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. 

                                           [Page: D40]

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. 

                                           [Page: D87]

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. 

                                           [Page: D88]

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. 

                                           [Page: D98]

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. 

                                           [Page: D99]

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. 

                                          [Page: D105]

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. 

                                          [Page: D116]

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. 

                                          [Page: D117]

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. 

                                          [Page: D128]

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. 

                                          [Page: D129]

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. 

                                          [Page: D143]

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. 

                                          [Page: D148]

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. 



1990/02/28
Daily Digest - [Wednesday, February 28, 1990]; pages D166 - D178  (Bound vol.
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.



1990/03/01
Daily Digest - [Thursday, March 1, 1990]; pages D180 - D198  (Bound vol. D84-
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,
receiv