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)
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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, and Upton, and Senators Sarbanes, Bingaman, Gore, Bryan,
and Symms;
Subcommittee on Investment, Jobs, and Prices: Representatives Hawkins
(Chairman), Scheuer, Solarz, Stark, and Fish, and Senators Gore, Bryan, and
Symms; and
Subcommittee on Education and Health: Representatives Scheuer (Chairman),
Hawkins, Snowe, and Fish, and Senators Bentsen, Bingaman, Gore, and Wilson.
VETERANS' PROGRAMS
Joint Hearings: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint hearings
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review the legislative
recommendations of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, after receiving testimony
from Larry W. Rivers, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Washington, DC.
1989/03/08
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 8, 1989; pages D175 - D184 (Bound vol. D91-
D97)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings to review proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1990 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony from
Clayton Yeutter, Secretary, Peter Myers, Deputy Secretary, and Stephen B.
Dewhurst, Budget Officer, all of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 14.
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 David M. Nummy, Acting Assistant
Secretary for Management, Michael R. Hill, Inspector General, William E.
Douglas, Commissioner, Financial Management Service, Richard L. Gregg,
Commissioner, Bureau of the Public Debt, and Donna Pope, Director, United
States Mint, all of the Department of the Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 10.
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 William S. Haraf, Citicorp, New York, New
York, on behalf of the Financial Services Council; Thomas P. Rideout, First
Union National Bank, Charlotte, North Carolina, on behalf of the American
Bankers Association; and O. Jay Tomson, Citizens National Bank of Charles
City, Charles City, Iowa, on behalf of the Independent Bankers Association of
America.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
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1990 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1990 budget,
receiving testimony in behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services
from Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services; and in behalf
of Medicare programs from Paul Ginsberg, Executive Director, Physician Payment
Review Commission; Bruce Steinwald, Deputy Director, Prospective Payment
Assessment Commission; John Casey, Methodist Hospital System, Memphis,
Tennessee; Raymond Scalettar, American Medical Association Board of Trustees,
Washington, DC; and Lovola Burgess, American Association of Retired Persons,
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
MISSION TO PLANET EARTH
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings,
to review the scope, goals, and objectives of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth,
an initiative to gather and analyze data required to understand the forces of
global change and the implications for planet Earth, receiving testimony from
Lennard A. Fish, Associate Administrator for Space Science, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration; Sally K. Ride, Stanford University,
Stanford, California; and Don L. Anderson, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee met and completed its
review of those programs which fall within the committee's jurisdiction as
contained in the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1990, and agreed
on recommendations it will make thereon to the Committee on the Budget.
Also, committee began consideration of S. 406, to authorize and direct the
Secretary of the Interior to establish and implement a competitive oil and gas
leasing program for the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
in Alaska, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on
Wednesday, March 15.
AUTHORIZATIONS--USTR/ITC
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1990 for the Office of the U.S. Trade
Representative and the U.S. International Trade Commission, receiving
testimony from Joshua Bolten, General Counsel and Acting Deputy U.S. Trade
Representative; Michael Doyle, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for
Administration; and Anne E. Brunsdale, Acting Chairman, U.S. International
Trade Commission.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FOREIGN TERRORIST THREATS TO FIRST AMENDMENT FREEDOM
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations concluded hearings to examine foreign terrorists'
threats relating to attempts to prevent publication and distribution of the
Satanic Verses in the United States, after receiving testimony from Alvin P.
Adams, Jr., Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism, and A. Peter Burleigh,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, both of
the Department of State; Oliver B. Revell, Executive Assistant Director of
Investigation, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice;
Nicholas A. Veliotes, Association of American Publishers, Inc., and Leon
Wieseltier, The New Republic, Inc., both of Washington, DC; Bernard Rath,
American Booksellers Association, and Susan Sontag, PEN-America, both of New
York, New York; and John Seigenthaler, Society of American Newspaper Editors,
Nashville, Tennessee.
MINIMUM WAGE/NOMINATIONS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items:
S. 4, to restore the minimum wage to a fair and equitable rate, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
Routine nominations in the Public Health Service Corp. received in the Senate
on January 3, 1989.
SERGEANT AT ARMS/ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings to review
the operations of the Office of the Senate Sergeant at Arms and the Office of
the Architect of the Capitol, after receiving testimony from Brian Nakamura,
Administrative Assistant/General Counsel, on behalf of the Office of the
Senate Sergeant at Arms; and George M. White, Architect of the Capitol.
VETERANS PROGRAMS BUDGET
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee met and completed its review of
those programs which fall within the committee's jurisdiction as contained in
the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1990, and agreed on
recommendations it will make thereon to the Committee on the Budget.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1989/03/09
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 9, 1989; pages D185 - D198 (Bound vol. D97-
D103)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
TRADING PRACTICES
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed oversight
hearings to review regulatory activities of the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, receiving testimony from Wendy Lee Gramm, Chairman, Commodity
Futures Trading Commission .
Hearings were recessed subject to call .
1990 BUDGET
Committee on Appropriations: Committee resumed hearings on the President's
proposed budget for fiscal year 1990, receiving testimony from Robert D.
Reischauer, Director, and James L. Blum, Assistant Director, Budget Analysis,
both of the Congressional Budget Office .
Hearings were recessed subject to call .
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for
the Department of Labor, receiving testimony from Elizabeth Hanford Dole,
Secretary of Labor; and Raymond Maria, Deputy Inspector General, Department of
Labor .
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow .
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 Frank E. McKinney, Jr., BancOne
Corporation, Indianapolis, Indiana, on behalf of the Association of Bank
Holding Companies; H.M. Osteen, Jr., Bankers First, Augusta, Georgia, on
behalf of the Association of Thrift Holding Companies; and Charles J. Zwick,
Southeast Banking Corporation, Miami, Florida, on behalf of the Association of
Reserve City Bankers .
Hearings continue tomorrow .
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
Alfred A. DelliBovi, Deputy Administrator, Urban Mass Transportation
Administration, Department of Transportation; and Carmen E. Turner, General
Manager, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority .
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 14 .
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 science, technology, and strategic economic policy, receiving
testimony from Frank Press, President, National Academy of Sciences, and
former Science Advisor under President Carter; Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr.,
former Counselor on Japanese Affairs to the Secretary of Commerce; Robert H.
Rosenweig, Association of American Universities, Washington, DC; and Alvin
Trivelpiece, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee .
Hearings were recessed subject to call .
1990 BUDGET
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to review economic assumptions
and spending reductions as contained in the President's proposed budget for
fiscal year 1990, receiving testimony from Richard Darman, Director, Office of
Management and Budget; Terry S. Coleman, Acting Administrator, Health Care
Financing Administration, and Dennis P. Williams, Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Management and Budget, both of the Department of Health and Human
Services; Robert D. Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget Office; and
James L. Blum, former Acting Director, Congressional Budget Office.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
The nomination of William J. Bennett, of North Carolina, to be Director of
National Drug Control Policy;
S. 419, to provide for the collection of data about crimes motivated by race,
religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation; and
S. 431, to authorize funds for the Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday
Commission.
NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on proposals
to establish a corporation to administer a program of voluntary national
service, and to provide for the education and training of participants in such
Corps, including S. 3, S. 322, S. 382, and S. 408, receiving testimony from
Senators Bumpers, Moynihan, and Graham; Katy Evans, Camp Hill Middle School,
Camp Hill, Pennsylvania; Catherine Powers, Baltimore City College High School,
Baltimore, Maryland; Alex Byrd, Rice University, Houston, Texas; Bobby Heard,
University of Texas, Austin; Peter Waite, Laubach Literacy International,
Syracuse, New York; Robert J. Rothstein, Retired Senior Volunteer Program,
Chevy Chase, Maryland; John Buchanan, People for the American Way, Washington,
DC; and Ernest Boyer, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching,
Princeton, New Jersey.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
JOB TRAINING ASSISTANCE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity held hearings on S. 543, to strengthen employment and training
assistance programs and to improve the targeting of services to economically
disadvantaged adults and youth, receiving testimony from Ohio Governor Richard
F. Celeste, Columbus, on behalf of the National Governors' Association; Mayor
Jerry E. Abramson, Louisville, Kentucky, on behalf of the U.S. Conference of
Mayors; Hal Norgard, Ramsey County, Minnesota, on behalf of the National
Association of Counties; Arturo Vazquez, Chicago Mayor's Office of Employment
and Training, Chicago, Illinois; and Elton Jolly, Opportunities
Industrialization Centers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Hearings continue on Thursday, March 16.
INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 14.
Joint Meetings
BOARD AND CARE HOMES
Joint Hearings: Senate Special Committee on Aging held joint hearings with the
House Select Committee on Aging's Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care
and Subcommittee on Housing and Consumer Interests to examine conditions in
America's board and care facilities for the elderly, receiving testimony from
Representative Pepper; Janet L. Shikles, Director, Public and National Health
Issues, Human Resources Division, Alfred Schnupp, Assignment Manager, and
Chris Rice, Evaluator-in-Charge, all of the General Accounting Office; Melva
Colegrove, Ohio Department of Health, Columbus; David Lazarus, Community
Health Law Project, East Orange, New Jersey; Alice Lippold and Anne Hart, both
of Washington, DC; John Sharp and Michael Coonan, both of Sacramento,
California; Ima Ring, Indianapolis, Indiana; Julie Oetting, Jefferson County,
Alabama; Pam Hinckley, Cleveland, Ohio; Mary Beth Africa, Altoona,
Pennsylvania; and Pat Murphy, New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1989/03/13
Daily Digest - [Monday, March 13, 1989]; pages D200 - D206 (Bound vol. D104-
D107)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DOE/DOI
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 Helmut A.
Merklein, Administrator, Energy Information Administration, Chandler L. van
Orman, Administrator, Economic Regulatory Administration, George B. Breznay,
Director, Office of Hearings and Appeals, and Edward Badolato, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Energy Emergencies, all of the Department of Energy;
and Robert E. Kallman, Director, Minerals Management Service, and Steven A.
Robinson, Deputy Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, both of the
Department of the Interior.
On Friday, March 10, Subcommittee also held hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, receiving
testimony from W. Patrick Ragsdale, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Interior
for Indian Affairs.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, March 10, Subcommittee on Labor,
Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990, receiving testimony in behalf
of funds for their respective activities from William J. Doyle III, Inspector
General, Thomas J. Simon, Chairman, Charles J. Chamberlain, Labor Member, and
John D. Crawford, Management Member, all of the Railroad Retirement Board;
Donna M. Alvarado, Director, ACTION; Sandra S. Parrino, Chairperson, National
Council on Disability; Robert P. Baker, Acting Director, Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service; Walter C. Wallace, Chairman, National Mediation Board;
Ford B. Ford, Chairman, Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission; E.
Ross Buckley, Chairman, Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; and
James M. Stephens, Chairman, National Labor Relations Board.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 17.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for Air Force and
Defense Agencies military construction programs, after receiving testimony
from Barbara S. Pope, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Gordon K. Dowery,
Director, Defense Medical Facilities, and Donald B. Shycoff, Deputy
Comptroller Defense Logistics Agency, all of the Department of Defense.
APPROPRIATIONS--IRS/POSTAL SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, March 10, Subcommittee on the
Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1990, receiving testimony on behalf of funds
for their respective activities from Michael J. Murphy, Acting Commissioner,
Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury; and Anthony M. Frank,
Postmaster General, U.S. Postal Service.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 15.
APPROPRIATIONS--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from William A.
Whiteside, Executive Director, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation;
MacDonald Becket, Chairman, National Institute of Building Sciences; and David
L. Chatfield, Board Member, National Credit Union Administration.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 16.
FS-X AIRCRAFT AGREEMENT
Committee on Armed Services: On Friday, March 10, Subcommittee on Defense
Industry and Technology held hearings on the implications of the FS-X Aircraft
Agreement between the United States and Japan, receiving testimony from Frank
C. Carlucci, former Secretary of Defense; Clyde V. Prestowitz, former
Counselor for Japan Affairs to the Secretary of Commerce; James E. Auer,
former Special Assistant for Japan, Office of the Secretary of Defense; Donald
C. Hellmann, University of Washington, Seattle; and Edward C. Bursk, Aerospace
Industries Association of America, and William R. Hawkins, U.S. Business and
Industrial Council, both of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: On Friday, March 10, Subcommittee on Projection
Forces and Regional Defense held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on the state and capabilities of the U.S. Marine Corps for special operations
and low intensity conflict, receiving testimony from Gen. Alfred M. Gray,
USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 16.
S&L INDUSTRY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Friday, March 10,
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 Jerome Blank, National
Association of Realtors, and Kent W. Colton, National Association of Home
Builders of the United States, both of Washington, DC; and Willard Gourley,
Jr., BarclaysAmerican Mortgage Corporation, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 14.
AUTHORIZATIONS--CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee held
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Consumer Product
Safety Commission, receiving testimony from Anne Graham, Acting Chairman, and
Carol G. Dawson, Commissioner, both of the Consumer Product Safety Commission;
and Ester Peterson, The International Organization of Consumers Unions, Martin
Eichelberger, Children's Hospital/National Medical Center, representing the
Safe Kids Campaign, Mary Ellen R. Fise, Consumer Federation of America, Pamela
Gilbert, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, and Richard H. Gimer, Hopkins,
Sutter, Hamel and Park, representing the United States Chamber of Commerce,
all of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BILATERAL TRADE AGREEMENTS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade held hearings to
examine the relationship between bilateral trade agreements and the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and the potential for bilateral arrangements
to address U.S. trade problems, receiving testimony from S. Fred Bergsten and
Jeffrey Schott, both of the Institute for International Economics, Pat Choate,
TRW Inc., Robert J. Morris, U.S. Council for International Business, Doral S.
Cooper, C&M International, Ltd., former Assistant United States Trade
Representative for Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and Chief Negotiator,
U.S.-Israeli Free Trade Agreement, and Guy F. Erb, U.S. Council of the
Mexico-U.S. Business Committee, all of Washington, DC; and C. Michael Aho,
Council on Foreign Relations, New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT
Joint Economic Committee: On Friday, March 10, Committee held hearings to
review the employment/unemployment situation for February, receiving testimony
from Janet L. Norwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of
Labor.
Committee recessed subject to call.
1989/03/14
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 14, 1989; pages D207 - D216 (Bound vol. D107-
D113)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1990 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Orville G. Bentley, Assistant
Secretary for Science and Education, Robert W. Long, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Science and Education, R. Dean Plowman, Administrator,
Agricultural Research Service, John P. Jordan, Administrator, Cooperative
State Research Service, Myron D. Johnsrud, Administrator, Extension Service,
and Robert E. Sherman, Budget Officer, all of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 16.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for enlisted personnel programs,
receiving testimony from James W. Gates, Sergeant Major of the Army; D.R.
Bushey, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy; David W. Sommers, Sergeant
Major of the Marine Corps; James Binnicker, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air
Force; Mrs. Sidney Hickey, National Military Family Association, Arlington,
Virginia; and Sgt. Maj. (Ret.) C.A. McKinney, Non-Commissioned Officers
Association of the United States of America, Alexandria, Virginia.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 16.
APPROPRIATIONS--INDIAN HEALTH AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for Indian
health and education programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for
their respective activities from Everett R. Rhoades, Director, Indian Health
Service, and Dennis P. Williams, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Budget, both
of the Department of Health and Human Services; and Beryl Dorsett, Assistant
Secretary of Education for Elementary and Secondary Education.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 3.
AVIATION SECURITY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held hearings to
review aviation security issues, receiving testimony from Samuel K. Skinner,
Secretary of Transportation; Ray Salazar, Director, Aviation Security, Federal
Aviation Administration; Ambassador Clayton McManaway, Associate Coordinator
for Counter Terrorism, Carmen DiPlacido, Chief, Citizens Consular Services,
and Michael Mahoney, Director, Citizens Emergency Center, all of the Bureau of
Consular Affairs, Department of State; Bert Ammerman, Dorothy Cocker, Edward
O'Connor, and Paul Hudson, all family members representing the "Victims of Pan
Am Flight 103"; Robert H. Waddle, American Association of Airport Executives,
Alexandria, Virginia; Wilfred A. Jackson, Airport Operators Council
International, Richard Lally, Air Transport Association of America, H.L.
Bradley, Air Line Pilots Association International, and Juliette Lenoir,
Association of Flight Attendants, all of Washington, DC; and Brian Moreau,
Independent Union of Flight Attendants, New York, New York.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 16.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 3,517
military nominations in the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
BASE CLOSURES
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to review the
recommendations for closure of certain military bases, receiving testimony
from Frank C. Carlucci, former Secretary of Defense.
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Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on the nomination of
Representative Richard B. Cheney, of Wyoming, to be Secretary of Defense,
where the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Wallop and Simpson, and
Representative Michel, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
FSLIC
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed oversight
hearings to examine the problems in the savings and loan industry, focusing on
the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC)-assisted sales of
failed thrifts approved by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, receiving
testimony from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States,
Richard L. Fogel, Assistant Comptroller General, General Government Division,
and Frederick D. Wolf, Assistant Comptroller General, Accounting and Financial
Management Division, all of the United States General Accounting Office.
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 defense issues, receiving testimony from William H. Taft IV,
Deputy Secretary of Defense; Admiral William Crowe, Jr., Chairman, Joint
Chiefs of Staff; and R. James Woolsey, Shea and Gardner, and former Under
Secretary of the Navy, Barry Blechman, Defense Forcasts, Inc., and Gordon
Adams, Center on Budget Policy Priorities, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
AIR TRAVEL RIGHTS FOR BLIND INDIVIDUALS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
concluded hearings on S. 341, to prohibit discrimination against blind
individuals in air travel, after receiving testimony from Representative
Traficant; Anthony J. Broderick, Associate Administrator for Regulation and
Certification, Federal Aviation Administration; Kenneth Jernigan and Dan Frye,
both of the National Federation of the Blind, Baltimore, Maryland; and Harold
W. Snider, Society for the Advancement of Travel for the Handicapped, James E.
Landry, Air Transport Association of America, and Susan Bianchi-Sand and
Matthew Finucane, both of the Association of Flight Attendants, all of
Washington, DC.
NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings to review
energy efficiency technologies and renewable energy resources, and S. 324, to
establish a national energy policy to reduce global warming, receiving
testimony from Senators Heinz and Fowler; Jack H. Gibbons, Director, and Peter
Blair, Program Manager, Energy and Minerals Program, both of the Office of
Technology Assessment; Sue Hickey, Assistant Administrator for Energy
Resources, Bonneville Power Administration, Department of Energy; Stephen
Wiel, Nevada Public Service Commission, Carson City, on behalf of the NARUC
Conservation Committee; Robert Williams, Princeton University, Princeton, New
Jersey; Ralph Cavanagh, Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco,
California; Tom Bath, Solar Energy Research Institute, Golden, Colorado;
Arthur H. Rosenfeld, Lawrence Berkeley Labs, Berkeley, California; Jim Wolf,
Alliance to Save Energy, and William McCollam, Jr., Edison Electric Institute,
both of Washington, DC; Scott Sklar, Solar Energy Industry Association,
Arlington, Virginia; and William D. Robertson, Pacific Power and Light,
Portland, Oregon.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CAPITAL GAINS
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on revenue increases as
contained in the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1990, focusing on
the proposal to reduce the rate of tax on long term capital gains, receiving
testimony from Senators Bumpers and Boschwitz. Dennis Ross, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Ronald A. Pearlman, Chief of Staff,
Randolph Weiss, Deputy Chief of Staff, and Thomas Barthold, Economist, all of
the Joint Committee on Taxation; Alan J. Auerbach, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia; and Paul Craig Roberts, Center for Strategic and International
Studies, Robert S. McIntyre, Citizens for Tax Justice, and Charles E. Walker,
American Council for Capital Formation, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed hearings on
proposals to establish a corporation to administer a program of voluntary
national service, and to provide for the education and training of
participants in such Corps, including S. 3, S. 322, S. 382, and S. 408,
receiving testimony from Senator Nunn; Representative Montgomery; Samantha
Hodge-Williams, Magic Me, Baltimore, Maryland; Frank J. Slobig, Youth Service
America, and Margaret Rosenberry, National Association of Service and
Conservation Corps, both of Washington, DC; Phil Braden, Montgomery County
Conservation Corps, Rockville, Maryland; James Sakamoto, University of
Southern California, and Todd Clark, Constitutional Rights Foundation, both of
Los Angeles, California; Gresham Riley, Colorado College, Colorado Springs,
Colorado, on behalf of the National Association of Independent Colleges and
Universities; James Whalen, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, on behalf of the
American Council on Education; Judith Billings, Council of Chief State School
Officers, Olympia, Washington.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION/INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominaton of Richard J. Kerr, of Virginia, to be Deputy Director of Central
Intelligence.
Also, the committee resumed closed hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the intelligence
community, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
Committee recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/03/15
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 15, 1989; pages D217 - D226 (Bound vol. D113-
D120)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CONSERVATION TILLAGE TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Research, and General Legislation held hearings to examine the
implications of conservation tillage technology research on agriculture,
receiving testimony from Robert I. Papendick, Research Leader, Land Management
and Water Conservation Research Unit, and James F. Parr, Coordinator,
USDA/ASAID Dry Land Agriculture Project, both of the Agricultural Research
Service, Department of Agriculture; Duayne L. Baldwin, Manitoba-North Dakota
Zero Till Association, Geneseo, North Dakota; Ralph Grossi, The American
Farmland Trust, Washington, D.C.; James H. Kinsella, BASF Corporation,
Lexington, Illinois; Stephen J. Marley, Iowa State University, Ames; and C.
John Baker, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
to review proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for foreign
assistance programs, receiving testimony from James A. Baker III, Secretary of
State.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD/GSA
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 Daniel R. Levinson, Chairman, and Mary F. Wieseman, Special Counsel, both
of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, and Richard G. Austin, Acting
Administrator, and William R. Barton, Inspector General, both of the General
Services Administration.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 4.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings, in closed session,
on the nomination of Representative Richard B. Cheney, of Wyoming, to be
Secretary of Defense, after the nominee testified and answered further
questions in his own behalf.
BASE CLOSURES
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to review the
recommendations of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission for closure of
certain military bases, receiving testimony from former Senator Abraham
Ribicoff and former Representative Jack Edwards, both Co-Chairmen, and James
C. Smith, Commissioner, all of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission.
FSLIC
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued
oversight hearings to examine the problems in the savings and loan industry,
and S. 413, to reform, recapitalize, and consolidate the Federal deposit
insurance system, and to enhance the regulatory and enforcement powers of
Federal financial institutions regulatory agencies, receiving testimony from
Robert L. Gnaizda, Public Advocates, Inc., San Francisco, California; Michelle
Meier, Consumers Union, Peggy Miller, Consumer Federation of America, and Al
Williams, Credit Union National Association, Inc., all of Washington, DC; and
Kenneth L. Robinson, National Association of Federal Credit Unions, Arlington,
Virginia.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
1990 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1990 budget,
focusing on energy and related issues, after receiving testimony from James D.
Watkins, Secretary of Energy; Keith Fultz, Director of Energy Issues,
Government Accounting Office; Robert B. Barker, Assistant to the Secretary of
Defense for Atomic Energy; and David Culp, Washington, DC, on behalf of the
Plutonium Challenge.
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FAIRNESS DOCTRINE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications held hearings on proposed legislation to reinstate the Fairness
Doctrine to increase speech on issues of public importance and further First
Amendment principles, focusing on the impact of the repeal of the Doctrine by
the Federal Communications Commission, receiving testimony from Thomas G.
Krattenmaker, Georgetown University Law Center, Jerome A. Barron, National Law
Center, George Washington University, and Scott G. Denman, Safe Energy
Communication Council, all of Washington, DC; and Anna C. Goldoff, John Jay
College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed consideration of
S. 406, to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish and
implement a competitive oil and gas leasing program for the Coastal Plain of
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again on tomorrow.
1990 BUDGET
Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings on revenue increases and
spending reductions as contained in the President's proposed budget for fiscal
year 1990, focusing on expiring tax provisions, receiving testimony from Dana
L. Trier, Tax Legislative Counsel, Department of the Treasury.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on the nomination of
Lawrence S. Eagleburger, of Florida, to be Deputy Secretary of State, where
the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
FEDERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 444, to
strengthen the Federal Advisory Committee Act management controls and clarify
requirements in the law for the establishment, operation and termination of
federal advisory committees, receiving testimony from S. Jay Plager,
Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget; Paul T. Weiss, Associate Administrator for
Administration, and James L. Dean, Director, Committee Management Secretariat,
both of the General Services Administration; and Brian C. Murphy, Federal Bar
Association, Richard K. Berg, Multinational Legal Services, and Henry M.
Jasny, Center for Auto Safety, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DNA IDENTIFICATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded
hearings to examine the use of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) "fingerprinting" as
a tool in the criminal justice system, focusing on its accuracy, federal,
state and local law enforcement cooperation, and the standardization of DNA
typing evidence for courtroom use, after receiving testimony from Roger T.
Castonguay, Assistant Director-in-Charge, Laboratory Division, and John W.
Hicks, Inspector-Deputy Assistant Director, both of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, Department of Justice; Jeffrey L. Ashton, Florida Assistant
State Attorney, Tallahassee; James E. Starrs, George Washington University,
Washington, DC; and Joseph L. Peterson, University of Illinois at Chicago.
CHILD CARE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 5, authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1990 through 1994 to establish a Federal program for the
improvement of the quality and availability of child care.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/03/16
Daily Digest - [Thursday, March 16, 1989]; pages D228 - D236 (Bound vol.
D120-D127)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1990 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from John W. Bode, Assistant Secretary
for Food and Consumer Services, Scott Dunn, Acting Administrator, Food and
Nutrition Service, James T. Heimbach, Acting Administrator, Human Nutrition
Information Service, and Robert E. Sherman, Budget Officer, all of the
Department of Agriculture.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 4.
APPROPRIATIONS--FBI/DEA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for
the Department of Justice, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from William S. Sessions, Director, Federal Bureau of
Investigation, and John C. Lawn, Administrator, Drug Enforcement
Administration, both of the Department of Justice.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 4.
APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY HEALTH PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for military health programs, receiving
testimony from William Mayer, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health; Brig.
Gen. Barbara A. Goodwin, Chief, Air Force Nurses' Corps; Rear Adm. Mary Hall,
Director, Navy Nurses' Corps; Brig. Gen. Clara L. Admas-Enders, Chief Nurse,
U.S. Army; Lt. Gen. Frank F. Ledford, Jr., Surgeon General of the Army; Vice
Adm. James Zimbel, Surgeon General of the Navy; and Lt. Gen. Monte B. Miller,
Surgeon General of the Air Force.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN RELATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for foreign assistance,
focusing on development assistance programs, receiving testimony from Alan
Woods, Administrator, Agency for International Development.
Subcommittee 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
George W. Tenley, Jr., Chief Counsel, Research and Special Programs
Administration, and Howard M. Smolkin, Managing Director, National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, both of the Department of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 6.
APPROPRIATIONS--CONSUMER PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations : Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Anne Graham, Acting Chairman, Consumer Product Safety Commission; Robert F.
Steeves, Acting Director, Office of Consumer Affairs, Department of Health and
Human Services; and Mary Levy, Acting Director, Consumer Information Center.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 3.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Representative Richard B. Cheney, of Wyoming, to be Secretary of
Defense.
S&L INDUSTRY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued
oversight hearings on the problems of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance
Corporation, and on S. 413, Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and
Enforcement Act, receiving testimony from Eugene W. Kuthy, Michigan Financial
Institutions Bureau, Lansing, on behalf of the Conference of State Bank
Supervisors; and John D. Seymour, Illinois Commissioner of Savings and Loans,
Springfield, on behalf of the American Council of State Savings Supervisors.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
THIRD WORLD DEBT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy concluded hearings to review
proposals on Third World debt, after receiving testimony from David C.
Mulford, Under Secretary of the Treasury-designate for International Affairs.
NASA BUDGET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space resumed 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 B. Odom, Associate
Administrator for Space Station, and Raymond Tanner, Director, Space Station
Freedom Program Office, both of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration; John B. Winch, Boeing Aerospace, Huntsville Alabama; Robert F.
Thompson, McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company, Huntington Beach,
California; Lawrence R. Greenwood, General Electric Company, Princeton, New
Jersey; and George Hallinan, Rocketdyne, Canoga Park, California.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 4.
ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original bill to authorize and direct the Secretary of the
Interior to establish and implement a competitive oil and gas leasing program
for the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, in
lieu of S. 406.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of
Edith E. Holiday, of Georgia, to be General Counsel, Department of the
Treasury, and David W. Mullins, Jr., of Massachusetts, to be Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance.
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the above
nominations, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Ms. Holiday was introduced by Senator Nunn.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Lawrence S. Eagleburger, of Florida, to be Deputy Secretary of
State.
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the above
nomination, after the nominee testified and answered further questions in his
own behalf.
CHEMICAL RESIDUE EFFECTS ON CHILDREN
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Families,
Drugs and Alcoholism concluded hearings on the effects on children of the
consumption of fruits and vegetables grown with and containing residues of
agricultural chemicals, after receiving testimony from Senators Symms and
Warner; Representative Sikorski; Frank E. Young, Commissioner, Food and Drug
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; John A. Moore, Acting
Deputy Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Richard Jackson,
American Academy of Pediatrics, and Charles J. Carey, National Food Processors
Association, both of Washington, DC; Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Massachusetts
State Department of Health, Boston; Meryl Streep, Westport, Connecticut, on
behalf of Mothers and Others for Pesticide Limits; James A. Wylie, Jr.,
Uniroyal Chemical Company, Middlebury, Connecticut; Janet Hathaway, Natural
Resources Defense Council, New York, New York; John Rice, International Apple
Institute of America, McLean, Virginia; and Robert Josephy, Blue Jay Orchards,
Bethel, Connecticut.
JOB TRAINING ASSISTANCE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity resumed hearings on S. 543, to strengthen employment and training
assistance programs and to improve the targeting of services to economically
disadvantaged adults and youth, receiving testimony from Marian Wright
Edelman, Children's Defense Fund, and William H. Kolberg, National Alliance of
Business, both of Washington, DC; Jack Kelepinger, Weber-Morgan, Utah, on
behalf of the National Association of Private Industry Councils; William
Shinn, Louis-Rich Company, Newberry, South Carolina, on behalf of the National
Rehabilitation Association; and Susan Dunn, Washington State Employment
Security Department, Olympia, on behalf of the National Governors'
Association.
Hearings continue on Thursday, May 11.
AGE DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT WAIVER PROTECTION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor concluded
hearings on S. 54, to prohibit unsupervised waivers of the rights provided to
older workers under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, after receiving
testimony from Senator Heinz; Clarence Thomas, Chairman, Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission; Joseph F. Delfico, Director, Income Security, General
Accounting Office; George Galland, Davis, Barnhill and Galland, Chicago,
Illinois; Mary Gardiner Jones, Older Women's League, and Cathy A. Shattuck,
Becker and Green, both of Washington, DC; Mark S. Dichter, Morgan, Lewis,
Bockius, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Gerald Clay, Peoria, Illinois; Kenneth
Lancaster, St. Paul, Minnesota; and Robert C. Patterson, Rochester, New York.
NOMINATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Anthony J. Principi, of California, to be Deputy Secretary of
Veterans' Affairs.
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the above
nomination, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Murkowski,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1989/03/17
Daily Digest - Friday, March 17, 1989; pages D237 - D244 (Bound vol. D127-
D130)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
GLOBAL DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed hearings to
review global defense matters, receiving testimony from Admiral William J.
Crowe, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 4.
APPROPRIATIONS--COMMISSIONS AND INSTITUTIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1990, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Representative Pepper, Chairman, U.S. Bipartisan Commission on
Comprehensive Health Care; Philip R. Lee, Chairman, and Paul B. Ginsberg,
Executive Director, both of the Physician Payment Review Commission; Stuart H.
Altman, Chairman, and Donald A. Young, Executive Director, both of the
Prospective Payment Review Commission; R. Kenneth Towery, Chairman of the
Board, and Donald E. Ledwig, President and Chief Executive Officer, both of
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Jerald C. Newman, Chairman, National
Commission on Libraries; Samuel W. Lewis, President, U.S. Institute of Peace;
Herman Hein, National Commission on Infant Mortality; and Lt. General George
H. McKee (U.S.A.F.-Ret.), Governor, Soldiers' and Airmen's Home.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 4.
CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES PLAN
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
held hearings on the first annual Critical Technologies Plan, focusing on
those technologies most critical to retaining U.S. superiority, receiving
testimony from Milton Lohr, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
(Acquisition); George P. Milburn, Deputy Director, Defense Research and
Engineering (Research and Advanced Technology), Department of Defense; and
Richard A. Du Val, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for Defense
Programs (Operations).
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
S&L INDUSTRY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
oversight hearings on the problems of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance
Corporation, and on S. 413, Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and
Enforcement Act, after receiving testimony from Herb Sandler, World Savings
and Loan Association, Oakland, California; Ernest M. Fleischer, Franklin
Savings Association, Ottawa, Kansas; and Lewis S. Ranieri, Ranieri Wilson and
Company, Inc., New York, New York.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Committee on the Budget: Committee began markup of a proposed concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1990 budget for the Federal Government, but did
not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
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GLOBAL AIR POLLUTION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection held oversight hearings on policies to prevent destruction of the
ozone layer and global warming, receiving testimony from William K. Reilly,
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PHYSICIAN PAYMENT REFORMS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Medicare and Long Term Care held
hearings to examine the current and future status of the Medicare program,
focusing on physicians' payments, receiving testimony from Phillip R. Lee and
Paul Ginsberg, Executive Director, both of the Physician Payment Review
Commission; and William C. Hsiao and Peter Braun, both of Harvard University,
Boston, Massachusetts.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 544, to limit the
modification of collective bargaining agreements subject to the Railway Labor
Act, receiving testimony from William E. Anderson, United States Bankruptcy
Judge for the Western District of Virginia, on behalf of the National
Conference of Bankruptcy Judges; William E. Winpisinger, International
Association of Machinists, Joseph Guerrieri, Guerrieri, Edmond, and James,
Henry A. Duffy, Air Line Pilots Association, and Elliott M. Seiden, Texas Air
Corporation, all of Washington, DC; Bruce H. Simon, Cohen, Weiss, and Simon,
Harvey Miller, Weil, Gotshal, and Manges, and Farrell P. Kupersmith, Touche,
Ross and Company, all of New York, New York; Theodore Eisenberg, Cornell
University Law School, Ithaca, New York; and L.E. Creel III, Creel, Atwood,
and Phillips, Dallas, Texas, and Charles M. Tatelbaum, Kass, Hodges and
Massari, Tampa, Florida, both on behalf of the American Bankruptcy Institute.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Senate Impeachment Trial Committee: Committee held an organizational meeting
where it elected Senator Bingaman, as Chairman, and Senator Specter, as Vice
Chairman.
Committee will meet again on Monday, April 10.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/03/20
Daily Digest - Monday, March 20, 1989; pages D245 - D248 (Bound vol. D130-
D131)
Committee Meetings
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Senate Impeachment Trial Committee: On Friday, March 17, Committee held an
organizational meeting where it elected Senator Bingaman, as Chairman, and
Senator Specter, as Vice Chairman.
Committee recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/03/21
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 21, 1989; pages D249 - D256 (Bound vol. D131-
D136)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/03/22
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 22, 1989; pages D257 - D262 (Bound vol. D136-
D139)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/03/23
Daily Digest - [Thursday, March 23, 1989]; pages D264 - D268 (Bound vol.
D140-D143)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/04/03
Daily Digest - Monday, April 3, 1989; pages D269 - D276 (Bound vol. D143-
D145)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the
Department of the Interior, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Robert H. Gentile, Acting Director, Office of
Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Rick Ventura, Assistant Secretary
for Policy, Budget and Administration, Ralph W. Tarr, Solicitor, and James R.
Richards, Inspector General, all of the Department of the Interior.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--NSF
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the
National Science Foundation, receiving testimony from Erich Bloch, Director,
National Science Foundation.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DISCRETIONARY PROGRAMS FOR THE HANDICAPPED
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on the Handicapped
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for discretionary
programs of the Education of the Handicapped Act, after receiving testimony
from Charles E.M. Kolb, Deputy Under Secretary for Planning, Budget and
Evaluation, Patricia Smith, Acting Assistant Secretary for Special Education
and Rehabilitative Service, and Carol Cichowski, Director, Division of Special
Education, Rehabilitation and Research Analysis, Office of Planning, Budget
and Evaluation, all of the Department of Education; Frederick Weintraub, The
Council for Exceptional Children, Reston, Virginia; Norena A. Hale, Minnesota
State Department of Education, St. Paul; Pat Trohanis, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill; Sherril Moon, Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond; Carla Lawson, Iowa Exceptional Parents Center, Fort Dodge; William
Carriker, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; Jamie Ruppmann, Vienna,
Virginia, on behalf of the Consortium of Citizens with Disabilities; Frank
Bowe, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York; Steven Forness, UCLA
Neuropsychiatric Institute, Los Angeles, California; and Judith S. Palfrey,
The Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/04/04
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 4, 1989; pages D277 - D286 (Bound vol. D146-
D152)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1990, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Wendy L. Gramm, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading
Commission; Marvin R. Duncan, Acting Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Farm Credit Administration; Eric P. Thor, President and Chief Executive
Officer, Farm Credit System Assistance Board; and Frank E. Young,
Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human
Services.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 6.
BASE CLOSURES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense and the Subcommittee on
Military Construction concluded joint hearings on recommendations for closure
of certain military bases, after receiving testimony from Robert A. Stone,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Installations; and Robert F. Hale,
Assistant Director for National Security, and Wayne Glass, Principal Analyst,
both of the Congressional Budget Office.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA--CRIME AND DRUG CRISIS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia held
hearings on the crime and drug crisis in the District of Columbia, receiving
testimony from Mayor Marion S. Barry, Jr., Maurice Turner, Police Chief, and
Hallem H. Williams, Director, Department of Corrections, all of the District
of Columbia Government; Fred Ugast, Chief Judge of the Superior Court of the
District of Columbia; Lawrence W. Sherman, University of Maryland, College
Park, representing the Crime Control Institute; and Karst Besteman, Alcohol
and Drug Problems Association, Washington, DC.
Hearings continue on Monday, April 17.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony from Senators Pryor, Breaux,
Gorton, Adams, Sarbanes, and Mikulski, and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for foreign assistance
programs, focusing on military assistance, peacekeeping, and Economic Support
Fund, receiving testimony from H. Allen Holmes, Assistant Secretary of State
for Politico-Military Affairs; Richard E. Bissell, Assistant Administrator for
Program and Policy Coordination, Agency for International Development; and Lt.
Gen. Charles W. Brown, USA, Defense Security Assistance Agency.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 6.
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the
National Park Service, receiving testimony from William Penn Mott, Jr.,
Director, National Park Service, who was accompanied by several of his
associates, all of the Department of the Interior.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 10.
APPROPRIATIONS--EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1990 for the Department of Education, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from Lauro F. Cavazos,
Secretary of Education; Charles E.M. Kolb, Deputy Under Secretary for
Planning, Budget and Evaluation, James E. Cheek, President, Howard University,
I. King Jordan, President, Gallaudet University, William E. Castle, Director,
National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and Vice President, Rochester
Institute of Technology, Tuck Tinsley III, President, American Printing House
for the Blind, Daniel Bonner, Acting Assistant Secretary for Elementary and
Secondary Education, Alicia Coro, Acting Director, Office of Bilingual
Education and Minority Languages Affairs, Patricia McGill Smith, Acting
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Bonnie
F. Guiton, Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education, and Sally
H. Christensen, Director, Budget Service, Office of Planning, Budget and
Evaluation, all of the Department of Education.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, April 7.
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 Paul W. Bateman, Deputy Assistant to the President for Management, and
Director, Office of Administration, Executive Office of the President; Thomas
G. Moore, Acting Chairman, National Critical Materials Council; Robert G.
Stanton, Regional Director, National Park Service (on behalf of funds for the
White House residence); and Jean McKee, Acting Chairman, and Kathleen Day
Koch, General Counsel, both of the Federal Labor Relations Authority.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 12.
APPROPRIATIONS--NSF/OFFICE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY POLICY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Erich Bloch,
Director, National Science Foundation; and William R. Graham, Jr., Science
Advisor to the President and Director, Office of Science and Technology
Policy.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 10.
BASE CLOSURES
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support held hearings to review the recommendations of the Commission on Base
Realignment and Closure for closure of certain military bases, receiving
testimony from Hayden Bryan, Staff Director, Defense Secretary's Commission on
Base Realignment and Closure.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--NASA
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology and Space resumed hearings on the President's proposed budget
request for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, focusing on aeronautics and space technology, receiving
testimony from William F. Ballhaus, Jr., Director, Ames Research Center, and
Acting Associate Administrator, Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology,
and Robert Rosen, Acting Associate Administrator, Office of Aeronautics and
Space Technology, both of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration;
Richard E. Rowberg, Chief Scientist, Policy Research Division, Congressional
Research Service, Library of Congress; John Swihart, Aerospace Industries
Association, David Doniger, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Norris
Krone, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, all of Washington,
DC; and Ronald Wickens, Federal Express, Memphis, Tennessee.
Hearing continue on Tuesday, April 11.
AUTOMOBILE FUEL EFFICIENCY STANDARDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Regulation
and Conservation held oversight hearings on automobile fuel efficiency
standards, focusing on corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards, and
options for stabilizing global climate change, receiving testimony from John
R. Berg, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Conservation and Renewable Energy;
Richard D. Morganstern, Director, Office of Policy Analysis, Environmental
Protection Agency; Howard Smolkin, Managing Director, National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration, Department of Transportation; Charles Ebinger,
International Resources Group, Ltd., and Clarence M. Ditlow III, Center for
Auto Safety, both of Washington, DC; Marina V.N. Whitman, General Motors
Corporation, Detroit, Michigan, and Helen O. Petrauskas, Ford Motor Company,
Dearborn, Michigan.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
U.S.-SOVIET RELATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on the future of
U.S.-Soviet relations, receiving testimony from George F. Kennan, Princeton
University, Princeton, New Jersey.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 12.
RICO/FEDERAL LABOR POLICY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
held hearings to examine the racketeering suit against the Teamsters Union and
the government's use of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations
(RICO) Act (P.L. 91-542) to impose trusteeships on labor unions and other
business entities, receiving testimony from Benito Romano, U.S. Attorney for
the Southern District of New York; and William J. McCarthy and James T. Grady,
both on behalf of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Washington, DC.
Hearings continue on Thursday, April 6.
AUTHORIZATIONS--ACTION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs and Alcoholism concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1990, 1991, and 1992 for ACTION, the Federal Domestic
Volunteer Agency, after receiving testimony from Senator Rockefeller; Donna
Alvarado, Director, ACTION; John Egan, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois;
Derek Coelho, St. Francis House, Boston, Massachusetts; Kevin Smith, Literacy
Volunteers of America--New York State, Buffalo, New York; Nancy Wood, Earlham
College, Richmond, Indiana; Winifred Dowling, National Association of RSVP
Directors, El Paso, Texas; Betty Pate Manley, National Association of Foster
Grandparent Directors, San Jose, California; and Berryl Thompson, National
Association of Senior Companion Directors, Opelousas, Louisiana.
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INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Hearings continue on Thursday, April 6.
Joint Meeting
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Joint Committee on Printing: Committee held an organizational business meeting
where it took the following action:
Elected Senator Ford as Chairman, and Representative Annunzio as Vice
Chairman; and
Adopted committee rules of procedure for the 101st Congress.
Committee recessed subject to call.
1989/04/05
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 5, 1989; pages D287 - D296 (Bound vol. D152-
D158)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee began hearings on
rural development issues, focusing on the role of financial institutions in
restoring economic vitality in rural communities, and how to bridge the gap
between remote communities in rural areas through telecommunications,
receiving testimony from Neal J. Barber, Virginia State Department of Housing
and Community Development, Richmond; Murray D. Lull, Smith County State Bank &
Trust Company, Smith Center, Kansas, on behalf of the American Bankers
Association; Stephen C. McConnell, Northern Community Investment Corporation,
St. Johnsbury, Vermont; Larry Farmer, Mississippi Action for Community
Education, Inc., Greenville; and Will Kitchen, Edina, Minnesota.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--SEC
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for
the Securities and Exchange Commission, receiving testimony from David S.
Ruder, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 11.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for defense intelligence
programs, receiving testimony from William H. Webster, Director, and James H.
Taylor, Executive Director, both of the Central Intelligence Agency; Vice Adm.
William O. Studeman, USN, Director, National Security Agency; Lt. Gen. Harry
E. Soyster, USA, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency; and Jimmie D. Hill,
Acting Director, Special Air Force Programs.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations; Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for
energy and water development programs, receiving testimony from Senators
Kerry, Exon, Cranston, and Wilson; Representatives Rhodes and Anderson;
Arizona Governor Rose Mofford, Phoenix; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
GORBACHEV REFORMS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on the implications of
Gorbachev reforms for U.S. security, receiving testimony from Arnold Horelick,
UCLA Center for the Study of Soviet International Behavior, Los Angeles,
California; Gen. William E. Odom, USA (Ret.), Hudson Institute, Inc.,
Alexandria, Virginia; Stephen M. Meyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge; and Christopher Donnelly, Soviet Studies Research Center, United
Kingdom Ministry of Defense.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Donald J. Atwood, of Massachusetts, to be Deputy Secretary of Defense, after
the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Levin and Lugar, testified and
answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Wendell L. Willkie II, of the District of
Columbia, to be General Counsel of the Department of Commerce, after the
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Boschwitz, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
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AUTHORIZATIONS--HIGHWAY SAFETY PROGRAMS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee
concluded hearings on S. 673, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991
for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, after receiving
testimony from Barry Felrice, Associate Administrator for Rulemaking, National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Transportation; Joan
Claybrook, Public Citizen, Clarence Ditlow, Center for Auto Safety, Albert J.
Slechter, Chrysler Motors Corporation, David Snyder, American Insurance
Association, and James E. Reagan, Government Employees' Insurance Corporation,
on behalf of the National Association of Independent Insurers, all of
Washington, DC; A. Benjamin Kelley, Institute for Injury Reduction, Dunkirk,
Maryland; Robert Munson, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan; Robert A.
Rogers, General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan; and Brian O'Neill,
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Virginia.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of W. Henson Moore, of Louisiana, to be Deputy Secretary of
Energy, John C. Tuck, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Energy, and Donna
R. Fitzpatrick, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of
Energy for Management and Administration, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Moore was introduced by Senator
Breaux, and Mr. Tuck was introduced by former Senator Howard Baker.
PUBLIC LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills:
S. 85, to authorize the acceptance of certain lands for addition to Harpers
Ferry National Historical Park, West Virginia, after receiving testimony from
Senator Byrd; and Bradley D. Nash, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia; and
S. 280, to designate a segment of the Niobrara River in Nebraska as a
component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, after receiving
testimony from Senators Exon and Kerrey; Representatives Virginia Smith and
Hoagland; Nebraska State Senator Howard Lamb, and George Lincoln, Lincoln
Industries, Inc, both of Lincoln, Nebraska; Beryl Kuhre, and Allen Steuter,
Niobrara Valley Preserve, both of Johnstown, Nebraska; and Robert Hilski,
Middle Niobrara Natural Resources District, Larry Shepperd, Board of Keya Paha
County, both of Valentine, Nebraska; Ronald Klataske, National Audobon
Society, Manhattan, Kansas; and Kevin J. Coyle, American Rivers, Inc.,
Washington, DC.
Testimony was also received on both the aforementioned bills, and S. 338, to
provide for the development of a trails interpretation center in the city of
Council Bluffs, Iowa from Denis Galvin, Deputy Director, National Park
Service, Department of the Interior.
INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL REPORT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations held hearings to review the President's annual
International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, receiving testimony from Ann
B. Wrobleski, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics
Matters; and David L. Westrate, Assistant Administrator for Operations, Drug
Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Pamela Ann Rymer, of California, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Ninth
Circuit, Robert C. Bonner, to be U.S. District Judge for the Central District
of California, Melinda Harman, to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern
District of Texas, and William P. Barr, of Virginia, to be an Assistant
Attorney General, Department of Justice, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Ms. Rymer and Mr. Bonner were
introduced by Senator Wilson; Ms. Harmon was introduced by Senator Gramm and
Representatives Laughlin and Andrews; and Mr. Barr was introduced by Senators
Warner and Robb.
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Joint Meeting
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Joint Committee on Taxation: Committee held an organizational business meeting
where it took the following action:
Elected Representative Rostenkowski as Chairman, and Senator Bentsen as Vice
Chairman.
Committee recessed subject to call.
1989/04/06
Daily Digest - [Thursday, April 6, 1989]; pages D298 - D306 (Bound vol. D158-
D165)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1990 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Kenneth A. Gilles, Assistant
Secretary for Marketing and Inspection Services, James W. Glosser,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Lester M. Crawford,
Administrator, Food Safety and Inspection Service, J. Patrick Boyle,
Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service, and Lawrence Wachs, Budget
Officer, all of the Department of Agriculture.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 11.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for defense programs, receiving
testimony from numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 11.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for
energy and water development programs, receiving testimony from Senator Dole;
Representatives Brooks and Hochbrueckner; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 12.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for foreign assistance
programs, focusing on East Asia and the Philippines, receiving testimony from
David F. Lambertson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and
Pacific Affairs; and Carol C. Adelman, Assistant Administrator for Asia and
Near East, Agency for International Development.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 11.
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
Richard D. Morgan, Executive Director, Federal Highway Administration,
Department of Transportation; and James L. Kolstad, Acting Chairman, National
Transportation Safety Board.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 13.
CONVENTIONAL FORCES IN EUROPE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on the negotiations on
conventional forces in Europe, receiving testimony from Stanley R. Sloan,
Senior Specialist in International Security Policy, Congressional Research
Service, Library of Congress; Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster (USA-Ret.), Atlantic
Council of the United States, Washington, DC; and Phillip A. Karber, BDM
International, Inc., McLean, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence held hearings to examine environmental priorities for the Nuclear
Weapons Complex, receiving testimony from Troy E. Wade II, Acting Assistant
Secretary for Defense Programs, Raymond P. Berube, Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Environment, and Roger P. Whitfield, Associate Director, Office of Defense
Waste and Transportation Management, all of the Department of Energy; and
Bruce Diamond, Director, Office of Waste Programs Enforcement, H. Christopher,
Grundler, Director, Federal Facilities Hazardous Waste Compliance Office, and
Lisa Friedman, Associate General Counsel, all of the Environmental Protection
Agency.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
EXXON OIL SPILL
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings to
review the environmental and maritime implications of the Exxon Valdez oil
spill, receiving testimony from Samuel K. Skinner, Secretary, and Adm. Paul A.
Yost, Commandant, and Capt. Richard M. Larrabee, both of the U.S. Coast Guard,
all of the Department of Transportation; William K. Reilly, Administrator,
Environmental Protection Agency; William E. Evans, Under Secretary of Commerce
for Oceans and Atmosphere; Steve Robinson, Deputy Director, Fish and Wildlife
Service, Department of the Interior; and L.G. Rawl, Exxon Corporation, New
York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AMTRAK
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation concluded hearings on S. 462, authorizing funds through fiscal
year 1992 for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, (AMTRAK), after
receiving testimony from S. Mark Lindsey, Chief Counsel, Federal Railroad
Administration, Department of Transportation; W. Graham Claytor, Jr.,
President and Chairman of the Board, National Railroad Passenger Corporation
(AMTRAK); and Jim Kennedy, Railway Labor Executives Association, and Ross
Capon, National Association of Railroad Passengers, both of Washington, DC.
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LOCAL RAIL SERVICE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation concluded hearings on S. 255, authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1990 and 1991 for the Local Rail Service Assistance program, after
receiving testimony from Senators Harkin, Kassebaum, and D'Amato; S. Mark
Lindsey, Chief Counsel, Federal Railroad Administration, Department of
Transportation; Horace B. Edwards, Kansas State Department of Transportation,
Topeka, on behalf of the National Conference of State Railway Officials of the
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials; Mortimer
Fuller, Genessee and Wyoming Industries, Greenwich, Connecticut, on behalf of
the Regional Railroads of America; and Lynn Anderson, Dakota, Minnesota and
Eastern Railroad, Brookings, South Dakota.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of John D. Negroponte, of New York, to be Ambassador to Mexico, after the
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Stevens, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
RICO/FEDERAL LABOR POLICY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
resumed hearings to examine the racketeering suit against the Teamsters Union
and the government's use of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations
(RICO) Act (P.L. 91-542) to impose trusteeships on labor unions and other
business entities, receiving testimony from Anthony L. Giliberti and Arthur
Eisenberg, both of the Teamsters Local 814, Long Island City, New York; Edwin
H. Stier, Teamsters Local 560, Union City, New Jersey; Eugene R. Anderson,
Laborers International Union of North America, Local 6(A), and Brian Carroll,
Fulton Fish Market, both of New York, New York; and Robert E. Welsh, Jr.,
Local 30/30B, United Slate, Tile and Composition Roofers, Damp and Waterproof
Workers Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 12.
FEDERAL LEADERSHIP IN SCIENCE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on the Federal
Government's role in scientific research, education, and innovation, receiving
testimony from Frank Press, President, National Academy of Sciences, and
former Science Adviser to President Jimmy Carter; Donald F. Hornig, former
Science Adviser to President Lyndon Johnson, and Lewis M. Branscomb, former,
Chairman, National Science Board, both of Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; and H. Guyford Stever, former Science Adviser to President
Gerald Ford, Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--FEC/CIVIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD PROGRAM/AMERICAN FOLKLIFE CENTER
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on the
following measures:
Proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1990 and supplemental
funds for fiscal year ending September 30, 1989 for the Federal Election
Commission, after receiving testimony from Danny Lee McDonald, Chairman, Lee
Ann Elliott, Vice Chairman and Chairman, Finance Committee, and John Warren
McGarry, Commissioner, all of the Federal Election Commission;
Proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Civic Achievement Award Program
in Honor of the Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, after
receiving testimony from James H. Billington, The Librarian of Congress; and
Stephen Janger, Close Up Foundation, Arlington, Virginia; and
Proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990, 1991, 1992,
1993, and 1994 for the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress,
after receiving testimony from James H. Billington, The Librarian of Congress,
and Alan Jabbour, Director, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
VA HEALTH-CARE FUNDING
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the
Department of Veterans' Affairs health-care funding programs, after receiving
testimony from John A. Gronvall, Chief Medical Director, Gary DeGasta,
Director, VA Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont, Tom Holthaus,
Director, VA Medical Center, Togus, Maine, Tom Mullon, Director, VA Medical
Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jacqueline Parthemore, Chief of Staff, VA
Medical Center, San Diego, California, Sam Threefoot, Chief of Staff, VA
Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, Steve Petty, Director of Social Work
Services and Jerry Pettis, Memorial Veterans Hospital, both of Loma Linda,
California, Anne Pope, Director of Social Work, VA Medical Center, Hines,
Illinois, and Thresa Wilson, VA Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, all of
the Department of Veterans' Affairs; Alfred Simmons, Baltimore, Maryland, and
Robert Newsome, Alexandria, Virginia, both on behalf of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Jerry Cox, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Larry Dawson,
Phoenix, Arizona, both on behalf of the Disabled American Veterans; and
Richard Woodworth, Nashville, Tennessee, on behalf of the Paralyzed Veterans
of America.
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INDIAN WATER POLICY
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded joint oversight
hearings with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources' Subcommittee on
Water and Power on the implementation of Indian water rights policy, after
receiving testimony from Michael J. Clinton, Bookman-Edmonston Engineering,
Inc., on behalf of former Under Secretary of the Interior Ann Dore McLaughlin,
Washington, DC; Wyoming Governor Michael Sullivan, Cheyenne, on behalf of the
Western Governors Association; Lois G. Witte, Colorado State Deputy Attorney
General, Denver, on behalf of the Conference of Western Attorneys General;
Charles Wilkinson and David Getches, both of the University of Colorado School
of Law, Boulder; Zach Willey, Environmental Defense Fund, Oakland, California;
John Washakie, Shoshone Tribe, Wind River Reservation, Fort Washakie, Wyoming;
Elliot Booth and William G. Lavell, both of the Colorado River Indian Tribes,
Parker, Arizona; Marvin Osborne, Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall
Reservation, Fort Hall, Idaho; and Joe Ely and Robert Pelcyger, both of the
Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, Nixon, Nevada.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, April 11.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/04/07
Daily Digest - [Friday, April 7, 1989]; pages D308 - D316 (Bound vol. D165-
D167)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1990 for the Department of Education, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from Charles E.M. Kolb, Deputy
Under Secretary, Sally H. Christensen, Director, Budget Service, and Robert H.
Davidson, Director, Postsecondary Analysis Division, Budget Service, all of
the Office of Planning, Budget and Evaluation, James B. Thomas, Jr., Inspector
General, Bruno Manno, Acting Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and
Improvement, and Sally K. Kirkgasler, Director, Policy Development Staff,
Office of Postsecondary Education, all of the Department of Education.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 10.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence concluded hearings to examine environmental priorities for the
Nuclear Weapons Complex, after receiving testimony from Keith Fultz, Director,
Energy Issues, and William F. Fenzel, and Gary Jones, both
Evaluators-in-Charge, all of the Resources, Community, and Economic
Development Division, General Accounting Office; and Dan W. Reicher and James
D. Werner, both of the Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC.
EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS REDUCTION PROGRAM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on S. 629, to authorize funds for
fiscal year 1990 for the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, after
receiving testimony from Senator Cranston; Julius W. Becton, Jr., Director,
Federal Emergency Management Agency; Dallas L. Peck, Director, U.S. Geological
Survey, Department of the Interior; Robert L. Ketter, State University of New
York at Buffalo; Lacy Suiter, Tennessee Emergency Management Agency,
Nashville; and George K. Bernstein, Washington, DC, on behalf of the Expert
Review Committee of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program.
UNITED STATES-CANADA FTA
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade concluded oversight
hearings on the implementation of the United States-Canada Free Trade
Agreement, focusing on the potential for bilateral arrangements to address
United States-Canada trade problems, after receiving testimony from Joshua
Bolten, General Counsel and Acting Deputy U.S. Trade Representative; Samuel H.
Banks, Assistant Commissioner for Inspection and Control, and Lynn Gordon,
Assistant Commissioner for Commercial Operations, both of the U.S. Customs
Service, Department of the Treasury; Stanley S. Dennison, Coalition for Fair
Lumber Imports, Atlanta, Georgia; Laurance G. Broderick, Rivendell Forest
Products, Ltd., Englewood, Colorado, on behalf of the Alliance for Enforcement
of the Canadian Lumber Export Tax; Robert G. Anderson, American Plywood
Association, Tacoma, Washington; Robert J. Muth, ASARCO Incorporated, New
York, New York; Don Herzog, Montana Pork Producers Council, Rapelje, on behalf
of National Pork Producers Council; and Winston L. Wilson, U.S. Wheat
Associates, Inc. Washington, DC.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Bruce S. Gelb, of New York, to be Director of the United States
Information Agency, and Joseph Verner Reed, of Connecticut, for the rank of
Ambassador during his tenure of service as Chief of Protocol for the White
House, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Gelb was introduced by Senator Moynihan.
PAN AM 103 DISASTER
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations concluded hearings on the U.S. Government response to
the Pan Am 103 airline disaster, after receiving testimony from Joan M. Clark,
Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs, and Clayton E. McManaway, Associate
Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism, both of the Department of State; Monte R.
Belger, Associate Administrator for Aviation Standards, and Raymond A.
Salazar, Director, Office of Civilian Aviation Security, both of the Federal
Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation; and Burt Ammerman,
Janine Boulanger, Eleanor Bright, Elizabeth Delude-Dix, Peter Lowenstein,
Aphrodite Tsaris, and Doug Garcyznski, all family members of victims of the
Pan Am 103 disaster.
U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post
Office, and Civil Service held hearings to review the annual report of the
United States Postal Service, receiving testimony from Anthony M. Frank,
Postmaster General, Michael S. Coughlin, Deputy Postmaster General, Comer S.
Coppie, Senior Assistant Postmaster General for Finance, and Lewis A. Cox,
General Counsel, all of the U.S. Postal Service.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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Joint Meetings
EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to review the
employment/unemployment situation for March, receiving testimony from Janet L.
Norwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1989/04/10
Daily Digest - Monday, April 10, 1989; pages D317 - D322 (Bound vol. D167-
D169)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT/FOREST SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on 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 Robert F.
Burford, Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; and
F. Dale Robertson, Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 17.
APPROPRIATIONS--HHS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1990 for the Department of Health and Human Services, receiving
testimony from Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary, and Richard P. Kusserow,
Inspector General, both of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 12.
APPROPRIATIONS--EPA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the
Environmental Protection Agency, receiving testimony from William K. Reilly,
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Richard T. McCormack, of Pennsylvania, to be Under Secretary of State for
Economic and Agricultural Affairs, after the nominee testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
DOD QUALITY ASSURANCE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on quality
assurance at the Department of Defense, focusing on wasteful spending within
the Department which has resulted in the warehousing of defective spare parts,
receiving testimony from Derek J. Vander Schaaf, Deputy Inspector General, and
Jack Katzen, Assistant Secretary for Production and Logistics, both of the
Department of Defense; Brig. Gen. M. J. Pepe, U.S. Army, Defense Logistics
Agency; and Maj. Gen. Richard D. Smith, U.S. Air Force, Material Management,
Air Force Logistics Command.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SSA's TOLL-FREE TELEPHONE SYSTEM
Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings to examine the impact of
the Social Security Administration's new toll-free telephone system on the
quality of its service, receiving testimony from Dorcas R. Hardy,
Commissioner, Social Security Administration, Department of Health and Human
Services; Joseph F. Delfico, Director, Income Security Issues, Human Resources
Division, General Accounting Office; William Bechill, Save Our Security
Coalition, and John N. Sturdivant, American Federation of Government
Employees, both of Washington, DC; Katheryn Lippert, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
Myra Baillie, San Francisco, California; and Judith Price, Akron, Ohio.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/04/11
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 11, 1989; pages D323 - D332 (Bound vol. D169-
D175)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Richard T. Crowder, of Minnesota, to be Under
Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and Commodity Programs and
Jack C. Parnell, of California, to be Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, after
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Crowder
was introduced by Senator Boschwitz, and Mr. Parnell was introduced by Senator
Wilson.
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1990 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Roland R. Vautour, Under Secretary
for Small Community and Rural Development, Neal Sox Johnson, Acting
Administrator, Farmers Home Administration, John Marshall, Manager, Federal
Crop Insurance Corporation, Jack Van Mark, Acting Administrator, Rural
Electrification Administration, and Robert E. Sherman, Budget Officer, all of
the Department of Agriculture.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 13.
APPROPRIATIONS--BIB/USIA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr., Chairman, Board for International Broadcasting; and
Marvin L. Stone, Acting Director, United States Information Agency.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 13.
B-2 BOMBER PROGRAM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed hearings on
the B-2 Bomber program, receiving testimony from John J. Welch, Jr., Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition; and Lt. Gen. Ronald W. Yates,
USAF, Principal Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of Air Force for
Acquisition.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 13.
APPROPRIATIONS--EPA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from William K.
Reilly, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; and A. Alan Hill,
Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 17.
GORBACHEV REFORMS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the implications
of Gorbachev's reforms for U.S. and allied security, after receiving testimony
from James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress; Ed A. Hewett, Brookings
Institution, Washington, DC; and Steven Rosefielde, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill.
BASE CLOSURES
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support resumed hearings to review the recommendations of the Commission on
Base Realignment and Closure for closure of certain military bases, receiving
testimony from Robert A. Stone, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Installations); Robert Rauner, Director, Office of Economic Assistance,
Department of Defense; Maj. Gen. Charles Williams, USA, Director of
Management, Office of the Army Chief of Staff; Rear Adm. James Doebler, USN,
Director, Shore Activities Division, Office of Chief of Naval Operations; and
Lt. Gen. James McCarthy, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff, Programs and Resources,
Headquarters, United States Air Force.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
GLOBAL CHANGE--OCEANS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings in
conjunction with the National Ocean Policy Study to examine the effects of
global climate change on oceans, receiving testimony from B. Kent Burton,
Assistant Secretary of for Oceans and Atmosphere, Glenn A. Flittner, Acting
Director, Office of Research and Environmental Information, National Marine
Fisheries Service, and Alan R. Thomas, Acting Assistant Administrator for
Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, all of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Department of Commerce; John Wallace, University of
Washington, Seattle; Peter Brewer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods
Hole, Massachusetts; Hugh Ducklow, University of Maryland, Horn Point
Environmental Laboratory, Cambridge; and Francis Bretherton, University of
Wisconsin, Madison.
Hearings continue on Thursday, April 20.
AGING AIRCRAFT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
concluded hearings to examine issues related to aging aircraft, after
receiving testimony from Anthony J. Broderick, Associate Administrator for
Regulation and Certification, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation; Clyde Kizer, Air Transport Association of America, Washington,
DC; Benjamin A. Cosgrove, Boeing Commerical Airplanes, Seattle, Washington;
and Dale S. Warren, McDonnell Douglas Corporation, Long Beach, California.
NASA'S BUDGET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space resumed hearings to review the President's proposed
budget request for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, focusing on space science and applications programs,
receiving testimony from Lennard A. Fisk, Associate Administrator, and Kathryn
S. Schmoll, Assistant Associate Administrator, both of the Office of Space
Science and Applications, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Louis
Lanzerotti, Chairman, Space Studies Board, National Research Council of the
National Academy of Science; and Sean Solomon, Association of American
Universities, Washington, DC.
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Hearings continue on Monday, April 17
LINE ITEM VETO
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded
hearings on S.J. Res. 14, S.J. Res. 23, and S.J. Res. 31, proposed amendments
to the Constitution of the United States to allow the President to veto items
of appropriations, after receiving testimony from Senators Dixon, Thurmond,
Humphrey, McCain, Byrd, and Hatfield; Representative Edwards; Louis Fisher,
Senior American Specialist, Government Division, Congressional Research
Service, Library of Congress; Neal E. Devins, College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, Virginia; and James Miller, Citizens for a Sound Economy,
Lawrence A. Hunter, United States Chamber of Commerce, James Dale Davidson,
National Taxpayers Union, Raymond C. Scheppach, National Governors'
Association, and Arnold Cantor, AFL-CIO, all of Washington, DC.
SWAP AGREEMENTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
held hearings on S. 396, to provide protection for the operation of interest
rate and currency swap agreements when one of the parties files for bankruptcy
relief, receiving testimony from Mark Brickell, Morgan Guaranty Trust Company
of New York, on behalf of the International Swap Dealers Association, John
Jerome, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, and McCloy, and Frank G. Sinatra, Rebound
Management Inc., all of New York, New York; and William Perlstein, Wilmer,
Cutler and Pickering, and Doug Comer, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hahn, and Feld, on
behalf of the American Bankruptcy Institute, both of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PENSION PLAN REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor concluded
hearings on S. 685, to clarify the applicability of rules relating to
fiduciary duties in relation to plan assets of terminated pension plans and to
provide for an explicit exception to such rules for employer revisions meeting
certain requirements, after receiving testimony from Arthur Wilson, Oil,
Chemical and Atomic Workers, Christiana, Delaware; Morton Bahr, Communications
Workers of America, on behalf of the AFL-CIO Subcommittee on Pension
Terminations and Reversions, Jack Guildroy, American Association of Retired
Persons, Karen Ferguson, Pension Rights Center, Eugene M. Kalwarski, Milliman
and Robertson, Inc., and Chester S. Labedz, Jr., Textron, Inc., on behalf of
the ERISA Industry Committee, all of Washington, DC; and Fred Kelso, Trenton,
New Jersey.
NOMINATION
Committee on Small Business: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Susan S. Engeleiter, of Wisconsin, to be Administrator of the
Small Business Administration.
Prior to this action, committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Ms.
Engeleiter, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Kasten and Kohl,
testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
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 Thursday, April 13.
Joint Meetings
LIBRARY SERVICES AND CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Labor and Human Services' Subcommittee on
Education Arts, and Humanities held joint hearings with the House Committee on
Education and Labor's Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for the library services and construction
program, receiving testimony from Charles E.M. Kolb, Deputy Under Secretary
for Planning, Budget and Evaluation, and Anne Matthews, Director, Library
Programs, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, both of the
Department of Education; F. William Summers, Florida State University,
Tallahassee, on behalf of the American Library Association; Gary Strong,
California State Library, Sacramento, on behalf of the Chief Officers of State
Library Agencies; Sara Parker, Pennsylvania State Library, Harrisburg; R. Earl
Beck, Grenada, Mississippi, on behalf of the Mississippi Library Commission;
Dorothy Elliott, St. Joseph Public Library, St. Joseph, Missouri; George
Abrams, Seneca Nation of Indians, Salamanca, New York; Dale Thompson,
Providence Public Library, Providence, Rhode Island; Jane Hatch, S.W. Kansas
Library System, Dodge City; and Samuel Morrison, Chicago Public Library,
Chicago, Illinois.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1989/04/12
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 12, 1989; pages D334 - D345 (Bound vol. D175-
D185)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
GATT PROCEEDINGS/AGRICULTURE
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Domestic
and Foreign Marketing and Product Promotion concluded hearings on the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Proceedings in Geneva as they relate to
agriculture, after receiving testimony from Ann M. Veneman, Associate
Administrator, and Charles J. O'Mara, Assistant Administrator, International
Trade Policy, both of the Foreign Agricultural Service, Department of
Agriculture; and Suzanne Early, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for
Agriculture, and Warren Lavorel, U.S. Coordinator for Multilateral Trade
Negotiations, both of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
CONTRA AID
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported, with
amendments, S. 760, to implement the bipartisan agreement of March 24, 1989 on
Central America by providing continued humanitarian assistance to the
Nicaraguan Resistance.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony from Senators Conrad and
Daschle; Representative Campbell; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 3.
CONTRA AID
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations concluded
hearings on S. 760, to implement the bipartisan agreement of March 24, 1989 on
Central America by providing continued humanitarian assistance to the
Nicaraguan Resistance, after receiving testimony from James A. Baker, III,
Secretary, and Michael Kozak, Acting Assistant Secretary for Inter-American
Affairs, both of the Department of State.
APPROPRIATIONS--HEALTH CARE FINANCING ADM./SSA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1990 for the Department of Health and Human Services, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Louis B.
Hays, Acting Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration, and Dorcas
R. Hardy, Commissioner, Social Security Administration, both of the Department
of Health and Human Services.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--U.S. COAST GUARD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for
the U.S. Coast Guard, receiving testimony from Vice Adm. Clyde T. Lusk, Jr.,
Vice Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 4.
APPROPRIATIONS--ARCHIVES/GOVERNMENT ETHICS/FEC
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 Claudine J. Weiher, Deputy Archivist of the United States, National
Archives and Records Administration; Frank Q. Nebeker, Director, Office of
Government Ethics, Office of Personnel Management; and Lee Ann Elliott, Vice
Chairman, Federal Election Commission. Testimony was also received on behalf
of the National Archives and Records Administration from Senator Sarbanes.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, April 14.
AVIATOR CAREER INCENTIVE PAY PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel concluded
hearings on S. 653, to revise and improve the aviator career incentive pay
program, and to extend through fiscal year 1992 the aviator retention bonus
program, after receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. Donald W. Jones, USA, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Manpower and Personnel Policy; Lt.
Gen. Allen K. Ono, USA, Deputy Chief of Army Staff for Personnel; Vice Adm.
Mike Boorda, USN, Chief of Naval Personnel; Lt. Gen. Thomas J. Hickey, USAF,
Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for Personnel; and Lt. Gen. J.I. Hudson, USMC,
Deputy Chief of Marine Corps Staff for Personnel.
BASE CLOSURES
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support continued hearings to review the recommendations of the Commission on
Base Realignment and Closure for closure of certain military bases, receiving
testimony from Frank C. Conahan, Assistant Comptroller General for National
Security and International Affairs, General Accounting Office.
Hearings were recessed subject to recall.
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FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS REFORM, RECOVERY AND ENFORCEMENT ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original bill, to reform, recapitalize, and consolidate the
Federal deposit insurance system, to enhance the regulatory and enforcement
powers of Federal financial institutions regulatory agencies, in lieu of S.
413.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Elaine L. Chao, of California, to be Deputy
Secretary of Transportation, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator
Wilson, testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
EDUCATIONAL TV
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings to examine the influence of educational
television on the intellectual development of children, after receiving
testimony from Joseph Duffey and Daniel R. Anderson, both of the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst; P. David Pearson, University of Illinois (Urbana),
Champaign, Illinois; Shirley A. Hill, Mathematical Sciences Education Board,
Prairie Village, Kansas; David A. Hamburg, Carnegie Corporation of New York,
David V.B. Britt, Children's Television Workshop, and LeVar Burton, Lancit
Media Productions, Ltd., all of New York, New York; Aletha C. Huston,
University of Kansas, Lawrence, on behalf of the Center for Research on the
Influence of Television on Children; and Edward L. Palmer, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of W. Henson Moore, of Louisiana, to be Deputy
Secretary of Energy, John C. Tuck, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of
Energy, and Donna R. Fitzpatrick, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant
Secretary of Energy for Management and Administration.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Henry E. Catto, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Vernon A. Walters, of
Florida, to be Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Catto was
introduced by Senators Bentsen and Gramm.
U.S.-SOVIET RELATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on the future of
U.S.-Soviet relations, receiving testimony from Robert H. Legvold, Columbia
University, New York, New York; Uri Ra'anan, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; Dimitri K. Simes, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
Washington, DC; S. Frederick Starr, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio; John B.
Dunlop, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford, California;
Donald Horowitz, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Nancy Lubin,
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Walker Connor,
Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 19.
RICO/FEDERAL LABOR POLICY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
concluded hearings to examine the racketeering suit against the Teamsters
Union and the government's use of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations (RICO) Act (P.L. 91-542), to impose trusteeships on labor unions
and other business entities, after receiving testimony from Raymond Maria,
Deputy Inspector General, and Richard G. Hunsucker, Director of Elections,
Trusteeships and International Union Audits, Office of Labor-Management
Standards, both of the Department of Labor; Edward S.G. Dennis, Assistant
Attorney General, Criminal Division, and Floyd I. Clarke, Executive Assistant
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, both of the Department of Justice;
and Lane Kirkland and Larry Gold, both of the American Federation of Labor and
Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Washington, DC.
CABLE TELEVISION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business
Rights held hearings on competitive problems in the cable television industry,
focusing on proposed legislation to redefine effective competition in a manner
that will enable cities to regulate cable rates when it comes to obtaining
multi-channel video programming, and proposed legislation to require
vertically integrated cable companies to make programming available for
purchase by competing technologies on fair terms, receiving testimony from
Mayor Thomas J. Volgy, Tucson, Arizona, on behalf of the U.S. Conference of
Mayors and the National League of Cities; Mayor Pro-Tem Saul Ramirez, Laredo,
Texas; Gene Kimmelman, Consumer Federation of America; James P. Mooney,
National Cable Television Association; Edward O. Fritts, National Association
of Broadcasters; Preston R. Padden, Association of Independent Television
Stations, Inc., and Robert L. Schmidt, Wireless Cable Association, all of
Washington, DC; and Gerald M. Levin, Time, Inc., and Janusz A. Ordover, New
York University, both of New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings on S. 7, S. 56,
S. 137, S. 242, S. 326, S. 330, S. 332, S. 359, and S. 597, bills to provide
for Federal and Congressional campaign finance reform, receiving testimony
from Senators Byrd, Mitchell, Boren, Dole, Packwood, McConnell, Shelby, and
Reid.
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Hearings continue on Thursday, April 20.
IMPEACHMENT TRIAL ARGUMENTS
Senate Impeachment Trial Committee: Committee met to hear arguments on
pretrial issues in the impeachment of Judge Alcee L. Hastings from
Representatives Bryant and Gekas, on behalf of the House Managers; and Terence
Anderson, Counsel to Judge Hastings.
Also, committee met in closed session to deliberate on the issues raised by
the House Managers and Judge Hasting's counsel.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
Joint Meetings
ECONOMICS
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to discuss economic
issues, after receiving testimony from Lawrence Klein, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
1989/04/13
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 13, 1989; pages D346 - D356 (Bound vol. D185-
D191)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1990 for agriculture and rural development programs, receiving testimony
from numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 18.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for
the Department of State, receiving testimony from James A. Baker III,
Secretary of State.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 19.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed hearings to
review commander-in-chief posture for fiscal year 1990, receiving testimony
from Gen. Frederick F. Woerner, Commander-in-chief, U.S. Southern Command; and
Gen. James J. Lindsay, Commander-in-chief, U.S. Special Operations Forces.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 18.
APPROPRIATIONS--HHS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1990 for the Department of Health and Human Services, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Catherine
Bertini, Acting Assistant Secretary, Family Support Administration, and Robert
Stovenour, Director, Office of Management Services, Office of Human
Development Services, both of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Walter J.
Stewart, Secretary of the Senate; Henry K. Giugni, Senate Sergeant at Arms;
and Robert D. Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget Office.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 18.
AVIATION SECURITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
concluded hearings on aviation security issues, focusing on the bombing of Pan
Am flight 103, recent security initiatives by the Federal Aviation
Administration, and the need for legislation to enhance aviation security
efforts at domestic and foreign airports, after receiving testimony from
Senators Lautenberg and D'Amato; Samuel K. Skinner, Secretary of
Transportation, and Monte Belger, Associate Administrator for Aviation
Standards, and Raymond A. Salazar, Director of Civil Aviation Security, both
of the Federal Aviation Administration, all of the Department of
Transportation; Clayton E. McManaway, Jr., Associate Coordinator for
Counterterrorism, and Michael M. Mahoney, Director, Citizens Emergency Center,
both of the Department of State; Richard F. Lally, Air Transport Association
of America, Washington, DC; Michael J. Kutchins, San Antonio, Texas,
representing the American Association of Airport Executives; and Paul Hudson
and Brian Barry, Albany, New York, both representing the victims of Pan Am
flight 103.
U.S. ELECTRICITY SUPPLY AND DEMAND
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings to examine
the supply and demand for electricity in the United States during the
remainder of the 20th century, focusing on shortages in the Northeast Region,
receiving testimony from W. Henson Moore, Deputy Secretary of Energy; Peter A.
Bradford, New York State Public Service Commission, and William E. Davis, New
York State Energy Office, both of Albany; Richard M. Flynn, New York Power
Authority, New York, New York; and George W. Edwards, Jr., The United
Illuminating Company, New Haven, Connecticut, on behalf of the Edison Electric
Institute and the New England Power Pool.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Bruce S. Gelb, of New York, to be Director of the United States
Information Agency, Richard T. McCormack, of Pennsylvania, to be Under
Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs, and to be U.S.
Alternate Governor of the International Bank of Reconstruction and
Development, Inter-American Development Bank, African Development Bank, U.S.
Alternate Governor of the African Development Fund and Asian Development Bank,
Vernon A. Walters, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Federal Republic of
Germany, Henry E. Catto, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and four foreign service officer's
promotion lists.
Also, committee failed to approve for reporting S.J. Res. 82, disapproving the
certification by the President with respect to Mexico under section 481(h) of
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; and began consideration of S.J. Res. 100,
disapproving the certification by the President with respect to the Bahamas
under section 481(h) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, but did not
complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Michael H. Armacost, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to Japan,
and James R. Lilley, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the People's Republic of
China, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
The nomination of William P. Barr, of Virginia, to be Assistant Attorney
General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice; and
S. 593, to exempt from the antitrust laws any joint discussion, consideration,
review, action, or agreement among certain television industry executives
pursuant to the development and dissemination of voluntary guidelines designed
to alleviate the negative impact of violence in telecast material, with an
amendment.
IMPACT OF SEC. 89 (IRS) ON SMALL BUSINESS
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings to review the impact
on small business of section 89 of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 which encourages
employers to provide health and life insurance benefits to their employees,
after receiving testimony from Senator Symms; Dana Trier, Tax Legislative
Counsel, Office of Tax Policy, Department of the Treasury; Ann Houle, League
of Minnesota Cities, St. Paul; Terry Neese, Oklahoma Chamber of Commerce and
Industry, Oklahoma City, representing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Small
Business Council; Reed Stigen, Charles Bailly and Company, Moorhead,
Minnesota, representing the Minnesota Society of Certified Accountants and the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; Valerie Hansen, Big Buck
Building Centers, Racine, Wisconsin, representing the Small Business
Legislative Council and the National Lumber and Building Materials Dealers
Association; James Lagos, Lagos and Lagos, Springfield, Ohio, representing the
National Small Business United; William McGehee, Spurling Fire and Burglar
Alarm, Fort Smith, Arkansas, representing the National Federation of
Independent Business; Ron Morris, True Oil, Casper, Wyoming; and Earlyn
Church, Superior Technical Ceramics Corporation, St. Albans, Vermont,
representing the National Association of Manufacturers.
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, April 18.
IMPEACHMENT TRIAL ARGUMENTS
Senate Impeachment Trial Committee: Committee continued in closed session to
deliberate on the pretrial issues in the impeachment of Judge Alcee L.
Hastings raised by the House Managers and Judge Hastings' Counsel.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/04/17
Daily Digest - [Monday, April 17, 1989]; pages D358 - D364 (Bound vol. D191-
D194)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA--CRIME AND DRUG CRISIS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia resumed
oversight hearings on the crime and drug crisis in the District of Columbia,
receiving testimony from Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Attorney for the District of
Columbia; and Mayor Marion S. Barry, Jr., Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--AFRICA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for foreign assistance
programs, focusing on Africa and Southern Africa, receiving testimony from
Allison Rosenberg, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs;
and Walter Bollinger, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Africa, Agency for
International Development.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOSSIL ENERGY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for fossil
energy programs, receiving testimony from James A. Wampler, Assistant
Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 19.
APPROPRIATIONS--HHS
Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, April 14, Subcommittee on Labor,
Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the Department of Health
and Human Services, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from James F. Dickson III, Acting Assistant Secretary
for Health, and Walter W. Dowdle, Acting Director, Centers for Disease
Control, both of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 18.
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Committee on Armed Services: On Friday, April 14, committee concluded
hearings, in open and closed sessions, on developments in the international
security environment and their implications for U.S. security requirements,
after receiving testimony from Adm. William J. Crowe, Jr., USN, Chairman,
Joint Chiefs of Staff.
SCENIC BYWAYS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: On Friday, April 14,
Subcommittee on Foreign Commerce and Tourism concluded hearings on the
importance of scenic byways to national tourism, and a proposed National
Scenic Byways Program to identify, protect, and enhance the nation's scenic
roads, after receiving testimony from Representatives Obserstar and
Vucanovich; F. Dale Robertson, Chief, Forest Service, Department of
Agriculture; Derrick A. Crandall, American Recreation Coalition, Lester P.
Lamm, Highway Users Federation, and J. Jackson Walter, National Trust for
Historic Preservation, all of Washington, DC; William H. Whyte, on behalf of
Scenic America, New York, New York; John Archer, American Automobile
Association, Falls Church, Virginia; O.L. Moore, West Virginia Recreation
Vehicles Association, Nitro; and Steve Richer, Nevada Commission on Tourism,
Carson City.
DOE--FERC MEMBERSHIP TERMS/NEW POSITION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
388, to provide for 5-year staggered terms for members of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, and S. 389, to establish the position of Assistant
Secretary of Energy for Natural Gas, after receiving testimony from John C.
Tuck, Under Secretary of Energy; Catherine Cook, General Counsel, Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy; Nicholas Bush, Natural Gas
Supply Association, George Lawrence, American Gas Association, Danny Conklin,
Independent Petroleum Association of America, Vernon Jones, The Williams
Companies, Inc., on behalf of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of
America, Patrick Raffaniello, Southwest Energy Resource Foundation, Charles
Curtis, Van Ness, Feldman, Sutcliffe & Curtis, and Sally Katzen, Wilmer,
Cutler & Pickering, on behalf of the American Bar Association Section on
Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, all of Washington, DC; and Robert
Light, New Mexico State Legislature, Carlsbad.
PETROLEUM PRODUCT PRICES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Regulation
and Conservation concluded oversight hearings to examine recent increases in
petroleum product prices since the Valdez oil spill, after receiving testimony
from Senators Cranston and Bryan; Representative Bates; California State
Controller Gray Davis, Sacramento; W. Henson Moore, Secretary of Energy; Joe
T. McMillan, Exxon Company, USA, Houston, Texas; John H. Lichtblau, Petroleum
Industry Research Foundation, Inc., New York, New York; Edwin S. Rothschild,
Citizen/Labor Energy Coalition, Washington, DC; Tracy Stanton, Bexley, Ohio,
on behalf of the Service Station Dealers of America; and Tom Potter, Tom
Potter Oil Company, Moorehead City, North Carolina and Phillip R. Chisholm,
Washington, DC, both on behalf of the Petroleum Marketers Association of
America.
NOMINATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: On Friday, April 14, committee
concluded hearings on the nomination of William G. Rosenberg, of Michigan, to
be Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, Environmental Protection
Agency, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Levin, testified and
answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Reginald Bartholomew, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of State for
Coordinating Security Assistance Programs, after the nominee testified and
answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: On Friday, April 14, committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Paul D. Coverdell, of Georgia, to be Director
of the Peace Corps, and Terence A. Todman, of the Virgin Islands, to be
Ambassador to Argentina, after the nominees testified and answered questions
in their own behalf. Mr. Coverdell was introduced by Senators Nunn and Fowler,
and Mr. Todman was introduced by Representative deLugo. Testimony was also
received on the nomination of Mr. Coverdell from Timothy Carroll, National
Council of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, Washington, DC.
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GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT CONTRACTING
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: On Friday, April 14, committee concluded
oversight hearings to review Indian participation in government procurement
contracting, after receiving testimony form Horace J. Crouch, Director, Small
and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, Department of Defense, on behalf of
the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition; Johnnie L. Albertson, Deputy
Associate Administrator for Minority Small Business and Capital Ownership
Development, Small Business Administration; Steve Stallings, National Center
for American Indian Enterprise Development, El Monte, California; William P.
Brown, McDonnell Douglas Helicopter, Mesa, Arizona; Dan Press, Heron,
Burchette, Ruckert and Rothwell, Washington, DC; Ray Goetting, Laguna
Industries, Laguna, New Mexico; Robert Perry, Raytheon Service Company,
Arlington, Virginia; Jay Cooper, Northrop Corporation, Hawthorne, California;
Phillip Martin, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Philadelphia,
Mississippi; and Edward Lone Fight, Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold,
Fort Berthold, North Dakota.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/04/18
Daily Digest - [Tuesday, April 18, 1989]; pages D365 - D374 (Bound vol. D194-
D202)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of Jack C. Parnell, of California, to be Deputy
Secretary of Agriculture, and Richard T. Crowder, of Minnesota, to be Under
Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and Commodity Programs.
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1990 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from William C. Bailey, Acting Under
Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs, LaVern F. Neppl,
Acting Administrator, Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service and
Commodity Credit Corporation, Thomas O. Kay, Administrator, Foreign
Agricultural Service, Christopher Goldthwait, Assistant General Sales Manager,
George W. Scaling, Chief, Soil Conservation Service, and Robert E. Sherman,
Budget Officer, all of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for defense programs, focusing on
National Guard and Reserve activities, receiving testimony from Maj. Gen.
Donald Burdick, Director, Army National Guard; Maj. Gen. William F. Ward,
Chief, Army Reserve; Brig. Gen. Philip G. Killey, Director, Air National
Guard; Maj. Gen. Roger P. Scheer, Chief of Air Force Reserves; Rear Adm. F.N.
Smith, Director of Naval Reserve; Maj. Gen. E.P. Looney, Jr., Assistant Deputy
Chief of Marine Corps Staff for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; and Lt. Gen.
Herbert R. Temple, Jr., Chief, National Guard Bureau, Department of the Army.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 2.
APPROPRIATIONS--HHS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1990 for the Department of Health and Human Services, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Frederick K.
Goodwin, Administrator, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration,
and John H. Kelso, Acting Administrator, Health Resources and Services
Administration, both of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, May 1.
APPROPRIATIONS--OPM/OFFICE OF FEDERAL PROCUREMENT POLICY
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 Constance Horner, Director, Office of Personnel Management; and Allan V.
Burman, Acting Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 2.
APPROPRIATIONS--VETERANS AFFAIRS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the
Department of Veterans Affairs, receiving testimony from Edward J. Derwinski,
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 2.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Donald J. Atwood of Massachusetts, to be Deputy Secretary of
Defense, and 8,733 routine nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and
the Air Force.
NATO DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on the military strategy
and operational requirements for NATO defense and rapid reinforcement,
receiving testimony from Gen. Thomas C. Richards, USAF, Deputy Commander in
Chief, U.S. European Command; Gen. Duane H. Cassidy, USAF, Commander in Chief,
U.S. Transportation Command; and Gen. Colin L. Powell, USA, Commander in
Chief, Forces Command.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
SEC
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Securities and
Exchange Commission, and S. 646, S. 647, S. 648, S. 649, and S. 651, bills to
improve the flow of information to shareholders, streamline the issuance of
debt securities, ensure the integrity and efficiency of capital markets, and
strengthen the Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement tools to protect
investors and police the securities markets, receiving testimony from David S.
Ruder, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed markup of a proposed concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1990 budget for the Federal Government, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported the following business items:
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 in that system on climate and
human well-being, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 577, to clarify the congressional intent concerning, and to codify, certain
requirements of the Communications Act of 1934 that ensure that broadcasts
afford reasonable opportunity for the discussion of conflicting views on
issues of public importance, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 605, to authorize funds for the Consumer Product Safety Commission, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As approved by the committee, the
bill authorizes $34,500,000 in supplemental funds for fiscal year ending
September 30, 1989, $36,500,000 for fiscal year 1990, and $38,179,000 for
fiscal year 1991);
S. 673, to authorize funds for programs of the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As approved
by the committee, the bill authorizes $74,099,000 for fiscal year 1990, and
$77,505,000 for fiscal year 1991);
S. 462, to authorize funds for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation
(AMTRAK), with amendments. (As approved by the committee, the bill authorizes
$630,000,000 in supplemental funds for fiscal year ending September 30, 1989,
$656,000,000 for fiscal year 1990, $684,000,000 for fiscal year 1991, and
$712,000,000 for fiscal year 1992);
S. 255, to authorize funds for the Local Rail Service Assistance Program. (As
approved by the committee, the bill authorizes $10,000,000 in supplemental
funds for fiscal year ending September 30, 1989, $25,000,000 for fiscal year
1990, and $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1991);
S. 104, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessel Liberty ;
S. 572, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessel Navatek I ;
S. 475, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessel Nancy Ann ;
S. 638, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessell Nor'wester
; and
The nominations of Elaine L. Chao, of California, to be Deputy Secretary of
Transportation, Wendell L. Willkie II, of the District of Columbia, to be
General Counsel of the Department of Commerce, Rear Adm. Howard B. Thorsen as
Commander, Atlantic Area, United States Coast Guard, the following officers of
the United States Coast Guard for appointment to the grade of rear admiral:
Joseph E. Vorbach, George D. Passmore, Jr., and Ernest B. Acklin, Jr., and
rear admiral (lower halt): John N. Faigle, Peter A. Bunch, David F.
Ciancaglini, and William J. Ecker, and routine lists of Coast Guard
nominations.
MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation held hearings on S. 819, to strengthen the enforcement of motor
carrier safety laws, and the implementation of the Motor Carrier Safety
Assistance Program, focusing on issues related to the implementation of
requirements for annual safety inspection of trucks and buses, safety fitness
ratings of motor carriers, the formation of a national uniform system for
licensing commercial drivers, and a Department of Transportation report on
improving truck brake performance, receiving testimony from Richard P. Landis,
Associate Administrator for Motor Carriers, Federal Highway Administration,
Department of Transportation; John Andelin, Associate Director, Office of
Technology Assessment; Paul Rothberg, Science Policy Research Division,
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; and Steve Herman, Motor
Carrier Department of Public Safety, Phoenix, Arizona.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nomination of William G. Rosenberg, of Michigan, to be Assistant
Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency.
AIR POLLUTION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection held hearings on the health effects of air pollution, receiving
testimony from Philip A. Bromberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill;
Morton Lippmann, New York University Medical Center, Tuxedo; Homer Boushey,
University of California, San Francisco; Robert F. Phalen, University of
California, Irvine; Michael K. Schonbrun, National Jewish Center for
Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Denver, Colorado; Christopher Green,
General Motors Research Lab, Warren, Missouri; E. Regis McFadden, Jr.,
University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio, on behalf of the American Mining
Congress and the National Coal Association; and Thomas Godar, American Lung
Association, Philip J. Landrigan, American Academy of Pediatrics, and Bailus
Walker, Jr., American Public Health Association, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CHILD CARE
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on S. 55, S. 159, S. 187, S.
364, S. 392, S. 409, S. 412, S. 569, S. 601, and S. 692, bills to provide
quality affordable child care, receiving testimony from Senators Dodd,
Domenici, Wilson, and Coats; Delaware State Representative Jane Maroney, on
behalf of the National Conference of State Legislatures, and Charles E.
Hayward, Delaware State Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their
Families, on behalf of the American Public Welfare Association, both of
Wilmington; Wake County Commissioner Herb Stout, Raleigh, North Carolina, on
behalf of the National Association of Counties; Caroline Zinsser, Center for
Public Advocacy Research, New York, New York; Rebecca A. Maynard, Mathematica
Policy Research, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey; and Raymond C. Scheppach,
National Governors' Association, Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Defense
Fund, Elizabeth Kepler, Family Research Council, Sandra L. Hofferth and
Roberta Barnes, both of The Urban Institute, all of Washington, DC.
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Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Michael H. Armacost, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to Japan,
Reginald Bartholomew, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of State for
Coordinating Security Assistance Programs, Paul D. Coverdell, of Georgia, to
be Director of the Peace Corps, James R. Lilley, of Maryland, to be Ambassador
to the People's Republic of China, and Terence A. Todman, of the Virgin
Islands, to be Ambassador to Argentina.
AUTHORIZATIONS--STATE DEPARTMENT/FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on S. 808, to
authorize funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the Department of State,
and proposed legislation authorizing funds for foreign assistance programs,
receiving testimony from James A. Baker III, Secretary of State.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
TREATIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations held hearings on treaties relating to mutual legal
assistance in criminal matters, including the Treaty with the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning the Cayman Islands relating
to Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (Treaty Doc. No. 100-8), the
Mutual Legal Assistance Cooperation Treaty with Mexico (Treaty Doc. 100-13),
the Treaty with Canada on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (Treaty
Doc. No. 100-14), the Treaty with Belgium on Mutual Legal Assistance in
Criminal Matters (Treaty Doc. No. 100-16), the Treaty with the Commonwealth of
the Bahamas on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters (Treaty Doc. No. 100-17),
and the Treaty with Thailand on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters (Treaty
Doc. No. 100-18), receiving testimony from Mary Mochary, Principal Deputy
Legal Adviser, Department of State; and Edward Dennis, Assistant Attorney
General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MODIFICATION OF THE McCARRAN-FERGUSON ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 719, to limit the
Federal antitrust exemption and to reaffirm the continued State regulation of
the business of insurance, receiving testimony from West Virginia State
Attorney General Charles G. Brown, Charleston, on behalf of the National
Association of Attorneys General; Earl Pomeroy, National Association of
Insurance Commissioners and Commissioner of Insurance for North Dakota,
Bismarck; James Serota, American Bar Association, New York, New York; Timothy
Russell, National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, Foley, Alabama;
and J. Robert Hunter, National Insurance Consumer Organization, Stephen
Brobeck, Consumer Federation of America, Mavis A. Walters, Insurance Services
Office, Craig A. Berrington, American Insurance Association, Erland Stevens,
National Association of Casualty and Surety Agents and Independent Insurance
Agents of America, and John Head, National Association of Independent
Insurers, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meeting
INFLATION
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings on the current rate of
inflation, level of inflation in the next two years, and the effect of
monetary, fiscal and regulatory policies on inflation, after receiving
testimony from Larry Summers, Harvard University, Cambridge; Joel Popkin, Joel
Popkin and Company, Washington, D.C.; and Jerry Jordon, First Interstate
Bancorp, Los Angeles, California.
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Daily Digest - [Wednesday, April 19, 1989]; pages D376 - D384 (Bound vol.
D202-D209)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings on
proposed legislation to strengthen and improve U.S. agricultural programs,
receiving testimony from Clayton Yeutter, Secretary of Agriculture.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1990 for agriculture and rural development programs, receiving testimony
from Senators Burns, Exon, Heflin, and Pressler; Nebraska State Senator Sandra
Scofield, Lincoln; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
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APPROPRIATIONS--COMMERCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, State, Justice, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for
the Department of Commerce, receiving testimony from Robert A. Mosbacher,
Secretary of Commerce.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for
territorial governments, receiving testimony from David Heggestad, Director,
Budget and Technical Assistance, Office of Territorial and International
Affairs, Department of the Interior; Virgin Islands Governor Alexander
Farrelly; American Samoa Governor Peter T. Coleman; Mike Reidy, Director, Guam
Bureau of Budget and Management Research; Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands Lieutenant Governor Pedro Tenorio; Federated States of Micronesia
Resident Representative Jesse Marehalau; Republic of the Marshall Islands
Chief Secretary Oscar de Brum; and Republic of Palau Vice President Kuniwo
Nakamura.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 2.
UNIFIED COMMANDS/U.S. FORCES
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to review military
strategy and operational requirements of the maritime oriented unified
commands and U.S. Forces, Korea, receiving testimony from Adm. Huntington
Hardisty, USN, Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command; Gen. Louis C.
Menetrey, USA, Commander, U.S. Forces, Korea; and Maj. Gen. Henry C. Stackpole
III, USMC, Director of Plans and Policies, U.S. Atlantic Command.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Paul D. Wolfowitz, of the District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary of
Defense for Policy, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Lugar,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered the following measure favorably
reported:
An original concurrent resolution on the budget setting forth recommended
levels of total budget outlays, Federal revenues, and new budget authority for
fiscal year 1990.
MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation concluded hearings on S. 819, to strengthen the enforcement of
motor carrier safety laws, and the implementation of the Motor Carrier Safety
Assistance Program, focusing on issues related to the implementation of
requirements for annual safety inspection of trucks and buses, safety fitness
ratings of motor carriers, the formation of a national uniform system for
licensing commercial drivers, and a Department of Transportation report on
improving truck brake performance, after receiving testimony from Thomas J.
Donohue, American Trucking Associations, Inc., Gene Berghoffen, National
Private Truck Council, and Douglas Turner, Bonanza Bus Lines, on behalf of the
American Bus Association Committee, all of Alexandria, Virginia; K. Michael
O'Connell, Owner-Operators Independent Drivers Association of America, Inc.,
R.V. Durham, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen
and Helpers of America, David F. Snyder, American Insurance Association, and
Earl Eisenhart, Commission of Accredited Truck Driving Schools, all of
Washington, D.C.; John Cook, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety,
Arlington, Virginia; George Viverette, American Automobile Association, Falls
Church, Virginia; Ed Jack Compton , Jr., Houston Lighting and Power, Houston,
Texas, on behalf of the Texas Truck Safety Alliance; Rainey Turpin, AIG
Insurance Company, Manchester, New Hampshire; and Donald W. Estes, Ryder
Systems, Inc., Miami, Florida, on behalf of the Professional Truck Drivers
Institute of America.
URANIUM ENRICHMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development held hearings on S. 83, to establish the amount of costs of the
Department of Energy's uranium enrichment program that have not previously
been recovered from enrichment customers in the charges of the Department of
Energy to its customers, receiving testimony from W. Henson Moore, Deputy
Secretary of Energy; James E. Rushton, Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Oak
Ridge, Tennessee; Joseph M. Farley, Alabama Power Company, Birmingham, on
behalf of the Edison Electric Institute and the American Nuclear Energy
Council; and Charles H. Montange and Jill Lancelot, both of the National
Taxpayers Union, Washington, D.C.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
ALASKA OIL SPILL
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection concluded hearings to examine the impact of the recent oil spill in
Prince William Sound, Alaska, and to review the adequacy of efforts to prevent
air and water pollution at the Trans-Alaska Pipeline's Valdez terminal, after
receiving testimony from Samuel K. Skinner, Secretary of Transportation; Clyde
L. Lusk, Vice Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation;
William K. Reilly, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Alaska
Governor Steve Cowper, and Michelle H. O'Leary and Fredericka Ott, both of the
United Fisherman of Alaska, all of Juneau; William D. Stevens, Exxon Company,
U.S.A., and Frank Iarossi, Exxon Shipping Company, both of Houston, Texas;
Ivan L. Henman and Theo L. Polasek, both of the Alyeska Pipeline Service
Company, and Michael M. Wenig, Trustees for Alaska, all of Anchorage; and
Michael L. Fisher, Sierra Club, Washington, D.C.
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CHILD CARE
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on S. 55, S. 159, S. 187, S.
364, S. 392, S. 409, S. 412, S 569, S 601, and S. 692, bills to provide
quality affordable child care, receiving testimony from Senators Wallop and
Boschwitz; Representative Holloway; Elizabeth H. Dole, Secretary of Labor;
John L. Carr, Department of Social Development and World Peace, on behalf of
the United States Catholic Conference, Robert P. Dugan, Jr., National
Association of Evangelicals, Gerald W. McEntee, American Federation of State,
County and Municipal Employees, and Nancy Duff Campbell, National Women's Law
Center, all of Washington, D.C.; Richard D. Land, The Christian Life
Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, Nashville, Tennessee; Barbara
Reisman, Child Care Action Campaign, New York, New York; Maureen Dermott,
Kinder-Care Learning Centers, Inc., Woodbridge, Virginia; Mark A. Walsh,
Apple-A-Daycare Centers, Inc., Fairport, New York, on behalf of the National
Child Care Association; and David F. Russo, SAS Institute, Inc., Cary, North
Carolina, on behalf of the American society for Personnel Administration.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
UNESCO
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to review recent
changes and U.S. interest in the United Nations Educational Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO), receiving testimony from Leonard Sussman,
Freedom House, New York, New York; Gene Lyons, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New
Hampshire; Ed Feulner, The Heritage Foundation, Mary Hatwood Futrell, National
Education Association, Terry Morton, International Council on Monuments and
Sights, and Derk Kinnane-Roelofsma, all of Washington, D.C.; Walter
Rosenblith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; and Paul Perrot,
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
U.S.-SOVIET RELATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings to examine the
future of U.S.-Soviet relations, receiving testimony from Michael Mandelbaum,
Council on Foreign Relations, and Seweryn Bialer, Columbia University, both of
New York, New York; Arnold L. Horelick, UCLA Center for the Study of Soviet
International Behavior, Santa Monica, California; Richard F. Starr, Hoover
Institution, Stanford, California; and David C. Jordan, University of
Virginia, Charlottesville.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ASSAULT WEAPONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution approved for full
committee consideration, without recommendation, the following bills:
S. 386, to control the sale and importation of assault weapons, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
S. 747, to protect the rights of legal owners while attacking the problems
associated with the illegal use of assault weapons.
COMPUTER SOFTWARE RENTAL AMENDMENTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
held hearings on S. 198, to protect certain computer programs, receiving
testimony from Ralph Oman, Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress; Heidi
Roizen, Software Publishers Association, and Bruce M. Kennedy, American
Association of Law Libraries, both of Washington, D.C.; Jon Shirley, Microsoft
Corp., Redmond, Washington; Michael J. Lyons, Asyst Technologies Inc.,
Naperville, Illinois; David Laird, University of Arizona Library, Tucson, on
behalf of the American Library Association; Luanne James, ADAPSO, Arlington,
Virginia; and Troy Cooper, Erol's Inc, Springfield, Virginia, on behalf of the
Video Software Dealers Association.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items:
S. 345, to grant employees family and temporary medical leave under certain
circumstances; and
The nominations of James O. Mason, of Georgia, to be Assistant Secretary of
Health and Human Services for Health, Nancy Mohr Kennedy, of Maryland, to be
an Assistant Secretary of Education for Legislation, and John T. Sanders, of
Illinois, to be Under Secretary of Education.
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IMPEACHMENT TRIAL ARGUMENTS
Senate Impeachment Trial Committee: Committee met in closed session to further
deliberate on pretrial issues in the impeachment of Judge Alcee L. Hastings
raised by the House Managers and Judge Hastings' Counsel.
Committee recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
VETERANS' PROGRAMS
Joint Hearings: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint hearings
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review the legislative
recommendations of certain veterans organizations, receiving testimony from
Don R. Pears, National Commander, on behalf of the Veterans of World War I of
the U.S.A., Inc., Jimmy T. Smith, National Commander, on behalf of AMVETS,
Mary R. Stout, National President, on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans of
America, and Walter W. Krueger, President, on behalf of the Non-Commissioner
Officers Association, all of Washington, DC.
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Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 25, 1989; pages D385 - D394 (Bound vol. D209-
D214)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: On Thursday, April 20, Subcommittee on
Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for agriculture and rural development
programs, receiving testimony from Senators Thurmond and Glenn; Puerto Rico
Resident Commissioner Jaime B. Fuster; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--NOAA
Committee on Appropriations: On Thursday, April 20, Subcommittee on Commerce,
State, Justice, and the Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1990 for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
receiving testimony from William E. Evans, Under Secretary of Commerce for
Oceans and Atmosphere.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May2.
THIRD WORLD DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: On Thursday, April 20, committee held hearings on
the military strategy and operational requirements of the unified commands
oriented to Third World defense and unconventional warfare, receiving
testimony from Gen. James J. Lindsay, USA, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Special
Operations Command; Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA, Commander-in-Chief, U.S.
Central Command; and Rear Adm. Richard C. Ustick, USN, Chief of Staff, U.S.
Southern Command.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: On Thursday, April 20, Subcommittee on Projection
Forces and Regional Defense held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on submarine shipbuilding and related technology, receiving testimony from
Vice Adm. Dan Cooper, USN, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations (Submarine
Warfare); and Robert A. Moore, Deputy Director, Systems and Technology,
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Thursday, April 20,
Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs held hearings on S. 566, to
authorize a new corporation to support State and local strategies for
achieving more affordable housing, and to increase homeownership, receiving
testimony from Rhode Island Governor Edward DiPrete, Providence; James Rouse,
The Rouse Company, Columbia, Maryland; and David Maxwell, Fannie Mae,
Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
COAL DISTRIBUTION AND UTILIZATION ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: On Thursday, April 20, committee
concluded hearings on S. 318, to facilitate the national distribution and
utilization of coal, after receiving testimony from Marvin J. Boede, United
Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting
Industry, on behalf of the Building and Construction Trades Department,
AFL-CIO, Jack Otero, Communication International Union, and K.O. Richardson,
Railway Labor Executives' Association Task Force on Coal Slurry, William H.
Dempsey, Association of American Railroads, John J. Kearney, Jr., Edison
Electric Institute, David Senter, American Agriculture Movement, Inc., on
behalf of National Farmers Union and National Farmers Organization, and Joseph
E. Lema, National Coal Association, on behalf of American Mining Congress, all
of Washington, DC; and Henry J. Brolick, Williams Technologies, Inc., and
Stuart D. Serkin, both on behalf of the Coal and Slurry Technology
Association, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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URANIUM ENRICHMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: On Thursday, April 20, Subcommittee
on Energy Research and Development continued hearings on S. 83, to establish
the amount of costs of the Department of Energy's uranium enrichment program
that have not previously been recovered from enrichment customers in the
charges of the Department of Energy to its customers, receiving testimony from
Alan L. Dean and Harold Seidman, both of the National Academy of Public
Administration, Washington, DC; Charles Brown, Virginia Power, Richmond; and
William Badger, Maryland Public Service Commission, Annapolis, on behalf of
the National Association of Regulatory Commissioners.
Hearings continue on Thursday, May 11.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: On Friday, April 21, committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Constance Horner, of the District of Columbia, to be Under
Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Mary Sheila Gall, of Virginia, to
be Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Human Development
Services, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf.
TRADE ACT
Committee on Finance: On Thursday, April 20, committee resumed 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; Irvin J. Elkin, Associated Milk Producers, Inc., Amery,
Wisconsin; Wayne Bennett, American Soybean Association, Lonoke, Arkansas;
Jason Berman, Recording Industry Association of America, Inc., Washington, DC,
on behalf of International Intellectual Property Alliance; and C.L. Clements,
Pfizer Inc., New York, New York, on behalf of Intellectual Property Committee.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PHYSICIAN PAYMENT REFORMS
Committee on Finance: On Thursday, April 20, Subcommittee on Medicare and
Long-Term Care resumed hearings to review physician payment reforms under the
Medicare Program, receiving testimony from Senator Hatch; Frank Delay,
American Association of Retired Persons, Mesa, Arizona; Alan R. Nelson,
American Medical Association, Salt Lake City, Utah; George W. Weinstein and
Jane McDermott, both of West Virginia University, Morgantown, both on behalf
of the American College of Surgeons; Joseph F. Boyle, American Society of
Internal Medicine, Washington, DC; Robert Graham, American Academy of Family
Physicians, Kansas City, Missouri; Edwin P. Maynard, American College of
Physicians, Boston, Massachusetts; and Jacek B. Franaszek, American College of
Emergency Physicians, Hinsdale, Illinois.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
Committee on Foreign Relations: On Thursday, April 20, committee concluded
hearings to review an international environmental agenda for the 101st
Congress, after receiving testimony from Russell Train, World Wildlife Fund,
and Gus Speth, World Resources Institute, both of Washington, DC; and Patrick
Michaels and S. Fred Singer, both of the University of Virginia,
Charlottesville.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: On Friday, April 21, committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Michael W. Farrell, to be an Associate Judge of
the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, after the nominee testified and
answered questions in his own behalf.
NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Friday, April 21, committee resumed
hearings on proposals to establish a corporation to administer a program of
voluntary national service, and to provide for the education and training of
participants in such Corps, including S. 3, S. 232, S. 322, S. 382, S. 408, S.
539, S. 540, S. 541, S. 576, and S. 650, receiving testimony from James D.
Watkins, Secretary of Energy; John A. Briscoe, Pennsylvania Governor's Office
of Citizen Service, Harrisburg; Cynthia Brown, Leadership in Community Service
Program, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Cynthia Parsons, Chester, Vermont, and
Jacqueline Loso, South Burlington, Vermont, both on behalf of SerVermont; Leon
Horne, Tacoma Public Schools, Tacoma, Washington, on behalf of the National
Education Association; Greg Humphrey, American Federation of Teachers,
Washington, DC; Stanley Hill, AFSCME, New York, New York; James Oglesby,
University of Missouri, Columbia, on behalf of the National School Boards
Association; and Donald Gainey, West Warwick High School, West Warwick, Rhode
Island, on behalf of the National Association of Secondary School Principals.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: On Thursday, April 20, committee
resumed hearings on S. 7, S. 56, S. 137, S. 242, S. 326, S. 330, S. 332, S.
359, and S. 597, bills to provide for Federal and Congressional campaign
finance reform, receiving testimony from former U.S. Senator William Proxmire,
Nancy M. Neuman, The League of Women Voters, Fred Wertheimer, Common Cause,
James M. Ratcliffe, National Association of Manufacturers, and Ned Massee,
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, all of Washington, DC; and David B. Magleby, Brigham
Young University, Provo, Utah.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
[Joint Meeting]
JOINT MEETING, CHANGING STRUCTURE OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURE
Joint Economic Committee: On Monday, April 24, committee concluded hearings on
the changing structure of American agriculture, focusing on the Federal role
in the growing dominance of large farms in America, after receiving testimony
from Robert Bergland, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association,
Washington, D.C.; J.B. Penn, Sparks Commodities, Inc., McLean, Virginia; and
Robert L. Thompson, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana.
1989/04/26
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 26, 1989; pages D395 - D400 (Bound vol. D215-
D218)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
Joint Meeting
EUROPE 1992
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
potential effects of the economic integration of the European Community
(Europe 1992) on U.S. economy and U.S.-EC economic relations, after receiving
testimony from Stephen Cooney, National Association of Manufacturers, and Gary
Horlick, O'Melveny and Myers, both of Washington, D.C.; and Seamus
O'Cleireacain, Columbia University and SUNY Purchase, New York, New York.
1989/04/27
Daily Digest -Thursday, April 27, 1989; pages D401 - D408 (Bound vol. D218-
D221)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/05/01
Daily Digest - Monday, May 1, 1989; pages D409 - D414 (Bound vol. D221-D225)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--NIH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1990 for the National Institutes of Health, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from James B.
Wyngaarden, Director, Samuel Broder, Director, National Cancer Institute,
Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases, Murray Goldstein, Director, National Institute of Neurological
Diseases and Stroke, Jay Moskowitz, Director, National Institute of Deafness
and Communicative Disorders, Ruth L. Kirschstein, Director, National Institute
of General Medical Sciences, Donald Lindberg, Director, National Library of
Medicine, Claude Lenfant, Director, National Institute of Heart, Lung and
Blood, Harald Loe, Director, National Institute of Dental Research, Phillip
Gorden, Director, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney
Diseases, Duane Alexander, Director, National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development, Carl Kupfer, Director, National Eye Institute, David F.
Rall, Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, T.
Franklin Williams, Director, National Institute on Aging, Lawrence E. Shulman,
Director, National Institute of Arthritis, and Musculoskeletal and Skin
Diseases, Robert A. Whitney, Jr., Director, Division of Research Resources,
Ada Sue Hinshaw, Director, National Center for Nursing Research, and Philip E.
Schambra, Director, Fogarty International Center, all of the National
Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 3.
APPROPRIATIONS--FEMA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the Federal Emergency Management Agency from
Julius Becton, Director, FEMA.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
HEALTH BENEFITS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 768, to
provide all Americans with basic health benefits, receiving testimony from
Elliott Richardson, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy, former Secretary of
Health, Education and Welfare, Deborah Steelman, Epstein, Becker, and Green,
and Sterling Tucker, American Diabetes Association, all of Washington, DC;
Barbara Matula, American Public Welfare Association Taskforce on Access to
Healthcare, Raleigh, North Carolina; David Ramsey, Louisiana Secretary of
Health and Hospitals, Baton Rouge, representing the National Association of
Public Hospitals; John Polk, Council of Smaller Enterprises, Cleveland, Ohio;
Eva Phillips, Takoma Park, Maryland; Mary Reich, Naperville, Illinois; and Mr.
and Mrs. Angelo Mendez, Denver, Colorado.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1989/05/02
Daily Digest - [Tuesday, May 2, 1989]; pages D416 - D424 (Bound vol. D226-
D232)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--SBA/LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the Small Business Administration
from Susan S. Engeleiter, Administrator, SBA; and in behalf of funds for the
Legal Services Corporation from Michael B. Wallace, Chairman, Terence J. Wear,
President, and Thomas F. Smegal, Jr., Member, Board of Directors, all of the
Legal Services Corporation; Robert D. Raven, American Bar Association,
Washington, DC.; and Bill Whitehurst, State Bar of Texas, Austin.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 10.
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APPROPRIATIONS--REFUGEES AND MIGRATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for foreign assistance
programs, focusing on refugees and migration, receiving testimony from
Jonathan Moore, U.S. Coordinator for Refugee Affairs, Department of State.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 4.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY/INTERIOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the
Department of Energy and the Department of the Interior, receiving testimony
from Senators Lott, Exon, Cranston, Wilson, and Levin; Representative
Beilenson; James D. Watkins, Secretary of Energy; and Manuel Lujan, Jr.,
Secretary of the Interior.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
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 from Nicholas F.
Brady, Secretary of the Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 4.
APPROPRIATIONS--NASA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, receiving testimony from Dale
D. Myers, Acting Administrator, NASA.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
BALLISTIC AND CRUISE MISSILE PROLIFERATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
concluded hearings on ballistic and cruise missile proliferation in the Third
World, after receiving testimony from Senator DeConcini; Representative
Berman; H. Allen Holmes, Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military
Affairs; Jim E. Hinds, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations
Policy; and Janne Nolan, Brookings Institution, Geoffrey Kemp, Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, and Seth Carus, Washington Institute for
Near East Policy, all of Washington, DC.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional
Defense resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1990 for the Department of Defense, focusing on future Navy surface
forces, receiving testimony from Vice Adm. John W. Nyquist, USN, Assistant
Chief of Naval Operations (Surface Warfare); Capt. Clark Graham, USN,
Commanding Officer, David Taylor, Naval Ship Research and Development Center;
and Rear Adm. G.N. Gee, USN, Director, Surface Combat Systems Division.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
GLOBAL WARMING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee held
hearings to examine the effects of vehicle fuel economy standards on global
warming, receiving testimony from Senator Metzenbaum; Steve Plotkin, Senior
Associate, Energy and Materials Program, Office of Technology Assessment;
Barry Felrice, Asssociate Administrator for Rulemaking, National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Transportation; John Berg,
Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Renewable Energy, and Carmen
Difiglio, Deputy Director, Office of Policy Integration, both of the
Department of Energy; Richard D. Morganstern, Director, Office of Policy
Analysis, Environmental Protection Agency; Helen O. Petrauskas, Ford Motor
Company, Dearborn, Michigan; Marina N. Whitman, General Motors Corporation,
Detroit, Michigan; and Robert G. Liberatore, Chrysler Corporation, Deborah
Bleviss, International Institute for Energy Conservation, Marc R. Ledbetter,
American Council For An Energy-Efficient Economy, and Clarence Ditlow, Center
for Auto Safety, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ENERGY CONSERVATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Regulation
and Conservation concluded hearings on S. 247, authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1990 through 1992 for State energy conservation programs, after
receiving testimony from John R. Berg, Assistant Secretary for Conservation
and Renewable Energy, and Frank M. Stewart, Director, Office of State and
Local Programs, both of the Department of Energy; Henry Lee, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Cherry Duckett, Arkansas Industrial
Development Corporation, Little Rock; Carol Tombari, Energy Management Center,
Austin, Texas; William Concannon, Executive Office of Communities and
Development, Boston, Massachusetts; Fred Tucker, Dixie Community Action
Agency, Hugo, Oklahoma.
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AUTHORIZATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for foreign assistance programs, after receiving
testimony from Alan Woods, Administrator, Agency for International Development
(AID); Reginald Bartholomew, Under Secretary of State for Coordinating
Security Assistance Programs; and Lt. Gen. Charles Brown, Director, Defense
Security Assistance Agency, Department of Defense.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Morris B. Abram, of New York, to be the U.S. Representative to
the European Office of the United Nations, John R. Bolton, of Maryland, to be
Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations Affairs, and
Douglas P. Mulholland, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of State for
Intelligence and Research, after the nominees testified and answered questions
in their own behalf. Mr. Abram was introduced by Senator Moynihan.
NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to review the
President's Annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, after
receiving testimony from William van Raab, Commissioner, U.S. Customs Service,
Department of the Treasury.
CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed hearings to assess
challenges and responses to the global spread of chemical and biological
weapons, focusing on U.S. enforcement of export controls on chemical and
biological agents and related materials as it impacts on the non-proliferation
of their use, receiving testimony from William von Raab, Commissioner, U.S.
Customs Service, Department of the Treasury; James LeMunyon, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration; Roger Harrison, Deputy
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, and Paul Wisgerhof,
Office of International Trade Controls, Bureau of Economic and Business
Affairs, both of the Department of State; and Paul Freedenberg, Baker and
Botts, Richard Perle, American Enterprise Institute, and Max Turnipseed,
Chemical Manufacturers Association, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Kenneth W. Starr, of Virginia, to be Solicitor General of the United States,
Department of Justice, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators
Warner, Robb, and Sanford, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
ADOLESCENT SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Families,
Drugs and Alcoholism concluded hearings to examine alcohol and other drug
abuse treatment of adolescents, after receiving testimony from Elaine Johnson,
Office of Substance Abuse Programs, Rockville, Maryland; Mitchell S.
Rosenthal, The Phoenix House, New York, New York; Robert A. Lewis, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, Indiana; Lois Olson, Missouri State Department of
Mental Health, Jefferson City; Jeanne H. Wurmser, CPC Mental Health Services,
Inc., Eatontown, New Jersey, on behalf of the National Council of Community
Mental Health Centers; and Leigh Rudd, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Joint Meeting
MINIMUM WAGE
Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 2, to amend the Fair Labor Standards
Act of 1938 to restore the minimum wage to a fair and equitable rate.
1989/05/03
Daily Digest - [Wednesday, May 3, 1989]; pages D425 - D432 (Bound vol. D232-
D237)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--CORPS OF ENGINEERS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for energy and
water development programs, focusing on the Army Corps of Engineers, receiving
testimony from Robert W. Page, Assistant Secretary for Civil Works, Lt. Gen.
Henry J. Hatch, Chief, Corps of Engineers, and Brig. Gen. Patrick J. Kelly,
Director of Civil Works, all of the Department of the Army.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1990 for certain programs of the Departments of Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education and related agencies receiving testimony from
Senators Exon, Kerrey, Metzenbaum, Pressler, Simon, and Matsunaga;
Representative Akaka; Pago Pago Delegate Faleomavaega; and numerous public
witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--NASA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent Agencies
continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, receiving testimony from Dale
D. Myers, Acting Administrator, NASA.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, May 15.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the Department of
Defense, receiving testimony from Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of Defense; and
Adm. William J. Crowe, Jr., USN, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
H. Lawrence Garrett III, of Virginia, to be Secretary of the Navy, after the
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Warner, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
RISK RETENTION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee
concluded oversight hearings on the implementation of the Liability Risk
Retention Act (P.L. 99-563), after receiving testimony from Susanne Howard,
Associate Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, and Jane W. Molloy and Edward
Barrett II, both Senior Policy Analysts, all of the Department of Commerce;
David Gates, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Michael J.
Mullen, National Risk Retention Association, and Lucien P. Laborde, Jr.,
Corroon and Black, representing the National Association of Insurance Brokers,
all of Washington, DC; David Bossman, American Feed Industry Insurance
Company, Arlington, Virginia; James T. McIntyre, Risk and Insurance Management
Society, Inc., New York, New York; George Shaffer, Insurance Center, Inc.,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, representing the Independent Insurance Agents of
America, Inc., and the National Association of Casualty and Surety Agents;
Karl W. Koch, Savers Property and Casualty Insurance Company, Overland Park,
Kansas; and John Salisbury, Housing Authority Risk Retention Group, Inc.,
Cheshire, Connecticut, representing the Public Risk Management Association.
INDOOR AIR QUALITY ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, Oceans
and Water Protection held hearings on S. 657, authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1990 through 1994 for programs to reduce the threat to human health
posed by exposure to contaminants in the air indoors, receiving testimony from
Erich Bretthauer, Acting Assistant Administrator for Research and Development,
and Stephen Shapiro, Environmental Protection Specialist, both of the
Environmental Protection Agency; Marjorie Browne, Specialist in International
Relations, Congressional Research Employees Association, Library of Congress;
Charles Lamielle, National Center for Environmental Health Strategies,
Voorhees, New Jersey; Philip Bromberg, University of North Carolina School of
Medicine, Chapel Hill, representing the American Lung Association; and Stephen
Brobeck, Consumer Federation of America, Paul Cammer, Business Council on
Indoor Air, David Schlein, American Federation of Government Employees,
representing the Safe Workplace Air Coalition; and Allan S. Bisk, Rose
Associates Inc., representing the Building Owners and Managers Association,
all of Washington, DC.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
TRADE ACT
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed oversight hearings on the
implementation of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act (P.L. 100-418),
receiving testimony from Carla A. Hills, United States Trade Representative;
and William T. Archey, United States Chamber of Commerce, Robert A. Perkins,
Chrysler Corporation, Andrew A. Procassini, Semiconductor Industry
Association, and Stephen M. Lovett, National Forest Products Association, all
of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Herman Jay Cohen, of New York, to be an Assistant Secretary of State for
African Affairs, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.
U.S.-SOVIET RELATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on the future of
U.S.-Soviet relations, focusing on East-West economic relations, receiving
testimony from Ed A. Hewett, Brookings Institution, Roger W. Robinson, Jr.,
former Senior Director for International Economic Affairs, National Security
Council, Larry Brady, Hill and Knowlton, former Assistant Secretary of
Commerce for Trade Administration, and John W. Kiser III, Kiser Research Inc.,
all of Washington, DC; Jerry Hough, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina;
Judy Shelton, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California;
and Alan B. Sherr, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AMERICAN PRODUCTIVITY
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to examine the
role of education and human resources in restoring American productivity,
receiving testimony from Michael L. Dertouzos, Richard K. Lester, and Robert
M. Solow, all on behalf of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Commission on Industrial Productivity, and Suzanne Berger, all of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ELECTION PROCEDURES
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on S. 874,
to establish national voter registration procedures for Presidential and
Congressional elections, S. 136, to establish a single poll closing time in
the continental United States for Presidential general elections, and S. 377,
to establish a series of five Presidential primaries, after receiving
testimony from Representatives Al Swift and William M. Thomas; Kentucky
Secretary of State Bremer Ehrler, Frankfort; Donald W. Blevins, Fayette
County, J. Michael Libs, Daviess County, and Randall G. Phillips, Taylor
County, all on behalf of the Kentucky County Clerks' Association; Judy
Crockett, American Civil Liberties Union, Nancy M. Neuman, The League of Women
Voters, and Althea T. L. Simmons, National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, all of Washington, DC; Dorothy W. Joyce, Florida State
Division of Elections, Tallahassee; and Susan H. Fitz-Hugh, Virginia State
Board of Elections, and Ann Ober, Virginia State Department of Motor Vehicles,
both of Richmond.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/05/04
Daily Digest - [Thursday, May 4, 1989]; pages D434 - D446 (Bound vol. D237-
D244)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings to review
the revised proposed budget estimates for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the
Department of Defense, receiving testimony from Donald J. Atwood, Jr., Deputy
Secretary of Defense.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 9.
APPROPRIATIONS--BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the Bureau of
Reclamation, receiving testimony from Manual Lujan, Jr., Secretary of the
Interior; and C. Dale Duvall, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department
of the Interior.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for foreign assistance
programs, focusing on international organizations, receiving testimony from
Thomas R. Pickering, U.S. Representative to the United Nations; and Sandra
Vogelgesang, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International
Organizations.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 9.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1990 for certain programs of the Departments of Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education, and related agencies, receiving testimony from
numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--FAA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for
the Federal Aviation Administration, receiving testimony from Robert E.
Whittington, Acting Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, Department
of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 11.
APPROPRIATIONS--OMB
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1990 for the Office of Management and Budget, receiving testimony from Richard
G. Darman, Director, Office of Management and Budget.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Paul D. Wolfowitz, of the District of Columbia, to be Under
Secretary of Defense for Policy.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the
Department of Defense, and to review the fiscal years 1990 through 1994 five
year defense plan, receiving testimony from Gen. Carl E. Vuono, USA, Chief of
Staff, U.S. Army; Adm. Carlisle A.H. Trost, USN, Chief of Naval Operations;
Gen. Alfred M. Gray, Jr., USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps; and Gen. Larry
D. Welch, USAF, Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, May 10.
ARMOR AND ANTI-ARMOR PROGRAMS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance
Defense held hearings to review the implementation of the Army's armor and
anti-armor programs, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. Donald S. Pihl, USA,
Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research, Development,
and Acquisition); Maj. Gen. W.A. Shoffner, USA, Assistant Deputy Chief of Army
Staff for Operations and Plans (Force Development and Integration); and Maj.
Gen. R.M. Franklin, USMC, Deputy Chief of Marine Corps Staff for Research,
Development, and Studies.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
694, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 through 1995 for the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve, after receiving testimony from J. Allen Wampler, Assistant
Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy; Keith Fultz, Director, Energy Issues,
Resources, Community and Economic Development Division, General Accounting
Office; H. Leighton Steward, The Louisiana Land and Exploration Company, New
Orleans; John H. Lichtblau, Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, Inc., New
York, New York; and Arnold E. Safer, The Energy Futures Group, Inc., Bethesda,
Maryland.
COMANCHE PEAK INVESTIGATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation
held hearings on the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant, focusing on legal and
policy implications of settlement agreements affecting the ability of persons
to testify before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, receiving testimony from
Lando W. Zech, Jr., Chairman, and Thomas M. Roberts, Kenneth C. Rogers, and
James R. Curtiss, all Commissioners, all of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission;
Zack T. Pate, Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, Atlanta, Georgia; Edward
Smeloff, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Sacramento, California; James
Shetler, Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station, Herald, California; T. Louis
Austin, Jr., Brown and Root, Houston, Texas; Michael D. Spence, Texas
Utilities Generating Company, Dallas; Joseph J. Macktal, Glenn Rose, Texas;
and Billie Pirner Garde, Appleton, Wisconsin.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of
Rufus H. Yerxa, of the District of Columbia, to be a Deputy U.S. Trade
Representative, with the rank of Ambassador, Eric I. Garfinkel, of Maryland,
to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, John E. Robson, of Georgia, to be
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Robert R. Glauber, of Massachusetts, to be
an Under Secretary of the Treasury, David Campbell Mulford, of Illinois, to be
an Under Secretary of the Treasury, Constance Horner, of the District of
Columbia, to be Under Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Mary Sheila
Gall, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for
Human Development Services.
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Messrs. Yerxa, Garfinkel, Robson, Glauber, and Mulford, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Yerxa was introduced
by Representative Rostenkowski, and Mr. Robson was introduced by Senators
Dole, Nunn, and Simon.
RURAL HEALTH
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the financial
condition of rural hospitals and their ability to deliver health care to
Medicare recipients, receiving testimony from Senator Harkin; Curtis C.
Erickson and Mark Steinwald, both of the Great Plains Health Alliance, Inc.,
Phillipsburg, Kansas, both on behalf of the Prospective Payment Assessment
Commission; Paul C. Rettig, American Hospital Association, Washington, DC;
Timothy K. Size, Rural Wisconsin Hospital Cooperative, Madison, on behalf of
the National Rural Health Care Association; Kevin M. Fickenscher, University
of North Dakota, Grand Forks; Michael D. McKinney and Tom Nance, both of the
Texas Hospital Association, Centerville; Richard O. Brown, Montana Hospital
Association, Chester; Robert L. Harman, Grant Memorial Hospital, Petersburg,
West Virginia; and Eric V. Buckland, North Lincoln Hospital, Lincoln City,
Oregon.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--USIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the U.S.
Information Agency, after receiving testimony from Bruce S. Gelb, Director,
U.S. Information Agency; Cassandra A. Pyle, Council for International Exchange
of Scholars, Washington, DC.; and Elbert B. Smith, University of Maryland,
College Park, representing the Fulbright Alumni Association.
INFRASTRUCTURE PROBLEMS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on General Services,
Federalism and the District of Columbia concluded oversight hearings to review
the role of Federal, State and local governments and the private sector in
solving the Nation's infrastructure problems, after receiving testimony from
Representative Anthony; Connecticut State Treasurer Francisco L. Borges,
Hartford; Pennsylvania Secretary of Transportation Howard Yerusalim,
Harrisburg; Burton Stallwood, Lincoln, Rhode Island, on behalf of the National
League of Cities; James Rout, Shelby County, Tennessee, on behalf of the
National Association of Counties; Virginia B. Rutledge, Massachusetts
Wholesale Electric Company, Boston, on behalf of the Government Finance
Officers Association; and Nancy S. Rutledge, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, on behalf of the National Council on Public Works Improvement.
ILLITERACY
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and
Humanities held hearings on proposed legislation to coordinate and strengthen
efforts at the Federal, State, local and private and non-profit sector levels
to combat illiteracy in the United States, receiving testimony from Lauro F.
Cavazos, Secretary of Education; Kay Wright, Acting Assistant Secretary of
Education for Adult and Vocational Education; Roberts T. Jones, Assistant
Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training; Catherine Bertini, Acting
Assistant Secretary for Family Support, and Clennie Murphy, Acting Associate
Commissioner of Head Start Bureau, Office of Human Development Services, both
of the Department of Health and Human Services; Eric Burch and Gloria Wattles,
both on behalf of the Economic Opportunity Corporation Literacy Program,
Effingham, Illinois; Landra Reid, Nevada Literacy Coalition, Carson City;
Nancy Seminoff, Connecticut Central University, Storrs, on behalf of the
International Reading Association Board; J. William Straughan, Jr., American
Bar Association Task Force on Literacy, Chicago, Illinois; and Forrest P.
Chisman, Southport Institute for Policy Analysis, and Paul V. Delker,
Strategic Educational Systems, and former Department of Education Director of
the Division of Adult Education, both of Washington, DC.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Hearings continue on Thursday, May 11.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/05/05
Daily Digest - [Friday, May 5, 1989]; pages D448 - D450 (Bound vol. D244-
D246)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1990 for certain programs of the Departments of Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education, and related agencies, receiving testimony from
numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, May 8.
APPROPRIATIONS--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the Legislative Branch,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress; Joseph E. Jenifer, Deputy Public
Printer, Government Printing Office; and Edward W. Ray, Commissioner,
Copyright Royalty Tribunal.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, May 8.
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC POLICY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
to review the Administration's report to Congress on international economic
and exchange rate policy, after receiving testimony from Nicholas F. Brady,
Secretary of the Treasury; and David C. Mulford, Under Secretary of the
Treasury for International Affairs-designate.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Ronald F. Lehman II, of Virginia, to be Director of the U.S.
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and Richard R. Burt, of Arizona, for the
rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as Head of Delegation on
Nuclear and Space Talks and Chief Negotiator on Strategic Nuclear Arms
(START), after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf.
1990 CENSUS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Government Information and
Regulation concluded hearings to review the accuracy and quality of plans for
the 1990 Census, after receiving testimony from C. Louis Kincannon, Deputy
Director, Bureau of the Census, and Michael A. Stoto, Chairman, Advisory
Committee on the Census, American Statistical Association, both of the
Department of Commerce; Gene L. Dodaro, Director, General Management Issues,
General Government Division, General Accounting Office: Peyton Young,
University of Maryland, College Park; and Edward J. Spar, Market Statistics,
Inc., New York, New York.
ASSAULT WEAPONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded
hearings on S. 386, to control the sale and importation of assault weapons,
and S. 747, to protect the rights of legal owners while attacking the problems
associated with the illegal use of assault weapons, after receiving testimony
from Edward C. Ezell, Curator Supervisor, Division of Armed Forces History,
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution; Dewey Stokes,
Galloway, Ohio, on behalf of the Franternal Order of Police; Sheriff John F.
Duffy, San Diego County, California, on behalf of the National Sheriffs'
Association; Chief William Nolan, Homewood Police Department, Homewood,
Illinois; Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, Pima County, Arizona; Phillip C. McGuire,
Handgun Control Inc., Washington, DC; Roxanne Roberts, Cook County Hospital,
Chicago, Illinois; Leroy Pyle, San Jose Police Department, San Jose,
California; and Jimmy L. Trahin, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles
California.
INDIAN FEDERAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 611, to
establish administrative procedures to determine the status of certain Indian
groups, after receiving testimony from Hazel Elbert, Acting Deputy to the
Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs (Operations), Lynn Forcia, Chief,
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Branch of Acknowledgment and Research, and Scott
Keep, Assistant Solicitor, Branch of Tribal Government and Alaska Division of
Indian Affairs, all of the Department of the Interior; William C. Sturtevant,
Anthropologist, Curator of North American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution;
Reid Chambers, Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse and Miller, Faith Roessel, Native
American Rights Fund, and Russel Barsh, all of Washington, D.C.; Darrell
Wadena and Kent Tupper, both of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Cass Lake;
Stanley G. Jones, Sr. and Douglas L. Bell, both of the Tulalip Tribe, Tulalip,
Washington; Hilda Manuel, Tohono O'odham Tribe, Tohono O'odham, Arizona;
Violet Mitchell, Fort Mojave Tribal Council, Ft. Mojave, Arizona, representing
the Intertribal Council of Arizona; Phil Alexis, Confederated Historic Tribes
of Michigan, Lansing; Helen Gindrat, United Houma Nation, Inc., Golden Meadow,
Louisiana; Bruce Duthu, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Ray White
and Stewart Rafert, both of the Miami Tribe of Indiana, Muncie; Don Widdis,
Gayhead Wampanoag Tribe, Wayland, Massachusetts; Jack Campisi, Wellesly
College, Wellesly, Massachusetts; Raymond Fogelson, University of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois; Jack Trope, Association on American Indian Affairs, New
York, New York; Allogan Slagle, Concord, California; Michael Mason, Native
American Program of Oregon Legal Services, Portland; and Arlinda Locklear,
Brunswick, Maryland.
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Joint Meetings
EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to review the
employment/unemployment situation for April, receiving testimony from Janet L.
Norwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1989/05/08
Daily Digest - [Monday, May 8, 1989]; pages D452 - D456 (Bound vol. D246-
D248)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal years 1990 for certain programs of the Departments of Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education, and related agencies, receiving testimony from
numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 11.
APPROPRIATIONS--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for activities of the Architect of the Capitol from George M.
White, Architect of the Capitol; and in behalf of funds for activities of the
BioMedical Ethics Board from Senator Gore; and Robert M. Cook-Deegan,
Executive Director, BioMedical Ethics Board.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 11.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support held open and closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on the readiness and sustainability posture of selected unified combatant
commands, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. Edwin S. Leland, USA, Chief of
Staff, U.S. European Command; Maj. Gen. H.C. Stackpole III, USMC, Director for
Plans and Policy, U.S. Atlantic Command; Maj. Gen. Royal N. Moore, Jr., USMC,
Director for Operations, U.S. Pacific Command; and Maj. Gen. Christian Patte,
USA, Director for Logistics, U.S. Central Command.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, May 12.
GLOBAL WARMING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology and Space held hearings to examine research on global climate
change in order to determine how much global temperatures will increase in the
future and the effects that greenhouse warming will have on the earth's
environment, receiving testimony from Dallas L. Peck, Director, U.S.
Geological Survey, Department of the Interior; James Hansen, Director, Goddard
Institute for Space Studies, National Aeronautics and Space Administration;
Jerry D. Mahlman, Director, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton,
New Jersey, George Woodwell, Director, Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole,
Massachusetts, and Stephen H. Schneider, Section Head, Interdisciplinary
Climate Systems Section and Ralph J. Cicerone, Section Head, Atmospheric Gas
Measurements Section, both of the National Center for Atmospheric Research,
Boulder, Colorado, all of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Department of Commerce; and V. Ramanathan, University of Chicago, Chicago,
Illinois.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATURAL GAS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
783, S. 625, and H.R. 1722, bills to eliminate wellhead price and nonprice
controls on the first sale of natural gas and make certain technical and
conforming amendments to the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978, after receiving
testimony from J. Allen Wampler, Assistant Secretary for Fossil Fuels, and
William Scherman, Chief of Staff, Office of the Chairman, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, both of the Department of Energy; Nicholas Bush,
Natural Gas Supply Association, Danny Conklin, Independent Petroleum
Association of America, Gordon Gooch, Travis and Gooch, on behalf of the
Petrochemical Energy Group; and Ewin Rothschild, Citizen-Labor Energy
Coalition, all of Washington, DC; Kenneth Lay, Enron Corp., Houston, Texas, on
behalf of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America; George Lawrence,
American Gas Association, Arlington, Virginia; Robert McPhail, Basin Electric
Power Cooperative, Bismarck, North Dakota; Lee Liberman, Laclede Gas Company,
St. Louis, Missouri; and Charles Schusterman, Samson Companies, Tulsa,
Oklahoma.
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AUTHORIZATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1990 for foreign assistance
programs, after receiving testimony from Arthur Levitt, Jr., American Stock
Exchange, New York, New York, and John T. Joyce, International Union of
Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen, and Richard L. McCall, both of Washington,
DC, all on behalf of the International Commission for Central American
Recovery and Development; Stephen Hellinger, Development Group for Alternative
Policies, Thomas Stoel, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sharon Pauling,
Bread for the World, Douglas Siglin, InterAction, Thomas A. Dine,
American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, George R. Moses, National
Association of Arab Americans, Andrew E. Manatos, Manatos & Manatos, on behalf
of the United Hellenic American Congress, American Hellenic Alliance,
Pancyprian Association of America, and the Hellenic American Council of
Southern California, Dean C. Lomis, American Hellenic Institute Public Affairs
Committee, Inc., and Parker T. Hart, former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, all of
Washington, D.C.; and Joseph D. Youssouf, Freehold, New Jersey, on behalf of
the Turkish-Cypriot Cultural and Educational Association of the United States
of America.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Peter F. Secchia, of Michigan, to be Ambassador to Italy,
Charles Edgar Redman, of Florida, to be Ambassador to Sweden, and Walter J.P.
Curley, of New York, to be Ambassador to France, after the nominees testified
and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of William M. Diefenderfer III, of Virginia, to be Deputy Director,
Office of Management and Budget, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senator Packwood, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/05/09
Daily Digest - [Tuesday, May 9, 1989]; pages D458 - D466 (Bound vol. D248-
D254)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AGRICULTURAL CREDIT ACT
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Credit resumed oversight hearings on the Farmers Home
Administration implementation of the Agricultural Credit Act (Public Law
100-233), as it relates to borrowers, receiving testimony from Neal Sox
Johnson, Acting Administrator, and Glenn Hertzler, Jr., assistant
Administrator for Farmers Programs, both of the Farmers Home Administration,
Department of Agriculture; James T. Massey, Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc.,
Sisters, Oregon; Cheryl Cook, National Farmers Union, Washington, DC; Benny
Bunting, National Save the Family Farm Coalition, Oak City, North Carolina;
Johnny Porch, American Agriculture Movement, Brownsville, Tennessee; and Donna
Shoop, Farm Counseling Service, Inc., Memphis, Missouri.
Hearing were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed hearings on
special access programs, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. Ronald W. Yates,
USAF, Principal Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for
Acquisition; John J. Welch, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for
Acquisition; and Vice Adm. Robert F. Dunn, USN, Assistant Chief of Naval
Operations, Air Warfare.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
FS-X AIRCRAFT AGREEMENT
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
resumed open and closed hearings to review the implications of the FS-X
aircraft agreement between the United States and Japan, receiving testimony
from Senator Danforth; William Clark, Jr., Acting Assistant Secretary of State
for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Carl W. Ford, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Lt. Gen. Ronald W. Yates, USAF,
Principal Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition;
Joan M. McEntee, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration;
and Joseph E. Kelley, Director, George Sousa, Assistant Director, Glenn Levis,
Evaluator-in-Charge, and Richard S. Felsmer, Technical Adviser, all of the
National Security and International Affairs Division, General Accounting
Office.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INDUSTRY-GOVERNMENT COOPERATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings to
examine how U.S. industry and government can work together to promote the
development of commercial technologies, including advanced television and
superconductivity, receiving testimony from Robert A. Mosbacher, Secretary of
Commerce; Jack D. Kuehler, IBM Corporation, Armonk, New York; and Pat Hill
Hubbard, American Electronics Association, Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of
Charles H. Dallara, of South Carolina, to be Deputy Under Secretary of the
Treasury for International Affairs, Hollis S. McLoughlin, of New Jersey, to be
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Policy Development, Roger Bolton, of
Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs and
Public Liaison, and Kay C. James, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of
Health and Human Services for Public Affairs.
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the aforementioned
nominations, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Dallara was introduced by Senators Warner and Thurmond, and Mr.
Bolton was introduced by Senator McConnell.
SECTION 89 NONDISCRIMINATION RULES
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the impact of Section
89 nondiscrimination rules of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 applicable to
employer-provided fringe benefits, receiving testimony from Senator Domenici;
Representative LaFalce; Dana Trier, Tax Legislative Counsel, Department of the
Treasury; William J. Burckley, Greensboro, North Carolina, on behalf of the
National League of Cities and the Government Finance Officers Association;
Anthony C. Williams, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Donald
H. Skadden and Deborah Walker, both of the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants, and Donald C. Alexander, Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft,
on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, all of Washington, DC; Mary Kelley,
Kelly and Company, Denver, Colorado, on behalf of the National Federation of
Independent Business; Bruce Carswell, GTE Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut,
on behalf of the ERISA Industry Committee and the Section 89 Coalition; Karl
E. Hansen, The National Association of Life Underwriters, San Francisco,
California; William W. Richardson, Valero Energy Corporation, San Antonio,
Texas, on behalf of Employers Council on Flexible Compensation and the
Cafeteria Plan Coalition; Ron Danilson, The Principal Financial Group, Des
Moines, Iowa; Sandy Galef, Westchester County Board of Legislators,
Westchester County, New York, on behalf of the National Association of
Counties; Joseph K. Peery, Quanex Corporation, Houston, Texas; Kathi Child, J.
C. Penney Company, Inc., Dallas, Texas, on behalf of the Retail Tax Committee
of Common Interest; and James H. Lagos, National Small Business United,
Springfield, Ohio.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--STATE/USIA/BIB
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee began consideration of S. 928,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the Department of State,
U.S. Information Agency, and the Board for International Broadcasting, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS PROLIFERATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on the nature and
extent of the threat of chemical and biological weapons proliferation,
receiving testimony from James F. Leonard, former Assistant Director,
International Relations Bureau, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency;
Matthew S. Meselson, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Will D.
Carpenter, Monsanto Agricultural Company, St. Louis, Missouri, on behalf of
the Chemical Manufacturers Association Work Group on Chemical Weapons; and
Stephen D. Bryen, Delta-Tech, Arlington, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CRIME AND DRUG ABUSE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on General Services,
Federalism, and the District of Columbia concluded hearings to examine the
Federal response to State and local requests for assistance to combat drug
abuse and drug-related crime, after receiving testimony from Isaac Fullwood,
Jr., Assistant Chief of Police for the District of Columbia; Carol B.
Thompson, City Administrator for the District of Columbia; Robert F.
Armstrong, on behalf of the Office of the Mayor, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
Chief Joe D. Casey, Metropolitan Police Department, Nashville, Tennessee; and
Gary Hankins, Fraternal Order of Police, Washington, DC.
STEROIDS ABUSE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine the steroid
abuse problem in America, focusing on the use of steroids in college and
professional football, receiving testimony from Pete Rozell and Jay Moyer,
both of the National Football League, New York, New York; Gene Upshaw,
National Football League Players Association, Washington, DC; Chuck Noll,
Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Marty Schottenheimer, Kansas
City Chiefs, Kansas City, Missouri; Bill Fralic, Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta,
Georgia; Joe Paterno, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; Bo
Schembechler, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Harold R. Raymond, University
of Delaware, Newark; Joe Purzycki, James Madison University, Harrisonburg,
Virginia; and Steve Courson, Wexford, Pennsylvania.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
933, to establish a clear and comprehensive prohibition of discrimination on
the basis of disability, after receiving testimony from Representative Coehlo;
Harold Russell, President's Committee on Employment of People with
Disabilities, I. King Jordan, Gallaudet University, Justin Dart, Task Force on
the Rights and Empowerment of Americans with Disabilities, Zackery Fasman,
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky and Walker, and Lawrence Lorber, Kelley, Drye, and
Warren, on behalf of the American Society of Personnel Administrators, all of
Washington, DC; Arlene Mayerson, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund,
Berkeley, California; Mary DeSapio and Joseph F. Danowsky, both of New York,
New York; and Amy Dimsdale, Arlington, Texas.
FAMILY PLANNING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 110,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990, 1991 and 1992 for family planning
programs, and S. 120, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990, 1991 and 1992
for adolescent family life demonstration projects, receiving testimony from
Nabors Cabaniss, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for
Population Affairs; Daniel F. Federman, Harvard Medical School, Boston,
Massachusetts; Thomas C. Kring, National Family Planning and Reproductive
Health Association, Los Angeles, California; Faye Wattleton, Planned
Parenthood Federation of America, New York, New York; Stephanie Jones,
Lawrence Paquin School, Baltimore, Maryland; Richard Glasow, National Right to
Life Committee, Washington, DC; and Caroline Gaston, New Futures School,
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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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 Federal Government's management of natural resources on Indian
lands, receiving testimony from Richard James Elroy, Special Agent, Federal
Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Chuck Norman, Accountant, and
Fred Merritt, Investigator, both of the Special Committee on Investigations;
Greg Pyles, Apache Oil, Denver, Colorado; Chris Tucker, Houston, Texas; Gene
Poteet, Portales, New Mexico; James Spaulding, Hobbs, New Mexico; and Thurmon
and Arnita Parton, Gracemont, Oklahoma.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
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 Thursday, May 11.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/05/10
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 10, 1989; pages D467 - D476 (Bound vol. D254-
D260)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
GLOBAL WARMING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held joint
hearings with the Committee on Appropriations' Subcommittee on Foreign
Operations to examine the potential impact of global warming on Third World
food crops and U.S. policy responses, receiving testimony from Richard
Bissell, Assistant Administrator for Policy and Program Coordination, Agency
for International Development; William E. Riebsame, University of Colorado,
Denver; R. A. Houghton, Woods Hole Research Institute, Woods Hole,
Massachusetts; Allen Teramura, University of Maryland, College Park; Robert H.
Miller, North Carolina State University, Raleigh; and Brent Blackwelder,
Environmental Policy Institute, Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--U.S. SUPREME COURT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for
the Supreme Court of the United States, receiving testimony from Sandra Day
O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, and Byron White, all Associate Justices of the
Supreme Court of the United States.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 18.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed hearings on
foreign policy defense issues, receiving testimony from Robert M. Kimmitt,
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the government
of the District of Columbia, receiving testimony from Mayor Marion S. Barry,
Jr., and David Clark, Chairman of the District of Columbia Council, both of
Washington, DC.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 17.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the
Department of Defense, and to review the fiscal year 1990-1994 five year
defense plan, receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller
General, and Frank C. Conahan, Assistant Comptroller General, National
Security and International Affairs Division, both of the General Accounting
Office.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the Department of Defense, focusing on
strategic forces, and to review operational requirements of the Strategic Air
Command, receiving testimony from Gen. John T. Chain, Jr., USAF,
command-in-Chief, Strategic Air Command.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings in
conjunction with the National Ocean Policy Study to examine the impact of the
Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, focusing on Federal and State clean up
efforts, Coast Guard oil spill containment procedures, and regulation and
operating procedures to prevent future spills, receiving testimony from Adm.
Paul A. Yost, Jr., Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation;
Walter Stieglitz, Regional Director for Alaska, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, Department of the Interior; Capt. Charles A. Bartholomew, Director of
Ocean Engineering, Supervisor of Salvage and Diving, Naval Sea Systems
Command; Dennis Kelso, Alaska State Department of Environmental Conservation,
Don Collinsworth, Alaska State Department of Fish and Game, and Roger E.
McManus, Center for Marine Conservation, all of Washington, DC; William D.
Stevens, Exxon Company USA, and Frank J. Iarossi, Exxon Shipping Company, both
of Houston, Texas; and Michelle O'Leary and Fredericka Ott, both of the
Cordova District Fishermen United, Cordova, Alaska.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Merchant
Marine held hearings to examine clean-up and assessment and prevention issues
relating to the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, focusing on oil tanker
safety measures, receiving testimony from Senator Adams; Adm. Paul A. Yost,
Jr., Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation; Capt. John
Koltz, Port of New Orleans, and R.C. Thompson, Louisiana Offshore Oil Port,
Inc., both of New Orleans, Louisiana; Capt. Mark Delesdernier, Jr., Crescent
River Port Pilots Association, Belle Chasse, Louisiana; Karl Landgrebe,
National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, and Ernest J. Corrado,
American Institute of Merchant Shipping, both of Washington, DC; Capt. Bob
Herring, Southwest Alaska Pilots Association, Homer, Alaska; and Thomas S.
Wyman, Chevron Shipping Company, San Francisco, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, Ocean,
and Water Protection held oversight hearings to examine the implications of
and responses to the Toxic Release Inventory, released pursuant to section 313
of the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (P.L. 99-499),
receiving testimony from Kirsten Oldenburg, Deputy Director, Hazardous Waste
and Waste Reduction Projects, Office of Technology Assessment; Charles Elkins,
Director, Office of Toxic Substances, and A.E. Conroy, II, Director, Office of
Compliance Monitoring, both of the Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances,
Frederick Stiehl, Associate Enforcement Counsel for Pesticides and Toxic
Substances, Office of Compliance and Enforcement Monitoring, and Jerry Kotas,
Director, Office of Pollution Prevention, Office of Policy Planning and
Evaluation, all of the Environmental Protection Agency; Gerald V. Poje,
Environmental Toxicologist, National Wildlife Federation, Washington, DC.;
Robert D. Kennedy, Union Carbide Corporation, Danbury, Connecticut, on behalf
of the Chemical Manufacturers Association; and Robert L. Dostal, Dow Chemical
Company, Midland, Michigan.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EUROPE--92
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the impact on world
trade of the European Community's (EC) program to complete its internal market
by 1992, receiving testimony from Robert A. Mosbacher, Secretary of Commerce;
Carla A. Hills, U.S. Trade Representative; Richard E. Heckert, E.I. duPont de
Nemours and Company, Wilmington, Delaware, and Stephen Cooney, Washington,
DC., both on behalf of the National Association of Manufacturers; Lionel H.
Olmer, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, Washington, DC. on behalf
of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; and Matthew B. Coffey, National Tooling and
Machining Association, Fort Washington, Maryland.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
S. Con. Res. 26, urging first asylum countries of the Association of Southeast
Asia Nations (ASEAN) to reinstate the practice of providing refuge to all
asylum-seekers from Vietnam;
An original resolution (S. Res. 124) expressing strong support for the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization on the occasion of its 40th anniversary;
An original resolution (S. Res. 125) congratulating the Kingdom of Norway on
its 175 years of constitutional government; and
The nominations of Morris Berthold Abram, of New York, to be the U.S.
Representative to the European Office of the United Nations, Herman Jay Cohen,
of New York, to be an Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Walter
J.P. Curley, of New York, to be Ambassador to France, Ronald Frank Lehman II,
of Virginia, to be Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency,
Charles Edgar Redman, of Florida, to be Ambassador to Sweden, Joseph Verner
Reed, of Connecticut, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service
as Chief of Protocol for the White House, and a Foreign Service Officers'
promotion list dated April 18, 1989.
FSX CODEVELOPMENT PROJECT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on S.J. Res. 113,
prohibiting the export of technology, defense articles, and defense services
to codevelop or coproduce the FSX aircraft with Japan, and S.J. Res. 123,
approving the proposed authorization for the export of technology, defense
articles, and defense services to codevelop the FS-X weapon system with Japan
and requiring that any coproduction of that weapon system meet certain
conditions, after receiving testimony from Senators Dixon, D'Amato, and
Bingaman; Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of Defense; Robert A. Mosbacher,
Secretary of Commerce; and Lawrence S. Eagleburger, Deputy Secretary of State.
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AUTHORIZATIONS--INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy,
Trade, Oceans and Environment held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for the Inter-American Development Bank, receiving testimony
from David C. Mulford, Under Secretary-designate of the Treasury for
International Affairs; and John Petty, President, Inter-American Development
Bank.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DRUGS IN PUBLIC HOUSING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
held hearings to examine the impact of the use and sale of drugs in public
housing projects and federal efforts to combat drug trafficking in these
areas, receiving testimony from Jack Kemp, Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development; Ken Finlayson, former Regional Commissioner, Region #3
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Department of Housing and Urban Development;
Delaware State Representative Al O. Plant, Sr., Mary Ann Russ, Wilmington
Public Housing Authority, Herman Holloway, Jr., King Center, and Rev. Benjamin
Brown, all of Wilmington, Delaware; Manual Quintana, New York City Public
Housing Authority, New York, New York; Vincent Lane, Chicago Housing
Authority, and Mildred Wortham, both of Chicago, Illinois; and Edith Grigsby
and Charles Jenkins, both of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
VOTER REGISTRATION REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution held hearings on
S. 675, to eliminate discriminatory barriers to voter registration, receiving
testimony from Senators Cranston and McConnell; Barbara Jordan, LBJ School of
Political Affairs, University of Texas, and Texas Assistant Secretary of State
Brad Gahm, both of Austin; Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rainbow Coalition, Chicago,
Illinois; Antonia Hernandez, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education
Fund, Frank R. Parker, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Althea
T.L. Simmons, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and
Arthur S. Flemming and William H. Brown, III, both of the Citizens Commission
for Civil Rights, all of Washington, DC; Timothy G. O'Rourke, University of
Virginia, Charlottesville; and Bruce Fein, Great Falls, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on the Handicapped held
hearings on S. 933, to establish a clear and comprehensive prohibition of
discrimination on the basis of disability, receiving testimony from Senator
Dole; Illinois State Attorney General Neil F. Hartigan, Chicago; Perry Tillman
III, Paralyzed Veterans of America, New Orleans, Louisiana; Ken Tice,
Advocating Change Together, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Ron Mace, Barrier Free
Environments, Raleigh, North Carolina; William B. Ball, Association of
Christian Schools International, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Sally Douglas,
National Federation of Independent Businesses, and Bob Burgdorf, National
Easter Seals Society, both of Washington, DC; Malcolm Green, National
Association of Theater Owners, Boston, Massachusetts; Paul Taylor, National
Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester, New York; Robert Yaeger,
Minnesota Relay Service, St. Paul, Minnesota; Gerald Hines, AT&T, Basking
Ridge, New Jersey; Frank Bowe, Hempstead, New York; Lisa Carl and Vickie
Franke, both of Tacoma, Washington; and Betty Corey, Baltimore, Maryland.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 16.
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 Federal Government's management of natural resources on Indian
lands, receiving testimony from Walter Johnson, Chief, Law Enforcement
Division, George Brown, Deputy Assistant Director, Energy and Mineral
Resources, Dale Tunnel, Special Agent-in-Charge (Santa Fe, New Mexico), Dale
Pyland, Director for Oil and Gas Inspection (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma), Jim
Sims, District Manager (Tulsa, Oklahoma), and Bob Goodman, Supervisor,
Inspection and Enforcement Technicians (Tulsa, Oklahoma), all of the Bureau of
Land Management, Department of the Interior; Chuck Norman, Accountant, Special
Committee on Investigations; Marvin Cook and Brad Boyce, both of the Southern
Ute Tribe, Ignacio, Colorado.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
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Joint Meetings
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Conferees met on the differences between the Senate- and House-passed versions
of H. Con. Res. 106, setting forth the congressional budget for the United
States Government for the fiscal years 1990, 1991, and 1992, but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
1989/05/11
Daily Digest - [Thursday, May 11, 1989]; pages D478 - D486 (Bound vol. D260-
D266)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Rural
Development and Rural Electrification held hearings on proposed legislation to
provide Federal assistance to promote rural economic development, receiving
testimony from North Dakota Governor George A. Sinner, Bismark, on behalf of
the National Governors' Association; Bob Bergland, National Rural Electric
Cooperative Association, Washington, DC; George F. Alford, Alabama-Tombigbee
Regional Council, Camden, on behalf of the National Association of Development
Organizations; Robert L. Thompson, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana;
and Fulton County Judge James M. Everett, Hickman, Kentucky.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 16.
APPROPRIATIONS--SDI
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the Strategic Defense Initiative
(SDI), receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. George L. Monahan, Director,
Strategic Defense Initiative Organization.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 16.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal years 1990 for certain programs of the Departments of Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education, and related agencies, receiving testimony from
numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
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APPROPRIATIONS--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the Office of Technology Assessment from
Senators Kennedy and Stevens; and John H. Gibbons, Director, Office of
Technology Assessment; receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the Capitol
Police Board from Henry K. Giugni, Senate Sergeant at Arms; Jack Russ, House
of Representatives Sergeant at Arms; George M. White, Architect of the
Capitol; and Frank Kerrigan, Chief, Capitol Police; and receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for the General Accounting Office from Charles A. Bowsher,
Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting Office.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
TRANSPORTATION TRUST FUNDS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings to evaluate the status and disbursement of
transportation trust funds, receiving testimony from Vic Rezendes, Associate
Director, Division of Resources, Community and Economic Development, General
Accounting Office; and W. David Montgomery, Assistant Director, Natural
Resources and Commerce, Congressional Budget Office.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of H. Lawrence Garrett III, of Virginia, to be Secretary of the
Navy, and 1,759 nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
DEFENSE ACQUISITION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
held hearings on recommendations for a defense acquisition policy agenda,
receiving testimony from Paul Math, Associate Director, National Security and
International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; and Derek Vander
Schaaf, Deputy Inspector General, Department of Defense.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel held
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 and
1991 for the Department of Defense, focusing on manpower programs, receiving
testimony from David J. Berteau, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Resource Management and Support; Lt. Gen. Allen K. Ono, USA, Deputy Chief of
Staff for Personnel; Vice Adm. Jeremy M. Boorda, USN, Chief of Naval
Personnel; Lt. Gen. Thomas J. Hickey, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff for
Personnel; and Lt. Gen. John I. Hudson, USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff for
Personnel.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--NASA
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation : Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, focusing on the space transportation system, receiving
testimony from Adm. Richard H. Truly, Associate Administrator, Office of Space
Flight, Arnold Aldrich, Director, National Space Transportation System, Joseph
Mahon, Deputy Associate Administrator (Flight Systems), James R. Thompson,
Director, and Lowell K. Zoller, Manager, Systems Management Office (Shuttle
Project Office), both of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center,
Huntsville, Alabama, George A. Rodney, Associate Administrator for Safety,
Reliability, Maintainability, and Quality Assurance, Charles J. Donlan and
Seymour C. Himmel, both Members, Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, all of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
URANIUM ENRICHMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources : Subcommittee on Energy Research
and Development concluded hearings on S. 83, to establish the amount of costs
of the Department of Energy's uranium enrichment program that have not
previously been recovered from enrichment customers in the charges of the
Department of Energy to its customers, after receiving testimony from Senator
Simpson; Helmut A. Merklein, Administrator, Energy Information Administration,
and Philip G. Sewell, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Uranium Enrichment, both
of the Department of Energy; Phillip Bayne, New York Power Authority, New
York, New York, on behalf of the Edison Electric Institute and the American
Nuclear Energy Council; and Gerald W. Grandey, Energy Fuels Corporation,
Denver, Colorado, on behalf of the Uranium Producers of America.
NOMINATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works : Committee concluded hearings on
the nomination of Frank Henry Habicht II, of Virginia, to be Deputy
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senator Warner, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.
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FSX CODEVELOPMENT PROJECT
Committee on Foreign Relations : Committee ordered reported, unfavorably, S.J.
Res. 113, prohibiting the export of technology, defense articles, and defense
services to codevelop or coproduce the FSX aircraft with Japan.
Prior to this action, the committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on FSX codevelopment issues from officials of the intelligence
community.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary : Committee concluded hearings on the nominations
of Ferdinand F. Fernandez, of California, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the
Ninth Circuit, and Shirley D. Peterson, of Maryland, and Carol T. Crawford, of
Virginia, each to be an Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice,
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr.
Fernandez was introduced by Senator Wilson, Ms. Peterson was introduced by
Representative Morella, and Ms. Crawford was introduced by Senator Packwood.
JOB TRAINING ASSISTANCE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity concluded hearings on S. 543, authorizing funds for fiscal years
1990-1994 for employment and training assistance programs of the Job Training
Partnership Act, and to improve the targeting of services to economically
disadvantaged adults and youth, after receiving testimony from Senator
Lautenberg; Elizabeth H. Dole, Secretary of Labor; Marion Pines, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland, Ann Abel, Danville Community College,
Danville, Illinois, W. Perry Gaines, South Carolina Governors's Job Training
Council, and Lilliam Barrios-Paoli, New York City Department of Employment,
all on behalf of the Job Training Partnership Act Advisory Committee; John C.
Gartland, National Commission for Employment Policy, Washington, DC; Robert
Ivry, Manpower Development Research Corporation, New York, New York; and Frank
La Mere, Nebraska Indian Inter-Tribal Development Corp., Winnebago, Nebraska.
BUY INDIAN ACT AMENDMENTS
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 321, to
clarify and strengthen certain provisions of the Buy Indian Act, to establish
certain preferences for Indians under Federal grants to Indian organizations,
receiving testimony from William P. Ragsdale, Acting Assistant Secretary for
Indian Affairs, and Don Asbra, Chief, Division of Contracting and Grants
Administration, Bureau of Indian Affairs, both of the Department of the
Interior; Edward Danks, National Indian Contractors Association, Mandan, North
Dakota; Jefferson Begay, Amerind Construction, Inc., Tempe, Arizona; Richard
Coando and Conrad Edwards, both of the Tribal Employment Rights Organization,
Fort Washakie, Wyoming; Dan Press, Heron, Burchette, Ruckert and Rothwell,
Washington, DC; William Richardson, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians,
Philadelphia, Mississippi; and George Bennett, American Indian Business
Development Consortium Inc., Suttons Bay, Michigan.
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 Federal Government's management of natural resources on Indian
lands, receiving testimony from Eddie Jacobs, Member, Royalty Management
Advisory Committee (Creek Nation, Oklahoma), Minerals Management Service,
Department of the Interior; Chuck Norman, Accountant, Special Committee on
Investigations; Leonard Burch, Tom Shipps, Marvin Cook, Karen Anderson,
Clarence L. Harr, and Brad Boyce, all of the Southern Ute Tribe, Ignacio,
Colorado; Wes Pettingill and George Adams, both of the Northern Ute Tribe,
Vernal, Utah; Burton Hutchinson, Richard Ortiz, and Kevin Gover, all of the
Wind River Reservation, Fort Washakie, Wyoming; Randy Fetterolf, Cheyenne,
Wyoming; Alan Taradash, Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Ervin Chavez, Navajo
Nation,
Hearings continue tomorrow.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 16.
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Joint Meetings
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings on the distribution of
income in the United States, after receiving testimony from Lowell Gallaway,
Ohio University, Athens; Peter Gottschalk, Boston College, Chestnut Hill,
Massachusetts; and Timothy Smeeding, Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
Tennessee.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H. Con. Res. 106, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal years
1990, 1991, and 1992.
1989/05/12
Daily Digest - [Friday, May 12, 1989]; pages D488 - D496 (Bound vol. D266-
D268)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Charles E. Hess, of California, Frank E.
Bailey, of Virginia, and Jo Ann D. Smith, of Florida, each to be an Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture, and Alan C. Raul, of New York, to be General
Counsel, U.S. Department of Agriculture, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf.
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APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1990 for certain programs of the Departments of Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education, receiving testimony from numerous public
witnesses.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1990 and 1991 for the Department of Defense, receiving testimony from
Gen. Louis C. Wagner, Jr., USA, Commander, U.S. Army Materiel Command; Gen.
Alfred G. Hansen, USAF, Commander, U.S. Air Force Logistics Command; Vice Adm.
Stanley R. Arthur, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Logistics), Office
of the Chief of Naval Operations; and Louis J. Rodrigues, Director, and George
Jahnigan, Assistant Director, both for Logistics Issues, National Security and
International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 18.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the nominations of David Campbell Mulford, of Illinois, and Robert R.
Glauber, of Massachusetts, each to be an Under Secretary of the Treasury,
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Phillip D. Brady, of Virginia, to be General
Counsel, Department of Transportation, Galen J. Reser, of Virginia, to be
Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Government Affairs, David P.
Prosperi, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of
Transportation of Public Affairs, Michael R. Darby, of Texas, to be Under
Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs and Thomas J. Collamore, of the
District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Brady was
introduced by Senator Wilson, and Mr. Reser was introduced by Senator Dixon.
CURRENCY MANIPULATION
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade held hearings to
explore the problem of industrialized countries manipulating the value of
their currencies to maintain a trade surplus, and to discuss the U.S. response
to this practice, receiving testimony from David C. Mulford, Under
Secretary-designate of the Treasury for International Affairs; Allan I.
Mendelowitz, Director, David L. McClure, Project Manager, and Jane Li, Senior
Economist, all of the Trade, Energy and Finance Issues, National Security and
International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; and C. Fred
Bergsten and John Williamson, both of the Institute for International
Economics, Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of John Cameron Monjo, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Indonesia, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.
Also, committee held hearings on the nomination of Donald Phinney Gregg, of
Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, where the nominee
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded joint hearings with
the Committee on Rules and Administration on S. 978, to establish the National
Memorial Museum of the American Indian within the Smithsonian Institution,
after receiving testimony from Senator Bingaman; Robert McCormick Adams,
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution; Bill Diamond, Regional Administrator (New
York, New York), General Services Administration; Mrs. Wilmot H. Kidd III,
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, Pamela Mann, New York State
Assistant Attorney General (Charities Bureau), and Diane Mulcahy Coffey,
rerpresenting the Mayor of New York, all of New York, New York; Lloyd Kiva
New, Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts
Development, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Rick Hill, Sanborne, New York; George Horse
Capture, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming; Ruth Revels, North
Carolina Indian Cultural Center, and Lonnie Revels, Sr., North Carolina
Commission on Indian Affairs, both of Pembroke, North Carolina; Suzan Shown
Harjo, National Congress of American Indians, and Peggy Cooper Cafritz, both
of Washington, DC; and Oren Lyons, Nedrow, New York.
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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 the Federal Government's management of natural resources on Indian
lands and on oil royalty management as it affects owners of allotted lands,
receiving testimony from Barry Williamson, Director, and Vern Ingraham, Chief,
Office of External Affairs (Lakewood, Colorado), both of the Minerals
Management Service, and Ken Young, Petroleum Engineer, Oil and Gas Division,
Uintah and Ouray Agency (Fort Duchesne, Utah), Bureau of Indian Affairs, all
of the Department of the Interior; Steve Moore, Boulder, Colorado, and Jeffery
P. Southwick, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, both representing the Native American
Rights Fund; Benjamin Binder, Digital Design Corporation, Denver, Colorado;
Mary Limpy, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Houston and Velma Decker, Pryor,
Oklahoma; and Yvonne and Richard Curry, Roosevelt, Utah.
Special Committee will meet again on Monday, May 15.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/05/15
Daily Digest - Monday, May 15, 1989; pages D497 - D502 (Bound vol. D269-D271)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--HUD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, receiving testimony from Jack
Kemp, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional
Defense resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1990 and 1991 for the Department of Defense, focusing on aircraft
carrier force structure management, receiving testimony from Vice Adm. Robert
F. Dunn, USN, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations (Air Warfare); Everett
Pyatt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Shipbuilding and Logistics); and Vice
Adm. John W. Nyquist, USN, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations (Surface
Warfare).
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CHEMICALS USED ON FOOD CROPS
Committee on Environment and Public Works : Subcommittee on Toxic Substances,
Environmental Oversight, Research and Development held hearings to review
procedures relating to the use of chemicals on food crops, receiving testimony
from Peter F. Guerrero, Associate Director, Environmental Protection Issues,
General Accounting Office; John A. Moore, Acting Deputy Administrator,
Environmental Protection Agency; S. Mason Carbaugh, Virginia State
Commissioner of Agriculture, Richmond; John McCarthy and Jack Early, both on
behalf of the National Agricultural Chemical Association, Charles Benbrook,
National Research Council, and Janet Hathaway, Natural Resources Defense
Council, all of Washington, DC; Steven Markowitz, Mount Sinai School of
Medicine, New York, New York; Ronald W. Wood, New York University Medical
Center, Tuxedo, New York, on behalf of the American Psychological Association;
and Ralph Nader, Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FAMILY SUPPORT ACT REGULATIONS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy held
oversight hearings on proposed regulations to implement the Family Support Act
(P.L. 100-485), receiving testimony from Constance Horner, Under Secretary,
Catherine Bertini, Acting Assistant Secretary for Family Support, and Robert
Harris, Deputy Director for Family Support, all of the Department of Health
and Human Services; Delaware Governor Michael N. Castle, Dover, on behalf of
the National Governors' Association; Cesar A. Perales, New York State
Department of Social Services, Albany, on behalf of the American Public
Welfare Association; Dennis J. Boyle, California State Department of Social
Services, Sacramento; Dianne Edwards, Orange County Social Services Agency,
Santa Ana, California, on behalf of County Welfare Directors Association of
California; Judith M. Gueron, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation,
Stanley W. Hill, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees,
AFL-CIO, and Peter M. Cove, America Works of New York, Inc. and America Works
of Connecticut, Inc., all of New York, New York; Nancy Ebb, Children's Defense
Fund, Robert Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Mark
Greenberg, Center for Law and Social Policy, all of Washington, DC; and
Douglas S. Baird, Associated Day Care Services of Metropolitan Boston, Boston,
Massachusetts, on behalf of the Child Welfare League of America, Inc.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ARMS CONTROL POLICY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on the future of
U.S.-Soviet relations, focusing on defense and arms control policy, receiving
testimony from Robert S. McNamara, former Secretary of Defense; Edward L.
Warner, Rand Corporation, and Barry Blechman, Defense Forecasts, Inc., both of
Washington, DC; Stephen Larrabee, Institute for East-West Security Studies,
New York, New York; Angelo Codevilla, Hoover Institution, Stanford University,
Stanford, California; and Steven Rosefield, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill.
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Hearings continue on Thursday, May 18.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Ivan Selin, of the District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary of State for
Management, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Warner and
Chafee, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
FEDERAL INFORMATION POLICY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Government Information and
Regulation held hearings on the quality and uses of the federal information
infrastructure, focusing on the collection of economic, technological, and
scientific information for government, private and public sector, research and
education, and for policy making, receiving testimony from Michael J. Boskin,
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors; Vincent P. Barabba, General Motors
Corporation, Detroit, Michigan, and former Director, Bureau of the Census,
Department of Commerce; Robert L. Park, American Physical Society, and
Courtenay Slater, Slater Hall Information Products, on behalf of the Council
of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, both of Washington, DC;
and Christopher T. Cross, Macro Systems, Inc., Silver Spring, Maryland.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
COMPUTER CRIME
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology and the Law concluded
hearings to examine the impact of computer viruses and other forms of computer
sabotage or exploitation on computer information systems and networks, after
receiving testimony from William S. Sessions, Director, William A. Bayse,
Assistant Director of Technical Services, and Kenneth Walton, Deputy Assistant
Director of Criminal Investigative Division, all of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, Department of Justice; and Clifford Stoll, Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
NOMINATION
Commitee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Frank Q. Nebeker, of Virginia, to be Chief Judge of the United States Court
of Veterans Appeals, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Warner,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. Testimony was also
received on the nomination from John F. Heilman, Disabled American Veterans,
Washington, DC.
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 management activities in the Indian Health Service of the
Department of Health and Human Services, receiving testimony from Denise
Dougherty, Senior Analyst, Health Program, Office of Technology Assessment;
John Gobert, Service Unit Director, Colville Service Unit, Nespelem,
Washington, and Bruce Nicholson, former Clinical Director, Pine Ridge Service
Unit, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, both of the Indian Health Service, Public
Health Service, and Larry D. Morey, Deputy Inspector General, Criminal
Investigations Division, all of the Department of Health and Human Services;
and Georgia Perez, Nambe Pueblo, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1989/05/16
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 16, 1989; pages D503 - D512 (Bound vol. D271-
D277)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Rural
Development and Rural Electrification concluded hearings on proposed
legislation to provide Federal assistance to promote rural economic
development, after receiving testimony from John Garrett, Alabama Rural Water
Association, Montgomery, on behalf of the National Rural Water Association;
Chris B. Page, Economic Development Council of Northern Vermont, St. Albans;
Robert Wales, Mississippi Association of Conservation Districts, Hattiesburg;
Alex Curtis, Farmers Grain Terminal, Inc., Greenville, Mississippi; Joe Beck,
Farm Credit Bank of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, on behalf of the Farm
Credit Council; Ann Cole, National Association of Towns and Townships,
Washington, DC; and Kathleen Braaten, Richland County Commissioner, Barney,
North Dakota, and Ralph L. Tabor, Washington, DC, both on behalf of the
National Association of Counties.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for defense programs, focusing
on land warfare, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. Donald S. Pihl, USA,
Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research, Development
and Acquisition); Maj. Gen. Wilson A. Shoffner, USA Assistant Deputy Chief of
Staff for Operations and Plans (Force Development); Maj. Gen. Michael P.
Sullivan, USMC, Deputy Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat
Development/Director Warfighting Center; and Maj. Gen. Ray M. Franklin, USMC,
Commanding General, Marine Corps Research, Development, and Acquisition
Command.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--AID
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the Agency for
International Development, receiving testimony from Gen. Herbert L.
Beckington, Inspector General, Julia V. Taft, Director, Office of Foreign
Disaster Assistance, and David Santos, Director, Office of American Schools
and Hospitals Abroad, all of the Agency for International Development.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 18.
[APPROPRIATIONS--HUD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent Agencies
continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, receiving testimony from Jack
Kemp, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; and Paul A. Adams, Inspector
General, HUD.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 18.
NOMINATIONS]
[The above bracketed information was entered by hand.]
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations
of Gen. Robert T. Herres, U.S. Air Force, for reappointment as Vice Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Donald B. Rice, of California, to be
Secretary of the Air Force, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Rice was introduced by Senators Wilson and
Cranston.
RESERVE FORCES
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance
Defense, Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and Support, and the
Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel held joint hearings on alternatives for
substituting reserve forces for active Air Forces, with emphasis on rapid
reinforcement of Europe, receiving testimony from Robert F. Hale, Assistant
Director, and Lane Pierrot, Principle Analyst, both of National Security and
International Affairs, Congressional Budget Office; Stephen M. Duncan,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs; David J. Berteau, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management and Personnel; John A.
Woodworth, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy;
Maj. Gen. Charles G. Boyd, USAF, Representative of the Director of the Joint
Staff; Maj. Gen. Roger P. Scheer, USAFR, Chief of Air Force Reserve; and Brig.
Gen. Philip G. Killey, ANG, Director, Air National Guard.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY BASE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
held hearings on the defense technology base, receiving testimony from Craig
I. Fields, Deputy Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Alan
Shaw, Program Manager, Office of Technology Assessment; Siegfried S. Hecker,
Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico; Lewis
Branscomb, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Alfred C. Sikes,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communication and Information.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported the following business items:
S. 341, to prohibit discrimination against blind individuals in air travel;
S. 797, to authorize $10 million for fiscal year 1990 to promote children's
educational television;
S. 663, to authorize the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration to provide for contingent liability payments in connection with
termination of an authorized contract, with amendments; and
The nominations of Phillip D. Brady, of Virginia, to be General Counsel,
Department of Transportation, Galen Joseph Reser, of Virginia, to be Assistant
Secretary of Transportation for Governmental Affairs, David Philip Prosperi,
of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of Transportation for
Public Affairs, Michael Rucker Darby, of Texas, to be Under Secretary of
Commerce for Economic Affairs, and Thomas Jones Collamore, of the District of
Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Administration.
HIGH DEFINITION TV
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held hearings to review the issues and options involved
in creating a national research and technology strategy to help build a
U.S.-based High-Definition Television industry, receiving testimony from Craig
I. Fields, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Jerry
Pearlman, Zenith Corporation, Glenview, Illinois; Pat Hill Hubbard,
Washington, DC, and John P. Stern, Tokyo, Japan, both of the American
Electronics Association; Donald F. Johnstone, Philips Consumer Electronics,
Knoxville, Tennessee; Larry French, North American Philips Corporation, New
York, New York; William Connolly, Sony Advanced Systems, Teaneck, New York;
Kenneth Flamm, Brookings Institution, John Abel, National Association of
Broadcasters, and J. Hal Berge, Telecommunications Industry Association, all
of Washington, DC; James E. Carnes, Consumer Electronics and Information
Sciences, David Sarnoff Research Center, Princeton, New Jersey; and Steve
Effros, Community Antenna Television Association, Fairfax, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--STATE/USIA/BIB
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed consideration of S. 928,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the Department of State,
U.S. Information Agency, and the Board for International Broadcasting, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
DOD'S ACQUISITION OF COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management held oversight hearings to review Department of Defense acquisition
of commercial products, focusing on military specifications, regulations,
contract clauses, and procedural requirements for the purchase of items that
could be purchased off-the-shelf, receiving testimony from Robert Rossow III,
Midland Brake, Inc., Owosso, Michigan; Naomi M. Williamson, Honeywell, Inc.,
Glendale, Arizona, and B. Dan Pinick, The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington,
both representing the Electronic Industries Association; and John M. Fluke,
Jr., John Fluke Manufacturing Co., Everett, Washington, John Mcgowan, Hewlitt
Packard Company, Cupertino, California, and Al Herman, Tektronix, Inc.,
Beaverton, Oregon, all representing the Commercial Product Acquisition Team.
Hearings continue on Thursday, June 1.
CHILD ABUSE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on child abuse issues, and
related measures, including S. 533, to protect the rights of victims of crime
and to establish a Federal victim's bill of rights for children, receiving
testimony from Senator Reid; Representative DeWine; Betty Stewart, Associate
Commissioner, Children's Bureau, Department of Health and Human Services; Jane
Nady Burnley, Director, Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice
Programs, Department of Justice; Judge Charles B. Schudson, Wisconsin Circuit
Court, Milwaukee; Muriel Sugarman, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston;
Denise Gooch, Mothers Against Raping Children, Clifton, New Jersey; Patricia
A. Toth, National Center for the Prosecution of Child Abuse, Alexandria,
Virginia, on behalf of the National District Attorney's Association; Robert E.
Cramer, Jr., Madison County District Attorney, Huntsville, Alabama, on behalf
of the National Children's Advocacy Center; Joseph M. Dell Olio, Child, Inc.,
Wilmington, Delaware; Judge Tom McDo [nald, Thirteenth Judicial District,
Louisville, Kentucky, on behalf of the National Court Appointed Special
Advocate Association; and Jane Crisp, Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Victim
Witness Assistance Program, Greenville, South Carolina.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Thomas' text is corrupt here. The bracketed material above and below was
entered by hand.
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on the Handicapped
resumed hearings on S. 933 to es] tablish a clear and comprehensive
prohibition of discrimination on the basis of disability, receiving testimony
from Michael McIntyre, Queens Independent Living Center, Jamaica, New York;
Laura Oftedahl, Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind, Tim Cook, National
Disability Action Center, Charles Webb, American Bus Association, and Dennis
Louwerse, American Public Transit Association, all of Washington, DC; Harold
Jenkins, Cambria County Transit Authority, Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Mary Lynn
Fletcher, Loudon County Disability Services, Lenoir City, Tennessee; J.
Roderick Burfield, Virginia Association of Public Transit Officials; Mark
Johnson, Alpharetta, Georgia; and James Weisman, Eastern Paralyzed Veterans of
America, New York, New York.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills:
S. 402, to provide for the settlement of land claims and the resolution of
certain issues of governmental jurisdiction of the Puyallup Tribe of Indians
in the State of Washington, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
and
S. 978, to provide for the establishment of the National Museum of the
American Indian within the Smithsonian Institution, with amendments.
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 the Government's role in protecting fisheries at Wind River
Reservation, Wyoming, receiving testimony from Richard Baldes, Project Leader
at the Lander, Wyoming Fish and Wildlife Management Office, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, and David Allison, Superintendent, Wind River Agency, Fort
Washakie, Wyoming, and Joe Walker, Assistant Area Director, Anadarko Area
Office, Oklahoma, both of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Roger Patterson,
Regional Director, Billings, Montana, and Bill Martin, Assistant Commissioner
for Resources Management, both of the Bureau of Reclamation, and Timothy
Vollman, Southwest Regional Solicitor, Tulsa, Oklahoma, all of the Department
of the Interior; John Washakie, Shoshone and Arapaho Joint Business Council,
Starr Weed, both of Fort Washakie, Wyoming; Kevin Gover, Stetson, Williams &
West, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Dewey Schwalenberg, Native American Fish and
Wildlife Society, Broomfield, Colorado; Steven Suagee, Hoopa Valley Tribe,
Hoopa, California; and Elmer Manatowa, Truman Carter, and James L. Welsh III,
all of Stroud, Oklahoma, E. William Rice, Cushing, Oklahoma, and Curtis
Canard, Tribal Geotechnical Services, Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma, all on behalf of
the Sac and Fox Nation.
Hearings continue on Thursday, May 18.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Hearings continue on Thursday, May 18.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Select Impeachment Trial Committee: Committee held an organizational meeting
where it elected Senator Fowler as Chairman, and Senator Hatch as Vice
Chairman.
Committee recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
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Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 17, 1989; pages D513 - D522 (Bound vol. D278-
D284)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COMMODITY FUTURES MARKET
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed oversight
hearings to review regulatory activities of the Commodity Futures Trading
Commisson, receiving testimony from Leo Melamed, Chicago Merchantile Exchange,
and Karsten Mahlmann, Chicago Board of Trade, both of Chicago, Illinois; and
Z. Lou Guttman, New York Merchantile Exchange, and Robert E. Fink, Commodity
Exchange, Inc., both of New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for defense programs, focusing
on Army programs, receiving testimony from John O. Marsh, Jr., Secretary of
the Army; and Gen. Carl E. Vuono, USA, Chief of Staff.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the government
of the District of Columbia, focusing on the Department of Corrections,
receiving testimony from Mayor Marion S. Barry, Jr., and Hal Williams,
Director, District of Columbia Department of Corrections, both of Washington,
DC.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DOE/DEFENSE PROGRAMS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the Department of Energy,
focusing on defense programs, receiving testimony from James D. Watkins,
Secretary of Energy; Troy E. Wade, Acting Assistant Secretary for Defense
Programs, Department of Energy; and Leo P. Duffy, Special Assistant to the
Secretary for Defense Waste Management, Environmental Restoration, and
Coordination of DOE Waste Management, Department of Energy.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Gen. Robert T. Herres, U.S.A.F., for reappointment as Vice
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Donald B. Rice, of California, to be
Secretary of the Air Force, and 70 military nominations in the Army, Navy,
Marine Corps, and Air Force.
DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
concluded hearings on the defense industrial base, after receiving testimony
from Richard E. Donnelly, Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
(Manufacturing and Industrial Programs); Robert A. Fuhrman, Lockheed
Corporation, Calabasas, California; James A. Blackwell, Jr., Center for
Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC; Thomas J. Murrin,
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Norman R. Augustine,
Martin Marietta Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland.
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LOW-INCOME HOUSING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings to
review HUD's management of the Moderate Rehabilitation Program to upgrade
substandard rental housing and provide rent subsidies for lower-income
families, receiving testimony from Paul A. Adams, Inspector General, Alvin
Tucker, Deputy Inspector General, John H. Greer, Deputy Assistant Inspector
General for Audit, and Patrick J. Neri, Assistant Inspector General for
Investigation, all of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; former
Senator Edward W. Brooke, O'Connor and Hannan, Richard Shelby, and Fred Bush,
all of Washington, DC; and Judith S. Siegel, Lundex Corporation, Warwick,
Rhode Island.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MARINE FISHERIES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings in
conjunction with the National Ocean Policy Study on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for programs of the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and
Management Act and to review the implementation of the Driftnet Impact
Monitoring, Assessment, and Control Act (P.L. 100-220), receiving testimony
from William E. Evans, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere;
Richard J. Smith, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and
International Environmental and Scientific Affairs; David V.D. Borden, New
England Fishery Management Council, Saugus, Massachusetts; Tim Smith,
Northeast Fisheries Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts; Barbara Stevenson,
Portland, Maine; Kate Troll, Southeast Alaska Seiners Association, Ketchikan,
Alaska; Henry Mitchell, Bering Sea Fishermen's Association, Anchorage, Alaska;
and Barry Collier, Pacific Seafood Processors Association, Seattle,
Washington.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATION--FCC
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 1990 for the Federal Communications Commission, after
receiving testimony from Dennis R. Patrick, Chairman, Alex Felker, Chief, Mass
Media Bureau, and Thomas Stanley, Chief Scientist, Office of Engineering and
Technology, all of the Federal Communications Commission.
AUTHORIZATIONS--NASA
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, focusing on commercial space activities and related issues,
receiving testimony from James T. Rose, Assistant Administrator for the Office
of Commercial Programs, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and
Stephanie Lee-Miller, Director, Office of Commercial Space Transportation,
Department of Transportation.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following measures:
S. 85, to authorize the acceptance of certain lands for addition to Harpers
Ferry National Historical Park, West Virginia, with an amendment;
H.R. 964, to correct an error in Private Law 100-29, relating to certain lands
in Lamar County, Alabama;
H.R. 999, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1990-1994 for the Advisory
Council on Historic Preservation, with an amendment;
S. 750, to authorize the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to extend time
limitations on certain hydroelectric projects;
S. 694, to extend the authority for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for five
years, with an amendment;
S. 783, to eliminate wellhead price and nonprice controls on the first sale of
natural gas and to make technical and conforming amendments to the Natural Gas
Policy Act of 1978; and
H.R. 1722, to eliminate wellhead price and nonprice controls on the first sale
of natural gas and to make technical and conforming amendments to the Natural
Gas Policy Act of 1978, with an amendment.
NOMINATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nomination of Frank Henry Habicht II, of Virginia, to be Deputy
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency.
TAX REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on S. 353, to allow the use of
United States savings bonds for any individual's higher education expenses to
qualify for an income exclusion, S. 442, to impose a value added tax and to
provide a trust fund in the Department of the Treasury restricting the use of
the revenues from the value added tax to deficit and debt reduction, and S.
659, S. 838, and S. 849, bills to repeal the estate tax inclusion related to
valuation freezes, receivng testimony from Senators Hollings and Exon; Dana
Trier, Tax Legislative Counsel, Department of the Treasury; Sijbren Cnossen,
Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Charls E. Walker, Charls E.
Walker Associates, Joseph A. Pechman, Brookings Institution, and Richard F.
Rosser, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, all of
Washington, DC; Thomas E. Swanstrom, Sears, Roebuck and Co., on behalf of the
American Retail Federation, and Richard L. Dees, Partner, McDermott, Will &
Emery, both of Chicago, Illinois; Roy D. Nyberg, Nyberg's Ace Hardware, Inc.,
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on behalf of the National Retail Hardware
Association; and Harry L. Gutman, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--STATE/USIA/BIB
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued markup of S. 928,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the Department of State,
U.S. Information Agency, and the Board for International Broadcasting, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
PROLIFERATION OF BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the U.S.
response to the proliferation of biological weapons and the impact new genetic
technologies may have on biological arms control, receiving testimony from
Representative Wayne Owens; H. Allen Holmes, Assistant Secretary of State for
Politico-Military Affairs; Jim E. Hinds, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Negotiations Policy; Billy Richardson, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Chemical Matters; Col. David L. Huxsoll, Commander, U.S. Army
Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Department of the Army;
Keith Yamamoto, University of California, San Francisco; Matthew Meselson,
Harvard University, and Johathan King, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
both of Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Victor W. Sidel, Montefiore Medical
Center, The Bronx, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
held hearings on S. 497, to provide that any State or State instrumentality is
liable for infringement of copyright and infringement of exclusive rights in
mask works to the same extent as any non-governmental entity, receiving
testimony from Ralph Oman, Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress; James
Lawrence Healy, Jr., Enterprise Media, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts; Robert A.
Schmitz, Richard D. Irwin, Inc., Homewood, Illinois; David Eskra, Pansophic
Systems, Inc., Washington, DC, representing the Software Publishers
Association and ADAPSO; and August W. Steinhilber, Educators' Ad Hoc Committee
on Copyright Law, Alexandria, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following measures:
S.J. Res. 98, to establish separate appropriations accounts for the Senate and
the House of Representatives for the payment of official mail costs;
S. Con. Res. 19, to authorize the printing as a Senate document a collection
of the inaugural addresses of the Presidents of the United States;
An original resolution to authorize the printing as a Senate document a
compilation of the rules of procedure of Senate committees;
An original resolution to amend Senate Resolution 369, 98th Congress, to
permit the purchase of two flags by each Senator, former Senator, each Senate
committee, and each officer of the Senate;
S.J. Res. 77, to recognize the National Fallen Firefighters' Memorial at the
National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, Maryland, as the official national
memorial to firefighters who die in the line of duty;
An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990, 1991, and 1992 for
the American Folklife Center;
An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal year 1990 for the Federal
Election Commission;
S. 326, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the
conversion of campaign funds to personal use;
S. 136, to establish a single poll closing time in the continential United
States for Presidential general elections;
S. 377, to establish a series of five Presidential primaries, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
S. 978, to establish the National Memorial Museum of the American Indian
within the Smithsonian Institution, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
Also, the committee began consideration of S. 874, to establish national voter
registration procedures for Presidential and Congressional elections, but did
not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
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NOMINATION
Committee on Veterans Affairs: On Tuesday, May 16, Committee ordered favorably
reported the nomination of Frank Quill Nebeker, of Virginia, to be Chief Judge
of the United States Court of Veterans Appeals.
IMPEACHMENT TRIAL ARGUMENTS
Senate Impeachment Trial Committee: Committee met in closed session to further
deliberate on pretrial issues in the impeachment of Judge Alcee L. Hastings
raised by the House Managers and Judge Hastings' Counsel.
Committee recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/05/18
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 18, 1989; pages D523 - D534 (Bound vol. D284-
D292)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FOREST SERVICE APPEALS PROCESS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Conservation and Forestry held hearings to review the U.S. Forest Service
administrative appeals process and its impact on national forest timber
supplies in Montana, receiving testimony from John W. Harman, Director of Food
and Agricultural Issues, and Chester Joy, Evaluator-in-Charge, both of the
Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, General Accounting
Office; George M. Leonard, Associate Chief, U.S. Forest Service, Department of
Agriculture; James Riley, Idaho Forest Industry Council, Coeur D'Alene; Mark
Ray, National Forest Products Association, and H. Michael Anderson and Jay
Watson, both of the Wilderness Society, all of Washington, DC; Anthony Colter,
Louisiana Pacific Corporation, Deer Lodge, Montana; and Tony E. Schoonen,
Montana Wildlife Federation, Bozeman .
Hearings were recessed subject to call .
APPROPRIATIONS--FCC
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for
the Federal Communications Commission, receiving testimony from Dennis R.
Patrick, Chairman, FCC .
Subcommittee recessed subject to call .
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense continued closed hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on space programs, receiving testimony from Kent G.
Stansberry, Director, Defense and Space Arms Control Policy, Office of the
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy; Gen. John L.
Piotrowski, USAF, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Space Command; and John J. Welch,
Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition .
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 31 .
APPROPRIATIONS--DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the government
of the District of Columbia, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Judith Rodgers, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals, Fred
Ugast, Chief Judge, Superior Court, Larry Polansky, Executive Director, Court
System, Linda Cropp, President, and Andrew Jenkins, Superintendent, both of
the School Board, all of the Government of the District of Columbia,
Washington, DC.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call .
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the
Department of Energy, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for basic energy
sciences, magnetic fusion, human genome, global warming, nuclear physics, high
energy physics, superconducting super collider, and other science programs
from Robert O. Hunter, Director of Energy Research, Office of Energy Research,
Alan Schriesheim, Director, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois,
Alvin Trivelpiece, Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge,
Tennessee, Sig Hecker, Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos,
New Mexico, and Burton Richter, Director, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Stanford, California, all of the Department of Energy.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--VA/HUD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for certain
programs of the Department of Veterans' Affairs, the Department of Housing and
Urban Development and certain related agencies, receiving testimony from
Senators Cranston, Lieberman, and Wilson; former Senator Paul Tsongas; and
numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Sean O'Keefe, of Virginia, to be Comptroller of the Department
of Defense, David J. Gribbin III, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Legislative Affairs, and Louis A. Willians, of Wyoming, to be
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs.
Prior to this action, committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Messrs. O'Keefe, Gribbin, and Williams, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. O'Keefe was introduced by Senators
Johnston and Stevens, and Messrs. Gribbin and Williams were introduced by
Senator Simpson.
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AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support resumed open and closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on ammunition programs, receiving testimony from Maj. Gen. Paul L. Greenberg,
USA, Deputy for Ammunition, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research,
Development and Acquisition); and Maj. Gen. Edward R. Bracken, USAF, Director,
Logistics Plans and Programs, Department of the Air Force.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
DOD CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence, Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance Defense, and the
Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional Defense held closed joint
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1990 for
the Department of Defense, focusing on classified programs, receiving
testimony from Brig. Gen. Keith Glenn, USAF, Director, Special Programs,
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition); and representatives of
the military services and defense agencies.
Strategic Forces and Nuclear Deterrence Subcommittee continue hearings
tomorrow.
MARKET REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
resumed hearings on S. 648, to improve the flow of information to
shareholders, streamline the issuance of debt securities, ensure the integrity
and efficiency of capital markets, and strengthen the Securities and Exchange
Commission enforcement tools to protect investors and police the securities
markets, receiving testimony from John Phelan, New York Stock Exchange, and
Jeffrey B. Lane, Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc., both of New York, New York;
Joseph Hardiman, National Association of Securities Dealers, Washington, DC.;
Leo Melamed, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago, Illinois; and George S.
Bissell, Keystone Massachusetts Group, Boston, Massachusetts.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MARINE FISHERIES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings in conjunction with the National Ocean Policy Study on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for programs on the Magnuson Fishery
Conservation and Management Act and to review the implementation of the
Driftnet Impact Monitoring, Assessment, and Control Act (P.L. 100-220), after
receiving testimony from Paul Mulready, Johnson Fishing, Mankato, Minnesota;
Robert P. Jones, Southeastern Fisheries Association, Tallahassee, Florida;
Edward McCulla, Motivatit Seafoods, Inc., Houma, Louisiana; John G. Peterson,
North Pacific Fishery Management Council, Anchorage, Alaska; Arni Thomson,
Alaska Crab Coalition, and Edward D. Evans, Alaska Factory Trawler
Association, both of Seattle, Washington; David Harville, Kodiak and Western
Trawler Group, Kodiak, Alaska; and Alex M. Jernigan, Orlando, Florida.
PUBLIC LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills:
H.R. 310, to remove a restriction on a parcel of land in Roanoke, Virginia, so
that such land may be conveyed to the State of Virginia for use as a veterans'
nursing home, after receiving testimony from Senator Warner; Robert Burford,
Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; and Ernest B.
Glynn, Virginia Chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Alexandria;
S. 737, to acquire certain lands as additions to the Rocky Mountain National
Park, Colorado, after receiving testimony from James Thompson, Superintendent,
Rocky Mountain National Park (Estes Park, Colorado), National Park Service,
Department of the Interior; and
S. 267, to convey certain lands in Idaho to certain individuals, after
receiving testimony from Robert Burford, Director, Bureau of Land Management,
Department of the Interior.
HYDROELECTRIC PROJECTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power
concluded hearings on S. 635, to prevent the unintended licensing of federally
nonjurisdictional pre-1935 unlicensed hydroelectric projects, after receiving
testimony from Kristina Nygaard, Assistant General Counsel, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy; Victor Roque, Pearl River, New
York, on behalf of the Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. and the Edison
Electric Institute; and John Turner, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, on behalf of
the American Paper Institute, and John Echeverria, American Rivers, both of
Washington, DC.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal year 1990 for the U.S. Customs
Service, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and the U.S.
International Trade Commission. (As approved by the committee, the bill
authorizes $1,203,418,000 for the U.S. Customs Service, $21,143,000 for USTR,
and $39,943,000 for the ITC);
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An original resolution honoring the U.S. Customs Service on the 200th
anniversary of its establishment;
S. Res. 119, concerning the 1986 agreement between the United States and Japan
regarding the Japanese semiconductor market; and
The nomination of Sidney Linn Williams, of Virginia, to be a Deputy United
States Trade Representative.
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Mr. Williams, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.
AUTHORIZATION--STATE/USIA/BIB
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued markup of S. 928,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the Department of State,
U.S. Information Agency, and the Board for International Broadcasting, but did
not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
ARMS CONTROL POLICY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on the future of
U.S.-Soviet relations, focusing on defense and arms control policy, receiving
testimony from Paul H. Nitze, former Ambassador at Large and Special Advisor
on Arms Control Matters; Max M. Kampelman, former Head of Delegation and
Defense and Space Negotiator; Jonathan Dean, Union of Concerned Scientists,
Frank Gaffney, Center for Security Policy, and John D. Steinbruner and Michael
K. McGwire, both of the Brookings Institution, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NUCLEAR AND MISSILE PROLIFERATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the
global spread of nuclear weapons and missiles, receiving testimony from
William Webster, Director, Central Intelligence Agency; Ronald F. Lehman II,
Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; and Reginald Bartholomew,
Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Pamela Ann Rymer and Ferdinand F. Fernandez, both of
California, each to be a United States Circut Judge for the Ninth Circuit,
Robert C. Bonner, to be United States District Judge for the Central District
of California, Melinda F. Harmon, to be United States District Judge for the
Southern District of Texas, Kenneth Winston Starr, of Virginia, to be
Solicitor General of the United States, and Shirley D. Peterson, of Maryland,
and Carol T. Crawford, of Virginia, each to be an Assistant Attorney General,
Department of Justice.
NOMINATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the nomination of Roderick Allen DeArment, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary
of Labor.
ADMINISTRATION ON AGING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Aging concluded
oversight hearings on activities of the Administration on Aging, Office of
Human Development Services, Department of Health and Human Services, after
receiving testimony from Joyce T. Berry, Acting Commissioner, Administration
on Aging, Kevin Moley, Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget, Mary
Shiela Gall, Assistant Secretary for Human Development Services, all of the
Department of Health and Human Services; Curtis Cook, National Indian Council
on Aging, Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Thomas Kaulukukui, Office of Hawaiian
Affairs, and Shimeji Kanazawa, on behalf of the Hawaii Office of Aging, both
of Honolulu.
ILLITERACY
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and
Humanities resumed hearings on proposed legislation to coordinate and
strengthen efforts at the Federal, State, local and private and non-profit
sector levels to combat illiteracy in the United States, receiving testimony
from Dexter Manley, Washington Redskins, and Nicholas Veliotes, Association of
American Publishers, both of Washington, DC; Helen Crouch, Syracuse, New York,
and Wally Amos, Kailua, Hawaii, both on behalf of the Literacy Volunteers of
America; Sharon Darling, National Center for Family Literacy, Louisville,
Kentucky, on behalf of the Barbara Bush Family Literacy Foundation; Dan Lacy,
Business Council for Effective Literacy, McGraw Hill, New York, New York;
David B. Cox, IBM Literacy Program, Gwendolyn Jones, IBM Literacy Center
through CYCLE Program, and Regina Boyd, Community Youth Creative Learning
Experience (CYCLE), all of Chicago, Illinois; Bob Bickerton, Massachusetts
Department of Education, Quincy; Anice Powell, Sunflower County Library,
Indianola, Mississippi, on behalf of the American Library Association; and
Theodore Wischropp, Seward Community College, Liberal, Kansas, on behalf of
the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education.
Hearings were recessed.
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HEALTH CARE PROGRAMS
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on certain
provisions of S. 13, S. 165, S. 573, S. 574, S. 748, S. 900, S. 947, and S.
899, bills to strengthen and improve veterans health care programs, after
receiving testimony from Anthony J. Principi, Deputy Secretary of Veterans
Affairs, John Gronvall, Chief Medical Director, Vernice Ferguson, Deputy
Associate Chief Medical Director for Nursing Service, Ronald Cowles, Deputy
Director, Office of Personnel and Labor Relations, and Donald Ivers, General
Counsel, all of the Department of Veterans Affairs; Margaret Stafford, VA
Medical Center, Hines, Illinois, representing the American Nurses'
Association; Claudette Morrissey, Nurses Organization of the Veterans
Administration, McLean, Virginia; Arte Pierce, American Federation of
Government Employees, Ed Murphy, National Association of Government Employees,
Marie Winslow, National Federation of Federal Employees, Richard S. Christian,
National Veterans and Rehabilitation Commission, and Samuel J. Walsh, National
Legislative Commission, both of the American Legion; Dave Gorman, Disabled
American Veterans, Gordon Mansfield, Paralyzed Veterans of America, James
Magill, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, and Thomas Sherwood,
Vietnam Veterans of America, all of Washington, D.C.
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 the federal government's protection of natural resources at the
Arkansas Riverbed in Oklahoma and the Hopi Reservation in Arizona, receiving
testimony from Tim Vollmann, Southwest Regional Solicitor, Tulsa, Oklahoma,
Department of the Interior; William Anoatubby, Chickasaw Nation, Ada,
Oklahoma; Hollis Roberts, Choctaw Nation, Durant, Oklahoma; Wilma Mankiller
and William Foster, both of the Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah, Oklahoma; Tina
Jordan-Walker, Arkansas Riverbed Authority, Tahlequah, Oklahoma; Mark Fischer,
Chaparral Energy Inc., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; William Walker, Stephens
Production Company, Fort Smith, Arkansas; Ivan Sidney and Michael O'Connell,
both of the Hopi Tribe, Kykotsmovi, Arizona; and Harold Bentley, Hydro
Geochem, Inc., Tucson, Arizona.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NURSING HOME REFORM
Special Committee on Aging: Committee held oversight hearings on the Federal
Government's role in the implementation of the nursing home reform provisions
of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (P.L. 100-203), receiving testimony
from C. Ross Anthony, Associate Administrator for Program Development, Health
Care Financing Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; G.
Janet Tulloch, Washington Home, and Bruce Spitz, American Red Cross, both of
Washington, DC.; Susan A. Rourke, Citizens' for Better Care, Detroit,
Michigan, on behalf of the National Citizens Coalition for Nursing Home
Reform; Dana Petrowsky, Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals, Des
Moines; Kenny Whitlock, Arkansas Department of Human Services, Little Rock;
Linda M. Rhodes, Pennsylvania Department of Aging, Harrisburg; Mary Ousley,
Kenwood House, Richmond, Kentucky, on behalf of the American Health Care
Association; and Catherine R. Price, United Church of Christ Homes, Annville,
Pennsylvania, on behalf of the American Association of Homes for the Aging.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meeting
U.S. AGRICULTURE AND THIRD WORLD DEBT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings on the effects of the
Third World debt on American agriculture, after receiving testimony from
Robert Paarlberg, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Ed Rossmiller,
National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy, Washington, DC; and Ed
Schuh, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
1989/05/22
Daily Digest - Monday, May 22, 1989; pages D535 - D538 (Bound vol. D292-D293)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--VA/HUD
Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, May 19, Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and
Independent Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1990 for certain programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the
Department of Housing and Urban Development and related agencies, receiving
testimony from numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: On Friday, May 19, Subcommittee on Strategic
Forces and Nuclear Deterrence held closed hearings on operational requirements
of the U.S. Space Command, and proposed budget requests for fiscal years 1990
and 1991 for forces under that command, receiving testimony from Gen. John L.
Piotrowski, USAF, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Space Command.
Subcommitte recessed subject to call.
OZONE DEPLETING SUBSTANCES
Committee on Environment and Public Works: On Friday, May 19, Subcommittee on
Environmental Pollution held hearings on S. 201, S. 333, S. 491, S. 503, and
S. 676, bills to control the manufacture, use, and disposal of ozone depleting
substances, receiving testimony from Senators Leahy and Gore; Robert Watson,
Chief, Upper Atmosphere/Research/Tropospheric Chemical Branch, Office of Space
Science and Applications, National Aeronautics and Space Administration;
William G. Rosenberg, Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation,
Environmental Protection Agency; Joseph Glass, E.I. DuPont De Nemours and Co.,
Wilmington, Delaware; Marilyn I. Montgomery, Genetron, Morristown, New Jersey;
Peter Likes, Hussmann Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri; William Jelin,
Barriers, Inc., Saco, Maine; and Cheryl Russell, American Electronics
Association, William Walsh, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, and David
Doniger, Natural Resource Defense Council, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
RURAL HEALTH CARE
Committee on Finance: On Friday, May 19, Subcommittee on Medicare and Long
Term Care held hearings to examine approaches to modify or change Medicare
policies to improve the health care system in rural America, receiving
testimony from Jeffrey Human, Director, Office of Rural Health Policy,
Department of Health and Human Services; Paul G. FitzPatrick, New York State
Department of Health, Albany; Ralph Tabor, National Association of Counties,
Washington, DC; Bruce Behringer, Virginia Primary Care Association, Richmond,
on behalf of the National Rural Health Association; John Mengenhausen, East
River Health Care, Inc., Howard, South Dakota, on behalf of the National
Association of Community Health Centers; Pat McGill, Charleston Area Medical
Center, Charleston, West Virginia, on behalf of the American Nurses
Association; Dani M. Cossette, American Association of Nurse Anesthetists,
Salina, Kansas; Jan Towers, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners,
Biglerville, Pennsylvania; Tom Harward, Belington Clinic, Belington, West
Virginia, on behalf of the America Academy of Physician Assistants; and David
W. Bush, Spectrum Learning Inc., Great Falls, Montana, on behalf of the
American Psychological Association.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: On Friday, May 19, Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Bernard William Aronson, of Maryland, to be
Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, and Chic Hecht, of
Nevada, to be Ambassador to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Aronson was
introduced by Senators Nunn and McCain. Testimony was also received on the
nomination of Mr. Aronson from Laurence R. Birns, Council on Hemispheric
Affairs, Washington, DC.
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INDIAN CIVIL RIGHTS
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: On Friday, May 19, Committee concluded
hearings on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission's effects on the White Mountain
Apache Tribe, after receiving testimony from William B. Allen, Chairman,
Robert Destro, Commissioner, William H. Gillers, Solicitor, William J. Howard,
General Counsel, Melvin L. Jenkins, Acting Staff Director, and John C.
Eastman, Director, Congressional and Public Affairs, all of the U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights; Peter S. Taylor, Senior Counsel, Select Committee
on Indian Affairs; and Reno Johnson, Andrew Kane, and Claudeen Bates Arthur,
all on behalf of the White Mountain Apache Tribe, Whiteriver, Arizona.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/05/23
Daily Digest - [Tuesday, May 23, 1989]; pages D540 - D546 (Bound vol. D294-
D298)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/05/24
Daily Digest - [Wednesday, May 24, 1989]; pages D548 - D552 (Bound vol. D298-
D301)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/05/25
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 25, 1989; pages D553 - D556 (Bound vol. D301-
D303)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
Joint Meeting
THE UNDERCLASS
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to discuss policies to
contain and eliminate problems of the underclass, receiving testimony from
Elijah Anderson, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Lawrence Mead III,
New York University, New York; and Ronald Mincy, the Urban Institute,
Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1989/05/31
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 31, 1989; pages D557 - D564 (Bound vol. D303-
D308)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DIRE EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported with
amendments H.R. 2072, making dire emergency supplemental funds for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 1989.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on seapower programs, receiving testimony from Everett Pyatt, Acting Under
Secretary of the Navy; Vice Adm. John W. Nyquist, Assistant Chief of Naval
Operations (Surface Warfare); and Vice Adm. Peter M. Hekman, Commander, Naval
Sea Systems Command.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
DEFENSE ACQUISITION POLICY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee on Defense Industry and Technology
resumed hearings on recommendations for a defense acquisition policy agenda,
receiving testimony from R. James Woolsey, former Under Secretary of the Navy,
and Member, President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management and the
President's Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform; and Linda S. Brandt,
Center for Naval Analysis, and David R. Graham, Institute for Defense
Analysis, both of Alexandria, Virginia.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, June 2.
NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION/DEFENSE MODERNIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support held hearings on strategies for Department of Defense facility
modernization and facility requirements in the National Capitol Region,
receiving testimony from Patrick J. Meehan, Director, Facility Requirements
and Resources, Office of the Secretary of Defense; David O. Cooke, Director,
Washington Headquarters Services, Department of Defense; Allen M. Carton,
Deputy Assistant Chief of Engineers, and Paul W. Johnson, Deputy Assistant
Secretary (Installations and Housing), both of the Department of the Army;
Rear Adm. James Doebler, USN, Director, Shore Activities Division, Chief of
Naval Operations, Department of the Navy; Maj. Gen. Joseph A. Ahearn, USAF,
Director of Engineering and Services, Headquarters, United States Air Force;
Brig. Gen. Michael P. Downs, USMC, Director, Facilities and Services Division,
Headquarters, United States Marine Corps; and Paul Chistolini, Assistant
Regional Administrator for Public Buildings and Real Estate, National Capital
Region, General Services Administration.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed closed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
years 1990 and 1991 for the Department of Defense, focusing on space launch
and C3 programs, receiving testimony from Thomas P. Quinn, Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Command, Control Communications and Intell);
George R. Schneiter, Acting Deputy Director, Defense Research and Engineering
for Strategic and Theater Nuclear Forces, Department of Defense; Maj. Gen.
Thomas S. Moorman, Jr., USAF, Director of Space and SDI Programs, Office of
the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition); and Rear Adm. D. Bruce
Cargill, USN, Deputy Director, Space, Command and Control, Office of the Chief
of Naval Operations.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 13.
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NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the nomination of Alfred A. Dellibovi, of New York, to be Under Secretary
of Housing and Urban Development, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senator D'Amato, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded joint
hearings with the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the
nomination of Susan Carol Schwab, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of
Commerce and Director General of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service,
after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Danforth, testified and
answered questions in her own behalf.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/06/01
Daily Digest - [Thursday, June 1, 1989]; pages D564 - D572 (Bound vol. D308-
D314)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on Navy posture, receiving testimony from H. Lawrence Garrett III, Secretary
of the Navy; Adm. C.A.H. Trost, USN, Chief of Naval Operations; and Gen.
Alfred M. Gray, Jr., Commandant of the Marine Corps.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 6.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for foreign assistance,
focusing on international narcotics programs, receiving testimony from James
F. Hoobler, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics Matters.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 6.
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1990 for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, receiving testimony from
William J. Bennett, Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
CONVENTIONAL ARMS CONTROL
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on the recent U.S.
proposal on conventional arms control in Europe and its implications for NATO
security, receiving testimony from Paul D. Wolfowitz, Under Secretary of
Defense for Policy; and Gen. Robert T. Herres, USAF, Vice Chairman, Joint
Chiefs of Staff.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs held hearings on S. 566, to provide for a revitalized national
housing policy, focusing on the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act
provisions to expand the Federal commitment to alleviate homelessness by
providing States and localities with certain resources, receiving testimony
from Mayor Raymond L. Flynn and Steven Goldfinger, Massachusetts Mental Health
Center, both of Boston; New Jersey State Assemblyman David Schwartz, New
Brunswick; Steven Banks, The Legal Aid Society, Ronald L. Williams, Covenant
House, and Fred Brancato, National Organization of State Associations for
Children, all of New York, New York; Daniel J. Wuenschel, Cambridge Housing
Authority, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Michael C. Piper, Washington State
Department of Community Development, Olympia; Andy Raubeson, Single Room
Occupancy Housing Corporation, Los Angeles, California; Mitch Snyder,
Community for Creative Non-Violence, and Robert Hayes, National Coalition for
the Homeless, both of Washington, DC; and Jonathan Zimmer, Action Housing
Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS--MARITIME PROGRAMS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Merchant
Marine concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1990 for certain maritime programs of the Department of Transportation
and the Federal Maritime Commission, after receiving testimony from William A.
Creelman, Deputy Administrator, Maritime Administration, Department of
Transportation; James J. Carey, Acting Chairman, Federal Maritime Commission;
Rear Adm. Floyd H. Miller, USN (Ret.), State University of New York Maritime
Academy, Fort Schuyler; Capt. Leonard Tyler, Maine Maritime Academy, Castine;
Capt. Paul T. Smith, Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Buzzards Bay; Rear Adm.
James F. McNulty, USMS, Great Lakes Maritime College, Traverse City, Michigan,
and William C. Hearn, Texas Maritime Academy, Texas A&M University, Galveston.
PUERTO RICO
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 710,
S. 711, and S. 712, bills to provide for a referendum on the future political
status of Puerto Rico, receiving testimony from Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon, Carlos Romero Barcelo, President, New
Progressive Party of Puerto Rico, and Ruben Berrios Martinez, President,
Puerto Rican Independence Party, all of San Juan.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection concluded hearings on S. 804, to conserve North American wetland
ecosystems and waterfowl and other migratory birds and fish and wildlife that
depend on such habitat, after receiving testimony from Steve Robinson, Deputy
Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior; R. Max
Peterson, International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Charles H.
Collins, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Lynn A. Greenwalt, National
Wildlife Federation, and Lonnie L. Williamson, Wildlife Management Institute,
all of Washington, DC; David Neave, Wildlife Habitat Canada, Ottawa; Matthew
B. Connolly, Jr., Ducks Unlimited, Inc., Long Grove, Illinois; and Thomas
Massengale, The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia.
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AUTHORIZATIONS--ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY/POLICY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, Ocean,
and Water Protection concluded hearings on S. 1089, authorizing funds for
fiscal years 1989-1993 for the Office of Environmental Quality, after
receiving testimony from A. Alan Hill, Chairman, Council on Environmental
Quality; Edwin Johnson, Director, Developing Countries Staff, Office of
International Activities, and Richard Sanderson, Director, Office of Federal
Activities, both of the Environmental Protection Agency; William A. Nitze,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment, Health and Natural
Resources; Frank G. Vukmanic, Director, Office of Multilateral Development
Banks, Department of the Treasury; Michael McCloskey, Sierra Club, Washington,
DC; and Nicholas Robinson, Pace University School of Law, White Plains, New
York.
CATASTROPHIC CARE EXCESS SURPLUS
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to review certain provisions
with respect to the treatment of excess revenues as contained in the
Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988, receiving testimony from Senators Wallop,
Levin, Nickles, and McCain; Representatives Fawell and DeFazio; Louis W.
Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services; John Wilkins, Acting
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Robert D. Reischauer,
Director, Congressional Budget Office; Ronald A. Pearlman, Chief of Staff,
Joint Committee on Taxation; Michael Zimmerman, Director, Medicare and
Medicaid Issues, Human Resources Division, General Accounting Office; Robert
J. Myers, Commission on Railroad Retirement Reform, Silver Spring, Maryland;
John L. Hildreth, Consumers Union, Austin, Texas; Daniel L. Hawley, Seniors
Coalition Against Catastrophic Act, Las Vegas, Nevada; and Richard D. Warden,
United Auto Workers, Lawrence T. Smedley, National Council of Senior Citizens,
Lovola W. Burgess, American Association of Retired Persons, H.T. Steve
Morrissey, National Association of Retired Federal Employees, Thomas J.
Kilcline, USN (Ret), The Retired Officers Association, and John M. Adams, The
Retired Enlisted Association, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
U.S.-SOVIET RELATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on the future of
U.S.-Soviet relations, receiving testimony from Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, former
U.S. Representative to the United Nations.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DOD'S ACQUISITION OF COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management held oversight hearings to review Department of Defense acquisition
of commercial products, focusing on military specifications, regulations,
contract clauses, and procedural requirements, for the purchase of items that
could be purchased off-the-shelf, receiving testimony from Donald J. Atwood,
Jr., Deputy Secretary of Defense; Eleanor R. Spector, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Procurement; and Gregory Saunders, Assistant for
Commercial Acquisition, Department of Defense.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
RETAIL COMPETITION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 865, to promote
retail competition and assure lower prices on American consumer products,
after receiving testimony from Senators Rudman and Gorton; North Carolina
Attorney General Lacy H. Thronburg, Raleigh; Raymond Zimmerman, Service
Merchandise Company, Nashville, Tennessee; Robert B. Creamer, Illinois Public
Action Council, Chicago; Robert Pitofsky, Georgetown University Law Center,
Joe Sims, Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue, on behalf of the American Bar
Association, and Bert W. Rein, Wiley, Rein and Fielding, on behalf of the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, all of Washington, DC; and Alan P. Hald, MicroAge
Computer Stores, Inc., Tempe, Arizona.
DISPLACED HOMEMAKERS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity concluded hearings on S. 1107 to provide employment opportunities
for displaced homemakers, after receiving testimony from Jill Emery, Director,
Women's Bureau, Department of Labor; Cheryl Brown Henderson, Kansas State
Department of Education, Topeka; Roberta Spalter-Roth, Institute for Women's
Policy Research, and Cindy, Marano, Wider Opportunites for Women, both of
Washington, DC; Jean Martinelli and Caroline Strong, both of Union Memorial
Hospital, and Diana McLaughlin, Maryland New Directions, all of Baltimore,
Maryland; Kathy Sorensen, Displaced Homemaker Program, Richland Community
College, Decatur, Illinois; and Molly Wilkes, Spartanburg Technical College,
Spartanburg, South Carolina.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1989/06/02
Daily Digest - Friday, June 2, 1989; pages D575 - D582 (Bound vol. D315-D317)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE ACQUISITION POLICY
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
concluded hearings on recommendations for a defense acquisition policy agenda
and the defense industrial and technological base, after receiving testimony
from Frank Lewis, Harris Corporation, Alexandria, Virginia; Philip A. Odeen,
Coopers and Lybrand, Washington, D.C.; R.N. Longuemare, Westinghouse Electric
Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland; Frank H. Menaker, Defense Industry
Initiative, Martin Marietta, Bethesda, Maryland; and Christopher B. Galvin,
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, Illinois.
NATIONAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs continued hearings on S. 566, to provide for a revitalized
national housing policy, focusing on provisions relating to supportive housing
needs of elderly and handicapped persons, receiving testimony from Cindi
Herrera, LaSalle County Housing Authority, Ottawa, Illinois, representing the
National Association of Housing Redevelopment Officials; Corinne Jochum, North
Platte, Nebraska, representing the American Association of Retired Persons;
Laverne R. Joseph, Retirement Housing Foundation, Long Beach, California,
representing the American Association of Homes for the Aging; Juliet
Massey-Duhan, Tampa Jewish Federation, and Esther Piper, both of Tampa,
Florida; Richard H. Bradfield, Bradfield Associates, Atlanta, Georgia,
representing the American Institute of Architects; Stephen A. Somers, The
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey; Leonard S. Rubenstein,
Mental Health Law Project, and Bill Mitchell, Housing Technical Assistance
Project, representing the National Council on Independent Living, both of
Washington, D.C.; Dennis Popp, Black Hills Workshop and Training Center, Rapid
City, South Dakota, representing the National Association of Private
Residential Resources; Kathleen L. Rollason, Calvert Association for Retarded
Citizens, Calvert County, Maryland, representing the Association for Retarded
Citizens; and Don Gustafson, Over the Rainbow, Evanston, Illinois.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, June 6.
PUERTO RICO
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee continued hearings on S.
710, S. 711, and S. 712, bills to provide for a referendum on the future
political status of Puerto Rico, receiving testimony from Carlos Romero
Barcelo, President, New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico, and Ruben Berrios
Martinez, President, Puerto Rican Independence Party, both of San Juan.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, June 11.
SOCIAL SECURITY
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy
concluded hearings on S. 216, to establish the Social Security Administration
as an independent executive branch agency headed by a bipartisan board, and S.
1079, to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide
periodic account statements to workers to inform them how much they have paid
into the Social Security system, after receiving testimony from Senator Pryor;
Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services; Robert M. Ball,
former Commissioner of Social Security and Robert J. Myers, former Chief
Actuary and Deputy Commissioner of Social Security, both of the Department of
Health and Human Services; P. Royal Shipp, Deputy Associate Director for
Research Coordination, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress,
Joseph F. Delfico, Director, Income Security Issues, Human Resources Division,
General Accounting Office; Donald F. Walsh, Canada Department of National
Health and Welfare, Ottawa, Ontario; Gene Lehrmann, American Association of
Retired Persons, Madison, Wisconsin; and Martha McSteen, National Committee to
Preserve Social Security and Medicare, and John N. Sturdivant, American
Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, both of Washington, D.C.
JUDICIAL NOMINATION SELECTION PROCESS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to review the role of
the American Bar Association in the screening of judicial nominations, after
receiving testimony from Richard L. Thornburgh, Attorney General of the United
States; Judge John W. Kern III, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and
Paul D. Kamenar, Washington Legal Foundation, both of Washington, D.C.; Robert
D. Raven, American Bar Association, San Francisco, California; Judge Harold R.
Tyler, Jr., American Bar Association Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary,
New York, New York; and Arthur J. Schwab, Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Joint Meeting
EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to review the
employment/unemployment situation for May, receiving testimony from Janet L.
Norwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1989/06/05
Daily Digest - Monday, June 5, 1989; pages D583 - D586 (Bound vol. D317-D318)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel held
hearings on S. 1085, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the
Department of Defense, focusing on the military medical system, receiving
testimony from David Newhall III, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Health Affairs; Lt. Gen. F.F. Ledford, Jr., USA, Surgeon General
of the Army; Vice Adm. J.A. Zimble, Surgeon General of the Navy; Lt. Gen.
Monte B. Miller, USAF, Surgeon General of the Air Force; and David Baine,
Director, Federal Health Care Delivery Issues, General Accounting Office.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional
Defense concluded hearings on S. 1085, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990
and 1991 for the Department of Defense, focusing on fast sealift requirements,
after receiving testimony from Representative Bennett; Gen. Duane H. Cassidy,
USAF, Commander in Chief, U.S. Transportation Command; Everett Pyatt,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Shipping and Logistics); Vice Adm. Stanley R.
Arthur, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Logistics); Robert B. Costello,
former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition; and Lawrence J. Koro,
Brookings Institution, Washington, DC.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of John Hubert Kelly, of Georgia, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Near
Eastern and South Asian Affairs, after the nominee testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/06/06
Daily Digest - [Tuesday, June 6, 1989]; pages D588 - D596 (Bound vol. D318-
D323)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on tactical airpower, receiving testimony from Vice Adm. Richard M. Dunleavy,
Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, Air Warfare; Lt. Gen. Charles H. Pitman,
USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff, Aviation; and Lt. Gen. Ronald W. Yates, USAF,
Principal Deputy for Acquisition, OASAF (Acquisition).
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from Paul D. Coverdell,
Director, Peace Corps; William F. Ryan, First Vice President and Vice
Chairman, Export-Import Bank of the United States; Robert O. Draggon, Vice
President for Finance, Overseas Private Investment Corporation; Leonard H.
Robinson, Jr., President, African Development Foundation; and Deborah Szekely,
President, Inter-American Foundation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, June 8.
DEFENSE MODERNIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance
Defense held hearings to review Department of Defense plans for evaluating
modernization alternatives for close air support, receiving testimony from
Gen. Glenn Otis, USA (Ret.), former Commander, U.S. Army in Europe; John E.
Krings, Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, and Frank Kendall III,
Acting Deputy Director for Tactical Warfare, Defense Research and Engineering,
both of the Office of the Secretary of Defense; and Brig. Gen. Joseph Ralston,
USAF, Director of Requirements, U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Command.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BANKING SERVICES REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Consumer and
Regulatory Affairs held hearings on S. 906, to require financial institutions
to cash government checks for non-customers for a small fee, S. 907, to
require financial institutions to offer low cost "lifeline" banking accounts,
and S. 909, to require the disclosure of financial institutions' community
reinvestment evaluations and ratings, receiving testimony from William E.
Douglas, Commissioner, Financial Management Service, Department of the
Treasury; Connecticut State Banking Commissioner Howard B. Brown, Hartford;
Jerome S. Gagerman, Financial Clearings, Inc., representing the National Check
Cashers Association, Richard A. Loundy, Devon Bank, representing the
Independent Bankers Association of America, and Robert J. Sell, American
Association of Retired Persons, all of Chicago, Illinois; Rosemary Dunlap,
Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Arlington; Robert L. Stevens, Bryn Mawr
Trust Company, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, representing the American Bankers
Association; and John P. Kelly, Jr., National Bankers Association, and Peggy
Miller, Consumer Federation of America, both of Washington, DC.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
NATIONAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs continued hearings on S. 566, to provide for a revitalized
national housing policy, focusing on the role of State and local governments
in developing housing strategies, receiving testimony from Senators Lautenberg
and Lieberman; Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, Boston; Rhode Island
Governor Edward D. DiPrete, Providence; Mayor George Voinovich, Cleveland,
Ohio; Mayor Edward Koch, New York, New York; Mayor Joseph Riley, Charleston,
South Carolina; Merced County Supervisor Ann Klinger, Merced, California;
Suffolk County Executive Patrick G. Halpin, Hauppauge, New York; Richard A.
Shatten, Cleveland Tomorrow, Cleveland, Ohio; David Stanley, Payless Cashways,
Inc., Kansas City, Missouri; and John Pritscher, Community Investment
Corporation, Chicago, Illinois.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS--TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for technology programs of
the Department of Commerce, after receiving testimony from Raymond G. Kammer,
Acting Director, Donald R. Johnson, Director, Office of Technology Services,
John W. Lyons, Director, National Engineering Laboratory, Lyle H. Schwartz,
Director, Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, James H. Burrows,
Director, National Computer Systems Laboratory, and Harry S. Hertz, Acting
Director, National Measurement Laboratory, all of the National Institute of
Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce; John Fluke, Jr., National
Conference of Standards Laboratories, Boulder, Colorado; Paul Huray,
University of South Carolina, Columbia; Donald G. Weinert, National Society of
Professional Engineers, Alexandria, Virginia; Pat Hill Hubbard, American
Electronics Association, Washington, DC; and Edward A. Miller, National Center
for Manufacturing Sciences, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
AUTHORIZATIONS--STATE/USIA/BIB
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed consideration of proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the
Department of State, U.S. Information Agency, and the Board for International
Broadcasting, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to
call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Constance B. Newman, of Maryland, to be Director of the Office
of Personnel Management, after the nominee testified and answered questions in
her own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Michael Farrell, to be Associate Judge of the District of
Columbia Court of Appeals, William M. Diefenderfer III, of Virginia, to be
Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Constance Berry
Newman, of Maryland, to be Director of the Office of Personnel Management.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Reggie B. Walton, of the District of Columbia, to be Associate Director for
National Drug Control Policy, after the nominee testified and answered
questions in his own behalf. Testimony was also received on the nomination
from Dewey Stokes, Fraternal Order of Police, Charles A. Gruber, International
Association of Police Chiefs, Lynn C. Slaber, National District Attorneys
Association, and Karst Besteman, Alcohol and Drug Problems Association of
North America, all of Washington, DC; and Lois Olson, Missouri State Division
of Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Jefferson City.
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FOOD SAFETY AMENDMENTS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
722, to enhance Federal oversight over the use of dangerous pesticides on the
nation's food supply, after receiving testimony from Frank E. Young,
Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human
Services; Victor J. Kimm, Acting Assistant Administrator, Pesticides and Toxic
Substances, Environmental Protection Agency; Jack C. Parnell, Deputy Secretary
of Agriculture; Charles M. Benbrook, Executive Director, Board on Agriculture,
National Academy of Sciences; David B. Roe, Environmental Defense Fund,
Oakland, California; Gary Booth, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; and
Ellen Haas, Public Voice for Food and Health Policy, and Sherwin Gardner,
Grocery Manufacturers Association, both of Washington, DC.
SSA'S REPRESENTATIVE PAYEE PROGRAM
Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation to
establish safeguards to protect the rights of beneficiaries of the Social
Security representative payee system, receiving testimony from Louis D. Enoff,
Deputy Commissioner of Programs, Social Security Administration, Department of
Health and Human Services; Michael A. Teefy, Vancouver, Washington, Betty
Broadhead, Goldsboro, North Carolina, and Kim P. Gaines, San Francisco,
California, all representing the American Federation of Government Employees,
AFL-CIO; Audrey Madyun, East Arkansas Legal Services, Helena, Arkansas; Linda
J. Olson, Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Denver, Inc., Denver, Colorado;
Curtis L. Child, Legal Services of Northern California, Inc., and Elizabeth
Freeland, both of Sacramento, California; and Mary Miller, Marvell, Arkansas.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/06/07
Daily Digest - [Wednesday, June 7, 1989]; pages D598 - D606 (Bound vol. D323-
D329)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on Air Force posture, receiving testimony from Donald B. Rice, Secretary of
the Air Force; and Gen. Larry D. Welch, USAF, Chief of Staff.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
BANKING SERVICES REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Consumer and
Regulatory Affairs continued hearings on S. 906, to require financial
institutions to cash government checks for noncustomers for a small fee, S.
907, to require financial institutions to offer low cost "lifeline" banking
accounts, and S. 909, to require the disclosure of financial institutions'
community reinvestment evaluations and ratings, receiving testimony from
Martha R. Seger, Member, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System; Ted
Wysocki, Chicago Association of Neighborhood Development Organizations, and
Marion R. Foote, First National Bank of Chicago, both of Chicago, Illinois;
Charles F. Clement, Landmark Bank, and Mary Ann Cunningham, Association of
Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), both of St. Louis, Missouri;
Charles H. Grice, Community Reinvestment Institute, San Francisco, California;
Jonathan Brown, BankWatch, and Allen J. Fishbein, Center for Community Change,
both of Washington, DC; John M. Kolesar, AmeriTrust Development Bank,
Cleveland, Ohio, representing the Consumer Bankers Association; and Charles G.
Conville, PrimeBank Federal Savings Bank, Grand Rapids, Michigan, representing
the National Council of Savings Institutions.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs continued hearings on S. 566, to provide for a revitalized
national housing policy, focusing on the Housing Opportunity Partnerships
(HOP) and HOME Corporation provisions, receiving testimony from Leland
Brendsel, President, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation; John Sidor,
Council of State Community Affairs Agencies, Boston, Massachusetts; Terrence
R. Duvernay, Michigan State Housing Development Authority, Lansing; Walter
Webdale, Fairfax County Department of Housing and Community Development,
Fairfax, Virginia; Ed Schwartz, Philadelphia Housing and Community
Development, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Eric Eichler, The Linpro Company,
Berwyn, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the National Multi Housing Council; Joel
Rubenzahl, Community Economics, Inc., Oakland, California; Robert Lawson, Jr.,
Norfolk, Virginia, representing the National Association for Homebuilders;
Barry Zigas, National Low Income Housing Coalition, Warren Lasko, Mortgage
Bankers Association of America, and Larry Dale, Federal National Mortgage
Association, all of Washington, DC; and Kirsten S. Moy, The Equitable
Financial Companies, Brian Hays, Public Securities Association, and Marvin
Markus, Kidder, Peabody and Company, all of New York, New York.
Hearings continue on Friday, June 9.
AIRLINE CONCENTRATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
held hearings to examine airline concentration problems at hub airports in the
United States, receiving testimony from Kenneth M. Mead, Director,
Transportation Issues, and James Noel, Assistant Director, and Frank Mulvey,
Evaluator-in-Charge, both of the Resources Community and Economic Development
Division, all of the General Accounting Office; and Robert J. Aaronson, Air
Transport Association of America, and Edward L. Smick, Simat, Hellieson &
Eichner, Inc., both of Washington, DC.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--FTC
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee held
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Federal Trade
Commission, receiving testimony from Daniel Oliver, Chairman, Mary L.
Azcuenaga and Andrew Strenio, Jr., both Commissioners, all of the Federal
Trade Commission; Steven Calkins, Wayne State University Law School, Detroit,
Michigan; Timothy Muris, George Mason University Law School, Fairfax,
Virginia; and Robert Pitofsky, Georgetown University Law Center, Daniel L.
Jaffe, Association of National Advertisers, Inc., Wallace S. Snyder, American
Advertising Federation, Bruce Silverglade, Center for Science in the Public
Interest, John S. Satagaj, Small Business Legislative Council, and Craig
Berrington, American Insurance Association, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills:
S. 633, to promote the development of technologies which will enable fuel
cells to use alternative fuel sources;
S. 634, to develop a national policy for the utilization of fuel cell
technology; and
S. 83, to establish the amount of costs of the Department of Energy's uranium
enrichment program that have not been previously recovered from enrichment
customers in the charges of the Department of Energy to its customers, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute.
MINING LAW
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Mineral Resources
Development and Production concluded hearings on S. 1126, to provide for the
disposition of hardrock minerals on Federal lands, and to review the Mining
Law of 1872, after receiving testimony from Representative Craig; Robert F.
Burford, Director, Bureau of Land Management; and T S Ary, Director, Bureau of
Mines, both of the Department of the Interior; George M. Leonard, Associate
Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Stewart L. Udall, Phoenix,
Arizona, and Philip M. Hocker, Washington, DC, both on behalf of the Mineral
Policy Center; Michael McCloskey, Sierra Club, and Lynn A Greenwalt, National
Wildlife Federation, both of Washington, DC; David W. Delcour, AMAX Mineral
Resources Company, on behalf of the American Mining Congress, and Stephen D.
Alfers, Graham and Stubbs, both of Denver, Colorado; Geoffrey G. Snow,
Minerals Exploration Coalition, Lakewood, Colorado; Putnam Livermore, Public
Resources Associates, San Francisco, California; Russell C. Babcock, British
Petroleum Minerals America, Salt Lake City, Utah; John Leshy, Arizona State
University School of Law, Tempe; Don Smith, Citizens for Mining, Battle
Mountain, Nevada; Charles E. Roybal, New Mexico Mining Association, Rio
Rancho; John L. Neff, Northwest Mining Association, Spokane, Washington; Gary
Langley, Montana Mining Association, Helena; and Curtis McVee, Alaska Miners
Association, Anchorage.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of
Kennth W. Gideon, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for
Tax Policy, Bryce L. Harlow, of Virginia, to be Deputy Under Secretary of the
Treasury for Legislative Affairs, John Michael Farren, of Connecticut, to be
Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, and Gerald L. Olson, of
Minnesota, to be Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for
Legislation.
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the aforementioned
nominations, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Gideon was introduced by Senator Warner, Mr. Harlow was introduced
by Senators Warner and Boren, Mr. Farren was introduced by Senator Dodd, and
Mr. Olson was introduced by Senators Boschwitz and Lugar.
RICO REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 438, to restore
the usefulness and effectiveness of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations (RICO) statute, after receiving testimony from John C. Keeney,
Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice;
Arizona State Chief Assistant Attorney General Steve Twist, Phoenix, on behalf
of the National Association of Attorneys General; James E. Long, North
Carolina State Commissioner of Insurance, Raleigh, on behalf of the National
Association of Insurance Commissioners; James L. Harrison, Sr., First
Community Bancshares, Inc., Princeton, West Virginia; Mark Reinhardt,
Reinhardt and Anderson, St. Paul, Minnesota; G. Robert Blakey, Notre Dame Law
School, Notre Dame, Indiana; David Harrison, Council of Energy Resource
Tribes, Denver, Colorado; and Robert D. Raven, American Bar Association,
Ernest DuBester, AFL-CIO, Philip Lacovara, Business Coalition for RICO Reform,
Michael Waldman, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, and Kenneth R. Feinberg,
all, Washington, DC.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute S. 123, to authorize funds for
fiscal years 1990-1994 for high quality early childhood development programs
for prekindergarten children.
Also, committee began consideration of S. 110, to authorize funds for fiscal
years 1990-1992 for family planning programs as contained in title X of the
Public Health Service Act, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet
again on Wednesday, June 14.
IMPEACHMENT TRIAL MATTERS
Senate Impeachment Trial Committee: Committee met in closed session to
consider procedural matters in the impeachment of Judge Alcee L. Hastings.
Committee recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/06/08
Daily Digest - Thursday, June 8, 1989; pages D607 - D616 (Bound vol. D330-
D337)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on manpower and personnel programs, receiving testimony from David J. Berteau,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Resource Management and Support.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 13.
EL SALVADOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
to review a General Accounting Office report on El Salvador, receiving
testimony from Michael Kozak, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for
Inter-American Affairs; Frank C. Conahan, Assistant Comptroller General,
National Security and International Affairs Division, General Accounting
Office; and Deihl McKalip, Director for Operations, Defense Security
Assistance Agency, Department of Defense.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 13.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support concluded hearings on S. 1085, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990
and 1991 for the Department of Defense, focusing on environmental restoration
programs, after receiving testimony from William H. Parker, III, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Environment; Col. Hugh M. McAlear, USA,
Special Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for
Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health; Nancy Stehle, Deputy Director
for Environment, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for
Shipbuilding and Logistics; and Col. Stephen G. Termaath, USAF, Director
Environmental Divison, Headquarters, U.S.A.F. Systems Command.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed open and closed hearings on S. 1085, authorizing funds for
fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the
chemical deterrent program, receiving testimony from Roger G. Harrison, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs; Robert G. Joseph,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control
Policy; Brig. Gen. Robert Linhard, USAF, Deputy Director for Strategy and
Policy, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Billy Richardson, Acting Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Chemical Matters; and Michael Owen, Principal Deputy
Secretary of the Army for Installation and Logistics.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 13.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of John B. Taylor, of California, to be a member of
the Council of Economic Advisers, John Michael Farren, of Connecticut, to be
Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, Alfred A. Dellibovi, of
New York, to be Under Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and Susan
Carol Schwab, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Director
General of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service.
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Messrs. Taylor and Farren, after the nominees testified and answered questions
in their own behalf. Mr. Taylor was introduced by Senator Wilson.
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AUTHORIZATIONS--FTC
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Federal
Trade Commission, after receiving testimony from New York State Attorney
General Robert Abrams, and Mel Goldberg and Lloyd Constantine, both New York
State Assistant Attorneys General, all of Albany, representing the National
Association of Attorneys General; Mark Silbergeld, Consumers Union, Katherine
McDermott, Collier, Shannon, Rill & Scott, representing the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, R. Malcolm Overby, American Dental Association, H. Martyn Owen,
Shipman and Goodwin, and Steven Easter, Blue Diamond Growers, both
representing the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, and Donald A.
Randall, National Independent Dairy-Foods Association, all of Washington, DC.
MOTOR VEHICLE FUELS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development concluded oversight hearings on the status of current and future
use of alternative motor vehicle fuels in the United States, after receiving
testimony from Senator Daschle; John R. Berg, Assistant Secretary of Energy
for Conservation and Renewable Energy; Charles Imbrecht, California Energy
Commission, Sacramento; Fred Bowditech, Motor Vehicle Manufacturers
Association, Dearborn, Michigan; Dixon Smith, Chevron, USA, Inc., San
Francisco, California; Robert Yuhnke, Environmental Defense Fund, Boulder,
Colorado; Milton C. Back, Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority,
Charleston, West Virginia; George W. Roberts, Air products and Chemicals,
Inc., Allentown, Pennsylvania; and Elawin S. Larson, Brooklyn Union Gas
Company, Brooklyn, New York, on behalf of the American Gas Association Natural
Gas Coalition.
PUBLIC LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following measures:
S. 624, to provide for the sale of certain Federal lands to Clark County,
Nevada, for the relocation of the Kerr-McGee Corp. plant operations for the
production of Ammoniom perchlorate, after receiving testimony from Senators
Reid and Bryan; Hillary Oden, Assistant Director for Energy and Minerals,
Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Clark County
Commissioner Manuel J. Cortez, and Jeff van Ee, both of Las Vegas, Nevada; and
George B. Rice, Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and
S. 555, to establish within the Department of the Interior the De Soto
Expedition Trail Commission, and S. 830, to authorize funds for the Blackstone
River Valley National Heritage Corridor Commission, after receiving testimony
from Senators Graham, Pell, and Chafee; Gerald Patten, Associate Director for
Planning and Development, National Park Service, Department of the Interior;
Massachusetts State Representative Richard Moore, Boston; Robert L. Bendick,
Jr., Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Providence; Charles
R. McGimsey, III, Arkansas Archeological Survey, Fayetteville; and Douglas E.
Jones, De Soto Trail Commission, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal year 1990 for the Department of
State, U.S. Information Agency, and the Board for International Broadcasting,
in lieu of S. 928; and
The nominations of Bernard William Aronson, of Maryland, to be Assistant
Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Chic Hecht, of Nevada, to be
Ambassador to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, John Hubert Kelly, of Georgia,
to be Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs,
and John D. Negroponte, of New York, to be Ambassador to Mexico.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Morton I. Abramowitz, of the District of Columbia, to be
Ambassador to Turkey, Thomas Michael Tolliver Niles, of the District of
Columbia, to be the U.S. Representative to the European Communities, Joseph
Zappala, of Florida, to be Ambassador to Spain, Edward N. Ney, of New York, to
be Ambassador to Canada, and C. Howard Wilkins, Jr., of Kansas, to be
Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Zappala was introduced by Senator
Mack, Mr. Ney was introduced by Senator Moynihan, and Mr. Wilkins was
introduced by Senators Dole and Kassebaum.
DC DRUG PROBLEM
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings to
examine illegal drug trafficking and violence in the District of Columbia,
receiving testimony from Anthony E. Daniels, Deputy Assistant Director,
Criminal Investigative Division, and Douglas W. Gow, Washington Metropolitan
Field Office Special Agent-in-Charge, both of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, Department of Justice; Mayor Marion Barry, Issac Fullwood,
Assistant Chief of Police, John Jackson, Assistant to the Commissioner of
Public Health, and David A. Clarke, Chairman, Council of the District of
Columbia, all of the Government of the District of Columbia, Ruth R. Crone,
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, and George Crawford, Beverly
Mitchell, Jean Thomas, Tony Norman, and Evan Sheppard, all on behalf of the
Bloomingdale Civic Association Task Force, all of Washington, DC.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
The nomination of Reggie B. Walton, of the District of Columbia, to be
Associate Director for National Drug Control Policy;
S.J. Res. 55, to designate the week of October 1 through 7, 1989, as "Mental
Illness Awareness Week";
S.J. Res. 67, to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Wilderness
Act of 1964 which established the National Wilderness Preservation System;
S.J. Res. 73, to designate the week beginning October 29, 1989, as "Gaucher's
Disease Awareness Week";
S.J. Res. 76, to designate the period commencing on June 21, 1989, and ending
on June 28, 1989, as "Food Science and Technology Week";
S.J. Res. 78, designating the month of November 1989 and 1990 as "National
Hospice Month";
S.J. Res. 85, to designate the week of July 24 to July 30, 1989, as the
"National Week of Recognition and Remembrance for Those Who Served in the
Korean War";
S.J. Res. 95, to designate the week of September 10 through 16, 1989, as
"National Check-up Week";
S.J. Res. 96, designating July 2, 1989, as "National Literacy Day";
S.J. Res. 105, to designate October 7 through 14, 1989, as "National Week of
Outreach to the Rural Disabled";
S.J. Res. 108, to designate October 3, 1989, as "National Teacher Appreciation
Day";
S.J. Res. 109, to designate the period commencing September 11, 1989, and
ending on September 15, 1989, as "National Historically Balck Colleges Week";
S.J. Res. 110, designating October 5, 1989, as "Raoul Wallenberg Day";
S.J. Res. 117, to designate the week of November 19 through 25, 1989, and the
week of November 18 through 24, 1990, as "National Family Week";
S.J. Res. 118, designating October 6, 1989, as "German-American Day";
S.J. Res. 120, to designate the period commencing November 12, 1989, and
ending November 18, 1989, as "Geography Awareness Week";
S.J. Res. 122, to designate October 1989 and 1990 as "National Down Syndrome
Month";
S.J. Res. 124, to designate October 1989 as "National Quality Month";
S.J. Res. 126, Commemorating the bicentennial of the United States Coast
Guard;
S.J. Res. 130, designating February 11 through 17, 1990, as
"Vocational-Technical Education Week";
S.J. Res. 133, designating October 1989 as "National Domestic Violence
Awareness Month";
S.J. Res. 136, designating August 8, 1989, as "National Neighborhood Crime
Watch Day";
S.J. Res. 137, designating January 7 through 13, 1990, as "National Law
Enforcement Training Week";
S.J. Res. 138, designating October 16, 1989, and October 16, 1990, as "World
Food Day";
S.J. Res. 142, designating the week beginning July 23, 1989, as "Lyme Disease
Awareness Week";
S.J. Res. 143, to designate the week of December 10 through 16, 1989, as
"National Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness Week";
S.J. Res. 146, designating the week of September 24, 1989, as "Religious
Freedom Week";
S.J. Res. 148, to designate the week of October 14, 1989, as "National Job
Skills Week";
S.J. Res. 150, to designate August 1, 1989, as "Helsinki Human Rights Day";
S. Con. Res. 39, to commend the group of aviators known as the "Flying Tigers"
for nearly 50 years of service to the United States;
S. Con. Res. 40, to designate June 21, 1989, as Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner
Day;
S. Res. 116, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the United States Jewish
Appeal; and
An original bill to change the level, and preference system for admission, of
immigrants to the United States, and to provide for administrative
naturalization, in lieu of S. 358.
Also, the committee indefinitely postponed further consideration of S. 448, to
change the level, and preference system for admission, of immigrants to the
United States.
LINE ITEM VETO
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution approved for full
committee consideration, without recommendation, the following measures:
S.J. Res. 14, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States
to allow the President to veto items of appropriation; and
S.J. Res. 23, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States
authorizing the President to disapprove or reduce an item of appropriations.
EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
975, to encourage a broader range of training and job placement for women,
after receiving testimony from Patricia W. McNeil, Administrator, Office of
Strategic Planning and Policy Development, Employment and Training
Administration, Department of Labor; Clark Street, Ohio Contractors
Association, Columbus; Cynthia Marano, Wider Opportunities for Women, Inc.,
Alicia Pelrine, National Governors Association, Esther F. Schaeffer, National
Alliance of Business, and Desta Daggett, all of Washington, DC; and Rosanne
Carson, Hopelawn, New Jersey.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following measures:
An original resolution to authorize the purchase of 104,000 1990 U.S. Capitol
Historical Society wall calendars for the use of the Senate;
An original resolution to authorize the Secretary of the Senate to withhold
salaries of Senate employees for settlement of claims of or against the
Government according to regulations prescribed by the Secretary and approved
by the Committee on Rules and Administration;
S. 619, to authorize the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity to establish a memorial to
Martin Luther King, Jr., in the District of Columbia; and
S. Res. 13, to implement closed caption broadcasting for hearing-impaired
individuals of Senate floor proceedings, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
Also, committee resumed consideration of S. 874, to establish national voter
registration procedures for Presidential and Congressional elections, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday, June 14.
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 on the committee's findings from Manuel Lujan, Jr.,
Secretary of the Interior; Oliver Revell, Executive Assistant Director for
Investigations, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Robert
Bruce Haley, Swimonish and Lummi Tribes, Bellingham, Washington; and Hilda Ann
Manuel, Tohono O'odham Judiciary, Tuscon, Arizona.
Also, committee held hearings on the Federal Government's management of timber
resources on Indian land, receiving testimony from Marshall Cutsforth, Chief,
Division of Forestry, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior;
Dom Nessi, Director, Office of Indian Programs, Department of Housing and
Urban Development; Roy Sampsel, R.H.S. Resource Consultants, Portland, Oregon;
Fred Matt and Ron Trosper, both of Pablo, Montana, and Gary Morishima, Mercer
Island, Washington, all of the Intertribal Timber Council; Dexter Gill, Navajo
Forestry Department, Window Rock, Arizona; and James Spitz, Warm Spring and
Yakima Tribes, Bend, Oregon.
Committee recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again on Tuesday, June 13.
Joint Meeting
HIGH TECH CONSORTIA
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine issues
concerning high technology consortia, focusing on the role of the Federal
Government in assisting high technology ventures, including high definition
television and semiconductors, after receiving testimony from Craig I. Fields,
Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Defense;
Claude Barfield, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.; and Ralph E.
Gomory, International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, New York.
1989/06/09
Daily Digest - [Friday, June 9, 1989]; pages D618 - D626 (Bound vol. D337-
D340)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Research and General Legislation held hearings on the state of
agricultural research, receiving testimony from Chuck Hassebrook, Center for
Rural Affairs, Walthill, Nebraska; Neville P. Clarke, Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station, College Station; Michael V. Dunn, National Farmers Union,
Washington, DC; and Susan Bright, National Family Farm Coalition, Centerville,
Indiana.
Hearings continue Tuesday, June 20.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel held
hearings on S. 1085, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the
Department of Defense, focusing on manpower programs for the Reserve Forces,
receiving testimony from Stephen M. Duncan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Reserve Affairs; Lt. Gen. Herbert R. Temple, Jr., ARNGUS, Chief, National
Guard Bureau; Maj. Gen. William F. Ward, USAR, Chief, Army Reserve; Maj. Gen.
Donald Burdick, ARNGUS, Director, Army National Guard; Rear Adm. Francis Neale
Smith, USNR, Director, Navy Reserve; Maj. Gen. Edmund P. Looney, Jr., USMC,
Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower and Reserve Affairs for Reserve
Affairs; Maj. Gen. Phillip Killey, ANG, Director, Air National Guard; Maj.
Gen. Roger P. Scheer, USAFR, Chief, Air Force Reserve; and Capt. Robert G.
Cozzolino, USCG, Deputy for Reserve, Office of Readiness and Reserve, U.S.
Coast Guard.
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Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs continued hearings on S. 566, to provide for a revitalized
national housing policy, focusing on homeownership affordability, receiving
testimony from Pinal County Supervisor Dean Weatherly, Casa Grande, Arizona;
John Papandrea, Connecticut State Department of Housing, Hartford; Karney
Hodge, California Housing Finance Agency, Sacramento; Gail Cincotta, National
Peoples Action, Chicago, Illinois; David Perel, Municipal Finance Department,
Los Angeles, California; Robert Edlestein, University of California at
Berkeley, California; David W. Balcer, First Financial Bank, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin; Barbara Bannon-Harwood, BBH Enterprises, Dallas, Texas; Robert B.
O'Brien, Jr., Carteret Savings Bank, Newark, New Jersey; Joseph J. Morris,
Manufactured Housing Institute and the Champion Home Builders Company, Dryden,
Michigan; George Butts, ACORN-Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and William H. Lacy,
Mortgage Insurance Companies of America, Willard Gourley, Jr., Mortgage
Bankers Association, Shirley Wiseman, National Association of Homebuilders,
and Ira Gribin, National Association of Realtors, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings continue on Friday, June 16.
SCENIC BYWAYS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure concluded hearings on S. 432, to establish
a National Scenic Byways Program to identify, protect, and enhance scenic
roads in America, after receiving testimony from Senator Rockefeller; R.D.
Morgan, Executive Director, Federal Highway Administration, Department of
Transportation; F. Dale Robertson, Chief, Forest Service, Department of
Agriculture; Rhode Island State Representative Robert A. Weygand, Providence,
representing the American Society of Landscape Architects; Hugh Lydston, Idaho
Transportation Department, Boise; John Archer, American Automobile
Association, Falls Church, Virginia; Teresa Mitchell, Seaway Trail, Inc.,
Oswego, New York; William Least Heat-Moon, Columbia, Missouri, representing
Scenic America; and J. Jackson Walter, National Trust for Historic
Preservation, Washington, DC.
FEDERAL DRUG INTERDICTION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
held hearings to examine Federal drug interdiction capabilities and
coordination, focusing on the role of the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony from Arnold P. Jones, Director, John Vialet, Assistant Director, and
Edward Laughlin, Project Manager, all of Administrative Justice Issues,
General Government Division, General Accounting Office; Lt. Gen. Stephen G.
Olmstead, USMC, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Drug Policy and Enforcement,
Department of Defense; Lt. Gen. Thomas W. Kelly, USA, Director for Operations
(J-3), Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Vice Adm. James C. Irwin, USCG, Commander
Joint Task Force-Four.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
RURAL AMERICA
Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Rural Economy and Family Farming
concluded on S. 1051 and S. 863, bills to promote the development of small
business in rural areas, after receiving testimony from Edwin T. Holloway,
Associate Administrator for Finance and Investment, John R. Cox, Associate
Administrator for Business Development, and Wayne S. Foren, Director, Office
of Economic Development, all of the Small Business Administration; Arlen
Kangas, Midwest Minnesota Community Development Corporation, Detroit Lakes,
Minnesota; Jeff Doose, Southern Ventures, Arkadelphia, Arkansas; Terrence F.
Stone, Region Nine Regional Development Commission, Mankato, Minnesota,
representing the National Association of Development Organizations; Richard
Palank, National Association of Development Companies, Washington, DC; and
John Jackson, Minnesota Bankers Association, Minneapolis, representing the
American Bankers Association.
VETERANS' BENEFITS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on Title I of S.
13, Veterans' Benefits and Health Care Act, to provide cost-of-living
adjustments in VA compensation benefits and certain improvements in the
clothing allowances and pension program, and to provide a limited extension of
the Veterans' Readjustment Appointment authority, S. 1092, to implement
certain recommendations of the Commission on Veterans' Education Policy, S.
564, to provide for the monitoring and promoting the access of members of
minority groups to VA services and benefits, Amendment No. 110 to S. 190, to
permit service-connected disabled veterans who retire from the Armed Forces
based on age or length of service to receive military retired pay concurrently
with VA disability compenstion, and S. 1003, to make certain revisions in
educational assistance programs for veterans and eligible persons, after
receiving testimony from R. John Vogel, Chief Benefits Director, Grady Horton,
Deputy Chief Benefits Director for Program Management, Gary Hickman, Assistant
Director of Policy and Planning for the Compensation and Pension Service, and
Dennis Wyant, Director, Vocational Rehabilitation and Education Service, all
of the Veterans Benefits Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs; Lt.
Gen. Donald Jones, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Manpower
and Personnel Policy; Stephen Wolansky, Uniformed Services Disabled Veterans,
Albuquerque, New Mexico; Bernell Dickinson, North Carolina Department of
Community Colleges, Raleigh, representing the American Association of Colleges
and Junior Colleges; Lynn Denzin, National Association of Veteran Program
Administrators, Denver, Colorado; Col. Richard C. Kaufman, Association of the
United States Army, Arlington, Virginia; and Janet Steiger, Babette Polzer,
and Bertie Rowland, all of the Commission on Veterans' Education Policy,
Richard S. Christian, National Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation Commission,
James N. Magill, Veterans of Foreign Wars, David W. Gorman, Disabled American
Veterans, and John Bollinger, Paralyzed Veterans of America, all of
Washington, DC.
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COQUILLE TRIBE
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported H.R.
881, to provide for restoration of the Federal trust relationship with, and
assistance to the Coquille Tribe of Indians and the individual members
consisting of the Coquille Tribe of Indians.
INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION ACT AMENDMENTS
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings on the
implementation of amendments to the Indian Self-Determination Act, receiving
testimony from William P. Ragsdale, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Interior
for Indian Affairs; Everett J. Rhoades, Director, Indian Health Service,
Department of Health and Human Services; William Ron Allen, Jamestown Klallam
Tribe, Sequim, Washington; Lionel John, United South and Eastern Tribes,
Nashville, Tennessee; S. Bobo Dean, Hobbs, Strauss, Dean and Wilder,
Washington, DC; Edward Thomas, Tlingit and Haida Central Council, Juneau,
Alaska; Laurence Kenmille and Thomas Acevedo, both of the Confederated Salish
and Kootenai Tribal Council; Flathead Reservation, Pablo, Montana; Dorothy
Dupree, Pasqua Yaqui Tribal Council, Tuscon Arizona; James Sizemore, Warm
Springs Tribe, Portland, Oregon; and Twila Martin-Kekahbah, Turtle Mountain
Tribal Council, Belcourt, North Dakota.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1989/06/12
Daily Digest - [Monday, June 12, 1989]; pages D628 - D632 (Bound vol. D341-
D342)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed closed hearings on S. 1085, authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1990 and 1991 for the Department of Defense, focusing on ASAT and space
control programs, receiving testimony from Paul D. Wolfowitz, Under Secretary
of Defense for Policy; Kent G. Stansberry, Director, Defense and Space Arms
Control, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International
Security Policy; Lt. Gen. Donald S. Pihl, Military Deputy to the Assistant
Secretary of the Army (Research, Development and Acquisition); Maj. Gen.
Thomas S. Moorman, Jr., USAF, Director of Space and SDI Programs, Office of
the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition); Vice Adm. Paul Miller,
Deputy Chief of Operations (Naval Warfare), Office of the Chief of Naval
Operations; and Brig. Gen. Morgan Gillette, USA, Program Manager, Joint
Kinetic Energy, ASAT Program.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Delos Cy Jamison, of Montana, to be Director of the Bureau of
Land Management, Department of the Interior, and Frank A. Bracken, of Indiana,
to be Under Secretary of the Interior, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Jamison was introduced by Senator
Burns, and Mr. Bracken was introduced by Senator Coats and Representative
Sharp.
CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on S. 1129, to simplify section
89 nondiscrimination rules applicable to certain employee benefit plans, S.
601, to authorize a child tax credit and refundable child and dependent care
tax credit, and on provisions of S. 602, to authorize funds for fiscal year
1990 for the Head Start program, receiving testimony from Kenneth W. Gideon,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Rod Dearment, Deputy
Secretary of Labor; Lawrence J. White, Board Member, Federal Home Loan Bank
Board; Richard E. Curtis, Health Insurance Association of America; Mary Nell
Lehnhard, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Willis B. Goldbeck,
Washington Business Group on Health, Sara Rosenbaum, Children's Defense Fund,
Nancy Duff Campbell, National Women's Law Center, and Robert Greenstein,
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, all of Washington, DC; Donald W.
Schiff, American Academy of Pediatrics, Denver, Colorado; Steve A. Freedman,
University of Florida, Gainsville; Robert H. Sweeney, Nati |
