100th Congress (1987 - 1988)
January 25 - October 21, 1988
Senate Committee Meetings by Date
Compiled from the Congressional Record's Daily Digests
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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;
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