the American Indian, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute; and 

S. 1790, to authorize the expansion of the National Air and Space Museum at
Washington Dulles International Airport. 

COLUMBIA RIVER INDIAN FISHERIES MANAGEMENT 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to review the
Columbia River Management Plan and enforcement of fishery regulations on the
Columbia River, after receiving testimony from Rob Baracker, Acting Deputy
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs (Trust and Economic
Development); Morgan Rees, Deputy for Policy, Planning, and Legislative
Affairs, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works,
Department of Defense; James L. Byrnes, Deputy Assistant Attorney General,
Land and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice; Clark R. Bavin,
Chief, Division of Law Enforcement, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department
of the Interior; Morris M. Pallozzi, Director, Office of Enforcement, National
Marine Fisheries Service, Department of Commerce; Allen Pinkham, Nez Perce
Indian Tribe, Lapwai, Idaho; Delbert Frank, Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation, Warm Springs, Oregon; Levi George, Yakima  [*D443] 
Indian Nation, and Lonnie Selam, Sr., and Jeanette Lee, both of the Yakima
Tribal Council, all of Toppenish, Washington; Johnny Jackson, Underwood,
Washington; Howard Jim and Sammy Jim, both of the Celilo Village, Celilo,
Oregon; Edity McCloud, Yelm, Washington; Mary Jim and Carrie Chapman, both of
Wapapo, Washington; George Waters, Washington, DC, representing the Yakima
Indian Nation; and Tim Wapapo, Intertribal Fish Commission, Portland, Oregon. 

Joint Meeting 

EMPLOYMENT IN THE YEAR 2000 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Investment, Jobs and Prices
concluded hearings to examine current national policies on education,
employment and training and their effectiveness, after receiving testimony
from Ann McLaughlin, Secretary of Labor; Donald Hilty, Chrysler Corporation,
Detroit, Michigan; Rody Oswald, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC; Martha N. Ozawa,
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; and Arnold Packer, The Hudson
Institute, Alexandria, Virginia.



1988/04/20
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 20, 1988; pages D449 - D460  (Bound vol. D225-
D233)

Committee Meetings
 
(Committees not listed did not meet)

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

[*D451]  S. 2156, to amend the National School Lunch Act to require
eligibility for free lunches to be based on the nonfarm income poverty
guidelines prescribed by the Office of Management and Budget; 

S. 1652 and H.R. 2663, bills to authorize funds to establish a plant stress
and water conservation research laboratory and program at Lubbock, Texas; and 

S. 1516, to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to
revise pesticide registration requirements and procedures, with amendments. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (DRUG ENFORCEMENT) 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1989 for drug enforcement and coordination programs of the
Department of Justice, receiving testimony from Edwin Meese III, Attorney
General for the United States, John C. Lawn, Administrator, Drug Enforcement
Administration, Alan C. Nelson, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization
Service, J. Michael Quinlan, Director, Bureau of Prisons, Stanley E. Morris,
Director, U.S. Marshals Service, and William S. Sessions, Director, Federal
Bureau of Investigation, all of the Department of Justice. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 28. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for
territorial governments, receiving testimony from Mark S. Hayward, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Territorial and International Affairs;
Delegate DeLugo, Virgin Islands Governor Alexander Farrelly; Delegate Sunia;
American Samoa Governor A.P. Lutali; Guam Lt. Governor Frank Blas;
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Lt. Governor Pedro A. Tenorio;
Federated States of Micronesia Resident Representative Jesse Marehalau;
Republic of the Marshall Islands Chief Secretary Oscar deBrum; and Republic of
Palau Special Assistant to the President Haruo Wilter;

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 26. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- SOCIAL SECURITY/HEALTH CARE FINANCING 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1989, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Dorcas R. Hardy, Commissioner of Social Security, and William
L. Roper, Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration, both of the
Department of Health and Human Services. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for military
construction and family housing programs, receiving testimony from Jack
Katzen, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Production and Logistics; Michael
W. Owen, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations
and Logistics; and Maj. Gen. Peter J. Offringa, Assistant Chief of Engineers,
Department of the Army.

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 27. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance
Defense completed its review of those programs which fall within the
subcommittee's jurisdiction of proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, and agreed on recommendations
it will make to the full committee thereon. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support completed its review of those programs which fall within the
subcommittee's jurisdiction of proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, and agreed on recommendations
it will make to the full committee thereon.

MARKET MANIPULATION 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
oversight hearings on market manipulation, focusing on the practice of
front-running, which involves trading while in possession of material
non-public information concerning orders or transactions that affect or could
affect the market price of the instrument purchased or sold, after receiving
testimony from Robert G. Kirby, Capital Guardian Trust Company, Los Angeles,
California; Roland Machold, New Jersey Division of Investment, Trenton; and
Robert A. Kanter, ARBCO Limited Partnership, Victor Sperandeo, Hugo
Securities, and R. Steven Wunsch, Kidder Peabody and Company, all of New York,
New York.

[*D452]  AVIATION SAFETY 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
concluded hearings to review the findings and recommendations of the Aviation
Safety Commission and the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA)
on the current air safety programs administered by the Federal Aviation
Administration and in the airline industry, after receiving testimony from
John M. Albertine, Chairman, Aviation Safety Commission; Edith Page,
Transportation Project Director, Office of Technology Assessment; Najeeb
Halaby, Dulles Access Rapid Transit, Inc., Vienna, Virginia; Donald Engen,
Alexandria, Virginia; and J. Lynn Helms, Westport, Connecticut. 

MARINE ENVIRONMENT 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection held hearings to review environmental trends and conditions in
marine and coastal waters, receiving testimony from William Evans, Under
Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Department of Commerce; A. James Barnes, Deputy Administrator,
Environmental Protection Agency; Robert Niblock, Director, Oceans and
Environment Program, Office of Technology Assessment; Cliff Curtis, Oceanic
Society, Washington, DC; Sarah J. Taylor, Maryland State Department of Natural
Resources, Annapolis, representing the Coastal States Organization; Trudy
Coxe, Save the Bay, Providence, Rhode Island; Donald Boesch, Louisiana
University Marine Consortium, Shauvin; Kenelm Coons, New England Fisheries
Development Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts; and William Gordon, New Jersey
Marine Sciences Consortium, Fort Hancock. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

FAMILY SECURITY ACT 

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

S. 1511, to amend title IV of the Social Security Act to replace the Aid to
Families with Dependent Children Program with a comprehensive program of
mandatory child support and work training which provides for transitional
child care and medical assistance, benefits improvement, and mandatory
extension of coverage to two-parent families, and which reflects a general
emphasis on shared and reciprocal obligation, program innovation, and
organizational renewal, with amendments. 

TREATIES 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on treaties
relating to mutual legal assistance in criminal matters, including the Treaty
with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning the
Cayman Islands relating to Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (Treaty
Doc. No. 100-8), the Mutual Legal Assistance Cooperation Treaty with Mexico
(Treaty Doc. 100-13), the Treaty with Canada on Mutual Legal Assistance in
Criminal Matters (Treaty Doc. No. 100-14), the Treaty with Belgium on Mutual
Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (Treaty Doc. No. 100-16), the Treaty with
the Commonwealth of the Bahamas on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters
(Treaty Doc. No. 100-17), and a proposed Treaty with Thailand, after receiving
testimony from Mary Mochary, Principal Deputy Legal Adviser, Department of
State; and Mark M. Richard, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal
Division, Department of Justice. 

OSHA SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARDS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee continued oversight hearings
on the development and promulgation of safety and health standards and the
enforcement of those standards by the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), receiving testimony from John A. Pendergrass, Assistant
Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health; Frank A. White, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Labor; and Michael E. Baroody, Assistant Secretary of
Labor for Policy. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, April 26. 

INDIAN HOUSING 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1987,
to establish a separate program to provide housing assistance for Indians and
Alaska Natives, after receiving testimony from Kenneth J. Beirne, Assistant
Secretary for Public Development and Research, and Patricia Arnaudo, Deputy
Director, Office of Indian Housing, both of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development; Virginia Spencer, National American Indian Housing Council,
Harold O. Wilson, and Ed Fagan, both of the Housing Assistance Council, all of
Washington, DC; Charlotte Black Elk, Oglala Sioux Tribal Housing Authority,
Pine Ridge, South Dakota; Joseph Laban, Hopi Tribal Housing Authority, Second
Mesa, Arizona; Fred Thompson, Navajo Housing Authority, Window Rock, Arizona;
Roger Jourdain, Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, and George Gaaswig, Red
Lake Reservation Housing Authority, both of Red Lake, Minnesota; Michael
Allen, and Julie Valiere, both of Lac du Flambeau Band of Chippewas, Lac du
Flambeau, Wisconsin; Bill Anoatubby, Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, and Ted
Key, Chickasaw Housing Authority, both of Ada, Oklahoma; Raymond White Tail
Feather, Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the  [*D453]  Fort Peck Reservation,
Poplar, Montana; Hilda Garcia, United South and Eastern Tribes, Nashville,
Tennessee; and William Colgrove, Hoopa Tribe, Hoopa, California. 

Joint Meeting 

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H. Con. Res. 268, setting forth the congressional budget for the
United States Government for fiscal years 1989, 1990, and 1991, but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 



1988/04/21
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 21, 1988; pages D461 - D468  (Bound vol. D233-
D239)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Research and General Legislation held joint hearings with the
Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry on alternative agricultural systems
and related agronomic and economic research and extension efforts, receiving
testimony from Al Giese and John Ahlrichs, Cenex/Land O'Lakes Ag Service, St.
Paul, Minnesota; Jerry D. Caulder, Mycogen Corporation, San Diego, California;
Frederick L. Kirschenmann, Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society,
Windsor, North Dakota; Ed Sills, Pleasant Grove Farm, Pleasant Grove,
California; and Rhonda R. Janke, Rodale Research Center, Kutztown,
Pennsylvania. 

Subcommittees will meet again on Thursday, April 28. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- CFTC/FDA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1989, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Wendy L. Gramm, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading
Commission; and Frank E. Young, Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Department of
Health and Human Services. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, April 26. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 10. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Health and Human Services, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Robert E.
Windom, Assistant Secretary for Health, and James O. Mason, Director, Centers
for Disease Control, both of the Department of Health and Human Services. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- GAO/TRANSPORTATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Kenneth Mead, Associate Director, General Accounting Office; and Janet Hale,
Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs, and Matthew Scocozza, Assistant
Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, both of the Department of
Transportation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 27. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
completed its review of those programs which fall within the subcommittee's
jurisdiction of proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989
for the Department of Defense, and agreed on recommendations it will make to
the full committee thereon.    

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence completed its review of those programs which fall within the
subcommittee's jurisdiction of proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, and agreed on recommendations
it will make to the full committee thereon. 

TRUCK ACCESS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation concluded hearings on truck access from interstate highways on
to primary highways, and S. 1391, a related measure, after receiving testimony
from Senator Karnes; Richard Landis, Associate Administrator, Office of Motor
Carriers, and Kevin Heanue, Director, Office of Planning, both of the Federal
Highway Administration, Department of Transportation; Thomas Donohue, American
Trucking Associations, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia; Duane Acklie, Crete
Carrier, Lincoln, Nebraska, representing the Interstate Carriers Conference;
Donald Schneider, Schneider National, Green Bay, Wisconsin; Thomas Stedman,
Walgreen Company, Deerfield, Illinois, representing the National Private
Trucking Association; Hazel Frank Gluck, New Jersey Transportation
Commissioner, Trenton; Donald R. Lucas, Alabama Highway Department,
Montgomery; George Herndon, Florida Department of Transportation, Tallahassee;
Gail R. Dieleman, General Mills Incorporated, Minneapolis,  [*D463] 
Minnesota; and Gordon Kinch, James River Corporation, Richmond, Virginia. 

U.S.-CANADA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight
hearings on the implementation of the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement and the
potential impacts on energy and natural resources industries, after receiving
testimony from Robert C. Thomas, Tenneco Gas and Pipeline Group, Houston,
Texas, representing the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America; William
T. McCormick, Jr., CMS Energy Corporation, Jackson, Michigan, representing the
American Gas Association; Nicholas J. Bush, Natural Gas Supply Association,
and Thomas Altmeyer, National Coal Association, both of Washington, DC; Ken
Wonstolen and David Wilson, both of the Independent Petroleum Association of
Mountain States, Denver, Colorado; and Glenn R. Schleede, New England Electric
System, Westborough, Massachusetts. 

U.S.-CANADA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on U.S.-Canada Free Trade
Agreement signed on January 2, 1988, to provide increased economic activity,
higher trade levels, jobs, and enhanced competitiveness for the U.S. and
Canada, receiving testimony from Senator Cohen; Rudolph Oswald, American
Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO),
Alexander B. Trowbridge, National Association of Manufacturers, on behalf of
the American Coalition for Trade Expansion with Canada, and Robert L. McNeill,
Emergency Committee for American Trade, all of Washington, DC; and Harry L.
Freeman, American Express Company, and Richard W. Roberts, National Foreign
Trade Council, Incorporated, both of New York, New York. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of George A. Trail III, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Malawi, George E. Moose, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Senegal, and Rush W. Taylor, Jr., of Texas, to be Ambassador to
the Republic of Togo, after the nominees testified and answered questions in
their own behalf. Mr. Taylor was introduced by Senator Gramm. 

BRIEFING -- PERSIAN GULF REGION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on recent developments in the Iran-Iraq War and the Persian Gulf
Region from Edward P. Djerejian, Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs; and an official of the intelligence
community. 

FEDERAL EMPLOYEES -- EARLY RETIREMENT 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S.42, to
establish an optional early retirement program for Federal employees, after
receiving testimony from Curtis J. Smith, Associate Director for Career Entry,
Office of Personnel Management; Rosslyn S. Kleeman, Senior Associate Director,
General Government Division, General Accounting Office; Dale G. Hatch, Utah
Office of Planning and Budget, Salt Lake City; John F. Sullivan, Cheverly,
Maryland; and Kenneth T. Blaylock, American Federation of Government
Employees, G. Jerry Shaw, Senior Executives Association, David Gusky, National
Federation of Federal Employees, Bruce Moyer, Federal Managers Association,
and Robert M. Tobias, National Treasury Employees Union, all of Washington, DC 

STATUS OF ORGANIZED CRIME 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
resumed hearings on the status of organized crime and the effectiveness of law
enforcement, focusing on labor racketeering, narcotics, trafficking and other
organized crime groups, receiving testimony from James R. Zazzali, Justin
Dintino, both of the New Jersey Commission of Investigation, Trenton; Ronald
Goldstock, New York Organized Crime Task Force, Albany. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Stuart A. Summit, of New York, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
Second Circuit, Robert Roberto, Jr., and Howard E. Levitt, each to be a United
States Judge for the Eastern District of New York, after the nominees, who
were introduced by Senator D'Amato, testified and answered questions in their
own behalf. 

Joint Meeting 

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET 

Conferees continued to resolve the differences between the Senate- and
House-passed versions of H. Con. Res. 268, setting forth the congressional
budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1989, 1990, and 1991,
but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call. 



1988/04/22
Daily Digest - Friday, April 22, 1988; pages D469 - D477  (Bound vol. D239-
D242)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Health and Human
Services, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Robert L. Trachtenberg, Deputy Administrator, Alcohol, Drug
Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, Lewis L. Judd, Director, National
Institute of Mental Health, Charles R. Schuster, Director, National Institute
on Drug Abuse, Enoch Gordis, Director, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism, and David N. Sundwall, Administrator, Health Resources and
Services Administration, all of the Department of Health and Human Services. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 26. 

[*D471]  AMERICAN COIN REDESIGN 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on S. 1776, to require U.S. coins to be redesigned, to require that one coin
be redesigned to commemorate the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, and to
require profits from the sale of proof sets of U.S. coins to be used to reduce
the national debt, after receiving testimony from Representative James A.
Hayes; Donna Pope, Director, United States Mint; Elvira Clain-Stefanelli,
Executive Director, National Numismatic Collection, Smithsonian Institution;
Diane Wolf, Commissioner, The Commission of Fine Arts; Edward Rochette,
American Numismatic Association, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Beth Deisher,
Coin World, Sydney, Ohio; and David Harper, Numismatic News, Iola, Wisconsin. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Donna F. Tuttle, of California, to be Deputy
Secretary of Commerce, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator
Wilson, testified and answered questions in her own behalf. 

OIL SHALE CLAIMS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Mineral Resources
Development and Production concluded hearings on S. 2089, to provide for
certain requirements relating to the conversion of oil shale mining claims
located under the General Mining Law of 1872 to leases, and H.R. 1039, to
prohibit the issuance of patents for oil shale claims after a specified date,
after receiving testimony from James E. Cason, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
the Interior for Land and Minerals Management; Kathleen C. Zimmerman, National
Wildlife Federation, and John S. White, Patton, Boggs and Blow, both of
Washington, DC; Patrick McGinley, West Virginia University College of Law,
Morgantown; John D. Leshy, Arizona State University College of Law, Tempe;
James H. Brannigan, Marathon Oil Company, Houston, Texas; John Savage, Rifle,
Colorado; John Herr, Palo Alto, California; and Frederick H. Larson, Pacific
Palisades, California. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 1476, to designate the Federal Record Center in Overland, Missouri, as the
"SSG. Charles F. Prevedel Building"; 

S. 1736, to designate the Federal Building located in Gulf Breeze, Florida, as
the "Bob Sikes Visitor Center"; 

S. 1934, to authorize the Architect of the Capitol to enter into agreements
with private entities for the construction of a building for use by judicial
branch offices, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 1979, authorizing funds for the establishment of the Gray Harbor National
Wildlife Refuge, in the State of Washington, with amendments; and 

The nomination of Robert E. Farris, of Tennessee, to be Administrator of the
Federal Highway Administration. 

STATUS OF ORGANIZED CRIME 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
continued hearings on the status of organized crime and the effectiveness of
law enforcement, focusing on labor racketeering, narcotics, trafficking and
other organized crime groups, receiving testimony from Edward S.G. Dennis,
Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; James
Kossler, Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation (New York
Division), Department of Justice; Thomas S. Sheer, former Assistant Director
in Charge of the FBI (New York Division); and Joseph D. Pistone, former
Special Agent (New York Division), Federal Bureau of Investigation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, April 29. 

GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Government Efficiency,
Federalism, and the District of Columbia held hearings on S. 1992, to
establish an Interagency Committee on Groundwater Protection, to coordinate
research, development, demonstration, technology transfer, training, and
information dissemination activities related to groundwater activities
conducted by Federal agencies, receiving testimony from Terry Cothran,
Tennessee Department of Health and Environment, Nashville; Terry Fabian,
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, Harrisburg; Wayne Ashbee,
Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Dover;
Dayle Williamson, Nebraska Natural Resources Commission, Lincoln; and Norman
Johnson, Western States Water Council, Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, May 18. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/04/25
Daily Digest - Monday, April 25, 1988; pages D480 - D484  (Bound vol. D242-
D244)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from M. Danny
Wall, Chairman, Federal Home Loan Bank Board; William A. Whiteside, Executive
Director, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation; MacDonald Becket, Chairman of
the Board, National Institute of Building Sciences; and William R. Graham,
Science Advisor to the President, and Director, Office of Science and
Technology Policy. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee began consideration, in closed session,
of proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the
Department of Defense, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet
again tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional
Defense completed its review of those programs which fall within the
subcommittee's jurisdiction of proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, and agreed on recommendations
it will make to the full committee thereon. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Elaine L. Chao, of California, to be a Federal
Maritime Commissioner, after the nominee testified and answered questions in
her own behalf.  

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/04/26
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 26, 1988; pages D485 - D492  (Bound vol. D244-
D249

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 1989 for the programs of the Department of Agriculture, receiving
testimony from Senators Glenn and Conrad; and numerous public witnesses. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AID 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Agency for
International Development, receiving testimony from Alan Woods, Administrator,
AID. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, April 28. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FEMA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Federal
Emergency Management Agency, receiving testimony from Julius W. Becton, Jr.,
Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, May 9. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INTERIOR/RELATED AGENCIES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Rick
Ventura, Assistant Secretary, Policy, Budget and Administration, Ralph W.
Tarr, Solicitor, and James R. Richards, Inspector General, all of the
Department of the Interior; Hawley Atkinson, Chairman, Navajo-Hopi Relocation
Commission; and Carol Baker, President, Institute of American Indian and
Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 28. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Health and Human Services,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
James B. Wyngaarden, Director, Donald A.B. Lindberg, Director, National
Library of Medicine, Carl Kupfer, Acting Director, Fogarty International
Center, Betty H. Pickett, Director, Division of Research Resources, and Ada
Sue Hinshaw, Director, National Center for Nursing Research, all of the
National Institute of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued consideration, in closed
session, of proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for
the Department of Defense, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet
again tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 1632, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for certain programs of the
National Science Foundation, with amendments. (As approved by the committee,
the bill authorizes $2,500,000,000 for research and related programs and
Antarctic programs); 

S. 2320, authorizing funds for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation
(AMTRAK). (As approved by the committee, the bill authorizes $630 million for
fiscal year 1989, $656 million for fiscal year 1990, and $681 million for
fiscal year 1991); 

S. 473, to establish guidelines for Federal standards of liability for general
aviation accidents; and 

The nominations of Donna F. Tuttle, of California, to be Deputy Secretary of
Commerce, Elaine L. Chao, of California, to be a Member of the Federal
Maritime Commission, and Randolph J. Agley, of Michigan, to be a Member of the
Advisory Board of the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

George F. Murphy, Jr., of Maryland, to be Deputy Director of the U.S. Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency, Frederick M. Bernthal, of Tennessee, to be
Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and
Scientific Affairs, George A. Trail III, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to
the Republic of Malawi, George E. Moose, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Senegal, Rush W. Taylor, Jr., of Texas, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Togo, M. Alan Woods, of Washington, DC, to be a Member of the
Board of Directors of the Inter-American Foundation,  [*D487]  and a Foreign
Service officers' promotion list received by the Senate on April 12, 1988. 

Also, the committee began consideration of the following mutual legal
assistance in criminal matters treaties: 

The Treaty Between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning the Cayman Islands (Treaty Doc.
100-8), Treaty on Cooperation Between the United States of America and the
United Mexican States (Treaty Doc. 100-13), Treaty Between the Government of
the United States of America and the Government of Canada (Treaty Doc.
100-14), Treaty Between the United States of America and the Kingdom of
Belgium (Treaty Doc. 100-16), Treaty Between the United States of America and
the Commonwealth of The Bahamas (Treaty Doc. 100-17), and Treaty Between the
Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Kingdom
of Thailand (Treaty Doc. 100-18), but did not take final action thereon, and
recessed subject to call. 

OSHA SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARDS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded oversight hearings
on the development and promulgation of safety and health standards and the
enforcement of those standards by the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), focusing on the L'Ambiance Plaza building collapse in
Connecticut, after receiving testimony from Representative Shays; John W.
Lyons, Director, National Engineering Laboratory, Charles G. Culver, Chief,
Structures Division, and Richard N. Wright, Director, both of the Center for
Building Technology, all of the National Bureau of Standards, Department of
Commerce; John Pendergrass, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health Administration; Mayor Thomas W. Bucci, Bridgeport,
Connecticut; Robert A. Georgine, Building and Construction Trades Department,
AFL-CIO, Washington, DC; Joseph P. Egan, Jr., International Association of
Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers AFL-CIO, (Local Union 424), New
Haven, Connecticut; Nancy Daddona, Prospect, Connecticut; and Mary Beth
Addona, Oakville, Connecticut. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- INTELLIGENCE 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee began closed markup of proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the intelligence
community, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on
Thursday, April 28. 

Joint Meeting 

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H. Con. Res. 268, setting forth the congressional budget for the
United States Government for fiscal years 1989, 1990, and 1991, but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 



1988/04/27
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 27, 1988; pages D494 - D504  (Bound vol. D249-
D256)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

U.S. FINANCIAL MARKETS 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
to review the current state of U.S. financial markets, focusing on the
problems surrounding the October 1987 market break, receiving testimony from
Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States, Richard L.
Fogel, Assistant Comptroller General, Human Resources Division, Craig Simmons,
Senior Associate Director, General Government Division, and Howard G. Rhile
Jr., Associate Director, Information Management and Technology Division, all
of the General Accounting Office; Richard A. Grasso, New York Stock Exchange,
New York, New York; and Karsten Mahlmann, Chicago Board of Trade, and John F.
Sandner, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, both of Chicago, Illinois. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1989 for the programs of the Department of Agriculture, receiving
testimony from Senators Bond, Thurmond, Karnes, and Exon; and numerous public
witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Health and Human Services,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., Director, National Cancer Institute, Anthony S. Fauci,
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Harald Loe,
Director, National Institute of Dental Research, Claude Lenfant, Director,
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, T. Franklin Williams, Director,
National Institutes on Aging, and Carl Kupfer, Director, National Eye
Institute, all of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and
Human Services. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget  [*D496]  estimates for fiscal year 1989 for Navy
and Defense agencies' military construction and family housing programs,
receiving testimony in open session from Keith Eastin, Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Shipbuilding and Logistics; Rear Adm.
Benjamin F. Montoya, Civil Engineer Corps, USN, Commander, Naval Facilities
Engineering Command; Brig. Gen. Michael P. Downs, USMC, Director, Facilities
and Services Division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Installations
and Logistics; and in closed session from Robert C. Arndt, Assistant Director
for Installations and Logistics, National Security Agency; and Maj. Gen.
Eugene Fox, Deputy Director for Programs and Systems, Strategic Defense
Initiative Organization. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 11. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- UMTA/WMATA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Alfred DelliBovi, Administrator, Urban Mass Transportation Administration; and
Carmen Turner, General Manager, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Authority. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued, in evening session,
consideration of proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989
for the Department of Defense. 

THRIFT CHARTER ENHANCEMENT ACT 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on S. 2073, to provide for the enhancement of the value of thrift institution
charters by creating incentives to investors to place additional private
capital in the Nation's thrift industry, after receiving testimony from M.
Danny Wall, Chairman, Federal Home Loan Bank Board; Charles O. Sethness,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance; and Theo H. Pitt,
Jr., U.S. League of Savings Institutions, Charles John Koch, National Council
of Savings Institutions, William A. Cooper, Association of Thrift Holding
Companies, and J.R. Nunn, Independent Bankers Association of America, all of
Washington, DC. 

COMMUNICATIONS TRANSFER FEE ACT 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings on S. 1935, to provide for the assessment
and collection of fees for transfers of broadcast station licenses and the
establishment of a trust fund for public broadcasting, after receiving
testimony from Alfred C. Sikes, Assistant Secretary for Communications and
Information, Department of Commerce; Fred Friendly, Edward R. Murrow,
Professor Emeritus, and Red Burns, Tisch School of the Arts, both of New York,
New York; Henry Geller, Washington Center for Public Policy, Charles H.
Kadlec, Frazier, Gross and Kadlec, Edward O. Fritts, National Association of
Broadcasters, and E. William Henry, Ginsburg, Feldman and Bress, all of
Washington, DC; Richard Sherwin, Graphic Scanning Corporation, Teaneck, New
Jersey; and Curley Huggins, Horry Telephone Cooperative, Inc., Nichols, South
Carolina. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ACT 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection held hearings on S. 2272, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1989
and 1990 to provide financial and technical assistance to State "nongame" fish
and wildlife programs, receiving testimony from Ronald E. Lambertson,
Assistant Director for Fish and Wildlife Enhancement, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, Department of the Interior; Stanley E. Senner, Hawk Mountain
Sanctuary Association, Kempton, Pennsylvania; Albert M. Manville, Defenders of
Wildlife, and Douglas B. Inkley, National Wildlife Federation, both of
Washington, DC; Allan L. Egbert, Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission,
Tallahassee; Bob Oakleaf, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Cheyenne; and
Herbert E. Doig, New York Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany, on
behalf of the International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

CENTRAL AMERICA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy,
Trade, Oceans and Environment concluded hearings to review United States
foreign assistance efforts to promote environmentally sustainable development
in Central America, after receiving testimony from Malcolm Butler, Deputy
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, Agency
for International Development; Jeff Leonard, Conservation Foundation, David
Wirth, Natural Resource Defense Council, Sheldon Annis, Overseas Development
Council, and Walter Arensberg, International Institute for Environment and
Development, all of Washington, DC; and James Barborak, United Nations
University for Peace in Costa Rica, San Jose. 

NRC RESTRUCTURING 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on the
restructuring of the Nuclear Regulatory  [*D497]  Commission, receiving
testimony from Senators Simpson and Breaux; J. Dexter Peach, Assistant
Comptroller General, and Keith Fultz, Associate Director, both of the General
Accounting Office; and Lando W. Zech, Chairman, and Thomas M. Roberts,
Frederick M. Bernthal, and Kenneth C. Rogers, all Commissioners, all of the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, May 12. 

YOUTH EMPLOYMENT 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity resumed hearings on S. 1731, to establish a demonstration program
to provide educational and job-training services for severely disadvantaged
youths, receiving testimony from Harold Howe II, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts; Margaret M. Dwyer, Indiana Partners in Education,
Indianapolis; William Spring, Boston Compact Board of Directors, Boston,
Massachusetts; Cynthia Shelton, Private Initiatives in Public Education
(PIPE), Seattle, Washington; Erik Payne Butler, Brandeis University, Waltham,
Massachusetts; William H. Kolberg, National Alliance of Business, Washington,
DC; and David Ziska, IBM Corporation, Miami, Florida. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, May 18. 

Joint Meeting 

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET 

Conferees continued to meet to resolve the differences between the Senate- and
House-passed versions of H. Con. Res. 268, setting forth the congressional
budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1989, 1990, and 1991,
but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 



1988/04/28
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 28, 1988; pages D505 - D516  (Bound vol. D256-
D266)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

DAIRY POLICY COMMISSION REPORT 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings to
review a recent report of the National Commission on Dairy Policy, focusing on
general agriculture policy, family dairy farms, milk price support policy,
Federal milk marketing orders, regional issues, advertising and promotion,
technology, food safety and product identity standards, and trade and aid
programs, receiving testimony from Clyde Rutherford, Chairman, and Fred Douma,
Vice Chairman, both of the National Commission on Dairy Policy; Vermont State
Representative Robert Starr, and Jean Ann Duffy, Vermont State House
Agriculture Committee, both of Montpelier; Andrew Novakovic, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York; Ed Jesse, University of Wisconsin, Madison; L.
J. Butler, University of California, Davis; James P. Camerlo, and James C.
Barr, both of the National Milk Producers Federation, Arlington, Virginia;
Irvin Elkin, Associated Milk Producers, Inc., San Antonio, Texas; and Linwood
Tipton, Milk Industry Foundation, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Research and General Legislation resumed joint hearings with the
Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry on alternative agricultural systems
and related agronomic and economic research and extension efforts, receiving
testimony from Peter Myers, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, Robert W. Long,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Science and Education, Paul
O'Connell, Deputy Administrator, Special Programs, Cooperative State Research
Service, and Vivan Jennings, Department Administrator, Cooperative Extension
Service, all of the Department of Agriculture; Roald Lund, North Dakota State
University, Fargo; and Charles Benbrook, National Research Council,
Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1989 for programs of the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony
from Senators Hatch and Bentsen; and numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1989 for the Department of State, receiving testimony from George
P. Shultz, Secretary of State. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 12. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AID 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations resumed
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for bilateral
economic assistance programs of the Agency for International Development,
receiving testimony from Alan Woods, Administrator, AID. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, May 12. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommitte on Interior and Related Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Bureau of
Land Management, receiving testimony from  [*D509]  Robert F. Burford, Bureau
of Land Management, Department of the Interior. 

Subcommitte will meet again on Monday, May 23. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Health and Human
Services, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Phillip Gorden, Director, National Institute of Diabetes and
Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Murray Goldstein, Director, National Institute
of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, Duane F. Alexander,
Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Lawrence
E. Shulman, Director, National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and
Skin Diseases, Ruth L. Kirschstein, Director, National Institute of General
Medical Sciences, and David P. Rall, Director, National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences, all of the National Institutes of Health,
Department of Health and Human Services. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- U.S. COAST GUARD 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for
the U.S. Coast Guard, receiving testimony from Adm. Paul A. Yost, Commandant,
U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Armed Services: On Wednesday, April 27, the committee ordered the
following measures favorably reported: 

An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of
Defense, authorizing supplemental funds for fiscal year ending September 30,
1988 for the Department of Defense, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for
civil defense programs, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for defense
activities of the Department of Energy, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989
for military construction programs of the Department of Defense, to increase
the authority to transfer unobligated balances between certain accounts of the
Department of Defense in order to meet increased military personnel costs
resulting from fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, and to amend
title 10, U.S. Code, and other provisions of law to maintain and improve the
defense industries base of the United States by specifying the management
responsibilities of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition,
encouraging investment in emerging technologies and modernized production
facilities, fostering the dedicated participation of private domestic sources,
and discouraging unfair practices by foreign sources; 

An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of
Defense; 

An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for defense activities
of the Department of Energy; 

An original bill authorizing supplemental funds for fiscal year ending
September 30, 1988 for the Department of Defense; 

An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for military
construction programs of the Department of Defense; 

An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for civil defense
programs; 

An original bill to amend title 10, U.S. Code, and other provisions of law to
maintain and improve the defense industries base of the United States by
specifying the management responsibilities of the Under Secretary of Defense
for Acquisition, encouraging investment in emerging technologies and
modernized production facilities, fostering the dedicated participation of
private domestic sources, and discouraging unfair practices by foreign
sources, in lieu of S. 1892; 

An original bill to increase the authority to transfer unobligated balances
between certain accounts of the Department of Defense in order to meet
increased military personnel costs resulting from fluctuations in foreign
currency exchange rates; in lieu of S. 2152; and 

12,633 military nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. 

DOE BUDGET 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Developoment concluded hearings on the proposed budget request for fossil
energy programs of the Department of Energy, after receiving testimony from J.
Allen Wampler, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy. 

NATIONAL MONUMENTS AND HISTORIC SITES 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills: 

H.R. 1100, to provide assistance to Wildlife Prairie Park, in the State of
Illinois, after receiving testimony from Senator Dixon; 

S. 1927, to provide for the approval of a desert land entry in the vicinity of
Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, after receiving testimony from  [*D510] 
Roland Robison, Deputy Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the
Interior; 

S. 2057, to provide for the establishment of the Coastal Heritage Trail in the
State of New Jersey, after receiving testimony from Howard L. Green, New
Jersey Historical Commission, and Paul J. Taylor, New Jersey Department of
Environmental Protection, both of Trenton; Terrence D. Moore, The Pinelands
Commission, New Lisbon, New Jersey; and Robert M. LaTorre, Borough of Seaside
Heights, Toms River, New Jersey; and 

H.R. 3869, to amend the Act providing for the establishment of the Tuskegee
University National Historic Site, Alabama, to authorize an exchange of
properties between the United States and Tuskegee University, after receiving
testimony from Senator Heflin. 

Testimony was also received on all the aforementioned bills from Denis P.
Galvin, Deputy Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior. 

MARINE RESEARCH 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection concluded hearings on S. 2068, to protect marine and near
shore-coastal waters through establishment of regional marine research
centers, after receiving testimony from Tudor Davies, Director, Office of
Marine and Estuarine Protection, Environmental Protection Agency; John Carey,
Deputy Administrator, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Department of Commerce; Kenneth Curtis, Maine Maritime
Academy, Castine, representing the Association for Research on the Gulf of
Maine; Ronald K. Dearborn, Alaska Sea Grant Program, Fairbanks, representing
the National Sea Grant Association; Robin Alden, Commercial Fisheries News,
Stonington, Maine; Charles Fox, Environmental Policy Institute, Washington,
D.C.; James P. Kennett, University of California, Santa Barbara; John
Farrington, University of Massachusetts, Boston; and Robert Duce, University
of Rhode Island, Kingston. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee began hearings on the nomination of
Robert S. Gelbard, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Bolivia,
where the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
David A. Ezra, to be United States District Court Judge for the District of
Hawaii, Shannon T. Mason, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the
Eastern District of Virginia; John C. Lifland, to be United States District
Judge for the District of New Jersey, and Grace Flores-Hughes, of Washington,
D.C., to be Director of the Community Relations Service, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Ezra was introduced
by Senators Inouye and Matsunaga, Mr. Mason was introduced by Senators Warner
and Trible, Mr. Lifland was introduced by Senators Bradley and Lautenberg, and
Ms. Flores-Hughes was introduced by Senators Simpson, Warner, and Trible.
Testimony was also received on the nomination of Mr. Mason from Oscar Blayton,
Newport News Virginia Branch of the NAACP, Newport News, Virginia. 

HEALTH PROFESSIONS REAUTHORIZATION ACT 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
2229, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1989, 1990, and 1991 for health
research and related teaching facilities, and training of professional health
personnel as contained in title VII of the Public Health Service Act, after
receiving testimony from David N. Sundwall, Administrator, Health Resources
and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Neal
Vanselow, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Patrick Duarte, Rehabilitation
Hospital of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii; Polly Fitz, University of
Connecticut, Storrs; Cecil Samuelson, University of Utah, Salt Lake City;
Stephen Wotman, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; Marcellus
Grace, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans; and Andrew P. Morley, Jr.,
American Academy of Family Physicians, Kansas City, Missouri. 

VETERANS' JUDICIAL REVIEW 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 11, to
establish procedures for the adjudication of claims for benefits under laws
administered by the Veterans' Administration, to provide for judicial review
of certain financial decisions of the Administrator of Veterans Affairs, and
to provide for the payment of reasonable fees to attorneys for rendering legal
representation to individuals claiming benefits under laws administered by the
VA, and S. 2292, to provide for judicial review of rulemaking by the Veterans'
Administration, to allow attorneys' fees in cases involving veterans' claims
for benefits, and to make other improvements in the provision of veterans'
benefits, after receiving testimony from Senators Kerry and Daschle; Donald L.
Ivers, General Counsel, Veterans' Administration; Morris S. Arnold, Judge,
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, and Stephen S.
Breyer, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, both representing
the Judicial Conference  [*D511]  of the United States; Susan Bennett, Eugene
R. Fidell, Keith A. Rosenberg, E. Phillip Riggin, American Legion, James N.
Magill, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, John F. Heilman, and
Joseph Zengerle, both of the Disabled American Veterans, R. Jack Powell,
Paralyzed Veterans of America, Richard E. O'Dell, and Paul S. Egan, both of
the Vietnam Veterans of America, Frank E.G. Weil, American Veterans Committee,
and J. Thomas Burch, Jr., and William Bennett, both of the National Vietnam
Veterans Coalition, all of Washington, DC; Dorothy Legarreta, Berkeley,
California, representing the National Association of Radiation Survivors; and
Philip Cushman, Portland, Oregon, and Sidney Cooper, New York, New York, both
representing the Veterans for Due Process. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered the following measures
favorably reported: 

S. 1735, to clarify the Federal relationship to the Lac Vieux Desert Band of
Lake Superior Chippewa Indians as a distinct Indian tribe, to clarify the
status of members of the band, and to transfer title to trust lands, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 1945, to require that annual rent at fair market value be paid for leasing
certain Isleta Pueblo Indian tribal lands for a seismological laboratory, with
an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 2162, to provide for the establishment of the Zuni-Cibola National
Historical Park in New Mexico, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute; 

S. 1987, to establish a separate program to provide housing assistance for
Indians and Alaska Natives, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 1415, to facilitate and implement the settlement of Colorado Ute Indian
reserved water rights claims in southwest Colorado, with amendments; and 

S. 1236, to authorize funds for housing relocation under the Navajo-Hopi
Relocation, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- INTELLIGENCE 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered the following measure
favorably reported: 

An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the intelligence
community. 

INF TREATY 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on matters
relating to the Treaty between the United States and the USSR on the
Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc.
100-11), pending on Senate Executive Calendar, receiving testimony from
officials of the intelligence community. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meeting 

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET 

Conferees continued to resolve the differences between the Senate- and
House-passed versions of H. Con. Res. 268, setting forth the congressional
budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1989, 1990, and 1991,
but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call. 



1988/04/29
Daily Digest - Friday, April 29, 1988; pages D517 - D522  (Bound vol. D266-
D268)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- FEDERAL GRAIN INSPECTION SERVICE 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Research and General Legislation concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for the Federal Grain Inspection Service,
Department of Agriculture, and to review technology and public policy to
enhance grain quality in international trade, after receiving testimony from
W. Kirk Miller, Administrator, Federal Grain Inspection Service, Department of
Agriculture; Michael J. Phillips, Senior Associate, Food and Renewable
Resources, Office of Technology Assessment; Cooper Evans, Cooper Evans and
Associates, Cedar Falls, Indiana; Ervain J. Friehe, Nebraska Wheat Board,
Lincoln; Cecil Watson, North Dakota Wheat Commission, Bismarck; Chris Teigum,
Madelia, Minnesota, representing the American Soybean Association; Arvid Hawk,
Cargill, Inc., on behalf of the National Grain and Feed Association, and
Lawrence N. Neumann, Bentsen-Quinn Company, representing the National Grain
Trade Council, both of Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Steve McCoy, North American
Export Grain Assocation, Washington, DC. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Health and Human
Services, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for departmental management,
Office for Civil Rights, policy research, Office of the Inspector General,
Family Support Administration, and Human Development Services, from Otis R.
Bowen, Secretary, and Richard P. Kusserow, Inspector  [*D518]  General, both
of the Department of Health and Human Services. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 10. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- OPM 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1989 for the Office of Personnel Management, receiving testimony from
Constance Horner, Director, OPM; and numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

STATUS OF ORGANIZED CRIME 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
concluded hearings on the status of organized crime and the effectiveness of
law enforcement, focusing on labor racketeering, narcotics trafficking and
other organized crime groups, after receiving testimony from Vincent Cafaro,
New York, New York. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/05/02
Daily Digest - Monday, May 2, 1988; pages D524 - D528  (Bound vol. D269-D271)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/05/03
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 3, 1988; pages D529 - D534  (Bound vol. D272-D275)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

No committee meetings were held. 

Joint Meeting 

HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Education and Health held hearings
to review the future of health care in America, receiving testimony from
George Schieber, Director, Office of Research, Mark Freeland, Chief Economist,
Office of the Actuary, and Daniel Waldo, Special Assistant to the Director,
Office of National Cost Estimates, all of the Health Care Financing
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Joseph A. Califano,
Jr., Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer and Wood, Washington, DC, and former
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; Daren Davis, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland; Dorothy P. Rice, University of California,
San Francisco, Uwe E. Reinhardt, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey;
George A. Silver, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut;
and Robert Evans, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 10. 



1988/05/04
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 4, 1988; pages D535 - D540  (Bound vol. D275-
D278)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/05/05
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 5, 1988; pages D541 - D550

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/05/09
Daily Digest - Monday, May 9, 1988; pages D551 - D556  (Bound vol. D281-D284)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for programs of the
Department of Housing and Urban Development and certain independent agencies,
receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INTERIOR 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the
Department of the Interior and certain related agencies, receiving testimony
from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, May 23. 

U.S.-CANADA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on the U.S.-Canada
Free Trade Agreement, signed on January 2, 1988, to provide increased economic
activity, higher trade levels, jobs, and enhanced competitiveness for the U.S.
and Canada, receiving testimony from Alan F. Holmer, Deputy United States
Trade Representative; William T. Archey, United States Chamber of Commerce,
William Cunningham, AFL-CIO, and Jim Collins, National Steel Producers
Association, all of Washington, DC; Paul Wonnacott, University of Maryland,
College Park; Ashley Brown, Ohio Public Utilities Commission, Columbus; Marc
Santucci, Advisor to the Governor of Michigan, Lansing; and Dexter Baker, Air
Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, Pennsylvania. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INTELLIGENCE -- INF TREATY 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on matters
relating to the Treaty Between the United States and the U.S.S.R. on the
Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc.
100-11), pending on Senate Executive Calendar, receiving testimony from
Maynard Glitman, INF Negotiator, Office of the Secretary of State.  

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/05/10
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 10, 1988; pages D557 - D566  (Bound vol. D284-
D290)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

COMMODITY FOOD DISTRIBUTION 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Production and Stabilization of Prices and the Subcommittee on
Nutrition and Investigations held joint hearings on commodity availability for
food distribution programs, receiving testimony from John Bode, Assistant
Secretary for Food and Consumer Services, Mary Chambliss, Director of Program
Analysis for Exporting, Foreign Agricultural Service, and Bob Sindt, Deputy
Administrator for Commodity Operations, Agricultural, Stabilization and
Conservation Service, all of the Department of Agriculture; James Nolan,
Montana State Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, Helena; and
William A. Armstrong, Iowa State Department of Human Services, Des Moines. 

Subcommittees recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony from Frank C. Carlucci, Secretary of Defense; and Gen. Robert T.
Herres, USAF, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 26. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for
programs of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and certain
independent agencies, after receiving testimony from Senators Alan Cranston,
Wilson, Gramm, Mitchell, and Inouye; and numerous public witnesses. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Education, receiving testimony from
William J. Bennett, Secretary of Education, and James Thomas, Inspector
General, Department of Education. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Lemoine V. Dickinson, Jr., of Virginia, to be a
Member of the National Transportation Safety Board, after the nominee who was
introduced by Senator Warner, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf. 

U.S.-CANADA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT 

Committee on Finance: Committee began consideration of the U.S.-Canada Free
Trade Agreement, signed on January 2, 1988, to provide increased economic
activity, higher trade levels, jobs, and enhanced competitiveness for the U.S.
and Canada, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on
Thursday, May 12. 

[*D559]  IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in open and closed session for
the purpose of receiving material under subpoena approved by the committee on
April 26, 1988, in connection with diaries and related papers of Lt. Col.
Oliver North. 

MENTALLY ILL 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on the Handicapped
concluded oversight hearings on the implementation of the Protection and
Advocacy for Mentally Ill Individuals Act (P.L. 99-319), after receiving
testimony from William W. Snavely, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill,
Arlington, Virginia; Joseph Rogers, National Mental Health Consumers'
Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Dayna H. Caron, National Alliance of
Mental Patients, Johnson, Vermont; Eleanor S. Kohn, National Mental Health
Association, Alexandria, Virginia; Steve Schwartz, Northhampton,
Massachusetts, and Lori Incropera, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, both on behalf
of the Mental Health Protection and Advocacy Project; and Renee Bostick,
National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy, Lansing, Michigan. 

INF TREATY 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to further
consider matters relating to the Treaty Between the United States and the
U.S.S.R. on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles
(Treaty Doc. 100-11), pending on Senate Executive calendar. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meeting 

HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Education and Health resumed
hearings to review the future of health care in America, receiving testimony
from Michael C. Carozza, Deputy Commissioner for Policy and External Affairs,
Social Security Administration; John G. Keane, Director, Bureau of the Census,
Department of Commerce; Jacob Feldman, Associate Director, Office of Analysis
and Epidemiology, National Center for Health Statistics, and James A. Harrell,
Deputy Director, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, both of
the Department of Health and Human Services; James Vaupel, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis; Robert A. Binstock, Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, Ohio; Margaret H. Heagarty, Harlem Hospital Center, New York, New
York; and Lois M. Verbrugge, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 17. 



1988/05/11
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 11, 1988; pages D568 - D576?  (Bound vol. D290-
D296)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

DAIRY FARM PROTECTION ACT MILK MARKETING ORDERS 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings on
S. 1869, to establish a regional dairy production stabilization program during
specified years, and to review a recent report entitled Milk Marketing Orders:
Options For Change, receiving testimony from Senator Kasten; Brian P. Crowley,
Senior Associate Director, Resources, Community and Economic Development
Division, General Accounting Office; New York Commissioner of Agriculture
Donald G. Butcher, Albany; Jerome Hammond, University of Minnesota, St. Paul;
Richard Stammer, Agri-Mark, Inc., Lawrence, Massachusetts; Tom Trantham,
Pelzer, South Carolina, Representing the National Save the Family Farm
Coalition and the National Dairy Campaign; Harry G. Shupe, National
Independent Dairy-Foods Association, and Cheryl Cook, National Farmers Union,
both of Washington, DC; Albert J. Ortego, Jr., Dairymen, Inc., Arden Hills,
Minnesota; and Robert Rumler, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

SUBCOMMITTEE ALLOCATIONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee began consideration of subcommittee
allocations of budget outlays and new budget authority allocated to the
committee in H. Con. Res. 268, setting forth the congressional budget for the
United States Government for fiscal years 1989, 1990, and 1991, but did not
complete thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.    

APPROPRIATIONS -- EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Education, receiving testimony on
behalf of funds for compensatory education for the disadvantaged, school
improvement programs, impact aid, bilingual, immigrant and refugee education,
and vocational and adult education, receiving testimony from numerous public
witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for Air Force and
medical facilities military construction programs, after receiving testimony
from Edward C. Aldridge, Secretary of the Air Force; James F. Boatright,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations; Maj. Gen.
George E. Ellis, Director, Air Force Engineering Services; and Gordon Dowery,
Director, Defense Medical Facilities Office, Office of the Assistant Secretary
of Defense. 

INTERMARKET COORDINATION ACT 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed hearings
on S. 2256, to provide a structure of coordination between the markets for
stock, stock index futures and stock options, and to provide for an improved
response to the international regulatory issues arising from the increasing
worldwide linkage between markets, receiving testimony from Donald T. Regan,
Regdon Associates, Alexandria, Virginia; George L. Ball, Prudential-Bache
Securities, Inc.; A. Brean Murray, Brean Murray, Foster Securities, Inc.; and
Michael J. Reilly, Reuters, all of New York, New York; Charles Schwab, Charles
Schwab and Company, San Francisco, California; and James J. Needham,
Bridgehampton, New York. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

H.R. 1860, to require the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture to
promulgate regulations relating  [*D570]  to the exchange of land or land
interests, with amendments; 

S. 2042, to authorize the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project, Inc., to construct
a statue at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in honor and recognition of the
women of the United States who served in the Vietnam conflict, with
amendments; 

H.R. 2652, to revise boundaries of Salem Maritime National Historic Site in
Massachusetts; and 

S. 2167, to provide for Federal energy conservation standards for fluorescent
lamp ballasts, with amendments. 

DOE LABORATORY COOPERATIVE RESEARCH INITIATIVES ACT 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development concluded hearings on S. 1480, to promote the integration of
universities and private industry in the National Laboratory system of the
Department of Energy in order to improve the development of technology in
areas of economic potential, and to discuss the technology transfer efforts of
the Department of Energy, after receiving testimony from Donna R. Fitzpatrick,
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Conservation and Renewable Energy Program;
John A. Alic, Project Director, Industry, Technology and Employment Program,
Office of Technology Assessment; and Ora E. Smith, Rockwell International
Corporation, Thousand Oaks, California. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection approved for full committee consideration the following measures: 

S. 1751, to require vessels carrying municipal or commercial waste to comply
with certain permit and manifest requirements, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute; 

S. 1629, to reduce the threat to human health posed by contaminants in the air
indoors, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and 

S. Res. 389, to express the sense of the Senate that the Construction Grants
Program under the Clean Water Act should be fully funded and implemented as
authorized and intended by the Water Quality Act of 1987, with an amendment. 

UNITED STATES -- CANADA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies, and
Business Rights concluded hearings in conjunction with the Senate Steel Caucus
on the United States-Canada Free Trade Agreement, signed on January 2, 1988,
to provide increased economic activity, higher trade levels, jobs, and enhance
competitiveness for the United States and Canada, after receiving testimony
from Ambassador Clayton Yeutter, United States Trade Representative;
Ambassador Peter O. Murphy, Special Negotiator for U.S./Canada and Coordinator
for North American Affairs, and Robert Cassidy, Director, Steel Trade Policy,
both of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; Milton Deaner, American
Iron and Steel Institute, Washington, DC; C. Philip Weigel, Latrobe,
Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Specialty Steel Industry of the United States;
R. Wayne Atwell, Goldman, Sachs and Company, New York, New York; and Robert
Garvey, North Star Steel, Minneapolis, Minnesota, on behalf of the National
Steel Producers Association. 

SMART START 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 2270, to
provide financial assistance to State and local governments for high-quality
early childhood development programs for pre-kindergarten children, receiving
testimony from Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Evelyn Murphy, Boston; Mary Hatwood
Futrell, National Education Association, Albert Shanker, American Federation
of Teachers, Althea Simmons, NAACP, and Owen B. Butler, Committee for Economic
Development, all of Washington, DC; Constance Clayton, Philadelphia School
District, Philadelphia; Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Council of Great City
Schools; and Herrick S. Roth, Colorado Forum, Denver. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1976,
to establish standards and procedures regarding the custody of Indian
children, after receiving testimony from Ross O. Swimmer, Assistant Secretary
of the Interior for Indian Affairs; Eddie F. Brown, Arizona Department of
Economic Security, Phoenix; Eugene Ligtenberg, The Casey Family Program, Rapid
City, South Dakota; Robert B. Flint, Catholic Social Services, Anchorage,
Alaska; Marc Gradstein, San Francisco, California; David Keene Leavitt,
Academy of California Adoption Lawyers, Beverly Hills, California; Violet A.
P. Lui, The Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Arizona; Evelyn Blanchard, National
Indian Social Workers Association, Portland, Oregon; and Margaret Rose
Orrantia, Indian Child and Family Services Consortium, Escondido, California. 

ADVANCES IN AGING RESEARCH 

Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to review advances in
aging research, focusing on the progress made in research to improve the
quality of life of the elderly, after receiving testimony from Dan Perry,
Alliance for Aging Research, and Allan L. Goldstein, George Washington
University School of Medicine, both of Washington, DC; Trudy L. Bush, Johns
Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland;
Carl W. Cotman, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine,
California; David Kritchevsky, The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; George G. Glenner, University of California, San
Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California; Takashi Makinodan, VA
Wadsworth Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; Gino Doria, Laboratory
Radiobiology  [*D571]  Animal CSN, Casaccia, Rome, Italy; and William B.
Ershler, University of Wisconsin Medical Sciences Center, Madison. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/05/12
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 12, 1988; pages D577 - D586  (Bound vol. D296-
D303)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

MARIJUANA PRODUCTION IN NATIONAL FORESTS 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Nutrition
and Investigations and the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry held
joint hearings on public safety issues surrounding marijuana production in
national forests, receiving testimony from Representative Wyden; William Rice,
Deputy Chief, Cecil Wilson, Chief Law Enforcement Officer, Frank Packwood,
Special Agent, Trinity-Shasta National Forest, and Les Burril, Special Agent,
Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest, all of the U.S. Forest Service,
Department of Agriculture; Sheriff James Carmack, Montgomery County, Arkansas;
and Sheriff Nick Pepmiller, Ripley County, Missouri. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

SUBCOMMITTEE ALLOCATIONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee continued consideration of subcommittee
allocations of budget outlays and new budget authority allocated to the
committee in H. Con. Res. 268, setting forth the congressional budget for the
United States Government for fiscal years 1989, 1990, and 1991, but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1989 for trade activities of the Department of
Commerce, after receiving testimony from William Verity, Secretary of
Commerce; and Clayton Yeutter, U.S. Trade Representative. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AID 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for programs of the Agency
for International Development, receiving testimony from David A. Santos,
Director, American Schools and Hospitals Abroad, Julia V. Taft, Director,
Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, Herbert L. Beckington, Inspector
General, Neal Peden, Assistant to the Administrator for Private Enterprise,
and Peter Kimm, Director, Office of Housing and Urban Programs, all of the
Agency for International Development. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May  [*D580]  17. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Education, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for student financial assistance, guaranteed student loans,
higher education, higher education facilities loans and insurance, college
housing loans, eduation for the handicapped, rehabilitation services and
handicapped research, education research and statistics, libraries, Howard
University, special instructions (includes American Printing House for the
Blind, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and Galaudet University),
receiving testimony from Bruce M. Carnes, Deputy Under Secretary for Planning,
Budget and Evaluation, Madeleine C. Will, Assistant Secretary for Special
Education and Rehabilitative Services, Kenneth D. Whitehead, Acting Assistant
Secretary for Postsecondary Education, and Chester E. Finn, Jr., Assistant
Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement, all of the Department of
Education; James E. Cheek, President, Howard University; Carson Y. Nolan,
President, American Printing House for the Blind; William E. Castle, Director,
National Technical Institute for the Deaf; and I. King Jordan, President,
Gallaudet University. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 17. 

ENERGY POLICY AND CONSERVATION ACT 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
2203, to extend the expiration date of title II of the Energy Policy and
Conservation Act, to continue the authorities for the U.S. Government and U.S.
oil companies to participate in and to meet the U.S. obligations under the
Agreement on an International Energy Program after receiving testimony from
William F. Martin, Deputy Secretary of Energy; and John P. Ferriter, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for International Energy and Resources Policy, Bureau of
Economic and Business Affairs, Department of State. 

U.S.-CANADA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT 

Committee on Finance: Committee continued consideration of the U.S.-Canada
Free Trade Agreement, signed on January 2, 1988, to provide increased economic
activity, higher trade levels, jobs, and enhanced competitiveness for the U.S.
and Canada, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on
Monday, May 16. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee began hearings on the nomination of
Walter L. Cutler, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia, where the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NRC RESTRUCTURING 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed hearings on restructuring
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, receiving testimony from Joseph R. Wright,
Jr., Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget; Ben B. Hayes, Director,
Office of Investigations, Nuclear Regulatory Commission; James K. Asselstine,
Peter A. Bradford, Victor Gilinsky, and Marcus A. Rowden, all former
commissioners, Nuclear Regulatory Commission; and Ellyn R. Weiss, and Robert
D. Pollard, both of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Edward M. Davis,
American Nuclear Energy Council, all of Washington, DC. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered the following measures favorably
reported: 

The nominations of David A. Ezra, to be U.S. District Judge for the District
of Hawaii, John C. Lifland, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of New
Jersey, and Grace Flores-Hughes, of Texas, to be Director, Community Relations
Service, Department of Justice; 

S. 1883, to improve the U.S. trademark registration system and the ability of
the trademark law to protect the interest of public and trademark owners, with
an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 2180, to prohibit the manufacture, importation, sale or possession of
firearms, not detectable by metal detection and x-ray systems; 

S. 2200, to designate a specified period of each year as National Hispanic
Heritage Month; 

S. 881, for the relief of Marsha D. Christopher; 

S. 425, for the relief of Sukhjit Kuldip Singh Sound; 

S. 1583, for the relief of Maria Antonieta Heird; 

S. 1842, for the relief of Wilhelm Jahn Schlecter, Monica Pino Schlechter,
Ingrid Daniela Schlecter, and Arturo David Schlechter; and 

S. 1972, for the relief of Irma Purisch and Daniel Purisch. 

Also, the committee began consideration of S. 1523, to revise the civil
provisions of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO),
but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal  [*D581]  year 1989 for the Department of
Justice, focusing on activities of the Drug Enforcement Administration,
receiving testimony from John C. Lawn, Administrator, Drug Enforcement
Administration, Department of Justice.  

Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 17. 

VOTER REGISTRATION STANDARDS 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on S.
2061, to establish national standards for voter registration for elections for
Federal office, after receiving testimony from Arthur Flemming, Citizens
Commission on Civil Rights, and Philip B. Calkins, Disabled But Able To Vote,
both of Washington, DC; Lani Guinier, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational
Fund, New York, New York; and Laughlin McDonald, American Civil Liberties
Union Foundation, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia. 

UNIFORM POLL CLOSING TIME 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on S. 182
and H.R. 435, to establish a single poll closing time in the continental
United States for Presidential general elections, after receiving testimony
from Senator Riegle; Representatives Swift and William M. Thomas; Thomas Ross,
NBC Inc., and Warren Mitossky, CBS News, both of New York, New York; George
Watson, Capital City, ABC News, James E. Landry, Air Transport Association of
America, and James C. Benfield, Daylight Saving Time Coalition, all of
Washington, DC; and Donald F. Whiting, Washington State Director of Elections,
Olympia. 

AGENT ORANGE ISSUES 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1692, to
provide for the payment of a veteran's disability benefit in the case of
certain veterans who have non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, S. 1787, to prescribe
certain presumptions in the case of veterans who performed active service
during the Vietnam era, and to review other related agent orange issues, after
receiving testimony from Senators Daschle and Kerry; Thomas E. Harvey, Deputy
Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, Veterans' Administration; Don M. Newman,
Chair, Agent Orange Working Group, Domestic Policy Council; James O. Mason,
Director, Vernon N. Houk, Director, Center for Environmental Health and Injury
Control, both of the Centers for Disease Control, and Sheila Zahm,
Epidemiologist, National Cancer Institute, all of the Department of Health and
Human Services; Donald Barnes, Director, Science Advisory Board, Environmental
Protection Agency; Maj. Gen. Alexander M. Sloan, Deputy Surgeon General, U.S.
Air Force; Robert W. Long, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for
Science and Education; Hellen Gelband, Senior Analyst, Office of Technology
Assessment; Oliver Meadows, Chairman, Armon F. Yanders, Member, Scientific
Council, and Frederic L. Conway III, Executive Secretary, all of the Veterans'
Advisory Committee on Environmental Hazards; John Sommer, The American Legion,
David W. Gorman, Disabled American Veterans, John C. Bollinger, Paralyzed
Veterans of America, Gordon R. Thorson, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Mary R.
Stout, Vietnam Veterans of America, all of Washington, DC; Thomas A.
Gasiewicz, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York; Judy C. Lewis, Oaks
Pennsylvania, on behalf of the National Association of Agent Orange Survivors;
J. Thomas Burch, Jr., Oklahoma Agent Orange Foundation and National Coalition
of Vietnam Veterans, Washington, DC; Jack Spey, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, on
behalf of the Ranch Hand Vietnam Association; Wayne P. Wilson, National
Association of State Agent Orange Programs, Washington, DC; Frank McCarthy,
Stamford, Connecticut, on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans Agent Orange Victims;
and Admiral E.M. Zumwalt, Jr., Arlington, Virginia, former Chief of Naval
Operations. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/05/13
Daily Digest - Friday, May 13, 1988; pages D588 - D596  (Bound vol. D303-D307)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

SUBCOMMITTEE ALLOCATIONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee completed its review of subcommittee
allocations of budget outlays and new budget authority allocated to the
committee in H. Con. Res. 268, setting forth the congressional budget for the
United States Government for fiscal years 1989, 1990, and 1991, and agreed to
report to the Senate under the provisions of 302(b)(1), as amended, of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations
of Gordon A. Smith, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Command, Control Communications, and Intelligence, and Michael P.W. Stone, of
California, to be Under Secretary of the Army, after the nominees testified
and answered questions in their own behalf. 

SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUNDS 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy held
hearings on the long-term financial status of Social Security trust funds,
receiving testimony from Dorcas R. Hardy, Commissioner, and Harry Ballantyne,
Chief Actuary, both of the Social Security Administration; William L. Roper,
Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration, and Guy King, Chief
Actuary, both of the Department of Health and Human Services; Janet L.
Noorwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor; David
M. Walker, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Pension and Welfare Benefits
Administration; William P. Butz, Associate Director for Demographic Programs,
Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce; Paul N. Van de Water, Chief,
Projections Unit, Budget Analysis Division, Congressional Budget Office; and
Ben J. Wattenberg, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. 

Hearings continue on Friday, May 20. 

U.S. FORCES IN THE PERSIAN GULF 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met to discuss S.J. Res. 305, to
provide specific authorization under the War Powers Resolution for the
continued use of U.S. Armed Forces in the Persian Gulf, consistent with the
foreign policy objectives and national security interests of the United
States. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

REGULATORY REFORM 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 1504, to
facilitate regulatory negotiation and other procedures to enhance the quality
of regulations and foster communication between agencies and those affected by
regulations, receiving testimony from Marshall J. Breger, Administrator, and
David Pritzker, Attorney At Law, both of the Administrative Conference of the
United States; Thomas E. Kelley, Director, Office of Standards and
Regulations, Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, and Chris Kirtz,
Director, Regulatory Negotiation Project, both of the Environmental Protection
Agency; David D. Doniger, Natural Resources Defense Council, David F. Zoll,
Chemical Manufacturers Association, and Philip J. Harter, all of Washington,
D.C.; and Kelley Brown, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- CRIMINAL AND JUVENILE JUSTICE AGENCIES 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1250,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 through 1992 to provide assistance to
State and local criminal and juvenile justice agencies, after receiving
testimony from Alabama Chief Justice, C.C. Torbert, Jr., Chairman, Board of
Directors, and Dave Tevelin, Executive Director, both of the State Justice
Institute; Virginia Chief Justice Harry L. Carrico, First Vice President,
Conference of Chief Justices; Alabama Assistant Attorney General Tom Sorrells,
Montgomery; Chief Kater W. Williams, Dothan Police Department, Dothan,
Alabama; Sheriff Tom Purvis, Mobile County Sheriff Department, Mobile,
Alabama; Chief Tim Byrd, Enterprise Police Department, Enterprise, Alabama;
and Monica J. Benton, National District Attorneys Association, Alexandria,
Virginia. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered the following business
items favorably reported: 

S. 555, to provide for Federal regulations of gaming activities on Indian
lands, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and 

The following named persons to be Members of the Board of Trustees of the
Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development:
Ted Risingsun, of Montana, Gail Bird, of New Mexico, Edith C. Crutcher, of
Kansas, Roy M. Huhndorf, of Alaska, James C. Jennings, of Virginia, William S.
Johnson, of the District of Columbia, Duane H. King, of Oklahoma, Alfred H. 
[*D592]  Qoyawayma, of Arizona, Beatrice R. Sanchez, of Michigan, James D.
Santini, of Nevada, and Irving J. Toody, of Arizona. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/05/16
Daily Digest - Monday, May 16, 1988; pages D597 - D602  (Bound vol. D307-D310)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TVA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Tennessee
Valley Authority, receiving testimony from Marvin Runyon, Chairman, Tennessee
Valley Authority. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

U.S.-CANADA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed consideration of the U.S.-Canada Free
Trade Agreement, signed on January 2, 1988, to provide increased economic
activity, higher trade levels, jobs, and enhanced competitiveness for the U.S.
and Canada, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on
Wednesday, May 18. 

INF TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held open and closed hearings on the
current status of U.S.-Soviet discussions on the Treaty Between the United
States and the U.S.S.R. on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and
Shorter-Range Missiles (Treaty Doc. 100-11), pending on Senate Executive
Calendar, receiving testimony from George P. Shultz, Secretary of State; and
Maynard Glitman, INF Negotiator, Department of State.  

Committee recessed subject to call. 

U.S. POSTAL SERVICE 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post
Office, and Civil Service concluded oversight hearings on activities of the
U.S. Postal Service, after receiving testimony from Janet D. Steiger,
Chairman, Postal Rate Commission; and L. Nye Stevens, Senior Associate
Director, General Government Division, Willis L. Elmore, Group Director, and
Leonard Hogland, Evaluator, all of the General Accounting Office. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
William H. Erickson, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Colorado,
Simeon T. Lake III, to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of
Texas, Richard A. Schell, to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District
of Texas, and William G. Cambridge, to be U.S. District Judge for the District
of Nebraska, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Erickson was introduced by Senators Armstrong and Wirth, Mr. Lake
and Mr. Schell were introduced by Senators Bentsen and Gramm, and Mr.
Cambridge was introduced by Senators Exon and Karnes, and Representative
Virginia Smith. 

INF TREATY 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings in
conjunction with the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign
Relations on matters relating to the Treaty Between the United States and the
U.S.S.R. on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles
(Treaty Doc. 100-11), pending on Senate Executive Calendar, receiving
testimony from Maynard Glitman, INF Negotiator, Department of State; and Max
M. Kampelman, Head of Delegation and Defense and Space Negotiator, Office of
Negotiations on Nuclear and Space Arms with the Soviet Union, Department of
State. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/05/17
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 17, 1988; pages D604 - D612  (Bound vol. D310-
D316)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

WHEAT SUPPLY 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Production and Stabilization of Prices held hearings on the wheat
supply situation, focusing on current stocks and production estimates for the
upcoming harvest season and to discuss the wheat export situation and programs
to expand wheat sales overseas, receiving testimony from Thomas O. Kay,
Administrator, Forest Agriculture Service, and Milton Hertz, Administrator,
and Bruce R. Weber, Group Leader for Food Grains, both of the Agriculture
Stabilization and Conservation Service, all of the Department of Agriculture:
and Duane Acker, Assistant to the Administrator for Food and Agriculture, and
Jeanne Markunas, Chief of Program Operations Division, Office of Food for
Peace FVA, both of the Agency for International Development, Department of
State. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, May 25. 

U.S. GRAIN STANDARDS ACT AMENDMENTS 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Agriculture
Research and General Legislation approved for full committee consideration,
with amendments, S. 2337, to extend through September 30, 1993, the authority
contained in section 155 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 and
P.L. 98-469, to charge and collect inspection and weight fees. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on the Strategic Defense Initiative program, receiving testimony from Harold
Brown, Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute, School of Advanced
International Studies, and former Secretary of Defense.  

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 26. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for bilateral economic
assistance programs, receiving testimony from Loret Miller Ruppe, Director,
Peace Corps; Leonard H. Robinson, Jr., President, African Development
Foundation; and Deborah Szekely, President, Inter-American Foundation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 26. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1989 for those programs which fall within the subcommittee's
jurisdiction, receiving testimony from Senators Durenberger and Heinz. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE LIABILITY 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine liability issues in the
commercial expendable launch industry, after receiving testimony from Maj.
Gen. Thomas S. Moorman, Jr., Director, Space Division, U.S. Air Force;
Courtney A. Stadd, Director, Office of Commercial Space Transportation,
Department of Transportation; Edward A Frankel, Deputy General Counsel,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Roger Chamberlain, Martin
Marietta Commercial Titans, Inc., Englewood, California; John F. Yardley,
McDonnell Douglas Astronautics, St. Louis, Missouri; Eugene Kadar, Conatec,
Inc., Glendale, Maryland; Robert E. Berry, Ford Aerospace Corporation, 
[*D606]  Palo Alto, California; and Donald G. Kenny, Alexander and Alexander,
Inc., New York, New York. 

GROUNDWATER RESEARCH 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure and Subcommittee on Hazardous Wastes and
Toxic Substances resumed joint hearings to review State programs for
groundwater protection, receiving testimony from Senator Bradley;
Representative Gejdenson; Eleanor Chemlimsky, Director, Program Evaluation and
Methodology, General Accounting Office; Thomas Jorling, New York State
Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany; Raymond Avendt, on behalf of
the Water Pollution Control Federation, Alexandria, Virginia; Patrick
Brezonik, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Gerald Groenewold, University
of North Dakota, Grand Forks; and Roy Rauschkolb, University of Arizona,
Tucson. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Robert S. Gelbard, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Bolivia, after the nominee testified and answered further questions in his own
behalf. 

Also, the committee began hearings on the nomination of William G. Walker, of
California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of El Salvador, where the nominee
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for the Department of Justice, receiving testimony in behalf
of funds for the Federal Bureau of Investigation from William S. Sessions,
Director, and John D. Glover, Executive Assistant Director of Administration,
both of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, Department of Justice. 

Hearings continue on Friday, May 20. 

SENATE RULES/CONFERENCE REPORTS 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on S. Res.
260, to amend the Rules of the Senate to revise current committee structure
and designations, and S. 1835, to establish a procedure for consideration of
conference reports on a bill or joint resolution making continuing
appropriations for a period of 30 days or more, after receiving testimony from
Senators Kassebaum, Evans, Bentsen, Chiles, and Domenici. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Small Business: Committee ordered the following measures
favorably reported: 

S. 1993, to improve the growth and development of small business concerns
owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals,
with amendments; 

An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the Small Business
Administration; and 

H.R. 1807, to set forth specified small business eligibility requirements with
respect to the Small Business Administration's small business and capital
ownership development program and the award of Government procurement
contracts under the Small Business set-aside program. 

Joint Meetings 

HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Education and Health resumed
hearings to review the future of health care in America, focusing on
alternative payment methods for medical care, receiving testimony from Paul B.
Ginsburg, Executive Director, Physician Payment Review Commission; John T.
Painter, American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois; Dan Dragalin, The
Prudential Company, Roseland, New Jersey; Andrew H. Webber, American Medical
Peer Review Association, and Lynn Etheredge, Consolidated Consulting Group,
both of Washington, DC. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, May 19. 

POLYGRAPH PROTECTION ACT 

Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 1212, to prevent the denial of
employment opportunities by prohibiting the use of lie detectors by employers
involved in or affecting interstate commerce. 



1988/05/18
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 18, 1988; pages D613 - D620  (Bound vol. D316-
D321)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1989 for those programs which fall within the
subcommittee's jurisdiction, receiving testimony from numerous public
witnesses. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

CHECK CASHING SERVICES 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Consumer
Affairs held hearings to review the issue of cashing government checks by
banks for non-customers, and S. 2110, to provide access to check cashing
services, receiving testimony from Senator Metzenbaum; Representatives St
Germain and Schumer; Richard L. Fogel, Assistant Comptroller General, U.S.
General Accounting Office; Connecticut State Representative Tom Ritter,
Hartford; John W. Gleeson, New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate,
Trenton; Margaret Willis, Ohio State Consumer Education Association, and
Edward B. Brandon, National City Corporation, both of Cleveland, Ohio; Alan
Heuer, Marine Midland Bank, N.A., New York, New York, representing the
Consumer Bankers Association; August Zinsser III, First American Bank,
representing the American Bankers Association, and Peggy Miller, representing
the Consumer Federation of America and the American Association of Retired
Persons, both of Washington, DC; and Woodrow McWhorter, Buckhead Group,
Roswell, Georgia. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

H.R. 1044, to establish the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park in
the State of California, with amendments; 

S. 1682, to increase the amount authorized to be appropriated with respect to
the Sewall-Belmont House National Historic Site in the District of Columbia,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 1690, to provide financial assistance for the restoration and
reconstruction of Fort Abraham Lincoln and related structures in Fort Lincoln
State Park, Mandan, North Dakota, with an amendment; 

S. 1693, to provide for a study of the Coronado Trail, with amendments; 

S. 1914, to designate the Wildcat River in the State of New Hampshire as a
unit of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute; 

S. 1927, to provide for the approval of a desert land entry in the vicinity of
the Dinosaur National Monument, with an amendment; 

S. 2057, to provide for the establishment of the Coastal Heritage Trail in the
State of New Jersey; 

H.R. 1100, to provide assistance to Wildlife Prairie Park in the State of
Illinois; 

S. 1544, to provide for cooperation with State and local governments for the
improved management of certain Federal lands, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute, and in lieu of H.R. 2641; 

H.R. 3869, to provide for the establishment of the Tuskegee University
National Historic Site, Alabama, and to authorize an exchange of properties
between the United States and Tuskegee University, with an amendment; 

S. 2203, to extend the expiration date of title II of the Energy Policy and
Conservation Act, with an amendment; and 

S. 1850, to designate a section of the Columbia River in the State of
Washington, as a study area for inclusion in the National Wild and Scenic
Rivers System, with amendments. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOE 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development concluded hearings on the President's proposed budget request for
fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Energy, after receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for renewable energy and energy conservation programs from
Donna Fitzpatrick, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Conservation and
Renewable Energy Programs; Peter Blair, Manager, Energy and Materials Program,
Office of Technology Assessment; Scott Sklar, U.S. Export Council for
Renewable Energy, Arlington, Virginia; and Nicholas A. Fedoruk, Energy
Conservation Coalition, and Mark Ledbetter, American Council for an Energy
Efficient Economy, both of Washington, DC. 

INDOOR RADON 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund and
Environmental Oversight held hearings to review the General Accounting 
[*D615]  Office report on indoor radon and the Federal Government response to
reduce contamination in housing, receiving testimony from John Luke, Associate
Director, Resources, Community and Economic Development Division, General
Accounting Office; A. James Barnes, Deputy Administrator, Environmental
Protection Agency; Jack R. Stokvis, Assistant Secretary for Community Planning
and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development; Robert G.
Stanton, Associate Director for Operations, National Park Service, Department
of the Interior; Robert F. Ferguson, Jr., New Jersey Association of Realtors,
Long Branch, representing the National Association of Realtors; Susan A.
Weiss, Consumer Federation of America, Washington, DC; and Barry Rosengarten,
Perth Amboy, New Jersey, on behalf of the National Association of Home
Builders. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

U.S.-CANADA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT 

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

An original bill to provide for the implementation of the U.S.-Canada Free
Trade Agreement, signed on January 2, 1988, to provide increased economic
activity, higher trade levels, jobs, and enhanced competitiveness for the U.S.
and Canada. 

GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Government Efficiency,
Federalism, and the District of Columbia concluded hearings on S. 1992, to
establish an Interagency Committee on Ground-Water Protection to coordinate
research, development, demonstration, technology transfer, training, and
information dissemination activities related to groundwater activities
conducted by Federal agencies, after receiving testimony from Marian Mlay,
Director, Office of Groundwater Protection, Environmental Protection Agency;
Philip Cohen, Chief Hydrologist, Geological Survey, Department of the
Interior; Donald V. Feliciano, Booz-Allen and Hamilton, Inc., Bethesda,
Maryland; Alan P. Egler, Chemical Manufacturers Association, Mark A. Maslyn,
American Farmers Bureau Federation, Velma M. Smith, Environmental Policy
Institute, and Eric Draper, Clean Water Action, all of Washington, DC; and
Bruce R. Leavitt, Consolidation Coal Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on
behalf of the American Mining Congress. 

JUDICIAL IMMUNITY FROM ATTORNEYS' FEES 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
approved for full committee consideration with an amendment S. 1515, to
prohibit injunctive relief, or an award of damages, against a judicial officer
for action taken in an official capacity. 

AMERICAN INDIAN RELIGION 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 2250, to
ensure that Federal lands are managed in a manner that does not impair the
exercise of traditional American Indian religion, receiving testimony from
Senator Cranston; Roland Robison, Deputy Director, Bureau of Land Management,
Department of the Interior; Suzan Harjo, National Congress of American
Indians, and Monsignor Paul E. Lenz, Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, both
of Washington, DC; Steve Moore, Native American Rights Fund, and Deward E.
Walker, Jr., University of Colorado, both of Boulder, Colorado; Pat Lefthand,
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Pablo,
Montana; Marilyn B. Miles, California Indian Legal Services, Eureka,
California; Mahealani Ing, Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, Honolulu,
Hawaii; and Scott M. Matheson, Parsons, Behle and Latimer, Salt Lake City,
Utah, representing the National Forest Products Association, American Mining
Congress and Timber Associations of California. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/05/19
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 19, 1988; pages D622 - D630  (Bound vol. D321-
D327)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1989 for those programs which fall within the
subcommittee's jurisdiction, receiving testimony from numerous public
witnesses. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 24. 

FSLIC AND THE THRIFT INDUSTRY 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held oversight
hearings on the condition of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance
Corporation and the thrift industry, receiving testimony from Frederick D.
Wolf, Director, Accounting and Financial Management Division, U.S. General
Accounting Office; William C. Ferguson, Ferguson and Company, Irving, Texas;
Burt Ely, Ely and Company, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia; Stanley C. Silverberg,
Golembe Associates, Washington, DC; and Stuart I. Greenbaum, Banking Research
Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.  

Hearings continue on Thursday, May 26. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Rear Admiral Clyde T. Lusk, Jr., to be Vice
Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, after the nominee testified and answered
questions in his own behalf. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- MARINE MAMMAL PROTECTION ACT 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings in conjunction with the National Ocean Policy Study on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for the Marine Mammal Protection Act after
receiving testimony from William E. Evans, Under Secretary for Oceans and
Atmosphere, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of
Commerce; William W. Fox, Jr., Commissioner, Marine Mammal Commission; Dayton
Lee Alverson, Natural Resources Consultants, Seattle, Washington; Michael
Bean, Environmental Defense Fund, Bo Bricklemyer, Greenpeace USA, both of
Washington, DC; and Deming Cowles, United Fisherman of Alaska and Bering Sea
Fishermen's Association, Anchorage, Alaska. 

ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS AGAINST OIL PRICE OVERCHARGE CASES 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
review recent developments in the Department of Energy's enforcement efforts
against individuals in oil price overcharge cases, focusing on the central
figure doctrine of liability in restitution cases, after receiving testimony
from Joseph F. Salgado, Under Secretary of Energy, and Eric Fygi, Acting
General Counsel, Department of Energy; Chandler van Orman, Acting
Administrator, Economic Regulatory Administration; Peter D. Junger, Case
Western Reserve Law School, Cleveland, Ohio; Donald Guillory, Lake Charles,
Louisiana; and Malcolm Turner, Dallas, Texas. 

APARTHEID 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs concluded
hearings to review the roles of U.S. and South African churches in ending
apartheid, after receiving testimony from Right Reverend Walter D. Dennis,
Bishop Suffragan the Diocese of New York, Reverend Dr. Avery D. Post, United
Church of Christ, and Reverend Dr. Edwin G. Mulder, Reformed Church in
America, all of New York, New York; Reverend Dr. James E. Andrews, General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA), Atlanta, Georgia; Bishop Herbert W.
Chilstrom, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Chicago, Illinois; Reverend
Willis H. Logan, National Council of Churches of Christ,  [*D624]  USA,
Plainfield, New Jersey; Bishop Emerson Moore, U.S. Catholic Conference, and
Rabbi David Saperstein, Religious Action Center of Reformed Judaism, both of
Washington, DC; and Reverend Charles Walker, National Baptist Convention, USA,
Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered the following business
items favorably reported: 

The nominations of William H. LeBlanc, III, of Louisiana, and Henry R. Folsom,
of Virginia, each to be a Commissioner of the United States Postal Rate
Commission; 

S. 2344, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1989 through 1994 for programs of
the Office of Government Ethics, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute; 

An original bill to provide for the implementation of Chapter 13, Article
1301-1309 and Chapter 10, Article 1004 of the U.S.-Canada Free Trade
Agreement, signed on January 2, 1988, to provide increased economic
productivity, higher trade levels, jobs, and enhanced competitiveness for the
U.S. and Canada; 

H.R. 3400, to provide for participation of Federal employees in political
activities, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 508, to strengthen the protections available to Federal employees who
report on fraud, waste and abuse, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute; 

S. 2140, to provide for a Federal employee leave sharing program, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute (as approved by the committee, the
bill incorporates certain provisions of S. 1595); 

S. 2188, to include the cost of the thrift savings plan and the cost of social
security in comparisons between the costs of performing commercial activities
with contract personnel and with Federal personnel; and 

H.R. 2985, to designate a U.S. Postal Service facility on the Newark Turnpike
in Kearny, New Jersey, as the Dominick V. Daniels Postal Facility. 

RICO REFORM 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1523, to revise
the civil provisions of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
(RICO), focusing on the firearms provisions, after receiving testimony from
John C. Keeney, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division,
Department of Justice; Lawrence V. Pratt, Gun Owners of America, Springfield,
Virginia; James Baker, National Rifle Association, Washington, DC; Neal Knox,
Firearms Coalition, Siver Spring, Maryland; and Jerald R. Vaughn,
International Association of Chiefs of Police, Gaithersburg, Maryland. 

HIGH-TECH TERRORISM 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology and the Law concluded
hearings to discuss the assessment of the threat presented by high technology
terrorism and the Government's response to that threat, focusing on the use of
sophisticated technologies to conduct terrorist attacks, the use of weapons of
mass destruction, including nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, and the
vulnerability of the United States' infrastructure networks to terrorist
attack, after receiving testimony from Oliver B. Revell, Executive Assistant
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; L. Paul
Bremer, Ambassador-at-Large for Counter-Terrorism, Department of State; and
Robert Kupperman, The Center for Strategic and International Studies,
Georgetown University, and R. James Woolsey, Shea and Gardner, both of
Washington, DC. 

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE HANDICAPPED 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on the Handicapped held
hearings to review the role that assistive technology devices and services can
play in enhancing opportunities for people with disabilities, and on S. 1586,
to provide financial assistance under the Education of the Handicapped Act to
assist severely handicapped infants, children, and youth to improve their
educational opportunities through the use of assistive device resource
centers, receiving testimony from Senator John Kerry; Teddy Pendergrass,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Leo Lucas, United Cerebral Palsy Association,
Boston, Massachusetts; Al Cavalier, Association for Retarded Citizens of the
United States, Arlington, Texas; Carolyn Rossick, Self Help for the Hard of
Hearing, Bethesda, Maryland; John C. De Witt, American Foundation for the
Blind, New York, New York; Marvin G. Fifield, Utah State University, Logan;
Rachel Wobschall, Governnor's Initiative on Technology for People with
Disabilities, St. Paul, Minnesota; Brian McNulty, Colorado Department of
Education, Denver; and Peter Howell, South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation
Department, West Columbia. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

Joint Meeting 

HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Education and Health resumed
hearings to review the future of health care in America, focusing on
alternative payment methods for medical care, receiving testimony from Donald
Young, Executive Director, Prospective Payment Assessment Commission; Gerard
F. Anderson, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Susan Gleeson,
Blue Cross-Blue Shield Association, Chicago, Illinois; Jack W. Owen, American
Hospital Association, and Carl Schramm, Health Insurance Association of
America, both of Washington, DC; and Annette Choolfaian, St. Luke's Roosevelt
Hospital Center, New York, New York. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 24. 



1988/05/20
Daily Digest - Friday, May 20, 1988; pges D632 - D640  (Bound vol. D327-D330)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Gordon A. Smith, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of
Defense, Michael P.W. Stone, of California, to be Under Secretary of the Army,
Alan M. Elkins, of Maine, to be a Member of the Board of Regents of the
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; and 1,605 military
nominations in the Army and Air Force. 

UNITED STATES-CANADA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the banking provisions of the United States-Canada Free Trade Agreement,
signed on January 2, 1988, to provide increased economic activity, higher
trade levels, jobs, and enhanced competitiveness for the U.S. and Canada after
receiving testimony from William Merkin, Deputy Assistant United States Trade
Representative; James Ammerman, Director, Office of International Banking and
Portfolio Investment, and Stephen Canner, Director, Office of International
Investment, both of the Department of the Treasury; Edward L. Yingling,
American Bankers Association, and Peter Lefkin, American Insurance
Association, both of Washington, DC; and Robert D. Hormats, Goldman Sachs
International Corp., and David Ruth, American Express Company, both of New
York, New York. 

COMMERCE DEPARTMENT TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1989 for technology programs of the Department of
Commerce, including the National Bureau of Standards, the Office of
Productivity, Technology, and Innovation, the National Technical Information
Service, and the Japanese Technical Literature Program, after receiving
testimony from Donna F. Tuttle, Deputy Secretary, Barry C. Beringer, Associate
Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, and Ernest Ambler, Director, and Leslie
Smith, Chief, Program Office, both of the National Bureau of Standards, all of
the Department of Commerce; Gregory Eyring, Project Director, Office of
Technology Assessment; William G. Howard, Jr., National Academy of
Engineering, Washington, DC; and Harold B. Shill, West Virginia University,
Morgantown. 

PUBLIC LANDS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills: 

S. 1461, to convey certain lands to the YMCA of Las Vegas, Nevada, and S.
2264, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to exchange certain Federal
mining rights for certain lands in New Mexico, after receiving testimony from
James M. Parker, Assistant Director for Support Services, Bureau of Land
Management, Department of the Interior; 

S. 1687, to correct historical and geographical oversights in the
establishment and development of the Utah component of the Confederated Tribes
of the Goshute Reservation, to unify the land base of the Goshute Reservation,
and to simplify the boundaries of the Goshute Reservation, after receiving
testimony from Joe C. Christie, Acting Deputy to Assistant Secretary for
Indian Affairs, Trust and Economic Development, Department of the Interior;
and 

S. 1849, for the relief of Mr. Conwell F. Robinson and Mr. Gerald R. Robinson,
after receiving testimony from Denis P. Galvin, Deputy Director, National Park
Service, Department of the Interior; and R. Stephen Browning, Browning,
Kaleczyc, Berry and Hoven, Helena, Montana; and Conwell Robinson, Great Falls,
Montana. 

SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUNDS 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy
resumed hearings on the long-term financial status of Social Security trust
funds, receiving testimony from Robert J. Myers, Silver Spring, Maryland,
former Chief Actuary, Social Security Administration; Alicia H. Munnell,
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts; and Barry P. Bosworth,
The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

[*D634]  CENTRAL AMERICA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace
Corps Affairs concluded oversight hearings on the implementation of P.L.
100-276, to provide assistance to the Nicaraguan resistance in support of the
Central American peace process, after receiving testimony from M. Alan Woods,
Administrator, and Ted Morse, Director, Task Force on Humanitarian Assistance
to Central America, both of the Agency for International Development. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Justice,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the Civil Division from John R.
Bolton, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Department of Justice. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 24. 

U.S.-CANADA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the U.S.-Canada
Free Trade Agreement, signed on January 2, 1988, to provide increased economic
activity, higher trade levels, jobs, and enhanced competitiveness for U.S. and
Canada, after receiving testimony from Ambassador Alan Holmer, Deputy U.S.
Trade Representative; M. Jean Anderson, Chief Counsel for International Trade,
Department of Commerce; Andreas Lowenfeld, New York University, New York, New
York; Harold Bruff, American University, and Stewart Baker and Jeffrey Bialos,
both of the American Bar Association, all of Washington, DC; and Andrew Vance
of Customs and International Trade Bar Association, New York, New York. 

VOLUNTEER PROTECTIONS ACT 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
concluded hearings on S. 929, to prescribe circumstances under which
volunteers working for nonprofit organizations or government entities shall be
immune from personal civil liability, after receiving testimony from Senator
John Melcher; Representative Porter; Gordon P. MacDougall, National Coalition
for Volunteer Protection, and Edward H. Able, Jr., The American Association of
Museums/American Society of Association Executives, both of Washington, DC;
Creighton J. Hale, Little League Baseball, Inc., Williamsport, Pennsylvania;
and Kevin Walker, Riverside Mountain Rescue Unit, Riverside, California. 

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE HANDICAPPED 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on the Handicapped
concluded hearings to review the role that assistive technology devices and
services can plan in enhancing opportunities for people with disabilities, and
on S. 1586, to provide financial assistance under the Education of the
Handicapped Act to assist severely handicapped infants, children, and youth to
improve their educational opportunities through the use of assistive device
resource centers, after receiving testimony from Barbara Boardman, Senior
Analyst, Office of Technology Assessment; Sally DeVincentis, National Lekotek
Center, Evanston, Illinois; Herb Rieth, Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
Tennessee; Denny Theesfield, Easter Seals Society of Iowa, Armstrong; Tom
O'Bryant, Champion International Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut; Steve
White, American Speech Language Hearing Association, Rockville, Maryland; Mary
Pat Radabaugh, IBM National Support Center for Persons with Disabilities,
Atlanta, Georgia; and Larry Scadden, Electronic Industries Foundation,
Washington, DC. 

Joint Meeting 

RAILROAD SAFETY ACT 

Conferees on Thursday, May 19, agreed to file a conference report on S. 1539,
to authorize funds for fiscal years 1988, 1989, and 1990, for programs of the
Federal Railroad Safety Act. 



1988/05/23
Daily Digest - Monday, May 23, 1988; pages D641 - D646  (Bound vol. D330-D332)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM CREDIT SYSTEM 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Credit held oversight hearings on the implementation of certain
provisions of the Agricultural Credit Act (P.L. 100-233), focusing on the
Federal Land Bank of Jackson, receiving testimony from Senator Exon; and Frank
W. Naylor, Jr., Chairman, Jim R. Billington and Marvin R. Duncan, both
Members, Eric P. Thor, President and Chief Executive Officer, Farm Credit
System Assistance Board, and Robert A. Carson and David Waide, both Members,
Board of Directors, First South Production Credit Association (Mississippi),
all of the Farm Credit Administration Board. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, June 16. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INTERIOR 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for certain
programs which fall within the subcommittee's jurisdiction, receiving
testimony from Senators Bond and Cranston; Representative Beilenson; and
Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of the Interior. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

ROYALTY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Mineral Resources
Development and Production concluded oversight hearings on the Department of
the Interior's royalty management program, focusing on audits concerning oil
and gas leases on Federal and Indian lands, after receiving testimony from
James R. Richards, Inspector General, William D. Bettenberg, Director,
Minerals Management Service, and Roland G. Robison, Deputy Director, Bureau of
Land Management, all of the Department of the Interior. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/05/24
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 24, 1988; pages D647 - D656  (Bound vol. D332-
D339)

[Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet)]

U.S.- CANADA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings on
the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement, signed on January 2, 1988, to provide
increased economic activity, higher trade levels, jobs, and enhanced
competitiveness for the U.S. and Canada, receiving testimony from Ambassador
Alan F. Holmer, Deputy United States Trade Representative; Charles E. Roh,
Jr., Associate General Counsel, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; Peter
Myers, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, Ann M. Veneman, Associate
Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service, and Daniel E. Brinza, Deputy
Assistant General Counsel, Foreign Agricultural and Commodity Stabilization
Division, all of the Department of Agriculture; Kristen Allen, Resources for
the Future, Washington, DC; and Frederick L. Ikenson, Customs and
International Trade Bar Association, New York, New York. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1989 for those programs which fall within the subcommittee's
jurisdiction, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 1776, to require U.S. coins to be redesigned, to require that one coin be
redesigned to commemorate the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, and to
require profits from the sale of the proof sets of U.S. coins to be used to
reduce the national debt, with amendments; 

H.R. 3251, to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins commemorating
the bicentennial of the U.S. Congress, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute; 

S. 1987, to establish a separate program to provide housing assistance for
Indians and Alaska Natives (pending on Senate Calendar); 

An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal years 1989 and 1990 for housing
and shelter programs of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act; and 

The nominations of Michael E. Zacharia, of California, G. Philip Hughes, of
Virginia, and James P. Moore, Jr., of Pennsylvania, each to be an Assistant
Secretary of Commerce, and John K. Stewart, of California, to be a Member of
the Board of Directors of the National Consumer Cooperative Bank. 

Also, the committee agreed to certain provisions of the United States-Canada
Free Trade Agreement, signed on January 2, 1988, to provide increased economic
activity, higher trade levels, jobs, and enhanced competitiveness for the U.S.
and Canada. 

FINANCIAL MARKETS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
oversight hearings to review the conclusions and recommendations of the
President's Working Group on Financial Markets, after receiving testimony from
George D. Gould, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Finance; Alan Greenspan,
Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System; David S. Ruder,
Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission; and Wendy Gramm, Chairman,
Commodity Futures Trading Commission. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 2209, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1989 for the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute (as
approved by the committee, the bill authorizes $11,104,500,000 for research
and development, space flight, control and data communications, construction
of facilities, and research and program management); 

S. 314, to require all telephones sold, rented, or distributed in the United
States to be hearing aid compatible, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute; 

S. 2424, to authorize funds for certain programs of the Natural Gas Pipeline
Safety Act of 1968 and the Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act of 1979, with
technical amendments (as approved by the committee, the bill authorizes
$3,683,000 for fiscal year 1988,  [*D649]  $3,978,000 for fiscal year 1989,
and $4,086,000 for fiscal year 1990, for the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act;
$921,000 for fiscal year 1988, $995,000 for fiscal year 1989, and $1,021,000
for fiscal year 1990, for the Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act; and
$5,000,000 for fiscal year 1988, $5,500,000 for fiscal year 1989, and
$5,500,000 for fiscal year 1990, for State grant-in-aid); 

S. 2417, to authorize a certificate of documentation for vessels ERSA and
SCOTCH 'N WATER; 

S. 2331, to issue a fisheries license for the operation of the vessel M/V
OCEAN TEMPEST; 

S. 1418, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessel M/V POLAR
ICE; 

S. 2300, to issue a fisheries license for the operation of the vessel M/V
OCEAN CYCLONE; 

S. 2247, to repeal certain property conveyance restrictions placed upon
property transferred to the Peninsula Airport Commission, Virginia, with
amendments; and 

The nominations of Lemoine V. Dickinson, Jr., of Virginia, to be a Member of
the National Transportation Safety Board, Rear Admiral Clyde T. Lusk, Jr., as
Vice Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, with the grade of vice admiral while so
serving, Vice Admiral James C. Irwin, as Commander, Atlantic Area, U.S. Coast
Guard, with the grade of vice admiral while so serving, and a routine list of
Coast Guard nominations received by the Senate on May 9, 1988. 

TOURISM INDUSTRY 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Foreign
Commerce and Tourism concluded hearings on exporting U.S. tourism, after
receiving testimony from Eric Peterson, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for
Travel and Tourism; William D. Toohey, Travel Industry Association of America,
Gabriel Phillips, Air Transport Association, and Steven J. Slade, Trans World
Airlines, all of Washington, DC; Bill Vervaeke, Trusthouse Forte, Inc., New
York, New York; Stephen B. Richer, Nevada Commission on Tourism, Carson City,
on behalf of the National Council of State Travel Directors; Paul Decker,
Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and
Deanna Starcher, Jamboree USA/Jamboree Tour Service, Wheeling, West Virginia. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOE 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development concluded hearings on the President's proposed budget request for
fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Energy, after receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for the advanced nuclear reactor development program from
Theodore J. Garrish, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy
Programs; James R. Schlesinger, Washington, DC; James J. O'Connor,
Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago, Illinois; John J. Taylor, Electric Power
Research Institute, Palo Alto, California; and John W. Landis, Stone and
Webster Engineering Corp., Boston, Massachusetts. 

CHILDRENS HEALTH CARE 

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the status of primary
health care for children, receiving testimony from Senator Chiles; James G.
Jones, The American Academy of Family Physicians; Greenville, North Carolina;
Jeannie I. Rosoff, The Alan Guttmacher Institute, and Sara Rosenbaum,
Children's Defense Fund, both of Washington, DC; James M. Perrin,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, on behalf of the American Academy of
Pediatrics; Barbara D. Matula, North Carolina Division of Medical Assistance,
Raleigh, on behalf of the State Medicaid Directors Association of the American
Public Welfare Association; Archie S. Golden, Chesapeake Health Plan,
Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of the Child Welfare League of America, Inc.;
and Helene Botsonis, March of Dimes National Council of Volunteers, Amarillo,
Texas. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, May 26. 

RICO REFORM/NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
measures: 

S. 1523, to revise the civil provisions of the Racketeer Influenced and
Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), with amendments; and 

The nominations of William G. Cambridge, to be U.S. District Judge for the
District of Nebraska, and Richard A. Schell, to be U.S. District Judge for the
Eastern District of Texas. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Justice,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for activities of the criminal division
from John C. Keeney, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division,
Department of Justice. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, May 26. 

AGE DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT ACT -- WAIVER OF RIGHTS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor concluded
hearings on the waiver of rights provisions under the Age Discrimination in
Employment Act of 1967, after receiving testimony from Senator Melcher;
Richard Komer, Legal Counsel, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Carin
Clauss, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison; Judith Brown, American
Association of  [*D650]  Retired Persons, and Dennis Vaughn, on behalf of the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the California Employment Council, both of
Washington, DC; Nelson Marans, Silver Spring, Maryland; Donald Graham,
Chesterfield, Missouri; and William Terrell, Rochester, New York. 

Joint Meeting 

HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Education and Health resumed
hearings to review the future of health care in America, focusing on the role
of medical technology, receiving testimony from Clyde Behney, Director of
Health Programs, Office of Technology Assessment; Melroy D. Quasney, Associate
Director, Information Management and Technology Division, General Accounting
Office; Seymour Perry, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC;
Stanley J. Reiser, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston; Jack T.
Myers, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Homer R. Warner,
Department of Medical Informatics, Salt Lake City, Utah; and Jerome H.
Grossman, New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, June 14. 



1988/05/25
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 25, 1988; pages D658 - D668  (Bound vol. D339-
D347)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

WHEAT SUPPLY 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Production and Stabilization of Prices resumed hearings on the
wheat supply situation, focusing on current stocks and production estimates
for the upcoming harvest season, and to discuss the wheat export situation and
programs to expand wheat sales overseas, receiving testimony from Peter C.
Myers, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, B. Randy Weber, Leader, Food and Grain
Group, Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service, and Bob Milton,
Agriculture Statistician, all of the Department of Agriculture; and Carl
Schwensen, National Association of Wheat Growers, Roy M. Henwood, Millers'
National Federation, and Winston Wilson, U.S. Wheat Associates, all of
Washington, DC. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the government
of the District of Columbia, receiving testimony from Mayor Marion S. Barry,
Jr., and David A. Clarke, Chairman, District of Columbia City Council. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1989 for those programs which fall within the
subcommittee's jurisdiction, receiving testimony from Senator Matsunaga; and
numerous public witnesses. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

E-6A TACAMO BASING 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held open
and closed hearings to review the proposed E-6A Tacamo basing at Tinker Air
Force Base in Oklahoma, receiving testimony from H. Lawrence Garrett III,
Under Secretary of the Navy; and James McGovern, Under Secretary of the Air
Force. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

NATIONAL BANKING SYSTEM 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held oversight
hearings on the condition of the national banking system and its insured fund,
focusing on regional and sectoral problems, the international debt situation,
and the overall performance of the banking industry, receiving testimony from
Robert L. Clarke, Comptroller of the Currency; L. William Seidman, Chairman,
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and H. Robert Heller, Member, Board of
Governors, Federal Reserve System. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

LOCAL RAIL SERVICE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation concluded hearings to review the local rail assistance program,
focusing on effectiveness of the present program in terms of preservation of
services, local economic effects, possible alternatives to the present
program, and related measures, including S. 2174 and S. 2195, after receiving
testimony from Senators Burdick and Harkin; Susan Coughlin, Deputy
Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration; Horace B. Edwards, Kansas
Department of Transportation, Topeka, on behalf of the National Conference of
State Railway Officials of the American Association of State Highway and
Transportation Officials; Chris Randall, South Dakota Department of
Transportation, Pierre; Robert Evans, North Dakota State Highway Department,
Bismarck; Paul Eckhoff, Iowa Rail User's Association, Steamboat Rock; Mike
Barron, Ann Arbor Railroad, Howell, Michigan; Joe Stecher, West Point and
Pacific Railway, Hooper, Nebraska; Larry Wood, Minnesota Valley Transportation
Co., Inc., Redwood Falls; and James Kennedy, Railway Labor Executives'
Association, Washington, DC. 

ATLANTIC STRIPED BASS CONSERVATION ACT 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection concluded hearings on S. 2384, to authorize funds for fiscal years
1989, 1990, and 1991 for programs of the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation
Act, after receiving testimony from Gary Edwards, Assistant Director for
Fisheries, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior; James
E. Douglas, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration; Irwin M. Alperin, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries
Commission, and Norville S. Prosser, Sport Fishing Institute, both of
Washington, DC; Pete Jensen, Maryland Department of Natural Resources,
Annapolis; and Bob  [*D661]  Pond, Stripers Unlimited, South Attleboro,
Massachusetts. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of W.
Allen Moore, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for International
Trade, Jill E. Kent, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Management, and Jan W. Mares, of Connecticut, to be Assistant
Secretary of Commerce, after the nominees testified and answered questions in
their own behalf. 

ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to review the
causes and consequences of alcohol abuse and alcoholism in the United States,
focusing on what State and Federal governments can do to reduce
alcohol-related disease and disability, receiving testimony from Otis R.
Bowen, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Thomas R. Burke, Chief of
Staff, Robert Trachtenberg, Deputy Administrator, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and
Mental Health Administration, and Enoch Gordis, Director, National Institute
on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, all of the Department of Health and Human
Services; Anne D. Robertson, Mississippi Department of Mental Health, Jackson,
representing the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Directors; and Christine Lubinski, National Council on Alcoholism, Washington,
DC. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

BALANCED BUDGET 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution approved for full
committee consideration S.J. Res., 11, proposing an amendment to the
Constitution to provide for a balanced budget for the Federal Government, with
an amendment in the nature of a substitute, in lieu of S.J. Res. 161. 

U.S. DISTRICT COURT JURISDICTION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
concluded hearings on S. 1996, to grant U.S. district courts personal
jurisdiction over citizens and subjects of foreign states in certain product
liability actions, after receiving testimony from Douglas Besharov, American
Enterprise Institute, Philip Lacovara, Hughers, Hubbard and Reed, and Eric
Hard, Public Citizen's Congress Watch, all of Washington, DC; and Robert A.
Sedler, Wayne State University School of Law, Detroit, Michigan. 

RULES ENABLING ACT 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
concluded hearings on H.R. 2182, to make technical and conforming amendments
to the Federal criminal code, after receiving testimony from Benjamin R.
Civiletti, Venable, Baetjer and Howard, on behalf of the American Bar
Association, and Robert E. Richardson, Institute for Public Representation,
Georgetown University Law School, both of Washington, DC; Janet Napolitano,
Lewis and Roca, Phoenix, Arizona; John G. Koeltl, Association of the Bar of
the City of New York, New York, New York; and Steve B. Burbank, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION ACT 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts concluded hearings to
review certain provisions of S. 2274, to authorize and encourage Federal
agencies to use mediation, arbitration, and other techniques for the prompt
and informal resolution of disputes, after receiving testimony from Marshall
Breger, Chairman, Administrative Conference of the United States; Kay
McMurray, Director, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; Lester
Edelman, Chief Counsel, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; and Walter Gellhorn,
Columbia, University, New York, New York. 

VETERANS' EDUCATION BENEFITS 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1997, to
reduce the monthly reduction of an individual's basic pay for the provision of
basic educational assistance and provide for the payment to survivors of basic
educational assistance paid for, but unused, by the participant, S. 2307, to
make certain improvements in the educational assistance programs for veterans
and eligible persons, S. 2383, to extend eligibility for educational benefits
under the Vietnam-era GI bill to certain service academy and senior reserve
officer training corps graduates, and S. 820, to provide veterans' educational
assistance benefits for flight training, after receiving testimony from
Senator Daschle; R. John Vogel, Chief Benefits Director, Veterans'
Administration; Stephen M. Duncan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve
Affairs, and Lt. Gen. Anthony Lukeman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Military Manpower and Personnel Policy; Charles R. Jackson,
Non-Commissioned Officers Association, Robert W. Nolan, Fleet Reserve
Association, Edward Smith, Association of the United States Army, Charles D.
Partridge, National Association for Uniformed Services, Sam Walsh and Phil
Wilkerson, both of The American Legion, Dennis Cullinan, Veterans of Foreign
Wars of the United States, John Bollinger, Paralyzed Veterans of America, and
Allan W. Ostar, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, all
of Washington, DC; Sandra L. Ritter, Oakland Community College, Oakland,
Michigan, on behalf of the American Association  [*D662]  of Community and
Junior Colleges; Bertie Rowland, National Association of Veterans Program
Administrators, Chico, California; and Glenn Morris, Denver, Colorado, and Jon
Westby, Minneapolis, Minnesota, both of the National Association of Veterans'
Upward Bound Project Personnel. 

Joint Meeting 

MEDICARE CATASTROPHIC PROTECTION ACT 

Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 2470, to amend title XVIII of the 
[*D666]  Social Security Act, to provide protection against catastrophic
medical expenses under the medicare program. 



1988/05/26
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 26, 1988; pages D670 - D678  (Bound vol. D347-
D354)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

PACIFIC RIM NATIONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings on
defense posture in the Pacific rim nations, after receiving testimony from
Richard L. Armitage, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security
Affairs; Gaston J. Sigur, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia; and Gen.
Louis Menetrey, Commander, U.S. Forces, Korea.    

APPROPRIATIONS -- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia
continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for the
government of the District of Columbia, receiving testimony in behalf of funds
for their respective activities from William C. Pryor, Chief Judge, District
of Columbia Court of Appeals; Fred B. Ugast, Chief Judge, Superior Court of
the District of Columbia; Larry P. Polansky, Executive Officer, District of
Columbia Courts; Linda Cropp, President, and Andrew Jenkins, Acting
Superintendent of Schools, both of the District of Columbia Board of
Education; and Arrington Dixon, Chairman, District of Columbia Taxicab
Commission. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

[*D672]  APPROPRIATIONS -- MILITARY ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1989 for defense security
assistance programs, receiving testimony from John C. Whitehead, Deputy
Secretary of State; Edward J. Derwinski, Under Secretary of State for Security
Affairs; and Lt. Gen. Charles W. Brown, Director, Defense Security Assistance
Agency. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, June 8. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1989 for those programs which fall within the
subcommittee's jurisdiction, receiving testimony from numerous public
witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 7. 

THRIFT INDUSTRY 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held oversight
hearings on the condition of the thrift industry, receiving testimony from M.
Danny Wall, Chairman, Federal Home Loan Bank Board. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- MARITIME PROGRAMS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Merchant
Marine concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1989 for certain maritime programs of the Department of Transportation
and the Federal Maritime Commission, after receiving testimony from John A.
Gaughan, Administrator, Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation;
Elaine Chao, Chairman, Federal Maritime Commission; Rear Adm. Walter T.
Piotti, Jr., USN, Commander, Military Sealift Command, Department of the Navy;
Rear Adm. Floyd H. Miller, USN (Ret.), State University of New York Maritime
Academy, Fort Schuyler, New York; Rear Adm. John Aylmer, USMS, Massachusetts
Maritime Academy, Buzzards Bay; Rear Adm. James F. McNulty, USMS, Great Lakes
Maritime College, Traverse City, Michigan; and William J. Merrell, Texas
Maritime Academy, Galveston. 

U.S.-CANADA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation concluded hearings on transportation implications of the
U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement, signed on January 2, 1988, to provide
increased economic activity, higher trade levels, jobs, and enhanced
competitiveness for the U.S. and Canada, after receiving testimony from
Senators Burdick and Melcher; William Merkin, Deputy Assistant to the U.S.
Trade Representative for Canada, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; Ann
Veneman, Associate Administrator, Keith Klindworth, Economist, and Frank
Gomme, Trade Marketing Analyst, all of the Foreign Agricultural Service, and
Daniel Brinza, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, all of the Department of
Agriculture; Dan McGuire, Nebraska Wheat Board, Lincoln; and David Senter,
American Agriculture Movement, Inc., Washington, DC. 

TALLGRASS PRAIRIE NATIONAL PRESERVE 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 1967, to provide for the
establishment of the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in the State of
Oklahoma, after receiving testimony from Senator Boren; Representative Mickey
Edwards; William Penn Mott, Jr., Director, National Park Service, Department
of the Interior; Joseph H. Williams, The Nature Conservancy, J.M. Graves,
Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association, David Martinez, Sierra Club, and
John Kennington, Oklahoma Audubon Council, all of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Mayor
Michael Wachtman, Lee Holcombe and Bransford H. Shoemake, both of the
Tallgrass Prairie Preserve Task Force, Harvey Payne, Oklahoma Wildlife
Federation, Ralph R. Adkisson, Osage Tribal Council, William B. Ricketts,
Osage County Cattlemen's Association, Stanlee Ann Mattingly, Osage Indian
Tribe, William C. Whetsell, Wilmar, Incorporated, and Crayton O. Bolton,
Friends of the Osage, all of Pawhuska, Oklahoma; Bill Supernaw, Osage County
Democratic Central Committee, Skiatook, Oklahoma; Vernon Young, Shidler Public
School, Shidler, Oklahoma; and Charles Cushman, National Inholders
Association, Washington, DC. 

RIGHT TO KNOW ACT 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund and
Environmental Oversight concluded oversight hearings on the implementation of
the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (Title III of P.L.
99-499), after receiving testimony from Representative Florio; J. Winston
Porter, Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Victor
Kimm, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pesticides and Toxic Substances,
James L. Makris, Director, Preparedness Staff, Charles L. Elkins, Director,
Office of Toxic Substances, and Frederick F. Stiehl, Associate Enforcement 
[*D673]  Counsel, Office for Enforcement and Compliance Monitoring, all of the
Environmental Protection Agency; Gerald V. Poje, National Wildlife Federation,
and George A. Rodenhausen, Hoechst Celanese Corporation, on behalf of the
Chemical Manufacturers Association, both of Washington, DC; Peter F. Smith,
Fire Fighters Association of New Jersey, Trenton; Sandy Buchanan, Ohio
Emergency Response Commission, Columbus; Robert Brown, Hopewell, Virginia;
Karl F. Birns, Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Topeka; and Jorge
H. Berkowitz, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Trenton. 

CHILDRENS HEALTH CARE 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine the status of
primary health care for children, receiving testimony from Alexander R. White,
Jr., Santa Rosa Children's Hospital, San Antonio, Texas, on behalf of the
National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions, Inc.;
Val J. Halamandaris, National Association for Home Care, and Larry B. Silver,
American Psychiatric Association, both of Washington, DC; Mark E. Swanson and
Billy S. Arant, Jr., both of the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical
Center, Dallas, testifying on behalf of the American Society of Pediatric
Nephrology; Alfred Healy, University of Iowa, Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa
City, on behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Consortium for
Citizens with Developmental Disabilities; William A. Neal, West Virginia
University School of Medicine, Morgantown; and Arnold C.G. Platzker,
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, and University of California, Los Angeles,
on behalf of the American Lung Association. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of William G. Walker, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of El
Salvador, after the nominee testified and answered further questions in his
own behalf.    

PANAMA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace
Corps Affairs met in closed session to receive a briefing on the situation in
Panama from Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American
Affairs; and Robert Pastorino, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Agency. 

ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee continued hearings to review the
causes and consequences of alcohol abuse and alcoholism in the United States,
focusing on biological and environmental determinants, receiving testimony
from Donald Goodwin, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Lawrence;
Barbara Lex, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts; Robin Room, Medical
Research Institute, Berkeley, California; George Vaillant, Dartmouth
University, Hanover, New Hampshire; Henri Begleiter, State University of New
York, Health Science Center, Brooklyn; Shirley Hill, University of Pittsburgh
School of Medicine, Pittsburgh; and Ting-Kai Li, Indiana University Medical
Center, Indianapolis. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, June 16. 

U.S. POSTAL SERVICE 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post
Office, and Civil Service, concluded hearings to review the annual report of
the U.S. Postal Service, after receiving testimony from Anthony M. Frank,
Postmaster General, Michael S. Coughlin, Deputy Postmaster General, Louis A.
Cox, General Counsel, Law Department, and Comer S. Coppie, Senior Assistant
Postmaster General, Finance and Planning, all of the U.S. Postal Service. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1989 for the Department of Justice,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for activities of the Civil Rights
Division from William Bradford Reynolds, Assistant Attorney General Civil
Rights Division, Department of Justice. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the nominations of Richard V. Backley, of Virginia, and L. Clair Nelson, of
Virginia, each to be a Member of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review
Commission, Arthur C. Beale, of Massachusetts, and Willard L. Boyd, of
Illinois, each to be a Member of the National Museum Services Board, Alvin H.
Bernstein, of Rhode Island, Patrick Butler, of Maryland, Edwin J. Delattre, of
Maryland, Charles R. Ritcheson, of California, and William P. Wright, Jr., of
Texas, each to be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities, Richard
C. Crawford, of Oklahoma, and Gary E. Wood, of Texas, each to be a Member of
the Board of Trustees of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, Barry M.
Goldwater, Jr., of California, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the
Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, John E.
Higgins, Jr., of Maryland, to be a Member of the National Labor Relations
Board, Frances Mathews, of Colorado,  [*D674]  and Carol P. Whitten, of
Maryland, each to be a Member of the National Advisory Council on Educational
Research and Improvement, Susan S. Suter, of Illinois, to be Commissioner,
Rehabilitation Services, Department of Education, and Public Health Service
Corps lists of nominations received by the Senate on May 9, 1988. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered the following bills
favorably reported: 

S. 2153, to provide for the establishment of the Zuni-Cibola National
Historical Park in the State of New Mexico, with an amendment in the nature of
a substitute; 

S. 1509, to provide health promotion and disease prevention services to
Indians; and 

H.R. 2615, to provide that United States' interest in specified lands shall be
held in trust for the benefit of the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians
of California as part of the Pechanga Indian Reservation. 

FEDERAL RECOGNITION OF INDIAN TRIBES 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings on
the Federal Acknowledgement Petition (FAP) process for Federal recognition of
Indian Tribes, after receiving testimony from Hazel Albert, Deputy to the
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior;
Herman A. Williams, Tulalip Tribes, Inc., Tulalip, Washington; Cecile Maxwell,
Duwamish Tribe, representing the Samish Tribe, Snohomish Tribe, Snoqualmie
Tribe, Steilacoom Tribe, Cowlitz Tribe and the Chinook Tribe of Washington
State; Ileen Sylvester, Cook Inlet Tribal Council and Bristol Native
Association, Dillingham, Alaska; Adolph Dial and Arlinda Locklear, both of the
Lumbee Tribe, Pembroke, North Carolina; and Faith Roessel, Native American
Rights Fund, Allogan Slagle, National Indian Lutheran Board, and Raymond
Fogelson and Joseph Jorgensen, both of the American Anthropological
Association, all of Washington, DC. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/05/27
Daily Digest - Friday, May 27, 1988; pges D679 - D684  (Bound vol. D354-D358)

[*D683]  Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Kenneth P. Bergquist, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy for
Manpower and Reserve Affairs, after the nominee testified and answered
questions in his own behalf. 

LONG TERM CARE ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health held hearings on S. 2305, to
provide long-term respite care, adult day care, home care, and nursing home
care for the elderly, receiving testimony from Representatives Pepper and
Daub; Robert M. Ball, former Commissioner, Social Security Administration, and
Member, National Commission on Social Security Reform, Louise Crooks, American
Association of Retired Persons, Dallas Salisbury, Employee Benefit Research
Institute, Val J. Halamandaris, National Association for Home Care, and Paul
R. Willging, American Health Care Association, all of Washington, DC; Ruth L.
Von Behren, On Lok Senior Health Services, San Francisco, California; and Joan
L. Quinn, Connecticut Community Care, Inc., Bristol. 

Hearings continue on Friday, June 17. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Robert S. Barrett IV, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Djibouti, Jeffery Davidow, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Zambia, Mary A. Ryan, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of
Swaziland, and Philip D. Winn, of Colorado, to be Ambassador to Switzerland,
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf, Mr.
Winn was introduced by Senator Armstrong. 

PREKINDERGARTEN STUDENTS -- FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
2034, to provide financial assistance for programs for pre-kindergarten
students designed to prevent students from later dropping out of school, after
receiving testimony from Senator Chiles; Wendy Cullar, Florida Division of
Public Education, Tallahassee; Charles Sherwood, Dade County School System,
and Tom Petersen, Florida Assistant State Attorney, both of Miami; Greg
Humphrey, American Federation of Teachers, Washington, DC; Alice Honig,
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York; and Pat Desmond, Escambia County
School System, Pensacola, Florida. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/06/01
Daily Digest - Wednesday, June 1, 1988; pages D685 - D690  (Bound vol. D358-
D361)

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/06/02
Daily Digest - Thursday, June 2, 1988; pages D692 - D696  (Bound vol. D362-
D364)

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/06/03
Daily Digest - Friday, June 3, 1988; pages D698 - D704  (Bound vol. D364-D366)

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

Joint Meeting 

EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to review the employment and
unemployment figures for May, receiving testimony from Janet L. Norwood, 
[*D700]  Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 



1988/06/06
Daily Digest - Monday, June 6, 1988; pages D705 - D708  (Bound vol. D366-D368)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH COMMERCIALIZATION ACT 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Research and General Legislation held hearings on S. 2413, to
establish regional centers for the commercial development of new industrial
farm and forest products, receiving testimony from Robert W. Long, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Science and Education; Paul O'Connell,
Deputy Administrator, Cooperative State Research Service, Office of Critical
Materials, Department of Agriculture; Stephen J. Gage, Corporation for Science
and Technology, Indianapolis, Indiana; Michael Aube, Eastern Maine Development
Corporation, Bangor, representing the National Association of Development
Organizations; Melvin G. Blase, University of Missouri, Columbia; Gary D.
Jolliff, Oregon State University, Corvallis; and Scott Shearer, National Corn
Growers Association, St. Louis, Missouri. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AIDS -- HEALTH CARE SERVICES 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) health care service needs, focusing on how
AIDS services are financed and coordinated, receiving testimony from David N.
Sundwall, Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration,
Department of Health and Human Services; Katherine Wright, AIDS Arms Network,
Dallas, Texas; Reed V. Tuckson, District of Columbia Commissioner of Public
Health, and Jim Graham, Whitman-Walker Clinic, Inc., both of Washington, D.C.;
Jeffery Amory, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco,
California; Lawrence L. Gabel, Ohio State University Research Foundation,
Columbus; Leonard H. Calabrese, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio;
Patricia Hurley, New York University AIDS Projects, New York, New York; and
June Osborn, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, June 8. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1988/06/07
Daily Digest - Tuesday, June 7, 1988; pages D710 - D716  (Bound vol. D368-
D372)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Fowler C. West, of Texas, to be a Commissioner
of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and William W. Erwin, of Indiana,
to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Farm Credit System Assistance
Board, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. West was introduced by Senator Gramm and Representative Leath, and
Mr. Erwin was introduced by Senator Lugar. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ENERGY PROGRAMS 

Committee on Appropriations: On Monday, June 6, the Subcommittee on Interior
and Related Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1989 for those programs which fall within the subcommittee's
jurisdiction, after receiving testimony from John S. Herrington, Secretary of
Energy, J. Allen Wampler, Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, and Elizabeth
E. Smedley, Controller, all of the Department of Energy. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1989 for those programs  [*D712]  which fall within the
subcommittee's jurisdiction, receiving testimony from numerous public
witnesses. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction approved
for full committee consideration with amendments H.R. 4586, appropriating
funds for fiscal year 1989 for military construction programs of the
Department of Defense. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ENERGY AND WATER 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
approved for full committee consideration, with amendments, H.R. 4567,
appropriating funds for fiscal year 1989 for energy and water development
programs.    

NOMINATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Karen B. Phillips, of Virginia, to be a Member
of the Interstate Commerce Commission, after the nominee, who was introduced
by Senator Packwood, testified and answered questions in her own behalf. 

BUDGET REFORM 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 2478, to
improve the Federal budget process by establishing biennial budgeting,
receiving testimony from Senators Ford, Roth, Domenici, Kassebaum, and
Nickles; Charles Bowsher, Comptroller General, United States General
Accounting Office; Robert W. Helm, Comptroller, Department of Defense; James
Miller, Director, Office of Management and Budget; and John J. Rhodes, James
Jones, and Carol Cox, all of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget,
Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on S.
1786, to provide a system of regional presidential primaries for the
nomination of presidential candidates, after receiving testimony from Senators
Dixon, Breaux, and Packwood; Representative Bennett; and former Vice President
Walter F. Mondale. 

[*D714]  Joint Meeting 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Conferees met in closed session to resolve the differences between the Senate-
and House-passed versions of H.R. 4264, to authorize funds for the fiscal year
1989 amended budget request for military functions of the Department of
Defense and to prescribe military personnel levels for such Department for
fiscal year 1989, and to amend the National Defense Authorization Act for
fiscal years 1988 and 1989, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet
again of Friday, June 10. 



1988/06/08
Daily Digest - Wednesday, June 8, 1988; pages D717 - D726  (Bound vol. D372-
D377)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered the
followin