101st Congress (1989 - 1990)
January 23, 1990 - January 3, 1991
Senate Committee Meetings by Date
Compiled from the Congressional Record's Daily Digests via Thomas at thomas.loc.gov
1990/01/23
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 23, 1990; pages D19 - D24 (Bound vol. D3-D6)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SOVIET THREAT
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held open and closed hearings on the
changing nature of the Soviet threat facing the United States and its allies,
receiving testimony from William H. Webster, Director of Central Intelligence;
Lt. Gen. Harry E. Soyster, USA, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency; and
Brig. Gen. R.J. O'Lear, USAF, Director of Intelligence, U.S. European Command.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
CHINESE IMMIGRATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs
concluded hearings on the provisions of H.R. 2712, to waive the two-year home
country residence requirement for nationals of the People's Republic of China
in the United States on a student (J) visa, and to continue the legal status
of nonimmigrant nationals of the People's Republic of China in the United
States for adjustment or change of status purposes (Vetoed November 30, 1989),
after receiving testimony from Senator Gorton; Representatives Pelosi and
Lamar S. Smith; William Cook, General Counsel-Designate, Immigration and
Naturalization Service, Department of Justice; Winston Lord, former U.S.
Ambassador to China; Haiching Zhao, National Committee for Chinese Student
Affairs, Washington, DC, and certain public witnesses.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/01/24
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 24, 1990; pages D25 - D30 (Bound vol. D6-D9)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SOVIET THREAT
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on the changing
nature of the Soviet threat facing the United States and its allies, receiving
testimony from Phillip A. Karber, BDM International Inc., and Richard Perle,
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, and Edward L. Warner
III, RAND Corporation, both of Washington, DC.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
CBO ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to review the
Congressional Budget Office's budgetary and economic outlook, after receiving
testimony from Robert D. Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget Office.
IMPACT OF CLEAN AIR ACT AMENDMENTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings on the
implications of S. 1630, Clean Air Act Amendments, 1989 (pending on Senate
calendar) on national energy, environmental, and economic policies, receiving
testimony from Linda G. Stuntz, Deputy Under Secretary for Policy, Planning
and Analysis, Department of Energy; William G. Rosenberg, Assistant
Administrator for Air and Radiation, Environmental Protection Agency; North
Dakota Governor George A. Sinner, Bismarck; James T.B. Tripp, Environmental
Defense Fund, New York, New York; James R. Mahoney, National Acid
Precipitation Assessment Program, Ben Yamagata, Clean Coal Technology
Coalition, Chris Farrand, Peabody Holding Company, Inc., David O. Webb, Gas
Research Institute, and Richard E. Ayres and David Doniger, both of the
Natural Resources Defense Council, both on behalf of the National Clean Air
Coalition, all of Washington, DC; A. Joseph Dowd, American Electric Power
Service Corporation, Columbus, Ohio; William A. Badger, Maryland Public
Service Commission, Baltimore; James S. Morrison, Atlantic Richfield Company
(ARCO), Los Angeles, California; and Charles H. Goodman, Southern Company
Services, Birmingham, Alabama.
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Hearings continue tomorrow.
Joint Meetings
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to review the economic
outlook for 1990, receiving testimony from Lawrence Kudlow, Bear, Stearns and
Co., New York, New York, former Chief Economist, Office of Management and
Budget; and Nancy Teeters, IBM Corporation, former Member, Federal Reserve
Board, and David Wyss, McGraw-Hill, Inc., both of Washington, DC.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, January 30.
WIC PROGRAM
Joint Hearings: Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and
the House Select Committee on Hungar held joint hearings to review a General
Accounting Office report to evaluate the effectiveness of the Department of
Agriculture Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children
(WIC), receiving testimony from Representative George Miller; Keith O. Fultz,
Director of Planning and Reporting, Jerry Moriarty, Evaluator, and Gerald
Killian, Assistant Director, all of the Resources, Community and Economic
Development Division, General Accounting Office; Birge S. Watkins, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Food and Consumer Services; David Rush,
Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts; and Robert Greenstein, Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1990/01/25
Daily Digest - [Thursday, January 25]; pages D32 - D38 (Bound vol. D9-D12)
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,
focusing on the impact of agriculture on ground water, receiving testimony
from Clayton K. Yeutter, Secretary of Agriculture; Harry Mussman, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Science and Education; and William K.
Reilly, Administrator, LaJuana Wilcher, Assistant Administrator for Water, and
Linda Fisher, Assistant Administrator for Pesticides and Toxic Substances, all
of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SOVIET THREAT
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on allied
perceptions of the changing nature of the Soviet threat, after receiving
testimony from Karl Kaiser, Research Institute of the German Society for
Foreign Affairs; Francois de Rose (Ret.), former French Permanent
Representative to NATO; Malcolm Mackintosh, International Institute for
Strategic Studies; and Masashi Nishihara, National Defense Academy of Japan.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to discuss the
nomination of Victor Stello, Jr., of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of
Energy for Defense Programs.
Committee recessed subject to call.
IMPACT OF CLEAN AIR ACT AMENDMENTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
implications of S. 1630, Clean Air Act Amendments, 1989 (pending on Senate
calendar) on national energy, environmental, and economic policies, receiving
testimony from Linda G. Stuntz, Deputy Under Secretary of Energy for Policy,
Planning and Analysis; William G. Rosenberg, Assistant Administrator for Air
and Radiation, Environmental Protection Agency; Wyoming Governor Mike
Sullivan, Cheyenne; David Doniger, Natural Resources Defense Council,
Washington, DC, on behalf of the National Clean Air Coalition; James S.
Morrison, Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), Los Angeles, California; and
Charles H. Goodman, Southern Company Services, Birmingham, Alabama.
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NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of
Gail Roggin Wilensky, of the District of Columbia, to be Administrator of the
Health Care Financing Administration, and Martin H. Gerry, of California, to
be Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, both of the Department of
Health and Human Services, Abraham N.M. Shashy, Jr., of Texas, to be an
Assistant General Counsel (Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service),
Department of the Treasury, and Peter K. Nunez, of California, to be an
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the aforementioned
nominations, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Shashy was introduced by Senator Gramm, and Mr. Nunez was
introduced by Senator Wilson.
PANAMA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on the situation in
Panama, receiving testimony from Bernard W. Aronson, Assistant Secretary of
State for Inter-American Affairs.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/01/29
Daily Digest - Monday, January 29, 1990; pages D39 - D42 (Bound vol. D12-D13)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
IMPACT OF SOVIET CHANGES
Committee on Armed Services: On Friday, January 26, committee continued
hearings on implications of policy changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern
Europe on U.S. alliances, national security policy and military strategy, and
the national defense budget, receiving testimony from Senator Roth; Peter
Petersen and Karsten Voight, both of the Federal Republic of Germany,
Jean-Michel Boucheron, of France, Patrick Duffy, Geoffrey Johnson Smith, and
Michael Jopling, all of the United Kingdom, Rodrigo de Rato, of Spain, Thijs
van Vlijmen, of The Netherlands, and Zeki Yavuzturk, of Turkey, all on behalf
of the Sub-Committee on Defence Cooperation of the North Atlantic Assembly.
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Hearings continue tomorrow.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/01/30
Daily Digest - [Tuesday, January 30, 1990]; pages D44 - D-50 (Bound vol. D13-
D17)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
IMPACT OF SOVIET CHANGES
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on implications of
policy changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe on U.S. alliances,
national security policy and military strategy, and the national defense
budget, receiving testimony from James R. Schlesinger, former Secretary of
Defense, former Secretary of Energy, and former Director of Central
Intelligence.
Hearings continue on Friday, February 2.
HUD PROGRAMS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held oversight
hearings to review the mission, management, and organization of programs of
the Department of Housing and Urban Development, focusing on the moderate
rehabilitation program, receiving testimony from Robert C. Weaver, City
University of New York, New York, former Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development; Robert C. Wood, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut,
former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; John B. Rhinelander, Shaw,
Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge, former Under Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development, Philip N. Brownstein, Brownstein, Zeidman and Schomer, former
Federal Housing Commissioner, Anthony Downs, Brookings Institution, and
Rudolph Penner, The Urban Institute, all of Washington, DC; and Richard C. Van
Dusen, Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen and Freeman, Detroit, Michigan,
former Under Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of James L. Kolstad, of Colorado, to be Chairman,
and Susan M. Coughlin, of Pennsylvania, to be a Member, both of the National
Transportation Safety Board, and Barry L. Harris, of Maine, to be Deputy
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their
own behalf. Mr. Kolstad was introduced by Senators Simpson and Burns, Ms.
Coughlin was introduced by Senator Specter, and Mr. Harris was introduced by
Senator Cohen.
TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the Convention
Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
(Treaty Doc. No. 100-20), after receiving testimony from Abraham D. Sofaer,
Legal Advisor, Department of State; Mark Richard, Deputy Assistant Attorney
General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; Winston P. Nagan, Amnesty
International USA, Gainesville, Florida; David F. Forte, Cleveland State
University, Cleveland, Ohio; James Silkenat, American Bar Association, New
York, New York; Charles E. Rice, Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, Indiana;
and David Weissbrodt, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, on behalf of the
Center for Victims of Torture, and the Minnesota Lawyers International Human
Rights Committee.
TEACHER EXCELLENCE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed hearings on S. 1675,
S. 1676, and S. 498, bills to provide financial assistance to strengthen the
recruitment and training of teachers in the United States and to provide a
range of incentives for teachers to continue in the profession, receiving
testimony from Albert Shanker, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO,
Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute, and Blanche Smith Brownley,
Friendship Education Center, all of Washington, DC; David Rockefeller, Jr.,
Recruiting New Teachers, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts; Barbara R. Hatton,
The Ford Foundation, New York, New York; John I. Goodlad, University of
Washington, Seattle, on behalf of the American Association of Colleges of
Teacher Education; and Judy Johnston, Schenley High School Teacher Center,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Council of the Great City Schools.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings to review the economic
outlook for 1990, receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Federal
Reserve Board.
Hearings continue on Friday, February 2.
1990/01/31
Daily Digest - [Wednesday, January 31, 1990]; pages D52 - D56 (Bound vol.
D17-D20)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
[NOMINATION]
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to further
discuss the nomination of Victor Stello, Jr., of Maryland, to be Assistant
Secretary of Energy for Defense Programs.
Committee recessed subject to call.
RESOLUTION TRUST CORPORATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed oversight
hearings to review the financial status and activities of the Resolution Trust
Corporation, receiving testimony from L. William Seidman, Chairman, Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation, Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System, Jack Kemp, Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development, and John E. Robson, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, all on
behalf of the Oversight Board of the Resolution Trust Corporation.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1991 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee began hearings in preparation for reporting
the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1991 budget for the Federal
Government, receiving testimony from Richard G. Darman, Director, Office of
Management and Budget.
Hearings continue on tomorrow.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of George W. Haley, of Maryland, to be a Commissioner of the Postal
Rate Commission, after the nominee, who was introduced by Representative
Morella, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/02/01
Daily Digest - [Thursday, February 1, 1990]; pages D58 - D65 (Bound vol. D20-
D24)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Production and Stabilization of Prices resumed hearings on
proposed legislation to strengthen and improve U.S. agricultural programs,
focusing on the U.S. soybean industry and its relation to farm policy,
receiving testimony from Bruce Gardner, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for
Economics; J. William Uhrig, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana; Rob
Martin, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama; Marlyn Jorgensen, Garrison, Iowa,
on behalf of the American Soybean Association; Floyd Anderson, Brocket, North
Dakota, on behalf of the National Sunflower Association; Tom Graham Jr.,
Washington, Indiana, on behalf of the U.S. Canola Association; C. Lockwood
Marine, Central Soya Company, Inc., Fort Wayne, Indiana, on behalf of the
National Oilseed Processors Association; John A. Buritt, National Sun
Industries, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Thad Freelund, Tillar, Arkansas.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, February 22.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 9,008
routine military nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1991 for the Department of Defense, and to
review the five year defense plan, receiving testimony from Richard B. Cheney,
Secretary of Defense; and Gen. Colin L. Powell, USA, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of
Staff.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 27.
SECURITIES LAW ENFORCEMENT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
resumed hearings on S. 647, to amend the federal securities laws to revise the
enforcement remedies for civil violations of those laws, receiving testimony
from Richard C. Breeden, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission; Stanley
Sporkin, United States District Judge, Washington, DC, former Director of
Enforcement, Securities and Exchange Commission; Aulana L. Peters, Gibson,
Dunn and Crutcher, Los Angeles, California, former Commissioner, Securities
and Exchange Commission; Gary G. Lynch, Davis, Polk and Wardwell, former
Director of Enforcement, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Victor
Futter, Sills, Cummis, Zucherman, Radin, Tichman, Epstein and Gross,
representing the American Society of Corporate Secretaries, both of New York,
New York.
Hearings continue on Thursday, February 8.
1991 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1991 budget for
the Federal Government, receiving testimony from Nicholas F. Brady, Secretary
of the Treasury; and Michael J. Boskin, Chairman, Council of Economic
Advisors.
Hearings continue on Monday, February 5.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of William D. Hathaway, of Maine, to be a Federal
Maritime Commissioner, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators
Mitchell and Cohen, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on S.
1076, to increase public understanding of the national environment and to
advance and develop environmental education and training, after receiving
testimony from F. Henry Habicht II, Deputy Administrator, Environmental
Protection Agency; Gaylord Nelson, The Wilderness Society, Gary J. San Julian,
National Wildlife Federation, Kathy McGlauflin, North American Association for
Environmental Education, Roxanne Bradshaw, National Education Association of
the United States, and John Padalino, National Science Teachers Association,
all of Washington, DC; Stephen Kussman, Alliance for Environmental Education,
Alexandria, Virginia; Peggy Cowen, Western Regional Environmental Education
Council, Juneau, Alaska; and William Hammond, Lee County Public Schools, Fort
Myers, Florida.
FOREIGN POLICY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to review foreign
policy priorities for 1990, after receiving testimony from James A. Baker III,
Secretary of State.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
The nominations of Michael J. Norton, to be United States Attorney for the
District of Colorado, Ronald Frank Ederer, to be United States Attorney for
the Western District of Texas, James Y. Stewart, to be United States Marshal
for the Eastern District of Michigan, Charles E. Healey, to be United States
Marshal for the Eastern District of New York, Donald E. Crowl, to be United
States Marshal for the Northern District of Oklahoma, Walter J. Bamberg, to be
United States Marshal for the Middle District of Alabama, Robert F. Gilbert,
to be United States Marshal for the Distict of New Hampshire, and Craig L.
Meacham, to be United States Marshal for the Central District of California;
S. 438, to restore the usefulness and effectiveness of the Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute; and
H.R. 150, to provide a procedure for an alien who dies while serving on
active-duty with the United States Armed Forces during certain periods of
hostilities to be considered a citizen of the United States at the time of the
alien's death.
Also, committee began consideration of S. 865, to promote retail competition
and assure lower prices on American consumer products, but did not complete
action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of D'Wayne Gray, of Virginia, to be Chief Benefits Director, Department of
Veterans Affairs, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his
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 Wednesday, February 7.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/02/05
Daily Digest - [Monday, February 5, 1990]; pages D68 - D74 (Bound vol. D25-
D28)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
IMPACT OF SOVIET CHANGES
Committee on Armed Services: On Friday, February 2, Committee resumed hearings
on implications of policy changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe on
U.S. alliances, national security policy and military strategy, and the
national defense budget, receiving testimony from Adm. William J. Crowe, Jr.,
USN (Ret.), Gen. David C. Jones, USAF (Ret.), and Gen. John W. Vessey, Jr.,
USA (Ret.), all former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 6.
1991 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1991 budget for
the Federal Government, focusing on U.S. military posture, receiving testimony
from Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of Defense; and Gen. Colin L. Powell, USA,
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Committee will meet again on Wednesday, February 7.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of John Wesley Bartlett, of Massachusetts, to be Director, Office
of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, and Robert H. Gentile, of Ohio, to
be Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, both of the Department of Energy,
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr.
Gentile was introduced by Senator Glenn and Representative Regula.
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SOCIAL SECURITY
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation to
reduce Social Security taxes, receiving testimony from Gwendolyn S. King,
Commissioner, and Harry C. Ballantyne, Chief Actuary, both of the Social
Security Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Charles A.
Bowsher, Comptroller General, and Lawrence H. Thompson, Assistant Comptroller
General, both of the General Accounting Office; Robert M. Ball, Social
Security, Health and Welfare Policy, Washington, DC, former Commissioner,
Social Security Administration; and Robert J. Myers, Commissioner on Railroad
Retirement Reform, Silver Spring, Maryland, former Chief Actuary, Social
Security Administration.
Hearings continue on Thursday, February 8.
MEDIGAP
Committee on Finance: On Friday, February 2, Subcommittee on Medicare and Long
Term Care concluded hearings to examine issues relating to Medigap insurance
policies designed to pay some or all beneficiaries' deductibles and
coinsurance, receiving testimony from Representative Wyden; Janet L. Shikles,
Director, Health Financing and Policy Issues, U.S. General Accounting Office;
Earl R. Pomeroy, National Association of Insurance Commissioners and
Commissioner of Insurance, Bismarck, North Dakota; Thomas Rice, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Alan P. Spielman, Blue Cross and Blue Shield,
Linda Jenckes, Health Insurance Association of America, and Gail E. Shearer,
Consumers Union, all of Washington, DC; and Victor Hurst, American Association
of Retired Persons, Clemson, South Carolina.
NATIONAL DRUG STRATEGY
Committee on the Judiciary: On Friday, February 2, Committee resumed hearings
to review the Administration's national drug control strategy, receiving
testimony from William J. Bennett, Director, Herbert Kleber, Deputy Director
for Demand Reduction, Stanley Morris, Deputy Director for Supply Reduction,
Reggie Walton, State and Local Associate Director, Bruce Carnes, Budget
Director, and John Walters, Chief of Staff, all of the National Drug Control
Policy.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Joint Economic Committee: On Friday, February 2, Committee resumed hearings to
review the economic outlook for 1990, receiving testimony from Nicholas F.
Brady, Secretary of the Treasury.
Hearings continue on Thursday, February 8.
EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT
Joint Economic Committee: On Friday, February 2, Committee held hearings to
review the employment/unemployment situation for January, receiving testimony
from Janet L. Norwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of
Labor.
Committee recessed subject to call.
1990/02/06
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 6, 1990; pages D75 - D84 (Bound vol. D28-
D34)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Domestic
and Foreign Marketing and Product Promotion held hearings on proposed
legislation to strengthen and improve U.S. agricultural programs, focusing on
export and market development programs, receiving testimony from R.E.
Anderson, Jr., Administrator, and Christopher Goldthwait, Assistant
Administrator for Export Credit, both of the Foreign Agricultural Service,
Department of Agriculture; William R. Allen, Jr., Union Equity Co-operative
Exchange, Enid, Oklahoma; Wayne Andersen, CoBank--National Bank for
Co-operatives, Denver, Colorado; Alex Curtis, Farmers Grain Terminal,
Greenville, Mississippi; Paul Drazek, American Farm Bureau, Winston Wilson,
U.S. Wheat Associates, and David Graves, Rice Millers' Association, all of
Washington, D.C.; and Larry La Touf, Bakersfield, California, on behalf of the
National Cotton Council.
Committee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991
for the Department of Labor, receiving testimony from Elizabeth H. Dole,
Secretary of Labor; and Raymond Maria, Acting Inspector General, Department of
Labor.
Subcommittee will meet again on tomorrow.
IMPACT OF SOVIET CHANGES
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on the implications of
policy changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe on U.S. alliances,
national security policy and military strategy, and the national defense
budget, receiving testimony from Harold Brown, former Secretary of Defense.
Hearings continue on Thursday, February 22.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Edward J. Philbin, of California, to be a Member
of the Interstate Commerce Commission, after the nominee, who was introduced
by Senator Wilson and Representative Lowery, testified and answered questions
in his own behalf.
CHEMICAL EXPORTS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Foreign
Commerce and Tourism held oversight hearings on U.S. chemical exports to Latin
America, receiving testimony from Senator Reid; Gene R. Haislip, Deputy
Assistant Administrator, Office of Diversion Control, Drug Enforcement
Administration, Department of Justice; Don Coticchia, Ashland Chemical
Company, Columbus, Ohio; John Rutledge, Exxon Chemical Company, and Russ
Simmons, Pecten Chemical Company, Inc, both of Houston, Texas; and Rensselaer
Lee III, Global Advisory Services, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
TRUCKEE-CARSON-PYRAMID LAKE WATER SETTLEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power
concluded hearings on S. 1554, to ratify and implement water rights
settlements involving the Pyramid Paiute Tribe, the States of California and
Nevada, and other parties with respect to the waters of the Truckee and Carson
Rivers and Lake Tahoe in Nevada and California, after receiving testimony from
Senators Cranston, Wilson, Reid, and Bryan; Representatives Shumway and
Vucanovich; John M. Sayre, Assistant Secretary for Water and Science,
Constance B. Harriman, Assistant Secretary of Fish and Wildlife and Parks, and
Eddie F. Brown, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, all of the Department
of the Interior; Rear Adm. Steven R. Briggs, U.S. Navy Commander, Light Attack
Wing, U.S. Pacific Fleet; Barry M. Hartman, Deputy Assistant Attorney General,
Land and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice; David N. Kennedy,
California State Department of Water Resources, Sacramento; Nevada State
Senator Virgil Getto, Nevada State Assembly Speaker Joseph E. Dini, Jr.,
Cecilia Colling, on behalf of the Governor of Nevada, and David Pumphrey,
Carson Water Subconservancy District, all of Carson City, Nevada; Dell Steve,
Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribes, Cyril Schank, Board of Churchill County
Commissioners, and Ted deBraga, Truckee-Carson Irrigation District, all of
Fallon, Nevada; Virgil H. Wedge, Coalition for a Negotiated Settlement,
Forrest Lawson, Regional Water Planning and Advisory Board of Washoe County,
and Tina Nappe, Lahontan Valley Wetlands Coalition, all of Reno, Nevada;
Joseph H. Ely, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians, Nixon, Nevada; David R.
Yardas, Oakland, California, on behalf of the Environmental Defense Fund; and
David L. Harrison, The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
An original bill (S. 2073) to authorize certain United States assistance and
trade benefits for Panama and certain assistance to support the transition to
democracy of Eastern Europe; and
The nomination of Ronald J. Sorini, of the District of Columbia, for the rank
of Ambassador during his tenure of service as the United States Negotiator on
Textile Matters.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Hilary P. Cleveland, of New Hampshire, to be a Commissioner on
the part of the United States on the International Joint Commission, United
States and Canada, and David C. Fields, of California, to be Director of the
Office of Foreign Missions, with the rank of Ambassador, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 2006, to
redesignate the Environmental Protection Agency as the Department of the
Environment, and to provide for a global environmental policy of the United
States, receiving testimony from William K. Reilly, Administrator, and F.
Henry Habicht II, Deputy Administrator, both of the Environmental Protection
Agency; Peter Jon deVos, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs; Stephen A.
Wakefield, General Counsel, Department of Energy; and John Niehuss, Senior
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Economic Policy.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Clarence Thomas, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
District of Columbia, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Nunn,
Danforth, and Robb, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
Testimony was also received from Harriet Ehrlich, District Director (Houston),
and Willie King, Director, Financial Management Division, both of the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission; Daniel J. Schulder, National Council on the
Aging, Arthur Green, International Association of Official Human Rights
Agencies, and Frank Quevedo, Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational
Fund, all of Washington, DC; Alfred W. Blumrosen, Rutgers University School of
Law, New Brunswick, New Jersey; and Nancy Kreiter, Women Employed, Chicago,
Illinois.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/02/07
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 7, 1990; pages D85 - D94 (Bound vol. D35-
D41)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
on proposed legislation to strengthen and improve U.S. agricultural programs,
receiving testimony from Clayton K. Yeutter, Secretary of Agriculture.
Committee will meet again on Tuesday, February 20.
APPROPRIATIONS--HHS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991
for the Department of Health and Human Services, receiving testimony in behalf
of funds for their respective activities from Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of
Health and Human Services; Eunice Thomas, Acting Assistant Secretary, Family
Support Administration, Mary Gall, Assistant Secretary for Human Development
Services, Richard P. Kusserow, Inspector General, Gail R. Wilenski,
Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration, and Gwendolyn S. King,
Commissioner, Social Security Administration, all of the Department of Health
and Human Services.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, February 9.
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1991 for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, receiving testimony from
William J. Bennett, Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, February 21.
NATO DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on the military strategy
and operational requirements for NATO defense, receiving testimony from Gen.
John R. Galvin, USA, Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command; and Adm. Frank
B. Kelso, II, USN, Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command.
Committee will meet again on tomorrow.
SECONDARY MORTGAGE MARKET
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs held oversight hearings to examine the safety and soundness of
the secondary mortgage market, focusing on the Federal National Mortgage
Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
(Freddie Mac), receiving testimony from Alfred A. Dellibovi, Under Secretary
of Housing and Urban Development; John Weicher, Assistant Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development for Policy Development and Research; David O. Maxwell,
Chairman, Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), Leland C.
Brendsel, President, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac),
Thomas H. Stanton, Olwine, Connelly, Chase, O'Donnell and Weyher, and
Frederick D. Wolf, Price Waterhouse, both of Washington, DC; Ralph
Schlosstein, Blackstone Financial Management, Nancy G. Spady, Morgan Stanley
and Co., Andrew Carron, First Boston Corporation, John Kriz, Moody's Investors
Service, Thomas Gillis, Standard and Poor's, John C. Sites, Bear, Stearns and
Company, Inc., and Robert R. Rupp, Chemical Bank, all of New York, New York;
Patrick Hendershott, Ohio State University, Columbus; John J. McConnell,
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; Mark J. Flannery, University of
Florida, Gainesville, Florida, and Andrew M. Carter, Capital Corporation,
Boston, Massachusetts. Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1991 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1991 budget for
the Federal Government, focusing on the impact of health care costs on the
American economy, receiving testimony from Washington Governor Booth Gardner,
Olympia; Lane Kirkland, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC; and Richard E. Heckert, E.I.
du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, Delaware.
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Committee will meet again on Friday, February 9.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Ervin S. Duggan, of South Carolina, to be a
Member of the Federal Communications Commission, and John W. Lyons, of
Maryland, to be Director of the National Institute of Standards and
Technology, Department of Commerce, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Duggan was introduced by Senators Thurmond,
Bentsen, Hollings and Fowler, and Mr. Lyons was introduced by Representatives
Boehlert and Morella.
OPERATOR SERVICES INDUSTRY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications held hearings on S. 1643 and S. 1660, bills to require the
Federal Communications Commission to establish regulations to protect
consumers who use operator services to place interstate telephone calls from
unfair and deceptive practices and to ensure that consumers can make informed
choices in making such calls, receiving testimony from Senator Dixon; Richard
M. Firestone, Chief, Common Carrier Bureau, Federal Communications Commission;
Dennis J. Nagel, Iowa State Utilities Board, Des Moines; David Wagenhauser,
Telecommunications Research and Action Center, Jeffrey Hanft, Wood, Lucksinger
and Epstein, on behalf of the People's Telephone Company, and Barbara J.
Easterling, Communications Workers of America, all of Washington, DC; Harvey
M. Berg, Operator Assistance Network, Van Nuys, California; Gerald A. Hines,
AT&T Card/Operator Services, Basking Ridge, New Jersey; Steve Bickerstaff,
International Telecharge, Inc., Dallas, Texas; A. Gray Collins, Jr., Bell
Atlantic, Arlington, Virginia; Robert J. Rowland, Capital Network System,
Inc., Austin, Texas; and William G. Oates, The Sheraton Corporation, Boston,
Massachusetts.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CHILD PASSENGER SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee
concluded hearings to review the safety of child passengers in motor vehicles,
after receiving testimony from Gen. Jerry R. Curry, Administrator, National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Michael Brownlee, Associate
Administrator, Office of Defects Investigation, and Robert Hellmuth, Director,
Office of Vehicle Safety Compliance, all of the Department of Transportation;
Clarence Ditlow, Center for Auto Safety, Philip W. Haseltine, American
Coalition for Traffic Safety, Inc., and Mark D. Widome, American Academy of
Pediatrics, all of Washington, DC; Fred Locker, Locker, Greenberg & Brainin,
New York, New York, on behalf of the Juvenile Products Manufacturing
Association; Brian O'Neill, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington,
Virginia; Capt. Raymond D. Cotton, Maryland State Police, Bel Air; and Vince
Burgess, Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, Richmond, on behalf of the
National Association of Governor's Highway Safety Representatives.
PANAMA
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original bill
(S. 2092), to restore trade benefits under the Generalized System of
Preferences (GSP) and the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) for Panama.
1988 TRADE ACT
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed oversight hearings on the
implementation of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (P.L.
100-418), receiving testimony from Carla A. Hills, United States Trade
Representative.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CHINA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine U.S.
policy toward China, after receiving testimony from Lawrence S. Eagleburger,
Deputy Secretary of State.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Larry K. Mellinger, of California, to be United States Executive Director
of the Inter-American Development Bank, after the nominee testified and
answered questions in his own behalf.
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT POLICY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee continued hearing on S. 2006, to
redesignate the Environmental Protection Agency as the Department of the
Environment, and to provide a global environmental policy of the United
States, receiving testimony from Douglas Costle, Vermont Law School,
Burlington, former Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Sharon
Newsome, National Wildlife Federation, Thomas B. Stoel, Jr., Natural Resources
Defense Council, Frederick Krupp, Environmental Defense Fund, Michael
McCloskey, Sierra Club, Michael S. Clark, Friends of the Earth, Nolan Hancock,
Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers Union, and Ray Kline, Richard Wegman and
Howard Messner, all of the National Academy of Public Administration, all of
Washington, DC.
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Hearings continue tomorrow.
HOMELESS AND RUNAWAY YOUTHS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs, and Alcoholism held hearings to examine issues relating to runaway and
homeless youth, including S. 1911, to provide assistance in the development of
new or improved programs to help younger individuals through grants to the
States for community planning, and S. 2054, to authorize grants and contracts
for projects providing primary pediatric care to disadvantaged children,
receiving testimony from Wade F. Horn, Chief of the Children's Bureau,
Department of Health and Human Services; Della Hughes, National Network of
Runaway and Youth Services, and Deborah A. Shore, Sachia Bruce House, both of
Washington, DC; Virginia Price, The Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Boston,
Massachusetts; Thomas Behrens, Exodus Homes, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of
the Chicago Coalition of the Homeless; and certain public witnesses.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE MATTERS
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/02/08
Daily Digest - [Thursday, February 8, 1990]; pages D96 - D102 (Bound vol.
D41-D46)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Research and General Legislation held hearings on proposed
legislation to strengthen and improve U.S. agricultural programs, focusing on
grain quality enhancement, receiving testimony from Jo Ann D. Smith, Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Inspection Services; Philip L.
Christenson, Assistant Administrator, Food for Peace and Voluntary Assistance,
Agency for International Development; Ivan A. Chestopalov, State Inspection
for Plant Quarantine Administration, and Michael Ageev, Exportkhleb, both of
Moscow, USSR; Paul Vervaeke, European Oilseed Processors' Association, Izegem,
Belgium; Gary Riedel, American Soybean Association, Centralia, Missouri; Steve
McCoy, North American Export Grain Association, and Winston Wilson, U.S. Wheat
Associates, both of Washington, DC.
Hearings will continue on Thursday, February 22.
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Credit held hearings on proposed legislation to strengthen and
improve U.S. agricultural progams, focusing on credit provisions relating to
the Farmers Home Administration, receiving testimony from Neal Sox Johnson,
Acting Administrator, Farmers Home Administration, Department of Agriculture;
John Harmon, Director, Resources, Community, and Economic Development
Division, U.S. General Accounting Office; Cheryl Cook, National Farmers Union
and Ralph Paige, Federation of Southern Cooperatives, both of Washington, DC;
Pam Baldwin, National Save the Family Farm Coalition, Oak City, North
Carolina; Eugene Severens, Center for Rural Affairs, Walthill, Nebraska; and
Gerry Emm, Washoe Tribe, Carson City, Nevada.
Hearings will continue on Tuesday, February 20.
APPROPRIATIONS--CENTRAL AMERICA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for foreign assistance to El
Salvador and Panama, receiving testimony from Bernard W. Aronson, Assistant
Secretary of State for InterAmerican Affairs.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
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APPROPRIATIONS--SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA-HUD and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for the Office
of Science and Technology Policy, and to review the Administration's global
warming policy, receiving testimony from D. Allan Bromley, Director, Office of
Science and Technology Policy.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 2.
DEFENSE STRATEGY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on military strategy
and operational requirements of certain U.S. commands, receiving testimony on
the commands oriented to Pacific defense from Adm. Huntington Hardisty, USN,
Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command; and Gen. Louis C. Menetrey, USA,
Commander, U.S. Forces, Korea; and receiving testimony on the unified commands
oriented to Third World defense and unconventional warfare 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 Gen.
Maxwell R. Thurman, USA, Commander in Chief, U.S. Southern Command.
Committee will meet again on Wednesday, February 21.
SECURITIES LAW ENFORCEMENT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
resumed hearings on S. 647, to amend the federal securities laws to revise the
enforcement remedies for civil violations of those laws, receiving testimony
from Richard G. Ketchum, Director, Division of Market Regulation, and Joseph
I. Goldstein, Associate Director, Division of Enforcement and Director, Penny
Stock Task Force, both of the Securities and Exchange Commission; Susan E.
Bryant, North American Securities Amdinistrators Association, Frank J. Wilson,
National Association of Securities Dealers, both of Washington, DC; Brian N.
Smiley, Paige and Bacek, Atlanta, Georgia; Hartley T. Bernstein, Brandeis,
Bernstein, New York, New York; and Debra and Bobby Thomason, both of Elberton,
Georgia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported the nominations of Barry L. Harris, of Maine, to be Deputy
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, James L. Kolstad, of Colorado, to be Chairman of the National
Transportation Safety Board, Susan M. Coughlin, of Pennsylvania, to be a
Member of the National Transportation Safety Board, John W. Lyons, of
Maryland, to be Director of the National Institute of Standards and
Technology, William D. Hathaway, of Maine, to be a Federal Maritime
Commissioner, Ervin S. Duggan, of South Carolina, to be a Member of the
Federal Communications Commission, Edward J. Philbin, of California, to be a
Member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and routine lists of Coast Guard
nominations.
SOCIAL SECURITY
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on proposed legislation to
reduce Social Security taxes, receiving testimony from Senator Kasten;
Representatives Penny and Porter; Richard Darman, Director, Office of
Management and Budget; Robert D. Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget
Office; Alice M. Rivlin and Charles L. Schultze, both of the Brookings
Institution, Carolyn L. Weaver, American Enterprise Institute for Public
Policy Research, Eugene Steuerle, Urban Institute, and Gary C. Hufbauer,
Georgetown University, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
JAVITS REPORT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the annual estimate and justification for proposed arms sales for
calendar year 1990 as contained in the "Javits Report" on prospective arms
sales from William Rope, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for
Politico-Military Affairs.
Committee recessed subject to call.
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT POLICY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee continued hearings on S. 2006, to
redesignate the Environmental Protection Agency as the Department of the
Environment, and to provide a global environmental policy of the United
States, receiving testimony from J. Dexter Peach, Assistant Comptroller
General, and Richard Hembra, Director, Environmental Issues, both of the
General Accounting Office; Gus Speth, World Resources Institute, Paul Portney,
Resources for the Future, Ron Van Mynen, Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics
Company, Inc., and Daniel K. Shipp, National Electrical Manufacturers
Association, all of Washington, DC; and Bruce Karrh, E.I. DuPont de Nemours
and Company, Wilmington, Delaware.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
RADIATION EXPOSURE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the health effects of radiation exposure caused by open air atomic
testing and uranium mining, after receiving testimony from Representative
Wayne Owens; Clark Heath, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta,
Georgia, on behalf of the American Cancer Society; Joseph L. Lyon and Victor
E. Archer, both of the University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City.
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NOMINATIONS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Ronald M. Holdaway, of Wyoming, and Hart T. Mankin, of
Delaware, both to be Associate Judges of the United States Court of Veterans
Appeals, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Mankin was introduced by Senators Biden and Roth.
Joint Meetings
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings to review the economic
outlook for 1990, receiving testimony from Michael Boskin, Chairman, and John
Taylor and Richard Schmalensee, both Members, all of the Council of Economic
Advisers.
Hearings were recessed subject to call:
1990/02/20
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 20, 1990; pages D103 - D114 (Bound vol. D46-
D51)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL--INDIAN AGRICULTURE PROGRAMS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held joint
hearings with the Select Committee on Indian Affairs on proposed legislation
to strengthen and improve U.S. agricultural programs, focusing on Indian
agriculture and nutrition programs, receiving testimony from Bruce Gardner,
Assistant Secretary for Economics, Alberta Frost, Director, Food Distribution
Division, Food Nutrition Service, and Gary Batko, Supervisor, Legislation and
Court Suit Section, Food Stamp Program, all of the Department of Agriculture;
Patrick A. Hayes, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Trust and Economic
Development, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; Flora H.
Milans, Associate Director, Resources, Community, and Economic Development
Division, General Accounting Office; Robert L. Miller, Intertribal Agriculture
Council, Beggs, Oklahoma; Elliot Booth, Colorado River Indian Tribes, Parker,
Arizona, on behalf of the Southwest Indian Agriculture Association; Chavez
John, Office of Navajo Land Administration, Division of Natural Resources,
Fort Defiance, Arizona; Lonnie Racehorse, Shoshone-Bannock Tribe, Fort Hall,
Idaho; Norman Wolf, New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service,
Las Cruces; Thomas R. White, Gila River Indian Community, Sacaton, Arizona;
Calvin E. Waln, Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Rosebud, South Dakota; Gary Collins, Wind
River Indian Reservation, Arapaho, Wyoming; and Ed Lonefight, Fort Berthold
Tribe, New Town, North Dakota.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Credit resumed hearings on proposed legislation to strengthen and
improve U.S. agricultural programs, focusing on the credit title of the 1990
Farm Bill as it relates to the Farmers Home Administration's guaranteed
lending program, receiving testimony from Neal Sox Johnson, Acting
Administrator, Farmers Home Administration, Department of Agriculture; John
Harmon, Director, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division,
General Accounting Office; Randi Ilyse Roth, Farmers' Legal Action Group, and
Larry Buegler, Farm Credit Services, both of St. Paul, Minnesota; Mike Grove,
American Bankers Association, Washington, DC; and Gary Nelson, Scandia
American Bank, Stanley, North Dakota, on behalf of the Independent Bankers
Association.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 5.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings to review
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on U.S. defense strategy to the changing global security environment,
receiving testimony from Donald J. Atwood, Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, February 22.
APPROPRIATIONS--NIH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1991 for the National Institutes of Health, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from William F. Raub, Acting
Director, Samuel Broder, Director, National Cancer Institute, Claude J.M.
Lenfant, Director, Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Harald A. Loe, Director,
National Institute of Dental Research, Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Associate Director for HIV
Research, Phillip Gorden, Director, National Institute of Diabetes and
Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Duane F. Alexander, Director, National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development, David P. Rall, Director,
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Philip E. Schambra,
Director, John E. Fogarty International Center, Murray Goldstein, Director,
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Jay Moskowitz, former
Director, and James B. Snow, Jr., Director, both of the National Institute of
Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Ruth L. Kirchstein, Director,
National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Carl Kupfer, Director,
National Eye Institute, 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., Acting Director,
Division of Research Resources, Ada Sue Hinshaw, Director, National Center for
Nursing Research, James B. Watson, Director, National Center for Human Genome
Research, and Donald A.B. Lindberg, Director, National Library of Medicine,
all of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human
Services.
Subcommittee will meet again on tomorrow.
1991 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1991 budget for
the Federal Government, focusing on the impact of hunger in America on
children, receiving testimony from Senator Sarbanes; Buford Nichols, Jr.,
Scientific Director, Children's Nutrition Research Center (Houston, Texas),
Department of Agriculture; Victor Sidel, Montefiore Medical Center and the
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York; William Dietz, New
England Medical Center, Floating Hospital for Infants and Children, Boston,
Massachusetts; Robert Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities,
Washington, DC; Mary Tamper, Prince Georges County, Maryland, on behalf of the
Citizens Empowerment Leadership Organization; and Peggy Adams, Montgomery
County, Maryland.
Committee will meet again on Thursday, February 22.
UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK PROGRAM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection held oversight hearings to review the Environmental Protection
Agency's financial responsibility requirements for underground storage tank
systems containing petroleum or other regulated substances, receiving
testimony from Don R. Clay, Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and
Emergency Response, Environmental Protection Agency; Peter F. Guerrero,
Associate Director, Environmental Protection Issues, Resources, Community, and
Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office; Mayor Salvatore J.
Panto, Jr., Easton, Pennsylvania, representing the National League of Cities;
Richard Reiter, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Portland; Marshall
T. Mott-Smith, Florida Department of Environmental Regulation, Tallahassee;
Candace Chase Mills, Mills, Repair, Belgrade, Montana; F.C. Roberts, Jr., Acme
Petroleum and Fuel Company, Inc., Gastonia, North Carolina, representing the
Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America and the National
Association of Convenience Stores; John Taggart, Conoco Travel Shoppe, and
Douglas Alexander, Story Distributing Company, representing the Petroleum
Marketers Association of America, both of Bozeman, Montana; Lois N. Epstein,
Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, DC; James Moench, North Dakota Farmers
Union, Jamestown; and Dick Koscielak, Agricultural Excess and Surplus
Insurance Company, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
STUDENT AID
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
held oversight hearings to examine alleged fraud, waste and abuse in federal
student loan programs, receiving testimony from Franklin Frazier, Director,
Education and Employment; Issues, Human Resources Division, General Accounting
Office; James B. Thomas Jr., Inspector General, Department of Education; and
David B. Buckley, Chief Investigator, and Grace T. McPhearson, Staff
Investigator, both of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
Hearings continue on Monday, February 26.
SOFT DRINK BILL
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business
Rights concluded hearings on S. 114, to declare certain activities of
manufacturers of soft drinks to be unfair acts or practices for purposes of
the Federal Trade Commission Act, after receiving testimony from Stanley I.
Bregman, Bregman, Abell & Kay, Alfred Griggs and Mark L. Fleischaker, both on
behalf of the National Soft Drink Association, and Mark Gorman, National
Restaurant Association, all of Washington, DC; Brook R. Jason, Jason Soda
Systems, Inc., South Windsor, Connecticut; William V. Eaton, Cini-Little
International Food Service Consultants, Potomac, Maryland; Mark A. Imbesi,
Imbesi Bottling Group, Bridgeton, New Jersey; and H. Ronald Harris, Better
Beverages/Bar Master, Cerritos, California.
HEALTH AND SAFETY IN THE WORK PLACE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
concluded hearings on S. 464, to promote safety and health in work places
owned, operated or under contract with the United States by clarifying the
United States' obligation to observe occupational safety and health standards,
after receiving testimony from Stuart Gerson, Assistant Attorney General,
Civil Division, Department of Justice; Victor E. Schwartz, Crowell & Moring,
representing the Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc., and Andrew Poper, American
University Law School, both of Washington, DC; James Reed, Asbestos Victims
Campaign, Brookline, Massachusetts; and Susan Nial, Ness, Motley, Loadholt,
Richardson & Poole, Charleston, South Carolina.
TOBACCO EDUCATION AND CONTROL
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 1883, to
establish a Center for Tobacco Products to coordinate Federal education and
research with regard to tobacco products, to set up grant programs to inform
the public about the health risks of tobacco products, to conduct anti-tobacco
programs among youth at schools and job sites, and to enforce prohibitions on
sale of tobacco to minors, and to examine advertising practices of the tobacco
industry, receiving testimony from Senators Lautenberg and Bradley;
Representative Durbin; Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human
Services; Minnesota Commissioner of Health, Sister Mary Madonna Ashton,
Minneapolis; Alan Blum, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; and
Charles O. Whitley, The Tobacco Institute, Tom Boggs, Patton, Boggs & Blow, on
behalf of the Freedom to Advertise Coalition, and Scott D. Ballin, Coalition
on Smoking OR Health, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee recessed subject to call.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1990/02/21
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 21, 1990; pages D115 - D124 (Bound vol.
D51-D57)
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,
focusing on trade issues, receiving testimony from Richard Crowder, Under
Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs, Alan Raul, General
Counsel, and Chris Goldthwait, Assistant General Sales Manager for Foreign
Agricultural Service, all of the Department of Agriculture; Allan I.
Mendelowitz, Director, and Phillip Thomas, Assistant Director, both for
International Trade, National Security and International Affairs Division,
General Accounting Office; and Steve McCoy, North American Export Grain
Association, and Carol Brookins, World Perspectives, Inc., both of Washington,
DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--FCC/BIB
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1991, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Alfred C. Sikes, Chairman, and Andy Fishel, Managing Director,
both of the Federal Communications Commission; and Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr.,
Chairman, and Ben J. Wattenberg, Vice Chairman, both of the Board for
International Broadcasting.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 6.
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 1991 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, Carlton Alexis, President, Howard University,
I. King Jordan, President, Gallaudet University, William E. Castle, Director,
National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Tuck Tinsley III, President,
American Printing House for the Blind, Daniel Bonner, Acting Assistant
Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, Rita Esquivil, Director,
Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs, Robert Davila,
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Sally
H. Christensen, Director, Budget Service, Office of Planning, Budget and
Evaluation, Christopher Cross, Assistant Secretary for Educational Research
and Improvement, Leonard Haynes, Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary
Education, Betsy Brand, Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult
Education, and James B. Thomas, Jr., Inspector General, all of the Department
of Education.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, February 26.
MILITARY RAPID REINFORCEMENT
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the military
strategy and operational requirements for rapid reinforcement and associated
transportation requirements, after receiving testimony from Gen. Edwin H.
Burba, Jr., USA, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Forces Command; and Gen. Hansford T.
Johnson, USAF, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Transportation Command.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations
of Douglas A. Brook, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of the Army for
Financial Management, Stephen K. Conver, of Virginia, to be Assistant
Secretary of the Army for Research, Development, and Acquisition, William J.
Haynes II, of North Carolina, to be General Counsel of the Army, Enrique
Mendez, Jr., of Puerto Rico, to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health
Affairs, and Colin R. McMillan, of New Mexico, to be Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Production and Logistics, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Brook was introduced by Senator
Warner, Mr. Conver was introduced by Representative Dickinson, Mr. Haynes was
introduced by Senator Thurmond, and Mr. McMillan was introduced by Senators
Bingaman and Domenici, and Representatives Richardson and Skeen.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items:
The nominations of John W. Bartlett, of Massachusetts, to be Director, Office
of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, and Robert H. Gentile, of Ohio, to
be Assistant Secretary for Fossil Fuels, both of the Department of Energy; and
H.R. 1472, to establish the Grand Island National Recreation Area in the State
of Michigan, with amendments.
PARK LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills:
S. 1859, to restructure the repayment terms and conditions for loans made by
the Secretary of the Interior to the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing
Arts for the reconstruction of the Filene Center in Wolf Trap Farm Park in
Fairfax County, Virginia, after receiving testimony from Senator Warner; and
John C. Camp, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC;
and
S. 844 and H.R. 1484, bills to establish a National Park System Review Board,
and S. 1360 and H.R. 2844, bills to improve the ability of the Secretary of
the Interior to properly manage certain resources of the National Park System,
after receiving testimony from Constance B. Harriman, Assistant Secretary of
the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks; and Steven C. Whitney, The
Wilderness Society, and William C. Lienesch, National Parks and Conservation
Association, both of Washington, DC.
Testimony was also received on S. 844 and H.R. 1484 (listed above) from J.
Jackson Walter, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC.; and
on S. 1360 and H.R. 2844 (listed above) from Jack A. Sobel, Center for Marine
Conservation, Washington, DC.
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PAPERWORK REDUCTION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 1742,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1991 and 1992 for the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1980, and to strengthen federal agency responsibility and
accountability of information resources management, receiving testimony from
Senator Sarbanes; Representative Weiss; James B. MacRae, Jr., Acting
Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget; Milton J. Socolar, Special Assistant to the Comptroller
General, General Accounting Office; Cass R. Sunstein, University of Chicago
Law School, Chicago, Illinois; and Gary D. Bass, OMB Watch, and Sherry
Ettleson and David Bladeck, both of Public Citizen, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
HABEAS CORPUS REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation to set forth provisions with respect to special habeas corpus
procedures in capital cases, including S. 88, S. 1757, and S. 1760, after
receiving testimony from Florida Governor Bob Martinez, Tallahassee;
Mississippi Supreme Court Justice James L. Robertson, Jackson; Alabama
Assistant Attorney General Ed Carnes, Montgomery; Georgia Deputy Attorney
General William B. Hill, and Steve Bright, Southern Prisoners Defense
Committee, both of Atlanta, Georgia; and L. Stanley Chauvin, Jr., and Ira
Robbins, American University, both on behalf of the American Bar Association,
Washington, DC.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Donald J. Lee, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of
Pennsylvania, Gerald E. Rosen, to be United States District Judge for the
Eastern District of Michigan, Jacques L. Wiener, Jr., of Louisiana, to be
United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, and Ronald L. Buckwalter,
to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
Messrs. Lee and Buckwalter were introduced by Senators Heinz and Specter, Mr.
Rosen was introduced by Senators Dole and Levin, and Representative Levin, and
Mr. Wiener was introduced by Senators Johnston and Breaux, and Representative
Livingston.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/02/22
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 22, 1990; pages D126 - D140 (Bound vol.
D57-D64)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL--GRAIN QUALITY
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry: Subcommittee on Agricultural
Research and General Legislation resumed hearings on proposed legislation to
strengthen and improve U.S. agricultural programs, focusing on the quality and
competitiveness of U.S. grain in international trade, including S. 1977, Grain
Quality Incentives Act of 1989, receiving testimony from Ron Swanson, Galt,
Iowa, on behalf of the National Corn Growers Association; Arvid Hawk, Cargill,
Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Alex S. Curtis, Farmers Grain Terminal,
Inc., Greenville, Mississippi, both on behalf of the National Grain and Feed
Association; Ervain Friehe, McCook, Nebraska, on behalf of the Nebraska Wheat
Board; Charles R. Hurburgh, Jr., Iowa State University, Ames; Reggie Wyckoff,
Genoa, Colorado, on behalf of the National Association of Wheat Growers; Loren
Doll, Irsik & Doll Feed Services, Inc., Cimarron, Kansas; Terry Deitrich,
Oklahoma Farmers Union, Amers, on behalf of the National Farmers Union; Randy
Marten, Campbell Taggart, Inc., Dallas, Texas, on behalf of the American
Bakers Association, Biscuit and Cracker Manufacturers Association, and the
Retail Bakers of America; Fred A. Cholock, South Dakota State University,
Brookings, on behalf of the National Wheat Improvement Committee; and Andrew
Whisenhunt, Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation, Bradley, on behalf of the
American Farm Bureau Federation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 9.
IMPACT OF GORBACHEV REFORMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed hearings on
the impact of the Gorbachev initiatives and Eastern European political and
military changes on the Joint Chiefs of Staff plans and requirements,
receiving testimony from Gen. Colin Powell, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, February 27.
APPROPRIATIONS--CUSTOMS SERVICE/FEC
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1991, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Carol B. Hallett, Commissioner, U.S. Customs Service, Department of the
Treasury; and John Warren McGarry, Vice Chairman, Federal Election Commission.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 1.
IMPACT OF SOVIET REFORM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on implications of
policy changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe on U.S. alliances,
national security policy and military strategy, and the national defense
budget, receiving testimony from Frank C. Carlucci, former Secretary of
Defense.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Adm. David E. Jeremiah, USN, to be Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, after
the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
MONETARY POLICY REPORT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the Federal Reserve's First Monetary Policy Report for 1990, after
receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System.
1991 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1991 budget for
the Federal Government, focusing on science, space and technology programs,
receiving testimony from D. Allan Bromley, Director, Office of Science and
Technology Policy.
Committee will meet again on Wednesday, February 28.
PRODUCT LIABILITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee held
hearings on S. 1400, to regulate interstate commerce by providing for a
uniform product liability law, receiving testimony from Wendell L. Willkie II,
General Counsel, Department of Commerce; Joseph F. Delfico, Director, Income
Security Issues, Human Resources Division, and Susan Arnold, Evaluator, both
of the General Accounting Office; Maine Supreme Judicial Court Chief Judge
Vincent L. McKusick, Augusta, on behalf of the Conference of Chief Justices;
Alabama State Representative Michael Box, Montgomery, on behalf of the
National Conference of State Legislatures; Pennsylvania State Representative
Fred Noye, Harrisburg, on behalf of the American Legislative Exchange Council;
U.S. District Judge Warren W. Eginton, Bridgeport, Connecticut; Robert C.
Holland, Committee for Economic Development, Washington, DC; James A.
Henderson, Jr., and Theodore Eisenberg, both of Cornell Law School, Ithaca,
New York; Lawrence C. Mann, Wayne State University College of Law, Detroit,
Michigan; and Howard Fark, Minster Machine Co., Minster, Ohio.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 1578, to establish a
Historic Preservation Agency as an independent agency of the U.S. Government,
and S. 1579, to make certain revisions in the law under which Federal
agencies, as well as State and local governments, identify, protect and manage
historic properties in the United States, after receiving testimony from
Senator Fowler; Jerry Rogers, Associate Director for Cultural Resources,
National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Jeff M. Sirmon, Deputy
Chief, and Evan DeBloois, Historic Preservation Officer, both of the Forest
Service, Department of Agriculture; Robert D. Bush, Advisory Council on
Historic Preservation, F. Lawrence Oakes, National Conference of State
Historic Preservation Officers, William Lovis, Society of American
Archaeology, J. Jackson Walter, National Trust for Historic Preservation, and
Bruce Craig, National Parks and Conservation Association, all of Washington,
DC; and Russell V. Keune, American Institute of Architects, Arlington,
Virginia.
Testimony was also received on S. 1579 (listed above) from Karen Funk,
National Indian Education Association, Washington, DC; and David Horan,
National Shipwreck Alliance, Key West, Florida.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Erich W. Bretthauer, of Nevada, to be Assistant Administrator,
Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency,
Jacqueline L. Phillips, of Maryland, to be Federal Cochairman, and Hilda Gay
Legg, of Kentucky, to be Alternate Federal Cochairman, both of the Appalachian
Regional Commission, after the nominees testified and answered questions in
their own behalf. Mr. Bretthauer was introduced by Senator Reid, Ms. Phillips
was introduced by Representative Morella, and Ms. Legg was introduced by
Senator McConnell and Representative Rogers.
U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1991 and 1992 for the U.S. Customs Service
of the Department of the Treasury, and proposed legislation to renew the ad
valorem customs merchandise processing fee established in the Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act of 1986, receiving testimony from Carol B. Hallett,
Commissioner, U.S. Customs Service, Department of the Treasury; Joshua B.
Bolten, General Counsel, Office of the United States Trade Representative;
Kenneth A. Kumm, The 3M Company, St. Paul, Minnesota; Robert M. Tobias,
National Treasury Employees Union, James K. Gordon, Airport Operators Council
International, and Richard E. Norton, Air Transport Association, all of
Washington, DC; M. Sigmund Shapiro, National Customs Brokers an Freight
Forwarders Association, Baltimore, Maryland; and Peter V. Handal, American
Association of Exporters and Importers, New York, New York.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
U.S. POLICY IN EUROPE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs held hearings
to review the scope of U.S. policy in Europe, receiving testimony from Raymond
G.H. Seitz, Assistant Secretary for European and Canadian Affairs, and Richard
A. Clarke, Assistant Secretary for Politico-Military Affairs, both of the
Department of State.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PAPERWORK REDUCTION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee continued hearings on S. 1742,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1991 and 1992 for the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1980, and to strengthen Federal agency responsibility and
accountability of information resources management, receiving testimony from
J. William Hirzy, National Federation of Federal Employees (Local 2050),
Stuart Eizenstat, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer and Murphy, on behalf of the
Coalition for Reauthorization of the Paperwork Reduction Act; Jerry J. Berman,
American Civil Liberties Union, and Patricia Wilson Berger, American Library
Association, all of Washington, DC; Sally L. Douglas and Douglas P. Allen,
both of Washington, DC, Roy Radigan, Midtown Professional Records Center,
Cleveland, Ohio, and Laura Henderson, Prospects Associates, Rockville,
Maryland, all on behalf of the National Federation of Independent Business;
and Gerald E. Yung, Mead Data Central, Dayton, Ohio, and Kenneth B. Allen,
Washington, DC, both on behalf of the Information Industry Association.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Allan V. Burman, of Virginia, to be Administrator for Federal
Procurement Policy, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his
own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
The nominations of Clarence Thomas, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the District of Columbia, Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., to be United
States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Donald W. Tucker, to
be United States Marshal for the District of Arizona, Scott Alan Sewell, to be
United States Marshal for the District of Maryland, and Jack N. Egnor, to be
United States Marshal for the District of Colorado;
S.J. Res. 190, designating April 9, 1990 as "National Former Prisoners of War
Recognition Day;"
S.J. Res. 226, to designate the year 1990 as the "Bicentennial Anniversary of
the Legacy of Benjamin Franklin;"
S.J. Res. 227, to designate the week of March 11 through March 17, 1990 as
"Deaf Awareness Week;"
S.J. Res. 229, to designate April 1990 as "National Prevent-A-Litter Month;"
S.J. Res. 230, to designate the period commencing on May 6, 1990, and ending
on May 12, 1990, as "National Drinking Water Week;"
S.J. Res. 231, to designate the week of June 10, 1990, through June 16, 1990,
as "State-Supported Homes for Veterans Week;"
S.J. Res. 236, designating May 6 through 12, 1990, "Be Kind to Animals and
National Pet Week;"
S.J. Res. 243, to designate March 25, 1990, as "Greek Independence Day: A
National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy;"
S.J. Res. 245, designating July 3, 1990, as "Idaho Centennial Day;"
S.J. Res. 250, designating April 1990 as "National Recycling Month;"
S.J. Res. 251, to designate June 14, 1990, as "Baltic Freedom Day;"
S.J. Res. 252, designating the week of April 15, 1990, through April 21, 1990,
as "National Minority Cancer Awareness Week;"
S.J. Res. 258, designating the last Friday in April as "National Arbor Day;"
S. Res. 245, to designate May 16, 1990, as "National Employee Health and
Fitness Day;"
S.J. Res. 241, to designate the week of April 29, 1990, through May 5, 1990,
as "Jewish Heritage Week," with an amendment; and
S. 865, to promote retail competition and assure lower prices on American
consumer products, with an amendment.
LAND MANAGEMENT REVIEW
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
concluded hearings on S. 1436, to revise and make more efficient the review of
land and resource management plans, and to clarify the jurisdiction and powers
of the courts with regard to review of such plans, after receiving testimony
from Senators Packwood and Burns; James C. Overbay, Deputy Chief, National
Forest System, Department of Agriculture; Cy Jamison, Director, Bureau of Land
Management, Department of the Interior; Marshall J. Breger, Chairman,
Administrative Conference of the United States; Bruce Engel, WTD Industries,
Inc., Portland, Oregon; John O. Mudd, Garlington, Lohn and Robinson, Missoula,
Montana; Joseph A. Sheffield, North Florida Lumber, Inc., Bristol; Ann Forest
Burns, Western Washington Commercial Forest Action Committee, Washington, DC;
Karin Sheldon, on behalf of the Wilderness Society and the Natural Resources
Defense Council, and Kate Zimmerman, National Wildlife Federation, both of
Washington, DC.
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TEACHER EXCELLENCE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities held hearings on S. 1675 and S. 1676, bills to provide financial
assistance to strengthen the recruitment and training of teachers in the
United States and to provide a range of incentives for teachers to continue in
the profession, receiving testimony from Wendy Aronoff, Hope High School, on
behalf of the Coalition of Essential Schools, and Brenda Dann-Messier,
Educational Opportunity Center, on behalf of the National Council on
Educational Opportunity Associations, both of Providence, Rhode Island; Maxine
Duster, Chicago Urban League, Chicago, Illinois; Sibyl C. Jacobson,
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, New York; Art Pearl, University
of Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California; Geraldine Carter, Survival Skills
Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Barbara Simms, Southeast Middle School of
Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland; Dallas Martin, National Association of Student
Financial Aid Administrators, Washington, DC; and Constantine Curris,
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, on behalf of the American
Association of State Colleges and Universities.
Hearings continue on Friday, March 2.
GEORGE MASON MEMORIAL
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on S.
1543, to authorize the Colonial Dames at Gunston Hall to establish a memorial
to George Mason in the District of Columbia, after receiving testimony from
Senator Robb; Virginia State Senator Joseph V. Gartlan, Jr., Richmond; and
Mary Lee Link Allen, Gunston Hall, Lorton, Virginia.
NOMINATION
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Robert William Houk, of Ohio, to be Public Printer, Government
Printing Office, after the nominee, who was introduced by Representative
Oxley, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. Testimony was also
received from George E. Lord, Chairman, Joint Council of Unions/GPO,
Government Printing Office; and Howard C. Webber, Printing Industries of
America, Arlington, Virginia.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on S.
2120, to provide for a voluntary system of spending limits and partial public
financing of Senate general election campaigns, and to limit contributions, by
multicandidate political committees, after receiving testimony from Senator
DeConcini; Representative Glickman; Birch Bayh, Jr., Rivkin, Radler, Dunne and
Bayh, and John Buchanan, People for the American Way, both of Washington, DC;
and Richard Mahoney, Arizonans for Campaign Ethics, Phoenix, Arizona.
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 Wednesday, February 28.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/02/23
Daily Digest - Friday, February 23, 1990; pages D142 - D144 (Bound vol. D64-
D65)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the nominations of Arthur J. Hill, of Florida, to be President of the
Government National Mortgage Association, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, Philip R. Lochner, Jr., of Connecticut, to be a Member of the
Securities Exchange Commission, and John J. Adair, of Virginia, to be
Inspector General of the Resolution Trust Corporation, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Hill was introduced
by Senator Graham, and Mr. Lochner was introduced by Senators D'Amato and
Lieberman.
AUTHORIZATIONS--USTR/ITC
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade held hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Office of the U.S. Trade
Representative and the International Trade Commission, receiving testimony
from Joshua B. Bolten, General Counsel, Office of the United States Trade
Representative; and Anne E. Brunsdale, Chairman, International Trade
Commission.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AIR FORCE FINANCIAL AUDIT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine a GAO
audit of Air Force fiscal year 1988 financial statements, receiving testimony
from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States, Donald H.
Chapin, Assistant Comptroller General for Accounting and Financial Management,
Frank Conahan, Assistant Comptroller General for National Security and
International Affairs, and Terry Carnahan, Assistant Director, Accounting and
Financial Management Division, all of the General Accounting Office.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CIVIL RIGHTS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 2104, to
revise the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (P.L. 88-352) to restore and strengthen
civil rights laws that ban discrimination in employment, receiving testimony
from William T. Coleman, O'Melveny & Myers, Washington, DC; Shirley
Hufstedler, Hufstedler, Miller, Kaus & Beardsley, Los Angeles, California; F.
Ray Marshall, LBJ School of Public Affairs, Austin, Texas; Charles Fried,
Harvard Law School, and Glenn Loury, Kennedy School of Government, both of
Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Brenda Patterson, Winston Salem, North Carolina.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 27.
VETERANS' AFFAIRS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1991 for veterans
programs, S. 2101, to waive the waiting period requirement of section
210(b)(2) of title 38, U.S. Code, for a planned administrative reorganization
involving the Loan Guaranty Division at the Togus Veterans Affairs Medical and
Regional Office Center, and S. 2103, to waive the reporting and waiting period
requirements of section 210(b)(2) of title 38, U.S. Code, for a planned
administrative reorganization of the regional field offices of the Veterans
Health Services and Research Administration, after receiving testimony from
Edward J. Derwinski, Secretary of Veterans Affairs; Thomas E. Collins III,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans Employment and Training; Frank Q.
Nebeker, Chief Judge, United States Court of Veterans Appeals; Robert L.
Jones, AMVETS, Jesse Brown, Disabled American Veterans, John Bollinger,
Paralyzed Veterans of America, Larry Rivers, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Roy E.
Pannell, American Federation of Government Employees, Samuel Walsh and John F.
Sommer, Jr., both of the American Legion, and Thomas Sherwood, Vietnam
Veterans of America, all of Washington, DC; Barbara L. Gallaher, Director, VA
Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland; Stanley J. Geyer, Chief of Staff, VA
Medical Center, Seattle, Washington; Joseph L. Moore, Director, VA Medical
Center, Chicago (Lakeside), Illinois; Malcom Randall, Director, VA Medical
Center, Gainesville, Florida; Thomas Horvath, Chief of Staff, VA Medical
Center, Brooklyn, New York, representing the American Psychiatric Association;
Henry W. Gresham, Director, VA Regional Office, Manchester, New Hampshire;
Stephen L. Lemons, Director, VA Regional Office, Waco, Texas; James Maye,
Director, VA Regional Office, Los Angeles, California; Jack McReynolds,
Director, VA Regional Office, Denver, Colorado; Ralph E. Smith, Director, VA
Regional Office, Roanoke, Virginia; Robert Waldman, University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, representing the Association of American Medical Colleges; and
Elliott Fisher, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, representing
the American Federation for Clinical Research.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1990/02/26
Daily Digest - [Monday, February 26, 1990]; pages D146 - D152 (Bound vol.
D65-D68)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--CONSERVATION/GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991, receiving testimony in behalf
of funds for their respective activities from J. Michael Davis, Assistant
Secretary of Energy for Renewable Energy and Conservation; and Dallas L. Peck,
Director, Geological Survey, Department of the Interior.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 6.
APPROPRIATIONS--GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1991, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Jane A. Kenney, Director, ACTION, Sandra S. Parrino,
Chairperson, National Council on Disability; Robert P. Baker, Acting Director,
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, Joshua M. Javits, Chairman,
National Mediation Board; Charles J. Chamberlain, Labor Member, and John D.
Crawford, Management Member, both of the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board; Ford
B. Ford, Chairman, Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission; James M.
Stephens, Chairman, and Jerry M. Hunter, General Counsel, both of the National
Labor Relations Board; and Earl R. Ohman, Jr., General Counsel, Occupational
Safety and Health Review Commission.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, February 28.
FISHERIES PROTECTION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests held hearings on H.R. 987, to designate certain
lands in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska as wilderness, focusing on
provisions relating to fisheries protection and buffer zones, receiving
testimony from Patricia M. Kearney, Acting Assistant Secretary for Natural
Resources, George M. Leonard, Associate Chief, Forest Service, Mike Barton,
Regional Forester (Alaska Region), and David R. Gibbons, Regional Fisheries
Biologist (Alaska Region), all of the Department of Agriculture; James W.
Brooks, Deputy Regional Director (Alaska Region), and K. Koski, Fisheries
Biologist, Auke Bay Laboratory, both of the National Marine Fisheries Service,
Department of Commerce; Craig J. Lindh, Alaska State Office of Governmental
Coordination, Richard M. Griffin, Southeast Conference, K.J. Metcalf,
Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, Kathryn Troll, Southeast Alaska Seiners
Association, and Joseph G. Wilson, Goldbelt, Inc., all of Juneau, Alaska; and
Don Finney, Alaska Loggers Association, Ketchikan.
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Hearing were recessed subject to call.
JAPANESE TRADE BARRIERS TO FOREST PRODUCTS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade held hearings to
examine the status of negotiations to open the Japanese barriers to forest
products market, receiving testimony from Stanley S. Dennison, Chairman,
Alliance for Wood Products Exports, Atlanta, Georgia; and Stephen M. Lovett,
National Forest Products Association, and Kip Howlett, Georgia-Pacific
Corporation, both of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
JOBS PROGRAM
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy
concluded oversight hearings on the implementation of the Job Opportunities
and Basic Skills Training Program, an education and training program
established by the Family Support Act (P.L. 100-485), after receiving
testimony from Martin H. Gerry, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human
Services for Planning and Evaluation; Cesar A. Perales, New York State
Department of Social Services, Albany, on behalf of the American Public
Welfare Association and the National Council of State Human Service
Administrators; Dennis J. Boyle, California State Department of Social
Services, Sacramento; Robert D. Cecil, Michigan State Department of Social
Services, Lansing; Douglas G. Greenwell, Georgia State Department of Human
Resources, Atlanta; Judith M. Gueron, Manpower Demonstration Research
Corporation, New York, New York; Nancy Ebb, Children's Defense Fund, and Mark
H. Greenberg, Center for Law and Social Policy, both of Washington, DC.
STUDENT LOAN DEFAULT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
resumed oversight hearings to examine alleged fraud, waste and abuse in
Federal student loan programs, receiving testimony from David B. Buckley,
Chief Investigator, and Grace T. McPhearson, Staff Investigator, both of the
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations; and Joseph Calareso, Andrea L.
Merritts, Angela M. Jones, and Brenda A. Brandon, all on behalf of the
American Career Training School, Pompano Beach, Florida.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
HEAD START
Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Education and Health held hearings
to examine the future of the Head Start program, receiving testimony from
Frank Doyle, General Electric Company, Fairfield, Connecticut; Lynn Kagan,
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; William Kolberg, National Alliance of
Business, Washington, DC; David Weikert, High/Scope Educational Research
Foundation, Ypsilanti, Michigan; Patrice Carter, Raleigh, North Carolina; and
Sandra Wadel, Beverly, Massachusetts.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1990/02/27
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 27, 1990; pages D154 - D164 (Bound vol. D68-
D75)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
on proposed legislation to strengthen and improve U.S. agricultural programs,
focusing on the role of the Government's nutrition programs in the health,
education and development of children, receiving testimony from Senators
Sasser and Domenici; Robert Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities, Ellen Haas, Public Voice for Food and Health Policy, Marshall
Matz, Holland and Knight, all of Washington, DC; Tim Grace, Illinois
Department of Public Aid, Springfield, on behalf of the American Public
Welfare Association, Beverly Lowe, Hampton, Virginia, Ann Gennings, New
Hartford, New York, Vivian Pilant, Columbia, South Carolina, and Jo Busha,
Montpelier, Vermont, all on behalf of the American School Food Service
Association; and Charles Hughes, American Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employees (AFL-CIO), New York, New York.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 7.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on foreign policy context, receiving testimony from Robert M. Kimmitt, Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 1.
NOMINATIONS/SUBMARINE TRANSFER
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
The nominations of Colin Riley McMillan, of New Mexico, to be an Assistant
Secretary of Defense, Enrique Mendez, Jr., of Puerto Rico, to be an Assistant
Secretary of Defense, Douglas Alan Brook, of Virginia, to be an Assistant
Secretary of the Army, Stephen Kay Conver, of Virginia, to be an Assistant
Secretary of the Army, William James Haynes II, of North Carolina, to the
General Counsel of the Department of the Army, and Adm. David E. Jeremiah,
USN, to be Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and
S. 2151, to permit the transfer of the obsolete submarine U.S.S. Requin to the
Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, before the expiration of the
60-day waiting period that would otherwise be applicable to the transfer.
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AUTHORIZATIONS=DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on S. 2171, authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1991 for military functions of the Department of Defense
and to prescribe military personnel levels for fiscal year 1991, and on the
five year defense plan for fiscal years 1991-1995, receiving testimony from
Michael P.W. Stone, Secretary of the Army; H. Lawrence Garrett III, Secretary
of the Navy; and Donald B. Rice, Secretary of the Air Force.
Hearings continue on tomorrow.
HUD MODERATE REHAB PROGRAM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on HUD/MOD
Rehab Investigation held hearings to examine HUD projects under the moderate
rehabilitation program (section 8), focusing on developers and tax incentives
for financing such projects, receiving testimony from John Ols, Director of
Economic and Community Development Issues, General Accounting Office; Richard
Baron and Kevin J. McCormack, both on behalf of the McCormack Baron and
Associates, and Thomas P. Costello, MBA Realty, all of St. Louis, Missouri;
Philip Abrams, Philips Development, Engelwood, Colorado; Joseph M. Queenan, J.
Michael Queenan Associates, Inc., Denver, Colorado; Tom Cole and William
Tanker, both of Benton Mortgage Company, Knoxville, Tennessee; William
Cottrell, Clark County Housing Authority, Clark County, Nevada; Marilyn
Melkonian, Telesis Corporation, and Karen Kollias, American Security Bank,
both of Washington, DC; Patrick E. Clancy, The Community Builders, Boston,
Massachusetts; and Sheldon Baskin, Chicago, Illinois.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 2.
SOCIAL SECURITY
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on proposed legislation to
reduce Social Security taxes, after receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan,
Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Robert S. Strauss,
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Field, Calvin P. Johnson and Kerri Ignani, both
of the AFL-CIO, Michael O. Roush, National Federation of Independent Business,
Paul R. Huard, National Association of Manufacturers, Arthur S. Flemming, Save
Our Security Coalition, Lawrence T. Smedley, National Council of Senior
Citizens, Martha A. McSteen, National Committee ot Preserve Social Security
and Medicare, and Jere W. Glover, National Association for the Self-Employed,
all of Washington, DC; Frank Mason, Mason Corporation, Birmingham, Alabama, on
behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Ron Mulvainey, Brookfield, Wisconsin,
on behalf of the American Association of Retired Persons; and Stuart J. Sweet,
Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelley, Alexandria, Virginia.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Ronald W. Roskens, of Nebraska, to be Administrator of the Agency for
International Development, and to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the
Inter-American Foundation, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators
Exon and Kerrey and Representatives Bereuter, Hoagland, and Virginia Smith,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Harry F. Manbeck, Jr., of Connecticut, to be Commissioner of Patents and
Trademarks, and Douglas B. Comer, of Virginia, to be Deputy Commissioner of
Patents and Trademarks, both of the Department of Commerce, Robert H. Hodges,
Jr., of South Carolina, to be a Judge of the United States Claims Court, and
Rhesa H. Barksdale, of Mississippi, to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the Fifth
Circuit, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Comer was introduced by Senator Dole, Mr. Hodges was introduced by
Senators Thurmond and Hollings and Representative Spence, and Mr. Barksdale
was introduced by Senators Lott and Cochran. Testimony was also received on
the nominations of Messrs. Manbeck and Comer from Donald J. Quigg,
Intellectual Property Owners, Inc., Washington, DC, former Commissioner of
Patents and Trademarks; and William S. Thompson, American Intellectual
Property Law Association, Arlington, Virginia.
CIVIL RIGHTS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed hearings on S. 2104,
to revise the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (P.L. 88-352) to restore and strengthen
civil rights laws that ban discrimination in employment, receiving testimony
from Donald B. Ayer, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice; Eleanor
Holmes Norton, Georgetown University Law Center, Larry Lorber, Kelley, Drye
and Warren, Judith Lichtman, Women's Legal Defense Fund, and Marcia
Greenberger, National Women's Law Center, all of Washington, DC; William
Brown, Schnader, Harrison, Segal and Lewis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; David
Maddux, Shepard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton, Los Angeles, California; and
Patricia Swanson, Ingleside, Illinois.
Hearings continue on Thursday, March 1.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items:
The nomination of Robert William Houk, of Ohio, to be Public Printer,
Government Printing Office;
S. 1543, to authorize the Colonial Dames at Gunston Hall to establish a
memorial to George Mason in the District of Columbia, with amendments;
An original resolution (S. Res. 250), to require each Senate committee to
publish the rules of such committee only during the first year of a Congress
unless such rules are amended, and to provide that an amendment to committee
rules shall not take effect until published in the Congressional Record;
S. Res. 246, to authorize the printing of additional copies of the Senate
report titled "Developments in Aging: 1989";
S. Con. Res. 90, to authorize the use of the rotunda of the Capitol for a
dedication ceremony incident to the placement of a bust of Lajos Kossuth in
the Capitol and to authorize the printing of a transcript of the proceedings
of the ceremony; and
S. Con. Res. 93, to provide for acceptance of a statue presented by the State
of Utah for placement in National Statuary Hall;
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings on S. 1655, to
revise the enforcement provisions of the Federal Election Campaign Act of
1971, to provide for the disclosure of independent expenditures, and to make
provisions regarding intermediaries and broadcast time, receiving testimony
from Senators McConnell and Reid; and S. 1727, to provide comprehensive
campaign finance reform, to lessen the power of special economic interests,
and to restore competition to American congressional elections, receiving
testimony from Senators Cranston, Packwood and Kerry; and William P. Barr,
Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice.
Hearings continue on Thursday, March 1.
Joint Meetings
ETHIOPIA
Joint Economic Committee : Committee held hearings to examine strategies for
sustainable agricultural development in Ethiopia, receiving testimony from
Raymond Copson, Specialist in International Relations, Congressional Research
Service, Library of Congress; John W. Harbeson, City University of New York
and City College of New York, New York; Paul Henze, RAND Corporation, and Tom
Getman, World Vision, both of Washington, DC.; Robert Buchanan, OXFAM America,
Boston, Massachusetts; Rene Lacoste, Jules and Paul-Emile Leger Foundation,
Outremont, Quebec, Canada; Asmarum Legesse, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore,
Pennsylvania; and Pierre Antoine, Winrock International Morillton, Arkansas.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS
Joint Hearings : Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint
hearings with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review legislative
recommendations of the Disabled American Veterans, after receiving testimony
from Senator Kennedy; and Vernon V. Cardosi, Disabled American Veterans,
Washington, DC.
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D75-D84)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Gary C. Byrne, of California, to be
Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration, and La Verne G.
Ausman, of Wisconsin, to be Administrator of the Farmers Home Administration,
both of the Department of Agriculture, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Ausman was introduced by Senator
Kasten and Representative Gunderson.
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1991 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony from Clayton
K. Yeutter, Secretary of Agriculture; and Stephen Dewhurst, Director, Office
of Budget and Program Analysis, Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 2.
APPROPRIATIONS--GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1991, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Philip R. Lee, Chairman, Physician Payment Review Commission;
Donald E. Ledwig, President and Chief Executive Officer, Corporation for
Public Broadcasting; Jerald C. Newman, Chairman, National Commission on
Libraries and Information Science; Samuel W. Lewis, President, U.S. Institute
of Peace; June E. Osborn, Chairman, National Commission on AIDS; Stuart H.
Altman, Chairman, Prospective Payment Assessment Commission; and Lt. Gen.
George H. McKee, Governor, Soldiers' and Airmen's Home.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 20.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on S. 2171,
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1991 for military functions of the
Department of Defense and to prescribe military personnel levels for fiscal
year 1991, and to review the five year defense plan for fiscal years
1991-1995, receiving testimony from Gen. Carl E. Vuono, USA, Chief of Army
Staff; 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 Air Force Staff.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
U.S. MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings to
review the Office of Technology Assessment's report, "Making Things Better:
Competing in Manufacturing," which provides analysis of and options for
improving U.S. manufacturing technology, receiving testimony from John H.
Gibbons, Director, Julie Gorte, Project Director, and Katherine Gillman,
Deputy Project Director, all of the Office of Technology Assessment; Ian M.
Ross, AT & T Bell Industries, Holmdel, New Jersey; and Sanford L. Kane, New
City, New York, on behalf of U.S. Memories.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1991 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1991 budget for
the Federal Government, receiving testimony from James A. Baker III, Secretary
of State.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Eugene Wong, of California, and William D.
Phillips, of Missouri, both to be Associate Directors of the Office of Science
and Technology Policy, after the nominees testified and answered questions in
their own behalf.
SOFT DRINK BILL
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee held
hearings on S. 114, to declare certain activities of manufacturers of soft
drinks to be unfair acts or practices for purposes of the Federal Trade
Commission Act, receiving testimony from Mary Lou Steptoe, Deputy Director,
Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission; Douglas S. Damon, Damon
Distributors, Sparks, Nevada; Brook R. Jason, Jason Soda Systems, Inc., South
Windsor, Connecticut; Mark A. Imbesi, Imbesi Bottling Group, Bridgeton, New
Jersey; H. Ronald Harris, Better Beverages/Bar Master, Cerritos, California;
John Webster, Pepsi Cola Bottling Company, Milton, Massachusetts, and Eugene
Meigher, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin and Kahn, Washington, DC, both on behalf
of the National Soft Drink Association; Mark Gorman, National Restaurant
Association, and Stanley Bregman, Committee Against Equipment Giveaways, both
of Washington, DC; Bernard Gottlieb, Multi-Flow Dispensers, Huntington Valley,
Pennsylvania; and Larry Fullerton, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer and Murphy,
Washington, DC, and Richard Wach, Dallas, Texas, both on behalf of the Dr.
Pepper/7-Up Companies.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DEFICIT REDUCTION
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation to
provide for deficit reduction and spending initiatives contained in the
President's fiscal year 1991 budget for Medicare, Medicaid, income security
and social services programs, receiving testimony from Louis W. Sullivan,
Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Robert W. Farrand, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, and
to serve concurrently as Ambassador to Solomon Islands, and to the Republic of
Vanuatu, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
ANDEAN DRUG SUMMIT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to review the
results of the recent Andean Drug Summit, after receiving testimony from
William J. Bennett, Director, John P. Walters, Chief of Staff, and Bruce
Carnes, Director, Office of Planning and Budget, all of the Office of National
Drug Control Policy.
CAMBODIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
concluded hearings on prospects for peace in Cambodia, after receiving
testimony from David Lambertson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and
Pacific Affairs, and John S. Wolf, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for
International Organization Affairs, both of the Department of State; and
Edmund S. Muskie, Center for National Policy, William E. Colby, Donovan,
Leishure, Newton, Irvine, and Michael J. Horowitz, all of Washington, DC.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
S. 2006, to redesignate the Environmental Protection Agency as the Department
of the Environment, and to provide a global environmental policy of the United
States, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nomination of Allan V. Burman, of Virginia, to be Administrator for
Federal Procurement Policy.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution held hearings on
S.J. Res. 26 and S.J. Res. 48, measures to establish certain limitations on
expenditures made by any person with respect to the candidacy of any person
for a Presidential or Congressional election, receiving testimony from
Senators Hollings, Cranston, and Specter; Mort Harplerin, American Civil
Liberties Union, Robert C. Wood, Committee on the Constitutional System, and
David Eppler, Public Citizen's Congress Watch, all of Washington, D.C.;
Marlene A. Nicholson, DePaul College of Law, Chicago, Illinois; and Gerald G.
Ashdown, West Virginia University College of Law, Morgantown.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items:
S. 15, to improve emergency medical services and trauma care, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 1511, to clarify the protections given to older individuals in regard to
employee benefit plans, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
An original bill to provide compensation for certain individuals who were
exposed to open air atomic testing at the Nevada test site in the 1950's and
1960's, and for uranium miners who were exposed to high levels of ionizing
radiation from 1947 through 1971;
S. 685, to clarify the applicability of rules relating to fiduciary duties in
relation to plan assets of terminated pensions plans and to provide for an
explicit exception to such rules for employer reversions meeting certain
requirements, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nominations of Antonia Coello Novello, of the District of Columbia, to be
Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, and Joyce T. Berry, of the
District of Columbia, to be Commissioner on Aging, both of the Department of
Health and Human Services; Bernard E. Delury, of New Jersey, to be Director,
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, Tony E. Gallegos, of California,
to be a Member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Edwin G.
Foulke, Jr., of South Carolina, to be a Member, Occupational Safety and Health
Review Commission, Frederick M. Bernthal, of Tennessee, to be Deputy Director
of the National Science Foundation, Charles E. Reid, of New Jersey, Wanda L.
Forbes, of South Carolina, Elinor H. Swaim, of North Carolina, and Daniel W.
Casey, of New York, each to be a Member of the National Council on Libraries
and Information Science, William Hughes Graves, III, of Mississippi, to be
Director, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, John
T. MacDonald, of New Hampshire, to be Assistant Secretary of Education for
Elementary and Secondary Education, and a routine list in the Public Health
Service Corps.
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INDIAN PROGRAMS
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1991 for Indian programs,
after receiving testimony from Eddie F. Brown, Assistant Secretary of the
Interior for Indian Affairs; Everett Rhoades, Director, Indian Health Service,
and Tim Wapato, Commissioner, Administration for Native Americans, both of the
Department of Health and Human Services; Daniel F. Bonner, Acting Assistant
Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, and Tom Corwin, Director,
Division of Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Analysis, Office of Planning,
Budget and Evaluation, both of the Department of Education; and Michael B.
Janis, General Deputy Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for
Public and Indian Housing.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
No Joint hearings noted.
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D93)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Production and Stabilization of Prices resumed hearings on
proposed legislation to strengthen and improve U.S. agricultural programs,
focusing on the cotton industry, receiving testimony from Bruce Gardner,
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Economics; Carl G. Anderson, Texas A&M
University, College Station; Bruce Brumfield, Inverness, Mississippi, on
behalf of the National Cotton Council; Robert E. McLendon, Leary, Georgia, on
behalf of the Southern Cotton Growers, Inc.; John Sharp Howie, Stoneville,
Mississippi, on behalf of the Delta Council; Robert L. McGinnis, Marianna,
Arkansas, on behalf of the Agricultural Council of Arkansas; Steve Verett,
Plains Cotton Growers, Inc., and Fred Traylor, on behalf of the American
Cotton Shippers Association, both of Lubbock, Texas; James Accomazzo, Arizona
Cotton Growers Association, and Larry Warren, on behalf of the National Cotton
Ginners Association, both of Phoenix, Arizona; Tommy R. Funk, Harlingen,
Texas, on behalf of the National Cotton Council of America; James W. Chesnutt,
Henderson, North Carolina, on behalf of the American Textile Manufacturers
Institute; John Pucheau, Jr., Calcot, Ltd., Bakersfield, California; and
George H. Dunklin, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on behalf of the National Cottonseed
Products Association.
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Subcommittee will meet again on tomorrow.
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Conservation and Forestry held hearings on proposed legislation to strengthen
and improve U.S. agricultural programs, focusing on forestry provisions,
receiving testimony from Senator Thurmond; Patricia M. Kearney, Acting
Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, and F. Dale
Robertson, Chief, U.S. Forest Service, both of the Department of Agriculture;
Albert Vogt, University of Missouri, Columbia, and Larry W. Tombaugh, Raleigh,
North Carolina, both on behalf of the National Association of Professional
Forestry Schools and Colleges; C.W. Moody, Montgomery, Alabama, on behalf of
the National Association of State Foresters; R. Montgomery Fischer, National
Wildlife Federation, Montpelier, Vermont; James E. Neal, University of
Georgia, Athens; R. Neil Sampson, American Foresty Association, Washington,
DC; and Robert C. Gordon, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 20.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for defense programs, focusing
on unified command forces, receiving testimony from Adm. Huntington Hardisty,
USN, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Command; Gen. Louis C. Menetrey, USA,
Commander-in-Chief, United Nations Command/U.S. Forces Korea.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 6.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for foreign assistance,
focusing on refugee programs, receiving testimony from Representative Atkins;
Jewel S. Lafontant, U.S. Coordinator for Refugee Affairs, and Princeton Lyman,
Director, Bureau of Refugee Programs, both of the Department of State; and
Cort Robinson, U.S. Committee for Refugees, Le Xuan Khoa, Indochina Resource
Action Center, and Nina Hale, Refugees International, all of Washington, DC.
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 1991 for
the Department of Transportation, receiving testimony from Samuel K. Skinner,
Secretary of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 8.
APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1991 for the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Stephen E. Higgins, Director,
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and Charles F. Rinkevich, Director,
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, both of the Department of the
Treasury.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
UNAUTHORIZED FUNDS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to discuss the
issue of unauthorized appropriations for fiscal year 1990.
Committee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on S. 2171,
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1991 for military functions of the
Department of Defense and to prescribe military personnel levels for fiscal
year 1991, and to review the five year defense plan for fiscal years 1991-95,
receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General, and Frank C.
Conahan, Assistant Comptroller General, General Accounting Office.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings on
proposals authorizing funds for the Defense Production Act of 1950, including
S. 1379, Defense Production Act Amendments of 1989, receiving testimony from
Paul F. Math, Senior Associate Director for Research, Development,
Acquisition, and Procurement, National Security and International Affairs
Division, General Accounting Office; Gen. Robert T. March, USAF (Ret.), Air
Force Association, and Jacques S. Gansler, The Analytical Sciences
Corporation, representing the Procurement Roundtable, both of Arlington,
Virginia; and Bernard L. Schwartz, Loral Corporation, New York, New York,
representing the Department of Defense's Policy Advisory Committee on Trade
and the Defense Manufacturing Board.
Hearings continue on Thursday, March 8.
EXPEDITED FUNDS AVAILABILITY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Consumer and
Regulatory Affairs held hearings on the implementation of the Expedited Funds
Availability Act of 1988 (P.L. 100-86), receiving testimony from Wayne D.
Angell, Governor, Federal Reserve Board; David T. Wittman, Chase Manhattan
Bank, representing the American Bankers Association and the Consumer Bankers
Association, Michelle Meier, Consumers Union of United States, Inc., and Ed
Mierzwinski, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, all of Washington, DC; and
Stephen S. Cole, Cash Station, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, representing Credit
Union National Association, Inc.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FOOD SHIPMENT SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation held hearings to examine the safety risks posed by the
transportation of dangerous chemicals and solid municipal waste in vehicles
that also transport the nation's food supply, focusing on S. 1751 and S. 1904,
bills to safeguard the integrity of food shipments, receiving testimony from
Representatives Clinger, Borski, and Luken; Alan I. Roberts, Director, Office
of Hazardous Materials Transportation, Research and Special Programs
Administration, Department of Transportation; Robert Lake, Director, Office of
Compliance, Center for Food Safety, Food and Drug Administration, Department
of Health and Human Services; Wilson E. Horn, Meat and Poultry Inspection
Operation, Department of Agriculture; John Daly, Washington State Department
of Agriculture, Olympia; Robert E. Farris, American Trucking Associations,
Clifford Harvison, National Tank Truck Carriers, Inc., and J. Terry Turner,
Interstate Truckload Carriers Conference, all of Alexandria, Virginia; William
Dempsey, Association of American Railroads, and Allen Moore, National Solid
Wastes Management Association, both of Washington, DC; Ruth E. Walton, J.R.
Simplot Co., Boise, Idaho; and Jim Barber, Geo. A. Hormel and Co., Austin,
Minnesota.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original bill to extend the authority for Titles I and II of the
Energy Policy and Conservation Act.
Also, committee completed its review of those programs which fall within the
committee's jurisdiction as contained in the President's proposed budget for
fiscal year 1991, and agreed on recommendations it will make thereon to the
Committee on the Budget.
WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure held hearings on S. 2183, to provide for
the conservation and development of water and related resources, and to
authorize the United States Army Corps of Engineers civil works program to
construct various projects for improvements to the Nation's infrastructure,
receiving testimony from Senator Domenici; Robert W. Page, Assistant Secretary
of the Army for Civil Works; Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Kelly, Director of Civil
Works, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Mayor Pro Tem Gilbert Garcia, Belen, New
Mexico; Thomas C. Jorling, New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation, Albany; Lillian C. Liburdi, Port Authority of New York and New
Jersey, New York, New York; and R. Erik Stromberg, American Association of
Port Authorities, Alexandria, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
The nomination of Peter K. Nunez, of California, to be Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Enforcement;
An original bill to make technical corrections to Title IV of the Trade Act of
1974;
An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal years 1991 and 1992 for the U.S.
Customs Service, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and the
International Trade Commission;
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An original bill to expand the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act;
An original bill to revise certain customs user fees; and
Numerous miscellaneous tariff measures.
[A Press Release summarizing the actions taken by the Committee today will be
available in the Committee office in Room SD-205.]
EASTERN EUROPE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs concluded
hearings to review the economic transformation in Eastern Europe, after
receiving testimony from Jeffrey B. Sachs, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; Kevin MacDonald, MacDonald and Company, Boston, Massachusetts;
and Roger Robinson, R.W.R., Inc., Washington, DC, former Senior Director for
International Economic Affairs, National Security Council.
ALTERNATIVE INCARCERATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management held hearings on the Federal role in promoting and using special
alternative incarceration ("boot camp" prisons), receiving testimony from J.
Michael Quinlan, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and Clifford J. White
III, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs, both of
the Department of Justice; Thomas A. Coughlin III, New York State Department
of Correctional Services, Albany; Jim Mitchell, Florida Department of
Corrections, Tallahassee; Major Jim Tridico, Sumter Correctional Institution,
Bushnell, Florida; M. David W. Jordan, Georgia Department of Corrections,
Atlanta; Doris Layton MacKenzie, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; and
Merry Morash, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Robert W. Sweet, Jr., of Virginia, to be Administrator of the Office of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Department of Justice, after the
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Humphrey, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf. Testimony was also received from Robert E.
Shepherd, Jr., University of Richmond Law School, Richmond, Virginia, on
behalf of the National Coalition of State Juvenile Justice Advisory Groups;
William W. Treanor, American Youth Work Center, Washington, DC; and Robbie
Calloway, The Boys Clubs of America, Rockville, Maryland.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
approved for full committee consideration the following measures:
S. 590, to prohibit injunctive relief, or an award of damages against a
judicial officer for action taken in a judicial capacity, with an amendment;
S. 591, to provide certain guidelines with respect to the examination of
prospective jurors, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 592, to provide certain guidelines with respect to the examination of
prospective jurors, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 982, to repeal a provision of Federal Tort claim law relating to the civil
liability of government contractors for certain injuries, losses of property,
and deaths; and
S. 1931, to prevent the discharge in a chapter 13 bankruptcy proceeding of
certain debts arising out of the debtor's operation of a motor vehicle while
legally intoxicated, with an amendment.
CIVIL RIGHTS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed hearings on S. 2104,
to revise the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (P.L. 88-352) to restore and strengthen
civil rights laws that ban discrimination in employment, receiving testimony
from Mayor William H. Hudnut III, Indianapolis, Indiana, on behalf of the
United States Conference of Mayors; New York Attorney General Robert Abrams,
New York; Nicholas D. Katzenbach, Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti,
Morristown, New Jersey; William C. Burns, Pacific Gas and Electric, and James
Paras, Morrison & Foerster, both of San Francisco, California; Paul Andrisani,
Temple University School of Business and Management, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; L. Stanley Chauvin, Jr., Alagia, Day, Marshall, Mintmire &
Chauvin, Louisville, Kentucky; Kingsley Browne, Wayne State University School
of Law, Detroit, Michigan; Cathie A. Shattuck, Epstein, Becker & Green,
Washington, DC; Barry Goldstein, Saperstein, Seligman & Mayeda, Oakland,
California; Ann M. Brunet, Bexley, Ohio; and Robert Lum, Long Island City, New
York.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 7.
HEAD START
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs, and Alcoholism concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for the Head Start educational program, after receiving testimony from
Senator Sanford; Wade Horn, Commissioner, Administration for Children, Youth,
and Families, Office of Human, Development Services, Department of Health and
Human Services; Frank Doyle, General Electric, Fairfield, Connecticut, on
behalf of the Committee for Economic Development; Lisbeth Schorr, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Eugenia Boggus, National Head Start
Assocation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Sister Barbara McMichael, Providence
Head Start, Providence, Rhode Island; Darlene Wise, Graettinger, Iowa; Lula
Malone, South Bend, Indiana; and Stephen Juan King, Gainesville, Florida.
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CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on S.
1655, to revise the enforcement provisions of the Federal Election Campaign
Act of 1971, to provide for the disclosure of independent expenditures, and to
make provisions regarding intermediaries and broadcast time, after receiving
testimony from Norman J. Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute for Public
Policy Research, Washington, DC; and on S. 1727, to provide comprehensive
campaign finance reform, to lessen the power of special economic interests,
and to restore competition to American congressional elections, receiving
testimony from John F. Bibby, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee; Reed
Larson, Right to Work Committee, Springfield, Virginia; and Martin Garber,
National Association of Business Political Action Committees, David Powell,
Public Affairs Council, R. Gary Wilson, National Association of Manufacturers,
Joan Claybrook, Public Citizen, and David Eppler, Public Citizen's Congress
Watch, all of Washington, DC.
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, March 6.
Joint Meetings
ECONOMIC STATISTICS
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to assess the current state
of the Federal statistical infrastructure and to review the recommendations of
the Working Group on the Quality of Economic Statistics, receiving testimony
from Michael J. Boskin, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors; Michael R.
Darby, Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs; and Janet Norwood,
Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1990/03/05
Daily Digest - [Monday, March 5, 1990]; pages D200 - D206 (Bound vol. D94-
D97)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AGRICULTURAL CREDIT ACT
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Credit held oversight hearings on the implementation of the
Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 by the Farmers Home Administration, receiving
testimony from Roland R. Vautour, Under Secretary for Small Community and
Rural Development, Neal Sox Johnson, Acting Administrator, Farmers Home
Administration, and James Ebbitt, Assistant Inspector General for Audit, all
of the Department of Agriculture; John Harmon, Director, Resources, Community,
and Economic Development Division, John Hunt, Assistant Director, Farm Finance
Division, John Wanskt, Evaluator (Chicago Regional Office), and Jesse Flowers,
Evaluator (Atlanta Regional Office), all of the General Accounting Office;
Lynn Hayes, Minnesota Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc., St. Paul; Randolph
Nodland, National Family Farm Coalition, Dunn Center, North Dakota; and Don
Schieber, Ponca City, Oklahoma.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Production and Stabilization of Prices resumed hearings on
proposed legislation to strengthen and improve U.S. agricultural programs,
focusing on the rice industry, receiving testimony from Bruce Gardner,
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Economics; Ron Caffey, Uncle Ben's
Inc., Houston, Texas; and Al Montna, Yuba City, California, David Hillman,
Arkansas Farm Bureau, Almyra, John Denison, Iowa, Louisiana, Rex A. Morgan,
Indianola, Mississippi, and Steve Balas, Eagle Lake, Texas, all on behalf of
the Farmers' Rice Cooperative.
Also, on Friday, March 2, the subcommittee continued hearings on proposed
legislation to strengthen and improve U.S. agricultural programs, focusing on
the wool and honey industries, receiving testimony from Bruce Gardner,
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Economics; Joe Holt, Jr., Richland,
Washington, on behalf of the American Honey Producers Association; Don
Shenefield, LaFontaine, Indiana, on behalf of the National Honey Board;
Stephen Darrow, Green Mountain Orchards, Putney, Vermont; John Ambrose, North
Carolina State University, Raleigh; Pierce Miller, San Angelo, Texas, on
behalf of the American Sheep Industry Association; Wally Caine, Indiana Sheep
Breeders Association, Plymouth; Rozita Jake, The Navajo Nation, Shiprock, New
Mexico; Ralph Mayer, Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association; Sonora; Bob
Gilbert, Montana Wool Growers Association, Helena; and Steve Klein, Marshall,
Minnesota.
Subcommittee will meet again on tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for Army and Navy
military construction programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for
their respective activities from Lt. Gen. Henry J. Hatch, USA, Chief of
Engineers; Maj. Gen. Peter J. Offringa, USA, Assistant Chief of Engineers;
Rear Adm. David E. Bottorff, USN, Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering
Command; and Brig. Gen. Wayne T. Adams, USMC, Director, Facilities and
Services Division.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 26.
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, March 2, Subcommittee on Agriculture,
Rural Development and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1991 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving
testimony from Charles E. Hess, Assistant Secretary for Science and Education,
Myron D. Johnsrud, Administrator, Extension Service, John Patrick Jordan,
Administrator, Commodity State Research Service, Ronald D. Plowman,
Administrator, Agricultural Research Service; and Robert E. Sherman, Deputy
Director for Legislative and Regulatory Systems, Office of Budget and Program
Analysis, all of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel held
hearings on S. 2171, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1991 for military
functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe military personnel
levels for fiscal year 1991, receiving testimony from Christopher Jehn,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management and Personnel; G. Kim
Wincup, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs;
Barbara Spyridon Pope, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and
Reserve Affairs; Jerome G. Cooper, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for
Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installation and Logistics; Lt. Gen. Allen K. Ono,
USA, Deputy Chief of Staff for Army Personnel; Vice Adm. J. M. Boorda, USN,
Deputy Chief of Naval Operations; Lt. Gen. Norman H. Smith, USMC, Deputy Chief
of Staff for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; and Lt. Gen. Thomas J. Hickey,
USAF, Chief of Staff for Air Force Personnel.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
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NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Friday, March 2,
Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Arthur J. Hill, of
Florida, to be President, Government National Mortgage Association, Philip R.
Lochner, Jr., of Connecticut, to be a Member of the Securities and Exchange
Commission, John J. Adair, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, Resolution
Trust Corporation, Frank B. Sollars, of Ohio, to be a Member of the Board of
Directors of the National Consumer Cooperative Bank, and Carol Mayer Marshall,
of California, to be Superintendent of the Mint of the United States at San
Francisco, California.
DREXEL BURNHAM LAMBERT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Friday, March 2,
Committee held hearings to examine the financial failure of Drexel Burnham
Lambert Group, Inc., and its effect on the financial market, receiving
testimony from Richard C. Breeden, Chairman, Securities and Exchange
Commission; and Jerome Kohlberg, Jr., Kohlberg and Company, New York, New
York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DOE NUCLEAR WASTE PROGRAM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: On Friday, March 2, Committee held
oversight hearings on the Implementation of the Department of Energy's
civilian nuclear waste program, receiving testimony from James D. Watkins,
Secretary of Energy.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
U.S.-JAPAN NEGOTIATIONS
Comittee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade held hearings to
assess progress in the U.S.-Japan Structural Impediments Initiative (SII), a
bilateral trade negotiation between the United States and Japan on the
Japanese distribution system and collusive Japanese business practices and
other related issues, receiving testimony from S. Linn Williams, Deputy U.S.
Trade Representative; Charles H. Dallara, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
for International Affairs; Richard T. McCormack, Under Secretary of State for
Economic and Agricultural Affairs; J. Michael Farren, Under Secretary of
Commerce for International Trade; John B. Taylor, Member, Council of Economic
Advisers; Thomas T. Stallkamp, Acustar, Inc., Troy, Michigan; and Stephen M.
Lovett, National Forest Products Association, Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTERNATIONAL DEBT
Committee on Finance: On Friday, March 2, Subcommittee on International Debt
held hearings to review the implementation of the Brady Plan, designed to ease
the burden of foreign debt owed by Third World nations, receiving testimony
from Jeffrey D. Sachs, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and C.
Fred Bergsten, Institute for International Economics, and Stuart K. Tucker,
Overseas Development Council, both of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
TEACHER EXCELLENCE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Friday, March 2, Subcommittee on
Education, Arts and Humanities concluded hearings on S. 1675 and S. 1676,
bills to provide financial assistance to strengthen the recruitment and
training of teachers in the United States and to provide a range of incentives
for teachers to continue in the profession, after receiving testimony from
Senators Bumpers, Boren and Bingaman; Leonard Haynes III, Assistant Secretary
of Education for Postsecondary Education; Russ Aiuto, Director, Division of
Teacher Preparation and Enhancement, National Science Foundation; Utah
Lieutenant Governor W. Val Oveson, Salt Lake City; J. Troy Earhart, Rhode
Island Department of Education, Providence; John Cooke, The Disney Channel,
Burbank, California; Mary Ann Smith, University of California, Berkeley;
Margaret Branson, Kern County Superintendent of Schools, Bakersfield,
California; and Jerry Bailey, University of Kansas, Lawrence.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/03/06
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 6, 1990; pages D208 - D218 (Bound vol. D97-
D105)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Production and Stabilization of Prices continued hearings on
proposed legislation to strengthen and improve U.S. agricultural programs,
focusing on the sugar industry, receiving testimony from Bruce L. Gardner,
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Economics; Julius L. Katz, Deputy U.S.
Trade Representatives; Ambassador of Belize Edward A. Laing, on behalf of
Carlos Morales Troncoso, Vice President and Ambassador of the Dominican
Republic; Arsenio Yulo, Jr., Philippine Sugar Regulatory Administration,
Quezon City, the Philippines; Patrick D. Mahar, Cavalier, North Dakota,
representing the Sugarbeet Growers Association; Fritz Stein, Stein Farms,
Belle Glade, Florida; Tim Trotter, Coal City, Illinois, representing the
National Corn Growers Association; Michael Lewis, International Longshoremen's
and Warehousemen's Union, and Thomas A. Hammer, Sweetener Users Association,
both of Washington, DC; Ronald G. Hayes, Moorhead, Minnesota, representing the
American Crystal Sugar Company; and John Couch, Alexander and Baldwin Inc.,
Honolulu, Hawaii, representing the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association; and
focusing on the crop insurance industry, receiving testimony from Senator
Mikulski; Jonathan I. Kislak, Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture; John W.
Harman, Director, Food and Agriculture Issues, General Accounting Office; Ray
Davis, Potter, Nebraska, and Bill Classen, Rain and Hail Insurance Service,
Inc., Des Moines, Iowa, both representing the Commission for the Improvement
of the Federal Crop Insurance Program; Doyle Rahjes, Kansas State Farm Bureau,
Agra, representing the American Farm Bureau Federation; Corky Jones, American
Agriculture Movement, Inc., Washington, DC; Tom Giessel, Brownville, Nebraska,
representing the National Farmers Union; Richard Gibson, Council Bluffs, Iowa,
representing the American Association of Crop Insurers; Bill Bracey, Bracey
Insurance Agency, Blytheville, Arkansas; and Max Claybaker, Blackwell,
Oklahoma.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 8.
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1991 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Catherine Bertini, Assistant
Secretary for Food and Consumer Services, Betty Jo Nelsen, Administrator, Food
Nutrition Service, James T. Heimbach, Acting Administrator, Human Nutrition
Information Service, and Robert E. Sherman, Deputy Director for Legislative
and Regulatory Systems, Office of Budget and Program Analysis, all of the
Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 21.
APPROPRIATIONS--ACDA/SEC
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1991, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Ronald F. Lehman II, Director, U.S. Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency; and Richard C. Breeden, Chairman, Securities and Exchange
Commission.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 8.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for unified command forces,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Adm. Frank B. Kelso II, USN, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command; Gen.
H. Norman Schwartzkopf, USA, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Central Command; and
Gen. Hansford T. Johnson, USAF, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Transportation
Command.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 8.
APPROPRIATIONS--BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for the Bureau
of Indian Affairs, receiving testimony from Eddie F. Brown, Assistant
Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 20.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations
of Donald J. Yockey, of California, to be Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
for Acquisition, Charles M. Herzfeld, of New Jersey, to be Director of Defense
Research and Engineering, Gerald A. Cann, of Maryland, to be an Assistant
Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, and Acquisition, and
Jacqueline E. Schafer, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy for
Installations and Environment, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf.
SECURITIES INDUSTRY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
held oversight hearings to examine the condition of the securities business
and financial services industry, receiving testimony from John H. Gutfreund,
Salomon, Inc., Philip J. Purcell, Dean Witter Financial Services Group, Robert
Downey, Securities Industry Association, and Michael Lipper, Lipper Analytical
Services, Inc., all of New York, New York; W. Lucas Simons, Jr., J.C. Bradford
and Company, Nashville, Tennessee; and Samuel L. Hayes III, Harvard Business
School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development held hearings on S. 1976, to promote the development and
dissemination of new computing technologies, receiving testimony from Senator
Gore; D. Allan Bromley, Director, Office of Science and Technology; David B.
Nelson, Executive Director, Office of Energy Research, Department of Energy;
John A. Rollwagen, Cray Research, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota; Robert J.
Paluck, CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Texas; John W.D. Connolly,
University of Kentucky, Lexington; and Siegfried S. Hecker, Los Alamos
National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PUBLIC LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills:
S. 666, to enroll certain individuals as Natives under the Alaska Native
Claims Settlement Act and entitles such individuals to receive shares of stock
in the Kenai Natives Association and Cook Inlet Region, Inc., after receiving
testimony from Walter R. Mills, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for
Indian Affairs; and David S. Case, Copeland, Landye, Bennett and Wolf,
Anchorage, Alaska;
S. 1128, to convey to a named individual certain public lands upon payment of
fair market value, S. 1719, to designate a segment of the Colorado River in
the Westwater Canyon, Utah as a component of the National Wild and Scenic
Rivers System, S. 1738, to convey certain lands in Josephine County, Oregon,
to the Rogue Community College District, and S. 1837, to establish and
administer a Desert Research Center in New Mexico, after receiving testimony
from Dean Stepanek, Deputy Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of
the Interior;
Testimony was also received on S. 1738 (listed above) from Harvey O. Bennett,
Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, Oregon; and on S. 1837 (listed above)
from Tom Bahr, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces.
1991 BUDGET
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the revenue provisions
contained in the President's budget request for fiscal year 1991 and all
expiring tax provisions not included in the President's budget, receiving
testimony from Kenneth W. Gideon, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax
Policy.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of J. Steven Rhodes, of California, to be Ambassador to Zimbabwe,
and Bradley Gordon, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Director for the Bureau of
Nuclear and Weapons Control, Susan Jane Koch, of the District of Columbia, to
be an Assistant Director for the Bureau of Strategic Programs, and Michael
Lorne Moodie, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Director for Multilateral
Affairs, all of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Gordon was
introduced by Senator Boschwitz.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
The nominations of Hilary Paterson Cleveland, of New Hampshire, to be a
Commissioner on the part of the United States on the International Joint
Commission, United States and Canada, David C. Fields, of California, to be
Director of the Office of Foreign Missions, with the rank of Ambassador,
Ronald W. Roskens, of Nebraska, to be Administrator of the Agency for
International Development, Robert W. Farrand, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to
Papua New Guinea and to serve concurrently as the Ambassador to the Solomon
Islands and the Republic of Vanuatu, J. Steven Rhodes, of California, to be
Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Bradley Gordon, of Virginia, to be an Assistant
Director for the Bureau of Nuclear and Weapons Control, U.S. Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency, Susan Jane Koch, of the District of Columbia, to be an
Assistant Director for the Bureau of Strategic Programs, U.S. Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency, Michael Lorne Moodie, of Maryland, to be an Assistant
Director for Multilateral Affairs, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency,
Larry K. Mellinger, of California, to be U.S. Executive Director of the
Inter-American Development Bank, and routine lists in the Foreign Service;
S. Con. Res. 92, commemorating the Treaty of Amity and Commerce of 1833
between the United States and Thailand;
S. Con. Res. 97, expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to popular
anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union;
S.J. Res. 75, expressing the sense of the Congress that the President should
take certain actions with respect to the International Space Year, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S.J. Res. 246, calling upon the United Nations to repeal the resolution on
Zionism as racism; and
H. Con. Res. 258, congratulating the President of Honduras on his election and
offering good wishes, with an amendment.
Also, Committee began consideration of S. Con. Res. 95, concerning the
consultations of nations at the conference on the reunification of Germany,
and S. Res. 257, expressing the advice of the Senate with regard to any treaty
or other legal instrument entered into the United States affecting the status
and boundaries of a united Germany, but did not complete action thereon, and
recessed subject to call.
DOD SUPPLY SYSTEMS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings to review
the General Accounting Office report on certain weaknesses in financial
management practices within the Department of Defense supply system, receiving
testimony from Frank C. Conahan, Assistant Comptroller General, Donna M.
Heivilin, Director, Logistics Issues, and Uldis Adamsons, Assistant Director,
Logistics Issues, all of the National Security and International Affairs
Division, General Accounting Office; and Donald J. Atwood, Deputy Secretary of
Defense, John A. Betti, Under Secretary for Acquisition, Sean C. O'Keefe,
Comptroller, Susan J. Crawford, Inspector General, and Robert J. Lieberman,
Assistant Inspector General for Analysis and Followup, all of the Department
of Defense.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CIVIL JUSTICE REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 2027, to require
certain procedural changes in the United States district courts in order to
promote the just, speedy and inexpensive determination of civil actions,
receiving testimony from Richard A. Enslen, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court
for the Western District of Michigan; Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr., Chief Judge,
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; Patrick Head, FMC
Corporation, Chicago, Illinois; Gene Kimmelman, Consumer Federation of
America, Washington, DC; Stephen B. Middlebrook, Aetna Life and Casualty,
Hartford, Connecticut; and Bill Wagner, Wagner, Cunningham, Vaughan and
McLaughlin, Tampa, Florida, on behalf of the Association of Trial Lawyers of
America.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NINTH CIRCUIT REORGANIZATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
concluded hearings on S. 948, to revise title 28 of the United States Code, to
divide the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit into two circuits,
after receiving testimony from Senators Gorton, Hatfield, McClure, Burns,
Cranston, Wilson, and DeConcini; Alfred T. Goodwin, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; Owen M. Panner, Chief Judge, U.S. District
Court for the District of Oregon; Barbara J. Rothstein, Chief Judge, U.S.
District Court for the Western District of Washington; Thomas E. Carlson, U.S.
Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of California; Warren E. Burger,
former Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States; Irwin H. Schwartz,
Western District of Washington, Seattle, on behalf of the Federal Bar
Association; James W. O'Brien, State Bar of California, Costa Mesa; Michael
Traynor, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, San Francisco, California; Edward
Shea, Washington State Bar Association, Pasco; and Mark C. Rutzick, Portland,
Oregon.
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ERISA ENFORCEMENT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor held hearings on
the Department of Labor's enforcement of the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) (P.L. 93-406), focusing on pension security,
receiving testimony from Raymond Maria, Acting Inspector General, and David G.
Ball, Assistant Secretary for Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration,
both of the Department of Labor; David S. Preminger, Rosen, Szegda, Preminger
and Bloom, New York, New York; and Karen Ferguson, Pension Rights Center, and
Tas Coroneos, both of Washington, DC.
Hearings were 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, March 20.
Joint Meetings
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
Joint Hearings: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint hearings
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review legislative
recommendations for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, after receiving testimony
from Walter G. Hogan, Greenfield, Wisconsin, and Larry W. Rivers, Washington,
DC, both on behalf of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
1990/03/07
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 7, 1990; pages D219 - D230 (Bound vol. D105-
D112)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
on proposed legislation to strengthen and improve U.S. agricultural programs,
focusing on the dairy industry, receiving testimony from Bruce Gardner,
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Economics; Tom Camerlo, National Milk
Producers, Arlington, Virginia; Carl Peterson, Agri-Mark, Methuen,
Massachusetts; Irvin Elkin, Associated Milk Producers, Inc., Shawano,
Wisconsin; Ray Moss Tucker, Dairymen, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky; Jim
Lefebvre, Mid America Dairymen, Inc., Springfield, Missouri; Linwood Tipton,
International Dairy Association, and Floyd Gaibler, Butter and Cheese
Institute, both of Washington, DC; Mark Goldman, Farmland Dairies, Inc.,
Wallington, New Jersey; and Richard T. O'Connell, Chocolate Manufacturers
Association, McLean, Virginia.
Committee will meet again on Wednesday, March 21.
STRATEGIC FORCES
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on operational
requirements and military strategies for strategic forces, receiving testimony
from Gen. John T. Chain, Jr., USAF, Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Air Command;
and Gen. John L. Piotrowski, USAF, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Space Command.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support held hearings on S. 2171, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1991 for
military functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe military
personnel levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on operation and maintenance
programs, receiving testimony from Donald B. Shycoff, Principal Deputy
Comptroller, Department of Defense; Brig. Gen. Josue Robles, Jr., USA,
Director for Operations and Support, Army Budget Office, Headquarters
Department of the Army; Rear Adm. Raymond M. Walsh, USN, Director, Operations
Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; Lt. Gen. William G. Carson,
Jr., USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff for Installations and Logistics,
Headquarters, U.S. Marine Crops; and Brig. Gen. John L. Finan, USAF, Director
of Budget Operations, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
(Financial Management and Comptroller).
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 22.
EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy held hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for the Export Administration Act, receiving
testimony from Dennis E. Kloske, Under Secretary of Commerce for Export
Administration; Allan Wendt, Senior Representative for Strategic Technology
Policy, Department of State; and Stephen Hadley, Assistant Secretary of
Defense for International Security Policy.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 28.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported H.R. 987, to designate certain lands in the Tongass National Forest
in Alaska as wilderness, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, and
in lieu of S. 237 and S. 346, both related measures.
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Committee will meet again on tomorrow.
ARMS CONTROL
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to review a status
report on arms control negotiations, receiving testimony from Ronald F. Lehman
II, Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATO MILITARY STRATEGY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs held hearings
to review implications of continuing changes in Eastern Europe for NATO
military strategy and U.S. military planning, receiving testimony from Gen.
John R. Galvin, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. European Command; James Schlesinger,
former Secretary of Defense; Richard Perle, former Assistant Secretary of
Defense for International Security Policy; Evan Galbraith, former U.S.
Ambassador to France; Morton H. Halperin, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense; and Barry M. Blechman, Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
John R. Dunne, of New York, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Department of
Justice, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Moynihan and
D'Amato and Representatives Rangel and McGrath, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
CIVIL RIGHTS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
2104, to revise the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (P.L. 88-352) to restore and
strengthen civil rights laws that ban discrimination in employment, after
receiving testimony from Mayor Richard Arrington, Raymond P. Fitzpatrick, Jr.,
Mason & Fitzpatrick, and James Henson, Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service, all
of Birmingham, Alabama; Laurence H. Tribe, Harvard Law School, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; Thomas D. Barr, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York, New York;
Glen D. Nager, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, DC; and Richard Larson,
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Los Angeles, California.
MEDIGAP
Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings to examine issues
surrounding Medicare supplemental insurance (Medigap) and long-term care
insurance, focusing on the impact of certain marketing practices on the
elderly, receiving testimony from John L. Hildreth, Consumers Union Southwest
Regional Office, Austin, Texas; Ron Taylor, Little Rock, Arkansas, on behalf
of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners; Bonnie Burns,
California Association of Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Programs,
and Charlene Blackburn, both of Santa Cruz, California; Jeffrey
Spitzer-Resnick, Center for Public Representation, Madison, Wisconsin; Thomas
A. Sick, Physicians Mutual Insurance Company, Omaha, Nebraska; Lois Hibbard,
Riverside, California; Ed Kodish, St. Petersburg, Florida; and Ronald O.
Gaiser, Jr., Birmingham, Alabama.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
SOVIET JEWRY
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Commission concluded
hearings to examine the current domestic and international developments
affecting Soviet Jews, after receiving testimony from Princeton Lyman,
Director, Bureau for Refugee Programs, and Alexander R. Vershbow, Director,
Office of Soviet Union Affairs, both of the Department of State; and William
Korey, B'nai B'rith, Shoshana Cardin, National Conference on Soviet Jewry, and
Micah Naftalin, Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, all of Washington, DC.
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D120)
Committee Meetings
( Committees not listed did not meet )
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry : Committee ordered
favorably reported the nominations of La Verne G. Ausman, of Wisconsin, to be
Administrator of the Farmers Home Administration, and Gary C. Byrne, of
California, to be Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration,
both of the Department of Agriculture.
APPROPRIATIONS--COMMERCE
Committee on Appropriations : Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for
the Department of Commerce, receiving testimony from Robert A. Mosbacher,
Secretary of Commerce.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 20.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations : Subcommittee on Defense resumed closed hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for unified command forces,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Gen. Maxwell R. Thurman, USA, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Southern Command; and
Gen. James J. Lindsay, USA, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Special Operations
Command.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 20.
APPROPRIATIONS--EPA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for the
Environmental Protection Agency, receiving testimony from William K. Reilly,
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March21.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Charles M. Herzfeld, of New Jersey, to be Director of Defense
Research and Engineering, and Gerald A. Cann, of Maryland, and Jacqueline E.
Schafer, of Virginia, each to be an Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and
11,137 nominations in the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to further
discuss the issue of unauthorized appropriations for fiscal year 1991 and
reprogramming requests, and to review those programs which fall within the
committee's jurisdiction as contained in the President's proposed budget for
fiscal year 1991 with a view towards making its recommendations to the
Committee on the Budget, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed
subject to call.
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AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed hearings
on proposals authorizing funds for the Defense Production Act of 1950,
including S. 1379, Defense Production Act Amendments of 1989, receiving
testimony from Thomas J. Murrin, Deputy Secretary of Commerce; Jed L. Babbin,
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense; and Allan V. Burman,
Administrator-Designate, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Office of
Management and Budget.
Hearings continue on Thursday, March22.
1991 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1991 budget for
the Federal Government, focusing on defense spending priorities, receiving
testimony from John D. Mayer, Deputy Assistant Director, and Robert F. Hale,
Assistant Director, both of the National Security Division, Congressional
Budget Office; and Gordon Adams, Defense Budget Project, Joshua M. Epstein,
Brookings Institution, and Frank J. Gaffney, Center for Security Policy, all
of Washington, DC.
Committee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Donald R. Quartel, Jr., of Florida, to be a
Federal Maritime Commissioner, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senator Mack, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following measures:
S. 775, to establish three Metal Casting Competitiveness Research Centers as
part of the energy conservation program of the Department of Energy, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 30 and H.R. 2392, bills to provide for certain requirements relating to the
conversion of oil shale mining claims located under the Mining Law of 1872,
each with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 393, to provide for the exchange of certain land owned by three inholders
within Camp W.G. Williams in Utah, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute;
S. 1859, to restructure the terms and conditions for loans made by the
Secretary of the Interior to the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
for the reconstruction of the Filene Center at Wolf Trap Farm Park in
Virginia; and
S. 1230, to authorize the acquisition of additional lands containing Indian
burial grounds for inclusion in the Knife River Indian Villages National
Historic Site, North Dakota, and to provide additional developmental funding
for the historic site visitor center, with amendments.
HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings on S.J.
Res. 154, to consent to certain amendments enacted by the legislature of the
State of Hawaii to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920, receiving
testimony from Timothy W. Glidden, Counselor to the Secretary, and Ruth Van
Cleve, Office of the Solicitor, both of the Department of the Interior; Hawaii
Attorney General George Kaeo, Hoaliku Drake, Hawaiian Homes Commission, and
Paul Alexander, on behalf of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, all of Honolulu.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
LEAD EXPOSURE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Toxic Substances,
Environmental Oversight, Research and Development held hearings to examine the
effects of lead exposure on children's health and educational performance,
receiving testimony from Victor J. Kimm, Deputy Assistant Administrator,
Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances, Environmental Protection Agency;
John C. Weicher, Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, and
Michael Janis, General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Interior
Housing, both of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; Vernon N.
Houk, Assistant Surgeon General, Centers for Disease Control, Barry L.
Johnson, Associate Administrator, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry, and Kathryn R. Mahaffey, Research Chemist, National Institute of
Environmental Health Services, National Institutes of Health, all of the
Department of Health and Human Services; Jeff Fontaine, Nevada State Health
Division, Carson City; Bela T. Matyas, Rhode Island Department of Health,
Providence; Herbert L. Needleman, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, on behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics; Robert
Bornschein, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio; Ellen K. Silbergeld
and Karen Florini, both of the Environmental Defense Fund, and J. William
Horton, Battery Council International, all of Washington, D.C.; Jeffrey L.
Zelms, Doe Run Company, St. Louis, Missouri, and Robert J. Muth, ASARCO, Inc.,
New York, New York, both on behalf of the Lead Industries Association; Jerry
Cole, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, on behalf of the International
Lead Zinc Research Organization; Stephanie Pollack, Conservation Law
Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts; and Bruce A. Fowler, University of Maryland
Medical School, and Jim Keck, both of Baltimore, Maryland.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EASTERN EUROPE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on issues surrounding
the support for East European democracy, receiving testimony from Lawrence S.
Eagleburger, Deputy Secretary of State.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Everett Ellis Briggs, of New Hampshire, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Portugal, Edward Morgan Rowell, of California, to be Ambassador to
Luxembourg, Robert Gregory Joseph, of Virginia, for the rank of Ambassador
during his tenure of service as U.S. Commissioner on the U.S.-U.S.S.R.
Standing Consultative Commission, and John J. Maresca, of Connecticut, for the
rank of Ambbassador during his tenure of service as Head of the U.S.
Delegation to the Conference on Confidence and Security Building Measures
(CSBM), after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf.
HIGH-RISK MANAGEMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed oversight hearings to
examine the high-risk management problems of the Departments of Labor and
Health and Human Services, receiving testimony from Roderick A. DeArment,
Deputy Secretary, Thomas C. Komarek, Assistant Secretary for Administration
and Management, Robert T. Jones, Assistant Secretary for Employment and
Training, David Ball, Assistant Secretary, Pension and Welfare Benefits
Administration, and Robert P. Davis, Solicitor, all of the Department of
Labor; and Kevin E. Moley, Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget, and
Michael J. Astrue, General Counsel, both of the Department of Health and Human
Services.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items: The nominations of Jacques L. Wiener, Jr., of Louisiana, to
be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, Rhesa H. Barksdale, of
Mississippi, to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, Robert H.
Hodges, Jr., of South Carolina, to be a Judge of the United States Claims
Court, Ronald L. Buckwalter, to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania, Donald J. Lee, to be U.S. District Judge for the
Western District of Pennsylvania, Gerald E. Rosen, to be U.S. District Judge
for the Eastern District of Michigan; John R. Dunne, of New York, to be
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Department of Justice; Hary F.
Manbeck, Jr., of Connecticut, to be Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks,
and Douglas B. Comer, of Virginia, to be Deputy Commissioner of Patents and
Trademarks, both of the Department of Commerce;
S. 511, to recognize the organization known as the National Academies of
Practice;
S. 198, to protect certain computer programs, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute;
S. 1829, to further restrict the use of steroids and human growth hormones,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
S. 2179, to maintain funding for state and local law enforcement programs in
the war against drugs and crime, with an amendment.
CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs, and Alcoholism held hearings to examine the impact of drug exposed
children on the child welfare system, receiving testimony from Senators Kohl
and Wilson; Herbert Kleber, Deputy Director for Demand Reduction, Office of
National Drug Control Policy; Michael F. Mangano, Deputy Inspector General for
Evaluations and Inspections, Department of Health and Human Services; Ira J.
Chasnoff, National Association for Perinatal Addiction Research and Education,
Chicago, Illinois; Amy B. Wheaton, Connecticut Department of Children and
Youth Services, Hartford; Shirley Coletti and Donna Tice, both of the
Operation Par, St. Petersburg, Florida; Kathleen M. West, Martin Luther King,
Jr. General Hospital, Los Angeles, California; and Joe Kroll, North American
Council on Adoptable Children, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported S.
137, to provide for a voluntary system of spending limits and partial public
financing of Senate general campaigns, and to limit contributions by
multicandidate political committees.
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TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
transfer of technology by the Federal Government to small businesses, after
receiving testimony from Senator Rockefeller; Representative Wyden; D. Allan
Bromley, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy; Lee Mercer, Acting
Under Secretary for Technology, and Don Johnson, Director of Technical
Services, National Institute of Standards and Technology, both of the
Department of Commerce; Philip S. Chen, Jr., Associate Director for Intramural
Affairs, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, Department of
Health and Human Services; Tina M. McKinley, Oak Ridge Associated
Universities, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; William H. Rader, University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville; Joseph M. Shuster, Teltech, Inc., Eden Prairie, Minnesota; and
Mcray Bryant, Wyoming Small Business Development Center Network, Casper.
SBA
Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1991 for the Small Business
Administration, and on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Small
Business Administration, receiving testimony from Susan Engeleiter,
Administrator, and Charles R. Gillum, Inspector General, both of the Small
Business Administration.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee completed its review of those
programs which fall within the committee's jurisdiction as contained in the
President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1991, and agreed on
recommendations it will make thereon to the Committee on the Budget.
Joint Meeting
BOARD MEETING
Office of Technology Assessment: The Board met and approved a project proposal
entitled "Kids, Tests, and American Education."
Board recessed subject to call.
1990/03/09
Daily Digest - [Friday, March 9, 1990]; pages D242 - D252 (Bound vol. D120-
D123)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: On Thursday, March 8,
Subcommittee on Agricultural Production and Stabilization of Prices held
hearings on proposed legislation to strengthen and improve U.S. agricultural
programs, focusing on the wheat industry, receiving testimony from Bruce
Gardner, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Economics; William I. Tierney,
Jr., Kansas State University, Manhattan; Reggie Wyckoff, Genoa, Colorado,
representing the National Association of Wheat Growers; Louis Schupbach, Alva,
Oklahoma, representing the Oklahoma Wheat Growers Association; Frank Dilse,
Scranton, North Dakota, representing the North Dakota Grain Growers
Association; Randy Marten, Campbell-Taggart, Inc., Dallas, Texas, representing
the American Bakers Association; Stephen H. Goulding, Oak State Products,
Inc., Wenona, Illinois, representing the Biscuit and Cracker Manufacturers
Association; David Lyons, North American Export Grain Association, Washington,
DC; and Duane A. Fischer, Scoular Grain Company, Omaha, Nebraska, representing
the National Grain and Feed Association.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--U.S. SENATE/CBO
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Walter J.
Stewart, Secretary of the U.S. Senate; Henry K. Giugni, Sergeant at Arms of
the U.S. Senate; and Robert D. Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget
Office.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NASA BUDGET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held hearings on the President's proposed budget request
for fiscal year 1991 for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA), focusing on its role in promoting future U.S. competitiveness,
educational pursuits, and developing technologies, receiving testimony from
Adm. Richard H. Truly, Administrator, James R. Thompson, Deputy Administrator,
and Thomas Campbell, Comptroller, all of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 28.
OIL AND GAS LEASES/STOCK RAISING HOMESTEAD LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Mineral Resources
Development and Production concluded hearings on the following bills:
S. 1805 and H.R. 3727, bills to allow the Bureau of Land Management to
reinstate an oil and gas lease in central California (LA 0334164), after
receiving testimony from Senator Inouye; Hillary Oden, Assistant Director for
Energy and Minerals, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior;
and John Prescott, Santa Ana, California; and
S. 1908 and H.R. 737, bills to ensure that the rights of surface owners and
miners are appropriately balanced on Stock Raising Homestead Act lands, after
receiving testimony from Hillary Oden, Assistant Director for Energy and
Minerals, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Bud Eppers,
New Mexico Cattle Growers Association, on behalf of the National Cattlemen's
Association, and Charles Roybal, New Mexico Mining Association, on behalf of
The American Mining Congress, both of Albuquerque; and Dennis Stolte, American
Farm Bureau Federation, Washington, DC.
FRANK E. MOSS FEDERAL BUILDING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: On Thursday, March 8, Committee
approved for reporting H.R. 3311, to redesignate the United States Post
Office/Court House located in Salt Lake City, Utah, as the "Frank E. Moss
Federal Building."
MAGLEV
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure held hearings on the President's proposed
budget request for fiscal year 1991 for the Department of Transportation,
focusing on the magnetically levitated (Maglev) high speed ground
transportation program, receiving testimony from Elaine L. Chao, Deputy
Secretary of Transportation; Robert W. Page, Assistant Secretary of the Army
for Civil Works; and Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Kelly, Director of Civil Works, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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SOUTHEAST ASIA NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
and the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations
concluded joint hearings to examine the current state of narcotics production
and control in the Golden Triangle region of Southeast Asia, after receiving
testimony from Melvyn Levitsky, Assistant Secretary for International
Narcotics Matters, Philip Mayhew, Director, Office of Thailand and Burma
Affairs, Sherman M. Funk, Inspector General, and John Deering, Audit Manager,
all of the Department of State; and David L. Westrate, Assistant Administrator
for Operations, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice.
MEDICAL LAB QUALITY CONTROL
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management held joint oversight hearings with the Committee on Labor and Human
Resources on the status of the Department of Health and Human Services
implementation of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (P.L.
100-578), to require all medical laboratories performing tests in the United
States to meet certification requirements, receiving testimony from
Representative Wyden; Gail R. Wilensky, Administrator, Health Care Financing
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Jack De Boy, Maryland
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Annapolis; and Patricia R. Ashton,
American Society for Cytotechnology, Durham, North Carolina.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AVIATION LIABILITY STANDARDS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 640, to
regulate interstate commerce by providing for uniform standards liability for
harm resulting from general aviation accidents, after receiving testimony from
Senators Kassebaum and McCain; Representative Glickman; M. Stuart Millar,
Piper Aircraft Corporation, Vero Beach, Florida; John S. Yodice, Aircraft
Owners and Pilots Association, and Gene Kimmelman, on behalf of the Consumers'
Union, Consumer Federation of America, and Public Citizens' Congress Watch,
both of Washington, DC; Robert Martin, Martin, Pringle, Oliver, Wallace and
Swartz, Wichita, Kansas, on behalf of the Beech Aircraft Corporation; William
A. Boettger, Teledyne Continental Motors, Mobile Alabama; and Bill Wagner,
Wagner, Cunningham, Vaughan and McLaughlin, Tampa, Florida.
Joint Meetings
EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT
Joint Economic Committee: 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.
1990/03/12
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D124)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/03/13
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D128)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/03/14
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 14, 1990; pages D265 - D272 (Bound vol. D128-
D133)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/03/15
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 15, 1990; pages D273 - D284 (Bound vol. D133-
D137)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
Joint Meetings
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to review the economic
outlook for 1990, and the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year
1991 for the Federal Government, after receiving testimony from Richard G.
Darman, Director, Office of Management and Budget.
VETERANS PROGRAMS
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint hearings
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review legislative
recommendations of certain veterans organizations, after receiving testimony
in behalf of funds for their respective activities from F. David Parker,
Aloha, Oregon, on behalf of the Paralyzed Veterans of America; Henry Berube,
Warren, Massachusetts, on behalf of the Blinded Veterans Association; Murray
Rosen, Los Angeles, California, on behalf of the Jewish War Veterans; John
Edwards, Nifkayuna, New York, on behalf of the American Ex-Prisoners of War;
and Ernest Brown, Garden City, Michigan, on behalf of the Military Order of
the Purple Heart.
1990/03/19
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D139)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/03/20
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D146)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--USIA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for
the United States Information Agency, receiving testimony from Bruce S. Gelb,
Director, United States Information Agency.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, March 29.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for military health programs, receiving
testimony from Enrique Mendez, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health
Affairs; Rear Adm. Robert Halder, Commanding Officer, San Diego Naval
Hospital, San Diego, California; and Maj. Gen. Vernon Chong, USAF, Commander,
Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland Air Force Base, Lackland, Texas.
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Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, March 22.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on the supplemental appropriations request for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 1990 for foreign assistance programs, receiving testimony from
Lawrence S. Eagleburger, Deputy Secretary of State; and John E. Robson, Deputy
Secretary of the Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, March 22.
APPROPRIATIONS--SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for the Smithsonian
Institution, receiving testimony from Robert McC. Adams, Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 27.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriation: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991
for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and
related agencies, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1991 for the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury, receiving testimony from
Nicholas F. Brady, Secretary of the Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel resumed
hearings on S. 2171, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1991 for military
functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe military personnel
levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on strength reduction management
authorities, receiving testimony from Christopher Jehn, Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Force Management and Personnel; Lt. Gen. Allen K. Ono, USA, Deputy
Chief of Army Staff Personnel; Vice Adm. Jeremy M. Boorda, USN, Chief of Naval
Personnel; Lt. Gen. Thomas J. Hickey, USAF, Chief of Air Force Staff
Personnel; and Lt. Gen. Norman H. Smith, USMC, Deputy Chief of Marine Corps
Staff for Manpower and Reserve Affairs.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported S. 1853, to award a congressional gold medal to Laurence Spelman
Rockefeller in recognition of his leadership on behalf of natural resource
conservation and historic preservation.
"HOPE" INITIATIVE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings on
proposed legislation, to ensure low-income and moderate-income Americans have
greater opportunities for homeownership and management of their housing,
receiving testimony from Jack Kemp, Secretary of Housing and Urban Affairs.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 2088,
to extend the authority in current law for operating and building the
Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), to expand the SPR to one billion barrels
and authorize oil leasing to fill the Reserve, receiving testimony from
Senator Inouye; Robert H. Gentile, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil
Energy; Robert D. Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget Office; H.
Leighton Steward, Louisiana Land and Exploration Company, New Orleans; and
Philip K. Verleger, Jr., Institute for International Economics, Washington,
DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS PROGRAM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation and Infrastructure held hearings on the President's proposed
budget request for fiscal year 1991 for the public buildings program of the
General Services Administration, receiving testimony from Richard G. Austin,
Acting Administrator, General Services Administration; William M.
Diefenderfer, Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget; and L. Nye
Stevens, Director, Government Business Operations Issues, General Government
Division, General Accounting Office.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
U.S. HEALTH PROMOTION STATISTICS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Government Information and
Regulation held hearings on the quality of U.S. health promotion statistics,
focusing on current statistical gathering efforts in the context of the Public
Health Service's Year 2000 Objectives for the nation, receiving testimony from
James O. Mason, Assistant Secretary for Health, Michael J. McGinnis, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Health, and Manning Feinleib, Director, National
Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control, all of the
Department of Health and Human Services; John F. Mazzuchi, Principal Director,
Professional Affairs and Quality Assurance, Office of the Assistant Secretary
for Health Affairs, Department of Defense; James T. Heimbach, Acting
Administrator, Human Nutrition Information Service, Department of Agriculture;
Jane McDonald, American Association of School Administrators, Arlington,
Virginia; and Garland Land, Missouri Department of Health, Jefferson City, on
behalf of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.
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Hearings continue Friday, April 6.
HIGH-TECH WEAPONS IN WAR ON DRUGS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine new
high-technology weapons for use in the war on drugs, receiving testimony from
William A. Bayse, Assistant Director, Technical Services Division, and William
M. Baker, Assistant Director, Criminal Investigative Division, both of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Raymond D. Mintz,
Director, Office of Enforcement Support, U.S. Customs Service, Department of
the Treasury; Albert E. Brandenstein, Special Assistant to the Director for
Special Operations, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of
Defense; and John D. Immele, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New
Mexico.
Hearings were 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 Thursday, April 5.
Joint Meetings
U.S. ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT AFTER THE COLD WAR
Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings to examine U.S. economic
adjustment after the cold war, focusing on the effects of reduced defense
spending at the State and local level and conversion efforts by firms and
industries, receiving testimony from Gregory Frisby, Frisby Airborne
Hydraulics, and John Tepper Marlin, Council on Economic Priorities, both of
New York, New York; and Richard Greenwood, International Association of
Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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D154)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
on proposed legislation to strengthen and improve U.S. agricultural programs,
receiving testimony from Vermont Governor Madeline Kunin, Montpelier; Jim
Hightower, Texas Commissioner of Agriculture, Austin; Rev. John McRaith,
Owensboro, Kentucky, representing the United States Catholic Conference;
Leland Swensen, Denver, Colorado, representing the National Farmers Union;
Eugene F. Paul, Delavan, Minnesota, representing the National Farmers
Organization; Harvey J. Sanner, Des Arc, Arkansas, representing the American
Agriculture Movement, Inc.; Dean Kleckner, Rudd, Iowa, representing the
American Farm Bureau Federation; Helen Waller, Circle, Montana, representing
the National Family Farm Coalition; Leroy Watson, The National Grange, John R.
Block, National-American Wholesaler Grocer's Association, Wayne A. Boutwell,
National Council of Farmers Cooperatives, Stuart B. Hardy, Chamber of Commerce
of the United States, and William G. Lesher, Lesher and Russell, Inc.,
representing the Agricultural Policy Working Group, all of Washington, D.C.;
Elaine Stuhr, Bradshaw, Nebraska, representing the Women Involved in Farm
Economics; John McClung, United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association,
Alexandria, Virginia; and Elmer Hillesland, Grand Forks Chamber of Commerce,
Grand Forks, North Dakota.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Wendy L.
Gramm, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission; James S. Benson, Acting
Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human
Services; Harold B. Steele, Chairman, and Marvin R. Duncan, Member, both of
the Farm Credit Administration Board; and Eric P. Thor, President, Farm Credit
System Assistance Board.
Subcommittee will meet again Friday, March 23.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for the Office of
Energy Research, Department of Energy, focusing on basic energy sciences,
magnetic fusion, human genome, global warming, nuclear physics, high energy
physics, superconducting super collider, and other science programs, receiving
testimony from James F. Decker, Acting Director, Office of Energy Research,
Department of Energy.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 27.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1991 for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and
related agencies, receiving testimony from Senator Garn; and numerous public
witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--SECRET SERVICE/IRS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1991, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from John R. Simpson, Director, U.S. Secret Service, and Fred T. Goldberg,
Jr., Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, both of the Department of the
Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, March 28.
APPROPRIATIONS--VA/HUD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from William A.
Whiteside, Executive Director, George Knight, Deputy Executive Director, and
Carol McCabe, General Counsel, all of the Neighborhood Reinvestment
Corporation; William King, Chairman, Robert C. Gibson, Vice Chairman, David A.
Harris, President, and John G. Lloyd, Controller, all of the National
Institutes of Building Sciences; and Samuel K. Lessey, Jr., Director, and G.
Huntington Bannister, Controller, both of the Selective Service System.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
DOD PROCUREMENT
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
held hearings to examine corrective actions the Department of Defense may take
as a result of the findings of recent procurement fraud investigations,
receiving testimony from John A. Betti, Under Secretary for Acquisition, Susan
J. Crawford, Inspector General, Morris Silverstein, Assistant Inspector
General for Criminal Investigations Policy and Oversight, and Steve Trodden,
Assistant Inspector General for Auditing, all of the Department of Defense;
John J. Welch, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition;
Steven K. Conver, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development
and Acquisition; and Chester Paul Beech, Jr., Director, Navy Procurement Task
Force.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
THIRD WORLD DEBT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy held oversight hearings to assess
the implementation of the Administration's initiative to strengthen the
international debt strategy, receiving testimony from David C. Mulford, Under
Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs; William R. Rhodes,
Citicorp/Citibank, Rodney B. Wagner, Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New
York, and Peter McPherson, Bank of America, all of New York, New York; Abraham
F. Lowenthal, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, on behalf of the
Inter-American Dialogue; and Sidney Weintraub, University of Texas, Austin.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of James B. Edwards, of South Carolina, to be a
Member of the Board of Directors of the Communications Satellite Corporation,
after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Hollings, testified and
answered questions in his own behalf.
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FCC SYNDICATED EXCLUSIVITY RULES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications held hearings to assess the impact of the Federal
Communications Commission's (FCC) syndicated exclusivity and network
non-duplication rules as implemented, receiving testimony from William
Johnson, Deputy Chief, Mass Media Bureau, Federal Communications Commission;
Robert Thomson, Tele-Communications, Inc., Denver, Colorado; Stephen R.
Effros, Community Antenna Television Association, Fairfax, Virginia; William
F. Duhamel, Duhamel Broadcasting Enterprises, Rapid City, South Dakota; Travis
Rockey, Cordillera Communication, Billings, Montana; Jeff Treeman, United
Video, Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Gary Brandt, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MAGLEV
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation concluded hearings on S. 1898, to provide Federal Government
guarantees of investments of State and local government pension funds in
high-speed, intercity rail facilities and to establish a high-speed rail loan
guarantee fund, and S. 2286, to authorize funds for the Federal Government to
enter into cooperative research and development agreements with United States
companies to address technical barriers impeding the development and
construction of magnetic levitation transportation systems, after receiving
testimony from Senator Reid; Gilbert E. Carmichael, Administrator, Federal
Railroad Administration, Department of Transportation; Gordon T. Danby,
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, representing the Super Mag
Coalition; Gregory J. Yurek, American Superconductor Company, Watertown,
Massachusetts, representing the Council on Superconductivity; William J.
Boardman, Concord Associates, Washington, D.C., representing MAGLEV USA;
Robert Pattison, Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas, Herndon, Virginia,
representing the High Speed Rail Association; Richard J. Gran, Grumman
Corporation, Bethpage, New York; and Ervon Koenig, Bechtel, San Francisco,
California.
SHORT-TERM TRADING
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to explore the effects of
short-term trading on long-term investments, focusing on proposals to increase
the tax cost of short-term trading and S. 1654, to impose a special income tax
on the short-term gains realized by pension funds having over $1 million in
assets, receiving testimony from Senator Kassebaum; Nicholas F. Brady,
Secretary of the Treasury; Minnesota State Treasurer Michael A. McGrath, St.
Paul, on behalf of the National Association of State Treasurers and the
Council of Institutional Investors; Warren E. Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway,
Inc., Omaha, Nebraska; Andrew C. Sigler, Champion International Corporation,
Stamford, Connecticut; Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; Myron S. Scholes, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California;
and Robert Shultz, Financial Executives Institute, Atlanta, Georgia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EASTERN EUROPE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs held hearings
to examine American business initiatives in Eastern Europe, receiving
testimony from Senator Specter; Charles A. Vanik, Squire, Sanders and Dempsey,
William Archey, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Kempton B. Jenkins,
Armco, Inc., representing the National Association of Manufacturers, and
Martin Colman, American Foundation for Resistance International, all of
Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
FEDERAL PAY REFORM
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 2274, to
establish a Federal pay system with locality-based adjustments, receiving
testimony from Representative Green; Constance Berry Newman, Director, Office
of Personnel Management; Richard L. Fogel, Assistant Comptroller General for
General Government Programs, General Accounting Office; Martin L. Duggan,
Advisory Committee on Federal Pay, and Madelyn Jennings, Gannett Company,
Inc., both of Washington, D.C.; I. Dwight Greenspan, GTE Service Corporation,
Stamford, Connecticut; and Donald A. Black, Rockwell International
Corporation, El Segundo, California.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
IMPEACHMENT OF ARTICLE III JUDGES
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution held hearings on
S.J. Res. 232, S.J. Res. 233, and S.J. Res. 11, measures proposing amendments
to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the impeachment of
Article III Judges, receiving testimony from Senators Heflin, Thurmond,
Specter, and Lieberman; John O. McGinnis, Deputy Assistant Attorney General,
Office of Legislative Counsel, Department of Justice; Walter K. Stapleton,
U.S. Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, Wilmington, Delaware, on behalf of
the Committee on Codes of Conduct of the Judicial Conference of the United
States; Jack E. Frankel, Commission on Judicial Performance, San Francisco,
California; and Ronald D. Rotunda, University of Illinois College of Law,
Champaign.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL BONE MARROW REGISTRY
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for the National Bone Marrow Registry
of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services,
after receiving testimony from Senator Gore; Representatives Fazio and Bill
Young; Claude J.M. L'Enfant, Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood
Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human
Services; Joan Keller, American Bone Marrow Donor Registry, Mandeville,
Louisiana; Robert Graves, National Marrow Donor Program, St. Paul, Minnesota;
Sandy Mortensen, Fairfax, Virginia; Kathy Barrett, Woodbridge, Virginia; and
Alvin Atlas, Bethesda, Maryland.
GROUNDWATER PROTECTION
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings to examine certain
problems that confront small businesses in trying to comply with the
Environmental Protection Agency's regulations on underground storage tanks,
after receiving testimony from Ronald Brand, Director, Office of Underground
Storage Tanks, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Environmental
Protection Agency; Sally B. Narey, General Counsel, Small Business
Administration; Peter F. Guerrero, Associate Director, Environmental
Protection Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division,
General Accounting Office; Duane Hitz, E.W. Blanch Company, Minneapolis,
Minnesota; Mike Coulson, Coulson Oil Company, North Little Rock, Arkansas;
Phil Troutwine, C&B Warehouse Distributing, Inc., Virginia, Minnesota,
representing the Petroleum Marketers Association of America; and F.C. Roberts,
Jr., Acme Petroleum and Fuel Company, Inc., Gastonia, North Carolina,
representing the Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America and the
National Association of Convenience Stores.
Joint Meetings
INDIAN FUNDS
Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of S. 1096, to provide for the use and
distribution of funds awarded to the Seminole Indians.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ORGANIC FOODS PRODUCTION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Research and General Legislation held hearings on S. 2108, to
promote the production of organically produced foods through the establishment
of a national standard production for organically produced products and
providing for the labeling of such products, receiving testimony from Senator
Cranston; Roger Blobaum, Center for Science in the Public Interest, and Allen
Rosenfeld, Public Voice for Food and Health Policy, both of Washington, DC;
Faye Jones, Menomonie, Wisconsin, on behalf of the Organic Farmers Association
Council; Mark Retzloff, Boulder, Colorado, on behalf of the Organic Food
Alliance; James Wiers, Willard, Ohio, on behalf of the United Fresh Fruit and
Vegetable Association; and Harold Alston, Stop and Shop Corporation, Boston,
Massachusetts, on behalf of the Food Marketing Institute and the Produce
Marketing Association.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for defense management, receiving
testimony from John A. Betti, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 27.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for foreign assistance
programs, focusing on international financial institutions, receiving
testimony from Nicholas F. Brady, Secretary of the Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, April 3.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1991 for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and related agencies, receiving testimony from numerous public
witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 27.
APPROPRIATIONS--GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991, receiving
testimony from Maj. Gen. A.J. Adams, Secretary, American Battle Monuments
Commission; Roger W. Jepson, Chairman, National Credit Union Administration;
Steven Dola, Deputy for Management and Budget (Army cemetarial expenses),
Department of the Army; and Melanie Dorsey, Chief Clerk, Court of Veterans'
Appeals.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 27.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support resumed hearings on S. 2171, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1991
for military functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe military
personnel levels for fiscal year 1991, receiving testimony from Gen. William
G.T. Tuttle, Jr., USA, Commander, Army Materiel Command; Vice Adm. Stanley R.
Arthur, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Logistics), and Rear Adm.
Edward M. Straw, USN, Director of Materiel Division, both of the Office of the
Chief of Naval Operations; Gen. Charles C. McDonald, USAF, Commander, Air
Force Logistics Command; and Lt. Gen. Charles McCausland, USA, Director,
Defense Logistics Agency.
Subcommittee will meet again Monday, March 26.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on proposals authorizing funds for the Defense Production Act of 1950,
including S. 1379, proposed Defense Production Act Amendments of 1989, after
receiving testimony from Alan Shaw, International Security and Commerce
Program, Project Director, Defense Technology Base Assessment Project, Office
of Technology Assessment; William F. Paul, United Technologies Corporation,
Washington, DC, representing the Aerospace Industries Association; James L.
Koontz, Kingsbury Machine Tool Corporation, Keene, New Hampshire, representing
the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences; and David Dudon, Mutual Tool
and Die, Inc., Dayton, Ohio, representing the National Tooling and Machining
Association.
DEFICIT REDUCTION
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the President's proposed
budget request for fiscal year 1991, focusing on deficit reduction and
spending initiatives, receiving testimony from Philip R. Lee, University of
California, San Francisco, on behalf of the Physician Payment Review
Commission; Bruce C. Vladeck, Prospective Payment Assessment Commission, New
York, New York; Carol M. McCarthy, American Hospital Association, Chicago,
Illinois; Robert T. Van Hook, National Rural Health Association, Kansas City,
Missouri; Janice M. Gruendel, Connecticut Department of Children and Youth
Services, Hartford, on behalf of the American Public Welfare Association; John
J. Ring, American Medical Association, Mundelein, Illinois; Paul A. Ebert,
American College of Surgeons, Chicago, Illinois; Joseph C. Czarsty, American
Academy of Family Physicians, Oakville, Connecticut; Leonard Lichtenfeld,
Maryland Society of Internal Medicine, Baltimore, on behalf of the American
Society of Internal Medicine; and Jeremy M. Jones, Homedco, Inc., Orange,
California, on behalf of the Health Industry Distributors Association and the
National Association of Medical Equipment Suppliers.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EASTERN EUROPE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs held hearings
to examine Democratic institution-building in Eastern Europe, receiving
testimony from Paul D. Coverdell, Director, Peace Corps; Sargent Shriver,
former Director, Peace Corps; Lane Kirkland, AFL-CIO, and Carl Gershman,
National Endowment for Democracy, both of Washington, DC; and Merek
Rusczynski, Confederacy of Independent Poland, New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy,
Trade, Oceans and Environment concluded hearings on U.S. participation in the
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, after receiving testimony
from David C. Mulford, Under Secretary of the Treasury for International
Affairs; Michael Mandelbaum, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, New York;
and Ed Hewett, Brookings Institution, and Paul C. Roberts III, Center for
Strategic and International Studies, both of Washington, DC.
FEDERAL PAY REFORM
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee continued hearings on S. 2274, to
establish a Federal pay system with locality-based adjustments, receiving
testimony from John N. Sturdivant, American Federation of Government Employees
(AFL-CIO), James Peirce, National Federation of Federal Employees, Robert M.
Tobias, National Treasury Employees Union, Michael E. Minahan, Federal
Managers Association, Helene A. Benson, Professional Managers Association, and
Dorothy I. Spinks, Federally Employed Women, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items: The nomination of Robert W. Sweet, Jr., of Virginia, to be
Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention,
Department of Justice;
S. 1683, for the relief of Paula Grzyb;
S. 1814, for the relief of Wilson Johan Sherrouse;
H.R. 756, for the relief of Shelton Anthony Smith;
H.R. 3045, to clarify that States, instrumentalities of States, and officers
and employees of States acting in their official capacity, are subject to suit
in Federal court by any person for infringement of copyright and infringement
of exclusive rights in mask works, and that all the remedies can be obtained
in a suit against a private person or against other public entities;
S. 1271, to change the fee schedule of the Copyright Office, and to make
certain technical amendments;
H.R. 1622, to change the fee schedule of the Copyright Office, and to make
certain technical amendments;
S. 1272, to reduce the number of Commissioners on the Copyright Royalty
Tribunal, and to provide for lapsed terms of such Commissioners;
H.R. 3046, to reduce the number of commissioners on the Copyright Royalty
Tribunal, to change the salary classification rates for members of the
Copyright Tribunal and the United States Parole Commission and for the Deputy
and Assistant Commissioners of Patents and Trademarks;
S. 459, to provide for the use of inventions in outer space, with an amendment
in the nature of a substitute;
S. 396, to provide protection for the operation of interest rate and currency
swap agreements when one of the parties files for bankruptcy relief, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
H.R. 3341, to increase the fines that may be imposed for antitrust violations
of the Sherman Act;
S. 994, to revise prohibitions on interlocking directorates, with an amendment
in the nature of a substitute;
S. 995, to increase the penalties for civil and criminal violations, extend
the waiting periods for cash tender acquisitions, establish filing fees for
premerger notifications, and modify the standards for the filing of such
notifications, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 996, to allow the United States to recover treble damages under the
antitrust laws;
S. 185, to punish as a Federal criminal offense the crimes of international
parental child abduction, with amendments; and
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, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute.
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NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Norman H. Stahl, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of New Hampshire,
Daniel B. Sparr, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Colorado, John
S. Martin, Jr., to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New
York, and Alan D. Lourie, of Pennsylvania, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the
Federal Circuit, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their
own behalf. Mr. Stahl was introduced by Senators Dole and Rudman, Mr. Sparr
was introduced by Senators Armstrong and Wirth, Mr. Martin was introduced by
Senator Moynihan, and Mr. Lourie was introduced by Senators Heinz and Specter.
Testimony was also received on the nomination of Mr. Stahl from John
Broderick, Manchester, New Hampshire, and Steven J. McAuliffe, Concord, New
Hampshire, both on behalf of the New Hampshire Bar Association.
INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to
examine issues related to the delivery and maintenance of comprehensive, high
quality health care to Indian and non-Indian people in rural America, after
receiving testimony from Everett R. Rhoades, Director, Indian Health Service,
and Jeff Human, Director, Office of Rural Health, both of the Department of
Health and Human Services; Bernard Bouschor, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of
Chippewa Indians, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan; Lorraine E. White, Quechan
Indian Tribe, Yuma, Arizona; James Paiva, Shoshone Paiute Indian Tribe,
Owyhee, Nevada; Pat Racette and Charles Loonsfoot, both of the Keweenaw Bay
Indian Community, Baraga, Michigan; Jasper Hostler, Jr., Hoopa Valley Tribe of
California, Hoopa; Alan Pinkham, Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho, Lapwai; Donovan
Archambault, Fort Belknap Community Council, Harlem, Montana; Myron Ellis,
Leech Lake Reservation Business Committee, Cass Lake, Minnesota; Russell
Hawkins, Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe, Sisseton, South Dakota; and Stephen
Cournoyer, Yankton Sioux Tribe, Marty, South Dakota.
No Joint hearings noted.
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D165)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, March 23, Subcommittee on Agriculture,
Rural Development and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1991 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Jo Ann D.
Smith, 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, Daniel D. Haley,
Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service, and Robert E. Sherman, Deputy
Director for Legislative and Regulatory Systems, all of the Department of
Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again Friday, March 30.
APPROPRIATIONS--GAO/POLICE BOARD/ARCHITECT
Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, March 23, Subcommittee on the
Legislative Branch held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1991, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Milton J. Socolar, Special Assistant to the Comptroller General, General
Accounting Office; Henry K. Giugni, Sergeant at Arms of the U.S. Senate, on
behalf of the Capitol Police Board; and George M. White, Architect of the
Capitol.
Subcommittee will meet again Friday, March 30.
APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for base closure
and NATO infrastructure programs, receiving testimony from David J. Berteau,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Production and Logistics;
Brig. Gen. William A. Stofft, USA, Director of Management, Office of the Chief
of Army Staff; Rear Adm. Jack E. Buffington, USN, Director, Shore Activities
Division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Logistics; and James
F. Boatright, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations.
Subcommittee will meet again Monday, April 2.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support resumed hearings, in open and closed session, on S. 2171, authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1991 for military functions of the Department of Defense
and to prescribe military personnel levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on
ammunition programs, receiving testimony from Maj. Gen. Paul L. Greenberg,
USA, Deputy for Ammunition, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army
(Research, Development and Acquisition); Maj. Gen. Edward R. Bracken, USAF,
Director, Logistics Plans and Programs, Department of the Air Force; and Maj.
Gen. Jerome H. Granrud, USA, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations
and Plans and Force Development, Department of the Army.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Friday, March 23,
Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of David W. Mullins, Jr., of
Arkansas, and Edward W. Kelley, Jr., of Texas, each to be a Member of the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and Robert H. Swan, of Utah,
to be a Member of the National Credit Union Administration Board, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Mullins was
introduced by Senator Bumpers and Mr. Kelley was introduced by Senator Gramm.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Robert M. White, of Minnesota, to be Under
Secretary of Commerce for Technology, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senator Durenberger, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
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WORLD OIL MARKET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight
hearings to examine the outlook for the world oil market in the 1990's and its
implications for U.S. energy, economic, and security interests, focusing on
future price and production patterns, the effect of recent events in Eastern
block nations, the role of OPEC, and implications of new environmental
policies, after receiving testimony from James R. Schlesinger, former
Secretary of Defense and former Secretary of Energy; John J. Easton, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Energy Emergencies, and W.
Calvin Kilgore, Director, Office of Energy Markets, both of the Department of
Energy; Richard Schmalensee, Member, Council of Economic Advisers; and Daniel
H. Yergin, Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
PRIVATE PENSION PLANS
Committee on Finance: On Friday, March 23, Subcommittee on Private Retirement
Plans and Oversight of the Internal Revenue Service held hearings to review
the Internal Revenue Code rules governing private pension plans and options
for simplification, receiving testimony from Representative Chandler; Howard
J. Golden, Kwasha Lipton, Fort Lee, New Jersey, on behalf of the Association
of Private Pension and Welfare Plans; Elmer Van Egmond, Arkansas State
Legislative Committee, Little Rock, on behalf of the American Association of
Retired Persons; Vance J. Anderson, Allied Signal, Inc., Morristown, New
Jersey, on behalf of the ERISA Industry Committee; Andrew J. Fair, White
Plains, New York, on behalf of the American Society of Pension Actuaries; and
Paula A. Calimafde, Small Business Council of America, Inc., Dallas L.
Salisbury, Employee Benefit Research Institute, David J. Kautter, Ernst &
Young, on behalf of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants,
James P. Holden, Steptoe & Johnson, on behalf of the American Bar Association,
all of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: On Friday, March 23, Committee reconsidered its
action of Thursday, March 22, when it ordered favorably reported H.R. 3045, to
clarify that States, instrumentalities of States, and officers and employees
of States acting in their official capacity, are subject to suit in Federal
court by any person for infringement of copyright and infringement of
exclusive rights in mask works, and that all the remedies can be obtained in a
suit against a private person or against other public entities, and again
ordered favorably reported the bill, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute. (As approved by the Committee, the bill incorporates provisions of
S. 497.)
AUTHORIZATIONS--MUSEUM SERVICES
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Friday, March 23, Subcommittee on
Education, Arts and Humanities held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities,
focusing on the Institute of Museum Services, receiving testimony from Daphne
Murray, Director, Institute of Museum Services; Willard L. Boyd, Field Museum
of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois; Albert T. Klyberg, Rhode Island
Historical Society, Providence; Judith O'Sullivan, The Museums at Stony Brook,
Stony Brook, New York; Joel N. Bloom, Franklin Institute Science Museum and
Planetarium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the American Association
of Museums; and Donald V. Hague, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, March 29.
U.S.-EASTERN EUROPE TRADE RELATIONS
Committee on Small Business: On Friday, March 23, Committee concluded hearings
to examine U.S. trade and economic relations with Eastern Europe and the
Soviet Union, focusing on the role of U.S. small businesses, after receiving
testimony from Eugene J. McAllister, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic
and Business Affairs; Peter Allgeier, Assistant United States Trade
Representative for Europe and the Mediterranean; Thomas J. Duesterberg,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Economic Policy; Frank P.
Doyle, General Electric, Fairfield, Connecticut; Eugene E. Madara, Asea Brown
Boveri, Inc., Stamford, Connecticut; Joseph C. Bell, Hogan and Hartson, and
Paul J. J. Welfens, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns
Hopkins University, and Sarah C. Carey, Steptoe and Johnson, all of
Washington, DC; Peter C.M.S. von Braun, American MicroTrace, Greenwich,
Connecticut; and Keith W. Crane, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1990/03/27
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 27, 1990; pages D340 - D350 (Bound vol. D166-
D172)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on manpower and personnel programs, receiving testimony from Meredith
Neizer, Chairman, Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Military; Rear
Adm. Roberta L. Hazard, USN, Director, Pride, Professionalism and Personal
Excellence, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff of Naval Operations; Chief
Master Sgt. Cathy Ballard, USAF, Vice President for College Relations,
Community College of the Armed Forces, Maxwell Air Force Base; Julius 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 C.
Binnicker, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force; Maj. Gen. Girard Seitter
III, Commander, Tripler Army Medical Center; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, March 29.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony from Senators Bond, Bumpers,
Breaux, Heflin and Shelby; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--FISH AND WILDLIFE/INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991, receiving testimony in behalf
of funds for their respective activities from John F. Turner, Director, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior; and Everett R. Rhoades,
Director, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services.
Subcommittee will meet again Monday, April 2.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1991 for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and related agencies, receiving testimony from Senators Kerrey
and Lieberman; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--CONSUMER AFFAIRS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Jaqueline
Jones-Smith, Chairman, and Carol Dawson, Commissioner, both of the Consumer
Product Safety Commission; Bonnie Guiton, Director, U.S. Office of Consumer
Affairs, Department of Health and Human Services; and Teresa Nasif, Director,
Consumer Information Center.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, March 29.
HUD COINSURANCE PROGRAM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on HUD/Moderate
Rehabilitation held hearings to examine the Administration's decision to
terminate the coinsurance method of multifamily mortgage insurance delivery
and to replace it with a more effective method of providing such insurance,
receiving testimony from Alfred A. DelliBovi, Under Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development, Peter H. Monroe, General Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Housing, and Chris Greer, Assistant Inspector General for Audit, all of the
Department of Housing and Urban Development; Larry Dale, Federal National
Mortgage Association, George O. Hipps, Jr., PW Funding, Inc., Thomas J.
Craren, Price Waterhouse, Robert P. Kalish, Government National Mortgage
Association, and Warren Lasko and Gaye G. Beasley, both of the Mortgage
Bankers Association of America, all of Washington, DC; John O. Baecker, United
Guaranty Commercial Insurance Company, Greensboro, North Carolina; and Robert
H. Edelstein, University of California, Berkeley.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ENERGY EFFICIENCY RATING SYSTEM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Regulation
and Conservation concluded hearings on S. 1355, to assist private industry in
establishing a uniform residential energy efficiency rating system to provide
consumers with energy performance information about the homes they buy, after
receiving testimony from J. Michael Davis, Assistant Secretary of Energy for
Conservation and Renewable Energy; Cherry Duckett, Arkansas Industrial
Development Commission, representing the National Association of State Energy
Officials, and Ron Hughes, Energy Rated Homes of America, both of Little Rock,
Arkansas; Benny W. Folsom, Southern Electric International, Atlanta, Georgia;
Don Stafford, Charlotte, North Carolina, representing the National Association
of Home Builders; Harley E. Rouda, National Association of Realtors, Columbus,
Ohio; and William R. Prindle, Alliance to Save Energy, Washington, DC.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of L. Joyce Hampers, of Massachusetts, to be an Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development, and Brig. Gen. Arthur E.
Williams, USA, to be a Member and President of the Mississippi River
Commission, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Ms. Hampers was introduced by Senator Humphrey.
SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to review tax incentives for
increasing savings and investment, focusing on savings trends in the United
States and proposals to improve the low rate of personal savings, receiving
testimony from Kenneth W. Gideon, Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy, and
Sidney L. Jones, Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, both of the
Department of the Treasury; Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Boston University, Boston,
Massachusetts, and Jonathan S. Skinner, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, both on behalf of the National Bureau of Economic Research;
Mary O. Boyle, Cuyahoga County Commissioner, Cleveland, Ohio, on behalf of the
National Association of Counties; David Silver, Investment Company Institute,
Washington, DC; and William North, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the
National Association of Realtors.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
FOREIGN AGENTS REGISTRATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on S. 176, to
strengthen the registration and enforcement requirements of the Foreign Agents
Registration Act of 1938, receiving testimony from Senator Heinz; and Owen
Bieber, United Auto Workers, Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ABORTION RIGHTS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 1912, to
prohibit States from restricting the right of a woman to terminate a pregnancy
before fetal viability or at any time if the termination is necessary to
protect the health or life of the woman, receiving testimony from Senators
Cranston, Packwood, and Humphrey; Representatives Hyde and Christopher Smith;
Sheri Metulus, Peoria, Illinois; Marilyn Mosley, Birmingham, Alabama; James
Friedl, Concord, California; Gabriella Bocec, Bucharest, Romania; Herbert
Jones, Charlottesville, Virginia; Louis Gertsley III, Wyncote, Pennsylvania;
and Shari Richard, Union Lake, Michigan.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ANDES
Joint Hearings: Senate Committee on the Judiciary concluded joint hearings
with the Caucus on International Narcotics Control to examine recent
developments in Andean nations, focusing on production, quality, and marketing
of coffee, after receiving testimony from James M. Murphy, Jr., Assistant U.S.
Trade Representative for Latin America, Caribbean and Africa; Samuel Doria
Medina, Economic Advisor to the President of Bolivia, La Paz; and George E.
Boecklin, National Coffee Association of USA, Inc., New York, New York.
1990/03/28
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 28, 1990; pages D351 - D364 (Bound vol. D172-
D181)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
PESTICIDE EXPORT REFORM
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings on
S. 2227, to strengthen certain provisions of the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) governing the export of pesticides,
receiving testimony from Senator Gore; Representatives Synar and Panetta;
Linda J. Fisher, Assistant Administrator for Pesticides and Toxic Substances,
Environmental protection Agency; Mercedes Bolanos de Moreno, Ecuador Ministry
of Agriculture and Livestock, Quito; Frank S. Bouis, Florida Fruit and
Vegetable Association, Orlando; and Jay J. Vroom, National Agricultural
Chemicals Association, and William J. McNichol, Jr., Ginsburg, Feldman and
Bress, on behalf of the National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides,
both of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Research resumed hearings on proposed legislation to strengthen
and improve U.S. agricultural programs, focusing on the control of noxious
weeds, receiving testimony from James W. Glosser, Administrator, Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service, Department of Agriculture; Howard M.
Singletary, North Carolina Department of Agriculture, Raleigh; Don Schmitz,
Florida Department of Natural Resources, Tallahassee; Reeves Petroff, Gallatin
County Weed Control District, Bozeman, Montana; and Susan Cooper, National
Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides, Jay J. Vroom, National
Agricultural Chemicals Association, and Faith T. Campbell, National Resources
Defense Council, all of Washington, DC.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony from Representative
Hochbrueckner; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991
for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and
related agencies, receiving testimony from Senator McCain; Representative
Akaka; Delegate Faleomavaega; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education concluded hearings to review biomedical research programs, after
receiving testimony from Harris Busch, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,
Texas; Willa Hsueh, University of Southern California Medical Center, and
Stephen Ryan, University of Southern California School of Medicine, both of
Los Angeles; David Korn, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford,
California; Robert K. Dresing, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Bethesda, Maryland;
Andrea DiLorenzo, National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, Garrett Park,
Maryland; Abby Myers, National Organization for Rare Diseases, New Fairfield,
Connecticut; Jim Ballenger, Medical College of South Carolina, Charleston;
Clayton Buck, Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Herb Pardes,
Columbia University Medical School, New York, New York.
APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY/OPM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1991, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Richard L. Gregg, Commissioner, Bureau of the Public Debt, and Jerrold B.
Speers, Executive Director, U.S. Savings Bond Division, both of the Department
of the Treasury; and Constance Berry Newman, Director, Office of Personnel
Management.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 5.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
held hearings on S. 2171, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1991 for military
functions of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe military personnel
levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on defense technology strategy and the
defense critical technology plan, receiving testimony from Charles M.
Herzfeld, Director of Defense Research and Engineering, and George Millburn,
Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering (Research and Advanced
Technology), both of the Department of Defense; Richard Hahn, Director of
Weapons Research, Department of Energy; Fred Ikle, former Under Secretary of
Defense for Policy; and Hans Mark, University of Texas, Austin, former
Secretary of the Air Force.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 2.
DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY BOARD
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence held hearings on the plans, progress, and experience to date of the
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, receiving testimony from John T.
Conway, Chairman, and Edson G. Case, John W. Crawford, Jr., Andrew Jon
Eggenberger, and Herbert Kouts, each a Member, all of the Defense Nuclear
Facilities Safety Board.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the nomination of Timothy Ryan, of Virginia, to be Director of the Office
of Thrift Supervision, Department of the Treasury, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senator Warner, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.
EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for the Export Administration Act, after
receiving testimony from Paul Freedenberg, Baker and Botts, former Under
Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration, and Richard Perle, American
Enterprise Institute, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International
Security Policy, both of Washington, DC; Charles R. Hough, Honeywell Inc.,
McLean, Virginia, representing the National Association of Manufacturers; Bill
Burck, Data General, Boston, Massachusetts, representing the American
Electronics Association; and Mark Ryan, Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto,
California, representing the Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers
Association.
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NASA'S 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 year 1991 for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, focusing on the space station and space shuttle programs,
receiving testimony from William B. Lenoir, Associate Administrator, Richard
H. Kohrs, Director, Space Station Freedom Program, Joseph B. Mahon, Deputy
Associate Administrator for Flight Systems, Capt. Robert L. Crippen, Director,
Space Shuttle Program, and Michael B. Mann, Director for Resource Management,
all of the Office of Space Flight, and David M. Walker, William F. Fisher, and
Charles R. Price, all Astronauts, all of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PUBLIC LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills:
S. 1756, to provide for the preservation and interpretation of sites
associated with Acadian Culture in the State of Maine, after receiving
testimony from Senators Mitchell and Cohen; and Maine Speaker of the House of
Representatives John Martin, Augusta;
S. 1770, to assess the suitability and feasibility of including certain
Shenandoah Valley Civil War sites in the National Park System, after receiving
testimony from Senators Jeffords and Robb; A. Wilson Greene, Association for
the Preservation of Civil War Sites, Fredericksburg, Virginia; and Howard
Coffin, Montpelier, Vermont;
S. 2059, to establish the Weir Farm National Historic Site in the State of
Connecticut, after receiving testimony from Senator Lieberman; and Terry
Tondro, Weir Farm Heritage Trust, Hartford, Connecticut;
S. 2208, to provide for the issuance of a seven day admission permit for the
Grand Circle Adventure comprising seven national parks in Utah, Colorado and
Arizona, after receiving testimony from Senator Hatch;
S. 1864 and H.R. 76, bills to designate the St. Marys River in the States of
Florida and Georgia for study for potential addition to the National Wild and
Scenic Rivers System, after receiving testimony from Hans Neuhauser, The
Georgia Conservancy, Savannah; and Joe Hopkins, Folkston, Georgia;
S. 465 and H.R. 1109, bills to designate the Juan Bautista de Anza National
Historic Trail as a component of the National Trails System, after receiving
testimony from Hulet Hornbeck, Heritage Trails Fund, Concord, California.
Testimony was also received on all the aforementioned bills, and on S. 456 and
H.R. 1109, bills to designate the California National Historic Trail as a
component of the National Trails System, from James Ridenour, Director,
National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
REGULATION OF LAWN CHEMICALS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Toxic Substances,
Environmental Oversight, Research and Development held hearings to examine
possible health problems associated with lawn pesticides, focusing on a recent
General Accounting Office analysis on certain risks involving the use of lawn
care pesticides and the manner in which these products and services are
marketed, receiving testimony from Peter Guerrero, Associate Director,
Environmental Protection Issues, General Accounting Office; Shelia H. Zahm,
Epidemiologist, Occupational Studies Section, Division of Cancer Etiology,
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health
and Human Services; Victor J. Kimm, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of
Pesticides and Toxic Substances, Environmental Protection Agency; F. Eugene
Hester, Associate Director for Natural Resources, National Park Service,
Department of the Interior; New York Attorney General Robert Abrams, New York;
Marc Goldberg, Safer, Inc., Newton, Massachusetts; Michael P. Kelty, O.M.
Scott and Sons, Marysville, Ohio; William Roberts, Golf Course Superintendents
Association, Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan; Tom Delaney, Professional Lawn
Care Association of America, Marietta, Georgia; James Wilkinson, Pesticide
Public Policy Foundation, North Kingstown, Rhode Island; Roger Yeary, Chemlawn
Services Corporation, Columbus, Ohio, on behalf of the Chemical Specialties
Manufacturers Association; Jay Feldman, National Coalition Against the Misuse
of Pesticides, Jay J. Vroom, National Agricultural Chemicals Association,
Warren E. Stickle, Chemical Producers and Distributors Association, Michael
Gough, Task Force II on 2,4-D Research Data, and Anne W. Bloom, all of
Washington, DC.; Kevin Ryan, Arlington Heights, Illinois; Sharon Malhotra,
Murrysville, Pennsylvania; and Thomas Prior, Maplewood, New Jersey.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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INVESTMENT TRENDS
Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings to review tax incentives
for increasing savings and investment, focusing on investment trends in the
United States and the President's proposal to lower the tax rate on capital
gains income, receiving testimony from Senator Graham; Michael J. Boskin,
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers; Kenneth W. Gideon, Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Ronald A. Pearlman, Chief of Staff, and Thomas
A. Barthold, Economist, both of the Joint Committee on Taxation; and Jane G.
Gravelle, Senior Specialist in Economic Policy, Congressional Research
Service, Library of Congress.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
An original bill authorizing supplemental assistance for Nicaragua and Panama,
Southern Africa, and refugees and housing guarantees for Israel; and
The nominations of Everett E. Briggs, of New Hampshire, to be Ambassador to
the Republic of Portugal, Edward M. Rowell, of California, to be Ambassador to
Luxembourg, Robert G. Joseph, of Virginia, for the rank of Ambassador during
his tenure of service as U.S. Commissioner on the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Standing
Consultative Commission, John J. Maresca, of Connecticut, for the rank of
Ambassador during his tenure of service as Head of the U.S. Delegation to the
Conference on Confidence and Security Building Measures, and Herman J. Cohen,
an Assistant Secretary of State, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of
the African Development Foundation.
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing supplemental assistance for Nicaragua and Panama, after receiving
testimony from Bernard Aronson, Assistant Secretary of State for
Inter-American Affairs.
HORN OF AFRICA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs concluded
hearings to examine famine conditions in the Horn of Africa, after receiving
testimony from Representatives Wolpe and Dorgan; Herman J. Cohen, Assistant
Secretary of State for African Affairs; Andrew S. Natsios, Director, Office of
U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, Agency for International Development; Roger
Winter, U.S. Committee for Refugees, and Gayle Smith, Development Group for
Alternative Policies, both of Washington, D.C.; John Hammock, Oxfam America,
Boston, Massachusetts; and Tom Callahan, AmeriCares, New Canaan, Connecticut.
EASTERN EUROPE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs resumed
hearings to examine American business and trade opportunities in Eastern
Europe and the Soviet Union, receiving testimony from Eugene McAllister,
Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs; Thomas
Duesterberg, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Economic
Policy; Peter F. Allgeier, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Europe and
the Mediterranean; Frank P. Doyle, General Electric, Fairfield, Connecticut;
and Thomas Carroll, International Executive Service Corp., Stamford,
Connecticut.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on the nomination
of Richard G. Austin, of Illinois, to be Administrator of the General Services
Administration, where the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Dixon and
Representatives Michel and Horton, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY INTEGRATION
Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Export Expansion held hearings to
examine the European Community's 1992 integration and the effects it will have
on trade opportunities for U.S. small businesses, receiving testimony from
Charles Ludolph, Director, European Community Affairs, Department of Commerce;
Malcolm E. O'Hagan, Valve Manufacturing Association of America, Washington,
DC; Stanley Skalka, Victor Stanley, Inc., Dunkirk, Maryland; and Santo L.
Grillo, BioTrax Incorporated, Baltimore, Maryland.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 1398 and S.
1332, bills to establish a Commission on the Future Structure of Veterans
Health Care to make recommendations for the realignment or major mission
change of certain medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs,
receiving testimony from Edward J. Derwinski, Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 4.
INDIAN AFFAIRS
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
following bills:
S. 1918, to extend Federal recognition and associated services and benefits to
the Jena Band of Choctaws of Louisiana, after receiving testimony from Senator
Johnston; Jerry Jackson, Jena Band of Choctaw, Jena, Louisiana; and John
Shapard, Alderson, West Virginia;
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S. 1413, to settle all claims of the Aroostook Band of Micmacs resulting from
the Band's omission from the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980, after
receiving testimony from Senator Cohen; Mary Philbrook, Aroostook Band of
Micmacs, Presque Isle, Maine; Harald Prins, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine;
Jack Campisi, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts; Nan Heald, Pine
Legal Services, Augusta, Maine; and Alvin Morrison, State University of New
York, Fredonia;
S. 381, to extend Federal recognition and associated services and benefits to
the Mowa Band of Choctaw Indians of Alabama, after receiving testimony from
Senator Shelby; Framon Weaver, Mowa Band of Choctaw, McIntosh, Alabama; and
Doug McCoy, Mobile, Alabama; and
S. 1747, to provide for Federal recognition of, and assistance to, the Ponca
Tribe of Nebraska, after receiving testimony from Senator Exon; Marshall
Prichard, Northern Ponca Restoration Committee, and Fred Leroy, Northern Ponca
Tribe of Nebraska, both of Omaha, Nebraska; and Elizabeth Grobsmith,
University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/03/29
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 29, 1990; pages D366 - D376 (Bound vol. D181-
D189)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Research and General Legislation held hearings on proposed
legislation to strengthen and improve U.S. agricultural programs, focusing on
research issues, receiving testimony from Charles E. Hess, Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture for Science and Education; Charles Hassebrook, Center for Rural
Affairs and Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Walthill, Nebraska; James M.
Davidson, University of Florida, Gainesville, on behalf of the National
Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges; David R. Dyer,
American Farmland Trust, Washington, DC; Donald L. Uchtmann, University of
Illinois, Urbana; Mary Grim, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Council
for Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching; and Frederick
Kirschenmann, Windsor, North Dakota.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Conservation and Forestry held hearings on proposed legislation to strengthen
and improve U.S. agricultural programs, focusing on conservation programs,
receiving testimony from Senator Kasten; Bruce Gardner, Assistant Secretary
for Economics, and R. Mack Gray, Assistant to the Chief for Strategic Planning
and Budget Analysis, Soil Conservation Service, both of the Department of
Agriculture; John F. Turner, Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
Department of the Interior; Lester R. Brown, Worldwatch Institute, Robert
Wetherbee, National Association of Conservation Districts, and Cindy Deacon
Williams, National Wildlife Federation, all of Washington, DC; Frank Jones,
Lubbock, Texas, representing the National Cotton Council; Layton Hoysler,
Faribault, Minnesota, representing the American Society of Farm Managers and
Rural Appraisers; Peter A. A. Berle, National Audubon Society, New York, New
York; Todd Herreid, Fargo, North Dakota, representing the Sierra Club; Robert
Warrick, Meadow Grove, Nebraska, representing the Sustainable Agriculture
Coalition; Doug Nebel, Emerson, Nebraska; and Marion Berry, Gillett, Arkansas.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--COMMERCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for
the Department of Commerce, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from John A. Knauss, Under Secretary for Oceans and
Atmosphere, and John W. Lyons, Director, National Institute for Standards and
Technology, both of the Department of Commerce.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, April 19.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for the U.S. Army, receiving testimony
from Michael P.W. Stone, Secretary of the Army; and Gen. Carl E. Vuono, USA,
Army Chief of Staff.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, April 3.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony from Senators McCain, Daschle,
Pressler, Danforth, and Conrad; Representative Brooks; Arizona Governor Rose
Mofford, Phoenix; North Dakota Governor George A. Sinner, Bismarck; and
numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, April 4.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991
for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education,
receiving testimony from Senator Simon; Minnesota Governor Rudy Perpich, St.
Paul; and numerous public witnesses.
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 1991,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Brian W. Clymer, Administrator, Urban Mass Transportation Administration,
Department of Transportation; and Carmen E. Turner, General Manager,
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, April 5.
APPROPRIATIONS--NSF
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for the
National Science Foundation, receiving testimony from Erich Bloch, Director,
National Science Foundation.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, April 5.
HOPE INITIATIVE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs resumed hearings on S. 2304, to ensure low-income and
moderate-income Americans greater opportunities for homeownership and
management of their housing, including a related measure S. 566, National
Affordable Housing Act, receiving testimony from Mayor Jessie M. Rattley,
Newport News, Virginia, representing the U.S. Conference of Mayors; Mayor
James Moran, Alexandria, Virginia, representing the National League of Cities;
Benson F. Roberts, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Barry Zigas,
National Low Income Housing Coalition, Kenneth G. Lore, National Housing
Conference, Marilyn Melkonian, Telesis Corporation, and Tim Masanz, Committee
on Economic Development and Technical Innovation, and Wendy Adler, Committee
on Human Resources, both on behalf of the National Governors Association, all
of Washington, DC; Walter Webdale, Fairfax County Housing and Community
Development, Fairfax, Virginia, representing the Association of Local Housing
Finance Agencies; Diane Voneida, City of Rockford Community Development
Department, Rockford, Illinois, representing the National Community
Development Association; Bernard Tetrault, Montgomery County Housing
Opportunity Commission, Rockville, Maryland, representing the National
Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials; Nathan I. Nagler, B'nai
B'rith House, Queens, New York, representing the B'nai B'rith International
Senior Citizens Housing Committee; Amy Anthony, Massachusetts Executive Office
of Communities and Development, Boston, representing the Council of State
Community Affairs Agencies; Eva M. Clayton, Raleigh County Commissioner,
Raleigh, North Carolina, representing the Housing Assistance Council, Inc.;
Mark Hendrickson, Florida Housing Finance Agency, Tallahassee, representing
the National Council of State Housing Agencies; Paul C. Brophy, The Enterprise
Foundation, Columbia, Maryland; Patrick Halpin, Suffolk County, New York;
representing the National Association of County Officials; and Thomas W.
Slemmer, National Church Residences, Columbus, Ohio, representing the American
Association of Homes for the Aging.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SECURITIES MARKETS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
held hearings to examine the regulatory structure and certain jurisdictional
issues of the securities and futures markets, focusing on margin on stock
index futures and the exclusivity clause, receiving testimony from Senator
Leahy; Robert R. Glauber, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Finance; Alan
Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Richard
C. Breeden, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission; and Wendy L. Gramm,
Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CABLE TV CONSUMER PROTECTION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications held hearings on S. 1880, to revise title VI of the
Communications Act of 1934 to ensure carriage on cable television of local
news and other programming and to restore the right of local regulatory
authorities to regulate cable television rates, receiving testimony from James
P. Mooney, National Cable Television Association, Edward O. Fritts, National
Association of Broadcasters, James Hedlund, Association of Independent
Television Stations, Inc., Henry Geller, Markel Foundation, and Decker
Anstrom, National Cable Television Association, all of Washington, DC; Amos B.
Hostetter, Jr., Continental Cablevision, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts; Thomas
Burchill, LifeTime, and Jay Kriegel, CBS, both of New York, New York; Joseph
W. Hippel III, People's Choice TV, Rantoul, Illinois; Cyril Vetter, WLVA TV,
Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Alan Garner, Jefferson City, Missouri.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 4.
EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS REDUCTION PROGRAM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, after receiving
testimony from Grant C. Peterson, Associate Director for State and Local
Programs and Support, Federal Emergency Management Agency; Dallas Peck,
Director, Geological Survey, Department of the Interior; James F. Hays,
Director, Earth Sciences Division, Directorate for Geosciences, and Robert D.
Hanson, Director, Biological and Critical Systems Division, Engineering
Directorate, both of the National Science Foundation; Richard N. Wright,
Director, Center for Building Technology, National Institute of Standards and
Technology, Department of Commerce; John Cecilio, Chief Engineer, Naval
Facilities Engineering Command, Department of the Navy; Donald R. Trilling,
Director, Office of Transportation Regulatory Affairs, Office of the
Secretary, Department of Transportation; R.D. Ross, Missouri Emergency
Management Agency, Jefferson City; Robert V. Whitman, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge; and James E. Beavers, Martin Marietta Energy
Systems, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
OPEN SKIES NEGOTIATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs held hearings
on a proposed arms control treaty between NATO and Warsaw countries, with
respect to the open skies as affected by overflights, radar, flight quotas,
aircraft operation, and high-tech equipment, receiving testimony from John H.
Hawes, Head of U.S. Delegation to the Open Skies Negotiations, Department of
State; Michael Krepon, The Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, DC; and Robert
F. Nesbit, MITRE Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills:
S. 273, to prohibit deceptive mailing practices by expanding the post office's
authority to stop delivery of certain materials, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute;
H.R. 3086, to grant appeal rights based on adverse actions as well as appeal
and procedural rights for excepted service employees before the Merit Systems
Protection Board for actions based on unacceptable performance, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
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, with an amendment in the nature of
a substitute; and
S. 1424, to provide that reimbursement for certain travel expenses related to
relocation of Federal Employees shall apply to all stations within the United
States.
Also, committee began consideration of S. 1742, authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1991 and 1992 for the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, and to strengthen
Federal agency responsibility and accountability of information resources
management, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again Thursday,
April 5.
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SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology and the Law concluded
oversight hearings to review certain antitrust reforms relating to joint
production ventures in the semiconductor industry, after receiving testimony
from Robert N. Noyce, SEMATECH, Inc., Austin, Texas; Sanford L. Kane, U.S.
Memories, New York, New York; Gary Hillman, Machine Technology, Inc.,
Parsippany, New Jersey, on behalf of Semiconductor Equipment and Materials
International; and Clyde Prestowitz, Economic Strategy Institute, Washington,
D.C.
HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs, and Alcoholism held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for the low income home energy assistance program, receiving testimony from
Senator Heinz; Bradford S. Chase, Connecticut Under Secretary for Energy,
Office of Policy and Management, Hartford; Meg Power, National Community
Action Foundation, and Helen Gonzales, National Consumer Law Center, both of
Washington, D.C.; Susan Merrow-Kehoe, Massachusetts Office of Fuel Assistance,
Boston; Larry K. Kleeman, Lincoln Hills Development Corporation, Tell City,
Indiana; Eugene F. Sturgeon, Northeast Utilities, Berlin, Connecticut; Ernest
Karkut, Southern Connecticut Natural Gas Company, Bridgeport, on behalf of the
American Gas Association; Ruth Kavanagh, Warwick, Rhode Island, and Ruth
Scarborough, Olympia, Washington, both on behalf of the American Association
of Retired Persons; James Douglas, Columbus, Ohio; and Carlos Dominguez,
Washington, Iowa.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--ARTS ENDOWMENT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the
National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities, focusing on the National
Endowment for the Arts, receiving testimony from John E. Frohnmayer, Chairman,
National Endowment for the Arts; Franklin W. Robinson, Rhode Island School of
Design, Providence; Edward Villella, Miami City Ballet, Miami Beach, Florida;
Alexander L. Nyerges, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, on behalf of the
American Association of Museums; and Harold Prince, on behalf of the National
Council on the Arts, Peter C. Goldmark, Jr., The Rockefeller Foundation,
Milton Rhodes, American Council for the Arts, and Garrison Keillor, all of New
York, New York.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, April 5.
Joint Meetings
FEDERAL STATISTICAL PROGRAMS
Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings to examine the quality of
Federal statistical programs, focusing on data users' assessments of the
current state of Federal statistics, the White House Working Group's proposals
for improvement, and directions for future initiatives, receiving testimony
from Sar Levitan, George Washington University, and Joel Popkin, Joel Popkin
and Company, both of Washington, DC; and James F. Smith, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, on behalf of the National Association of Business
Economists.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1990/03/30
Daily Digest - Friday, March 30, 1990; pages D377 - D386 (Bound vol. D189-
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 1991 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Roland R. Vautour, Under Secretary,
Small Community and Rural Development, La Verne Ausman, Administrator, Farmers
Home Administration, David Gabriel, Acting Manager, Federal Crop Insurance
Corporation, Gary C. Byrne, Administrator, Rural Electrification
Administration, and Robert E. Sherman, Deputy Director for Legislative and
Regulatory Systems, all of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, April 4.
APPROPRIATIONS--OTA/LOC
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the Office of Technology Assessment from
Senators Kennedy and Stevens; and John H. Gibbons, Director, OTA; and in
behalf of funds for the Library of Congress from James H. Billington,
Librarian of Congress.
Subcommittee will meet again Friday, April 6.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: On Thursday, March 29, committee ordered
favorably reported 190 military nominations in the Air Force and Marine Corps.
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nomination of Timothy Ryan, of Virginia, to be Director, Office
of Thrift Supervision, Department of the Treasury.
HYDROGEN R&D
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development held hearings on S. 639, authorizing funds through fiscal year
1993 to establish a research and development program for the development of a
domestic hydrogen fuel production capability, receiving testimony from J.
Michael Davis, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Conservation and Renewable
Energy; Gregory M. Reck, Director, Office of Propulsion, Power and Energy
Division, Office of Aeronautics, Exploration and Technology, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration; Jeffrey A. Serfass, National Hydrogen
Association, Washington, DC; Patrick K. Takahashi, Hawaii Natural Energy
Institute, Honolulu; Robert B. Moore, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.,
Allentown, Pennsylvania; and Willis M. Hawkins, Lockheed Corporation,
Calabasas, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
U.N. ZIONISM RESOLUTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs concluded hearings to examine certain issues with respect to S.J. Res.
246, calling upon the United Nations to repeal General Assembly Resolution
3379, which equates Zionism with racism (pending on Senate calendar), after
receiving testimony from Thomas R. Pickering, U.S. Permanent Representative to
the United Nations; John R. Bolton, Assistant Secretary of State for
International Organization Affairs; Seymour D. Reich, Conference on Presidents
of Major American Jewish Organizations, and Kenneth Bialkin, Jewish Community
Relations Council of New York, both of New York, New York; and Burton M.
Joseph, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, Washington, DC.
EMPLOYER SANCTIONS AND DISCRIMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S.J. Res. 280,
approving the findings of the Comptroller General of the United States
contained in the General Accounting Office report, dated March 29, 1990,
regarding discrimination in the enforcement of employer sanctions under the
Immigration Act of 1986, receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher,
Comptroller General, Richard L. Fogel, Assistant Comptroller General, Henry R.
Wray, Senior Associate General Counsel, and Alan Stapleton, Assistant
Director, all of the General Accounting Office.
Hearings continue Friday, April 20.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Disability Policy
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of
the Developmental Disabilities Act, after receiving testimony from Deborah L.
McFadden, Commissioner, Administration on Developmental Disabilities,
Department of Health and Human Services; Elizabeth M. Boggs, Hampton, New
Jersey, on behalf of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities; K. Charlie
Lakin, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Ken Campbell, Ohio Developmental
Disabilities Planning Council, Columbus, on behalf of the National Association
of Developmental Disabilities Councils; F. Henry Brown, Greenville, South
Carolina, on behalf of the National Association of Protection and Advocacy
Systems; and Alfred Healy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, and Kimberly Hurley,
Volga, Iowa, both on behalf of the American Association of University
Affiliated Programs for Persons with Developmental Disabilities.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1990/04/02
Daily Digest - Monday, April 2, 1990; pages D388 - D394 (Bound vol. D191-
D195)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for Air Force
military construction programs, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. John B.
Conaway, USAF, Chief, National Guard Bureau; Brig. Gen. William A. Navas, Jr.,
USA, Deputy Director, Army National Guard; Brig. Gen. Roger C. Bultman, USA,
Deputy Chief, Army Reserve; Rear Adm. Wallace N. Guthrie, USN, Deputy
Director, Naval Reserve; Brig. Gen. Wayne T. Adams, USMC, Director, Facilities
and Services Division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff (Installations and
Logistics); Brig. Gen. Donald W. Shepperd, USAF, Assistant Director for Plans,
Policy, and Programs, Air National Guard; Brig. Gen. John J. Closner, USAF,
Deputy Chief, Air Force Reserve; and Maj. Gen. Joseph A. Ahearn, USAF,
Director of Engineering and Services.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
resumed hearings on S. 2171, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1991 for
military functions of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe military
personnel levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on defense manufacturing
technology and quality assurance programs, receiving testimony from Richard E.
Donnelly, Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Manufacturing and Industrial
Programs, and Gordon A. Frank, Director, Total Quality Management Support
Office, both of the Department of Defense; Willis J. Willoughby, USN,
Director, Product Integrity, Department of the Navy; and Robert B. Costello,
Hudson Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Henry J. Cauthen, of South Carolina, and Lloyd
Kaiser, of Pennsylvania, both to be Members of the Board of Directors of the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Cauthen was introduced by Senator Hollings.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1990/04/03
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 3, 1990; pages D396 - D408 (Bound vol. D196-
D204)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of John C. Foltz, of Ohio, to be Administrator of
the Federal Grain Inspection Service, Department of Agriculture, after the
nominee, who was introduced by Representatives Clarence E. Miller and Wylie,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 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, Chief of Air Force Staff.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, April 5.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for foreign assistance
programs, focusing on U.S. bilateral assistance, receiving testimony from
William Roskins, Administrator, Agency for International Development.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, April 19.
FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held oversight
hearings on modernizing the legal and regulatory structure of the financial
services industry to increase competitiveness of U.S. institutions, receiving
testimony from Robert N. Downey, Goldman Sachs, representing the Securities
Industries Association, and Thomas G. Labrecque, The Chase Manhattan
Corporation, representing the American Bankers Association, Association of
Bank Holding Companies, Association of Reserve City Bankers, Bank Capital
Markets Association, and Consumer Bankers Association, both of New York, New
York.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of Edward W. Kelley, Jr., of Texas, to be a Member of
the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and Robert H. Swan, of
Utah, to be a Member of the National Credit Union Administration Board.
Prior to this action, committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Robert C. Larson, of Michigan, and Philip C. Jackson, Jr., of Alabama, each to
be a Member of the Oversight Board of the Resolution Trust Corporation, after
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Larson
was introduced by Senators Levin and Riegle and Mr. Jackson was introduced by
Senators Heflin and Shelby.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported the following business items:
S. 1839, authorizing funds for activities of the National Telecommunications
and Information Administration, Department of Commerce. (As approved by the
committee, the bill authorizes $14,554,000 for fiscal year 1990, and
$15,000,000 for fiscal year 1991);
S. 1791, to assist in the growth of international travel and tourism into the
United States, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 1224, to establish new average fuel economy standards for passenger
automobiles and light trucks, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 1067, to provide for a coordinated Federal research program to ensure
continued United States leadership in high-performance computing, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As approved by the committee, the
bill authorizes $650,000,000 for fiscal years 1991-1995 for the National
Science Foundation, and $338,000,000 for fiscal years 1991-1995 for the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration);
S. 2286, to authorize funds for the Federal Government to enter into
cooperative research and development agreements with United States companies
to address technical barriers impeding the development and construction of
magnetic levitation transportation systems, with an amendment in the nature of
a substitute. (As approved by the committee, the bill authorizes $50,000,000
for fiscal year 1991, and $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1992);
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S. 2293, to prohibit certain food transportation practices and to provide for
regulation by the Secretary of Transportation that will safeguard food and
certain other products from contamination during motor or rail transportation;
S. 1423, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessel Job Site;
S. 1885, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessel Camelot;
S. 1856, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessel Sinbad;
S. 2008, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessel Pacific
Pearl;
S. 2076, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessel Mariner
III; and
The nominations of Eugene Wong, of California, and William D. Phillips, of
Missouri, each to be an Associate Director of the Office of Science and
Technology Policy, Robert M. White, of Minnesota, to be Under Secretary of
Commerce for Technology, Donald R. Quartel, Jr., of Florida, to be a Federal
Maritime Commissioner, Henry J. Cauthen, of South Carolina, to be a Member of
the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Lloyd
Kaiser, of Pennsylvania, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, James B. Edwards, of South Carolina, to
be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Communications Satellite
Corporation, two lists of nominations in the U.S. Coast Guard, and one list of
nominations in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
MISSION TO PLANET EARTH
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology and Space held hearings on the Mission to Planet Earth program,
focusing on the findings of the National Academy of Sciences review of the
U.S. Global Change Research Program and the NASA Earth Observing System, the
President's proposed budget request for the Mission to Planet Earth program
and NASA's contribution to the U.S. Global Change Research Program, receiving
testimony from Lennard A. Fisk, Associate Administrator, Office of Space
Flight, and Shelby Tilford, Director, Earth Sciences and Application, both of
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Robert W. Corell, Assistant
Director; Office of Geosciences, National Science Foundation; John A. Eddy,
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado; D. James
Baker, Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc., Washington, D.C.; and Bryon D.
Tapley, University of Texas, Austin.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DOE WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held oversight hearings
on the Department of Energy's Decision Plan relating to the opening of the
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico, and on proposed
legislation to withdraw the public lands surrounding the WIPP site, receiving
testimony from Representative Skeen; James D. Watkins, Secretary of Energy;
Paul D. Rice, Chairman, Subcommittee on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant,
Advisory Committee on Nuclear Facility Safety, Department of Energy; Manuel
Lujan, Jr., Secretary of the Interior; Don R. Clay, Assistant Administrator,
Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, and Richard Guimond, Director,
Office of Radiation Programs, both of the Environmental Protection Agency; and
Charles Fairhurst, Chairman, Panel on the Waste Insolation Pilot Plant, Board
on Radioactive Waste Management, National Academy of Science/National Research
Council.
Hearings continue Thursday, April 26.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of
Jo Anne B. Barnhart, of Delaware, to be Assistant Secretary of Health and
Human Services for Family Support.
Prior to this action, Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Ms.
Barnhart, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Roth, testified and
answered questions in her own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of E.U. Curtis Bohlen, of Maine, to be Assistant Secretary of
State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs,
Shirin Raziuddin Tahir-Kheli, of Pennsylvania, to be the Alternate U.S.
Respresentative for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, with the
rank of Ambassador, Jonathan Moore, of Massachusetts, to be the U.S.
Representative on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, with
the rank of Ambassador, and Deane Roesch Hinton, of Illinois, to be Ambassador
to the Republic of Panama, after the nominees testified and answered questions
in their own behalf. Mr. Bohlen was introduced by Senator Stevens and Ms.
Tahir-Kheli was introduced by Senator Specter.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Richard G. Austin, of Illinois, to be Administrator of the
General Services Administration, after the nominee testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
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AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1991 for the Department of
Justice, after receiving testimony from Richard L. Thornburgh, Attorney
General, Department of Justice.
TOBACCO EDUCATION AND CONTROL
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed hearings on S. 1883,
to establish a Center for Tobacco Products to coordinate Federal education and
research with regard to tobacco products, to set up grant programs to inform
the public about the health risks of tobacco products, to conduct anti-tobacco
programs among youth at schools and job sites, and to enforce prohibitions on
sale of tobacco to minors, and to examine advertising practices of the tobacco
industry, receiving testimony from Representatives Luken and Neal; Bruce R.
Talbot, Woodridge Police DARE Program, Woodridge, Illinois; John J. Joyce,
Maine Grocers Association, Augusta; Peter Strauss, National Association of
Tobacco Distributors, Alexandria, Virginia; Gary Williams, American Health
Foundation, Valhalla, New York; John Rupp, Covington and Burling, Morton H.
Halperin, American Civil Liberties Union, and Floyd Abrams, The Tobacco
Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; Burt Neuborne, New York University School
of Law, on behalf of the Freedom to Advertise Coalition, and Vincent A. Blasi,
Columbia University School of Law, both of New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CHILDREN OF WAR
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs, and Alcoholism held hearings to examine the impact of war on children,
receiving testimony from Senator Bradley; Michael J. Toole, Medical
Epidemiologist, International Health Programs Office, Centers for Disease
Control, Department of Health and Human Services; Liv Ullmann, Boston,
Massachusetts, on behalf of UNICEF; Angela Berry-Koch, Geneva, Switzerland, on
behalf of the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees; John Williamson,
Christian Children's Fund, Richmond, Virginia; Neil Boothby, Duke University,
Durham, North Carolina; James Garbarino, Erikson Institute for Advanced Study
in Child Development, Chicago, Illinois; Hazrut Kahn, Afghanistan; Sharon
McVeigh, Northern Ireland; and Adrienne Aron, Berkeley, California.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
ALZHEIMER RESEARCH
Joint Hearings: Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources' Subcommittee on
Aging held joint hearings with the House Select Committee on Aging on S. 1255,
authorizing funds for biomedical research and training in the treatment of
Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, receiving testimony from T.
Franklin Williams, Director, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes
of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; Hilda Pridgeon,
Bloomington, Minnesota, on behalf of the National Alzheimer's Association;
William Gold, Farmington Hills, Michigan; and Shelley Fabares and Angie
Dickinson, both of Hollywood, California.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
GERMAN UNIFICATION
Committee on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE): Commission concluded
hearings to examine implications of the impending reunification of Germany on
the evolution of Europe and foreign policies of the United States and the
Soviet Union, after receiving testimony from James F. Dobbins, Principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs; Richard
Pipes, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Angela Stent,
Georgetown University, Wolfgang Pordzik, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and
Dieter Dettke, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, all of Washington, D.C.
1990/04/04
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 4, 1990; pages D409 - D420 (Bound vol. D204-
D212)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nomination of John C. Foltz, of Ohio, to be Administrator of the
Federal Grain Inspection Service, Department of Agriculture.
Also, committee began consideration of proposed legislation to strengthen and
improve U.S. agricultural programs, focusing on trade provisions, but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for the
Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Richard T. Crowder, Under Secretary for
International Affairs and Commodity Programs, Keith D. Bjerke, Administrator,
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, R. E. Anderson, Jr.,
Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service, F. Paul Dickerson, General Sales
Manager, Office of General Sales Manager, Wilson Scaling, Chief, Soil
Conservation Service, and Robert E. Sherman, Deputy Director for Legislative
and Regulatory Systems, Office of Budget and Program Analysis, all of the
Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony from Senators Exon, Kerrey,
and Wilson; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, April 19.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel resumed
hearings on S. 2171, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1991 for military
functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe military personnel
levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on officer procurement programs of the
Military Services, and management and operations at the Military Service
Academies, receiving testimony from Robert F. Hale, Assistant Director,
National Security Division, Congressional Budget Office; Paul Jones, Director,
National Security and International Affairs Division, General Accounting
Office; Christopher Jehn, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management
and Personnel; G. Kim Wincup, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and
Reserve Affairs; Barbara Spyridon Pope, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for
Manpower and Reserve Affairs; Jerome G. Cooper, Assistant Secretary of the Air
Force for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installations and Logistics; Lt. Gen.
Dave R. Palmer, USA, Superintendent, United States Military Academy; Lt. Gen.
Charles R. Hamm, USAF, Superintendent, United States Air Force Academy; and
Rear Adm. Virgil L. Hill, Jr., USN, Superintendent, United States Naval
Academy.
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Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support resumed hearings on S. 2171, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1991
for military functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe military
personnel levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on environmental programs of
the Department of Defense, receiving testimony from David J. Berteau,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Production and Logistics;
Jacqueline Schafer, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Installations and
Environment; Lewis D. Walker, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for
Environment, Safety and Occupational Health; and Gary Vest, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force for Environment, Safety and Occupational Health.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
CABLE TV CONSUMER PROTECTION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications resumed hearings on S. 1880, to revise title VI of the
Communications Act of 1934 to ensure carriage on cable television of local
news and other programming and to restore the right of local regulatory
authorities to regulate cable television rates, receiving testimony from A.
Gray Collins, Jr., Bell Atlantic Corporation, Arlington, Virginia; Thomas F.
Gillett, Cable Television Laboratories, Boulder, Colorado; John F. McLaughlin,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Richard Hunt, HunTel Systems,
Blair, Nebraska, representing the United States Telephone Association; John G.
Kompas, Kompas-Biel Associates, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, representing the
Community Broadcasters Association; Wilbur Mills and Daniel H. Garner, both of
Advanced Communications Corporation, Little Rock, Arkansas; Robert R. Swander,
MaxTel Cablevision, Bethesda, Maryland, representing the National Private
Cable Association; and Kent B. Foster, GTE Corporation, Philip L. Verveer,
Willkie, Farr, and Gallagher, representing the National Cable Television
Association, and Harry P. Cushing, Competitive Cable Association, all of
Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Nelson C. Ledsky, of Maryland, for the rank of Ambassador
during his tenure of service as Special Cyprus Coordinator, Richard E.
Bissell, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator for Science and
Technology, C. Anson Franklin, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator
for External Affairs, and Henrietta Hugentobler Holsman, of California, to be
an Assistant Administrator for Private Enterprise, all of the Agency for
International Development, and James Henry Michel, of Virginia, to be an
Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Agency for
International Development, and to serve also as a Member of the Board of
Directors of the Inter-American Foundation, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Franklin was introduced by Senator
Warner.
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy,
Trade, Oceans and Environment concluded hearings to review the July 1989
Summit Declaration on the Global Environment, after receiving testimony from
James T. B. Tripp, Environmental Defense Fund, New York, New York; and Frances
Spivy-Weber, National Audubon Society, and Alden M. Meyer, Union of Concerned
Scientists, both of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Joseph M. Hood, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of
Kentucky, Raymond C. Clevenger, III, of the District of Columbia, to be United
States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit, Robert E. Jones, to be United
States District Judge for the District of Oregon, and D. Brock Hornby, to be
United States District Judge for the District of Maine, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Hood was introduced
by Senators McConnell and Ford, Mr. Jones was introduced by Senators Hatfield
and Packwood, and Mr. Hornby was introduced by Senator Cohen.
GRAY MARKET GOODS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
held hearings on S. 626, to revise the Lanham Trademark Act to prohibit the
importation or sale of goods manufactured outside the U.S. and bearing an
identical trademark of goods manufactured within the U.S., receiving testimony
from Senator Rudman; Representative Cardin; Christopher Edley, Jr., Harvard
Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Carol Tucker Foreman, Foreman &
Heidepriem, and Christopher C. DeMuth, American Enterprise Institute for
Public Policy Research, both of Washington, D.C., all representing the
Coalition to Preserve the Integrity of American Trademarks; John A. Boardman,
Food and Allied Service Trades Department, AFL/CIO, and Mark Silbergeld,
Consumers Union, both of Washington, D.C.; A. Robert Stevenson, K Mart
Corporation, Troy, Michigan; and William S. Comanor, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items:
The nominations of Lynne Vincent Cheney, of Wyoming, to be Chairperson of the
National Endowment for the Humanities, National Foundation on the Arts and the
Humanities, and Glen L. Bower and Charles J. Chamberlain, both of Illinois, to
be Members of the Railroad Retirement Board;
S. 2104, to revise the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (P.L. 88-352) to restore and
strengthen civil rights laws that ban discrimination in employment, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 2240, to provide grants to improve the quality and availability of care for
individuals and families with HIV disease; and
S. 2300, to provide financial assistance to the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los
Angeles, California, for the education programs of the Museum of Tolerance.
SBA BUDGET
Committee on Small Business: Committee resumed hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1991 for the Small Business
Administration, receiving testimony from Bernard Kulik, Deputy Associate
Administrator, Disaster Assistance Division, Small Business Administration;
Robert H. Volland, Chief of the Individual Assistance Division, Office of the
Disaster Assistance Program, Federal Emergency Management Agency; Virgin
Islands Lieutenant Governor Derek Hodge, Charlotte Amalie; Don Bradley,
University of Central Arkansas, Conway, representing the Small Business
Institute; and Harry B. Matzen, Service Corps of Retired Executives,
Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1398 and S.
1332, bills to establish a Commission on the Future Structure of Veterans
Health Care to make recommendations for the realignment or major mission
change of certain medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs,
after receiving testimony from Anthony J. Principi, Deputy Secretary, John A.
Gronvall, Chief Medical Director, Marjorie R. Quandt, Executive Director of
the Commission on the Future Structure of VA Health Care, Raoul L. Carroll,
General Counsel, and William T. Butler, Chairman, Special Medical Advisory
Group, all of the Department of Veterans Affairs; David Korn, Stanford
University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, representing the
Association of American Medical Colleges; Dennis M. Cullinan, Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the United States, R. Jack Powell, Paralyzed Veterans of
America, Thomas A. Sherwood, Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc., John F.
Sommer, The American Legion, Steve Kreisberg, National Federation of Federal
Employees, and Paul W. Schafer, National Association of VA Physicians and
Dentists, all of Washington, D.C.; and Claudette Morrissey, Brooklyn, New
York, representing the Nurses Organization of Veterans Affairs.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/04/05
Daily Digest - [Thursday, April 5, 1990]; pages D422 - D ? (Bound vol. D212-
D219)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee continued
consideration of proposed legislation to strengthen and improve U.S.
agricultural programs, focusing on trade and research provisions, but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again Thursday, April 19.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 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, Chief of Naval Operations; and Gen. Alfred
M. Gray, Jr., Commandant of the Marine Corps.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, April 24.
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for
the Department of Transportation, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for
their respective activities from Travis P. Dungan, Administrator, George
Tenley, Director, Office of Pipeline Safety, Rose McMurray, Director, Office
of Program Management and Administration, Alan Roberts, Director, Office of
Hazardous Materials Transportation, and Philip Cunely, Director,
Transportation Systems Center, all of the Research and Special Programs
Administration, and Gen. Jerry R. Curry, Administrator, Micheal Finkelstein,
Associate Administrator for Plans and Policy, and Adele Derby, Associate
Administrator for Traffic Safety Programs, all of the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration, all of the Department of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, April 19.
APPROPRIATIONS--ARCHIVES/POSTAL SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1991, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Don W. Wilson, Archivist of the United States; and Anthony M. Frank,
Postmaster General, U.S. Postal Service.
Committee will meet again Thursday, April 19.
APPROPRIATIONS--FEMA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for the
Federal Emergency Management Agency, receiving testimony from James P.
McNeill, Associate Director for External Affairs, Harold T. Duryee,
Administrator, Federal Insurance Administration, Antonio Lopez, Associate
Director for National Preparedness, Grant C. Peterson, Associate Director for
State and Local Programs and Support, Edward M. Wall, Acting Administrator,
U.S. Fire Administration, and Gregg Chappell, Chairman, Emergency Food and
Shelter Program, all of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, April 18.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session and approved the
use of certain unauthorized appropriations by the Department of Defense.
Also, committee resumed closed consideration of issues related to the fiscal
year 1990 supplemental request, and military personnel reprogramming request,
but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
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AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence held hearings on S. 2171, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1991
for military functions of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe military
personnel levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on chemical deterrent
programs, receiving testimony from Billy Richardson, Deputy Assistant to the
Secretary of Defense for Chemical Matters; Susan Livingstone, Assistant
Secretary of the Army for Installations, Logistics, and Environment; Col.
Walter L. Busbee, USA, Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization, Aberdeen
Proving Ground; Maj. Gen. John O.B. Sewall, USA, Vice Director, the Joint
Staff; Capt. Larry D. Pfitzenmaier, Program Manager for Defense Suppression,
Naval Air Systems Command; Maj. Gen. Richard E. Hawley, USAF, Director of
Operations, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force; and William C. Dee, Program Manager
for Binary Programs, and Lisa Bronson, Program Manager for Bilateral
Agreements, both of the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
FAIR TRADE IN FINANCIAL SERVICES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings on
S. 2028, to provide U.S. financial institutions the opportunity to trade
competitively, focusing on the equity of regulatory practices in the United
States and major foreign financial centers, receiving testimony from David C.
Mulford, Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs; Eric
Hayden, Investors Bank and Trust Company, Boston, Massachusetts; David Silver,
Investment Company Institute, Washington, D.C.; Charles Kim, California Center
Bank, Los Angeles, representing the Independent Bankers Association of
America; and Gunter Pauli, European Service Industries Forum, Belgium.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AIRLINE COMPETITION ENHANCEMENT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
held hearings on S. 1741, to revise the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to
increase competition among commercial air carriers at major U.S. airports,
receiving testimony from Jeffrey Shane, Assistant Secretary of Transportation
for Policy and International Affairs; Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General,
General Accounting Office; Richard D. Mathias, Pan American World Airways, and
John S. Fredericksen, Regional Airline Association, both of Washington, D.C.;
Timothy Hoeksema, Midwest Express Airlines, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and James E.
Johnson, Airports of Hillsborough County, Tampa, Florida, and Donald W.
Bennett, Lambert International Airport, St. Louis, Missouri, both on behalf of
the American Association of Airport Executives.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PRODUCT LIABILITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee
resumed hearings on S. 1400, to regulate interstate commerce by providing for
a uniform product liability law, focusing on its effect on competitiveness and
insurance, receiving testimony from Robert A. Mosbacher, Secretary of
Commerce; Julie Fox Gorte, Project Director, Office of Technology Assessment;
Gene Kimmelman, Consumer Federation of America, Debra T. Ballen, American
Insurance Association, Mark M. Hager, American University, and Peter Huber,
all of the Washington, D.C.; Malcolm H. Skolnick, University of Texas,
Houston; Harry Featherstone, Will-Burt Company, Orrville, Ohio; and J. Robert
Hunter, National Insurance Consumer Organization, Alexandria, Virginia.
Hearings continue Thursday, May 10.
ENERGY CONSERVATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
324, to establish a national energy policy to reduce global warming and
promote energy conservation and efficiency, and on S. 2191, to replace energy
performance goals for Federal buildings with energy conservation and
alternative clean energy installation schedules incorporating specified
payback periods, after receiving testimony from Senator Lieberman; D. Allan
Bromley, Science Advisor to the President and Director, Office of Science and
Technology Policy; and Linda G. Stuntz, Deputy Under Secretary of Energy for
Policy, Planning and Analysis.
ARIZONA WILDERNESS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 2117 and H.R. 2570, bills
to designate certain lands in the State of Arizona as wilderness, after
receiving testimony from Senators DeConcini and McCain; Cy Jamison, Director,
Bureau of Land Management, and Michael J. Spear, Regional Director, Region 2,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, both of the Department of the Interior; N.
William Plummer, Arizona Department of Water Resources, Duane L. Shroufe,
Arizona Game and Fish Department, and James W. Norton, The Wilderness Society,
all of Phoenix, Arizona; Craig Freisner, Kingman, Arizona, on behalf of the
Arizona Wilderness Coalition; George G. Byers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, on
behalf of the Santa Fe Pacific Minerals Corp.; Larry Adams, Bullhead City,
Arizona, on behalf of the Arizonans for Responsible Wilderness; and Jeff
Menges, Morenci, Arizona, on behalf of the Arizona Cattle Growers Association.
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RETIREMENT ANNUITIES
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine whether retirement
annuities purchased from insurance companies by pension funds have the same
protection under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA),
as pension benefits paid directly by the plan, receiving testimony from James
B. Lockhart, III, Executive Director, and Carol Connor-Flowe, General Counsel,
both of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, William H. Bywater and
Meredith Miller, both of the AFL-CIO, and Richard V. Minck and Paul Readons,
both of the American Council of Life Insurance, all of Washington, D.C.; and
Dennis M. Crites and David Certner, both of the American Association of
Retired Persons, Norman, Oklahoma.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
The nominations of Jonathan Moore, of Massachusetts, to be the U.S.
Representative on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, with
the rank of Ambassador, Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli, of Pennsylvania, to be the
Alternate U.S. Representative for Special Political Affairs in the United
Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, J. Carter Beese, Jr., of Maryland, to be
a Member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment
Corporation, Donald B. Ensenat, of Louisiana, to be a Member of the Board of
Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Deane R. Hinton, of
Illinois, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Panama, Henrietta H. Holsman, of
California, to be Assistant Administrator for Private Enterprise of the Agency
for International Development, C. Anson Franklin, of Virginia, to be Assistant
Administrator for External Affairs of the Agency for International
Development, Richard E. Bissell, of Virginia, to be Assistant Administrator
for Science and Technology of the Agency for International Development, Nelson
C. Ledsky, of Maryland, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of
service as Special Cyprus Coordinator, James H. Michel, of Virginia, to be
Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Agency for
International Development, and to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the
Inter-American Foundation, H. Douglas Barclay, of New York, to be a Member of
the Board of Directors for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation;
S. Res. 231, urging the submission of the Convention on the Rights of the
Child to the Senate for its advice and consent to ratification; and
S. Con. Res. 112, expressing the sense of the Congress that the United States
should seek to obtain an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of
Justice concerning the right of self-determination of the people of Lithuania.
CHILDREN OF THE WORLD
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the state
of the world's children, focusing on the impact of war and famine, receiving
testimony from Senator Bradley; John R. Bolton, Assistant Secretary of State
for International Organization Affairs; Bradshaw Langmaid, Acting Assistant
Administrator, Bureau for Science and Technology, Agency for International
Development; James P. Grant, UNICEF, New York, New York; Kenneth Phillips,
Foster Parents Plan, Inc., Warwick, Rhode Island, on behalf of the Interaction
Working Group on the Convention on the Rights of the Child; Warren Berggren,
Save the Children, Westport, Connecticut; and Nicholas Eberstadt, American
Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Alan D. Lourie, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Federal Circuit, Norman H. Stahl, to be United States District
Judge for the District of New Hampshire, Daniel B. Sparr, to be United States
District Judge for the District of Colorado, John S. Martin, Jr., to be United
States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, Leo A.
Giacometto, to be United States Marshal for the District of Montana, and
Malcolm M. Lucas, of California, Janice L. Gradwohl, of Nebraska, James Duke
Cameron, of Arizona, Carl F. Bianchi, of Idaho, Vivi L. Dilweg, of Wisconsin,
and Terrence B. Adamson, of Georgia, each to be a Member of the Board of
Directors of the State Justice Institute.
Also, committee ordered reported, unfavorably, S. 640, to regulate interstate
commerce by providing for uniform standards of liability for harm arising out
of general aviation accidents.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Lawrence M. McKenna, to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of
New York, James F. McClure, Jr., to be U.S. District Judge for the Middle
District of Pennsylvania, David H. Souter, of New Hampshire, to be U.S.
Circuit Judge for the First Circuit, and Samuel A. Alito, Jr., of New Jersey,
to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, after the nominees testified
and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. McClure was introduced by
Senators Heinz and Specter, Mr. Souter was introduced by Senators Humphrey and
Rudman, and Mr. Alito was introduced by Senators Bradley and Lautenberg.
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AUTHORIZATIONS--HUMANITIES
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and
Humanities resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the
National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities, focusing on the National
Endowment for the Humanities, receiving testimony from Lynne V. Cheney,
Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Foundation on the
Arts and Humanities; Vartan Gregorian, Brown University, and Thomas H.
Roberts, Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, both of Providence, Rhode
Island; John D'Arms, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Andrew Debicki,
University of Kansas, Lawrence; Theodore Ziolkowski, Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey; Delmont Oswald, Utah Endowment for the Humanities, Salt
Lake City; and Robert H. Dyson, Jr., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Hearings continue Friday, April27.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again Wednesday, April18.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/04/18
Daily Digest - [Wednesday, April 18, 1990]; pages D431 - D440 (Bound vol.
D219-D224)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
on proposed legislation to strengthen and improve U.S. agricultural programs,
focusing on nutrition programs, receiving testimony from Catherine Bertini,
Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Services, Department of Agriculture;
and Robert Fersh, Food Research Action Committee, Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MAINE WILDERNESS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Conservation and Forestry held hearings on S. 2205, to designate certain lands
in the White Mountain National Forest in Maine as the Caribou-Speckled
Mountain Wilderness, and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation
System, receiving testimony from Senator Cohen; George M. Leonard, Associate
Chief, and Chad Converse, District Ranger, White Mountain National Forest,
Evans-Notch Ranger District, Bethel, Maine, both of the Forest Service,
Department of Agriculture; Jerry Bley, Natural Resource Council of Maine,
Augusta; Leon Favreau, Multiple Use Associates, Bethel, Maine; and Thomas
Hammond, Thomas Hammond and Son, Hiram, Maine, on behalf of the National
Forest Products Association.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE/NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991, receiving testimony in behalf
of funds for their respective activities from James M. Ridenour, Director,
Herbert S. Cables, Jr., Deputy Director, and C. Bruce Sheaffer, Comptroller,
all of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior; and J. Carter
Brown, Director, National Gallery of Art.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 23.
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AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel resumed
hearings on S. 2171, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1991 for military
functions of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe military personnel
levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on the status of the study on the total
force policy, force mix, and military force structure, and to review the
Reserve and National Guard programs, receiving testimony from Christopher
Jehn, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management and Personnel;
Stephen M. Duncan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs; Lt.
Gen. John B. Conaway, ANG, Chief, National Guard Bureau; Maj. Gen. Donald
Burdick, ARNGUS, Director, Army National Guard; Maj. Gen. Philip Killey, ANG,
Director, Air National Guard; Maj. Gen. William F. Ward, USAR, Chief, Army
Reserve; Rear Adm. James E. Taylor, USN, Director, Navy Reserve; Maj. Gen.
Edmund P. Looney, Jr., USMC, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower and
Reserve Affairs; U.S. Marine Corps; Maj. Gen. Roger P. Scheer, USAFR, Chief,
Air Force Reserve; and Rear Adm. John N. Faigle, Chief, Office of Readiness
and Reserve, U.S. Coast Guard.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed hearings
on proposed legislation to modernize the legal and regulatory structure of the
financial services industry to increase competitiveness of U.S. institutions,
receiving testimony from Sherry Ettleson, Public Citizen, Peggy Miller,
Consumer Federation of America, and Jane Uebelhoer, Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings continue Tuesday, April 24.
HUD MANAGEMENT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on HUD/MOD
Rehab Investigation held hearings to examine past and present management
activities of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, focusing on
material weaknesses, receiving testimony from Alfred Dellibovi, Under
Secretary, Harold Henry, Director, Office of Management and Quality Assurance,
Janice Combs, Director, Financial Management Systems, Office of Finance and
Accounting, Paul Adams, Inspector General, Chris Greer, Assistant Inspector
General for Audit, and James Martin, Director of Planning and Administration,
Office of Audit, all of the Department of Housing and Urban Development;
Donald Chapin, Assistant Comptroller, Accounting and Financial Management
Division, Jeffrey Steinhoff, Director, Financial Management Issues and Audits,
and John Ols, Jr., Director, Housing and Community Development Issues, all of
the General Accounting Office.
Subcommittee will meet again Friday, April 20.
HEALTH CARE COST CONTAINMENT
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health for Families and the Uninsured
held hearings to examine access to health care and the containment of rising
health care costs, receiving testimony from Massachusetts Governor Michael
Dukakis, Boston; Rhode Island Governor Edward D. DiPrete, Providence; Gail R.
Wilensky, Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration, Department of
Health and Human Services; Robert W. Hungate, Hewlett-Packard, Walter B.
Maher, Chrysler Corporation, and Michael Roush, National Federation of
Independent Business, all of Washington, D.C.; and William H. Hoffman, United
Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (United
Auto Workers), Detroit, Michigan.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SOCIAL SECURITY CARDS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy held
hearings on S. 214 and Title II of S. 2453, measures to require the Secretary
of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the Attorney General, to
develop a prototype of a plastic Social Security card that could also be used
to verify eligibility for employment under the Immigration Reform and Control
Act of 1986, receiving testimony from Joseph F. Delfico, Senior Director,
Human Resources Division, General Accounting Office; Louis D. Enoff, Deputy
Commissioner for Programs, Social Security Administration, Department of
Health and Human Services; and Gene McNary, Commissioner, Immigration and
Naturalization Service, and Andrew M. Strojny, Acting Special Counsel for
Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices, both of the Department of
Justice.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SBA DEVELOPMENT CENTER PROGRAM
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for the Small Business Development Center
Program of the Small Business Administration, receiving testimony from William
S. Becker, Associate Deputy Administrator for Special Programs, and Janice
Wolf, Associate Administrator for the Small Business Development Center
Program, both of the Small Business Administration; John M. Ols, Jr.,
Director, Housing and Community Development Issues Resources, Community and
Economic Development Division, Melvin G. McCombs, Evaluator-in-Charge, and
Norman L. Psenski, Evaluator, all of the General Accounting Office; Robert E.
Bernier, Nebraska Small Business Development Center, Omaha, and Ronald A.
Manning, Iowa Small Business Development Center, Ames, both on behalf of the
Association of Small Business Development Centers; Charles B. Knapp, Georgia
Small Business Development Center, Athens; and William Pinkovitz, Wisconsin
Small Business Development Center, Madison.
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INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again Tuesday, April 24.
Joint Meetings
VETERANS PROGRAMS
Joint Hearings: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint hearings
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review legislative
recommendations of certain veterans organizations, after receiving testimony
in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Gilmer T. Carter,
Winston-Salem, and Don R. Pears, Buchannon, Michigan, both on behalf of the
Veterans of World War I; Warren W. Eagles, Sr., Framingham, Massachusetts, and
Robert L. Jones, and Noel C. Woosley, both of Washington, D.C., all on behalf
of AMVETS; Mary R. Stout and Paul S. Egan, both of Washington, D.C., and James
L. Brazee, Lafayette, Louisiana, all on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans of
America; and Walter W. Krueger, San Antonio, Texas, and Charles R. Jackson,
Richard W. Johnson, and Tom L. Ryan, all of Washington, D.C., all on behalf of
the Non-Commissioned Officers Association.
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Daily Digest - Thursday, April 19, 1990; pages D441 - D450 (Bound vol. D224-
D230)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed
consideration of proposed legislation to strengthen and improve U.S.
agricultural programs, focusing on research and grain quality provisions, but
did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
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1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Production and Stabilization of Prices held hearings on proposed
legislation to strengthen and improve U.S. agricultural programs, focusing on
deficiency payment problems associated with barley, receiving testimony from
Keith Bjerke, Administrator, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
Service, Department of Agriculture; George Paul, Montana Farmers Union, Great
Falls; Marsha Jones, National WIFE, Grover, Colorado; Stephen Naught, National
Barley Grower's Association, Bickleton, Washington; Tim McGreevy, Idaho Barley
Commission, Boise; and Gerald Lacey, Minnesota Barley Grower's Association,
Campbell.
Subcommittee will meet again Monday, April 23.
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 1991,
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 George Wittgraf, Chairman, and John Erlenborn,
Vice Chairman, both of the Legal Services Corporation; and Joann Garvey,
American Bar Association, and William McCalpin, National Legal Aid and
Defender Association, both of Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, April 25.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
closed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for energy
and water development programs, focusing on classified programs in atomic
energy defense activities, including weapons research and development,
testing, and production, materials production, new production reactors, and
other defense programs of the Department of Energy, receiving testimony from
Donald Knuth, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Operations, Adm. J.M.
Barr, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Military Applications, Richard
Starostecki, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Materials, and Dominic
Monetta, Director, Office of New Production Reactors, all of the Department of
Energy; and Robert B. Barker, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Atomic
Energy.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from W.
Graham Claytor, Jr., President and Chairman of the Board, National Railroad
Passenger Corporation (Amtrak); and Gilbert E. Carmichael, Administrator,
Federal Railroad Administration, Department of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, April 24.
U.S. ASIAN STRATEGY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to review the
President's report on the development of U.S. policies, deployments and force
structure in Asia through the next decade, after receiving testimony from Paul
D. Wolfowitz, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Carl W. Ford, Jr.,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security
Affairs; H. Allen Holmes, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Burdensharing; and Rear
Adm. William Pendley, Director of Plans, U.S. Pacific Command.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support resumed hearings on S. 2171, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1991
for military functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe military
personnel levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on base closures and
realignments, receiving testimony from Senator Roth; David J. Berteau,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Production and Logistics;
Paul W. Johnson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and
Housing; Rear Adm. Jack Buffington, USN, Director, Shore Activities Division,
Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Logistics); and James F.
Boatright, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Installations).
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC AND EXCHANGE RATE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy held hearings on the Department of
Treasury report on international economic and exchange rate policy, receiving
testimony from David C. Mulford, Under Secretary of the Treasury for
International Affairs.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Tommy G. Thompson, of Wisconsin, to be a Member
of the Board of Directors of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation
(Amtrak), and John K. Lauber, of Maryland, to be a Member of the National
Transportation Safety Board, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Thompson was introduced by Senators Kasten
and Kohl, and Mr. Lauber was introduced by Senator Mikulski and Representative
Mineta.
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HOTEL/MOTEL FIRE SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee
concluded hearings on H.R. 94, to encourage the installation and use of
sprinkler systems in public accommodations by limiting the amount of Federal
travel using accommodations without such fire safety equipment and protection,
after receiving testimony from Representatives Boehlert, Weldon and Walgren;
Edward M. Wall, Deputy Administrator, U.S. Fire Administration, Federal
Emergency Management Agency; Nevada Fire Marshall Rex Jordan, Carson City;
Kenneth Lehn, National Fire Sprinkler Association, Aberdeen, New Jersey; David
Hilton, Cobb County Fire Department, Marietta, Georgia, representing the
International Association of Fire Chiefs; Richard T. Ashman, Holiday
Corporation, Memphis, Tennessee; William Bowen, Super 8 Motels Incorporated,
Aberdeen, South Dakota; and Ralph H. Deckelbaum, International Association of
Holiday Inns, Rockville, Maryland.
HARD ROCK MINING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Mineral Resources
Development and Production concluded oversight hearings to review reclamation
and bonding practices associated with hard rock mining activities on Federal
and State lands, after receiving testimony from Cy Jamison, Director, Bureau
of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Larry Henson, Associate Deputy
Chief, National Forest System, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture;
Hamlet Barry III, Colorado Department of Natural Resources, and Marcel F.
DeGuire, Newmont Gold Company, both of Denver, Colorado; Edward M. Belsky,
Frank B. Hall and Company of Washington, Seattle; John S. Fitzpatrick, Pegasus
Gold Corporation, Helena, Montana; Richard Parks, Gardiner, Montana, on behalf
of the Northern Plains Resource Council; Glenn C. Miller, University of
Nevada, Reno; and Michael Gregory, Arizona Toxics Information Project, McNeal.
WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure concluded hearings on S. 2183, to provide
for the conservation and development of water and related resources, and to
authorize the United States Army Corps of Engineers civil works program to
construct various projects for improvements to the Nation's infrastructure,
after receiving testimony from Roy M. Gray, Assistant to the Chief, Watershed
Project Division, Soil Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture; Harry
N. Cook, National Waterways Conference, Joseph E. Lema, National Coal
Association, James K. Coyne, Interstate Conference on Water Problems, and
Daniel E. Sagramoso, National Association of Flood and Stormwater Management
Agencies, all of Washington, D.C.; Ronald R. Besson, West Jefferson Levee
District, Marrero, Louisiana; Joseph H. Ely, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, Nixon,
Nevada; Emmett C. Lee, Jr., Tampa Port Authority, Tampa, Florida; Steven J.
Markey, Gardinier, Inc., Riverview, Florida; and Barry Palmer, Association for
the Development of Inland Navigation in America's Ohio Valley, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
MATH/SCIENCE EDUCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 2114, to
promote excellence in American mathematics, science, and engineering
education, receiving testimony from Senator Rockefeller; Rodger W. Bybee,
Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, Colorado Spring, Colorado; Charles D.
Hollister, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts;
Hans O. Andersen, Indiana University, Bloomington, on behalf of the National
Science Teachers Association; and Shirley M. Malcom, Washington, D.C., and
Richard C. Atkinson, University of California, San Diego, both on behalf of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs and Alcoholism held hearings to examine the effects of violence in the
home, focusing on federal efforts to prevent family violence and to provide
shelter and assistance to battered women and their children, receiving
testimony from Mary Pat Brygger, National Woman Abuse Prevention Project,
Washington, D.C.; Sarah M. Buel, Harvard Law School Battered Women's Advocacy
Project, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Naomi Tropp, The Julian Center,
Indianapolis, Indiana; Jann Jackson, House of Ruth, Baltimore, Maryland;
Barbara Zeek Shaw, Project Safeguard, Denver, Colorado; Anne H. Flitcraft,
University of Connecticut, New Haven, on behalf of the Domestic Violence
Training Project; Eli J. Militich, City of Duluth Police Department, Duluth,
Minnesota; and Annette Stewart, New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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Joint Meetings
DRUG PREVENTION CAMPAIGN
Joint Hearings: Senate Committee on the Judiciary held joint hearings with the
House Committee on the Judiciary to examine the impact of certain campaigns
against substance abuse through the use of animation, receiving testimony from
Richard Frank, Walt Disney Studios, Roy Disney, The Walt Disney Company, and
John Agoglia, NBC Productions, on behalf of the Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences' Campaign Against Substance Abuse Steering Committee, all of Burbank,
California; and Kenneth Barun, McDonald's Corporation, Oak Brook, Illinois.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1990/04/20
Daily Digest - Friday, April 20, 1990; pages D451 - D460 (Bound vol. D230-
D233)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee continued
consideration of proposed legislation to strengthen and improve U.S.
agricultural programs, focusing on forestry provisions, but did not complete
action thereon, and will meet again on Tuesday, April 24.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for energy and
water development programs, focusing on the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA),
receiving testimony from Marvin T. Runyon, Chairman of the Board of Directors,
and Charles H. Dean, Jr. and John B. Waters, both Directors, all of the TVA.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, May 3.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support continued hearings on S. 2171, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1991
for military functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe military
personnel levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on military construction
programs, receiving testimony from Henry L. Hinton, Associate Director,
National Security and International Affairs Division, and Fred Dziadek,
Assistant Director for Army Issues, both of the General Accounting Office;
David J. Berteau, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Production and Logistics; Maj. Gen. Peter J. Offringa, USA, Assistant Chief of
Engineers, Department of the Army; Rear Adm. Jack E. Buffington, USN,
Director, Shore Activities Division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval
Operations, Logistics; Brig. Gen. Wayne T. Adams, USMC, Director, Facilities
and Services Division, United States Marine Corps; Maj. Gen. Joseph A. Ahearn,
USAF, Director of Engineering and Services, Department of the Air Force; David
O. Cooke, Director, Administration and Management, Department of Defense; and
Richard G. Austin, Acting Administrator, General Services Administration.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
HUD STAFFING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on HUD/MOD
Rehab Investigation resumed hearings to examine certain management activities
of the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs (HUD), focusing on the staffing
and resource capacity of HUD, receiving testimony from Walter Sevier, Deputy
Regional Administrator (Fort Worth, Texas), and Alfred Kliman, Director,
Office of Budget, both of the Department of Housing and Urban Development;
George O. Hipps, Jr., P.W. Funding Mortgage Company, and Brian Chappelle,
Mortgage Bankers Association of America, both of Washington, D.C.; Marvin
Siflinger, Massachusetts State Housing Finance Agency, Boston, representing
the National Council of State Housing Finance Agencies; Daniel B. Grady,
Monfric, Inc., San Diego, California, representing the National Assisted
Housing Management Association; John J. Koelemij, Orange State Construction
Company, Tallahassee, Florida, representing the National Association of Home
Builders; and Dwight Ink, Institute of Public Administration, New York, New
York.
Subcommittee will meet again Monday, April 23.
NOMINATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Thomas L. Sansonetti, of Wyoming, to be Solicitor, Department of
the Interior, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own
behalf. Mr. Sansonetti was introduced by Senators Wallop and Simpson and
Representative Craig Thomas.
FEHB PROGRAM
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post
Office, and Civil Service held hearings on proposed legislation to reform the
Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program, receiving testimony from
Constance Berry Newman, Director, and Curtis J. Smith, Associate Director,
Retirement and Insurance Group, both of the Office of Personnel Management;
Dennis Snook, Janet Lundy, Michael O'Grady, and Alan Fairbank, all of the
Federal Employees Health Benefits Team, Congressional Research Service,
Library of Congress; Harry P. Cain, II, Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Association, and Robert P. Pfotenhauer, Group Health Association, Inc., both
of Washington, D.C.; and Catherine Austin, Maryland State Personnel
Administration, Annapolis.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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EMPLOYER SANCTIONS AND DISCRIMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S.J. Res. 280,
approving the findings of the Comptroller General of the United States
contained in the General Accounting Office report, dated March 29, 1990,
regarding discrimination in the enforcement of employer sanctions under the
Immigration Act of 1986, and S. 2446, to improve the employment verification
system under the Immigration and Nationality Act, after receiving testimony
from John R. Dunne, Assistant Attorney General, Gene McNary, Commissioner,
Immigration and Naturalization Service, and Andrew M. Strojny, Acting Special
Counsel, all of the Department of Justice; John R. Fraser, Deputy
Administrator, Wage and Hour Division, Employment Standards Administration,
Department of Labor; Louis D. Enoff, Deputy Commissioner for Programs, Social
Security Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Raul
Yzaguirre, National Council of La Raza, Mario Moreno, Mexican-American Legal
Defense and Educational Fund (Maldef), Paul M. Igasaki, Japanese American
Citizens League, Monsignor Nicholas DiMarzio, U.S. Catholic Conference, Robert
E. Juceam, American Bar Association, and Daniel A. Stein, Federation for
American Immigration Reform, all of Washington, D.C.
HEALTH PROMOTION OBJECTIVES
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 2056, to
revise provisions of the Public Health Service Act to provide grants to States
and to implement state health objective plans, receiving testimony from J.
Michael McGinnis, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Office of Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion, Department of Health and Human Services; Jack
and Ramona Brooks, Congregational United Church of Christ, Rock Rapids, Iowa;
Herrestine Chambers, Belzoni, Mississippi, on behalf of Partners for Improved
Nutrition and Health; Edward Fox, Alabama Department of Health, Montgomery, on
behalf of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials; C.
William Keck, City of Akron Department of Health, Akron, Ohio, on behalf of
the American Public Health Association; Suzanne Muncy, Montgomery County
Department of Health, Rockville, on behalf of the National Association of
County Health Officials; Jane L. Delgado, National Coalition of Hispanic
Health and Human Services Organizations, Washington, D.C.; and Emily Holing,
Bellevue, Washington.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
UNITED STATES-JAPAN AUTO PARTS TRADE
Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Innovation, Technology and
Productivity concluded hearings to examine trade barriers to auto parts
exports from the United States, after receiving testimony from Representative
Kaptur; Mary Toman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Automotive
Affairs and Consumer Goods; Donald M. Phillips, Assistant U.S. Trade
Representative for Industry; Richard J. Roberts, Colonial Mold, Inc., Mt.
Clemens, Michigan; and Greg Knudson, Balance Engineering Corporation, Troy,
Michigan.
Joint Meetings
SOVIET AND EAST EUROPEAN ECONOMIES
Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Technology and National Security
held hearings to examine Soviet and East European economies, receiving
testimony from John Helgerson, Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central
Intelligence Agency; Dennis Nagy, Acting Deputy Director for Foreign
Intelligence, Defense Intelligence Agency; Murray Feshbach, Georgetown
University, Washington, D.C.; and Seymour Goodman, University of Arizona,
Tucson.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1990/04/23
Daily Digest - Monday, April 23, 1990; pages D462 - D466 (Bound vol. D233-
D235)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Production and Stabilization of Prices concluded hearings on
proposed legislation to strengthen and improve U.S. agricultural programs,
focusing on the cost of production, after receiving testimony from Bruce
Gardner, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Economics; John Tull, Lonoke,
Arkansas; Billy Griggs, Unadilla, Georgia; Lloyd Kline, Lamesa, Texas; Harvey
Joe Sanner, DesArc, Arkansas; Wiley Felty, Altus, Oklahoma; Jackie Theriot,
Breaux Bridge, Louisiana; Billy Joe Miles, Owensboro, Kentucky; and Jim
Wilson, Trout Creek, Montana.
APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for the U.S. Forest Service,
receiving testimony from F. Dale Robertson, Chief, Forest Service, Department
of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again Monday, April 30.
HUD MANAGEMENT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on HUD/MOD
Rehab Investigation held hearings to examine the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) role in overseeing budget and management activities of the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, receiving testimony from William
M. Diefenderfer III, Deputy Director, and Frank Hodsoll, Executive Associate
Director for Management, both of the Office of Management and Budget; Alan L.
Dean, former Deputy Associate Director, OMB, and Anne Banning, former
Assistant Director, Charles Dutcher, former Assistant Director, and Mark
Robbins, former Deputy Assistant Director, all of the Office of Presidential
Personnel, all of Washington, D.C.; Harold Seidman, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Maryland; and Hugh Heclo, George Mason University, Fairfax,
Virginia.
Subcommittee will meet again Friday, April 27.
WASHINGTON METRORAIL SYSTEM
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on General Services,
Federalism, and the District of Columbia concluded hearings on S. 612,
authorizing funds for continuing the construction of the metrorail rapid
transit system in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, after receiving
testimony from Senator Warner; Carmen E. Turner, General Manager, Washington
Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; and Brian W. Clymer, Administrator, Urban
Mass Transportation Administration, Department of Transportation.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/04/24
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 24, 1990; pages D468 D478 (Bound vol. D235-
D243)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed
consideration of proposed legislation to strengthen and improve U.S.
agricultural programs, focusing on wool, mohair, and honey provisions, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again Thursday, April 26.
DIRE EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported, with
amendments, H.R. 4404, making dire emergency supplemental appropriations for
disaster assistance, food stamps, unemployment compensation administration,
and other urgent needs, and transfers, and reducing funds budgeted for
military spending for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1990.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on Guard and Reserve programs, receiving testimony from Stephen M. Duncan,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs; Maj. Gen. William F. Ward,
USA, Chief of Army Reserve; Rear Adm. James E. Taylor, USN, Director of Naval
Reserve; Maj. Gen. Edmund P. Looney, Jr., USMC, Assistant Deputy Chief of
Staff for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps; Maj.
Gen. Roger P. Scheer, USAF, Chief of Air Force Reserve; Lt. Gen. John B.
Conaway, USAF, Chief of National Guard Bureau; Maj. Gen. Donald Burdick, USA,
Director, Army National Guard; and Maj. Gen. Phillip G. Killey, USAF, Director
of Air National Guard.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, April 26.
DOD DRUG PROGRAM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings to
review funding levels for the Department of Defense drug program, after
receiving testimony from Stephen M. Duncan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Reserve Affairs; Vice Adm. James C. Irwin, Rear Adm. William P. Leahy, and Lt.
Gen. George R. Stotser, all of the Joint Task Force; and Maj. Gen. Walter E.
Webb, Vice Director of J-3 (Operations), Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
resumed hearings on S. 2171, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1991 for
military functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe military
personnel levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on the Defense Management
Report, and S. 2440, to revise certain provisions of law that affect the
operations and management of the Department of Defense, particularly in the
areas of military personnel, acquisition reform, civilian personnel
management, and real property, receiving testimony from Donald J. Atwood,
Deputy Secretary of Defense, Sean O'Keefe, Comptroller, and Terrence
O'Donnell, General Counsel, all of the Department of Defense.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed hearings
on proposed legislation to modernize the legal and regulatory structure of the
financial services industry to increase competitiveness of U.S. institutions,
receiving testimony from Kenneth Whipple, Ford Financial Services Group, on
behalf of the Financial Services Council, and David Silver, Investment Company
Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; and Philip Vallandingham, The First State
Bank of Barboursville, Barboursville, West Virginia, on behalf of the
Independent Bankers Association of America.
Hearings continue Thursday, April 26.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Committee on the Budget: Committee began markup of a proposed concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1991 budget for the Federal Government, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
DOE SCIENCE BUDGET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development concluded hearings on the Department of Energy's proposed budget
request for fiscal year 1991 for the superconducting super collider program
and for research in the physical fundamental sciences, after receiving
testimony from Representative Barton; D. Allan Bromley, Director, Office of
Science and Technology Policy; James F. Decker, Acting Director, Office of
Energy Research, Department of Energy; Roy F. Schwitters, Superconducting
Super Collider Laboratory, Dallas, Texas; Sidney D. Drell, Columbia
University, New York, New York; and Eugen Merzbacher, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, on behalf of the American Physical Society.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items:
S. 1076, to increase public understanding of the national environment and to
advance and develop environmental education and training, with amendments;
S. 657, to authorize funds through fiscal year 1994 to reduce the threat to
human health posed by exposure to contaminants in the air indoors, with
amendments;
S. 1089, to authorize funds through fiscal year 1993 for the Office of
Environmental Quality, with an amendment;
S. 1045, to establish a national environmental policy on the participation of
the United States in international financing, with amendments;
S. 1804, to reduce the amount of Federal highway funds allocated to any State
that does not provide for the revocation or suspension of the driver's license
of any individual convicted of a drug offense, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute;
S. 221, to prescribe regulations allowing States to use rights-of-way along
Federal-aid highways for the construction of magnetic levitation systems as
part of the Federal-aid highway system, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute;
S. 2068, to designate the U.S. courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama, as the
Robert Smith Vance United States Courthouse, with an amendment;
H.R. 2890, to redesignate the Federal Building Courthouse and the U.S.
Courthouse in East St. Louis, Illinois, as the Melvin Price Federal
Courthouse;
H.R. 922, to designate the building in Liberty, Texas, as the M.P. Daniel and
Thomas F. Calhoon, Senior, Post Office Building; and
The nominations of L. Joyce Hampers, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development, and Brig. Gen. Arthur E.
Williams, USA, to be a Member and President of the Mississippi River
Commission.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
following bills:
S. 2371, to direct the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study of the
feasibility of an umbrella research arm to support research on a variety of
environmental issues, after receiving testimony from Senator Bradley;
Representative Saxton; Erich W. Bretthauer, Assistant Administrator for
Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency; Thomas E. Lovejoy,
Society for Conservation Biology, Washington, D.C.; and Henry F. Howe,
Committee for the National Institutes for the Environment, Chicago, Illinois;
and
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S. 2176, to provide better enforcement of the environmental laws of the United
States, after receiving testimony from Senator Simon; James M. Strock,
Assistant Administrator for Enforcement, Environmental Protection Agency; New
Jersey Attorney General Robert J. Del Tufo, and New Jersey State Environmental
Prosecutor Steven J. Madonna, both of Trenton; Donald E. Mielke, First
Judicial District Attorney's Office, Golden, Colorado; and Judson W. Starr,
Venable, Baetjer, Howard & Civiletti, and Robert Adler, Natural Resources
Defense Council, both of Washington, D.C.
ECONOMIC SUMMITRY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy,
Trade, Oceans and Environment concluded hearings to review the process of
economic summitry, after receiving testimony from Henry Owen, Consultants
International Group, Myer Rashish, Rashish Associates, Inc., and Allen Wallis,
American Enterprise Institute, all of Washington, D.C.
AIRPORT ACCESS ASSURANCE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business
Rights concluded hearings on S. 1822, to prohibit local governments that own
or operate airports from imposing a discriminatory tax or fee on non-tenant,
non-aeronautical, commercial users of such airports where the result would
lessen competition or create a monopoly, after receiving testimony from
Senators Breaux and Ford; Neilson Bertholf, Sky Harbor International Airport,
Phoenix, Arizona; Kent George, QUAD City Airport, Moline, Illinois; Mark
Cooper, Consumer Federation of America, Washington, D.C.; Paul M. Tschirhart,
Hertz Corporation, Park Ridge, New Jersey; Philip S. Shailer, Alamo Rent A
Car, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Florida; William E. Lobeck, Jr., Thrifty
Rent-A-Car System, Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma; Ed Chance, Thrifty Car Rental, Baton
Rouge, Louisiana; and Harold and Dorothy Dunlap, Montrose Dollar Rent-A-Car,
Montrose, Colorado.
NATIONAL DRUG STRATEGY
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to examine the
role of treatment and prevention in the national drug strategy, receiving
testimony from William J. Bennett, Director, Herbert Kleber, Deputy Director
for Demand Reduction, and Bruce Carnes, Director of Planning and Budget, all
of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PUBLIC HEALTH SCHOOLS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to review the
contributions of schools of public health to disease prevention and health
promotion, receiving testimony from Robert Kane, University of Minnesota
School of Public Health, Minneapolis; Palmer Beasley, University of Texas
School of Public Health, Austin; Jacob Brody, University of Illinois School of
Public Health, Chicago; Harvey Fineberg, Harvard University School of Public
Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Jerrold Michael, University of Hawaii School
of Public Health, Honolulu; June Osborn, University of Michigan School of
Public Health, Ann Arbor; Winona Vernberg, University of South Carolina School
of Public Health, Columbia; and Donald Henderson, Johns Hopkins University
School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of the
Association of Schools of Public Health.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INDIAN LANDS ENHANCEMENT
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
following bills:
S. 1289, to improve the management of forests and woodlands and the production
of forest resources on Indian lands, after receiving testimony from Jamie
Pinkham, Nez Perce Forestry Program, Lapwai, Idaho; Gary Morishima, Quinault
Tribe, Taholah, Washington; Don Peasley, Intertribal Timber Council, Warm
Springs, Oregon; and Reno Johnson, Sr., White Mountain Apache Tribe,
White-river, Arizona; and
S. 2075, to authorize grants to improve the capability of Indian tribal
governments to regulate environmental quality, after receiving testimony from
S. Tim Wapato, Commissioner, Administration for Native Americans, Office of
Human Development Services, Department of Health and Human Services; W.
Richard West, Gover, Stetson, Williams and West, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Gene
Joseph, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Nespelem, Washington,
representing the Colville Business Council; and David C. Harrison, Council of
Energy Resource Tribes, Denver, Colorado.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1990/04/25
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 25, 1990; pages D479 - D488 (Bound vol. D243-
D249)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for
the Department of State, receiving testimony from James A. Baker III,
Secretary of State.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--GSA/WHITE HOUSE RESIDENCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1991, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the General Services
Administration [GSA] from Richard G. Austin, Acting Administrator, GSA; and
for the Executive Residence at the White House from Robert G. Stanton,
Regional Director, National Capital Region, National Park Service, Department
of the Interior.
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Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, May 9.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance
Defense held hearings on S. 2171, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1991 for
military functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe military
personnel levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on the Army's modernization
plans in the context of projected force structure changes, receiving testimony
from Steven K. Conver, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research,
Development, and Acquisition; Lt. Gen. Donald S. Pihl, USA, Deputy to the
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development, and Acquisition;
and Maj. Gen. Peter McVey, Program Executive Officer of the Army for Armored
Systems Modernization.
Subcommittee will meet again Friday, April 27.
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the nomination of Michael Paul Galvin, of Illinois, to be an Assistant
Secretary of Commerce, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Dixon,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued markup of a proposed concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1991 budget for the Federal Government, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
GLOBAL CHANGE RESPONSE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings to
examine new technologies and products to encourage individuals to reduce their
consumption of energy and nonrenewable resources to help alleviate global
warming, acid rain, and ozone depletion, receiving testimony from John W.
Lyons, Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of
Commerce; John Andelin, Assistant Director, Science, Information, and Natural
Resources Division, and Rosina Bierbaum and Howard Levenson, both Senior
Analysts, all of the Office of Technology and Assessment; John Javna,
EarthWorks Group, Berkeley, California; Chris J. Calwell, Natural Resources
Defense Council, San Francisco, California; Christopher Flavin, Worldwatch
Institute, Washington, D.C.; and John and Kathy Dewey, Fairfax, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications held hearings on S. 1981, to permit the Bell Telephone
Companies to conduct research on, design, and manufacture telecommunications
equipment, receiving testimony from John L. Clendenin, BellSouth Corporation,
Atlanta, Georgia; Randall L. Tobias, Ian M. Ross, and John D. Zeglis, all of
AT&T, Basking Ridge, New Jersey; and Dan Latham, Digital Equipment
Corporation, Andover, Massachusetts.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, May 9.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items:
The nomination of Thomas L. Sansonetti, of Wyoming, to be Solicitor,
Department of the Interior;
S. 1128, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands in
Inyo County, California to Richard Saunders, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute;
S. 1719, to designate a segment of the Colorado River in Westwater Canyon,
Utah, as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, with
amendments;
S. 1738, to convey certain Oregon and California railroad grant lands in
Josephine County, Oregon, to the Rogue Community College District, with
amendments;
S. 666, to enroll twenty individuals as natives in the Cook Inlet Regional
Corporation and the Kenai Natives Association pursuant to the Alaska Native
Claims Settlement Act, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
H.R. 1109, to designate the California National Historic Trail and Pony
Express National Historic Trail as components of the National Trails System,
with amendments, and in lieu of S. 374;
H.R. 1159, to designate the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail in
Arizona and California as a component of the National Trails System, with
amendments; and
S. 2088, to extend the authority in current law for operating and building the
Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), to expand the SPR to one billion barrels
and authorize oil leasing to fill the Reserve, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute.
AMERICAN HERITAGE TRUST ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 370, to establish the
American Heritage Trust to enhance the protection of the nation's natural,
historical, cultural, and outdoor recreational heritage, after receiving
testimony from Senator Chafee; Lou Gallegos, Assistant Secretary of the
Interior for Policy Management and Budget; John L. Evans, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture; Robert A. Sunshine, Chief, Natural and Physical
Resources Cost Estimate Unit, Budget Analysis Division, Congressional Budget
Office; Paul C. Pritchard, National Parks and Conservation Association, and
Susan C. Moya, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, both of Washington, D.C.; Bud Eppers,
Roswell, New Mexico, on behalf of the National Cattlemen's Association, Public
Lands Council, American Sheep Industry Association, and Association of
National Grasslands; Barry S. Tindall, National Recreation and Park
Association, Alexandria, Virginia; Orin Lehman, New York State Office of
Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Albany, on behalf of the National
Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers; and David A. Flitner,
Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation, Shell.
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U.S.-JAPAN TRADE RELATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the progress of U.S.
trade relations with Japan, focusing on an interim agreement with Japan in the
Structural Impediments Initiative (SII) talks, and the status of U.S.-Japan
trade negotiations, receiving testimony from Carla A. Hills, United States
Trade Representative.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
OPERATION OF INSPECTOR GENERAL OFFICES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings to
examine issues with respect to the authority and role of the Inspectors
General to conduct regulatory investigations, receiving testimony from
Representative Conte; Richard P. Kusserow, Inspector General, Department of
Health and Human Services; James R. Richards, Inspector General, Department of
the Interior; Sherman M. Funk, Inspector General, Department of State; Paul A.
Adams, Inspector General, Department of Housing and Urban Development; John W.
Melchner, former Inspector General, Department of Transportation; and William
P. Barr, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, and Stuart M.
Gerson, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, both of the Department of
Justice.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items:
S. 436, to strengthen the protections available to employees against reprisals
for disclosing information to protect the public health and safety, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 1425, to make nutrition labeling information mandatory and to provide for
clear standards governing the claims that can be made about foods, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nominations of Peter H. Raven, of Missouri, and Benjamin S. Shen, of
Pennsylvania, each to be a Member of the National Science Board, National
Science Foundation, Mary M. Raether, of Virginia, Sandra S. Parrino, of New
York, Alvis K. Waldrep, Jr., of Texas, and Anthony H. Flack, of Connecticut,
each to be a Member of the National Council on Disability, and a routine list
in the Public Health Service Corps.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again Tuesday, May 1.
Joint Meetings
SOVIET ECONOMY
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine the economic
situation in the Soviet Union, receiving testimony from Vladimir A. Tikhonov,
Congress of People's Deputies, Moscow, U.S.S.R.; Alec Nove, Russian Research
Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Judy Shelton, Hoover
Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
OIL POLLUTION LIMITATIONS
Conferees met on the differences between the Senate- and House-passed versions
of H.R. 1465, to establish limitations on liability and damages resulting from
oil pollution, and to establish a fund for the payment of compensation for
such damages, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to
call.
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1990/04/26
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 26, 1990; pages D490 - D500 (Bound vol. D249-
D257)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed
consideration of proposed legislation to strengthen and improve U.S.
agricultural programs, focusing on peanut provisions, but did not complete
action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--DOJ
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for
certain activities of the Department of Justice, receiving testimony from
Richard L. Thornburgh, Attorney General, Department of Justice.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 1.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for defense intelligence
programs, receiving testimony from William H. Webster, Director, Central
Intelligence Agency; and other officials of the intelligence community.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, May 3.
APPROPRIATIONS--GAO
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for
the General Accounting Office, focusing on committee-directed GAO reports and
studies, receiving testimony from Kenneth M. Mead, Director of Transportation
Issues, Resources Community and Economic Development, General Accounting
Office.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 3.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 4,884
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on S. 2171,
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1991 for military functions of the
Department of Defense and to prescribe military personnel levels for fiscal
year 1991, focusing on results of a major aircraft review by the Department of
Defense, receiving testimony from Richard P. Cheney, Secretary of Defense.
Committee recessed subject to call.
FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed hearings
on proposed legislation to modernize the legal and regulatory structure of the
financial services industry to increase competitiveness of U.S. institutions,
receiving testimony from Rhode Island State Senator William V. Irons, Rumford,
representing the Alliance for the Separation of Banking and Insurance,
National Association of Life Underwriters, National Association of
Professional Insurance Agents, Independent Insurance Agents of America,
National Association of Casualty and Surety Agents, and National Association
of Surety Bond Holders; Norman D. Flynn, Madison, Wisconsin, representing the
National Association of Realtors; and Stephen J. Friedman, The Equitable Life
Assurance Society of the United States, New York, New York, representing the
American Council of Life Insurance.
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Hearings continue Thursday, May 3.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued markup of a proposed concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1991 budget for the Federal Government, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again Tuesday, May 1.
DOE WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed oversight
hearings on the Department of Energy decision plan relating to the opening of
the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico, and on S.
2420, to withdraw the public lands surrounding the WIPP site, receiving
testimony from Thomas Bahr, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, Robert W.
Bishop, Nuclear Management and Resources Council, Washington, D.C., Leonard C.
Slosky, Slosky and Company, Denver, Colorado, Arthur S. Kubo, Fairfax,
Virginia, and Newal Squyres, Boise, Idaho, all on behalf of the Department of
Energy Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Blue Ribbon Panel; Mayor Bob Forrest,
Carlsbad, New Mexico; Anita Lockwood, New Mexico Department of Energy,
Minerals and Natural Resources, and Michele Merola, Concerned Citizens for
Nuclear Safety, both of Santa Fe; and Robert H. Neill, New Mexico
Environmental Evaluation Group, and Don Hancock, Southwest Research and
Information Center, both of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ASBESTOS ABATEMENT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Toxic Substances,
Environmental Oversight, Research and Development held hearings on S. 1893,
authorizing funds for the Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act and to review
implementation of the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act and scientific
questions surrounding asbestos exposure, receiving testimony from Senator
Wallop; Representative Shays; Linda Fisher, Assistant Administrator for
Pesticides and Toxic Substances, Environmental Protection Agency; Richard
Lemen, Assistant Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health, Centers for Disease Control, Department of Health and Human Services;
Henry Lee, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; J. Bernard L. Gee,
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Gregory Veith, Catholic
Archdiocese of Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of Council for American Private
Education; Toni Siskin, Broward County Schools, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, on
behalf of the National School Boards Association; Philip Landrigan, Mount
Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York; and Joel Packer, National
Education Association, and Dolores Delaney, National PTA Board of Directors,
both of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PUERTO RICO
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on S. 712, to provide for a
referendum on the political status of Puerto Rico, focusing on economic
implications of Statehood for Puerto Rico, receiving testimony from Philip D.
Morrison, International Tax Counsel, Office of Tax Policy, Department of the
Treasury; Martin H. Gerry, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services
for Planning and Evaluation; Robert D. Reischauer, Director, and Frederick C.
Ribe, Assistant Director for Fiscal Analysis, both of the Congressional Budget
Office; Harvey Galper, former Director, Office of Tax Analysis, Department of
the Treasury, and Michael J. McKee, Quick, Finan and Associates, both of
Washington, D.C.; Jose R. Oyola, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, on
behalf of Puerto Ricans for Civic Action; and Benny Frankie Cerezo, Puerto
Rican Statehood Movement, Jose M. Berrocal, on behalf of the Governor of the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Fernando Martin, Puerto Rican Independence Party,
Pedro A. Parrilla, University of Puerto Rico, and Teodoro Moscoso, formerly of
the Puerto Rico Economic Development Administration, all of San Juan, Puerto
Rico.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EUROPEAN TALKS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs met in closed
session to receive a briefing on the forthcoming U.S.-Soviet summit with
respect to nuclear and conventional force issues from Raymond Seitz, Assistant
Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NONDEVELOPMENTAL ITEMS ACQUISITION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management concluded hearings on S. 1957, to provide for the efficient and
cost effective acquisition of nondevelopmental items (commercial and
off-the-shelf products) for Federal agencies, after receiving testimony from
Allan V. Burman, Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Office
of Management and Budget; Richard G. Austin, Acting Administrator, and Richard
H. Hopf III, Associate Administrator, Office of Acquisition Policy, both of
the General Services Administration; and David J. Burke, Digital Equipment
Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts, Thomas A. Ryan, Xerox Corporation,
Stamford, Connecticut, and Ronald W. Gallier, Multigraphics, Mt. Prospect,
Illinois, all on behalf of the Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers
Association.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
The nominations of David H. Souter, of New Hampshire, to be United States
Circuit Judge for the First Circuit, Raymond C. Clevenger, III, of the
District of Columbia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Federal
Circuit, Samuel A. Alito, Jr., of New Jersey, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Third Circuit, Lawrence M. McKenna, to be United States District
Judge for the Southern District of New York, James F. McClure, Jr., to be
United States District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Joseph
M. Hood, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of
Kentucky, Robert E. Jones, to be United States District Judge for the District
of Oregon, and D. Brock Hornby, to be United States District Judge for the
District of Maine;
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 authorizing the
President to disapprove or reduce an item of appropriations.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
William M. Nickerson, to be United States District Judge for the District of
Maryland, James K. Singleton, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the
District of Alaska, Jack D. Shanstrom, to be United States District Judge for
the District of Montana, and Stephen M. McNamee, to be United States District
Judge for the District of Arizona, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Nickerson was introduced by Senator
Sarbanes and Representative Bentley, Mr. Singleton was introduced by Senators
Stevens and Murkowski, Mr. Shanstrom was introduced by Senator Burns, and Mr.
McNamee was introduced by Senators DeConcini and McCain.
TUBERCULOSIS PROGRAM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for the tuberculosis prevention and
control program of the Centers for Disease Control, Department of Health and
Human Services, after receiving testimony from Alan R. Hinman, Director,
Center for Prevention Services, and Dixie E. Snider, Director, Division of
Tuberculosis Control, both of the Centers for Disease Control, Department of
Health and Human Services; Charles Nolan, Seattle-King County Department of
Public Health, Seattle, Washington; F. E. Thompson, Jr., Mississippi
Department of Health, Jackson; George Comstock, Johns Hopkins University,
Hagerstown, Maryland; and Lee B. Reichman, American Lung Association/American
Thoracic Society, Newark, New Jersey.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/04/27
Daily Digest - Friday, April 27, 1990; pages D501 - D510 (Bound vol. D257-
D260)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee continued
consideration of proposed legislation to strengthen and improve U.S.
agricultural programs, focusing on organic certification provisions, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday, May 2.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance
Defense resumed hearings on S. 2171, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1991
for military functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe military
personnel levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on the Air Force's force
structure and modernization plans, receiving testimony from Maj. Gen. John E.
Jaquish, USAF, Director of Tactical Programs, Office of the Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, and Maj. Gen. Richard E. Hawley,
USAF, Director of Operations, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans
and Operations, both of the Department of the Air Force.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, May 2.
LOW-INCOME TAX CREDITS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on MOD
REHAB/HUD Investigations held hearings to examine the utilization of the
low-income housing tax credit program of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development, receiving testimony from John M. Ols, Jr., Director, Housing and
Community Development Issues, Resources, Community and Economic Development
Division, General Accounting Office; John Weicher, Assistant Secretary for
Policy Development and Research, Fred Eggers, Associate Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Economic Affairs, and James Logue, Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Multifamily Housing, all of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development; David G. Blattner, Assistant Commissioner for Examination,
Internal Revenue Service, and Susan Reaman, Assistant Branch Chief, Office of
the Chief Counsel, both of the Department of the Treasury; Mark Hendrickson,
Florida Housing Finance Agency, Tallahassee, representing the National Council
of State Housing Agencies; F. Barton Harvey III, The Enterprise Foundation,
Columbia, Maryland; and William E. Haynsworth, The Boston Financial Group
Inc., Boston, Massachusetts.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AIRWAY IMPROVEMENT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
held hearings on S. 2268, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1991 and 1992 for
certain programs of the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, receiving testimony from James B. Busey, IV, Administrator,
Michael Moffett, Assistant Administrator for Policy, Planning, and
International Aviation, and Leonard Griggs, Assistant Administrator for
Airports, all of the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation.
Hearings continue on Thursday, May 10.
SUPER 301
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade held hearings on the
effectiveness of Super 301, a provision of the Omnibus Trade and
Competitiveness Act of 1988 which created a program to eliminate the major
trade barriers of foreign countries, receiving testimony from R. K. Morris,
National Association of Manufacturers, John E. Howard, U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, and Suzanne P. Tichenor, Cray Research, Inc., all of Washington,
D.C.; Robert L. Donnelly, Contact Lumber Company, Portland, Oregon; and David
C. Hill, Allied-Signal Inc., Morristown, New Jersey.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Paul C. Lambert, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Ecuador,
after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
INTERNATIONAL MONEY LAUNDERING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine law
enforcement and foreign policy issues with respect to international money
laundering activities, after receiving testimony from John E. Robson, Deputy
Secretary of the Treasury; and Edward S.G. Dennis, Jr., Deputy Assistant
Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Jessica L. Parks, of Georgia, to be a Member of the Merit
Systems Protection Board, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator
Nunn, testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
POSTAL SERVICE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post
Office, and Civil Service held oversight hearings on activities of the U.S.
Postal Service, receiving testimony from L. Nye Stevens, Director, Government
Business Operations Issues, and Willis L. Elmore, Assistant Director, both of
the General Government Division, General Accounting Office; Mayor Linda Shaw,
Lakewood, Colorado, on behalf of the National League of Cities; Charles D.
Morgan, Jr., Acxiom Corporation, Conway, Arkansas, on behalf of the Third
Class Mailers Association; Richard A. Barton, Direct Marketing Association,
Jeffrey H. Joseph, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, James I. Campbell Jr., Air
Courier Conference of America, Arthur Eden, National Economic Research
Associates, Inc., Daniel P. Doherty, Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, and Joseph
W. Belluck, Center for Study of Responsive Law, all of Washington, D.C.;
Gerald M. Levin, Time Warner Inc., New York, New York, on behalf of the
Mailers Council; and Douglas S. Dibbert, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, on behalf of the American Council on Education and the Council of Alumni
Association Executives.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--ARTS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and
Humanities concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities, focusing on the National
Endowment for the Arts, after receiving testimony from Maestro Mstislav
Rostropovich, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, John H.
Buchanan, Jr., People for the American Way, H. Robert Showers, Gammon and
Grange, Jane Chastain, Concerned Women for America, and Phyllis Schlafly,
Eagle Forum, all of Washington, D.C.; Lee C. Bollinger, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor; Kathleen M. Sullivan, Harvard Law School, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; Bruce Fein, Blaustein and Fein, Great Falls, Virginia; Dorothy
Ilgen, Kansas Arts Commission, Topeka, on behalf of the National Assembly of
State Arts Agencies; Madeline M. Rabb, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs,
Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the National Assembly of Local Arts Agencies;
Kathryn A. Martin, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, on behalf of the
National Coalition for Education in the Arts; and Fred Lazarus, IV, Maryland
Institute College of Art, Baltimore, on behalf of the National Assembly for
Visual Arts Education.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/04/30
Daily Digest - Monday, April 30, 1990; pages D511 - D516 (Bound vol. D260-
D262)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
resumed hearings on S. 2171, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1991 for
military functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe military
personnel levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on national and defense
critical technology plans, receiving testimony from William D. Phillips,
Associate Director for Industrial Technology, Office of Science and Technology
Policy; Brig. Gen. Stephen P. Condon, USAF, Director, Program, Planning and
Integration, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for
Acquisition; Philip A. Selwyn, Director, Office of Naval Technology,
Department of the Navy; George T. Singley III, Deputy for Research and
Technology, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research,
Development and Acquisition; Victor H. Reis, Deputy Director, Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency, and Dwight P. Duston, Director, Innovative Science
and Technology Office, Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, both of the
Department of Defense; and Thomas F. Faught, Jr., National Center for Advanced
Technology, Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee will meet again Friday, May 4.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/05/01
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 1, 1990; pages D518 - D528 (Bound vol. D262-D270)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--SUPREME COURT/JUDICIARY/FTC
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonin Scalia, both Associate Justices of the Supreme
Court of the United States; Richard S. Arnold, Judge, U.S. Courts of Appeals
for the Eighth Circuit, and William G. Young, Judge, U.S. District Court for
the District of Massachusetts, both on behalf of the Judicial Conference of
the United States; L. Ralph Mecham, Director, Administrative Office of the
United States Courts; and Janet D. Steiger, Chairman, Federal Trade
Commission.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for foreign assistance,
receiving testimony from James A. Baker III, Secretary of State.
Subcommittee will meet again Monday, May 7.
APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for the Bureau
of Land Management, receiving testimony from Cy Jamison, Director, Bureau of
Land Management, Department of the Interior.
Subcommittee will meet again Monday, May 7.
DOE DEFENSE PROGRAMS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence held hearings to review the state of Department of Energy nuclear
weapons manufacturing facilities, focusing on complex modernization and
environmental and waste management activities, receiving testimony from James
D. Watkins, Secretary of Energy; and Leo Duffy, Director, Office of
Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, Department of Energy.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, May 3.
URANIUM ENRICHMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development held oversight hearings on the need to restructure the Department
of Energy's uranium enrichment program, receiving testimony from William H.
Young, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy; Bob Calabro, Manager,
Nuclear Fuels, Tennessee Valley Authority; Robert A. Reinstein, Director,
Energy and Natural Resources, Office of the United States Trade
Representative; and Gerald W. Grandey, Uranium Producers of America,
Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NEW MEXICO RESOURCES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on proposals to preserve and
protect natural, historical, and cultural resources of New Mexico, including
S. 1831, S. 2014, S. 2143, S. 2165, S. 2254, S. 2429, S. 2430, and S. 2432,
after receiving testimony from Representatives Skeen and Richardson; James M.
Ridenour, Director, and Doug Faris, Associate Regional Director for Planning
and Development, Southwest Regional Office (Santa Fe, New Mexico), both of the
National Park Service, and Dean Stepanek, Deputy Director, Bureau of Land
Management, all of the Department of the Interior; James C. Overbay, Deputy
Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Dale Giese, Western New
Mexico University, Silver City; Debbie Sease, Sierra Club, Washington, D.C.;
and Bruce Craig, National Parks and Conservation Association, Washington, D.C.
LAW OF THE SEA CONVENTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine U.S.
participation in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Ex. N,
86th Cong., 1st sess.), after receiving testimony from Elliot L. Richardson,
Washington, D.C., former Special Representative of the President for the Law
of the Sea Convention; James L. Malone, Monterey, California, former Assistant
Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific
Affairs; Lewis M. Alexander, University of Rhode Island, Kingston; and James
R. Silkenat, American Bar Association (Section of International Law and
Practice), New York, New York.
COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs, and Alcoholism concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for the community services block grant program of the Department of
Health and Human Services, after receiving testimony from Grant Lee, People's
Regional Opportunity Program, Portland, Maine; Charles H. Smallwood, Maryland
Office of Community Services, Annapolis; Matthew E. Melmed, Connecticut
Association for Human Services, Hartford; Ann Kagie, Utah State Community
Services Office, Salt Lake City, on behalf of the National Association for
State Community Service Program; Nadine Dowdell, Jeffersonville, Indiana;
Marilyn Bender, Cranston, Rhode Island; and Donald L. Lowe, Prescott, Kansas.
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OSHA REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor held hearings on
S. 2154, S. 490, and S. 2442, to increase criminal and civil penalties imposed
for certain violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, and
to expand the rights of victims of occupational safety and health hazards,
receiving testimony from Senator Lautenberg; Representative Lantos; Gerard F.
Scannell, Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health, and Robert
P. Davis, Solicitor, both of the Department of Labor; Jan Chatten-Brown, on
behalf of the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office, Los Angeles, California;
Joseph A. Kinney, National Safe Workplace Institute, Chicago, Illinois;
Margaret Seminario, Occupational Safety and Health Department, AFL-CIO,
Washington, D.C.; George C. Freeman, Jr., Hunton & Williams, Richmond,
Virginia, on behalf of the United States Chamber of Commerce; Kirk Fordice,
Fordice Construction Company, Vicksburg, Mississippi, on behalf of the
Associated General Contractors of America; Charlene Gadsden, Bridgeport,
Connecticut; and Roxanne L. DeLuise, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following measures:
S. 2354, to reserve a specified amount of community development block grant
funds for Indian tribes;
S. 2075, to authorize grants to improve the capability of Indian tribal
governments to regulate environmental quality, with amendments;
S. 1413, to settle all claims of the Aroostook Band of Micmacs resulting from
the Band's omission from the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980, with
amendments; and
S. 1747, to provide for the restoration of federal recognition to the Ponca
Tribe of Nebraska, with amendments.
Also, committee began consideration of S. 143, to establish the Indian
Development Finance Corporation to provide development capital for Indian
businesses, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
INDIAN TAXATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on provisions
of S. 1203, to provide tax incentives for businesses on Indian reservations,
and provisions of S. 1650, to allow an Indian employment opportunity credit
for qualified employment expenses of eligible employers on Indian
reservations, and to establish penalties for the bribery of tribal officials,
and to review the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Cotton Petroleum Corp. v. New
Mexico, after receiving testimony from Senator Domenici; Eddie Brown,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; David Lester, Council
of Energy Resource Tribes, Denver, Colorado; Fred Payne, Rocky Mountain Oil
and Gas Association, Salt Lake City, Utah; Mark Berkman, National Economic
Research Associates, San Francisco, California; Bill Anoatubby, Chickasaw
Nation of Oklahoma, Ada; Jacob Viarrial, Pojoaque Pueblo, Santa Fe, New
Mexico; Lawrence D. Wetsit, Fort Peck Executive Board, Poplar, Montana; Peter
Korth and Bruce Keizer, both of the Navajo Nation Tax Commission, Window Rock,
Arizona; and Wes Martel and Richard Ortiz, both of the Shoshone Tribe Tax
Commission, Fort Washakie, Wyoming.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
Joint Meetings
MANUFACTURING EXTENSION PROGRAMS
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine how State
manufacturing extension programs provide advice and assistance on
manufacturing techniques to small and medium sized firms, to evaluate their
effectiveness, and to determine if there is a Federal role in this area,
receiving testimony from John Cleveland, Michigan Modernization Service,
Lansing; Martha Lester Harris, Southwestern Pennsylvania Industrial Resource
Centers, Duquesne; and Philip Shapira, West Virginia University, Morgantown.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AMTRAK AUTHORIZATION
Conferees: agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 2364, to authorize funds for the
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak).
1990/05/02
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 2, 1990; pages D529 - D536 (Bound vol. D271-
D275)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed
consideration of proposed legislation to strengthen and improve U.S.
agricultural programs, focusing on conservation provisions, but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--FBI/DEA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for
the Department of Justice, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from William S. Sessions, Director, Federal Bureau of
Investigations, and Terrance M. Burke, Acting Administrator, Drug Enforcement
Administration, both of the Department of Justice.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance
Defense resumed hearings on S. 2171, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1991
for military functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe military
personnel levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on the Department of the
Navy's force structure and modernization plans, receiving testimony from Vice
Adm. R. M. Dunleavy, USN, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations (Air Warfare),
Department of the Navy; Lt. Gen. Charles H. Pitman, USMC, Deputy Chief of
Staff for Aviation, United States Marine Corps; and Vice Adm. Richard Gentz,
Commander, Naval Air Systems Command.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills:
S. 566, to authorize a new corporation to support State and local strategies
for achieving more affordable housing and to increase homeownership, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
S. 2388, to provide for the striking of medals in commemoration of the
Centennial of Yosemite National Park in California, with an amendment.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered 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 years
1991 through 1995.
TELEMARKETING AND CONSUMER FRAUD
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee
concluded hearings on S. 2494, to strengthen the authority of the Federal
Trade Commission regarding fraud committed in connection with sales made with
a telephone, and S. 1441, to enhance the Federal Trade Commission's ability to
prevent consumer fraud, after receiving testimony from Representative Luken;
Janet D. Steiger, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission; Nevada State Attorney
General Brian McKay, Las Vegas, on behalf of the National Association of
Attorneys General; Jane King, Fairfax County Office of Consumer Affairs,
Fairfax, Virginia, on behalf of the National Association of Consumer Agency
Administrators; Richard A. Barton, Direct Marketing Association, Washington,
D.C.; Richard Collier, MasterCard International, Inc., New York, New York; and
James Santini, National Tour Association, Alexandria, Virginia.
FEDERAL FACILITY COMPLIANCE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on S.
1140, to require Federal agencies to assess whether hazardous substance
treatment, storage, or disposal facilities owned or operated by such agencies
are in compliance with Federal and State environmental laws, after receiving
testimony from Richard B. Stewart, Assistant Attorney General, Environment and
Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice; Stephen A. Wakefield,
General Counsel, Department of Energy; James M. Strock, Assistant
Administrator for Enforcement, Environmental Protection Agency; David J.
Berteau, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Production and
Logistics; Maine Attorney General James E. Tierney, Augusta, and Ohio
Assistant Attorney General Jack A. Van Kley, Columbus, both representing the
National Association of Attorneys General; Christine Gregoire, Washington
State Department of Ecology, Olympia, and Tom Looby, Colorado State Department
of Health, Denver, both representing the National Governors' Association;
Shira Flax, Sierra Club, Washington, D.C.; and Melinda Kassen, Environmental
Defense Fund, Boulder, Colorado.
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NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Charles H. Thomas, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Hungary, and Steven E. Steiner, of Maryland, for the rank of
Ambassador during his tenure of service as U.S. Representative to the Special
Verification Commission, after the nominees testified and answered questions
in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Stanley F. Birch, Jr., of Georgia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
Eleventh Circuit, John D. Rainey, to be United States District Judge for the
Southern District of Texas, Samuel Grayson Wilson, to be United States
District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, and Richard W. Vollmer,
Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Alabama,
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr.
Birch was introduced by Senators Nunn and Fowler, Mr. Rainey was introduced by
Senator Gramm and Representative Laughlin, Mr. Wilson was introduced by
Senators Robb and Warner, and Mr. Vollmer was introduced by Senators Heflin
and Shelby and Representative Callahan.
DRUG TREATMENT FOR THE INCARCERATED
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to examine
Federal and State drug treatment programs for drug users and addicts who have
been incarcerated, receiving testimony from Senator DeConcini; Beny J. Primm,
Associate Administrator for Treatment Improvement, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and
Mental Health Administration, Department of Health and Human Services;
Clifford J. White, III, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice
Programs, and Gerald P. Regier, Acting Director, Bureau of Justice Assistance,
both of the Department of Justice; Morris L. Thigpen, Alabama State Department
of Corrections, Montgomery; Harry K. Wexler, Narcotic and Drug Research, Inc.,
New York, New York; John A. Mangos, University of Texas Health Science Center,
San Antonio; and Naya Arbiter and Yolanda Miranda, both on behalf of Amity,
Inc., Tucson, Arizona.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
NATIONAL SECURITY
Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings to examine national
security measures for the 1990's, focusing on how education and training
contribute to economic security, receiving testimony from Robert T. Jones,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training; John T. Sanders,
Under Secretary of Education; Anthony P. Carnevale, American Society for
Training and Development, and Arnold Packer, Hudson Institute, both of
Alexandria, Virginia; Shirley McBay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge; and Margaret Simms, Joint Center for Political and Economic
Studies, Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1990/05/03
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 3, 1990; pageds D537 - D544 (Bound vol. D275-
D281)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee continued
consideration of proposed legislation to strengthen and improve U.S.
agricultural programs, focusing on conservation provisions, but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again Tuesday, May 8.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held open and closed
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for the Department
of Defense, focusing on strategic programs and the Strategic Defense
Initiative, receiving testimony from Paul B. Wolfowitz, Under Secretary of
Defense (Policy); Gen. John T. Chain, Jr., USAF, Commander-in-Chief, Strategic
Air Command; and Lt. Gen. George L. Monahan, USAF, Director, Strategic Defense
Initiative Organization.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, May 8.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 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 of Engineers, and Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Kelly, Director,
Office of Civil Works, all of the Department of the Army.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--FAA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for
the Federal Aviation Administration, receiving testimony from James B. Busey,
IV, Administration, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, May 10.
APPROPRIATIONS--COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY/OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY POLICY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Michael R.
Deland, Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality; and D. Allan Bromley,
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed hearings on S. 2171, to authorize funds for fiscal year
1991 for military functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe
military personnel levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on ICBM
modernization, receiving testimony from Franklin C. Miller, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy; and Maj. Gen.
Stephen B. Croker, USAF, Director of Strategic, Special Operations Forces, and
Airlift Programs, Department of the Air Force.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, May 9.
FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed hearings
on proposed legislation to reform and modernize the legal and regulatory
structure of the financial services industry to increase competitiveness of
U.S. institutions, receiving testimony from E. Gerald Corrigan, Federal
Reserve Bank of New York, New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NASA BUDGET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held hearings on the President's proposed budget request
for fiscal year 1991 for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA), focusing on aeronautics and space technology programs, receiving
testimony from Arnold D. Aldrich, Associate Administrator, Office of
Aeronautics and Space Technology, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration; Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Stafford, USAF (Ret.), Stafford, Burke, and
Hecker, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia; and John M. Logsdon, Space Policy
Institute, George Washington University, and James C. Harrington, Kaman
Aerospace Corporation, representing the Aerospace Industries Association, both
of Washington, D.C.
Hearings continue Thursday, May 10.
NORTHEAST NATURAL GAS MARKETS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight
hearings on applications received by the Department of Energy for authority
under section 3 of the Natural Gas Policy Act to import Canadian natural gas
to serve markets in the Northeastern U.S. and applications received by the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for authority under section 7 of the
Natural Gas Policy Act to construct and operate natural gas pipeline
facilities in the U.S. to deliver such gas to markets in the Northeast, after
receiving testimony from Martin L. Allday, Chairman, and William Scherman,
General Counsel, both of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and Mark C.
Schroeder, Deputy General Counsel for Environment, Conservation and
Legislation, all of the Department of Energy; Joseph Ramsey, on behalf of the
Tennessee New England Pipeline Company, and Robert Reid, both of Iroquois Gas
Transmission System, Shelton, Connecticut; and Paul Hilliard, Badger Oil and
Gas Ltd., Lafayette, Louisiana, on behalf of the Independent Petroleum
Association of America.
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CORPORATE INCOME TAX
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the decline of
corporate income tax revenues and to compare the corporate tax burden in the
U.S. with that in other industrialized nations, receiving testimony from
Harvey S. Rosen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis;
Robert D. Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget Office; James M. Poterba,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; George A. Plesko,
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts; and John G. Wilkins, Coopers
and Lybrand, on behalf of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development, and Tax Policy for Economic Analysis, Robert S. McIntyre,
Citizens for Tax Justice, and Wayne Gable, Tax Foundation, all of Washington,
D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INF TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
implementation of verification provisions of the INF Treaty (Treaty Doc.
100-11), and prospective arms control accords, after receiving testimony from
Ronald F. Lehman II, Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Brig.
Gen. Roland Lajoie, Director, On-Site Inspection Agency, Department of
Defense; and George Look, Deputy Representative, Special Verification
Commission, Department of Defense.
HOUSTON SUMMIT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy,
Trade, Oceans and Environment held hearings to review the environmental agenda
for the forthcoming annual economic summit in Houston, Texas, receiving
testimony from George T. Frampton, Jr., Wilderness Society, and Michael S.
Clark, Friends of the Earth, both of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AIDS EDUCATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine
education programs for youth designed to limit the spread of the human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) which causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
(AIDS), receiving testimony from Mark V. Nadel, Associate Director, National
and Public Health Issues, Teruni Rosengren, Evaluator-in-Charge, Boston
Regional Office, and Martin Landry, Evaluator-in-Charge, Atlanta Regional
Office, all of the General Accounting Office; Gary R. Noble, Deputy Director
(HIV), and Virginia S. Bales, Deputy Director, and Lloyd Kolbe, Director,
Division of Adolescent and School Health, both of the Center for Chronic
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, all of the Centers for Disease
Control, Department of Health and Human Services; Delores K. DuVall, Warren
Easton Fundamental High School, New Orleans, Louisiana, on behalf of the New
Orleans Public School District; Patricia J. Brownlee, Baltimore City Public
Schools, Baltimore, Maryland; Sandra S. McDonald, Outreach, Inc., Atlanta,
Georgia; and Wanda Wigfall-Williams, Center for Population Options, Brian Bess
and Rahim Jones, both of Ballou High School, Katherine Fraser, National
Association of State Boards of Education, Jay H.S. Coburn, National Network of
Runaway and Youth Services, Inc., and David Kamens, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
LITHUANIA
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission):
Commission concluded hearings to examine the current situation in Lithuania,
focusing on the parliament's plans and goals, after receving testimony from
Lithuania Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene, Vilnius.
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AFGHANISTAN
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission):
Commission concluded hearings to examine Soviet involvement in Afghanistan,
focusing on allegations of continued Soviet troop deployments, arms shipments
to the Kabul regime, Soviet indoctrination of Afghan children and other human
rights abuses, after receiving testimony from Barnett Rubin, Peace Fellow,
United States Institute of Peace; Mohammad S. Saljooque, National Islamic
Front of Afghanistan, Kabul; David Isby, BDM International, and Khalid
Sekander, both of Washington, D.C.
1990/05/04
Daily Digest - Friday, May 4, 1990; pages D546 - D ? (Bound vol. D281-D282)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--NASA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), receiving testimony from
Rear Adm. Richard H. Truly, Administrator, NASA.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, May 8.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
held hearings on S. 2171, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1991 for military
functions for the Department of Defense and to prescribe military personnel
levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on defense industrial adjustment, and S.
2097, to promote and encourage alternative nondefense facilities and to
provide adjustment assistance to communities adversely affected by the
termination or curtailment of defense contracts or the closure or realignment
of military installations, receiving testimony from Senator Pell; Gordon
Adams, Director, Defense Budget Project, Department of Defense; Jacques S.
Gansler, Analytical Sciences Corporation, William E. Haggett, Bath Iron Works
Corporation, and Stanley C. Pace, General Dynamics Corporation, all of
Arlington, Virginia; and Seymour Melman, National Commission for Economic
Conversion and Disarmament, and Howard D. Samuels, Industrial Union
Department, AFL-CIO, both of Washington, D.C.
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Subcommittee will meet again Monday, May 7.
SMOKING ON WORLD HEALTH
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to examine
certain issues surrounding the export of tobacco to foreign countries,
focusing on U.S. advertising techniques used to promote smoking in foreign
countries and the health effects of smoking on world health, receiving
testimony from Senator McConnell; Representatives Atkins and Tallon; William
H. Foege, The Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia; Gregory N. Connolly,
Massachusetts State Department of Public Health, Boston; Prakit Vathesatogkit,
Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, on behalf of the Thai Anti-Smoking
Campaign; David T. Sweanor, Non-Smokers' Rights Association, Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada; Walter D. Huddleston, Philip Morris, Inc., New York, New York, on
behalf of the U.S. Cigarette Export Association; and Fred G. Bond, Flue-Cured
Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
EMPLOYMENT--UNEMPLOYMENT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings on the
employment-unemployment situation for April, after receiving testimony from
Janet L. Norwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of
Labor.
1990/05/07
Daily Digest - Monday, May 7, 1990; pages D 554 - D558 (Bound vol. D282-D284)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--REFUGEE PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for foreign assistance,
focusing on refugee programs, receiving testimony from Jewel LaFontant,
Director, and Princeton N. Lyman, Assistant Secretary, Bureau for Refugee
Programs, Department of State; Roger Winter, United States Committee for
Refugees, Washington, D.C.; and Christian Kornevall, International Committee
of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, May 15.
APPROPRIATIONS--BUREAU OF MINES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for the Bureau of Mines,
Department of the Interior, receiving testimony from T. S. Ary, Director,
Bureau of Mines, Department of the Interior.
Subcommittee will meet again Monday, May 14.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
held hearings on S. 2171, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1991 for military
functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe military personnel
levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on defense science and engineering
education programs, receiving testimony from J. Thomas Ratchford, Associate
Director for Policy and International Affairs, Office of Science and
Technology Policy; James F. Decker, Acting Director, Office of Energy
Research, Department of Energy; Ted G. Berlincourt, Director, Research and
Laboratory Management, Department of Defense; and Frank P. Cipolla, Acting
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civilian Personnel Policy.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, May 14.
INDIAN FUNDS
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
following legislation:
S. 2203, to provide a settlement fund for the restoration of certain Indian
lands within the Zuni Indian Reservation in New Mexico, after receiving
testimony from Senator Domenici; Representative Richardson; Patrick Hayes,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, Trust and
Economic Development; Myles E. Flint, Deputy Assistant Attorney General,
Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice; Robert
Lewis, Governor, Pueblo of Zuni, Zuni, New Mexico; E. Richard Hart, Institute
of the North American West, Seattle, Washington; Robert Delaney, Albuquerque,
New Mexico; and Stephen Boyden and Floyd O'Neil, both of Salt Lake City, Utah;
and
S. 1934, to revise the United States Housing Act of 1937 to direct the
Secretary of Housing to reimburse local governments located within the
exterior boundaries of Indian reservations for providing Indian housing
services in an amount equal to the local property tax that would be payable if
the housing were subject to such tax, after receiving testimony from Michael
Janis, General Deputy Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for
Public and Indian Housing; Mayor Clare Aubol, and Jean Hall, Fort Berthold
Housing Authority, both of New Town, North Dakota; and Mayor Wade Williamson,
Parshall, North Dakota.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/05/08
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 8, 1990; pages D559 - D566 (Bound vol. D284-D289)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
REGULATION OF SECURITIES MARKETS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings to
review issues involving the regulation of securities markets, focusing on the
jurisdiction between the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the
Securities Exchange Commission, receiving testimony from Robert Glauber, Under
Secretary of the Treasury for Finance; Richard Breeden, Chairman, Securities
and Exchange Commission; Wendy Gramm, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading
Commission; and Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on tactical airpower, receiving testimony from Vice Adm. Richard M. Dunleavy,
USN, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations (Air Warfare), Department of the
Navy; Lt. Gen. Charles H. Pitman, USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff for Aviation,
United States Marine Corps; and Maj. Gen. John E. Jaquish, USAF, Director of
Tactical Program, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for
Acquisition.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 10.
APPROPRIATIONS--HUD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, receiving testimony from Jack
Kemp, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 10.
NAVAL ARMS CONTROL
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional
Defense held hearings to examine possible approaches to naval arms control,
receiving testimony from Sergey Akhromeyev, Advisor to the President of the
U.S.S.R.
Hearings will resume on Friday, May 11.
CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT OF HUD
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on HUD/Moderate
Rehabilitation concluded hearings to examine Congressional oversight of the
Department of Housing and Urban Affairs (HUD), after receiving testimony from
Paul A. Adams, Inspector General, Department of Housing and Urban Development;
Frederick M. Kaiser, Specialist in American National Government, Congressional
Research Service, Library of Congress; Richard L. Fogel, Assistant Comptroller
General, General Government Division, General Accounting Office; and Charles
L. Dempsey, former Inspector General, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, Stanley M. Brand, Brand and Lowell, Richard A. Wegman, Garvey,
Schubert and Barer, representing the National Academy of Public
Administrators, and Thomas E. Mann and Bert A. Rockman, both of The Brookings
Institution, all of Washington, D.C.
SCIENTIFIC MANPOWER
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings to review the status of science,
mathematics, and engineering education in the United States, after receiving
testimony from Erich Bloch, Director, National Science Foundation; Richard C.
Atkinson, University of California, San Diego, representing the American
Association for the Advancement of Science; Donna E. Shalala, University of
Wisconsin, Madison; and Alvin W. Trivelpiece, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
COAL/GAS COFIRING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy, Research
and Development held hearings on S. 1848, to implement and provide financial
assistance for a research and demonstration program for natural gas and coal
cofiring technologies, receiving testimony from Jack S. Siegel, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Energy, Office of Coal Technology; Richard Schmalensee,
Member, Council of Economic Advisors; Steven E. Winberg, Consolidated Natural
Gas Service Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the American Gas
Association and the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America; Mark T.
Maassel, Northern Indiana Public Service Company, Merrillville, Indiana; and
David O. Webb, Gas Research Institute, William J. Roberts, Environmental
Defense Fund, and Francis S. Blake, Swidler and Berlin, all of Washington,
D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
S. 612, to authorize funds for completion of the Washington Metrorail System,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
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The nominations of Richard G. Austin, of Illinois, to be Administrator of the
General Services Administration, and Jessica L. Parks, of Georgia, to be a
Member of the Merit Systems Protection Board.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1991 for the Department of
Justice, after receiving testimony from Richard L. Thornburgh, Attorney
General, Department of Justice.
CHILD LABOR
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs, and Alcoholism and Subcommittee on Labor concluded joint hearings on S.
2548, to revise the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase penalties for
employers who violate the child labor provisions, and to bar repeated
violators from receiving Federal grants and loans and from paying the
subminimum training wage, after receiving testimony from William C. Brooks,
Assistant Secretary for Employment Standards, and Robert P. Davis, Solicitor,
both of the Department of Labor; Linda Golodner, National Consumers League,
David Liederman, Child Welfare League of America, and Rudy Oswald, AFL-CIO,
all of Washington, D.C.; Philip Landrigan, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York,
New York, representing the American Academy of Pediatrics; Justin Lowell,
Portsmouth, New Hampshire; and Margaret Kimmel, Elkton, Virginia.
[Joint meeting]
NATIONAL SECURITY
Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings to examine national
security measures for the 1990's, focusing on how energy and environmental
issues affect U.S. national security, receiving testimony from J. Clarence
Davie, Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for
Policy, Planning and Evaluation; Linda Stuntz, Deputy Secretary of Energy for
Policy, Planning and Analysis; Jessica Tuckman Mathews, World Resources
Institute, Washington, D.C.; and Alan Randall, Ohio State University,
Columbus.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No additional Joint hearings noted.
1990/05/09
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 9, 1990; pages D567 - D576 (Bound vol. D290-
D296)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed closed hearings on S. 2171, authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1991 for military functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe
military personnel levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on the Trident
missile and submarine programs, receiving testimony from Vice Adm. Daniel
Cooper, USN, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations (Undersea Warfare); Rear Adm.
Kenneth C. Malley, USN, Director, Strategic Systems Programs Office; and J.D.
Crouch, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International
Security Policy.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings in conjunction with the National Ocean Policy Study on S. 1189, to
require State coastal zone management agencies to prepare and submit for the
approval of the Secretary of Commerce plans for the improvement of coastal
zone water quality, and proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of
the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, after receiving testimony from
Virginia Tippie, Assistant Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Department of Commerce; LaJuana Wilcher, Assistant
Administrator for Water, Environmental Protection Agency; Daniel Greenbaum,
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Boston; Eldon Hout,
Oregon Ocean and Coastal Management Programs, Portland; Paul Kelly, Rowan
Company, Inc., on behalf of the American Petroleum Institute and the National
Ocean Industries Association; Dallas Miner, American Fishing Tackle
Manufacturers Association, and Andy Palmer, American Oceans Campaign, all of
Washington, D.C.; and Sarah Chasis, National Resources Defense Council, New
York, New York.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings on S. 1981, to permit the Bell Telephone
Companies to conduct research on, design, and manufacture telecommunications
equipment, after receiving testimony from Alfred C. Sikes, Chairman, Federal
Communications Commission; Winston J. Wade, Advanced Technologies, Englewood,
Colorado; A. R. Frischkorn, Jr., Telecommunications Industry Association,
Stephanie Biddle, Computer and Communications Industry Association, Barbara J.
Easterling, Communications Workers of America, Gene Kimmelman, Consumer
Federation of America, and Albert H. Kramer, Wood, Lucksinger and Epstein, on
behalf of the North American Telecommunications Association, all of
Washington, D.C.; Lt. Gen. William J. Hilsman, International Mobile Machines
Corp., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Stuart R. Brackney, Arizona Council for
the Hearing Impaired, Phoenix.
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GLOBAL WARMING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee began consideration of S.
324, to establish a national energy policy to reduce global warming, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again Wednesday, May 16.
HIGHWAY TRUST FUND
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure concluded hearings on S. 2013, to authorize
funds for the highway trust fund of the Department of Transportation and
related Federal-aid highway programs, and to review U.S. highway policy
issues, after receiving testimony from Senator Bryan; Martin Washburn, Deputy
Assistant Commissioner (Examination), Internal Revenue Service, and Ronald
Iroff, Funds Accounting Branch Manager, Financial Management Service, both of
the Department of the Treasury; Kate Moore, Assistant Secretary for Budget and
Programs, and Gene McCormick, Deputy Federal Highway Administrator, Federal
Highway Administration, both of the Department of Transportation; David
Montgomery, Assistant Director, Natural Resources and Commerce Division,
Congressional Budget Office; John W. Hill, Jr., Associate Director,
Transportation Issues, General Accounting Office; Raymond C. Scheppach,
National Governors' Association, and Lester P. Lamm, Highway Users Federation,
both of Washington, D.C.; and Garth F. Dull, Nevada Department of
Transportation, Carson City.
NATO STRATEGY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs held hearings
to examine the future of NATO military policy, focusing on changing events in
Eastern Europe and the German reunification negotiations, receiving testimony
from Paul G. Wolfowitz, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post
Office, and Civil Service held hearings to review U.S. Postal Service
activities, focusing on productivity and postal costs, receiving testimony
from George W. Haley, Chairman, U.S. Postal Rate Commission; and Anthony M.
Frank, Postmaster General, Michael S. Coughlin, Deputy Postmaster General, and
Harold Hughes, General Counsel, all of the U.S. Postal Service.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HOMELESSNESS AND COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 2600, to
combat homelessness through the establishment of housing-based family support
centers, through the provisions of housing-based services to elderly
individuals with chronic and debilitating illnesses and conditions, through
the provisions of residence-based outpatient mental health services, and
through the use of grants for the improvement of community development
corporations, receiving testimony from Whoopi Goldberg, Los Angeles,
California, Robin Williams, San Francisco, California; Connie Perez,
Children's Hope Program, Oxnard, California; Lucie McKinney, The Stewart B.
McKinney Foundation, Fairfield, Connecticut; Judy Langford Carter, The Ounce
of Prevention Fund, Chicago, Illinois; and Robert Saywell, Indiana University
School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indianapolis.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT COMPANIES
Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings to examine the overall
financial status of the small business investment companies program of the
Small Business Administration (SBA), focusing on the results of SBA
investigations of certain companies which have defaulted in SBA guaranteed
debentures, receiving testimony from Charles R. Gillum, Inspector General,
Stephen N. Marica, Assistant Inspector General for Investigations, and Peter
L. McLintock, Acting Assistant Inspector General for Auditing, all of the
Small Business Administration.
Hearings continue Wednesday, May 16.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Ethics: Committee held a closed meeting where it agreed to
proceed to an investigation into allegations of misconduct by Senator
Durenberger.
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Joint Meetings
DIRE EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 4404, making dire emergency supplemental appropriations for
disaster assistance, food stamps, unemployment compensation administration,
and other urgent needs, and transfers, and reducing funds budgeted for
military spending for fiscal year ending September 30, 1990, but did not
complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
1990/05/10
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 10, 1990; pages D577 - D584 (Bound vol. D296-
D301)
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 1991 for land warfare programs of the
Department of Defense, receiving testimony from Maj. Gen. Jerome H. Granrud,
USA, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, Force
Development, Office of the Chief of Staff of the Army; Maj. Gen. James C.
Cercy, USA, Deputy for Systems Management, Office of the Assistant Secretary
of the Army for Research, Development and Acquisition; Lt. Gen. William
Etnyre, USMC, Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat Development Center; and
Lt. Gen. J.R. Dailey, USMC, Commanding General, Marine Corps Research,
Development and Acquisition Command.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, May 15.
APPROPRIATIONS--COAST GUARD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for
the U.S. Coast Guard, receiving testimony from Adm. Paul A. Yost, Jr.,
Commandant, United States Coast Guard, Department of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, May 16.
APPROPRIATIONS--VETERANS AFFAIRS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for the
Department of Veterans Affairs, receiving testimony from Edward J. Derwinski,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, May 15.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on S. 2171,
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1991 for military functions of the
Department of Defense and to prescribe military personnel levels for fiscal
year 1991, focusing on alternatives for increasing the utilization of Reserve
Forces in the Department of Defense, receiving testimony from Robert D.
Reischauer, Director, Robert F. Hale, Assistant Director, and V. Lane Pierrot,
Principal Analyst, National Security Division, all of the Congressional Budget
Office; Stephen M. Duncan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs;
Will Hill Tankersley, former Chairman, Reserve Forces Policy Board, Department
of Defense; John O. Marsh, former Secretary of the Army; and Lt. Gen. LaVern
E. Weber, NGUS (Ret.), National Guard Association of the United States, and
Maj. Gen. Evan L. Hultman, USA (Ret.), Reserve Officers Association of the
United States, both of Washington, D.C.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence continued closed hearings on S. 2171, authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1991 for military functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe
military personnel levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on the B-2 Low
Observability and Counter-Stealth Analyses, receiving testimony from John J.
Welch, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition; Lt. Gen.
Thomas R. Ferguson, Jr., USAF, Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of
the Air Force (Acquisition); and other officials of the selected services.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, May 16.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Rear Admiral William J. Kime, USCG, to be
Commandant, United States Coast Guard, with the grade of Admiral while so
serving, and Rear Admiral Martin H. Daniell, Jr., to be Vice Commandant,
United States Coast Guard, with the grade of Vice Admiral while so serving,
after the nominees, who were introduced by Senator Stevens, testified and
answered questions in their own behalf.
AUTHORIZATIONS--NTSB
Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the National
Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and to examine staffing requirements of
NTSB, after receiving testimony from James L. Kolstad, Chairman, National
Transportation Safety Board; and Henry A. Duffy, Air Line Pilots Association,
Washington, D.C.
PRODUCT LIABILITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee
concluded hearings on S. 1400, to regulate interstate commerce by providing
for a uniform product liability law, focusing on the purpose and effect of
proposed legal standards, after receiving testimony from James A. Henderson,
Jr., Cornell University School of Law, Ithaca, New York; Paul Safchuck, White
Lung Association, Baltimore, Maryland; and Linda Lipsen, Consumers Union,
Richard Kingham, Covington and Burling, on behalf of the Pharmaceutical
Manufacturers Association, Sidney M. Wolfe, Public Citizen Health Research
Group, and Pamela Gilbert, Public Citizen Congress Watch, Thomas D. Wilcox,
National Association of Stevedores, Victor E. Schwartz, Crowell and Moring,
and Alfred W. Cortese, Kirkland and Ellis, all of Washington, D.C.
NASA BUDGET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on the President's proposed budget
request for fiscal year 1991 for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA), focusing on space science and applications programs,
after receiving testimony from Lennard A. Fisk, Associate Administrator,
Office of Space Science and Applications, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration; John A. Dutton, College of Earth and Mineral Science,
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, representing the Space Studies
Board, National Academy of Sciences; Glenn Mason, University of Maryland,
College Park, representing the Space Science Working Group, Association of
American Universities; and Paul J. Coleman, Jr., Institute of Geophysics and
Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles.
PUBLIC LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills:
S. 1767, to reimburse Montana and individuals for expenses incurred to test
cattle for brucellosis organisms carried outside Yellowstone National Park by
elk and bison, S. 2343, to designate a segment of the Clarks Fork River in the
State of Wyoming as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System,
and H.R. 2809, to provide for the transfer of the Calaveras Bigtree National
Forest to the State of California, after receiving testimony from Senator
Simpson; Representative Craig Thomas; Wyoming Governor Mike Sullivan,
Cheyenne; John M. Morehead, Associate Director for Operations, National Park
Service, Department of the Interior; James C. Overbay, Deputy Chief, Forest
Service, and Billy Johnson, Associate Deputy Administrator for Veterinary
Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services, both of the Department
of Agriculture; Kevin J. Coyle, American Rivers, Inc., and Debbie Sease,
Sierra Club, both of Washington, D.C.; John B. Winsor, Yellowstone Clarks Fork
Coalition, Cody, Wyoming; John Storey, Parker Land and Cattle Company, Inc.,
Dubois, Wyoming; and Diane B. Flaherty, Davis, California.
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NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Frank D. Yturria, of Texas, and Norton Stevens, of New York,
each to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American
Foundation, and Alan Philip Larson, of Virginia, to be the U.S. Representative
to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, with the rank of
Ambassador, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Yturria was introduced by Senator Gramm, and Mr. Stevens was
introduced by Representative Green.
INDIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs met in closed session to receive a briefing on the political situation
in Kashmir, India, and India-Pakistan relations from Teresita Schaffer, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs; and
Jack Gaines, Ray Andrews, and Robert Sheets, all of the Office of Near East
and South Asian Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Stanley F. Birch, Jr., of Georgia, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Eleventh Circuit, Stephen M. McNamee, to be United States
District Judge for the District of Arizona, James K. Singleton, Jr., to be
United States District Judge for the District of Alaska, William M. Nickerson,
to be United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, John D.
Rainey, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas,
Richard W. Vollmer, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Southern
District of Alabama, Samuel G. Wilson, to be United States District Judge for
the Western District of Virginia, Jack D. Shanstrom, to be United States
District Judge for the District of Montana, Morris L. Thompson, to be United
States Attorney for the District of Kansas, Daniel J. Horgan, to be United
States Marshal for the Southern District of Florida, and Arthur F. Van Court,
to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of California.
Also, committee began consideration of S. 594, to establish a specialized
corps of judges necessary for certain Federal proceedings required to be
conducted, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
FEC AUTHORIZATION/SENATE MAIL
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Federal Election Commission,
after receiving testimony from Lee Ann Elliott, Chairman, John Warren McGarry,
Vice Chairman, and Joan D. Aikens, Member, all of the Federal Election
Commission.
Also, committee concluded hearings to review Senate policy on official mail,
after receiving testimony from Senator Reid.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Anthony J. Hope, of California, to be Chairman of the National
Indian Gaming Commission, Department of the Interior, after the nominee, who
was introduced by Senator Inouye, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf. Testimony was also received on the nomination from Jerry Polansky,
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Washington, D.C.; Leonard
Prescott, Shakopee Sioux Tribe, Prior Lake, Minnesota, on behalf of the
National Indian Gaming Association; and Jerome Levine, San Manuel Band of
Mission Indians, Highland, California.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again Wednesday, May 16.
Joint Meetings
BOARD MEETING
Office of Technology Assessment: The Board met and approved the following
project proposals:
(1) Technology Opportunities in Economic Conversion;
(2) Managing the Nation's Defense Industrial Base in a Changing Environment;
and
(3) Staying on Top: The Challenges of Technological Change and Global
Competition in Protecting Intellectual Property.
Board recessed subject to call.
1990/05/11
Daily Digest - Friday, May 11, 1990; pages D586 - D594 (Bound vol. D301-D303)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NAVAL ARMS CONTROL
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional
Defense concluded hearings to examine possible approaches to naval arms
control, after receiving testimony from Ronald F. Lehman II, Director, U.S.
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Adm. Carlisle A.H. Trost, USN, Chief of
Naval Operations; and Stephen J. Hadley, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Policy.
U.S. INDUSTRY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings to
examine the current competitive position of the United States, focusing on the
U.S. position in key industries and technologies, and to examine what the
Federal government and other American institutions can do to reverse the
decline of the U.S. industrial base and what direction U.S. trade policy
should take to accomplish this goal, receiving testimony from Clyde
Prestowitz, Economic Strategy Institute, and Kent Hughes, Council on
Competitiveness, both of Washington, D.C.; and Pat Choate, TRW, Inc.,
Arlington, Virginia.
Hearings continue Wednesday, May 23.
SOCIAL SECURITY RESTORATION
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy held
hearings on S. 2453, to establish the Social Security Administration as an
independent agency, receiving testimony from Senator Heinz; Louis D. Enoff,
Deputy Commissioner for Programs, Social Security Administration; Marshall J.
Breger, Chairman, Administrative Conference of the United States; Joseph F.
Delfico, Director, Human Resources Division, General Accounting Office; Arthur
S. Flemming, Save Our Security Coalition, Robert M. Ball, Social Security,
Health and Welfare Policy, and former Commissioner of Social Security, Eileen
P. Sweeney, National Senior Citizens Law Center, Lawrence T. Smedley, National
Council of Senior Citizens, and Martha McSteen, National Committee to Preserve
Social Security and Medicare, all of Washington, D.C.; Witold Skwierczynski,
National Council of Social Security Administration Field Operations Locals,
AFL-CIO, Chicago, Illinois; Louise M. Tarantino, Greater Upstate Law Project,
Albany, New York; Ronald G. Bernoski, The Association of Administrative Law
Judges, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Diane S. Archer, Medicare Beneficiaries
Defense Fund, New York, New York; and Margaret Dixon, American Association of
Retired Persons, Oxon Hill, Maryland.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AIRBORNE SELF-PROTECTION JAMMER PROGRAM
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post
Office, and Civil Service held hearings on the Department of Defense Airborne
Self-Protection Jammer program, and to review issues regarding the U.S.
weapons procurement system, receiving testimony from Donald J. Atwood, Jr.,
Deputy Secretary of Defense; Derek J. Vander Schaaf, Deputy Inspector General,
and Robert C. Duncan, Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, both of the
Department of Defense; Louis J. Rodrigues, Director, Command, Control,
Communications, and Intelligence Issues, National Security and Internal
Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; H. Lawrence Garrett, III,
Secretary of the Navy; and John J. Welch, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Air
Force for Acquisition.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
VETERANS' BENEFITS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to review
veteran's education, employment, and home-loan programs, including Sections
401 and 404(c) of S. 2100, proposed Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living
Adjustment Act, S. 2483, proposed Veterans' Educational Assistance
Improvements Act, S. 2484, proposed Veterans' Housing Amendments Act, S. 2537,
to authorize the pursuit of flight training under chapter 32 of title 38,
United States Code, S. 2546, proposed Veterans' Employment and Training
Amendment, and related measures, after receiving testimony from Raymond H.
Avent, Deputy Chief Benefits Director for Field Operations, R. Keith Pedigo,
Director, Loan Guaranty Service, Dennis R. Wyant, Director, Vocational
Rehabilitation and Education Service, and David A. Brigham, Director,
Veterans' Assistance Service, all of the Veterans' Benefits Administration,
Department of Veterans' Affairs; Thomas E. Collins III, Assistant Secretary of
Labor for Veterans' Employment and Training; Lt. Gen. Donald W. Jones, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Manpower and Personnel Policy;
Steve A. Robertson and James Hubbard, both of the American Legion, Robert D.
Manhan, Veterans' of Foreign Wars of the United States, Richard F. Schultz and
Lennox E. Gilmer, both of the Disabled American Veterans, and Frank R.
DeGeorge, Paralyzed Veterans of America, all of Washington, D.C.; and Charles
R. Jackson and Richard W. Johnson, both of the Non-Commissioned Officers
Association of the United States of America, Alexandria, Virginia.
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INDIAN INITIATIVES FOR THE 1990's
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to
examine initiatives for Indian programs for the 1990's, after receiving
testimony from Sue Williams, Govern, Stetson, Williams and West, Albuquerque,
New Mexico; Joseph Meyers, National Indian Justice Center, Petaluma,
California; David Lester, Council of Energy Resource Tribes, Denver, Colorado;
Michael Pablo, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council, Pablo,
Montana; Dale Risling, Hoopa Valley Business Council, Hoopa, California; Joe
De La Cruz, Quinault Business Committee, Taholah, Washington; Ed Thomas,
Tlingit and Haida Community Council, Juneau, Alaska; and Stephen J.
Trachtenberg, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/05/14
Daily Digest - Monday, May 14, 1990; pages D596 - D600 (Bound vol. D304-D306)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATONS--DOE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for fossil energy and clean
coal technology programs of the Department of Energy, receiving testimony from
Robert H. Gentile, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy.
Subcommittee will meet again Friday, May 18.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
resumed hearings on S. 2171, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1991 for
military functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe military
personnel levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on implementation of the
Defense Management Report, receiving testimony from Paul F. Math, Associate
Director, National Security and International Affairs Division, General
Accounting Office; Robert J. Lieberman, Assistant Inspector General for
Analysis and Followup, and Stephen A. Trodden, Assistant Inspector General for
Auditing, both of the Department of Defense; and Donald G. Gavin, Wendy T.
Kirby, and Thomas J. Madden, all on behalf of the American Bar Association,
Washington, DC.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Andrew C. Barrett, of Illinois, to be a Member
of the Federal Communications Commission, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senator Dole, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items;
The nomination of Anthony J. Hope, of California, to be Chairman of the
National Indian Gaming Commission, Department of the Interior; and
S. 2203, to provide a settlement fund for the restoration of certain lands
within the Zuni Indian Reservation in New Mexico, with amendments.
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICES
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1021,
to provide for the protection of Indian graves and burial grounds, and S.
1980, to provide for the fair treatment of Native American remains, artifacts
and cultural patrimony, after receiving testimony from Jerry L. Rogers,
Associate Director, Cultural Resources, National Park Service, Department of
the Interior; Paul Bender, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; Willard Boyd, Field
Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois; Philip Thompson, Museum of
Northern Arizona, Flagstaff; Tom Livesay, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, on
behalf of the American Association of Museums; Keith Kintigh, Arizona State
University, Tempe, on behalf of the Society of American Archaeologists;
Elizabeth Tatar, Bishop Museum, Clarence Ching, Linda Delaney and Lydia
Mai'oho, all of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and Myron Thompson, Bishop
Estate, all of Honolulu, Hawaii; Thomas R. White and Cecil Antone, both of the
Gila River Indian Community, Sacaton, Arizona; Edward Lonefight, National
Congress of American Indians, and Suzan Harjo, Morningstar Foundation, both of
Washington, D.C.; Walter Echohawk, Native American Rights Fund, and Norbert
Hill, American Indian Science and Engineer Society, both of Boulder, Colorado;
and Jerry Flute, New York, New York, and Emory Johnson, Rockville, Maryland,
both on behalf of the Association of American Indian Affairs.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/05/15
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 15, 1990; paes D601 - D608 (Bound vol. D306-D310)
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 1991 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on seapower programs, receiving testimony from Gerald Cann, Assistant
Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition; Vice Adm.
John W. Nyquist, USN, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations (Surface Warfare);
and Vice Adm. Daniel L. Cooper, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations (Undersea
Warfare).
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, May 17.
APPROPRIATIONS--U.S. POPULATION POLICY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for foreign assistance
programs, focusing on U.S. population policy and resources, receiving
testimony from Richard Bissell, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Science
and Technology, Agency for International Development; and Sharon L. Camp,
Population Crisis Committee, and Lester R. Brown, Worldwatch Institute, both
of Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, May 22.
APPROPRIATIONS--VA/HUD/INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for certain
programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, and independent agencies, receiving testimony from numerous
public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel held
hearings on S. 2171, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1991 for military
functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe military personnel
levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on medical programs of the Department of
Defense, receiving testimony from Enrique Mendez, Jr., Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Health Affairs; Lt. Gen. Frank F. Ledford, USA, Surgeon General,
Department of the Army; Vice Adm. James A. Zimble, USN, Surgeon General,
Department of the Navy; and Lt. Gen. Monte B. Miller, USAF, Surgeon General,
Department of the Air Force.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of David W. Mullins, Jr., of Arkansas, to be a Member
of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and Michael Paul
Galvin, of Illinois, to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export
Administration.
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GOVERNMENT SPONSORED ENTERPRISES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held oversight
hearings to review the safety and soundness of certain privately run financial
institutions created by the government to assist private borrowers (government
sponsored enterprises), receiving testimony from Robert R. Glauber, Under
Secretary of the Treasury for Finance; and Richard L. Fogel, Assistant
Comptroller General, General Government Division, General Accounting Office.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
COMMERCIAL SPACE PROGRAMS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on the President's proposed budget
request for fiscal year 1991 for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, focusing on programs of the Office of Commercial Programs, to
review NASA's efforts to stimulate and encourage involvement and investment by
the private sector in civil space programs, and to examine activities of the
Department of Transportation's Office of Commercial Space Transportation,
including the current state of the U.S. commercial launch industry, after
receiving testimony from James T. Rose, Assistant Administrator, Office of
Commercial Programs, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Stephanie
Lee-Miller, Director, Office of Commercial Space Transportation, Department of
Transportation; Joe Pawlick, University of Tennessee, Nashville; Mark Oderman,
CSP Associates, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts; David Thompson, Orbital
Sciences Corporation, Fairfax, Virginia; Jack R. Knox, Knox Consulting
Company, Naperville, Illinois; and Andrew Wilson, Maxwell Laboratories, Inc.,
San Diego, California.
SOLAR AND GEOTHERMAL POWER
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
2415, to remove size restrictions applicable to solar and geothermal
qualifying small power production facilities under the Public Utility
Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, after receiving testimony from J. Michael
Davis, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Conservation and Renewable Energy;
James C. Bazor, Luz International Limited, Los Angeles, California; Scott
Sklar, Solar Energy Industries Association, Arlington, Virginia; and Robert T.
Boyd, U.S. Windpower, Inc., Livermore, California, on behalf of the American
Wind Energy Association.
SMALL COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation to provide assistance to small communities in
construction of facilities for the protection of the environment and human
health, including S. 1296, S. 1331, S. 2184, and S. 1514, after receiving
testimony from Senators Bentsen and Bradley; Robert Wayland, Deputy Assistant
Administrator for Water, Environmental Protection Agency; Gen. Pat Kelly,
Director of Civil Works, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Edith Page, Senior
Associate and Project Director, Office of Technology Assessment; Stephen Levy,
Maine Rural Water Association, Augusta, representing the National Rural Water
Association; Richard Sandberg, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, St. Paul,
representing the Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control
Administrators; Richard Torkelson, New York Department of Environmental
Conservation, Albany, representing the Council of Infrastructure Financing
Agencies and the State of New York; Robert Johnson, North Dakota League of
Cities, Bismarck, representing the National League of Cities; William Leonard,
Midwest Assistant Program, Whitefish, Montana; Sharon Lawrence, National
Association of Towns and Townships, Washington, D.C.; and Allen Hammer,
Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, representing the Association of State
Drinking Water Administrators.
EMPLOYER-SPONSORED HEALTH BENEFITS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
concluded hearings to examine fraud and abuse in employer-sponsored health
benefits programs, after receiving testimony from David G. Ball, Assistant
Secretary for Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration, Alan Lebowitz,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Program Operations, Pension and Welfare
Benefits Administration, and Raymond Maria, Acting Inspector General, all of
the Department of Labor; Jim E. Moody, Section Chief of Organized Crime,
Criminal Investigative Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department
of Justice; Jim Long, National Association of Insurance Commissioners,
Raleigh, North Carolina; Jo Ann Howard, Texas State Board of Insurance,
Austin; Tom Gallagher, Florida State Department of Insurance, Tallahassee;
Rebecca Mann Howell, Stamey-Howell Insurance and Investments, Kannapolis,
North Carolina; Robert W. Long, Cap Staffing, Inc., Charlotte, North Carolina;
Robert Wagner, Whiteville, North Carolina; Mark Frank, Andalusia, Alabama; and
Fred Smith, West Columbia, South Carolina.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1990/05/16
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 16, 1990; pages D609 - D619 (Bound vol. D310-
D317)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MAINE WILDERNESS/1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported S. 2205, to designate certain lands in the State of Maine as
wilderness, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
Also, committee resumed consideration of proposed legislation to strengthen
and improve U.S. agricultural programs, focusing on farm credit provisions,
but did not complete action thereon, and will continue tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--D.C. DRUG PROGRAM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia held
hearings to examine the District of Columbia's drug program, focusing on the
use of fiscal year 1990 appropriated funds and funds to be appropriated in
upcoming fiscal years, receiving testimony from Sterling Tucker, Director,
District of Columbia Office of Drug Control Policy, Washington, D.C., who was
accompanied by several of his associates.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--FHA/NTSB
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Thomas D. Larson, Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, Department of
Transportation; and James L. Kolstad, Chairman, National Transportation Safety
Board.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--VA/HUD/INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for certain
programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, and independent agencies, receiving testimony from numerous
public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
MORTGAGE DISCRIMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Consumer and
Regulatory Affairs held oversight hearings to review Federal enforcement and
monitoring of fair lending laws and regulations with respect to mortgage
lending, receiving testimony from John P. LaWare, Member, Board of Governors,
Federal Reserve System; Gordon Mansfield, Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing
and Equal Opportunity, and Ronald Rosenfeld, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Single Family Housing, both of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development; Robert J. Herrmann, Senior Deputy Comptroller for Bank
Supervision Policy, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and Jerauld C.
Kluckman, Director, Compliance Programs, Office of Thrift Supervision, both of
the Department of the Treasury; John F. Bovenzi, Deputy to the Chairman,
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Michelle White, Western Center on Law
and Poverty, Los Angeles, California; Shanna Smith, Toledo Fair Housing
Center, Toledo, Ohio, representing the National Fair Housing Alliance; Allen
Fishbein, Center for Community Change, Washington, D.C.; and Calvin Bradford,
Chicago Fair Housing Alliance, Chicago, Illinois.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HUD
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on HUD/Moderate
Rehabilitation concluded hearings to examine the development of new housing
policies and programs of the Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD), after receiving testimony from Jack Kemp, Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development.
ENVIRONMENTAL LABELING OF CONSUMER PRODUCTS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee
concluded hearings to examine whether certain claims of biodegradability and
recycling made to market certain products are accurate and how to get such
environmental information to the consumer, after receiving testimony from
Senators Lautenberg and Lieberman; Barry Cutler, Director, Bureau of Consumer
Protection, Federal Trade Commission; Christian Holmes, Deputy Administrator,
Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Environmental Protection Agency;
Missouri Attorney General William Webster, Jefferson City, on behalf of the
National Association of Attorneys General; Craig Merrilees, National Toxics
Campaign, San Francisco, California; Amy Perry, Massachusetts Public Interest
Research Group, Boston; Robert M. Viney, Proctor and Gamble Manufacturing
Company, Washington, D.C.; Cheryl Perrin, Fred Meyer, Inc., Portland, Oregon;
Ramani Narayan, Michigan Biotechnology Institute, Lansing, on behalf of
Degradable Plastics Council; and Dennis Hayes, Palo Alto, California.
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SUBSIDIZED VESSELS IN COASTAL TRADE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Merchant
Marine concluded hearings on S. 2170, to prescribe the conditions under which
contractors receiving Operating Differential Subsidy (ODS) or their affiliates
may engage in coastwise or intercoastal trade, after receiving testimony from
Robert Patton, Deputy Chief Counsel, Maritime Administration, Department of
Transportation; C. Bradley Mulholland, Matson Navigation Company, San
Francisco, California; Stanley H. Barer, TOTEM Resources Corporation, Seattle,
Washington; Timothy J. Rhein, American President Lines, Ltd., Oakland,
California; and William P. Verdon, United Shipowners of America, and John J.
Stocker, Shipbuilders Council, both of Washington, D.C.
GLOBAL WARMING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 324, to
establish a national energy policy to reduce global warming.
HELL GATE BRIDGE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure concluded hearings to examine the condition
and maintenance requirements of the Hell Gate Bridge in Queens, New York,
after receiving testimony from Representative Manton; Galen J. Reser,
Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Governmental Affairs; W. Graham
Claytor, Jr., President and Chairman, National Railroad Passenger Corporation
(Amtrak); and New York City Councilman Peter S. Vallone, New York, New York.
MINORITY SET-ASIDES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 1235, to
revise the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to permit States and political
subdivisions to establish minority set-asides for contracts with firms
striving to remedy discrimination by private contractors in employment and
subcontracting, receiving testimony from Senator Simon; Ohio State Senator
William Bowen, Columbus; Councilman Henry Marsh, Richmond, Virginia; Parren
Mitchell, Minority Business Enterprise Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.,
and Ralph Thomas, National Minority Contractor's Association, both of
Washington, D.C.; Nicholas R. Innerbichler, Tamsco, Calverton, Maryland; and
Marilu Meyer, Castle Construction Corporation, Chicago, Illinois.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items:
An original bill, to establish a center for tobacco products, to inform the
public of hazards of tobacco use, to disclose and restrict additives to such
products, and to coordinate Federal education and research with regard to
tobacco products, in lieu of S. 1883;
S. 2461, authorizing funds to provide for and improve the drug treatment
waiting period reduction grant program under the Public Health Service Act,
with an amendment;
S. 2617, to make various improvements in existing scholarship and loan
repayments for the National Health Service Corps;
S. 2629, to authorize funds for the immunization program of the Centers for
Disease Control for vaccine-preventable diseases, with an amendment;
S. 2630, to authorize funds for the tuberculosis program of the Centers for
Disease Control;
S. 2631, to authorize funds for the injury control program of the Centers for
Disease Control, with an amendment;
S. 2632, to authorize funds for the National Center for Health Statistics of
the Centers for Disease Control;
S. 2628, to authorize funds for certain National Institute of Mental Health
grants and to improve provisions concerning the State comprehensive mental
health services plan, with an amendment; and
The nominations of Donald G. Wiseman, of North Carolina, and Velma Montoya, of
California, each to be a Member of the Occupational Safety and Health Review
Commission.
SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT COMPANIES
Committee on Small Business: Committee resumed hearings to examine the overall
financial status of the small business investment companies program of the
Small Business Administration, receiving testimony from Charles R. Hertzberg,
Acting Associate Deputy Administrator for Finance and Investment, Robert G.
Lineberry, Deputy Associate Administrator, Investment Division, Earl L.
Chambers, Director, Office of Portfolio Management, and Eric Benderson,
Associate General Counsel for Litigation, all of the Small Business
Administration.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again Tuesday, May 22.
Joint Meetings
EASTERN EUROPE
Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Technology and National Security
held hearings to examine economic conditions in Eastern Europe, receiving
testimony in open session from Jeffrey Sachs, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; and Charles Wolfe, Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California;
and in closed session from officials of the intelligence community.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DIRE EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Conferees continued to resolve the differences between the Senate- and
House-passed versions of H.R. 4404, making dire emergency supplemental
appropriations for disaster assistance, food stamps, unemployment compensation
administration, and other urgent needs, and transfers, and reducing funds
budgeted for military spending for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1990,
but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
1990/05/17
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 17, 1990; pages D619 - D628 (Bound vol. D317-
D324)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee continued
consideration of proposed legislation to strengthen and improve U.S.
agricultural programs, focusing on farm credit provisions, but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for classified programs of the
Department of Defense, and to review the impact of the changing nature of the
Soviet threat, receiving testimony from officials of the defense intelligence
community.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, May 22.
APPROPRIATIONS--VA/HUD/INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for certain
programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, and independent agencies, receiving testimony from Senator
McCain; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, May 23.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on S. 2171,
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1991 for military functions of the
Department of Defense and to prescribe military personnel levels for fiscal
year 1991, focusing on concurrency in the Department of Defense acquisition
process and programs, receiving testimony from Frank C. Conahan, Assistant
Comptroller General, National Security and International Affairs Division,
General Accounting Office; Donald A. Hicks, former Director, Defense Research
and Engineering, Department of Defense; and John E. Krings, former Director,
Operational Test and Evaluation, Department of Defense.
Committee will meet again Thursday, May 24.
DEPOSIT INSURANCE REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings to
examine the need for reform of the system of deposit insurance for financial
institutions, receiving testimony from Lawrence Connell, Prather, Seeger,
Doolittle and Farmer, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the San Jacinto Savings
Association; Bert Ely, Ely and Company, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia; and
Kenneth E. Scott, Stanford Law School, Stanford, California.
Hearings continue Tuesday, May 22.
SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on the state of the U.S.
semiconductor and semiconductor manufacturing equipment industries and its
impact on the future of the American electronics industry in the foreign
market, after receiving testimony from D. Allan Bromley, Director, Office of
Science and Technology Policy; John A. Armstrong, IBM Corporation, Armonk, New
York, on behalf of the National Advisory Committee on Semiconductors; Joe
Parkinson, Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, Idaho; Moshe Lubin, Hampshire
Instruments, Inc., Rochester, New York; and Peter M. Mills, SEMATECH, Austin,
Texas.
DISASTER RELIEF FOR INSULAR AREAS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 2362,
to authorize funds for the construction of facilities to protect public health
and safety and for the enhancement of infrastructure in the event of disasters
in insular areas, receiving testimony from Virgin Islands Lieutenant Governor
Derek Hodge, St. Thomas; William E. Houston, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the
Interior for Territorial and International Affairs; Grant C. Peterson,
Associate Director for State and Local Programs and Support Directorate,
Federal Emergency Management Agency; Gary C. Byrne, Administrator, Rural
Electrification Administration, Department of Agriculture; and Frank M.
Stewart, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technical and Financial
Assistance, Department of Energy.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PUBLIC LANDS/NATIONAL PARKS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks, and Forests concluded hearings on the following measures:
S. 1990, to establish the Cliff Walk National Historic Site in Rhode Island,
after receiving testimony from Senators Pell and Chafee; and Bruce Bartlett,
City of Newport, Rhode Island;
S. 2072, to authorize a study of nationally significant places in American
Labor History, after receiving testimony from Senator Moynihan; and James B.
Gardner, American Historical Association, Washington, D.C.;
S. 2067 and H.R. 3834, to designate the route from Selma to Montgomery for
study for potential addition to the National Trails System, after receiving
testimony from Senator Kerry; and Representative John Lewis;
S. 2262, to designate segments of the Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord Rivers as
a study area for inclusion in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System,
after receiving testimony from Senator Kerry; Representative Atkins; and Kevin
J. Coyle, American Rivers, Inc., Washington, D.C.;
Testimony was also received on the aforementioned bills and S. 1852 and H.R.
3545, bills to make certain changes relating to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
National Historical Park Commission, S. 2437, to authorize the acquisition of
certain lands in the State of Louisiana for inclusion in the Vicksburg
National Military Park, and S. 2566, to redesignate the Sunset Crater National
Monument in Arizona as Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument from James W.
Stewart, Assistant Director, National Park Service, Department of the
Interior.
FEDERAL NUCLEAR FACILITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on S.
1462, to create a Federal nuclear facility environmental response fund, and to
create an Office of Environmental Management and Remedial Action within the
Department of Energy, after receiving testimony from Senators Adams and Wirth;
Leo P. Duffy, Director, Office on Environmental Restoration and Waste
Management, Department of Energy; Dan Silver, on behalf of the Office of the
Governor of Washington, Olympia; Gerald M. Pollet, Heart of America Northwest,
Seattle, Washington; and Leon Lowery, Environmental Action, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Robert H. Cleland, of Michigan, to be United States District Judge for the
Eastern District of Michigan, and Richard J. Hankinson, of Virginia, to be
Inspector General, Department of Justice, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Cleland was introduced by Senators
Riegle and Levin, and Mr. Hankinson was introduced by Senators Warner, Robb,
and Specter.
COURT SECRECY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
concluded hearings to examine the use of secrecy and confidentiality of
documents by courts in civil litigation, focusing on under what circumstances
the sealing of cases may adversely affect public health and safety, after
receiving testimony from Judge Joseph F. Weis, Jr., United States Court of
Appeals for the Third Circuit, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the
Federal Courts Study Committee; Judge Lloyd Doggett, Texas Supreme Court,
Austin; Arthur Bryant, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, Rob Weiner, Arnold
and Porter, and Devra Davis, all of Washington, D.C.; James W. Morris, III,
Defense Research Institute and Trial Lawyers Association, Richmond, Virginia;
Dianne Weaver, Weaver, Weaver and Petrie, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; Paul
McMasters, USA Today, Arlington, Virginia, on behalf of the Society of
Professional Journalists; Arthur Miller, Harvard Law School, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; and Fred Barbee, Minong, Wisconsin.
Joint Meetings
U.S. PRODUCTIVITY
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine how U.S.
productivity may be improved by using the abilities of the nation's
blue-collar workers more effectively, after receiving testimony from Patricia
Flynn, Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts; David Stern, University of
California, Berkeley; and Louis G. Tornatzky, Industrial Technology Institute,
Ann Arbor, Michigan.
FAVORED-NATION STATUS FOR HUNGARY
Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 1594, to extend non-discriminatory treatment to the products
of the Peoples' Republic of Hungary for 3 years, but did not complete action
thereon, and recessed subject to call.
DIRE EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Conferees continued to resolve the differences between the Senate- and
House-passed versions of H.R. 4404, making dire emergency supplemental
appropriations for disaster assistance, food stamps, unemployment compensation
administration, and other urgent needs, and transfers, and reducing funds
budgeted for military spending for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1990,
but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on tomorrow.
1990/05/18
Daily Digest - Friday, May 18, 1990; pages D629 - D636 (Bound vol. D324-D326)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--SURFACE MINING
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for the Office of Surface
Mining of the Department of the Interior, receiving testimony from Harry M.
Snyder, Director, Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement,
Department of the Interior.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
MONEY LAUNDERING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings on
S. 2327 and H.R. 3848, bills to authorize Federal depository institution
regulatory agencies to revoke charters, terminate deposit insurance, and
remove or suspend officers and directors of depository institutions involved
in money laundering or monetary transaction reporting offenses, and S. 2651,
to require the Department of the Treasury to issue regulations concerning the
identification of non-bank financial institutions subject to the Bank Secrecy
Act, and to prohibit illegal money transmitting businesses, receiving
testimony from Peter K. Nunez, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for
Enforcement; Arthur L. Beamon, Associate General Counsel for Compliance and
Enforcement, Legal Division, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Clyde H.
Farnsworth, Jr., Director of Federal Reserve Bank Operations, Federal Reserve
System; Boris F. Melnikoff, First Wachovia Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia, on
behalf of the American Bankers Association; Susan W. Sweeney, Deak
International, Ltd., New York, New York; and Stephen Wolf, Pay-O-Matic
Corporation, Syosset, New York, on behalf of the National Association of Check
Cashers.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MEDICARE
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Medicare and Long Term Care held
hearings to review certain recommendations for the Medicare Volume Performance
Standards (MVPS) for fiscal year 1991, which is the rate of growth in spending
for physician services reimbursed by the Medicare program, receiving testimony
from Gail R. Wilensky, Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration,
Department of Health and Human Services; Karen Davis, Commissioner, Physician
Payment Review Commission; John J. Ring, American Medical Association,
Mundelein, Illinois; Robert Graham, American Academy of Family Physicians,
Kansas City, Missouri; and Jerome C. Goldstein, American College of Surgeons,
Alexandria, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of James Keough Bishop, of New York, to be Ambassador to the
Somali Democratic Republic, Peter Jon de Vos, of Florida, to be Ambassador to
the Republic of Liberia, and Dane Farnsworth Smith, Jr., of New Mexico, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf.
MATH/SCIENCE EDUCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
2114, to promote excellence in American mathematics, science, and engineering
education, after receiving testimony from Senators Hatfield and Glenn; Charles
Hardy, Highline School District, Seattle, Washington; David Heil, Oregon
Museum of Science and Industry, Portland; David Grant, University of Utah,
Salt Lake City, on behalf of the Governor's Science Counsel for the State of
Utah; Stuart Perlmeter, Springfield Middle School, Springfield, Oregon; Tamra
Busch-Johnsen, Business-Education Compact of Washington County, Wilsonville,
Oregon; and Michael Wartell, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, New
Mexico.
VETERANS PROGRAMS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on issues
relating to compensation, pension, national cemeteries, insurance, VA
administrative reorganizations, and attorney representation of veterans facing
VA debt-collection action, including the following related measures: Title I
of S. 2100, proposed "Veterans Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act,
Title III of S. 2100, to provide supplemental coverage to certain veterans who
are eligible for a waiver of premiums due to total disability, S. 2556,
proposed "Radiation-Exposed Veterans Compensation Amendments, S. 2615, to make
clear that in situations where a veteran faces a VA-initiated debt collection
proceeding related to VA benefits an attorney may be hired by the veteran at
any point in the proceeding, S. 1887, to exempt State bonuses paid to veterans
in 1990 from being counted as income for VA pension purposes, S. 2454, to
increase the estate limits for certain incompetent institutionalized veterans,
S. 2499, to suspend compensation payments in the cases of certain incompetent
veterans whose estates exceed specified limits, S. 2102, to modify
congressional "report-and-wait" requirements for certain VA administrative
reorganizations, S. 2482, to clarify the definition of "minor child" for the
purposes of eligibility for burial in a national cemetery and to authorize the
use of flat grave markers in a section of the Florida National Cemetery, and
to review a General Accounting Office program audit concerning VA's possible
use of Social Security Administration death information to avoid erroneous VA
benefits payments, after receiving testimony from Anthony J. Principi, Deputy
Secretary, Raoul L. Carroll, General Counsel, Jo Ann K. Webb, Director,
National Cemetery Service, R. Gary Hickman, Director, Compensation and Pension
Service, and David A. Brigham, Director, Veterans Assistance Service, all of
the Department of Veterans Affairs; Gregory J. McDonald, Associate Director
for Income Security Issues, James F. Walsh, Assistant Director, and Neil N.
Miller, Assignment Manager, all of the General Accounting Office; Robert L.
Campbell, Portland, Maine, and E. Cooper Brown, Takoma Park, Maryland, both of
the National Committee for Radiation Victims; Alice P. Broudy, National
Association of Radiation Survivors, Monarch Beach, California; Oscar Rosen,
Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of the National Association
of Atomic Veterans; Geraldine B. Chittick, Frankfort, Indiana, on behalf of
the Gold Star Wives of America, Inc.; Philip R. Wilkerson, The American
Legion, James N. Magill, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, John
F. Heilman, Disabled American Veterans, John C. Bollinger, Paralyzed Veterans
of America, Paul S. Egan, Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc., and Bruce S.
Deming, Van Ness, Feldman and Curtis, all of Washington, D.C.
SSA
Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings to examine the quality of
service provided by the Social Security Administration to its recipients and
to review recommendations to improve services at field offices, teleservice
centers, and at disability determination units, receiving testimony from
Joseph F. Delfico, Director, Income Security Issues, Human Resources Division,
General Accounting Office; Gwendolyn S. King, Commissioner of Social Security,
and Mary O'Malley, Claims Representative, Renton, Washington Branch Office,
both of the Social Security Administration, Department of Health and Human
Services; Jack Delaney, Chicago, Illinois, former Operations Supervisor of the
Social Security Administration; John Pagoda, American Federation of Government
Employees, AFL-CIO, Troy, New York; Paul D. Welch, Susquehanna Legal Services,
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania; Donna J. Spurrier, Conway, Arkansas, on behalf of
the Central Arkansas Area Agency; Myrtle Osburn, North Little Rock, Arkansas,
and Sandra F. Boles, Fairborn, Ohio.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
DIRE EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Conferees continued to resolve the differences between the Senate- and
House-passed versions of H.R. 4404, making dire emergency supplemental
appropriations for disaster assistance, food stamps, unemployment compensation
administration, and other urgent needs, and transfers, and reducing funds
budgeted for military spending for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1990.
1990/05/21
Daily Digest - Monday, May 21, 1990; pages D638 - D642 (Bound vol. D326-D328)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
resumed hearings on S. 2171, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1991 for
military functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe military
personnel levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on Department of Defense
laboratory management, receiving testimony from Charles M. Herzfeld, Director
of Defense Research and Engineering, and George P. Milburn, Deputy Director of
Defense Research and Engineering (Research and Advanced Technology), both of
the Department of Defense; Timothy P. Coffey, Director of Research, Naval
Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.; C.G. Thornton, Director, U.S. Army
Electronics Technology and Devices Laboratory, Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey; and
G. Keith Richey, Technical Director, Wright Research and Development Center,
Dayton, Ohio; and John M. Deutch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, May 23.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Carl J. Kunasek, of Arizona, to be Commissioner on the Navajo
and Hopi Relocation.
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Prior to this action, committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Mr.
Kunasek, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator McCain, and
Representatives Rhodes and Kyl, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf. Testimony was also received from Vernon Masayesva, Hopi Tribe,
Kykostmovi, Arizona; and Leonard Haskie, Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Arizona.
No Joint hearings noted.
1990/05/22
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 22, 1990; pages D643 - D652 (Bound vol. D328-
D334)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FISH INSPECTION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 1245, to
establish a comprehensive inspection program to ensure the quality and
wholesomeness of all fish products intended for human consumption in the
United States.
APPROPRIATIONS--GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for foreign assistance,
focusing on the role of foreign assistance on the global environment,
receiving testimony from Richard E. Bissell, Assistant Administrator for
Science and Technology, Agency for International Development; and Glen
Prickett, Natural Resource Defense Council, and Brent Blackwelder,
Environmental Policy Institute, both of Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, June 5.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed hearings on
the nomination of Lt. Gen. Carl W. Stiner, USA, to be General and
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Special Operations Command, Department of the Army,
after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
DEFENSE REPROGRAMMING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to review
alternative sources for manpower personnel reprogramming and CHAMPUS
reprogramming with respect to the Dire Emergency Supplemental Appropriations.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional
Defense held hearings on S. 2171, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1991 for
military functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe military
personnel levels for fiscal year 1991, focusing on the Navy shipbuilding and
conversion program, receiving testimony from Robert F. Hale, Assistant
Director, National Security Division, and Michael Berger, Naval Analyst, both
of the Congressional Budget Office; Martin M. Ferber, Director, Navy Issues,
Frederick A. Bigden, Assistant Director, Navy Issues, both of the National
Security and Intelligence Affairs Division, and Richard E. Silveira, Senior
Evaluator, Boston Regional Office, all of the General Accounting Office;
Gerald Cann, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and
Acquisition; Vice Adm. John Nyquist, USN, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations
(Surface Warfare); Vice Adm. Daniel Cooper, USN, Assistant Chief of Naval
Operations (Undersea Warfare); and Vice Adm. Peter Hekman, USN, Commander,
Naval Sea Systems Command.
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Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
DEPOSIT INSURANCE REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed hearings
to examine the need for reform of the system of deposit insurance for
financial institutions, receiving testimony from James R. Barth, Auburn
University, Auburn, Alabama; Lowell L. Bryan, McKinsey and Company, New York,
New York; and George G. Kaufman, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago,
Illinois.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported the following business items:
S. 1981, to permit the Bell Telephone Companies to conduct research on,
design, and manufacture telecommunications equipment, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute;
S. 1400, to regulate interstate commerce by providing for a uniform product
liability law, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 1025, to authorize funds for programs of the Magnuson Fishery Conservation
and Management Act, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As
approved by the committee, the bill authorizes $97.9 million for fiscal year
1990, $115.9 million for fiscal year 1991, $119.9 million for fiscal year
1992, and $123.9 million for fiscal year 1993);
H.R. 3000, to strengthen current requirements for testing and certifying
bolts, screws, and other fasteners used in critical applications such as
aerospace, defense equipment, and nuclear power plants, with an amendment in
the nature of a substitute;
S. 2181, to authorize the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to
purchase approximately 8 acres of land at the Fort Sumner Municipal Airport,
De Baca County, New Mexico to use as a balloon launching facility;
S. 2434, to permit the implementation of the Department of Transportation
anti-drug program rule for recipients of Federal mass transit assistance, with
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 2180, to remove certain prohibitions to the licensing of a vessel for
employment in the coastwise trade of the United States for the vessel Arctic
Sounder;
S. 2404, to permit issuance of a certificate of documentation for employment
in the coastwise trade of the United States for the vessel Lady Rose Anne,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 2498, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessel Sea Devil;
S. 2623, to authorize issuance of a certificate of documentation for
employment in the coastwise trade of the United States, Great Lakes trade, and
fisheries for the vessel Rose;
S. 2656, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessel Pumpkin;
S. 2660, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessel Bounty;
and
The nominations of Andrew Camp Barrett, of Illinois, to be a Member of the
Federal Communications Commission, Rear Adm. William J. Kime, to be Commandant
of the United States Coast Guard, Rear Adm. Martin H. Daniell, Jr., to be Vice
Commandant of the United States Coast Guard, Rear Adm. A. Bruce Beran, to be
Commander, Pacific Area, United States Coast Guard, George R. Merrilees,
United States Coast Guard Reserve, to the grade of Rear Admiral (lower half),
and Tommy G. Thompson, of Wisconsin, to be a Member of the Board of Directors
of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following measures:
An original bill to provide for the conservation and development of water and
related resources, and to authorize the United States Army Corps of Engineers
civil works program to construct various projects for improvements to the
nation's infrastructure, in lieu of S. 2183; and
S. 1875, to redesignate the Calamus Dam and Reservoir in Nebraska as the
Virginia Smith Dam and Calamus Lake Recreation Area, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Annice M. Wagner, to be an Associate Judge for the District of
Columbia, after the nominee testified and answered questions in her own
behalf.
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING FOR THE HOMELESS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
job training and education programs of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless
Assistance Act, after receiving testimony from Roberts T. Jones, Assistant
Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training; John T. MacDonald, Assistant
Secretary of Education for Elementary and Secondary Education; Joan Schwingen,
Travelers and Immigrants Aid, and Robert Thunderbird, Sousa Homeless Shelter,
both of Chicago, Illinois; Alex Hurtado, Utah Job Training Coordinating
Council, Roy; Maria Foscarinis, National Law Center on Homelessness and
Poverty, and Kendrick Williams, both of Washington, D.C.; Michelle Linehan,
Massachusetts Department of Education, Quincy; and Bonnie Gross, New York City
Public Schools, New York, New York.
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INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
Joint Meetings
ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF LATIN AMERICA FOR THE UNITED STATES
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine the economic
importance of Latin America for the United States, focusing on trade and
investment ties between the two nations, after receiving testimony from David
Rockefeller, Council of the Americas, and William D. Rogers, Arnold and
Porter, both of Washington, D.C.; James J. Forese, IBM Corporation, North
Tarrytown, New York; Wolfgang C. Berndt, Proctor and Gamble Manufacturing
Company, Cincinnati, Ohio; C. Robert Black, Texaco Latin America/West Africa,
Coral Gables, Florida; and Alan Ockene, Goodyear International Corporation,
Akron, Ohio.
DIRE EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 4404, making dire emergency
supplemental appropriations for disaster assistance, food stamps, unemployment
compensation administration, and other urgent needs, and transfers, and
reducing funds budgeted for military spending for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 1990.
1990/05/23
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 23, 1990; pages D654 - D662 (Bound vol. D334-
D341)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1990 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
on proposed legislation to strengthen and improve U.S. agricultural programs,
focusing on fruit and vegetable provisions, but did not complete action
thereon, and recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--OMB
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1991 for the Office of Management and Budget, receiving testimony from Richard
G. Darman, Director, Office of Management and Budget.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
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