101st Congress (1989 - 1990)

January 3, 1989 - January 23, 1990

Senate Committee Meetings by Date
Compiled from the Congressional Record's Daily Digests via Thomas at thomas.loc.gov

PLEASE NOTE: Comparison of the two sources of this document, LC's Thomas web site and the bound Congressional Record's Daily Digest, has revealed instances where the record of Congressional meetings is incomplete - both in Thomas and in the bound Daily Digest. (For the latter see the entry for July 11.)

The 1989 files on the Congressional Bibliographies site are the first ones in which significant errors were found to be present in the official sources. Files for more recent years are more accurate, and I suspect this situation is evidence of the learning curve associated with application of a new technology rather than of some sinister distopian attempt to alter history. Nonetheless the inaccuracies noted below that were found in the official records are unsettling. jam 12/00

1989/01/03
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 3, 1989; pages D1 - D10  (Bound vol. D1-D7)

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1989/01/04
Daily Digest - [Wednesday, January 4, 1989]; pages D12 - D14  (Bound vol. D7-
D8)

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held.

No Joint hearings noted.




1989/01/19
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 19, 1989; pages D16 - D18  (Bound vol. D8-D9)

THIS ENTRY IS FROM LEXIS-NEXIS CONGRESSIONAL UNIVERSE.

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 
  
NOMINATION/COMMITTEE BUDGET 
  
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items: 

The nomination of James A. Baker III, of Texas, to be Secretary of State; and 

An original resolution requesting $2,666,656 in operating expenses for the
period from March 1, 1989 through February 28, 1990, and $2,721,004 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1990 through February 28,
1991. 
  
NOMINATION 
  
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on the nomination
of Richard G. Darman, of Virginia, to be Director of the Office of Management
and Budget, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Warner and Robb,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

Hearings continue on Monday, January 23. 
  
NOMINATION 
  
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the nomination of Elizabeth H. Dole, of the District of Columbia, to be
Secretary of Labor. 

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Elizabeth H. Dole, of the District of Columbia, to be Secretary of Labor,
after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Helms, Kassebaum, Sanford,
and Dole, testified and answered questions in her own behalf. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1989/01/20
Daily Digest - Friday, January 20, 1989; pages D19 - D22  (Bound vol. D10-D11)

Committee Meetings

(No committee meetings were held.) 

No Joint meetings noted.



1989/01/24
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 24, 1989; pages D23 - D26  (Bound vol. D11-
D12)

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AGRICULTURE CREDIT ACT

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Credit held oversight hearings on the Farmers Home Administration
implementation of the Agriculture Credit Act of 1987 (P.L. 100-233), as it
relates to borrowers, receiving testimony from Neil Johnson, Acting
Administrator, Farmers Home Administration; Robert Henry, Oklahoma Attorney
General, Oklahoma City; Lee Swenson and Dave Velde, both of the National
Farmers Union, Washington, DC; Benny Bunting, National Save the Family Farm
Coalition, Oak City, North Carolina; Leland Beatty, Texas Department of
Agriculture, Austin; Don Schieber, Kildare, Oklahoma; and Ron Voth, Orienta,
Oklahoma. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Robert A. Mosbacher, of Texas, to be Secretary
of Commerce, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Bentsen and
Gramm, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

LEVERAGED BUYOUTS

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to review the recent trend in
corporate restructurings, debt in the corporate sector, and the relationship
of these trends to the tax law, receiving testimony from Nicholas Brady,
Secretary of the Treasury. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

CHEMICAL WEAPONS USE

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to review the results
of the recent Paris Conference on chemical weapons use, and how to strengthen
the norms against the use of chemical weapons in violation of international
law, receiving testimony from William F. Burns, Director, U.S. Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

CHILD CARE QUALITY

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs and Alcoholism concluded hearings on early childhood program quality,
after receiving testimony from Senator Wilson; Maryland Governor William
Donald Schaefer, Annapolis; Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin, Montpelier;
Wisconsin Lt. Governor Scott McCallum, Madison; M.A. Lucas, Chief, Child
Development Services, United States Army; Richard Clifford, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Lawrence J. Schweinhart, High/Scope Foundation,
Ypsilanti, Michigan; Marilyn King, Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City,
Missouri; Arthur Nielsen, Cigna Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Gary
L. Bauer, Family Research Council of America, Washington, DC; Jane Snead,
Springfield, Virginia; Linda Hartshorn, Seward, Nebraska; Cheri Robertson,
Temecula, California; and Deanne Dixon, Montgomery County, Maryland. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1989/01/25
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 25, 1989; pages D27 - D30  (Bound vol. D12-
D14)

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

                                           [Page: D28]

NOMINATION

Committee on Armed Services: Committee began hearings on the nomination of
John G. Tower, of Texas, to be Secretary of Defense, where the nominee, who
was introduced by Senators Bentsen, Gramm, and Dole, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held an
organizational business meeting where it adopted the committee rules and
procedures for the 101st Congress. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Samuel K. Skinner, of Illinois, to be Secretary
of Transportation, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Dixon and
Simon, and Representatives Michel and Rostenkowski, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original resolution (S. Res. 12) requesting $2,673,547 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1989 through February 28,
1990, and $2,727,832 in operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1990,
through February 28, 1991. 

LEVERAGED BUYOUTS

Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings to review the recent trend
in corporate restructuring, debt in the corporate sector, and the relationship
of these trends to the tax law, receiving testimony from David S. Ruder,
Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission; C. Robert Kidder, Duracell,
Inc., Bethel, Connecticut; Thomas H. Lee, ML-Lee Acquisition Fund, Boston,
Massachusetts; Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard University, and William D.
Andrews, Harvard University Law School, both of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Alan
J. Auerbach, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; and Michael J. Graetz,
Yale University Law School, New Haven, Connecticut. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

MODERNIZATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings to review
cleanup and modernization proposals of the Department of Energy's weapons
production complex, receiving testimony from J. Dexter Peach, Assistant
Comptroller General, and Keith O. Fultz, Associate Director, Resources and
Community Economic Development Division, both of the General Accounting
Office; Troy E. Wade II, Acting Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs,
Peter N. Brush, Acting Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Health,
and Richard Starostecki, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Safety, Health and
Quality Assurance, all of the Department of Energy; and William R. Bibb,
Assistant Manager for Defense Programs, Oak Ridge Operations Office, Oak
Ridge, Tennessee. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held a business meeting, where
it took the following action: 

Adopted committee rules of procedure for the 101st Congress; and 

Ordered favorably reported an original resolution requesting $1,887,941 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1989 through February 28,
1990, and $1,021,116 in operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1990,
through February 28, 1991. 

INTELLIGENCE

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held a closed meeting on committee
business, but made no announcements. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1989/01/27
Daily Digest - Friday, January 27, 1989; pages D31 - D36  (Bound vol. D14-D16)

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Appropriations: On Thursday, January 26, committee held an
organizational business meeting where it took the following action: 

Ordered favorably reported on original resolution requesting $4,736,267 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1989, through February 28,
1990, and $4,828,540 in operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1990,
through February 28, 1991; and 

Adopted committee rules of procedure for the 101st Congress. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Armed Services: On Thursday, January 26, committee continued
hearings on the nomination of John G. Tower, of Texas, to be Secretary of
Defense, where the nominee testified and answered further questions in his own
behalf. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, January 31. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the nomination of Jack Kemp, of New York, to be Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Moynihan
and D'Amato and Representative Michel, testified and answered questions in his
own behalf. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Thursday, January 26,
committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Michael J. Boskin, of
California, to be Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers, after the nominee,
who was introduced by Senators Cranston and Wilson, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: On Thursday, January 26, committee
concluded hearings on the nomination of Manuel Lujan, Jr., of New Mexico, to
be Secretary of the Interior, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senators Bingaman and Domenici, and Representatives Skeen, Schiff, and Blaz,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. Testimony was also
received from Nick Benton, National Democratic Policy Committee, Thomas F.
Donnelly, National Water Resources Association, Michael S. Clark, Enviromental
Policy Institute, Allan T. Howe, National Park Consessioners, and George T.
Frampton, Jr., The Wilderness Society, all of Washington, D.C.; Barry Tindall,
National Recreation and Park Association, Alexandria, Virginia; and Jan
Hartke, Global Tomorrow Coalition, Portland, Oregon. 

TRANSPORTATION-INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: On Thursday, January 26, committee
held hearings to review the Nation's transportation-infrastructure needs in
the coming years, receiving testimony from Samuel K. Skinner, Secretary of
Transportation-designate. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of
Carla Hills, of New York, to be United States Trade Representative. 

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Ms. Hills, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Cranston and
Wilson, testified and answered questions in her own behalf. Testimony was also
received from Robert S. Strauss, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld, Dallas,
Texas; James E. Burke, Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey; and
Anthony Harrigan, U.S. Business and Industrial Council, Washington, D.C. 

                                           [Page: D32]

LEVERAGED BUYOUTS

Committee on Finance: On Thursday, January 26, committee continued hearings to
review the recent trend in corporate restructuring, debt in the corporate
sector, and the relationship of these trends to the tax law, receiving
testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve
System; Kathleen P. Utgoff, Executive Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation; Lane Kirkland, AFL-CIO, and John J. Creedon, Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company, both of Washington, D.C; Bruce Smart, Upperville, Virginia,
former Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade; and Steven N.
Kaplan, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

MODERNIZATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX

Committee on Governmental Affairs: On Thursday, January 26, committee
continued oversight hearings to review cleanup and modernization proposals of
the Department of Energy's weapons production complex, receiving testimony
from Senators Adams and Metzenbaum; Ohio Governor Richard F. Celeste and Ohio
Attorney General Anthony J. Celebrezze, both of Columbus; Idaho Governor Cecil
D. Andrus, Boise; Colorado Governor Roy Romer, Denver; J. Winston Porter,
Assistant Administrator for Solid Wastes and Emergency Response, Environmental
Protection Agency; John F. Ahearne, Chairman, Advisory Committee on Nuclear
Facility Safety; Richard A. Meserve, Director, National Academy of Sciences;
and Christine O. Gregoire, Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

EDUCATION

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to review the
education agenda for the 101st Congress, focusing on the quality of teaching,
status of teachers, child care, and the decline in minorities' enrollment in
post-secondary education, receiving testimony from Lauro F. Cavazos, Secretary
of Education; Washington State Governor Booth Gardner, Olympia; Bettye
Caldwell, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Ernest Boyer, Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Princeton, New Jersey; Joseph
Fernandez, Dade County Schools, Miami, Florida, on behalf of the Council of
Great City Schools; Robert Atwell, American Council on Education, Washington,
D.C.; and Harold Howe II, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

LABOR SHORTAGE AND POVERTY SURPLUS

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Thursday, January 26, committee
held hearings to review labor shortages and poverty surplus, receiving
testimony from Elizabeth Hanford Dole, Secretary of Labor; Marcia Townley,
Dayton-Hudson Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Charles Atkins,
Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Welfare, Boston; Wendy M. Dipilato,
Worcester, Massachusetts; and Patricia Wright, Armstrong County Community
Action Agency, and Taffie Lloyd and Renee Goldinger, all of Kittanning,
Pennsylvania. 

Committee will meet again tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Rules and Administration: On Thursday, January 26, committee held
an organizational business meeting where it took the following action: 

Ordered favorably reported an original resolution requesting $1,430,672 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1989, through February 28,
1990, and $1,459,163 in operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1990,
through February 28, 1991; 

Adopted committee rules of procedures for the 101st Congress; and 

Announced the following Joint Committee assignments:  Joint Committee on
Printing: Senators Ford (Chairman), DeConcini, Gore, Stevens, and Hatfield. 
Joint Committee on the Library: Senators Pell (Vice-Chairman), DeConcini,
Moynihan, Hatfield, and Stevens. 

SENATE RULES OF PROCEDURE--IMPEACHMENT TRIALS

Committee on Rules and Administration: On Thursday, January 26, committee
concluded hearings on the appropriate use of Rule XI of the Senate Rules of
Procedure and Practice when sitting on impeachment trails in the impeachment
of Judge Alcee L. Hastings, U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern
District of Florida, and other matters which may assist the Senate in the
impending impeachment, after receiving testimony from Representatives Brooks,
Conyers, Don Edwards, Bryant, Fish, and Gekas; Alan I. Baron, Special Counsel,
House of Representatives' Committee on the Judiciary; and Terence J. Anderson,
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. 

BUSINESS MEETING

Special Committee on Aging: On Thursday, January 26, committee held an
organizational business meeting where it took the following action: 

                                           [Page: D33]

Ordered favorably reported an original resolution requesting $1,200,008 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1989, through February 28,
1990, and $1,213,792 in operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1990,
through February 28, 1991; and 

Adopted committee rules of procedure for the 101st Congress. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1989/01/31
Daily Digest - [Tuesday, January 31, 1989]; pages D37 - D42  (Bound vol. D17-
D20)

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATION

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings in open and closed
session on the nomination of John G. Tower, of Texas, to be Secretary of
Defense, where the nominee testified and answered further questions in his own
behalf. Testimony was also received from William E. Jackson, Jr., University
of Arkansas, Little Rock; and William G. Phillips, National Council for
Industrial Defense, and Paul M. Weyrich Coalitions for America, both of
Washington, DC.  

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

S&L INDUSTRY 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held oversight
hearings to examine the problems in the savings and loan industry and the
potential threat to the insurance fund protecting savings and loan deposits,
receiving testimony from Lowell L. Bryan, McKinsey & Company, and Andrew S.
Carron, First Boston Corporation, both of New York, New York; and Paul M.
Horvitz, University of Houston, Houston, Texas. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, February 2. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution (S. Res. 26), requesting $3,313,130 in operating expenses for the
period from March 1, 1989, through February 28, 1990, and $3,382,402 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1990, through February 28,
1991. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

An original resolution (S. Res. 29), requesting $3,694,395 in operating
expenses for the period from March 1, 1989, through February 28, 1990, and
$3,769,571 in operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1990, through
February 28, 1991; 

The nomination of Samuel K. Skinner, of Illinois, to be Secretary of
Transportation; 

The nomination of Robert A. Mosbacher, of Texas, to be Secretary of Commerce;
and 

Routine lists of Coast Guard nominations received by the Senate on January 3,
1989. 

Also, the committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 101st Congress. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of William K. Reilly, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senators Warner, Robb, Graham, Wilson, and Wallop, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf. 

ARMS EXPORT CONTROL ACT 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on Sec. 25(a) of the Arms Export Control Act, the Annual Estimate and
Justification for Proposed Arms Sales ("Javits Report" on prospective arms
sales), from Vladimir Lehovich, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
Politico-Military Affairs; Richard L. Baltimore III, Director, Office of
Regional Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department
of State; and Diehl McKalip, Director, Operations, Defense Security Assistance
Agency. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

FEDERAL PAY RAISE

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to review the
Report of the 1989 Commission on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial
Salaries, receiving testimony from Lloyd N. Cutler, Chairman, 1989 Commission
on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries; U.S. Circuit Judge Frank M.
Coffin, on behalf of the United States Judicial Conference; A. Leon
Higginbotham, Jr., Circuit Judge, Third Court of Appeals; and Fred Wertheimer,
Common Cause, Washington, DC. 

                                           [Page: D40]

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Small Business: Committee held a business meeting, where it took
the following action: 

Ordered favorably reported an original bill to make technical corrections to
the Business Opportunity Development Reform Act of 1988 (P.L. 100-656); 

An original resolution requesting $1,012,941 in operating expenses for the
period from March 1, 1989, through February 28, 1990, and $1,025,734 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1990, through February 28,
1991; and 

Adopted committee rules on procedure for the 101st Congress. 

PROTECTION OF INDIAN RIGHTS

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Special Committee on Investigations held
hearings to examine various matters relating to Indian affairs, focusing on
problems arising from Federal Government representation of Indian interests,
and alleged fraud and corruption in regulating contracting on Indian
reservations, receiving testimony from Richard James Elroy, Special Agent,
Federal Bureau of Investigations, Department of Justice; Edward Danks, Eagle
Nest Construction, Mandan, North Dakota; on behalf of the National Indian
Contractors' Association; Jefferson Begay, Amerind Construction, Inc., Tempe,
Arizona; Geneve Savala and Louis Day, both of the Savala Asphalt and
Construction Enterprise, Inc., Fredonia, Arizona; and William Aubrey, Blaze
Construction, Yakima, Washington. 

Hearings were also held on Monday, January 30, on the protection of Indian
rights, receiving testimony from Wilma Mankiller, Cherokee Nation, Stillwell,
Oklahoma; Twila Martin-Kekahbah, Turtle Mountain Tribal Council, Belcourt,
North Dakota; Phillip Martin, Mississippi Band of Choctow Indians,
Philadelphia, Mississippi; Joe Flett, Spokane Tribe, Spokane, Washington;
Russell Means, Chinle, Arizona, on behalf of the American Indian Movement;
Leonard Garment, former Special Consultant to President Nixon; Bradley H.
Patterson, Jr., Executive Assistant to the Special Consultant to President
Nixon; Robert Robertson, former Executive Director, National Council on Indian
Opportunity; Reid Payton Chambers, former Associate Solicitor for Indian
Affairs; and Louis F. Claiborne, former Deputy Solicitor General. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

Joint Meeting

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings on the national economic
outlook for 1989, receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, February 2. 



1989/02/02
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 2, 1989; pages D44 - D52  (Bound vol. D20-
D27)

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATION

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings on
the nomination of Clayton Yeutter, of Nebraska, to be Secretary of
Agriculture, where the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Kerrey and
Exon, and Representatives Virginia Smith and Bereuter, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: On Wednesday, February 1,
committee held an organizational business meeting, where it took the following
action: 

Ordered favorably reported an original resolution requesting $1,876,650 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1989, through February 28,
1990, and $1,914,132 in operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1990,
through February 28, 1991; and 

Adopted committee rules of procedure for the 101st Congress. 

DOE NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to review safety,
modernization, and environmental cleanup of Department of Energy nuclear
weapons facilities, receiving testimony from Troy E. Wade II, Acting Assistant
Secretary for Defense Programs, Richard W. Starostecki, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Safety Health and Quality Assurance, John F. Ahearne, Chairman,
Advisory Committee on Nuclear Facility Safety, Raymond P. Berube, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Environment, and Ronald W. Cochran, Acting Director,
Office of New Production Reactors, all of the Department of Energy; and James
S. Moore, Westinghouse Savannah River Company, Aiken, South Carolina. 

Committee will meet again tomorrow. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Armed Services: On Wednesday, February 1, committee concluded
hearings in open and closed sessions on the nomination of John G. Tower, of
Texas, to be Secretary of Defense, after the nominee testified and answered
further questions in his own behalf. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following nominations: 

Michael J. Boskin, of California, to be Chairman of the Council of Economic
Advisers; and 

Jack Kemp, of New York, to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 

S&L INDUSTRY

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued
oversight hearings to examine the problems in the savings and loan industry
and the potential threat to insurance fund protection of savings and loan
deposits, receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of
the United States. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 7. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: On Wednesday, February 1, committee
ordered favorably reported the nomination of Manuel Lujan, Jr., of New Mexico,
to be Secretary of the Interior. 

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held a business meeting,
where it took the following action: 

Ordered favorably reported the nomination of William Kane Reilly, of Virginia,
to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; and 

Adopted committee rules of procedures for the 101st Congress. 

On Tuesday, January 31, committee approved for reporting an original
resolution (S. Res. 32) requesting $2,604,115 in operating expenses for the
period from March 1, 1989, through February 28, 1990, and $2,657,355 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1990, through February 28,
1991. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on Finance: On Wednesday, February 1, committee ordered favorably
reported an original resolution (S. Res. 34) requesting $2,754,692 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1989, through February 28,
1990, and $2,814,065 in operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1990,
through February 28, 1991. 

FEDERAL PAY RAISE

Committee on Governmental Affairs: On Wednesday, February 1, committee
continued hearings to review the Report of the 1989 Commission on Executive,
Legislative, and Judicial Salaries, receiving testimony from Senators
Humphrey, Pressler, Grassley, Helms, and Sanford; and Ralph Nader, Center for
the Study for Responsible Laws, Joan Claybrook, Public Citizen, and James
Davidson, National Taxpayers Union, all of Washington, DC.  

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
resolution requesting $4,748,545 in operating expenses for the period from
March 1, 1989, through February 28, 1990, and $4,848,789 in operating expenses
for the period from March 1, 1990, through February 28, 1991. 

                                           [Page: D48]

PARENTAL AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs and Alcoholism concluded hearings on proposed legislation to grant
employees parental and medical leave under certain circumstances, after
receiving testimony from Esther Wender, American Academy of Pediatrics and
Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York; Joe Kroll, North American Council
on Adoptable Children, St. Paul, Minnesota; Barbara Hoffman, National
Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, Princeton, New Jersey; Myra Guski,
Seminole, Florida; Carol Ball, Ball Publishing Company, Arcanum, Ohio; Mary
Wendy Roberts, Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, Portland; Jeff Carter,
Carter Communications, Liberty Corner, New Jersey; Susan Ditto Hamilton,
Martha McCools Restaurant, Tucumari, New Mexico; John Motley, National
Federation of Small Business, Washington, DC; Patricia Ashley, Methodist
Hospital of Indiana, Indianapolis; and Dana Friedman, Families and Work
Institute, New York, New York. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

An original resolution (S. Res. 39) to provide for the filing and argument of
motions by Judge Alcee L. Hastings to dismiss articles of impeachment; and 

An original resolution (S. Res. 38) to provide for the appointment of a
committee to receive and to report evidence with respect to articles of
impeachment against Judge Alcee L. Hastings. 

Also, the committee adopted the report on the "Procedure for the Impeachment
Trial of United States District Judge Alcee L. Hastings in the United States
Senate," for submission to the Senate. 

PROTECTION OF INDIAN RIGHTS 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Special Committee on Investigations
continued hearings to examine various matters relating to Indian affairs,
focusing on problems arising from Federal Government representation of Indian
interests, and alleged fraud and corruption in regulating contracting on
Indian reservations, receiving testimony from Donald James, Native American
Construction and Engineering, Fort Defiance, Arizona; John Paddock, FAITHCO,
Ltd., Marana, Arizona; Pat Chee Miller, PC&M Construction Company Inc.,
Gallup, New Mexico; Franz Springer, Springer Construction Company,
Albuquerque, New Mexico; Larry Ward, Inbanco Corp., Phoenix, Arizona; and
Johnny Donaldson, Dineh Construction and Mechanical, Tse Bonito, New Mexico. 

Hearings were also held on Wednesday, February 1, on the protection of Indian
rights, receiving testimony from Donald Asbra, Chief, Contracting Division,
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; Steven N. Marica,
Assistant Inspector-General for Investigations, Small Business Administration;
Richard James Elroy, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Department of Justice; and Kraig Kendall, Franklin, Tennessee; and in closed
session from Richard Ramirez, former Head, Small and Disadvantaged Business
Utilization Program, U.S. Navy. 

Hearings continue on Monday, February 6. 

Joint Meeting

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

Joint Economic Committee: Committee continued hearings on the national
economic outlook for 1989, receiving testimony from Allen Sinai, The Boston
Company Economic Advisers, Inc., Boston Massachusetts; Lawrence Chimerine, The
WEFA Group, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Richard Rahn, U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, February 9. 



1989/02/03
Daily Digest - Friday, February 3, 1989; pages D53 - D58  (Bound vol. D28-D30)

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Committee on Appropriations: Committee has announced the following
subcommittee assignments: 

Agriculture and Related Agencies: Senators Burdick (Chairman), Bumpers,
Harkin, Adams, Fowler, Kerrey, Cochran, McClure, Kasten, Specter, and
Grassley. 
Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary: Senators Hollings (Chairman), Inouye,
Bumpers, Lautenberg, Sasser, Adams, Rudman, Stevens, Hatfield, Kasten, and
Gramm. 
Defense: Senators Inouye (Chairman), Hollings, Johnston, Byrd, Leahy, Sasser,
DeConcini, Bumpers, Lautenberg, Harkin, Stevens, Garn, McClure, Kasten,
D'Amato, Rudman, Cochran and Specter. 
District of Columbia: Senators Adams (Chairman), Fowler, Kerrey, Gramm and
Domenici. 
Energy and Water Development: Senators Johnston (Chairman), Byrd, Hollings,
Burdick, Sasser, DeConcini, Reid, Hatfield, McClure, Garn, Cochran, Domenici
and Specter. 
Foreign Operations: Senators Leahy (Chairman), Inouye, Johnston, DeConcini,
Lautenberg, Harkin, Mikulski, Kasten, Hatfield, D'Amato, Rudman, Specter, and
Nickles. 
Hud-Independent Agencies: Senators Mikulski (Chairman), Leahy, Johnston,
Lautenberg, Fowler, Kerrey, Garn, D'Amato, Grassley, Nickles and Gramm. 
Interior: Senators Byrd (Chairman), Johnston, Leahy, DeConcini, Burdick,
Bumpers, Hollings, Reid, McClure, Stevens, Garn, Cochran, Rudman, Nickles and
Domenici. 
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education: Senators Harkin (Chairman), Byrd,
Hollings, Burdick, Inouye, Bumpers, Reid, Adams, Specter, Hatfield, Stevens,
Rudman, McClure, Cochran and Gramm. 
Legislative Branch: Senators Reid (Chairman), Mikulski, Adams, Nickles and
Hatfield. 
Military Construction: Senators Sasser (Chairman), Inouye, Reid, Fowler,
Grassley, Garn and Stevens. 
Transportation: Senators Lautenberg (Chairman), Byrd, Harkin, Sasser,
Mikulski, D'Amato, Kasten, Domenici and Grassley.
Treasury, Postal Service, General Government: Senators DeConcini (Chairman),
Mikulski, Kerrey, Domenici and D'Amato. 

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee has announced
the following subcommittee assignments: 

Aviation: Senators Ford (Chairman), Exon, Inouye, Kerry, Bentsen, McCain,
Stevens and Kasten. 
Communications: Senators Inouye (Chairman), Hollings, Ford, Gore, Exon, Kerry,
Bentsen, Breaux, Packwood, Pressler, Stevens, McCain, Burns and Gorton. 
Consumer: Senators Bryan (Chairman), Gore, Ford, Robb, Gorton, McCain and
Kasten. 
Foreign Commerce and Tourism: Senators Rockefeller (Chairman), Hollings,
Bryan, Burns and Packwood. 
Merchant Marine: Senators Breaux (Chairman), Inouye, Bentsen, Lott and
Stevens. 
Science, Technology and Space: Senators Gore (Chairman), Rockefeller, Bentsen,
Kerry, Bryan, Robb, Pressler, Stevens, Kasten and Lott. 
Surface Transportation: Senators Exon (Chairman), Rockefeller, Hollings,
Inouye, Gore, Breaux, Robb, Kasten, Packwood, Pressler, Burns, Gorton and
Lott. 
National Ocean Policy Study: Senators Hollings (Chairman), Kerry (Vice
Chairman), Inouye, Ford, Gore, Bentsen, Breaux, Robb, Stevens, Danforth,
Packwood, Kasten, Pressler, Gorton and Lott. 

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee has announced the
following subcommittee assignments: 

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Energy Regulation and Conservation: Senators Metzenbaum (Chairman), Bradley,
Bingaman, Wirth, Nickles, Murkowski, and Domenici. 
Energy Research and Development: Senators Ford (Chairman), Rockefeller (Vice
Chairman), Bumpers, Metzenbaum, Wirth, Heflin, Domenici, McConnell, Nickles,
Burns, and Garn. 
Mineral Resources Development and Production: Senators Bingaman (Chairman),
Heflin (Vice Chairman), Bumpers, Ford, Conrad, Murkowski, McConnell, Wallop,
and Nickles. 
Public Lands, National Park and Forests: Senators Bumpers (Chairman), Wirth
(Vice Chairman), Bradley, Bingaman, Conrad, Rockefeller, Wallop, Hatfield,
Burns, Garn, and Domenici. 
Water and Power: Senators Bradley (Chairman), Conrad (Vice Chairman), Ford,
Metzenbaum, Heflin, Burns, Hatfield, Garn, and Wallop. 

PUBLIC BUILDINGS PROJECTS

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure held oversight hearings on certain public
buildings projects, receiving testimony in behalf of the International
Cultural and Trade Center and Federal Office Building from Richard G. Austin,
Acting Administrator, General Services Administration; Richard A. Hauser,
Chairman, and M.J. Brodie, Executive Director, both of the Pennsylvania Avenue
Development Corporation; and Charles H. Percy, Chairman, and Harry McPherson,
Vice Chairman, both of the International Cultural and Trade Center Commission;
in behalf of the Federal Judiciary Office Building from George M. White,
Architect of the Capitol, William L. Ensign, Assistant Architect, and Elliott
Carroll, Executive Assistant to the Architect, all of the Office of the
Architect of the Capitol; and L. Ralph Mecham, Director, and Raymond A. Karam,
Assistant Director for Administration, both of the Administrative Office of
the U.S. Courts; and in behalf of the Foley Square Federal Office Building and
Courthouse Annex from Charles L. Brieant, Jr., Chief Judge, Southern District
of New York; William J. Diamond, Regional Administrator (New York City),
General Services Administration; and Robert Esnard, Deputy Mayor for New York
for Policy and Physical Development, New York, New York. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS: 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee has announced the
following subcommittee assignments: 

Water Resources, Transportation, and Infrastructure: Senators Moynihan
(Chairman), Mitchell, Lautenberg, Breaux, Reid, Graham, Lieberman, Symms,
Warner, Jeffords, Humphrey, Durenberger and Chafee. 
Environmental Protection: Senators Baucus (Chairman), Moynihan, Mitchell,
Lautenberg, Breaux, Graham, Lieberman, Chafee, Simpson, Durenberger, Warner,
Jeffords and Humphrey. 
Superfund, Ocean and Water Protection: Senators Lautenberg (Chairman),
Mitchell, Baucus, Graham, Durenberger, Simpson and Symms. 
Nuclear Regulation: Senators Breaux (Chairman), Moynihan, Reid, Simpson and
Symms. 
Toxic Substances, Environmental Oversight, Reserach and Development: Senators
Reid (Chairman), Baucus, Lieberman, Warner and Jeffords. 

GOVERNMENT CONSULTANTS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post
Office, and Civil Service held hearings to examine the Environmental
Protection Agency's use of consultants and contractors, focusing on certain
problems involving conflict of interest, consultants performing governmental
functions, and wasteful consulting services products, receiving testimony from
Joel Hirschorn, Project Director, Office of Technology Assessment; David
O'Connor, Director, Procurement and Contract Management Division, and Henry
Longest, Director, Office of Emergency and Remedial Response, both of the
Environmental Protection Agency; and Bernard L. Ungar, Director, Federal Human
Resources Management, General Government Division, and Terry Draver,
Evaluator-in-Charge, Ron J. Cormier, Assistant Manager, and Kevin Donahue,
Assistant Director, all of the Resources, Community and Economic Development
Division, all of the General Accounting Office.

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee has announced the following subcommittee
assignments: 

Immigration and Refugee Affairs: Senators Kennedy (Chairman), Simon and
Simpson. 
Antitrust, Monopolies and Business Rights: Senators Metzenbaum (Chairman),
DeConcini, Heflin, Simon, Kohl, Thurmond, Specter, Humphrey, and Hatch. 
Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks: Senators DeConcini (Chairman), Kennedy,
Leahy, Heflin, Hatch, Simpson, and Grassley. 
Technology and the Law: Senators Leahy (Chairman), Kohl, and Humphrey. 
Courts and Administrative Practice: Senators Heflin (Chairman), Metzenbaum,
Kohl, Grassley, and Thurmond. 
Constitution: Senators Simon (Chairman), Metzenbaum, DeConcini, Kennedy,
Specter, and Hatch. 

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SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee has announced the following
subcommittee assignments: 

Labor: Senators Metzenbaum (Chairman), Matsunaga, Harkin, Mikulski, Jeffords,
Cochran, and Thurmond. 
Education, Arts and Humanities: Senators Pell (Chairman), Metzenbaum,
Matsunaga, Dodd, Simon, Mikulski, Kassebaum, Cochran, Hatch, Jeffords, and
Thurmond. 
Employment and Productivity: Senators Simon (Chairman), Harkin, Adams,
Mikulski, Thurmond, Durenberger, and Kassebaum. 
Handicapped: Senators Harkin (Chairman), Metzenbaum, Simon, Adams,
Durenberger, Hatch, and Jeffords. 
Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism: Senators Dodd (Chairman), Pell,
Harkin, Adams, Coats, Hatch, and Kassebaum. 
Aging: Senators Matsunaga (Chairman), Pell, Metzenbaum, Dodd, Cochran,
Durenberger, and Coats. 

Joint Meeting

EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT

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

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 



1989/02/06
Daily Digest - Monday, February 6, 1989; pages D59 - D62  (Bound vol. D30-D31)

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--NEA/NEH/BUREAU OF MINES

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Francis S.M.
Hodsoll, Chairman, Hugh Southern, Deputy Chairman for Programs, Peter J.
Basso, Deputy Chairman for Management, and Adrian Hirsch, Deputy Chairman for
Public Partnership, all of the National Endowment for the Arts; Lynne V.
Cheney, Chairman, Solace Colgan, Deputy Chairman, John Agresto, Deputy
Chairman, and Stephen Cherington, Director, Office of Planning and Budget, all
of the National Endowment for the Humanities; and T.S. Ary, Director, and
James S. Donahue, Chief, Division of Budget, both of the Bureau of Mines,
Department of the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, February 9. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee approved for reporting an
original resolution requesting $4,981,973 in operating expenses for the period
of March 1, 1989, through February 28, 1990, and $5,085,260 in operating
expenses for the period from March 1, 1990, through February 28, 1991. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: On Friday, February 3, committee approved for
reporting an original resolution requesting $1,123,937 in operating expenses
for the period of March 1, 1989, through February 28, 1990, and $1,148,131 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1990, through February 28,
1991. 

PROTECTION OF INDIAN RIGHTS

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Special Committee on Investigations
resumed hearings to examine various matters relating to Indian affairs,
focusing on alleged corruption among elected officials in tribal government,
receiving testimony from Eugene Twardowicz, Staff Investigator, Special
Committee on Investigations; Drex Hansen, American West Aircraft Corporation,
Houston, Texas; and Peter MacDonald, Jr., Phoenix, Arizona. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1989/02/07
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 7, 1989; pages D63 - D68  (Bound vol. D31-
D34)

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

S&L INDUSTRY

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed oversight
hearings to examine the problems in the savings and loan industry and the
potential threat to the insurance fund protecting savings and loan deposits,
receiving testimony from Paul A. Volcker, Chairman, James D. Wolfensohn
Incorporated, New York, New York, and former Chairman, Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, February 9. 

DEFENSE MATERIALS PRODUCTION

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held closed oversight
hearings on Department of Energy facilities for defense materials production,
receiving testimony from Troy E. Wade II, Acting Assistant Secretary for
Defense Programs, Raymond Berube, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment,
and Richard Starostecki, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Safety, Health, and
Quality Assurance, all of the Department of Energy. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, February 9. 

VULNERABILITY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND ENERGY RESOURCES 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the
adequacy of government programs designed to prevent, or respond to,
interruptions in the U.S. telecommunications network and energy supplies,
caused either by terrorist acts or natural disasters, receiving testimony from
Charles C. Lane, Staff Investigator, Committee on Governmental Affairs; Lt.
Gen. Lee M. Paschall, USAF (Ret.), former Director, Defense Communications
Agency; John C. McDonald, National Research Council, National Academy of
Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering; Thomas A. Norman, United
Telecommunications, Inc., representing the National Security
Telecommunications Advisory Committee; Benham E. Morriss, Deputy Manager,
National Communications System; and Richard King, Illinois Commerce
Commission, and Thomas W. Ortciger, Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster
Agency, both of Springfield. 

                                           [Page: D64]

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

AIDS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held oversight hearings on
the adequacy of Federal Government efforts to combat AIDS with regard to
education, care and drug development, receiving testimony from Frank E. Young,
Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, Samuel Matheny, Associate
Administrator for AIDS, Health Resources and Services Administration, and Gary
Noble, Deputy Director for AIDS, Centers for Disease Control, all of the
Department of Health and Human Services; and Samuel Thier, Institute of
Medicine, Washington, DC. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

PROTECTION OF INDIAN RIGHTS 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Special Committee on Investigations
continued hearings to examine various matters relating to Indian affairs,
focusing on alleged corruption among elected officials in tribal government,
receiving testimony from A. Melvin McDonald, and Byron T. Brown, John Hall &
Associates, both of Phoenix, Arizona; and Annie D. Wauneka, Navajo Nation,
Klagetoh, Arizona. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

Joint Meeting

INDIAN PROGRAMS

Joint Hearing: Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs concluded joint
hearings with the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1990 for programs of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Health Service, after receiving testimony
from W. Patrick Ragsdale, Acting Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs, Bureau
of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; and Everett Rhoades, Director,
Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services. 



1989/02/08
Daily Digest - [Wednesday, February 8, 1989]; pages D70 - D76  (Bound vol.
D34-D38)

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

THIRD WORLD DEBT 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy concluded hearings to examine new
approaches with respect to the debt problem of developing countries, after
receiving testimony from John Williamson, Institute for International
Economics, and Horst Schulmann, Institute of International Finance, both of
Washington, DC; Rodney B. Wagner, Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., and the Economic
Policy Council of the U.S. Association of the U.S.A., and Harry L. Freeman,
American Express, representing the American Agenda, both of New York, New
York; Rodrigo Botero, Harvard Center for International Relations, and the
Inter-American Dialogue, and Jeffrey Sachs, Harvard University, both of
Boston, Massachusetts; and Steven Hanke, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
Maryland. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee approved for reporting an
original resolution requesting $4,951,018 in operating expenses for the period
of March 1, 1989, through February 28, 1990, and $5,501,556 in operating
expenses for the period from March 1, 1990, through February 28, 1991. 

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VULNERABILITY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND ENERGY RESOURCES

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee continued hearings to examine the
adequacy of government programs designed to prevent, or respond to,
interruptions in the U.S. telecommunications network and energy supplies,
caused either by terrorist acts or natural disasters, receiving testimony from
Edward V. Badolato, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Emergencies,
Department of Energy; Randall W. Hardy, Seattle City Light, Seattle,
Washington; Charles H. White, National Electrical Manufacturers Association,
Washington, DC; Michehl R. Gent, North American Electric Reliability Council,
Princeton, New Jersey; and David B. Hinman, Alabama Power Company, Birmingham. 

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 for periods from
March 1, 1989, through February 28, 1990, and from March 1, 1990, through
February 28, 1991, as follows: 
Foreign Relations: (S. Res. 15) Senators Pell and Helms; 
Indian Affairs: (S. Res. 28) Senators Inouye and McCain; 
Armed Services: (S. Res. ) Senators Nunn and Warner; 
Appropriations: (S. Res. 41) Senators Byrd and Hatfield; 
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (S. Res. 30) Senators Riegle and Garn; 
Budget: (S. Res. 26) Senators Sasser and Domenici; 
Veterans' Affairs: (S. Res. 51) Senators Cranston and Murkowski; 
Governmental Affairs: (S. Res. ) Senators Glenn and Roth; 
Energy and Natural Resources: (S. Res. 12) Senators Johnston and McClure. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

PROTECTION OF INDIAN RIGHTS

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Special Committee on Investigations
continued hearings to examine various matters relating to Indian affairs,
focusing on organized crime's infiltration into Indian gaming, and law
enforcement on the reservations, receiving testimony from Richard J. Elroy,
Special Agent, and Anthony Daniels, Deputy Assistant Director, Criminal
Investigative Division, both of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Department of Justice; Robert Morehouse, California State Attorney General's
Office, Sacramento; Steve McNamee, Phoenix, Arizona; William Lutz,
Albuquerque, New Mexico; William Price, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Phillip
Hogen, Rapid City, South Dakota; Richard A. Stacy, Casper, Wyoming; and a
public witness. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1989/02/09
Daily Digest - [Thursday, February 9, 1989]; pages D78 - D84  (Bound vol. D38-
D43)

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

GORBACHEV INITIATIVES

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings to
review the impact of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's initiatives on policy
and budget issues, after receiving testimony from John D. Steinbruner, The
Brookings Institution, Washington, DC; James A. Thomson, The Rand Corporation,
Santa Monica, California; and Donald S. Zagoria, Hunter College and the
Graduate Center of City University of New York, New York. 

APPROPRIATIONS--DOI/DOE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for certain
programs of the Department of the Interior and the Department of Energy,
receiving testimony from former Senator John Melcher; and numerous public
witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, February 15. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on Armed Services: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution (S. Res. 58) requesting $2,728,969 in operating expenses for the
period of March 1, 1989, through February 28, 1990, and $2,785,811 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1990, through February 28,
1991. 

S&L INDUSTRY

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed oversight
hearings to examine the problems in the savings and loan industry and the
potential threat to the insurance fund protecting savings and loan deposits,
receiving testimony from Richard L. Thornburgh, Attorney General of the United
States; Edward S.G. Dennis, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Criminal
Division, Department of Justice; H. Joe Selby, Insignia Company, and David W.
Gleeson, Lincoln Asset Management Company, both of Dallas, Texas. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 22. 

NASA BUDGET

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held hearings to review the President's proposed budget
request for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, receiving testimony from James C. Fletcher, Administrator,
Dale D. Myers, Deputy Administrator, Noel W. Hinners, Assistant Deputy
Administrator, Adm. Richard H. Truly, Associate Administrator, and Thomas
Campbell, Comptroller, all of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

DEFENSE MATERIALS PRODUCTION

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded closed
oversight hearings on Department of Energy facilities for defense materials
production, after receiving testimony from Robert C. Duncan, Director, Defense
Research & Engineering, and Gen. Robert T. Herres, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs
of Staff, both of the Department of Defense; Troy E. Wade II, Acting Assistant
Secretary, Office of Defense Programs, and Richard Starostecki, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Safety, Health and Quality Assurance, both of the
Department of Energy; and John Ahearne, Chairman, Advisory Committee on
Nuclear Facility Safety. 

CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to assess
challenges and responses to the global spread of chemical and biological
weapons, receiving testimony from William H. Webster, Director, Central
Intelligence Agency; David Goldberg, Chemical Weapons Analyst, and Barry J.
Erlick, Senior Biological Warfare Analyst, both of the Department of the Army;
Robert M. Cook-Deegan, and Victor Sidel, both of Physicians for Human Rights,
Somerville, Massachusetts; Deborah Lief-Dienstag, and Victor Burnett, both of
St. John's Episcopal Hospital, Far Rockaway, Queens, New York; and W. Seth
Carus, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and Elisa Harris, Brookings
Institution, both of Washington, DC. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

CHILDHOOD ACCIDENTS AND INJURIES

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs and Alcoholism held hearings on the frequency, seriousness and
prevention of childhood accidents and injuries, receiving testimony from C.
Everett Koop, Surgeon General of the United States; Ann Graham, Commissioner,
Consumer Product Safety Commission; Martin Eichelberger, Children's Hospital,
Washington, DC; Mark Widome, American Academy of Pediatrics, Hershey,
Pennsylvania; Susan Gallagher, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston,
Massachusetts; James Dunning, Alexandria, Virginia; Judith Randlett, Sandy
Hook, Connecticut; Marilyn Adams, Earlham, Iowa; and Michael Kurgan, Herndon,
Virginia. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

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EMPLOYER ASSET REVERSIONS

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor concluded
hearings to review employer asset reversions from terminated pension plans,
after receiving testimony from David M. Walker, Assistant Secretary, Pension
and Welfare Benefits Administration, Department of Labor; Dana Trier, Tax
Legislative Counsel, Department of the Treasury; Zack Carter, Alabama Drydock
and Shipbuilding Company, Mobile, on behalf of the Industrial Union of Marine
and Shipbuilding Workers of America Local 18; C.W. Gilbert, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; Bert Seidman, Department of Occupational Safety, Health and
Social Security, AFL-CIO, and Frank Higgins, American Association of Retired
Persons, both of Washington, DC; Peter M. Kelly, Bell, Boyd and Loyd, Chicago,
Illinois, on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; and Vance Anderson, Mobil
Oil Corporation, New York, New York, on behalf of the Association of Private
Pension and Welfare Plans. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET REQUESTS

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings to receive
testimony from Senators, as indicated, in support of resolutions requesting
funds for operating expenses of their respective committees for periods from
March 1, 1989 through February 28, 1990, and from March 1, 1990 through
February 28, 1991, as follows:  
Labor and Human Resources: (S. Res. 52) Senators Kennedy and Hatch; 
Intelligence: (S. Res. 57) Senators Boren and Cohen; 
Aging: (S. Res. 25) Senator Pryor; 
Finance: (S. Res. 34) Senators Bentsen and Packwood; 
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: (S. Res. 50) Senators Leahy and Lugar; 
Judiciary: (S. Res. 54) Senators Biden and Thurmond; 
Environment and Public Works: (S. Res. 32) Senators Burdick and Chafee; 
Commerce, Science, and Transportation: (S. Res. 29) Senators Hollings and
Danforth; 
Small Business: (S. Res. 33) Senators Bumpers and Kasten. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported an
original resolution (S. Res. 57) requesting $2,305,816 in operating expenses
for the period of March 1, 1989, through February 28, 1990, and $2,353,721 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1990, through February 28,
1991. 

INTELLIGENCE

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

Committee will meet again on Tuesday, February 21. 

PROTECTION OF INDIAN RIGHTS

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Special Committee on Investigations
continued hearings to examine various matters relating to Indian affairs,
focusing on child sexual abuse, receiving testimony from numerous public
witnesses. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 22. 

Joint Meetings

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings on the national economic
outlook for 1989, receiving testimony from Jeffrey Sachs, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts; John Williamson, Institute for International
Economics, Washington, DC; and David Hale, Kemper Financial Services, Chicago,
Illinois. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 



1989/02/21
Daily Digest - [Tuesday, February 21, 1989]; pages D86 - D92  (Bound vol. D43-
D46)

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings to review
commander-in-chief posture for fiscal year 1990, receiving testimony from Gen.
John R. Galvin, USA, Commander-In-Chief, U.S. European Command. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, February 23. 

MONETARY POLICY

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the Federal Reserve's First Monetary Policy Report for 1989, after
receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System. 

1990 BUDGET

Committee on the Budget: Committee began hearings in preparation for reporting
the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1990 budget, receiving
testimony from Richard G. Darman, Director, Office of Management and Budget. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Robert M. Kimmitt, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of State
for Political Affairs, Robert B. Zoellick, of the District of Columbia, to be
Counselor of the Department of State, Janet Gardner Mullins, of Kentucky, to
be an Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs, and Margaret
DeBardeleben Tutwiler, of Alabama, to be an Assistant Secretary of State for
Public Affairs, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their
own behalf. 

PROTECTION OF INDIAN RIGHTS

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Special Committee on Investigations
resumed hearings to examine various matters relating to Indian affairs,
focusing on child sexual abuse, receiving testimony from David Small,
Supervisory Special Agent, Phoenix Division, and James G. Perry, Supervisory
Senior Resident, Minneapolis Division, both of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, Department of Justice; Joyce Roy, Criminal Investigator,
(Albuquerque Office), and Jerome Maine, Criminal Investigator, (Billings
Office), both of the Law Enforcement Services Division, and William Mehojah,
Branch Chief, Christine Brown, Assistant Branch Chief, and Kenneth Ross,
Assistant Director for South and West Agencies, (Gallup, New Mexico), all of
the Office of Indian Education, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the
Interior; Tony Marceca, Special Agent, Criminal Investigative Division, U.S.
Army; Betty Brintnall and Ollie Locust, both of the Cherokee Elementary
School, Patricia Tramper, and Larry Blythe, all of Cherokee, North Carolina;
Keneitha Haigler, Birdtown, North Carolina; Elizabeth Shiek, Smoky Mountain
Mental Health Clinic, Bryson City, North Carolina; and Arthur Justice,
University of South Carolina, Spartanburg. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

INTELLIGENCE

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

Committee recessed subject to call. 

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No Joint hearings noted.



1989/02/22
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 22, 1989; pages D93 - D100  (Bound vol.
D46-D50)

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATION

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to further
consider the nomination of John G. Tower, of Texas, to be Secretary of
Defense. 

Committee will meet again tomorrow. 

S&L INDUSTRY

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed oversight
hearings to examine the problems in the savings and loan industry and the
potential threat to the insurance fund protecting savings and loan deposits,
receiving testimony from Nicholas F. Brady, Secretary of the Treasury. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

1990 BUDGET

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1990 budget,
focusing on deficit spending consequences, receiving testimony from Benjamin
Friedman, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; David Jones, Aubrey
Lanston Company, New York, New York; and Charles Wolf, Rand Corporation,
Washington, DC. 

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Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 28. 

GREENHOUSE EFFECT

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings on
the potential threat of global climate change, and S. 169, to provide for
improved coordination of national scientific research efforts and to provide
for a national plan to improve scientific understanding of the Earth system
and the effect of changes on climate and human well-being, receiving testimony
from Frederick M. Bernthal, Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International
Environmental and Scientific Affairs, Department of State; Robert W. Corell,
Assistant Director for Geosciences, National Science Foundation; Mayor Joseph
P. Riley, Charleston, South Carolina; Mark Drabenstott, Federal Reserve Bank
of Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri; Thomas G. Lambrix, Phillips Petroleum
Company, on behalf of the National Association of Manufacturers, Washington,
DC; and William C. Clark, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 8. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Admiral James D. Watkins, U.S. Navy, Retired, of California, to
be Secretary of Energy, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators
Hatfield and Wilson, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

IRS MANAGEMENT REVIEW

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Private Retirement Plans and Oversight
of the Internal Revenue Service held hearings to review Internal Revenue
Service management quality improvement programs and taxpayer services,
receiving testimony from Lawrence B. Gibbs, Commissioner, Internal Revenue
Service, Department of the Treasury; and Gene L. Dodaro, Director, General
Management Issues, General Government Division, General Accounting Office.  

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on the need to
improve early childhood education programs, receiving testimony from Richard
Munro, Time Inc., New York, New York; Robert Mercer, Goodyear Tire and Rubber
Company, Akron, Ohio; Arnold Hiatt, Stride Rite, and Matina Horner, Radcliffe
College, both of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Frank Doyle, General Electric
Company, Fairfield, Connecticut; and Irving Harris, Ounce of Prevention Early
Education Fund, Chicago, Illinois. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

PROTECTION OF INDIAN RIGHTS 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Special Committee on Investigations
resumed hearings to examine various matters relating to Indian affairs,
focusing on child sexual abuse, receiving testimony from Jane Burnley,
Director, Office for Victims of Crime, Department of Justice; Robert Delaware,
Acting Chief, and Linda Guy, Social Services Specialist, both of the Social
Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Penny Coleman, Attorney Advisor,
Office of the Solicitor, all of the Department of the Interior; Judge William
A. Thorne, Third Circuit Court of Appeals, West Valley City, Utah; Larry and
Anne Blythe, and Roxanne Howard, all of Cherokee, North Carolina; Eidell
Wasserman, Special Child Sexual Abuse Project, and Kenneth Hodder and David
Breault, both of the Hopi High School and Polacca Day School, all of the Hopi
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Elizabeth Shiek, Smoky Mountain Mental Health
Clinic, Bryson City, North Carolina; Margaret Allen, Tribal Social Services,
Gila River Indian Community, Arizona; Karen Artichoker, South Dakota Coalition
Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse, Rapid City; Elizabeth Little Elk
Garriott, Casey Family Program, Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota; and
Howard Davidson, Center for Child Advocacy, Washington, DC. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

Joint Meetings

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings on the national economic
outlook for 1989, receiving testimony from Michael J. Boskin, Chairman,
Council of Economic Advisers. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 



1989/02/23
Daily Digest - [Thursday, February 23, 1989]; pages D102 - D114  (Bound vol.
D51-D58)

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

TRADE PRACTICE ABUSES

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings to
examine the potential for trade practice abuses at the Chicago Board of Trade
and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, receiving testimony from Richard L.
Fogel, Assistant Comptroller General, Michael Burnett, Assistant Director, and
Cecile Trop, Assistant Director, all of the General Government Division,
General Accounting Office. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, March 9. 

APPROPRIATIONS--DOJ

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for
the Department of Justice, receiving testimony from Richard L. Thornburgh,
Attorney General of the United States. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 2. 

APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings in open
and closed session to review commander-in-chief posture for fiscal year 1990,
receiving testimony from Adm. Huntington Hardisty, USN, Commander-In-Chief,
Pacific; and Gen. Lewis C. Menetrey, USA, Commander-In-Chief, U.S. Forces
Korea.  

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, February 28. 

APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for
the Department of Transportation, receiving testimony from Samuel K. Skinner,
Secretary of Transportation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 2. 

NOMINATIONS/RULES OF PROCEDURE/SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met and took the following action: 

Ordered favorably reported 10,462 military nominations in the Army, Navy, Air
Force, and Marine Corps; 

Adopted committee rules of procedure for the 101st Congress; and 

Announced the following subcommittee assignments: 

Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear Deterrence: Senators Exon
(Chairman), Levin, Kennedy, Bingaman, Glenn, Gore, Thurmond, Cohen, Wilson,
Wallop, and Gorton; 
Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance Defense: Senators Levin
(Chairman), Dixon, Glenn, Wirth, Shelby, Byrd, Wilson, Thurmond, Cohen,
McCain, and Coats; 
Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional Defense: Senators Kennedy
(Chairman), Exon, Dixon, Gore, Shelby, Cohen, McCain, Gorton, and Lott; 
Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology: Senators Bingaman (Chairman),
Gore, Wirth, Byrd, Wallop, Lott, and Coats; 
Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and Support: Senators Dixon
(Chairman), Levin, Bingaman, Wirth, Shelby, Gorton, Thurmond, Wallop, and
Coats; and 
Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel: Senators Glenn (Chairman), Exon,
Kennedy, Byrd, McCain, Wilson, and Lott.

NOMINATION

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued in evening session to further
consider the nomination of John G. Tower, of Texas, to be Secretary of
Defense. 

S&L INDUSTRY

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued
oversight hearings to examine the problems in the savings and loan industry,
receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 28. 

OZONE DEPLETION

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held hearings to review recent findings relating to the
destruction of the earth's protective ozone shield in the upper atmosphere,
receiving testimony from Robert T. Watson, Earth Science and Applications
Division, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Adrian F. Tuck and
Susan Solomon, both of the Aeronomy Lab, Boulder, Colorado, National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration; Joseph Glas, E.I. DuPont, Inc., Wilmington,
Delaware; Robert Traflet, Allied-Signal, Inc., Morristown, New Jersey; and
Arnold Braswell, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute, Arlington,
Virginia. 

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Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION/COMMITTEE RULES 

Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of
Louis W. Sullivan, of Georgia, to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. 

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Mr. Sullivan, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Fowler and
Representatives John Lewis, Gingrich, Rowland, and Ben Jones, testified and
answered questions in his own behalf. Testimony was also received from Judy
Brown, American Life League, Inc., Washington, DC. 

Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 101st Congress, and
designated Senators Bentsen, Matsunaga, Moynihan, Packwood, and Dole as
members of the Joint Committee on Taxation. 

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Committee on Finance: Committee announced the following subcommittee
assignments: 

Subcommittee on Health for Families and the Uninsured: Senators Riegle
(Chairman), Bradley, Mitchell, Rockefeller, Bentsen, Chafee, Roth,
Durenberger, and Packwood. 
Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy: Senators Moynihan
(Chairman), Daschle, Bentsen, Dole, Durenberger, and Packwood; 
Subcommittee on International Trade: Senators Baucus (Chairman), Bentsen,
Matsunaga, Moynihan, Boren, Bradley, Mitchell, Riegle, Rockefeller, Daschle,
Danforth, Roth, Chafee, Heinz, Armstrong, Packwood, and Symms; 
Subcommittee on International Debt: Senators Bradley (Chairman), Riegle,
Bentsen, Dole, Armstrong, and Packwood; 
Subcommittee on Private Retirement Plans and Oversight of the Internal Revenue
Service: Senators Pryor (Chairman), Moynihan, Bentsen, Heinz, and Packwood; 
Subcommittee on Taxation and Debt Management: Senators Matsunaga (Chairman),
Bentsen, Baucus, Boren, Pryor, Roth, Danforth, Symms, and Packwood; 
Subcommittee on Energy and Agricultural Taxation: Senators Boren (Chairman),
Matsunaga, Bentsen, Armstrong, Symms, and Packwood; and 
Subcommittee on Medicare and Long-Term Care: Senators Rockefeller (Chairman),
Bentsen, Baucus, Mitchell, Pryor, Daschle, Durenberger, Dole, Packwood, Heinz,
Chafee, and Danforth. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Thomas R. Pickering, of New Jersey, to be the U.S. Representative to the
United Nations with the rank and status of Ambassador, and the U.S.
Representative in the Security Council of the United Nations, after the
nominee, who was introduced by Senators Lautenberg and Bradley, testified and
answered questions in his own behalf. 

SUDAN

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs concluded
hearings to examine the impact of war and famine in Sudan, after receiving
testimony from Representative Wolf; Kenneth L. Brown, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for African Affairs; Walter G. Bollinger, Acting Assistant
Administrator, Bureau for Africa, and Julia V. Taft, Director, Office of U.S.
Foreign Disaster Assistance, both of the Agency for International Development;
and John Prendergast, on behalf of the Center of Concern and the Coalition for
Peace in the Horn of Africa, and Roger Winter, U.S. Committee for Refugees,
both of Washington, DC. 

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held an organizational meeting
where it took the following action: 

Announced the following subcommittee assignments: 

Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: Senators Nunn (Chairman), Glenn
(Vice Chairman), Levin, Sasser, Pryor, Kohl, Lieberman, Roth, Stevens, Cohen,
Rudman, and Wilson; 
Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post Office, and Civil Service: Senators
Pryor (Chairman), Sasser, Kohl, Stevens, and Wilson; 
Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management: Senators Levin (Chairman),
Pryor, Bingaman, Kohl, Lieberman, Cohen, Rudman, Heinz, and Wilson. 
Subcommittee on General Services, Federalism, and the District of Columbia:
Senators Sasser (Chairman), Bingaman, Lieberman, Heinz, and Stevens; and 
Subcommittee on Government Information and Regulation: Senators Bingaman
(Chairman), Nunn, Levin, Kohl, Rudman, Cohen, and Heinz. 

BUSINESS MEETING

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

S.J. Res. 25, designating May 7-14, 1989 as "Jewish Heritage Week"; 

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S.J. Res. 32, designating February 2, 1989 as "National Women and Girls in
Sports Day"; 

S.J. Res. 34, designating April 16-22, 1989 as "National Minority Cancer
Awareness Week"; 

S.J. Res. 37, designating May 14-20, 1989 as "National Osteoporosis Prevention
Week"; 

S.J. Res. 39, designating April 6, 1989 as "National Student-Athlete Day"; 

S.J. Res. 40, designating the last Friday in April as "National Arbor Day"; 

S.J. Res. 44, designating April 9, 1989 as "Crime Victims Week"; 

S.J. Res. 45, designating May 1989 as "Older Americans Month"; 

S.J. Res. 50, designating the week of April 2, 1989 as "National Child Care
Awareness Week"; 

S.J. Res. 51, designating the month of April, 1989 as "National Cancer
Awareness Month"; 

S.J. Res. 52, designating May 1, 1989 as "Law Day U.S.A."; 

S.J. Res. 56, designating April 23-29, 1989 as "National Organ and Tissue
Donor Awareness Week"; 

S.J. Res. 58, designating May 17, 1989 as "High School Reserve Officer
Training Corps Recognition Day"; 

S.J. Res. 60, designating May 1-7, 1989 as "National Drinking Water Week"; 

S.J. Res. 63, designating June 14, 1989 as "Baltic Freedom Day"; 

S. 248, to provide increased penalties for certain major frauds against the
United States; and 

S. 270, to modify the application of the antitrust laws to encourage the
licensing and other use of certain intellectual property. 

Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 101st Congress. 

BUSINESS MEETING

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

An original resolution (S. Res. 66) authorizing biennial expenditures by
standing, select, and special committees of the Senate, in lieu of S. Res. 12,
S. Res. 15, S. Res. 25, S. Res. 26, S. Res. 28, S. Res. 29, S. Res. 30, S.
Res. 32, S. Res. 33, S. Res. 34, S. Res. 41, S. Res. 50, S. Res. 51, S. Res.
52, S. Res. 54, S. Res. 57, S. Res. 58, and S. Res. 60. As approved by the
committee, the resolution provides funds, as follows: 
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry --$1,876,650 for the funding
period through February 28, 1990, and $1,914,132 for the funding period
through February 28, 1991; 
Committee on Appropriations --$4,736,267 for the funding period through
February 28, 1990, and $4,828,540 for the funding period through February 28,
1991; 
Committee on Armed Services --$2,728,969 for the funding period through
February 28, 1990, and $2,785,811 for the funding period through February 28,
1991; 
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs --$2,560,816 for the funding
period through February 28, 1990, and $2,614,125 for the funding period
through February 28, 1991; 
Committee on the Budget --$3,313,130 for the funding period through February
28, 1990, and $3,382,402 for the funding period through February 28, 1991; 
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation --$3,694,395 for the
funding period through February 28, 1990, and $3,769,571 for the funding
period through February 28, 1991; 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources --$2,673,547 for the funding period
through February 28, 1990, and $2,727,832 for the funding period through
February 28, 1991; 
Committee on Environment and Public Works --$2,604,115 for the funding period
through February 28, 1990, and $2,657,355 for the funding period through
February 28, 1991; 
Committee on Finance --$2,754,692 for the funding period through February 28,
1990, and $2,814,065 for the funding period through February 28, 1991; 
Committee on Foreign Relations --$2,666,656 for the funding period through
February 28, 1990, and $2,721,004 for the funding period through February 28,
1991; 
Committee on Governmental Affairs --$4,951,018 for the funding period through
February 28, 1990, and $5,051,556 for the funding period through February 28,
1991; 
Committee on the Judiciary --$4,748,545 for the funding period through
February 28, 1990, and $4,846,789 for the funding period through February 28,
1991; 
Committee on Labor and Human Resources --$4,981,973 for the funding period
through February 28, 1990, and $5,085,260 for the funding period through
February 28, 1991; 
Committee on Rules and Administration --$1,430,672 for the funding period
through February 28, 1990, and $1,459,163 for the funding period through
February 28, 1991; 
Committee on Small Business --$1,012,941 for the funding period through
February 28, 1990, and $1,035,734 for the funding period through February 28,
1991; 
Committee on Veterans' Affairs --$1,123,937 for the funding period through
February 28, 1990, and $1,148,131 for the funding period through February 28,
1991; 
Special Committee on Aging --$1,200,008 for the funding period through
February 28, 1990, and $1,213,792 for the funding period through February 28,
1991; 

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Select Committee on Intelligence --$2,305,816 for the funding period through
February 28, 1990, and $2,353,721 for the funding period through February 28,
1991; 
Select Committee on Indian Affairs --$1,887,941 for the funding period through
February 28, 1990, and $1,021,116 for the funding period through February 28,
1991; and 

S. Res. 53, authorizing the printing of additional copies of the Senate report
titled "Developments in Aging: 1988". 

PROTECTION OF INDIAN RIGHTS

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Special Committee on Investigations
continued hearings to examine various matters relating to Indian affairs,
focusing on conflicts inherent in the Federal-Indian relationship, receiving
testimony from William P. Ragsdale, Acting Assistant Secretary for Indian
Affairs, and Timothy A. Vollmann, Regional Solicitor, Southwest Region, both
of the Department of the Interior; Ross O. Swimmer, former Assistant Secretary
of the Interior for Indian Affairs; Ann Dore McLaughlin, former Under
Secretary of the Interior, and former Secretary of Labor; Mike Clinton, former
Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of the Interior; Archibald Cox,
former Solicitor General of the Interior, and former Watergate Special
Prosecutor; Harold Tyler, former Deputy Attorney General, and former U.S.
District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York; and Erwin
Griswold, former Solicitor General of the Interior. 

Hearings continue on Monday, February 27. 

Joint Meetings

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

Joint Economic Committee: Committee continued hearings on the national
economic outlook for 1989, focusing on the savings and loan crisis, the
possibility of recession, and growing business and government debt, receiving
testimony from Benjamin Friedman, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; and Robert Litan, Brookings Institution, and William Niskanen,
CATO Institute, both of Washington, DC. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 



1989/02/27
Daily Digest - Monday, February 27, 1989; pages D115 - D120  (Bound vol. D58-
D60)

Committee Meetings

(Committee not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 and 1991 for
military construction programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for
their respective activities from Robert A. Stone, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense (Installations), OASD (Production and Logistics); John B. Rosamond,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Materiel and Facilities); Brig. Gen.
William A. Navas, Jr., Deputy Director, Army National Guard; Brig. Gen. Roger
C. Bultman, Deputy Chief, Army Reserve; Rear Adm. Richard K. Chambers, Deputy
Commander, Naval Reserve Force; Brig. Gen. Michael P. Downs, Director,
Facilities and Services Division; Brig. Gen. John G. McMerty, Deputy Director,
Air National Guard; and Brig. Gen. Shirley M. Carpenter, Deputy Chief, Air
Force Reserve. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 2. 

APPROPRIATIONS--CUSTOMS SERVICE/COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM THE BLIND 

Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, February 24, Subcommittee on Treasury,
Postal Service and General Government held hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1990, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for
their respective activities from Frank Gearde, Jr., Chairman, and Beverly L.
Milkman, Executive Director, both of the Committee for Purchase from the Blind
and Other Severely Handicapped; and William von Raab, Commissioner, and
William Rosenblatt, Assistant Commissioner for Enforcement, both of U.S.
Customs Service, Department of the Treasury. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 1. 

DOE BUDGET 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: On Friday, February 24,
Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development concluded oversight hearings
on the Department of Energy budget request for fiscal year 1990 for basic
energy research programs, after receiving testimony from Senators Bentsen and
Gramm; Representative Barton; Robert Hunter, Assistant Secretary of Energy for
Energy Research; Roy F. Schwitters, SSC Laboratory, Ellis County, Texas; and
Philip W. Anderson, Princeton University, New Jersey. 

DOD ACQUISITION PROCESS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: On Friday, February 24, Subcommittee on
Oversight of Government Management held oversight hearings to review the
management of inside information in the Department of Defense acquisition
process, receiving testimony from Michael P.W. Stone, Under Secretary of the
Army; H. Lawrence Garrett III, Under Secretary of the Navy; Robert B.
Costello, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition; John J. Welch, Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition; Robert P. Murphy, Associate
General Counsel, General Accounting Office; and Robert Trimble, Martin
Marietta Corporation, and William A. Anders, Textron, Inc., both of
Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Louis W. Sullivan, of Georgia, to be Secretary of Health and
Human Services, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Nunn and
Representative Gingrich, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

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Committee on Small Business: On Friday, February 24, Committee announced the
following subcommittee assignments: 

Subcommittee on Export Expansion: Senators Mikulski (Chairman), Harkin,
Lieberman, Bumpers, Pressler, Wallop, and Bond; 
Subcommittee on Rural Economy and Family Farming: Senators Baucus (Chairman),
Nunn, Levin, Dixon, Boren, Kerry, Bumpers, Kasten, Pressler, Wallop, Bond,
Grassley, and Burns; 
Subcommittee on Government Contracting and Paperwork Reduction: Senators Dixon
(Chairman), Boren, Lieberman, Grassley, and Kasten; 
Subcommittee on Innovation, Technology and Productivity: Senators Levin
(Chairman), Baucus, Kerry, Lott, and Stevens;
Subcommittee on Competition and Antitrust Enforcement: Senators Harkin
(Chairman), Lieberman, and Stevens; and 
Subcommittee on Urban and Minority-Owned Business Development: Senators Kerry
(Chairman), Nunn, Mikulski, Burns, and Lott. 

INDIAN LAND CLAIMS

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: On Friday, February 24, committee
concluded hearings on S. 402, to provide for the settlement of land claims of
Puyallup Tribe of Indians in the State of Washington, after receiving
testimony from Senators Adams and Gorton; Representative Dicks; Washington
State Representative Art Wang, and Kaleen Cottingham and Michael J. McCormick,
both of the Office of the Governor of the State of Washington, all of Olympia;
Mayor Doug Sutherland, Tacoma, Washington; Mayor Ron Crowe, Puyallup,
Washington; Harry Sachse, Washington, D.C.; James Waldo, Seattle, Washington;
Bill Sterud, Henry John, Roleen Hargrove, Nancy Shippentower, and Gabriel
Landry, all of the Tribal Council of the Puyallup Tribe, John McCarthy, Port
of Tacoma, Cory McFarland, McFarland Cascade, and Karl Anderson, Concrete
Tech, all of Tacoma, Washington; and John Ladenburg, Pierce County,
Washington. 

PROTECTION OF INDIAN RIGHTS

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Special Committee on Investigations
resumed hearings to examine various matters relating to Indian affairs,
receiving testimony from William P. Ragsdale, Acting Assistant Secretary of
the Interior for Indian Affairs; Dom Nessi, Director, Office of Indian
Programs, Department of Housing and Urban Development; Craig Vanderwagon,
Director, Division of Clinical Prevention Services, Indian Health Service,
Department of Health and Human Services; Ivan L. Sidney, Hopi Tribe, Keams
Canyon, Arizona; John Taylor, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Cherokee,
North Carolina; and John Washakie, Wind River Reservation, Fort Washakie,
Wyoming. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1989/02/28
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 28, 1989; pages D121 - D130  (Bound vol. D60-
D67)

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

1990 BUDGET

Committee on Appropriations: Committee held hearings on the President's
proposed budget for fiscal year 1990, receiving testimony from Richard G.
Darman, Director, Office of Management and Budget. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 7. 

APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings in open
and closed sessions to review commander-in-chief posture for fiscal year 1990,
receiving testimony from Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA, Commander-In-Chief,
Central Command; and Gen. Duane H. Cassidy, USAF, Commander-In-Chief, U.S.
Transportation Command. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 2. 

MEDICARE CONTRACTORS PROGRAM

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held oversight hearings to discuss potential
fraud, audit savings and payments in the Medicare contractors program,
receiving testimony from Michael Zimmerman, Director, Medicare/Medicaid
Issues, General Accounting Office; Richard Kusserow, Inspector General, and
Terry Coleman, Acting Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration,
both of the Department of Health and Human Services; Bill Horton, Blue
Cross/Blue Shield of South Carolina, Columbia; Arthur Lifson, Equicor, New
York, New York; and Sally Wood, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Iowa, Des Moines. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 9. 

S&L INDUSTRY

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed oversight
hearings to examine the problems in the savings and loan industry and the
potential threat to the insurance fund protecting savings and loan deposits,
receiving testimony from L. William Seidman, Chairman, and Robert L. Clarke,
Comptroller of the Currency, both of the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

1990 BUDGET

Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1990 budget,
focusing on fiscal policy and the economic outlook, receiving testimony from
Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

JAPANESE PATENT POLICY

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Foreign
Commerce and Tourism held hearings to review the effect of the Japanese patent
system on American business, focusing on current negotiations that will affect
the protection of intellectual property in the United States and Japan,
receiving testimony from Michael K. Kirk, Assistant Commissioner for External
Affairs, Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce; A.E. Hirsch,
Jr., Pacific Industrial Property Association, Warren, New Jersey; and Alan
Lourie, SmithKline, Beckman Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 237, and S. 346, bills to
reform the timber program for the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, after
receiving testimony from Senator Stevens; Representative Don Young; George M.
Leonard, Associate Chief, Michael Barton, Regional Forester, Alaska Region,
and Jerry F. Franklin, Chief Plant Ecologist, Pacific Northwest Forest and
Range Experiment Station, all of the Forest Service, Department of
Agriculture; Eric S. Laschever, on behalf of the Governor's Office of the
State of Alaska, and Gerald J. Gray, American Forestry Association, both of
Washington, DC; Larry Edwards, Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, David A.
Anderson, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Robert W. Loescher, Sealaska
Corporatation, and William A. Thomas, Jr., Klukwan Forest Products, Inc., all
of Juneau, Alaska; Donald Finney, Alaska Loggers Association, Ketchikan,
Alaska; and William H. Banzhaf, Society of American Foresters, Bethesda,
Maryland. 

BUSINESS MEETING

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

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The nominations of Thomas R. Pickering, of New Jersey, to be the U.S.
Representative to the United Nations with the rank of Ambassador, and the U.S.
Representative in the Security Council of the United Nations, Robert Michael
Kimmitt, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs,
Robert B. Zoellick, of the District of Columbia, to be Counselor of the
Department of State, Janet Gardner Mullins, of Kentucky, to be an Assistant
Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs, and Margaret DeBardeleben
Tutwiler, of Alabama, to be an Assistant Secretary of State for Public
Affairs; 

S. 347, to combat international terrorism and otherwise further the national
security and foreign policy interests of the United States; 

S. Res. 59, commending the Government and people of Pakistan on their return
to democracy; and 

S. Con. Res. 15, relating to peace and famine relief in Sudan. 

Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 101st Congress and
announced the following subcommittee assignments: 

Subcommittee on European Affairs: Senators Biden (Chairman), Sarbanes, Simon,
Pressler, and Boschwitz; 
Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Trade, Oceans and Environment:
Senators Sarbanes (Chairman), Pell, Dodd, Kerry, Sanford, Humphrey, Lugar,
Boschwitz, and Murkowski; 
Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs: Senators Cranston (Chairman),
Pell, Biden, Dodd, Murkowski, Lugar, and McConnell; 
Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace Corps Affairs: Senators Dodd
(Chairman), Cranston, Kerry, Sanford, Robb, Lugar, Kassebaum, McConnell, and
Mack; 
Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations: Senators
Kerry (Chairman), Sanford, Moynihan, Robb, McConnell, Murkowski, and Humphrey; 
Subcommittee on African Affairs: Senators Simon (Chairman), Cranston,
Moynihan, Kassebaum, and Mack; and 
Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs: Senators Moynihan
(Chairman), Pell, Sarbanes, Robb, Boschwitz, Kassebaum, and Pressler. 

COMMITTEE RULES

Committee on Governmental Affairs : Committee held an organizational business
meeting where it adopted committee rules of procedure for the 101st Congress. 

DECEPTIVE MAILING PREVENTION ACT

Committee on Governmental Affairs : Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post
Office, and Civil Service held hearings on S. 273, to prohibit deceptive
mailing practices by expanding the post office's authority to stop delivery of
certain materials, receiving testimony from Senators Heinz, Lieberman, and
Roth; Tim Mahoney, Inspector Attorney, Postal Inspector Service, and George C.
Davis, Assistant General Counsel, Consumer Protection Division, Postal Service
Law Department, both of the U.S. Postal Service; Erling Johnson, Anoka,
Minnesota, on behalf of the American Association of Retired Persons; and Gary
H. Baer and Gene Del Polito, both of the Third Class Mailers Association,
Richard A. Barton, Direct Marketing Association, Mark Silbergeld and Dan
Doherty, both of the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, Carolyn A. Emigh,
Nonprofit Mailers Federation, and Robert B. Brown, Blinded Veterans
Association, all of Washington, DC. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Veterans' Affairs : Committee met in closed session to discuss
the nomination of Edward J. Derwinski, of Illinois, to be Secretary of
Veterans' Affairs, and Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. 

Committee will meet again tomorrow. 

NOMINATION

Select Committee on Intelligence : Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Richard J. Kerr, of Virginia, to be Deputy Director of Central
Intelligence, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Warner and
Robb, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

Joint Meetings

VETERANS' PROGRAMS

Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs held joint hearings with
the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review the legislative
recommendations of certain veterans' organizations, receiving testimony from
John H. Michaels, on behalf of the Paralyzed Veterans of America, Frank A.
Athanason, on behalf of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, David M.
Szumowski, on behalf of the Blinded Veterans Association, Milton M. Moore,
Sr., on behalf of the American Ex-Prisoners of War, Colonel Erik G. Johnson,
USA Retired, on behalf of the Association of the United States Army, and
Herbert D. Greff, on behalf of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of
America. 

                                          [Page: D128]

Joint hearings continue on Tuesday, March 7. 



1989/03/01
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 1, 1989; pages D131 - D140  (Bound vol. D67-
D73)

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--GENERAL GOVERNMENT

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1990, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Marshall Breger, Chairman, Administrative Conference of the United
States; Arthur L. Nims III, Chief Judge, U.S. Tax Court; Robert B. Hawkins,
Jr., Chairman, Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations; and Martin
L. Duggan, Chairman, Advisory Committee on Federal Pay. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 3. 

S&L INDUSTRY

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued
oversight hearings to examine the problems in the savings and loan industry
and the potential threat to the insurance fund protecting savings and loan
deposits, receiving testimony from M. Danny Wall, Chairman, Federal Home Loan
Bank Board. 

                                          [Page: D132]

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

1990 BUDGET

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1990 budget,
focusing on the President's savings and loan reform plan, receiving testimony
from Nicholas F. Brady, Secretary of the Treasury. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

FCC PRICE CAP PROCEEDING

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings to examine the Federal Communications
Commission proposal to replace its rate-of-return method of regulating
telephone company rates with a "price cap" plan, after receiving testimony
from Dennis R. Patrick, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nomination of Admiral James D. Watkins, U.S. Navy, Retired, of
California, to be Secretary of Energy. 

TRADE ACT OF 1988 

Committee on Finance: Committee held oversight hearings on the implementation
of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act (P.L. 100-418), receiving
testimony from Carla A. Hills, U.S. Trade Representative.  

Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 19. 

CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS PROLIFERATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on the nature and
extent of the threat of chemical and biological weapons proliferation,
receiving testimony in open session from William H. Webster, Director of
Central Intelligence; and in closed session from officials of the Central
Intelligence Agency. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on the nomination of
William J. Bennett, of North Carolina, to be Director of National Drug Control
Policy, where the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Moynihan, D'Amato,
Helms, and Sanford, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Edward J. Derwinski, of Illinois, to be Administrator of Veterans' Affairs,
and Secretary of Veterans' Affairs, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senators Dixon and Simon, and Representative Michel, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf. Testimony was also received from E. Philip Riggin
and John Sommer, both of the American Legion, Cooper T. Holt, Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the United States, John F. Heilman, Disabled American
Veterans, R. Jack Powell, Paralyzed Veterans of America, and Richard E.
O'Dell, Vietnam Veterans of America, all of Washington, DC. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Select Committee on Ethics: Committee met in closed session to consider
pending committee business, but made no announcements and recessed subject to
call. 

INTELLIGENCE 

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

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

                                          [Page: D133]

No Joint hearings noted.



1989/03/02
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 2, 1989; pages D141 - D148  (Bound vol. D74-
D79)

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--THE JUDICIARY/FTC

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Richard S. Arnold, U.S. Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, and Owen M.
Panner, Chief Judge, District Court of Oregon, both on behalf of the Judicial
Conference of the United States; Raymond A. Karam, Assistant Director for
Administration, Administrative Office of the United States Courts; and Daniel
Oliver, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 7. 

BASE CLOSURES

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense and Subcommittee on
Military Construction held joint hearings on proposed U.S. military base
closures and realignments, receiving testimony from Robert A. Stone, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Installations; and Jack Edwards, on behalf
of the Commission on Base Realignments and Closures. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from W.
Graham Claytor, Jr., Chairman and President, National Railroad Passenger
Corporation (AMTRAK); and S. Mark Lindsey, Chief Counsel, Federal Railroad
Administration, Department of Transportation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 9. 

NUCLEAR MATERIALS REQUIREMENTS

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded closed hearings to examine
nuclear materials requirements by the Nuclear Weapons Council, after receiving
testimony from Robert C. Duncan, Director of Defense Research and Engineering,
Office of the Secretary of Defense, Gen. Robert T. Herres, USAF, Vice
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Troy E. Wade II, Acting Assistant Secretary
of Energy for Defense Programs, Ronald W. Cochran, Acting Director, Office of
New Production Reactors, Department of Energy, and Brig. Gen. Paul F.
Kavanaugh, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for Military Application, all
on behalf of the Nuclear Weapons Council. 

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the Department of Defense, focusing on
Soviet strategic force developments, receiving testimony from Lawrence K.
Gershwin, National Intelligence Officer for Soviet Strategic Forces, and
Charles F. Munson, Assistant National Intelligence Officer for Strategic
Programs, National Intelligence Council, both of the Central Intelligence
Agency. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 6. 

                                          [Page: D143]

S&L INDUSTRY

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued
oversight hearings to examine the problems in the savings and loan industry
and the potential threat to the insurance fund protecting savings and loan
deposits, receiving testimony from Richard G. Darman, Director, Office of
Management and Budget. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

1990 BUDGET

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1990 budget,
focusing on the President's savings and loan industry restructuring proposals,
receiving testimony from L. William Seidman, Chairman, Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation. 

Committee will meet again on Wednesday, March 8. 

NOMINATION

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
William J. Bennett, of North Carolina, to be Director of National Drug Control
Policy, after the nominee testified and answered further questions in his own
behalf. Testimony was also received from Jose Garcia de Lara, League of United
Latin American Citizens, Washington, DC; and Gordon Cawelti, Association for
Supervision and Curriculum Development, Alexandria, Virginia. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Edward J. Derwinski, of Illinois, to be Secretary of Veterans'
Affairs, and Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. 

INTELLIGENCE

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

Committee will meet again on Tuesday, March 7. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1989/03/03
Daily Digest - [Friday, March, 3, 1989]; pages D150 - D158  (Bound vol. D79-
D81)

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee announced the
following subcommittee assignments:  

Subcommittee on Agricultural Production and Stabilization of Prices: Senators
Pryor (Chairman), Baucus, Kerrey, Boren, Heflin, Harkin, Conrad, Helms, Dole,
Cochran, McConnell, Boschwitz, and Wilson; 
Subcommittee on Domestic and Foreign Marketing and Product Promotion: Senators
Boren (Chairman), Pryor, Fowler, Baucus, Harkin, Conrad, Cochran, Helms, Bond,
Wilson, Gorton, and McConnell; 
Subcommittee on Agricultural Credit: Senators Conrad (Chairman), Boren,
Daschle, Gorton, and Boschwitz; 
Subcommittee on Rural Development and Rural Electrification: Senators Heflin
(Chairman), Daschle, Pryor, McConnell, and Cochran; 
Subcommittee on Nutrition and Investigations: Senators Harkin (Chairman),
Fowler, Kerrey, Pryor, Boschwitz, Dole, and Helms; 
Subcommittee on Agricultural Research and General Legislation: Senators
Daschle (Chairman), Kerrey, Wilson, and Bond; and 
Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry: Senators Fowler (Chairman), Heflin,
Baucus, Bond, and Gorton. 

APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1990 for the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from John R. Simpson, Director, United
States Secret Service, Stephen E. Higgins, Director, Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms, and Charles F. Rinkevich, Director, Federal Law
Enforcement Training Center, all of the Department of the Treasury. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 8. 

                                          [Page: D151]

S&L INDUSTRY

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued
oversight hearings to examine the problems in the savings and loan industry,
and the potential threat to the insurance fund protecting savings and loan
deposits, receiving on James L. Blum, Acting Director, Congressional Budget
Office; William Ferguson, Ferguson & Company, Irving, Texas; and Peter
Treadway, Smith Barney, New York, New York. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 7. 

EPA BUDGET

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1990 for the Environmental
Protection Agency, after receiving testimony from William K. Reilly,
Administrator, John A. Moore, Acting Deputy Administrator, and Charles L.
Grizzle, Assistant Administrator, Administration and Resources Management, all
of the Environmental Protection Agency. 

MEDICARE

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Medicare and Long Term Care held to
examine the current and future status of the Medicare program, receiving
testimony from Kathleen N. Lohr, Senior Professional Associate, Institute of
Medicine, National Academy of Sciences; Uwe Rheinhardt, Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey; Donald A. Young, Prospective Payment Assessment
Commission, Lynn Etheredge, Consolidated Consulting Group, and Marilyn Moon,
American Association of Retired Persons, all of Washington, DC; and Karen
Davis, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health,
Baltimore, Maryland. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 17. 

IMMIGRATION REFORM

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs
concluded hearings on S. 358 and S. 448, bills to reform the admission levels
of immigrants to the United States, after receiving testimony from Alan C.
Nelson, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of
Justice, Joan M. Clark, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs;
Eugene K. Lawson, Deputy Under Secretary of Labor for International Affairs;
Eleanor Chelimsky, Assistant Comptroller General for Program Evaluation and
Methodology, General Accounting Office; Cecilia Munoz, National Council of La
Raza, Melinda C. Yee, Organization of Chinese Americans, Frank Kittredge,
National Foreign Trade Council, representing and Dan Stein, Federation for
American Immigration Reform, all of Washington, DC. 

MINIMUM WAGE

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on
proposals to restore the minimum wage to a fair and equitable rate, after
receiving testimony from Elizabeth H. Dole, Secretary of Labor. 

ALASKA FEDERATION OF NATIVES

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to review a
report of the Alaska Federation of Natives on the health status of Alaska
Natives, after receiving testimony from Senators Stevens and Murkowski;
Representative Don Young; Alaska Governor Steve Cowper, Juneau; Mayor John
Pinguyak, Chevak, Alaska; Janie Leask, Alaska Federation of Natives, and
Jeanine Kennedy, Rural Alaska Community Action Program, both of Anchorage,
Alaska; Gordon Pullar, Alaska Federation of Natives Human Resources Board, and
Margaret Roberts, Alaska Native Health Board, both of Kodiak, Alaska; Sam
Kito, Jr., on behalf of NANA Regional Corporation, Kotzebue, Alaska; Byron
Mallott, Sealaska Corporation, and Ed Thomas, Tlingit and Haida Central
Council, both of Juneau, Alaska; Willie Kasayulie, Association of Village
Council Presidents, Bethel, Alaska; Debra Caldera, Alaska Native Health Board,
Seward, Alaska; Mike Alber, Tununak, Alaska; Billy Lincoln, Toksook, Alaska;
Charles Edwardsen, Barrow, Alaska; and David Harrison, Chickaloon Village,
Alaska. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1989/03/06
Daily Digest - [Monday,] March 6, 1989; pages D159 - D164  (Bound vol. D81-
D84)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--GENERAL GOVERNMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Maj. Gen.
A.J. Adams, USA, Secretary, American Battle Monuments Commission; John S.
Doyle, Jr., Principal Deputy Assistant, Office of the Secretary of the Army;
and Samuel K. Lessey, Jr., Director, Selective Service System. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 13. 

APPROPRIATIONS--STRATEGIC AND NAVAL PETROLEUM RESERVES/GEOLOGICAL 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the Naval
Petroleum Reserve from J. Allen Wampler, Assistant Secretary of Energy for
Fossil Energy; and receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the U.S.
Geological Survey from Dallas L. Peck, Director, Geological Survey, Department
of the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

                                          [Page: D160]

APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings to review proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for Army and
Navy military construction programs, receiving testimony from Paul W. Johnson,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installations); Lt. Gen. Henry J.
Hatch, Chief of Engineers, USA; Maj. Gen. Peter J. Offringa, Assistant Chief
of Engineers, USA; Rear Adm. B.F. Montoya, Commander of Naval Facilities
Engineering Command, USN; and Brig. Gen. Michael P. Downs, Director,
Facilities and Services Division, USMC. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 13. 

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the
Defense Nuclear Agency's nuclear weapons effects testing, receiving testimony
from Marvin C. Atkins, Deputy Director, and Don A. Linger, Director of Test
Directorate, both of the Defense Nuclear Agency. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
406, to establish and implement a competitive oil and gas leasing program for
the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), after
receiving testimony from Manuel Lujan, Jr., Secretary of the Interior;
Margaret A. Moran, on behalf of the Governor of Alaska, and Brooks B. Yeager,
National Audubon Society, both of Washington, DC; Lisa Speer, Natural
Resources Defense Council, New York, New York; and Roger C. Herrera, BP
Exploration (Alaska), and Larry Morse, ARCO Alaska, Inc., both of Anchorage,
Alaska. 

TOXIC SUBSTANCES

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Toxic Substances,
Environmental Oversight, Research and Development held hearings to examine the
use of toxic materials in the aerospace industry, receiving testimony from
Charles L. Elkins, Director, Office of Toxic Substances, Environmental
Protection Agency; Leo Carey, Director, Office of Field Programs, Occupational
Safety and Health Administration, Department of Labor; Gary D. Vest, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health, U.S. Air
Force; Beverly McCormick, North Bend, Washington; Bonnie Faye Schrum, Renton,
Washington; Deborah Forbes-Sutherland, Westlake Village, California; Beth
Gausman, Chemically Injured United Coalition, and Lori Liberty, both of
Encino, California; Gordon Baker, Peter Breysee, University of Washington,
Joseph F. Peritore, The Boeing Company, and Gordon Baker, all of Seattle,
Washington; George Robinson, International Association of Machinists and
Aerospace Workers, Washington, DC; Robert Ballster, Medical College of
Virginia, Richmond, on behalf of the American Psychological Association; Alan
Broughton, Antibody Assay Laboratories, Santa Ana, California; and Dale H.
Daniels, Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Company, Burbank, California. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

VETERANS' PROGRAMS BUDGET

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the proposed
budget request for fiscal year 1990 for veterans programs, after receiving
testimony from Edward J. Derwinski, Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, John
A. Gronvall, Chief Medical Director, John Vogel, Chief Benefits Director,
Wilfred L. Ebel, Chief Memorial Affairs Director, Conrad R. Hoffman, Director,
Office of Budget and Finance, Linda M. Combs, Acting Associate Deputy
Administrator for Management, Susan Livingstone, Associate Deputy
Administrator for Logistics, and Donald L. Ivers, General Counsel, all of the
Veterans Administration; Donald E. Shasteen, Assistant Secretary for Veterans'
Employment and Training, and David Morman, Executive Director, Veterans'
Employment and Training Service, both of the Department of Labor; David W.
Gorman, Disabled American Veterans, R. Jack Powell, Paralyzed Veterans of
America, James N. Magill, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Phillip E. Riggin and John
F. Sommer, Jr., both of the American Legion, Thomas A. Sherwood and Paul Egan,
both of the Vietnam Veterans of America, and Rose Lee, Gold Star Wives of
America, all of Washington, DC; John Dennis, University of Maryland School of
Medicine, Baltimore, representing the American Association of Medical
Colleges; Arthur Asbury, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,
Philadelphia; Milton Korn, Georgetown University School of Medicine,
Washington, DC; and Kenneth Shine, University of California School of
Medicine, Los Angeles. 

                                          [Page: D161]

No Joint hearings noted.



1989/03/07
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 7, 1989; pages D165 - D174  (Bound vol. D84-D90)

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

1990 BUDGET 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee resumed hearings on the President's
proposed budget for fiscal year 1990, receiving testimony from Nicholas F.
Brady, Secretary of the Treasury. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, March 9. 

APPROPRIATIONS--USTR/ITC 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Carla Anderson Hills, U.S. Trade Representative; and Anne E. Brunsdale, Acting
Chairman, U.S. International Trade Commission. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 16. 

DEFENSE POSTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings to
review commander-in-chief posture for fiscal year 1990, focusing on the
Atlantic command, receiving testimony from Adm. Frank B. Kelso II,
Commander-In-Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command. 

                                          [Page: D166]

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 14. 

S&L INDUSTRY 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed oversight
hearings to examine the problems in the savings and loan industry, and the
potential threat to the insurance fund protecting savings and loan deposits,
receiving testimony from Charles J. Koch, The First Federal Savings Bank,
Cleveland, Ohio, on behalf of the National Council of Savings Institutions;
Barney R. Beeksma, InterWest Savings Bank, Oak Harbor, Washington, and Kenneth
D. Seaton, D&N Savings Bank, Hancock, Michigan, both on behalf of the U.S.
League of Savings Institutions; Kenneth T. Rosen, University of California,
Berkeley, California; and Jonathan E. Gray, Sanford C. Bernstein & Company,
Inc., New York, New York. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS--U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1990 for the U.S. Customs Service, after
receiving testimony from William von Raab, Commissioner, Samuel H. Banks,
Assistant Commissioner for Inspection and Control, D. Lynn Gordon, Assistant
Commissioner for Commercial Operations, and Charles R. Parkinson, Associate
Commissioner for Congressional and Public Affairs, all of the U.S. Customs
Service, Department of the Treasury; J.H. Kent, National Customs Brokers and
Forwarders Association of America, Inc., and David Rose, Intel Corporation, on
behalf of the Joint Industry Group, both of Washington, DC; and Jane B.
O'Dell, National Retail Merchants Association, and Bruce Schulman, American
Association of Exporters and Importers, both of New York, New York.  

WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor held hearings on
S. 436, to strengthen the protection available to employees against reprisals
for disclosing information, and to protect the public health and safety,
receiving testimony from Senator Grassley; Jerry G. Thorn, Acting Solicitor,
Department of Labor; Carol Tucker Foreman, Foreman and Heidepriem, former
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, Henry Duffy, Air Line Pilots Association,
and Thomas Devine, Government Accountability Project, all of Washington, DC;
James W. Simpkin, Loveland, Colorado; William D. Wright, Enterprise, Alabama;
and Donald S. Henley, Jr., Asheboro, North Carolina. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INTELLIGENCE

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

Committee will meet again in Thursday, March 9. 

Joint Meetings

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Joint Ecomomic Committee: Committee announced the following subcommittee
assignments:  

Subcommittee on International Economic Policy: Senators Sarbanes (Chairman),
Kennedy, Roth, and Mack, and Representatives Hamilton, Solarz, Wylie, and
Snowe; 
Subcommittee on National Security Economics: Senators Bingaman (Chairman),
Sarbanes, Bryan, Wilson, and Mack, and Representatives Obey, Scheuer, and
Fish; 
Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Trade, and Taxes: Senators Bentsen
(Chairman), Roth, and Mack, and Representatives Hamilton, Stark, Solarz,
Wylie, and Upton; 
Subcommittee on Fiscal and Monetary Policy: Senators Kennedy (Chairman), and
Symms, and Representatives Obey, Stark, and Upton; 
Subcommittee on Economic Goals and Intergovernmental Policy: Representatives
Hamilton (Chairman), Hawkins, Wylie, and Snowe, and Senators Bentsen, Kennedy,
Roth, and Wilson; 
Subcommittee on Economic Resources and Competitiveness: Representatives Obey
(Chairman), Solarz,