102d Congress (1991 - 1992)
January 3, 1991 - January 3, 1992
Senate Committee Meetings by Date
Compiled from the Congressional Record's Daily Digests via Thomas at thomas.loc.gov
1991/01/03
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 3, 1991; pages D1 - D36 (Bound vol. D1-D6)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/01/04
Daily Digest - Friday, January 4, 1991; pages D37 - D40 (Bd vol. D6-D7)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ETHICS INVESTIGATION
Select Committee on Ethics: Committee resumed hearings to examine various
allegations made against certain Senators.
Hearings continue on Monday, January 7.
Joint Meetings
EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings on the
employment-unemployment statistics for December, receiving testimony from
Janet L. Norwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of
Labor.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine the ability of
the unemployment insurance system to provide an adequate safety net for
jobless workers during the current economic downturn, receiving testimony from
Michael V. Deisz, North Dakota State Job Service, Pierre, on behalf of the
Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies; and Gary Burtless,
Brookings Institution, and Wayne Vroman, The Urban Institute, both of
Washington, D.C.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1991/01/07
Daily Digest - Monday, January 7, 1991; pages D42 - D44 (Bd vol. D7-D8)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
THE RECESSION AND THE WORKFORCE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to examine
America's recession and its effects on the workforce, focusing on the lack of
unemployment insurance, improving the skills of American workers, and training
and compensation programs designed to help those who are laid off during the
recession, receiving testimony from John K. Galbraith, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts; Robert Eisner, Northwestern University, Chicago,
Illinois; Lynn Williams, United Steelworkers of America, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; Ray Marshall, University of Texas at Austin; Heidi Hartmann,
Institute for Women's Policy Research; Victoria Ferguson, Fort Wayne, Indiana;
Thomas and Marjorie Maguire, Waltham, Massachusetts; and Leonard and Candace
Ciskowski, Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ETHICS INVESTIGATION
Select Committee on Ethics: Committee resumed hearings to examine various
allegations made against certain Senators.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, January 8.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/01/08
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 8, 1991; pages D46 - D48 (Bd vol. D8)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SECURITIES INDUSTRY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
concluded oversight hearings on the condition of the securities industry,
after receiving testimony from Richard C. Breeden, Chairman, Securities and
Exchange Commission; Gedale Horowitz, Security Industry Association,
Washington, D.C.; and Michael Goldstein, Sanford Bernstein & Company, New
York, New York.
PERSIAN GULF
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine current
U.S. policy in the Persian Gulf, receiving testimony from Cyrus R. Vance and
Alexander M. Haig, Jr., both former Secretaries of State.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
WAR POWERS ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the implementation
of the War Powers Act, focusing on the constitutional roles of Congress and
the President in declaring and waging war, after receiving testimony from
Eugene Rostow, Professor, U.S. Institute of Peace; Nicholas deB. Katzenbach,
Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland and Perretti, Morristown, New Jersey, former
U.S. Attorney General; Louis Henkin, Columbia University Law School, New York,
New York; Harold Koh, Yale University Law School, New Haven, Connecticut;
William Van Alstyne, Duke Law School, Durham, North Carolina; Robert Turner
and John Moore, both of the University of Virginia Law School,
Charlottesville; and Gary Born, Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, Washington, D.C.
ETHICS INVESTIGATION
Select Committee on Ethics: Committee continued hearings to examine various
allegations made against certain Senators.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/01/09
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 9, 1991; pages D50 - D52 (Bd vol. D9-D10)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BANK OF NEW ENGLAND
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
to examine certain matters which led to the failure of the Bank of New
England, focusing on regulators' actions and the causes of the bank's failure,
after receiving testimony from Robert L. Clarke, Comptroller of the Currency,
Department of the Treasury; and L. William Seidman, Chairman, Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation.
NATION'S EDUCATION GOALS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to examine
whether the nation is meeting its education goals and to review proposals to
reauthorize the Higher Education Act, focusing on problems and reforms in
elementary and secondary education, strengths and weaknesses of higher
education, and access to student federal aid programs, receiving testimony
from Colorado Governor Roy Romer, Denver, on behalf of the Democratic
Governors Association, and the National Education Goals Panel; Floretta
McKenzie, former District of Columbia School Superintendent, Washington, D.C.,
on behalf of the McKenzie Group; Constance Clayton, Superintendent,
Philadelphia Public Schools, and Hameen Diggins, Shumacher Middle School, both
of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Michael Timpane, Teachers College at Columbia
University, New York, New York; Chester E. Finn, Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, Tennessee; James L. Bush, Mather School, Dorchester, Massachusetts;
Robert L. Albright, Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, North Carolina;
and Anikee Ajagunna, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ETHICS INVESTIGATION
Select Committee on Ethics: Committee continued hearings to examine various
allegations made against certain Senators.
Hearings continue on Thursday, January 10.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/01/10
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 10, 1991; pages D53 - D56 (Bd vol. D10-D11)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATIONAL HEALTH CARE PROGRAM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to examine
problems of the nation's health care system and recommendations for reform,
focusing on the need for universal access to health insurance and long term
care for the elderly, receiving testimony from Representative Gephardt; Martha
Thornton, Ameritech, Chicago, Illinois; Gail Shearer, Consumers Union,
Washington, D.C.; Alan Nelson, American Medical Association, Salt Lake City,
Utah; Lena Archuleta, American Association of Retired Persons, Denver,
Colorado; Steve and Chris Tilghman, Birmingham, Alabama; Sharon Burton,
Abingdon, Maryland; and Edith Parekh, Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
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Committee will meet again on Tuesday, January 15.
ETHICS INVESTIGATION
Select Committee on Ethics: Committee continued hearings to examine various
allegations made against certain Senators.
Committee will meet again Tuesday, January 15.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/01/11
Daily Digest - Friday, January 11, 1991; pages D58 - D60 (Bd vol. D11-D12)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/01/12
Daily Digest - Saturday, January 12, 1991; pages D61 - D63 (Bd vol. D12-D13)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/01/14
Daily Digest - Monday, January 14, 1991; pages D65 - D67 (Bd vol. D13-14)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BALTIC REPUBLIC
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met to receive a briefing on the
situation in the Baltic Republics of the Soviet Union from Curtis Kamman,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.
Committee recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/01/15
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 15, 1991; pages D68 - D70 (Bd vol. D14-D15)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CHILDREN AND POVERTY
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine services available to children and youth from poverished families,
focusing on ways to ensure that they graduate from high school, prepare them
for the workforce, and/or help them get into college, after receiving
testimony from Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, Tallahassee; Mayor Sharon Pratt
Dixon, Washington, D.C.; James J. Renier, Honeywell Inc., Minneapolis,
Minnesota, on behalf of the Committee for Economic Development; Robin Britt,
Project Uplift, Greensboro, North Carolina; Kevin Tarpley and Emanuel Moore,
both of YouthBuild, Belmont, Massachusetts; Angela Soares, Roxbury,
Massachusetts; Carol Brooks, Boston, Massachusetts; and Jamie and Stacey
Goins, and Carolyn Cox, all of Jacksboro, Tennessee.
ETHICS INVESTIGATION
Select Committee on Ethics: Committee resumed hearings to examine various
allegations made against certain Senators.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/01/16
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 16, 1991; pages D71 - D73 (Bd vol. D15)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AMERICAN FAMILIES IN THE 1990's
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs and Alcoholism held hearings to examine the state of the American
family, focusing on children's health, child welfare reform, early childhood
development, and State and local programs designed to aid working parents,
receiving testimony from Paul Harrington, Northeastern University, Boston,
Massachusetts; Sara McLanahan, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey;
Nicholas Zill, Child Trends, and Sherry C. Deane, National Black Child
Development Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Judith Wallerstein, Center
for the Family in Transition, Corte Madera, California; Valerie Harper, Los
Angeles, California; Regina and Jim Lones, Meriden, Connecticut; and Kathleen
Scofield, Baltimore, Maryland.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
ETHICS INVESTIGATION
Select Committee on Ethics: Committee concluded hearings to examine various
allegations made against certain Senators.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/01/17
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 17, 1991; pages D74 - D76 (Bd vol. D15-D16)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
Joint Meetings
BALTIC STATES
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Commission held hearings to
examine U.S. administration policy toward the situation in the Baltic States,
receiving testimony from Raymond Seitz, Assistant Secretary of State for
European and Canadian Affairs.
Commission recessed subject to call.
1991/01/18
Daily Digest - Friday, January 18, 1991; pages D78 - D80 (Bd vol. D16)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/01/22
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 22, 1991; pages D82 - D84 (Bd vol. D17-D18)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
READINESS OF U.S. VA HOSPITALS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings to examine the readiness of U.S. VA Medical Centers as they
prepare for the role of backup to military hospitals and field and hospital
ships overseas in response to Operation Desert Storm, focusing on the
Department of Veterans Affairs' contingency plan for casualty assistance and
services, receiving testimony from Edward J. Derwinski, Secretary of Veterans
Affairs, James Holsinger, Chief Medical Director, Raoul Carroll, General
Counsel, Stephen A. Trodden, Inspector General, Barbara Gallagher, Director,
Baltimore, Maryland VA Medical Center, and Jose Coronado, Director, San
Antonio, Texas VA Medical Center, all of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
BALTIC STATES
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission):
Commission held hearings to examine the current situation in the Baltic States
of the Soviet Union, receiving testimony from Dainis Ivans, Supreme Council of
the Republic of Latvia, Riga; Bronius Kuzmickas, Supreme Council of the
Republic of Lithuania, Vilna; and William J.H. Hough, Walter, Constan,
Alexander and Green, New York, New York.
Commission recessed subject to call.
1991/01/23
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 23, 1991; pages D86 - D90 (Bd vol. D18-D20)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
RESOLUTION TRUST CORPORATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held oversight
hearings on activities of the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC), and on
proposed authorizations for RTC, receiving testimony from Nicholas F. Brady,
Secretary of the Treasury, Peter Monroe, President, Resolution Trust
Corporation, Department of the Treasury, Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Jack Kemp, Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development, Robert C. Larson, Taubman Company, Bloomfield Hills,
Michigan, and Philip C. Jackson, Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham,
Alabama, all on behalf of the Oversight Board of the Resolution Trust
Corporation.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUDGET OUTLOOK
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine the state of
the U.S. economy and the budgetary outlook for 1991, after receiving testimony
from Robert Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget Office; Benjamin
Friedman, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; C. Fred Bergsten,
Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C.; and Mickey Levy, CRT
Government Securities, LTD, New York, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original bill
(S. 251) to extend the time for performing certain acts under the internal
revenue laws for individuals performing services as part of the Desert
Shield/Storm operation, in lieu of S. 8.
Also, committee announced the Senate membership of the Joint Committee on
Taxation as follows: Senators Bentsen (Vice Chairman), Moynihan, Baucus,
Packwood, and Dole; and adopted its committee rules of procedure for the 102d
Congress.
U.S. GOVERNMENT PROGRESS REPORT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the
overall state of the U.S. economy and the Federal budget, and to examine the
impact of the Middle East crisis on the government's financial and management
systems, receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General,
Frank Conahan, Assistant Comptroller General for National Security and
International Affairs, and Richard L. Fogel, Assistant Comptroller General for
Government Management Programs, all of the General Accounting Office.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/01/24
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 24, 1991; pages D92 - D96 (Bd vol. D20-D22)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
GRAMM-RUDMAN-HOLLINGS
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered reported, unfavorably, S.J. Res.
44, suspending certain provisions of law pursuant to section 258(a)(2),
relating to the suspension of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings during periods of economic
recession, of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
TERRORISM
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations met in closed session to receive a briefing on Iraqi
support for terrorism from officials of the Department of State, Federal
Bureau of Intelligence, and the Central Intelligence Agency.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs and Alcoholism concluded hearings on S. 5, to grant employees family and
temporary medical leave under certain circumstances, after receiving testimony
from T. Berry Brazelton, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Most
Rev. James W. Malone, United States Catholic Conference, Youngstown, Ohio;
Lawrence Perlman, Control Data Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Barbara
Blum, Adams National Bank, and William R. Mattox, Jr., Family Research
Council, both of Washington, D.C.; Ellen Galinsky, Families and Work
Institute, New York, New York; Merle Alvis, Babcock and Wilcox Company,
Lynchburg, Virginia; Carmen Maya, Chicago, Illinois; and Sandra Seymour,
Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.
Joint Meetings
GPO
Joint Committee on Printing: Committee held hearings to examine the operation
and management of the Government Printing Office (GPO), focusing on the
service GPO is providing Congress for the Congressional Record and key bills
during peak periods of Congressional activity, receiving testimony from Walter
J. Stewart, Secretary of the Senate; Donnald K. Anderson, Clerk of the House
of Representatives; Robert W. Houk, Public Printer, and Lewis L. Small,
Inspector General, and George Lord, Chairman, Joint Council of GPO Unions, all
of the Government Printing Office; and William J. Boarman, Communications
Workers of America, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC.
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Committee recessed subject to call.
1991/01/25
Daily Digest - Friday, January 25, 1991; pages D97 - D98 (Bd vol. D22-D23)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
EPA SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD REPORT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
recent Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board report,
"Reducing Risk: Setting Priorities and Strategies for Environmental
Protection," after receiving testimony from William K. Reilly, Administrator,
and Raymond C. Loehr, Chairman, EPA Science Advisory Board, both of the
Environmental Protection Agency.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/01/28
Daily Digest - Monday, January 28, 1991; pages D100 - D102 (Bd vol. D23)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/01/29
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 29, 1991; pages D103 - D106 (Bd vol. D23-D25)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BANK INSURANCE FUND
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held oversight
hearings on the condition of the Bank Insurance Fund of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation, focusing on baseline projections of the fund's spending
and the Congressional Budget Office assessment of its financing needs,
receiving testimony from Robert D. Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget
Office.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported the following business items:
An original resolution requesting $3,930,949 in operating expenses for the
period from March 1, 1991, through February 29, 1992, and $4,076,709 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1992, through February 28,
1993; and
A routine list of U.S. Coast Guard nominations received by the Senate on
January 3, 1991.
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Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 102d Congress, and
announced their subcommittee assignments.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following measures:
An original resolution (S. Res. 19) requesting $2,844,527 in operating
expenses for the period from March 1, 1991, through February 29, 1992, and
$2,949,780 in operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1992, through
February 28, 1993; and
S. 258, to correct an error in the Solar, Wind, Waste, and Geothermal Power
Production Incentives Act of 1990.
Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 102d Congress.
COMMITTEE BUDGET/MONTREAL AVIATION PROTOCOLS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
An original resolution requesting $3,183,489 in operating expenses for the
period from March 1, 1991, through February 29, 1992, and $3,302,578 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1992, through February 28,
1993; and
Two Related Protocols done at Montreal on September 25, 1975 to the Convention
for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by
Air, As Amended, (Ex. B, 95th Cong., 1st Sess.), with certain conditions.
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported an
original resolution requesting $1,394,043 in operating expenses for the period
from March 1, 1991, through February 29, 1992, and $1,270,664 in operating
expenses for the period from March 1, 1992, through February 28, 1993.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/01/30
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 30, 1991; pages D108 - D112 (Bd vol. D26-
D28)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original resolution requesting $1,996,599 in operating expenses
for the period from March 1, 1991, through February 29, 1992, and $2,069,273
in operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1992, through February 28,
1993.
Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 102d Congress.
MILITARY SERVICE BENEFITS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills:
An original bill to provide for certain benefits for military personnel
serving in Operation Desert Storm. (As approved by the committee, the bill
incorporates provisions of S. 160, S. 204, S. 221, S. 232, and S. 237);
S. 160, to make unemployment compensation for military personnel leaving the
service the same as that available to civilians who lose their jobs;
S. 204, to provide authority for retired military personnel who are recalled
to active duty to be recalled in the highest grade they held satisfactorily
while on active duty;
S. 221, to require Department of Defense to implement the savings plan
authorized last year for military personnel deployed to the Persian Gulf at an
interest rate of up to 10 percent, with an amendment;
S. 232, to increase the maximum level of Servicemen's Group Life Insurance and
Veterans' Group Life Insurance from $50,000 to $100,000;
S. 237, to increase imminent danger and hostile fire pay from the current $110
per month to $150 per month, effective August 1, 1990; and
An original bill to authorize the military services to make a payment for
unused accrued leave to survivors of military personnel.
PUERTO RICO
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 244,
to provide for a referendum on the political status of Puerto Rico, receiving
testimony from Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon,
Carlos Romero Barcelo, New Progressive Party, and Ruben Berrios-Martinez,
Puerto Rican Independence Party, all of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Hearings continue Thursday, February 7.
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee approved for reporting an
original resolution (S. Res. 21) requesting $2,771,485 in operating expenses
for the period from March 1, 1991, through February 29, 1992, and $2,874,714
in operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1992, through February 28,
1993.
NOMINATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on the
nomination of Lynn Martin, of Illinois, to be Secretary of Labor, where the
nominee, who was introduced by Senators Simon and Dixon and Representative
Michel, testified and answered questions in her own behalf. Testimony was also
received from Representative Levin.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following measures:
An original resolution providing for membership on the part of the Senate of
the Joint Committee on Printing and the Joint Committee on the Library as
follows: Joint Committee on Printing: Senators Ford (Vice Chairman),
DeConcini, Gore, Stevens, and Hatfield; and Joint Committee on the Library:
Senators Pell (Chairman), DeConcini, Moynihan, Hatfield, and Stevens;
An original concurrent resolution to allow another member of the Committee on
Rules and Administration of the Senate to serve on the Joint Committee on the
Library in place of the Chairman of the Committee; and
An original resolution requesting $1,521,403 in operating expenses for the
period from March 1, 1991, through February 29, 1992, and $1,579,954 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1992, through February 28,
1993.
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Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 102d Congress.
ETHICS INVESTIGATION
Select Committee on Ethics: Committee met in closed session to begin
deliberations in connection with its preliminary inquiry into various
allegations made against certain Senators.
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.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/01/31
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 31, 1991; pages D114 - D120 (Bd vol. D28-D31)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution (S. Res. 32) requesting $3,526,693 in operating expenses for the
period from March 1, 1991, through February 29, 1992, and $3,661,008 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1992, through February 28,
1993.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
resolution (S. Res. 24) requesting $3,526,076 in operating expenses for the
period from March 1, 1991, through February 29, 1992, and $3,620,095 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1992, through February 28,
1993.
Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 102d Congress, and
announced their subcommittee assignments.
TECHNOLOGY AGAINST TERRORISM
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations concluded closed hearings to review an Office of
Technology Assessment report on Federal efforts to promote the use of
technology against terrorism, after receiving testimony from Anthony Fainberg,
Senior Associate, Office of Technology Assessment, who was accompanied by
several of his associates.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
resolution (S. Res. 29) requesting $5,051,907 in operating expenses for the
period from March 1, 1991, through February 29, 1992, and $5,243,785 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1992, through February 28,
1993.
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Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 102d Congress, and
announced their subcommittee assignments.
OLDER AMERICANS ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Aging held hearings on
S. 243, to authorize funds through fiscal year 1995 for programs of the Older
Americans Act, focusing on the protection of vulnerable older citizens and the
prevention of elderly abuse, receiving testimony from Arthur Flemming, Save
Our Security, Washington, D.C., former U.S. Commissioner on Aging; Billie J.
Marshall, Mississippi Department of Human Services, Jackson; Patricia K.
Lashway, Washington Department of Social and Health Services, Olympia;
Michelle P. Holzer, Maryland State Office on Aging, Baltimore; Patricia A.
Riley, National Academy for State Health Policy, Portland, Maine; D. Ty
Duhamel, Evergreen Legal Services, Wenatchee, Washington; Georgia J.
Anetzberger, Western Reserve Geriatric Education Center, Cleveland, Ohio; and
Betsy Follensbee, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution (S. Res. 33) requesting $1,202,644 in operating expenses for the
period from March 1, 1991, through February 29, 1992, and $1,252,411 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1992, through February 28,
1993.
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Select Committee on Intelligence: On Wednesday, January 30, committee ordered
favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 26) requesting $2,453,497
in operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1991, through February 29,
1992, and $2,546,381 in operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1992,
through February 28, 1993.
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Special Committee on Aging: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
resolution (S. Res. 31) requesting $1,220,675 in operating expenses for the
period from March 1, 1991, through February 29, 1992, and $1,264,993 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1992, through February 28,
1993.
Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 102d Congress.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/02/01
Daily Digest - Friday, February 1, 1991; pages D122 - D124 (Bd vol. D31-D32)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Thursday, January 31, Committee
approved for reporting an original resolution requesting $5,423,398 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1991, through February 29,
1992, and $5,628,440 in operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1992,
through February 28, 1993.
Joint Meetings
EMPLOYMENT-UNEMPLOYMENT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings on 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.
1991/02/04
Daily Digest - Monday, February 4, 1991; pages D126 - D128 (Bd vol. 34)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/02/05
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 5, 1991; pages D129 - D134 (Bd vol. D35-39)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION
Committee on Appropriations: On Monday, February 4, Committee approved for
reporting an original resolution (S. Res. 34) requesting $5,029,959 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1991, through February 29,
1992, and $5,208,866 in operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1992,
through February 28, 1993.
Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure and announced their
subcommittee assignments.
COMMITTEE BUDGET/NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee approved for reporting the following
business items:
An original resolution (S. Res. 42) requesting $3,180,965 in operating
expenses for the period from March 1, 1991, through February 29, 1992, and
$3,291,040 in operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1992, through
February 28, 1993; and
6,542 military nominations in the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 102d Congress.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following measures:
An original bill authorizing funds for the Resolution Trust Corporation of the
Department of the Treasury; and
An original resolution requesting $3,647,497 for operating expenses for the
period from March 1, 1991, through February 29, 1992, and $3,777,700 for
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1992, through February 28,
1993.
1992 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee began hearings in preparation for reporting
the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1992 budget for the Federal
Government, receiving testimony from Richard G. Darman, Director, Office of
Management and Budget.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
INFRASTRUCTURE, PRODUCTIVITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure held hearings to examine the impact of
public infrastructure on the growth rate of economic productivity, receiving
testimony from Alicia H. Munnell, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston,
Massachusetts; Randall W. Eberts, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland,
Cleveland, Ohio; and Robert Peck, Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, February 7.
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Committee on Governmental Affairs: On Thursday, January 31, Committee approved
for reporting an original resolution (S. Res. 39) requesting $5,267,105 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1991, through February 29,
1992, and $5,462,040 in operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1992,
through February 28, 1993.
ALCOHOL ABUSE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs, and Alcoholism held hearings to examine the effects of alcohol on
families, focusing on proposed legislation to establish and expand grant
programs for evaluation and treatment of parents who are substance abusers and
their children, receiving testimony from Senator Daschle; Suzanne Somers,
Suzanne Somers Institute for the Effects of Addiction on Families, Palm
Springs, California; Cathleen Brooks, Ronan, Montana, on behalf of the
National Association for Children of Alcoholics and NEXT STEP; Basil W.
Henderson, Jr., Children of Alcoholics Foundation, Inc., and Susan Galbraith,
Coalition on Alcohol and Drug Dependent Women and Their Children, both of
Washington, D.C.; Ann Streissguth, University of Washington, Seattle; Kent
Farr, Fairbanks Hospital, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana; Douglas McDonald,
Oxford Institute, Oxford, Michigan; Allen Lamb, Robert W. Deutsch, West
Hartford, Connecticut; Allen Lamb, Tacoma, Washington; and other public
witnesses.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1991/02/06
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 6, 1991; pages D135 - D142 (Bd vol. D39-
D46)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--CONSUMER AFFAIRS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Teresa
Nasif, Director, Consumer Information Center; Jacqueline Jones-Smith,
Chairman, Consumer Product Safety Commission; and Ann Windham Wallace,
Director, Office of Consumer Affairs, Department of Health and Human Services.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, February 20.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Appropriations: Committee's subcommittee assignments are as
follows:
Agriculture and Related Agencies: Senators Burdick (Chairman), Bumpers,
Harkin, Adams, Fowler, Kerrey, Cochran, Kasten, Specter, Nickles, and Bond.
Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary: Senators Hollings (Chairman), Inouye,
Bumpers, Lautenberg, Sasser, Adams, Rudman, Stevens, Hatfield, Kasten, and
Gramm.
Defense: Senators Inouye (Chairman), Hollings, Johnston, Byrd, Leahy, Sasser,
DeConcini, Bumpers, Lautenberg, Harkin, Stevens, Garn, Kasten, D'Amato,
Rudman, Cochran, Specter, and Domenici.
District of Columbia: Senators Adams (Chairman), Fowler, Kerrey, Bond, and
Gorton.
Energy and Water Development: Senators Johnston (Chairman), Byrd, Hollings,
Burdick, Sasser, DeConcini, Reid, Hatfield, Garn, Cochran, Domenici, Specter,
and Nickles.
Foreign Operations: Senators Leahy (Chairman), Inouye, Johnston, DeConcini,
Lautenberg, Harkin, Mikulski, Kasten, Hatfield, D'Amato, Rudman, Specter, and
Nickles.
Interior: Senators Byrd (Chairman), Johnston, Leahy, DeConcini, Burdick,
Bumpers, Hollings, Reid, Nickles, Stevens, Garn, Cochran, Rudman, Domenici,
and Gorton.
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education: Senators Harkin (Chairman),
Byrd, Hollings, Burdick, Inouye, Bumpers, Reid, Adams, Specter, Hatfield,
Stevens, Rudman, Cochran, Gramm, and Gorton.
Legislative Branch: Senators Reid (Chairman), Mikulski, Adams, Gorton, and
Bond.
Military Construction: Senators Sasser (Chairman), Inouye, Reid, Fowler,
Gramm, Garn, and Stevens.
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Transportation: Senators Lautenberg (Chairman), Byrd, Harkin, Sasser,
Mikulski, D'Amato, Kasten, Domenici, and Hatfield.
Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government: Senators DeConcini
(Chairman), Mikulski, Kerrey, Domenici, and D'Amato.
VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies: Senators Mikulski (Chairman), Leahy,
Johnston, Lautenberg, Fowler, Kerrey, Garn, D'Amato, Nickles, Gramm, and Bond.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Robert W. Gambino, of Virginia, to be Director of the Selective Service
System, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
1992 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1992 budget for
the Federal Government, and to review the economic outlook, receiving
testimony from Nicholas F. Brady, Secretary of the Treasury; and Michael J.
Boskin, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee's subcommittee
assignments are as follows:
Aviation: Senators Ford (Chairman), Exon, Inouye, Kerry, Bentsen, McCain,
Stevens, Kasten, and Gorton.
Communications: Senators Inouye (Chairman), Hollings, Ford, Gore, Exon, Kerry,
Bentsen, Breaux, Packwood, Pressler, Stevens, McCain, Burns, and Gorton.
Consumer: Senators Bryan (Chairman), Gore, Ford, Robb, Gorton, McCain, and
Kasten.
Foreign Commerce and Tourism: Senators Rockefeller (Chairman), Hollings,
Bryan, Burns, and Packwood.
Merchant Marine: Senators Breaux (Chairman), Inouye, Bentsen, Lott, and
Stevens.
Science, Technology and Space: Senators Gore (Chairman), Rockefeller, Bentsen,
Kerry, Bryan, Robb, Pressler, Stevens, Kasten, and Lott.
Surface Transportation: Senators Exon (Chairman), Rockefeller, Hollings,
Inouye, Gore, Breaux, Robb, Kasten, Packwood, Pressler, Burns, and Lott.
National Ocean Policy Study: Senators Hollings (Chairman), Kerry (Vice
Chairman), Inouye, Ford, Gore, Bentsen, Breaux, Robb, Stevens, Danforth,
Packwood, Kasten, Pressler, Gorton, and Lott.
UNITED STATES-MEXICO TRADE AGREEMENT
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the prospect of free trade
negotiations with Mexico, focusing on the benefits and costs of a free trade
agreement, and what role Canada would have in these negotiations, receiving
testimony from Senators DeConcini and McCain; Carla A. Hills, United States
Trade Representative; Thomas R. Donahue, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C.; Kay R.
Whitmore, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York, on behalf of The
Business Roundtable; and James K. Baker, Arvin Industries, Inc., Columbus,
Indiana, on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Hearings continue Wednesday, February 20.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Finance: Committee's subcommittee assignments are as follows:
Social Security and Family Policy: Senators Moynihan (Chairman), Breaux, Dole,
and Durenberger.
International Trade: Senators Baucus (Chairman), Bentsen, Moynihan, Boren,
Bradley, Mitchell, Riegle, Rockefeller, Daschle, Breaux, Danforth, Packwood,
Roth, Chafee, Heinz, Symms, and Grassley.
Energy and Agricultural Taxation: Senators Daschle (Chairman), Boren, Breaux,
Symms, and Dole.
Deficits, Debt Management and International Debt: Senators Bradley (Chairman),
Riegle, and Grassley.
Private Retirement Plans and Oversight of the Internal Revenue Service:
Senators Pryor (Chairman), Moynihan, Heinz, and Grassley.
Health for Families and the Uninsured: Senators Riegle (Chairman), Bradley,
Mitchell, Rockefeller, Chafee, Roth, and Durenberger.
Medicare and Long-Term Care: Senators Rockefeller (Chairman), Bentsen, Baucus,
Mitchell, Pryor, Daschle, Durenberger, Packwood, Dole, Heinz, Chafee, and
Danforth.
Taxation: Senators Boren (Chairman), Bentsen, Baucus, Pryor, Roth, Packwood,
Danforth, and Symms.
HONORARIA BAN
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 242, to
modify the absolute ban on receiving honoraria imposed by the Ethics Reform
Act of 1989, receiving testimony from Stephen D. Potts, Director, Office of
Government Ethics; and Robert M. Tobias, National Treasury Employees Union,
Mark D. Roth, American Federation of Government Employees, Sheila Velazco,
National Federation of Federal Employees, Leslie Harris, American Civil
Liberties Union, Fred Wertheimer, Common Cause, Ray Kline, National Academy of
Public Administration, and Peter Crane, all of Washington, D.C.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine the national
drug control strategy, focusing on long-range goals and short-term objectives
for reducing drug use in the United States, and State and local drug control
activities, receiving testimony from John P. Walters, Acting Director, Office
of National Drug Control Policy.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee's subcommittee assignments are as
follows:
Immigration and Refugee Affairs: Senators Kennedy (Chairman), Simon, and
Simpson.
Antitrust, Monopolies and Business Rights: Senators Metzenbaum (Chairman),
DeConcini, Heflin, Simon, Thurmond, Specter, and Hatch.
Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks: Senators DeConcini (Chairman), Kennedy,
Leahy, Heflin, Hatch, Simpson, and Grassley.
Juvenile Justice: Senators Kohl (Chairman), Biden, and Brown.
Technology and the Law: Senators Leahy (Chairman), Kohl, and Brown.
Courts and Administrative Practice: Senators Heflin (Chairman), Metzenbaum,
Kohl, Grassley, and Thurmond.
Constitution: Senators Simon (Chairman), Metzenbaum, DeConcini, Kennedy,
Specter, and Hatch.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the nomination of Lynn Martin, of Illinois, to be Secretary of Labor.
Also, committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Andrew L. Alexander,
of Tennessee, to be Secretary of Education, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senators Sasser and Gore and Representative Quillen, testified
and answered questions in his own behalf.
COMMITTEE BUDGET REQUESTS
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings to receive
testimony from Senators, as indicated, in support of resolutions requesting
funds for operating expenses of their respective committees for periods from
March 1, 1991, through February 29, 1992, and from March 1, 1992, through
February 28, 1993, as follows:
Armed Services: (S. Res. 42) Senators Nunn and Warner;
Energy and Natural Resources: (S. Res. 19) Senator Wallop;
Finance: (S. Res. 24) Senators Bentsen and Packwood;
Labor and Human Resources: (S. Res. 38) Senators Kennedy and Hatch;
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: (S. Res. 36) Senators Leahy and Lugar;
Intelligence: (S. Res. 26) Senators Boren and Murkowski;
Aging: (S. Res. 31) Senators Pryor and Heinz;
Appropriations: (S. Res. 34) Senators Byrd and Hatfield;
Environment and Public Works: (S. Res. 21) Senators Burdick and Chafee; and
Foreign Relations: (S. Res. 20) Senators Pell and Helms.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Committee on Small Business: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution S. Res. 52 requesting $1,094,447 in operating expenses for the
period from March 1, 1991, through February 29, 1992, and $1,134,791 in
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1992, through February 28,
1993.
Joint Meetings
SOVIET UNION
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission):
Commission concluded hearings to examine recent events and trends in the
Soviet Union, focusing on the prospects of democratization, economic reform
and glasnost, after receiving testimony from Zbigniew Brzezinski, Center for
Strategic and International Studies, former National Security Adviser to
President Carter, Washington, D.C.; Marshall L. Goldman, Wellesley College,
Wellesley, Massachusetts; and Lt. Gen. William Odom, USA (Ret.), Hudson
Institute, former Director, National Security Agency, Indianapolis, Indiana.
1991/02/07
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 7, 1991; pages D144 - D148 (Bd vol. D46-D50)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FUTURES TRADING AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings on
S. 207, to authorize funds for and enhance the effectiveness of the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission, receiving testimony from Robert R. Glauber, Under
Secretary of the Treasury for Finance; Wendy Lee Gramm, Chairman, Commodity
Futures Trading Commission; Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System; Richard C. Breeden, Chairman, Securities and
Exchange Commission; Michael Dunn, National Farmers Union, and Jack Frick,
National Cattlemen's Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Paul L. Drug,
Continental Grain Company, Chicago, Illinois, representing the National Grain
Trade Council; and Diane Klemme, Grain Service Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia,
representing the National Feed and Grain Association.
Hearings continue Wednesday, February 20.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee's subcommittee
assignments are as follows:
Energy Regulation and Conservation: Senators Wirth (Chairman), Akaka (Vice
Chairman), Bradley, Fowler, Shelby, Wellstone, Nickles, Domenici, Murkowski,
Seymour, and Hatfield.
Energy Research and Development: Senators Ford (Chairman), Shelby (Vice
Chairman), Bumpers, Bingaman, Akaka, Fowler, Wellstone, Domenici, Garn,
Nickles, Burns, and Craig.
Mineral Resources Development and Production: Senators Bingaman (Chairman),
Bumpers, Ford, Conrad, Shelby, Craig, Murkowski, Nickles, and Garn.
Public Lands, National Parks and Forests: Senators Bumpers (Chairman), Fowler
(Vice Chairman), Bradley, Bingaman, Wirth, Conrad, Akaka, Wellstone,
Murkowski, Garn, Hatfield, Domenici, Burns, Craig, and Seymour.
Water and Power: Senators Bradley (Chairman), Conrad (Vice Chairman), Ford,
Wirth, Burns, Hatfield, and Seymour.
PUERTO RICO
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
244, to provide for a referendum on the political status of Puerto Rico, after
receiving testimony from Dick Thornburgh, Attorney General of the United
States, Department of Justice.
INFRASTRUCTURE, PRODUCTIVITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure resumed hearings on infrastructure and the
growth rate of economic productivity, focusing on the impact of demographic
trends on the demand for transportation in the United States, receiving
testimony from John F. Kain, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts;
Elizabeth Deakin, University of California at Berkeley; William O'Hare, Urban
Research Institute, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky; William B.
Johnston, Hudson Institute, Alexandria, Virginia; and Alan E. Pisarski, Falls
Church, Virginia.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1992 for foreign assistance, and to
review U.S. foreign policy, receiving testimony from James A. Baker III,
Secretary of State.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
S&L INVESTIGATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies, and
Business Rights held hearings to examine the impact of restructuring the
savings and loan industry, focusing on certain allegations involving Federal
efforts to conduct a thorough probe into the financial liability of the
directors and officers at the Southwest Savings and Loan Association in
Phoenix, Arizona, receiving testimony from Anthony Scalzi, Acting Director,
Resolutions and Operations Division, David Noffsinger, Assistant Director for
Investigations, Central Western Consolidated Office (Phoenix, Arizona), and
Ronald Cohen, Assistant Director for Investigations, Coastal Consolidated
Office (Costa Mesa, California), all of the Resolution Trust Corporation,
Department of the Treasury; and Daniel Sirks and Jack Landers, both former
Examiners-in-Charge, Federal Home Loan Bank Board; Kenneth Webb, former
Liquidations Assistant, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Mark A.
Blanchietti Hollander, former Attorney, Professional Liability Section,
Resolution Trust Corporation, Department of the Treasury; and Fife Symington,
Phoenix, Arizona.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on the
nomination of Walter E. Massey, of Illinois, to be Director of the National
Science Foundation, where the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Simon,
Dixon, and Cochran, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
COMMITTEE BUDGET REQUESTS
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings to receive
testimony from Senators, as indicated, in support of resolutions requesting
funds for operating expenses of their respective committees for periods from
March 1, 1991, through February 29, 1992, and from March 1, 1992, through
February 28, 1993, as follows:
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: (S. Res. 49) Senator Riegle;
Budget: (S. Res. 32) Senator Sasser;
Commerce, Science, and Transportation: (S. Res. 27) Senator Hollings;
Governmental Affairs: (S. Res. 39) Senator Glenn;
Veterans' Affairs: (S. Res. 33) Senator DeConcini;
Indian Affairs: (S. Res. 25) Senators Inouye and McCain;
Judiciary: (S. Res. 29) Senator Biden; and
Small Business: (S. Res. 52) Senators Bumpers and Kasten.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills:
An original bill to define the period of the Persian Gulf War, to extend
eligibility for pension, medical, housing, reemployment, and other benefits
provided under the title to veterans of the War. (As approved by the
committee, the bill incorporates provisions of S. 386); and
S. 232, to increase the maximum amount of coverage under Servicemen's Group
Life Insurance and Veterans Group Life Insurance, and to direct the Secretary
of Veterans Affairs to pay a death gratuity to certain survivors of members of
the uniformed services who died after August 1, 1990, and before the effective
date of such increase.
Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 102d Congress.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/02/19
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 19, 1991; pages D149 - D156 (Bd vol. D50-D54)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FEDERAL EMPLOYEE DRUG TESTING
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government concluded oversight hearings on the implementation of the
Federal Employee Drug Testing program, focusing on certain agencies' testing
procedures, cost of drug tests, and whether the program should be placed under
the oversight of a single agency, after receiving testimony from Bernard L.
Ungar, Director, Federal Human Resource Management Issues, Jill Sayre,
Attorney Advisor, Robert Augenbaugh, Evaluator, and John Beauchamp, Evaluator,
all of the General Accounting Office; John Walters, Acting Director, Office of
National Drug Control Policy; William M. Diefenderfer III, Deputy Director,
Office of Management and Budget; Allan D. Heuerman, Assistant Director for
Employee and Labor Relations, Office of Personnel Management; Mark Barnes,
Counsel to the Secretary for Drug Abuse Policy, Department of Health and Human
Services; Leslie Southwick, Deputy Attorney General, Civil Division,
Department of Justice; Elaine Kaplan, Deputy Director of Litigation, National
Treasury Employees Union; Jeff Sumberg, Staff Attorney, National Federation of
Federal Employees; and Mark Roth, General Counsel, American Federation of
Government Employees.
FOREIGN INVESTMENT/AIRLINE ROUTE SALES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
held hearings to examine public policy implications of foreign investment in
the U.S. domestic airline industry and the transfer of international routes
between air carriers, focusing on how the Federal Aviation Act of 1958
pertains to citizenship and control of a domestic airline and the equity and
efficiency of the process for the transfer of international routes, receiving
testimony from Samuel K. Skinner, Secretary of Transportation; Capt. J.
Randolph Babbitt and Capt. Kent Scott, both on behalf of the Air Line Pilots
Association, and Alfred A. Checchi, Northwest Airlines, all of Washington,
D.C.; James W. Callison, Delta Airlines, Atlanta, Georgia; Edward Beauvais,
America West Airlines, Phoenix, Arizona; and J. Thomas Talbot, Hawaiian
Airlines, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Charles L. Cragin, of Maine, to be Chairman of the Board of Veterans'
Appeals, Department of Veterans Affairs, after the nominee, who was introduced
by Senator Cohen, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1991/02/20
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 20, 1991; pages D157 - D164 (Bd vol. D54-
D61)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FUTURES TRADING AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
on S. 207, to authorize funds for and enhance the effectiveness of the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, receiving testimony from Senators Bond
and Heinz; John F. Sandner and William J. Brodsky, both of the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange, and William F. O'Connor, Tom Donovan, and Dale Lorenzen,
all of the Chicago Board of Trade, all of Chicago, Illinois; Z. Lou Guttman
and Patrick Thompson, both of the New York Mercantile Exchange, New York, New
York; Robert L. Isaacson, San Francisco, California, on behalf of the National
Association of Futures Trading Advisors; and John M. Damgard, Futures Industry
Association, Wayne P. Luthringshausen, Options Clearing Corporation, Joseph R.
Hardiman, National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., on behalf of the
Ad Hoc Coalition on Intermarket Coordination, and Marc E. Lackritz, Securities
Industry Association, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Samuel K.
Lessey, Jr., Director, and Hunt Banister, Controller, both of the Selective
Service System; Maj. Gen. A.J. Adams, USA, Secretary, and Col. William E.
Ryan, Jr., Director, Operations and Finance, both of the American Battle
Monuments Commission; Steven Dola, Deputy for Management and Budget, and Rory
Smith, Budget Officer, both of the Department of the Army (cemeterial
expenses); George Knight, Acting Executive Director, Neighborhood Reinvestment
Corporation; and William King, Chairman, Board of Directors, National
Institute of Building Sciences.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, March 6.
MONETARY POLICY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
oversight hearings to review monetary policy and the current situation in the
economy, after receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
1992 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1992 budget for
the Federal Government, focusing on the President's block grant proposal,
receiving testimony from William M. Diefenderfer III, Deputy Director, Office
of Management and Budget; Missouri Governor John Ashcroft, Jefferson City;
Mayor David N. Dinkins, New York, New York; Mayor Raymond L. Flynn, Boston,
Massachusetts; and Mayor William Althaus, York, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the
United States Conference of Mayors.
Committee will meet again Friday, February 22.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Carl W. Vogt, of Maryland, to be a Member of the
Board of Directors of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, after the
nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf. Testimony was also
received from W. Graham Claytor, Jr., Chairman and President, National
Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
PUERTO RICO
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee began markup of S. 244,
to provide for a referendum on the political status of Puerto Rico, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again Wednesday, February 27.
UNITED STATES-MEXICO TRADE AGREEMENT
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on the prospect of free trade
negotiations with Mexico, focusing on the benefits and costs of a free trade
agreement, receiving testimony from Representative Kolbe; James C. Piatt,
Regional Commissioner (Houston, Texas), U.S. Customs Service, Department of
the Treasury; Mayor Suzanne S. Azar, El Paso, Texas; Ed Pastor, Maricopa
County Board of Supervisors, Phoenix, Arizona; Rudiger Dornbusch,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Jeff Faux, Economic Policy
Institute, and Jason S. Berman, Recording Industry Association of America,
both of Washington, D.C.; Frank Bouis, Florida Fruit and Vegetable
Association, Leesburg, Florida; and Mary E. Kelly, Texas Center for Policy
Studies, Austin, on behalf of the Texas Center for Policy Studies and the
National Wildlife Federation.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PRESS ROLE IN PERSIAN GULF
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine Pentagon
rules governing press access to the Persian Gulf war, receiving testimony from
Pete Williams, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs; Maj. Gen.
Winant Sidle, USA (Ret.); Col. Harry G. Summers, Jr., USA (Ret.); Barry
Zorthian, former Chief Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Embassy, Vietnam; Fred S.
Hoffman, former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public
Affairs; Walter Cronkite, CBS News, and Malcolm W. Browne, The New York Times,
Sydney H. Schanberg, Newsday, all of New York, New York; Frank A. Aukofer, The
Milwaukee Journal, and Cragg Hines, The Houston Chronicle, both of Washington,
D.C.; and Paul McMasters, USA Today, Arlington, Virginia, on behalf of the
Society of Professional Journalists.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items:
S. 335, to provide relief for active duty military personnel serving in
connection with Operation Desert Storm on obligations under the Robert T.
Stafford Student Loan Program, and to alleviate health care provider shortages
resulting from hostilities, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 367, to amend the Job Training Partnership Act to encourage a broader range
of training and job placement for women; and
The nominations of Walter E. Massey, of Illinois, to be Director of the
National Science Foundation, Susannah Simpson Kent, of Pennsylvania, to be
Director of the Institute of Museum Services and William E. Strickland, Jr.,
of Pennsylvania, to be a Member of the National Council on the Arts, both for
the National Foundation of the Arts and the Humanities, Mary Ann
Mobley-Collins, of California, and John Leopold, of Maryland, both to be
Members of the National Council on Disability, and a routine list in the
Public Health Service Corps.
Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 102d Congress and
announced the following subcommittee assignments:
Labor: Senators Metzenbaum (Chairman), Harkin, Mikulski, Dodd, Kennedy,
Wellstone, Jeffords, Cochran, Thurmond, and Hatch;
Education, Arts and the Humanities: Senators Pell (Chairman), Metzenbaum,
Dodd, Simon, Mikulski, Bingaman, Kennedy, Wellstone, Kassebaum, Cochran,
Hatch, Jeffords, Thurmond, and Coats;
Employment and Productivity: Senators Simon (Chairman), Harkin, Adams,
Mikulski, Bingaman, Kennedy, Thurmond, Durenberger, Kassebaum, Coats, and
Hatch;
Disability Policy: Senators Harkin (Chairman), Metzenbaum, Simon, Adams,
Kennedy, Durenberger, Hatch, and Jeffords;
Children, Families, Drugs and Alcoholism: Senators Dodd (Chairman), Pell,
Harkin, Adams, Mikulski, Bingaman, Kennedy, Wellstone, Coats, Hatch,
Kassebaum, Jeffords, Thurmond, and Durenberger; and
Aging: Senators Adams (Chairman), Pell, Metzenbaum, Dodd, Kennedy, Cochran,
Durenberger, Coats, and Hatch.
AMERICAN FAMILIES IN THE 1990's
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs and Alcoholism resumed hearings to examine the state of the American
family, focusing on certain initiatives to strengthen public and private
sector programs relating to health issues, early childhood development, family
preservation, and child welfare reform, receiving testimony from Circuit Court
Judge Marianne E. Becker, Waukesha, Wisconsin; Edward Zigler, Yale University,
New Haven, Connecticut; William A. Galston, University of Maryland, College
Park, on behalf of the Progressive Policy Institute, Washington, D.C.;
Franklyn A. Caine, United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, Connecticut;
Richard J. Podell, Richard J. Podell and Associates, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on
behalf of the American Bar Association; Charles Bruner, Child and Family
Policy Center, Des Moines, Iowa; Velma Brown, Catholic Charities of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois; and Peter W. Forsythe, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, and
Joyce Brothers, both of New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MILITARY RESERVISTS SMALL BUSINESS RELIEF
Committee on Small Business: Committee ordered favorably reported, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 360, to authorize the Small
Business Administration to provide financial and business development
assistance to military reservists' small businesses.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1991/02/21
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 21, 1991; pages D166 - D175 (Bd vol. D61-
D70)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1992 for the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from David Nummy, Assistant Secretary
for Finance and Management, Stephen E. Higgins, Director, Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms, and Charles F. Rinkevich, Director, Federal Law
Enforcement Training Center, all of the Department of the Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, March 6.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for the Department of
Defense, and to review the future year defense plan for fiscal years
1992-1997, receiving testimony from Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of Defense;
and Gen. Colin L. Powell, USA, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BANKING INDUSTRY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the condition of the banking industry and its broader economic
implications, after receiving testimony from Carole S. Berger, C.J. Lawrence
Inc., and James Grant, Grant's Interest Rate Observer, both of New York, New
York; and William W. Weiant, The First Boston Corporation, Boston,
Massachusetts.
MOTOR VEHICLE FUEL EFFICIENCY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee held
hearings on S. 279, to require new standards for corporate average fuel
economy, receiving testimony from Jerry R. Curry, Administrator, National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Transportation; Stephen
Schneider, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado; Stuart
Eizenstat, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer and Murphy, George Eads, General Motors
Corporation, James Olson, Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., Jerry Benefield, Nissan
Motor Manufacturing Corporation U.S.A., Jay D. Hair, National Wildlife
Federation, Dick Warden, United Auto Workers, Marc Ledbetter, American Council
for An Energy Efficient Economy, and Deborah Bleviss, International Institute
for Energy Conservation, all of Washington, D.C.; Vincent Breglio,
Research/Strategy/Management, Inc., Lanham, Maryland; Ronald R. Boltz,
Chrysler Corporation, Highland Park, Michigan; Thomas G. Elliott, American
Honda Motor Corporation, Torrance, California; and Peter J. Pestillo, Ford
Motor Corporation, Dearborn, Michigan.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight
hearings on the Administration's proposed national energy strategy, after
receiving testimony from James D. Watkins, Secretary, W. Henson Moore, Deputy
Secretary, Linda G. Stuntz, Deputy Under Secretary, and Stephen A. Wakefield,
General Counsel, all of the Department of Energy.
TRANSFER OF YOSEMITE PARK AND CURRY COMPANY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings to examine the agreement under
which ownership of the Yosemite Park and Curry Company would be transferred
from MCA, Inc. to the National Park Foundation, a non-profit organization,
after receiving testimony from Manuel Lujan, Jr., Secretary, and James M.
Ridenour, Director, National Park Service, both of the Department of the
Interior; Leonard L. Silverstein, National Park Foundation, Washington, D.C.;
and Robert D. Hadl, MCA, Inc., Universal City, California.
LEAD POISONING PREVENTION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Toxic Substances,
Environmental Oversight, Research and Development held hearings on the
Administration's proposals to prevent lead poisoning and contamination,
receiving testimony from William K. Reilly, Administrator, Environmental
Protection Agency; James O. Mason, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human
Services for Health, Public Health Service; John C. Weicher, Assistant
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Policy Development and
Research; and Gerard F. Scannell, Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
[Page: D169]
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
YUGOSLAVIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs held hearings
to examine the U.S. response to current developments in Yugoslavia, receiving
testimony from Senator Dole; Representatives Moody and Bentley; Richard
Schifter, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian
Affairs; James F. Dobbins, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
European and Canadian Affairs; Joseph DioGuardi, Albanian-American Civic
League, Scarsdale, New York; Rudy Perpich, Croatian-American Association,
Hibbing, Minnesota; Jeri Laber, Helsinki Watch, New York, New York; Karl
Bonutti, Slovenian-American Heritage Foundation, Pepper Pike, Ohio; and Robert
Rade Stone, Serb National Federation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
RETAIL COMPETITION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business
Rights concluded hearings on S. 429, to promote retail competition and assure
lower prices on products for the benefit of American consumers by codifying
that resale price fixing agreements are unlawful, by clarifying the
evidentiary standard for jury consideration of certain vertical price fixing
cases, and by making clear that an agreement between a manufacturer and a
retailer to terminate another retailer in order to eliminate price competition
is illegal, whether or not a specific price or price level is agreed upon,
after receiving testimony from Daniel J. Schulder, National Counsel of Senior
Citizens, Washington, D.C.; Jim Sinegal, Costco Wholesale Corporation,
Kirkland, Washington, on behalf of the Coalition Against Price-Fixing; Robert
D. Goldberg, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the National Office Machine
Dealers Association (NOMDA), and the National Association of Retail Dealers of
America (NARDA); and Casey Willson, The Willson Company, McLean, Virginia.
AUTHORIZATION--HIGHER EDUCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
programs of the Higher Education Act, focusing on how postsecondary education
can prepare for the changes and needs in higher education, receiving testimony
from Arnold H. Packer, Executive Director, Commission on Achieving Necessary
Skills, Department of Labor; Reginald Wilson, American Council on Education,
and John H. Zimmerman, MCI Communications Corporation, both of Washington,
D.C.; Thomas P. Salmon, New England Council, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts;
Allan M. Norton, Martin Marietta Electronics, Information and Missiles Group,
Orlando, Florida; Bernard Z. Brown, Los Angeles, California, on behalf of the
Coalition of Apparel Industries; Thomas Ehrlich, Indiana University System,
Bloomington; Audrey C. Cohen, The College for Human Services, New York, New
York; and Kathryn Mohrman, University of Maryland, College Park.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business measures:
S. Con. Res. 11, to establish an Albert Einstein Congressional Fellowship
program;
An original resolution (S. Res. 58) authorizing the printing of a collection
of the rules of the committees of the Senate; and
An original resolution authorizing biennial expenditures by standing, select,
and special committees of the Senate, in lieu of S. Res. 36, S. Res. 34, S.
Res. 42, S. Res. 49, S. Res. 32, S. Res. 27, S. Res. 19, S. Res. 21, S. Res.
24, S. Res. 20, S. Res. 39, S. Res. 29, S. Res. 38, S. Res. 37, S. Res. 52, S.
Res. 33, S. Res. 26, S. Res. 31, and S. Res. 25.
INDIAN PROGRAMS
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's budget request for fiscal year 1992 for Indian programs, after
receiving testimony from Eddie Brown, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for
Indian Affairs; Everett Rhoades, Director, Indian Health Service, Public
Health Service, and S. Timothy Wapato, Commissioner, Administration for Native
Americans, Office of Human Development Services, both of the Department of
Health and Human Services; John T. MacDonald, Assistant Secretary for
Elementary and Secondary Education, John Tippeconnic, Director, Office of
Indian Education, and Tom Corwin, Director, Division of Elementary, Secondary
and Vocational Analysis, Office of Planning, Budget, and Evaluation, all of
the Department of Education; Joseph G. Schiff, Assistant Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development for Public and Indian Housing; and Paul Mayrand,
Director, Office of Special Targeted Programs, and Jack Rapport, Deputy
Controller, both of the Department of Labor.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1991/02/22
Daily Digest - Friday, February 22, 1991; pages D175 (sic) - D180 (Bd vol.
D70-D71)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--MARITIME COMMISSION/SEC
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Capt. Warren G. Leback, Administrator, Maritime Commission, Department of
Transportation, and Richard C. Breeden, Chairman, Securities and Exchange
Commission.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, February 28.
GLOBAL THREAT
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held closed hearings on assessment of
the global threat, receiving testimony from William H. Webster, Director,
Lawrence K. Gershwin, National Intelligence Officer for Strategic Forces,
Robert E. Blackwell, National Intelligence Officer for USSR, and Brig. Gen.
David A. Armstrong, National Intelligence Officer for General Purpose Forces,
each of the Central Intelligence Agency; and Lt. Gen. Harry E. Soyster, USA,
Director, Daniel J. Spohn, Defense Intelligence Officer for Strategic Forces,
Walter P. Lang, Defense Intelligence Officer for Middle East and South Asia,
and Arthur A. Zuelhke, Jr., Defense Intelligence Officer for Soviet Union and
Eastern Europe, each of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INCOME AND TAX TRENDS
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1992 budget for
the Federal Government, focusing on income and tax trends during the 1980's,
receiving testimony from Robert S. McIntyre, Citizens for Tax Justice, Gary
Burtless, The Brookings Institution, and Marvin H. Kosters, American
Enterprise Institute, all of Washington, D.C.
Committee will meet again Thursday, February 28.
MEDICARE QUALITY ASSURANCE
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Medicare and Long-Term Care held
hearings on medicare quality assurance, focusing on a study by the Institute
of Medicine on methods of assessing and assuring the quality of health care
services provided under the Medicare program, and on recommendations to
improve the current system, receiving testimony from Gail R. Wilensky,
Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration, Department of Health and
Human Services; Paul F. Griner, Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, New York,
on behalf of the Institute of Medicine; Thomas G. Dehn, American Medical Peer
Review Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; G. Rodney Wolford, Alliant Health
System, Louisville, Kentucky, on behalf of the American Hospital Association;
Robert E. McAfee, Portland, Maine, on behalf of the American Medical
Association; and Robert L. Kane, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
[Page: D176]
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/02/25
Daily Digest - Monday, February 25, 1991; pages D181 - D184 (Bd vol. D71-D72)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health for Families and the Uninsured
held hearings to examine the need for health care system reform, focusing on
access to health care and cost controls, receiving testimony from Delaware
Governor Michael N. Castle, Dover, on behalf of the National Governor's
Association; Robert S. Miller, Jr., Chrysler Corporation, Highland Park,
Michigan; Jeffrey H. Joseph, United States Chamber of Commerce, Stuart M.
Butler, Heritage Foundation, and Carl J. Schramm, Health Insurance Association
of America, all of Washington, D.C.; and Robert Graham, American Academy of
Family Physicians, Kansas City, Missouri, Colin C. Rorrie, Jr., American
College of Emergency Physicians, Dallas, Texas, both on behalf of the
Physician Organizations for Access to Care Coalition.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DOE NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on the Department
of Energy nuclear weapons complex reconfiguration study, receiving testimony
from Senators Thurmond, Wirth and Bryan; J. Dexter Peach, Assistant
Comptroller General, and Victor S. Rezendes, Director, Energy Issues, both of
the General Accounting Office; and John C. Tuck, Under Secretary, Rear Adm.
J.M. Barr, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Military Applications, and Richard
A. Claytor, Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs, all of the Department of
Energy.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/02/26
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 26, 1991; pages D185 - D192 (Bd vol. D72-D78)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee announced the
following subcommittee assignments:
Agricultural Production and Stabilization of Prices: Senators Pryor
(Chairman), Baucus, Kerrey, Boren, Heflin, Harkin, Conrad, Helms, Dole,
Seymour, Grassley, Cochran, and McConnell;
Domestic and Foreign Marketing and Product Promotion: Senators Boren
(Chairman), Pryor, Fowler, Baucus, Harkin, Conrad, Cochran, Helms, Seymour,
Grassley, and McConnell;
Agricultural Credit: Senators Conrad (Chairman), Boren, Daschle, Grassley, and
Craig;
Rural Development and Rural Electrification: Senators Heflin (Chairman),
Daschle, Pryor, Cochran, and Craig;
Nutrition and Investigations: Senators Harkin (Chairman), Fowler, Kerrey,
Pryor, McConnell, Dole, and Helms;
Agricultural Research and General Legislation: Senators Daschle (Chairman),
Kerrey, Seymour, and Dole; and
Conservation and Forestry: Senators Fowler (Chairman), Heflin, Baucus, Craig,
and Helms.
APPROPRIATIONS--DESERT STORM
Committee on Appropriations: Committee held hearings on the proposed
supplemental request for fiscal year 1991 for Operation Desert Storm,
receiving testimony from Richard G. Darman, Director, Office of Management and
Budget; Donald J. Atwood, Deputy Secretary of Defense; and Sean C. O'Keefe,
Comptroller, Department of Defense.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SOVIET UNION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to examine current
trends in the Soviet Union, after receiving testimony from Richard Pipes,
Harvard University, and Stephen Meyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
both of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Gail Lapidus, University of California,
Berkeley; and Lt. Gen. William E. Odom (Ret.), The Hudson Institute,
Alexandria, Virginia.
BANKING REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings on
an Administration proposal to promote a safe and financially strong banking
system, receiving testimony from Nicholas F. Brady, Secretary of the Treasury.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 341,
to establish a national energy policy to reduce U.S. dependence on imported
oil, focusing on Title III and subtitles A and B of Title IV relating to
energy efficiency and renewable energy, receiving testimony from Michael
Davis, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Conservation and Renewable Energy;
Henry G. Williams, New York Public Service Commission, Albany, representing
the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; Richard H.
Watson, Washington State Energy Office, Olympia, representing the National
Association of State Energy Officials; James Wolf, Alliance to Save Energy,
and Scott Sklar, Solar Energy Industries Association, both of Washington,
D.C.; and Gregory M. Reuger, Pacific Gas and Electric, San Francisco,
California.
Also, committee held hearings on subtitle C of Title IV relating to hydropower
licensing and efficiency and section 10003, relating to National Environmental
Policy Act compliance regarding construction or operation of facilities under
the Natural Gas Act or the Federal Power Act, of S. 341 (listed above),
receiving testimony from Kevin A. Kelly, Director of Electricity, Coal,
Nuclear, and Renewables Policy, Office of Policy, Planning and Analysis, Paul
Carrier, Senior Policy Analyst, and Cynthia A. Marlette, Associate General
Counsel for Hydroelectric and Electric, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
all of the Department of Energy; Dennis B. Underwood, Commissioner, Bureau of
Reclamation, Department of the Interior; G. Edward Dickey, Acting Principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers; Rolland A. Schmitten, Regional Director, Northwest Region, National
Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Department of Commerce; Gail Ann Greely, National Hydropower Association,
Alameda, California; Richard T. Hunt, Richard Hunt Associates, Annapolis,
Maryland; Richard H. Silkman, Maine State Planning Office, Augusta; David R.
Conrad, National Wildlife Federation, and John D. Echeverria, American Rivers,
Inc., both of Washington, D.C.
Committee will meet again Thursday, February 28.
COUNTER TERRORISM
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine an
Office of Technology Assessment report on the use of technology to counter
terrorism, focusing on Federal research and development efforts aimed at
developing technical tools to combat terrorist attacks, receiving testimony
from Anthony Fainberg, Project Director, Energy, Materials, and International
Security Division, and Alan Shaw, Program Manager, Energy, Materials and
Security Division, both of the Office of Technology Assessment; Morris D.
Busby, Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism, Department of State; Lynne A. Osmus,
Acting Director, Office of Civil Aviation Security Policy and Planning, and
Lyle Malotky, Acting Manager, Scientific Advisory Staff, Office of Civil
Aviation Security, both of the Federal Aviation Administration, and Paul
Polski, Director, Aviation Security, Research and Development, Federal
Aviation Administration Technical Center (Atlantic City, New Jersey), all of
the Department of Transportation; Kenneth W. Nimmich, Section Chief for
Scientific Analysis, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Dean Fetterolf,
Forensic Science Research and Training Center, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Academy (Quantico, Virginia), both of the Department of Justice; Antonio A.
Cantu, Senior Chemist, Technical Security Division, and John Piper, Special
Agent, both of the United States Secret Service, Department of the Treasury;
and Col. Stanley L. Wiener, University of Illinois, Chicago.
[Page: D187]
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PROCUREMENT INTEGRITY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management held oversight hearings on the implementation of the procurement
integrity provisions as contained in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy
Act, and proposed legislation to strengthen and clarify the protections for
procurement sensitive information, receiving testimony from Representative
Bennett; Allan V. Burman, Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy,
Office of Management and Budget; Stephen D. Potts, Director, and Leslie
Wilcox, Counsel, both of the Office of Government Ethics; Lee J. Radek, Senior
Deputy Chief of Public Integrity Section, Criminal Division, Department of
Justice; and A.G.W. Biddle, Computer and Communications Industry Association,
David S. Cohen, Cohen and White, Mark Schultz, Professional Services Council,
Alan R. Yuspeh, Miller and Chevalier Chartered, and Richard J. Lombardi, AT&T
Federal Systems, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on the nomination of Bob
Martinez, of Florida, to be Director of National Drug Control Policy, where
the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Graham and Mack, testified and
answered questions in his own behalf.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
Joint Meetings
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 Joseph Andry, Disabled American Veterans, Washington, D.C.
1991/02/27
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 27, 1991; pages D194 - D202 (Bd vol. D78-
D85)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
EASTERN EUROPE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to examine current
trends in Eastern Europe, after receiving testimony from Andre Korbonski,
University of California, Los Angeles; Charles Gati, Union College,
Schenectady, New York; and James Brown, The Rand Corporation, Washington, D.C.
LIMITED PARTNERSHIP REORGANIZATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
held oversight hearings to discuss issues relating to reorganizations of
public limited partnerships, referred to as "roll-ups", focusing on investor
losses in limited partnership roll ups, and certain abuses in publicly-held
limited partnerships, receiving testimony from Richard C. Breeden, Chairman,
Securities and Exchange Commission; Frank J. Wilson, National Association of
Securities Dealers, Washington, D.C.; Dee Harris, Arizona Division of
Securities, Phoenix, on behalf of the North American Securities Administrators
Association; Richard G. Wollack, Liquidity Fund Management Inc., Emeryville,
California; Lee Errickson, Robert A. Stanger & Company, Shrewsbury, New
Jersey; Margaret Hooker, New Canaan, Connecticut; and Ronald Rybicki, Detroit,
Michigan.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1992 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1992 budget for
the Federal Government, focusing on labor and employment policies, receiving
testimony from Lynn Martin, Secretary of Labor; and Ray Marshall, former
Secretary of Labor.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
[Page: D195]
INSURANCE COMPANY INSOLVENCY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings to
examine the fiscal health and soundness of the insurance industry, focusing on
the effect of increased insurance company insolvencies in the 1980's and
future implications for the industry, receiving testimony from Linda Powers,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Services; Johnny C. Finch, Director
for Planning and Reporting, General Government Division, and Lawrence D.
Cluff, Assistant Director, Financial Institutions and Markets, both of the
General Accounting Office; Larry Mayewski and John H. Snyder, both of A.M.
Best Company, Oldwick, New Jersey; Roy Taub, Standard and Poor's Corporation,
Orin Kramer, Kramer Associates, Jim Barrese and Jack Nelson, both of the
College of Insurance of New York, all of New York, New York; Marty Leary,
Southern Finance Project, Durham, North Carolina; and William H. McCartney,
National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported S. 248, to designate certain segments of the Niobrara River in
Nebraska and a segment of the Missouri River in Nebraska and South Dakota as
components of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
Also, committee failed to approve S. 244, to provide for a referendum on the
political status of Puerto Rico.
BENEFITS FOR PERSIAN GULF TROOPS
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation to
provide certain tax benefits for U.S. military personnel serving in the
Persian Gulf, including S. 82, S. 199, S. 246, S. 252, S. 254, S. 342, S. 354,
S. 355, receiving testimony from Senators Glenn, Ford, Shelby, Craig, and
Kasten; Michael J. Graetz, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax
Policy; Lt. Gen. Donald W. Jones, USA, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Military Manpower and Personnel Policy; George G. Kundahl, Principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs; Sgt. Maj. C.A.
McKinney, USMC (Ret.), on behalf of the Non-Commissioned Officers Association
and The Military Coalition, and Col. Christopher Giaimo, USAF (Ret.), on
behalf of the Retired Officers Association and The Military Coalition, both of
Alexandria, Virginia; Carol Wignall, Grafton, Virginia; Sgt. Becky Gommel,
USAF, Fairfax, Virginia; and Fran Kraus, Colorado National Guard, Littleton,
on behalf of the National Guard Association of the United States.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PROSPECTIVE ARMS SALES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the annual estimate and justification for proposed arms sales for
1991 (Javits Report), from Richard A. Clarke, Assistant Secretary of State for
Politico-Military Affairs; and Lt. Gen. Teddy G. Allen, USA, Director, and H.
Diehl McKalip, Director of Operations, both of the Defense Security Assistance
Agency.
Committee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported, with
amendments, S. 242, to revise the staff honoraria provision of the Ethics in
Government Act of 1989 which bans the receipt of money or anything of value
for work performed outside the Government.
Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 102d Congress.
INTERNATIONAL ARMS TRAFFICKING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
held hearings to examine the activities of foreign mercenaries as related to
international drug trafficking and arms diversions, focusing on British and
Israeli mercenaries involved in training private drug cartel armies, receiving
testimony from Stephen H. Levin, Staff Counsel to the Minority, and Raymundo
Perez, Staff Investigator to the Minority, both of the Permanent Subcommittee
on Investigations; and David Tomkins and Peter MacAleese, both British
mercenaries.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Bob Martinez, of Florida, to be Director of the Office of National Drug
Control Policy, after the nominee, who was introduced by Representatives
Coughlin and Shaw and Missouri Governor John Ashcroft, further testified and
answered questions in his own behalf. Testimony was also received from Florida
Attorney General Robert A. Butterworth, Tallahassee; Edward T. Foote II, Miami
Coalition for a Drug-Free Community, and John W. Dow, The Crossings
Rehabilitation Centers, both of Miami, Florida; Ellen M. Weber, Legal Action
Center, Neal R. Sonnett, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and
Don Cahill, Fraternal Order of Police, all of Washington, D.C.; James Austin,
National Council on Crime and Delinquency, San Francisco, California; Johnny
L. Hughes, National Troopers Coalition, Pikesville, Maryland; Rev. Sean
O'Sullivan, Florida Drug-Free Communities Project, Miami Shores, Florida, and
Shirley D. Coletti, Operation PAR, Inc., St. Petersburg, Florida.
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VETERANS PROGRAMS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1992 for veterans'
programs, after receiving testimony from Edward J. Derwinski, Secretary of
Veterans Affairs; Anthony J. Principi, Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs;
James W. Holsinger, Chief Medical Director, D'Wayne Gray, Chief Benefits
Director, Jo Ann K. Webb, Director of the National Cemetery System, Raoul L.
Carroll, General Counsel, S. Anthony McCann, Assistant Secretary for Finance
and Planning, and Mark Cattlet, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Budget, all of
the Department of Veterans Affairs; Thomas E. Collins, III, Assistant
Secretary for Veterans Employment and Training, and Jeffrey Randall, Director
of Field Operations, both of the Department of Labor; Frank Q. Nebeker, Chief
Judge, Robert F. Comeau, Clerk of the Court, James L. Caldwell, Jr., Chief
Deputy Clerk, and Deborah Creek, Budget Officer, all of the United States
Court of Veterans Appeals; and Larry W. Rivers, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
Robert L. Jones, AMVETS, Jesse Brown, Disabled American Veterans, John C.
Bollinger, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Frank Buxton, American Legion, and
Thomas Sherwood, Vietnam Veterans of America, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/02/28
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 28, 1991; pages D204 - D217 (Bd vol. D85-
D93)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--SUPREME COURT/JUDICIARY/FTC
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonin Scalia, both Associate Justices of the Supreme
Court of the United States; Richard S. Arnold, Judge, United States Court of
Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and Kenneth K. Hall, Judge, United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, both on behalf of the Judicial
Conference of the United States; L. Ralph Mecham, Director, Administrative
Office of the United States Courts; and Janet D. Steiger, Chairman, Federal
Trade Commission.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 5.
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the Department of
Transportation, receiving testimony from Samuel K. Skinner, Secretary of
Transportation; and on the supplemental request for fiscal year 1991 for the
U.S. Coast Guard, receiving testimony from Adm. J. William Kime, Commandant,
U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, March 6.
OPERATION DESERT STORM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the proposed
supplemental request for fiscal year 1991 for Operation Desert Storm, after
receiving testimony from Ronald A. Davidson, Assistant Deputy Comptroller,
Program/Budget, Department of Defense; Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, USA, Vice
Chief of Army Staff; Adm. Jerome L. Johnson, USN, Vice Chief of Naval
Operations; Gen. John R. Dailey, USMC, Assistant Commandant of the Marine
Corps; and Gen. John M. Loh, USAF, Vice Chief of Air Force Staff.
SECONDARY MORTGAGE MARKET
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Consumer and
Regulatory Affairs concluded oversight hearings on the impact of the secondary
market and private mortgage insurers on community reinvestment lending and on
mortgage discrimination, after receiving testimony from John M. Ols, Jr.,
Director, Housing and Community Development Issues, Resources, Community, and
Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office; Gordon H. Mansfield,
Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, and Arthur Hill,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner, both of
the Department of Housing and Urban Development; and Leland Brendsel, Federal
Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), Larry Dale, Federal National
Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), and Gregory T. Barmore, Mortgage Insurance
Companies of America, all of Washington, D.C.
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1992 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1992 budget for
the Federal Government, focusing on child welfare issues, receiving testimony
from Marian Wright Edelman and James Weill, both of the Children's Defense
Fund, Robert Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Douglas
J. Besharov, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, all of
Washington, D.C.
Committee will meet again Tuesday, March 5.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Stanford E. Parris, of Virginia, to be
Administrator of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, Department
of Transportation, and J.J. Simmons III, of Oklahoma, to be a Member of the
Interstate Commerce Commission, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Parris was introduced by Senators Warner
and Robb, and Mr. Simmons was introduced by Senators Boren and Nickles.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications held hearings on S. 173, to permit the Bell Telephone Companies
to conduct research on, design, and manufacture telecommunications equipment,
receiving testimony from Representative Collins; Alfred C. Sikes, Chairman,
Federal Communications Commission; Janice Obuchowski, Assistant Secretary of
Commerce for Communications and Information; James Rill, Assistant Attorney
General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; Sam Ginn, Pacific Telesis
Group, San Francisco, California; Jim G. Kilpatric, American Telephone and
Telegraph, Basking Ridge, New Jersey; Barbara J. Easterling, Communications
Workers of America, Phillip L. Verveer, Wilkie, Farr and Gallagher, on behalf
of the Telecommunications Industry Association, and Ronald J. Binz, National
Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates, all of Washington, D.C.;
Stuart Gibson, Concept Communications, Inc., Dallas, Texas; and Michael S.
Weinstock, Morse Security Group, Sylmar, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed hearings on S.
341, to establish a national energy policy to reduce U.S. dependence on
imported oil, focusing on Title XI relating to the transportation of oil, and
subtitle A relating to Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE), receiving
testimony from Jerry R. Curry, Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, and Joseph Canny, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, both
of the Department of Transportation; Steven E. Plotkin, Senior Associate,
Office of Technology Assessment; Philip M. Smith, Executive Officer, National
Research Council, National Academy of Sciences; K. G. Duleep, Energy and
Environmental Analysis, Inc., and Daniel A. Lashof, Natural Resource Defense
Council, representing the Energy Conservation Coalition, both of Washington,
D.C.; Owen Bieber, Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of
America (UAW), and Marina Whitman, General Motors Corporation, both of
Detroit, Michigan; Ronald R. Boltz, Chrysler Corporation, Highland Park,
Michigan; Peter J. Pestillo, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan; and John
E. Reilly, Association of International Automobile Manufacturers, Inc.,
Arlington, Virginia.
Committee will meet again Tuesday, March 5.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on issues
relating to the promotion and protection of human rights, after receiving
testimony from Representatives Lantos and Porter; Richard Schifter, Assistant
Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs; Holly J.
Burkhalter, Human Rights Watch, Washington, D.C.; Michael Posner, Lawyers
Committee for Human Rights, New York, New York; and Winston P. Nagan, Amnesty
International USA, Gainesville, Florida.
SOVIET DISUNION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs held hearings
on the U.S. response to Soviet disunity, receiving testimony from Robert
Zoellick, Counselor, Department of State; Richard Pipes, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts; Stephen Cohen, Princeton University, Princeton, New
Jersey; and Uri Ra'anan, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Hearings will continue Wednesday, March 6.
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INTERNATIONAL ARMS TRAFFICKING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
continued hearings to examine the activities of foreign mercenaries as related
to international drug trafficking and arms diversions, focusing on large
shipments of automatic weapons that have been diverted to Colombia and the
drug cartels, receiving testimony from Stephen H. Levin, Staff Counsel to the
Minority, and Raymundo Perez, Staff Investigator to the Minority, both of the
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations; Geoffrey Robertson, London, England,
former Counsel, Antigua Judicial Inquiry Commission; and Lawrence Barcella,
representing the Government of Antigua, and Edward C. Ezell, Institute for
Research on Small Arms in International Security, both of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
OSHA CRIMINAL PENALTY REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor concluded
hearings on S. 445, to revise the provisions of the Occupational Safety and
Health Act of 1970 to increase criminal penalties for, and to encourage the
prosecution of, employers who willfully violate safety and health standards in
the workplace, after receiving testimony from Julian De La Rosa, Inspector
General, and Gerard F. Scannell, Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety
and Health, both of the Department of Labor; District Attorney E. Michael
McCann, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; John N. Erlenborn, Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather &
Geraldson, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the National Association of
Manufacturers; Mary Jo Lenert, Lenert Plumbing, Inc., Naperville, Illinois, on
behalf of the National Federation of Independent Businesses; Sidney A.
Shapiro, University of Kansas Law School, Lawrence; Virginia Durand, Detroit,
Michigan; and William Dirksing, Cincinnati, Ohio.
NOMINATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Charles L. Cragin, of Maine, to be Chairman of the Board of
Veterans' Appeals, Department of Veterans Affairs.
Joint Meetings
VETERANS PROGRAMS
Joint Hearings: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint hearings
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review legislative
recommendations of certain veterans organizations, after receiving testimony
in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Victor S. McCoy, Sr.,
Paralyzed Veterans of America, Henry J. Berube, Blinded Veterans Association,
Mary R. Stout, Vietnam Veterans of America, Leonard A. Carlton, Military Order
of the Purple Heart, and Walter W. Krueger, Non-Commissioned Officers
Association, all of Washington, D.C.
1991/03/01
Daily Digest - Friday, March 1, 1991; pages D218 - D220 (Bd vol. D93 - D94)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Jon David Glassman, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Paraguay, after the nominee testified and answered questions in
his own behalf.
Joint Meetings
FEDERAL STATISTICS
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to review the
recommendations of the Administration's Working Group on Federal Statistics,
and the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1992 for Federal
statistical agencies, after receiving testimony from Michael J. Boskin,
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers; Michael R. Darby, Under Secretary of
Commerce for Economic Affairs, Janet L. Norwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor
Statistics, Department of Labor; Martin Fleming, Cahners Publishing Company,
Washington, D.C., on behalf of the National Association of Business
Economists; and William Hawkes, A.C. Nielsen Company, New York, New York.
1991/03/04
Daily Digest - Monday, March 4, 1991; pages D222 - D226 (Bd vol. D96 - D98)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1992 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Charles E. Hess, Assistant
Secretary for Science and Education, Harry C. Mussman, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Science and Education, R. Dean Plowman, Administrator,
Agricultural Research Service, John Patrick Jordan, Administrator, Cooperative
State Research Service, Myron D. Johnsrud, Administrator, Extension Service,
and Dennis Kaplan, Budget Officer, all of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again Friday, March 8.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony from Donald J. Atwood, Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
WELFARE DEPENDENCY
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy held
hearings on the effects of the Family Support Act of 1988 and the need for
indicators to measure increases or decreases in welfare dependency, receiving
testimony from Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Assistant Secretary for Family Support,
and Martin H. Gerry, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, both of
the Department of Health and Human Services; William P. Butz, Associate
Director for Demographic Program, Bureau of the Census, Department of
Commerce; Janet L. Norwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Department of Labor; Richard Schmalensee, Council of Economic Advisors,
Washington, D.C.; and Paul E. Barton, Educational Testing Service, Princeton,
New Jersey.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/03/05
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 5, 1991; pages D227 - D236 (Bd vol. D98 - D106)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings on
the nomination of Edward R. Madigan, of Illinois, to be Secretary of
Agriculture, where the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Dixon, Simon,
and Symms, and Representatives de la Garza and E. Thomas Coleman, testified
and answered questions in his own behalf.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--FCC/LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1992, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Alfred C. Sikes, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission;
David H. Martin, President, and George Wittgraf, Chairman of the Board, both
of the Legal Services Corporation; and Edmund S. Muskie, Maine Commission on
Legal Needs, Augusta, and Kim Taylor, American Bar Association, Washington,
D.C., both on behalf of the Legal Services Corporation.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, March 7.
GLOBAL DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded closed hearings
to review global defense programs, after receiving testimony from Gen. Colin
Powell, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for foreign assistance,
focusing on multilateral development banks, receiving testimony from Nicholas
F. Brady, Secretary of the Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 12.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1992, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Lynn Martin, Secretary of Labor, Roberts T. Jones,
Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training, Thomas C. Komarek, Assistant
Secretary for Administration and Management, Julian W. De La Rosa, Inspector
General, and James E. McMullen, Director, Office of Budget, all of the
Department of Labor; and Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human
Services.
Committee will meet again Thursday, March 7.
OPERATION DESERT STORM SUPPLEMENTAL/NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
An original bill authorizing supplemental funds for fiscal year 1991 for
certain activities of Operation Desert Storm; and
The nominations of Robert W. Gambino, of Virginia, to be Director of Selective
Service, and Edson G. Case, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Defense Nuclear
Facilities Safety Board.
BANKING REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed hearings
on the Administration proposal to promote a safe and financially strong
banking system, focusing on the Congressional Budget Office analysis of the
Department of the Treasury's financial modernization recommendations,
receiving testimony from Robert D. Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget
Office.
Committee will meet again Thursday, March 7.
1992 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1992 budget for
the Federal Government, focusing on health care issues, after receiving
testimony from Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services;
Robert Maxwell, American Association of Retired Persons, and Jack Meyer, New
Directions for Policy, both of Washington, D.C.; and Robert J. Blendon,
Harvard University School of Public Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Donald A. Henderson, of Maryland, to be an
Associate Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, after the
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Sarbanes, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held hearings on S. 272, to provide for a coordinated
Federal research program to ensure continued United States leadership in
high-performance computing, receiving testimony from D. Allan Bromley,
Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director, Office of
Science and Technology Policy; Donald N. Langenberg, University of Maryland,
College Park; Malvin Kalos, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Tracey Gray,
US Sprint, Herndon, Virginia; David Nagel, Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino,
California; and John Wold and Riaz Abdulla, both of Eli Lilly and Company,
Indianapolis, Indiana.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed hearings on S.
341, to establish a national energy policy to reduce U.S. dependence on
imported oil, focusing on Title XII, relating to two demonstration projects
aimed at commercializing advanced nuclear reactor technologies, and Title
XIII, relating to clarifying the licensing process for nuclear power plants,
receiving testimony from William Young, Assistant Secretary of Energy for
Nuclear Energy; Marcus A. Rowden, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, and Jacobson,
and Eric Glitzenstein, Harmon, Curran, Gallagher, and Spielberg, both of
Washington, D.C.; Bertram Wolfe, GE Nuclear Energy, San Jose, California;
Joseph M. Farley, Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Birmingham, Alabama;
Andrew Kadak, Yankee Atomic Electric Company, Bolton, Massachusetts; and
Frederick Buckman, Consumers Power Company, Jackson, Michigan.
Committee will meet again Thursday, March 7.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee met and announced the
following subcommittee assignments:
Water Resources, Transportation, and Infrastructure: Senators Moynihan
(Chairman), Mitchell, Lautenberg, Reid, Graham, Lieberman, Metzenbaum, Symms,
Warner, Jeffords, Durenberger, Smith, and Chafee;
Environmental Protection: Senators Baucus (Chairman), Moynihan, Mitchell,
Lautenberg, Graham, Lieberman, Metzenbaum, Chafee, Simpson, Durenberger,
Warner, Jeffords, and Symms;
Superfund, Ocean, and Water Protection: Senators Lautenberg (Chairman),
Mitchell, Baucus, Metzenbaum, Durenberger, Simpson, and Smith;
Nuclear Regulation: Senators Graham (Chairman), Moynihan, Reid, Simpson, and
Symms;
Toxic Substances, Environmental Oversight, Research and Development: Senators
Reid (Chairman), Baucus, Lieberman, Warner, and Jeffords.
FHA
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1992 for the Federal
Highway Administration, after receiving testimony from Samuel K. Skinner,
Secretary of Transportation; Eugene R. McCormick, Deputy Administrator,
Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation; James L. Blum,
Assistant Director, Budget Analysis, Congressional Budget Office; and Kenneth
M. Mead, Director, Transportation Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic
Development Division, and Jacquie Williams-Bridgers, Transportation Group
Director, both of the General Accounting Office.
MARKETING OF CLOZARIL
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business
Rights concluded hearings on the marketing of the drug clozapine, used in the
treatment of schizophrenia, by Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corporation, focusing on
antitrust and health policy issues created when drug companies restrict the
distribution of drugs, after receiving testimony from Kevin J. Arquit,
Director, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission; Laurent S. Lehmann,
Associate Director for Psychiatry, Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences
Service, Department of Veterans Affairs; Utah Attorney General Paul Van Dam,
Salt Lake City, on behalf of the National Association of Attorneys General;
Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Services Howard M. Cullum, Richmond;
and Mary Ellen Rehrman, Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Pennsylvania, Spring
City.
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Joint Meetings
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
Joint Hearings: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint hearings
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review legislative
recommendations of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, after receiving testimony
from James L. Kimery, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Washington, D.C.
1991/03/06
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 6, 1991; pages D237 - D247 (Bd vol. D106-
D114)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items:
The nomination of Edward R. Madigan, of Illinois, to be Secretary of
Agriculture;
S. 207, to authorize funds for and to enhance the effectiveness of the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, with amendments;
S. 393, to provide for fair treatment for farmers and ranchers who are
participating in the Persian Gulf War as active reservists or in any other
military capacity; and
S. 483, to expand the public purchase and protection of the Taconic Mountains
forest land in Bennington County, Vermont.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the Department of the Army,
receiving testimony from Michael P.W. Stone, Secretary of the Army; and Gen.
Carl E. Vuono, USA, Army Chief of Staff.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--AMTRAK/FRA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from W.
Graham Claytor, Jr., President and Chairman of the Board, National Railroad
Passenger Corporation (Amtrak); and Gilbert E. Carmichael, Administrator,
Kathy Murphy, Director of Budget, Philip Olekszyk, Acting Associate
Administrator for Safety, James T. McQueen, Associate Administrator for
Railroad Development, S. Mark Lindsey, Chief Counsel, and Robert L. Krick,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Railroad Research, all of the Federal
Railroad Administration, Department of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, March 13.
APPROPRIATIONS--SECRET SERVICE/CUSTOMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1992, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from John R. Simpson, Director, United States Secret Service, and Carol
Hallett, Commissioner, United States Customs Service, both of the Department
of the Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, March 14.
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APPROPRIATIONS--FEMA
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Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the
Federal Emergency Management Agency, receiving testimony from Wallace
Stickney, Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, March 13.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION--UNIFIED COMMANDS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on proposed
authorizations for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for the Department of Defense,
and the fiscal years 1992-1997 future year defense plan, focusing on the
contributions of the unified commands oriented to mobilization and
transportation of conventional forces to Operation Desert Shield/Storm,
receiving testimony from Gen. Edwin H. Burba, Jr., USA, Commander-in-Chief,
U.S. Forces Command; Gen. Carl Stinger, USA, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Special
Operations Command; and Gen. Hansford T. Johnson, USAF, Commander-in-Chief,
U.S. Transportation Command.
Hearings continue Wednesday, March 13.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee completed its review of
those programs which fall within the committee's jurisdiction as contained in
the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1992, and agreed on
recommendations it will make thereon to the Committee on the Budget.
SOVIET DISUNITY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs resumed
hearings on the U.S. response to Soviet disunity, receiving testimony from
Jerry Hough, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Frederick Starr, Oberlin
College, Oberlin, Ohio; Roman Szporluk, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and
William J.H. Hough III, Walter, Conston, Alexander and Green, New York, New
York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL PROCUREMENT OF SPARE PARTS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the
purchase and use of spare parts by the Federal Government which are either
counterfeit or substandard and do not meet specifications, focusing on recent
audits and investigations of the Department of Defense, the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
receiving testimony from Susan J. Crawford, Inspector General, Robert J.
Lieberman, Assistant Inspector General for Auditing, and James H. Reay,
Director, Supply Management Policy, Office of the Secretary, all of the
Department of Defense; Ernest Ellis, Deputy Director for Quality, Defense
Logistics Agency; Bill D. Colvin, Inspector General, National Aeronautics and
Space Administration; and Judy England-Joseph, Associate Director, Energy
Issues, General Accounting Office.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
ROLE OF COMMISSIONER OF FOOD AND DRUGS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the role of the current Commissioner of the Food and Drug
Administration, after receiving testimony from David A. Kessler, Commissioner
of Food and Drugs, Department of Health and Human Services.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN FUND
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on the
projected shortfall in the Presidential Election Campaign Fund, after
receiving testimony from John Warren McGarry, Chairman, Joan D. Aikens, Vice
Chairman, John C. Surina, Staff Director, and Lawrence M. Noble, General
Counsel, all of the Federal Election Commission; and Fred Wertheimer, Common
Cause, Thomas A. Schatz, Citizens Against Government Waste, and Roy A.
Schotland, Georgetown University Law Center, all of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATION
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
James F. Hoobler, of New York, to be Inspector General, Small Business
Administration, 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 Wednesday, March 13.
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Joint Meetings
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UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE EMERGENCY
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine the unemployment
insurance emergency situation and the impact a shortfall in administrative
funds has on jobless workers during the recession, receiving testimony from
Thomas F. Harnett, New York State Department of Labor, Albany; Robert Wagner
and Byron Nugen, both of the Indiana Department of Employment and Training
Services, Bloomington; Jeannette Sancricca, Michigan Employment Security
Commission, Sterling Heights; Faye Mitchell, Connecticut Job Service,
Stanford; Frank Ortis, Florida State Council of Machinists, Miami Springs;
Nanine Meiklejohn, American Federation of State, County and Municipal
Employees, and Maria Cordone and Mike Flynn, both of the International
Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, all of Washington, D.C.; and
Joseph Chichowitz, Georgia-Pacific Corp., Reading, Pennsylvania.
Hearings continue Friday, March 8.
1991/03/07
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 7, 1991; pages D247 (sic) - D262 (Bd vol. D114
- D124)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--COMMERCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, The
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1992 for the Department of Commerce, receiving testimony from
Robert A. Mosbacher, Secretary of Commerce.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, March 14.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the Department of the Air Force,
receiving testimony from Donald B. Rice, Secretary of the Air Force; and Gen.
Merrill A. McPeak, Air Force Chief of Staff.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 12.
APPROPRIATIONS--HHS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1992 for the Department of Health and Human Services,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Jo
Anne B. Barnhart, Assistant Secretary, Family Support Administration, Mary
Gall, Assistant Secretary, Office of Human Development Services, Richard P.
Kusserow, Inspector General, Gail R. Wilensky, Administrator, Health Care
Financing Administration, and Gwendolyn S. King, Commissioner, Social Security
Administration, all of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 12.
NATO SECURITY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to examine NATO security,
receiving testimony from Gen. John R. Galvin, USA, Commander-in-Chief, U.S.
European Command; and Adm. Leon A. Edney, USN, Commander-in-Chief, U.S.
Atlantic Command.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations
of James A. Courter, of New Jersey, to be Chairman, and Howard H. Callaway, of
Colorado, and James C. Smith III, of South Carolina, both to be Members, all
of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Courter was
introduced by Senator Bradley, and Mr. Callaway was introduced by Senators
Wirth and Brown.
BANKING REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed hearings
on the Administration proposal to promote a safe and financially strong
banking system, focusing on the General Accounting Office analysis of the
Department of the Treasury's financial modernization recommendations,
receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United
States, Donald Chapin, Assistant Comptroller General for Accounting and
Financial Management Programs, Richard Fogel, Assistant Comptroller General
for General Government Programs, and Craig Simmons, Director for Financial
Institutions and Markets Issues, all of the General Accounting Office.
Hearings continue Tuesday, March 12.
NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed hearings on S.
341, to establish a national energy policy to reduce U.S. dependence on
imported oil, focusing on Title X, relating to natural gas regulatory
provisions and natural gas research, development, demonstration and
commercialization activities, receiving testimony from Stephen A. Wakefield,
General Counsel, Department of Energy; William S. Scherman, General Counsel,
and Kevin P. Madden, Director, Office of Pipeline and Producer Regulation,
both of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; H. Leighton Steward,
Louisiana Land and Exploration Company, New Orleans; Ronald L. Kuehn, Jr.,
Sonat Inc., Birmingham, Alabama; Robert B. Catell, The Brooklyn Union Gas
Company, Brooklyn, New York; and F. Joseph Graham, Union Carbide Corporation,
Danbury, Connecticut.
Committee will meet again Monday, March 11.
URANIUM ENRICHMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development concluded hearings on S. 210, to establish the United States
Enrichment Corporation to operate the Federal uranium enrichment program on a
profitable and efficient basis to maximize the long term economic value to the
United States, after receiving testimony from Representative McEwen; W. Henson
Moore, Deputy Secretary, and William H. Young, Assistant Secretary for Nuclear
Energy, both of the Department of Energy; and William H. Timbers, Jr., Smith
Barney, Harris Upham & Co., Incorporated.
EPA
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1992 for the Environmental
Protection Agency, after receiving testimony from William K. Reilly,
Administrator, F. Henry Habicht, Deputy Administrator, and Charles L. Grizzle,
Assistant Administrator, Administration and Resources Management, all of the
Environmental Protection Agency; and Richard L. Hembra, Director,
Environmental Program Issues, General Accounting Office.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
An original bill (S. 594) authorizing supplemental funds for fiscal year 1991
for the Department of State for certain emergency costs associated with the
Persian Gulf conflict;
An original bill (S. 595) authorizing supplemental funds for fiscal year 1991
for Israel for additional costs incurred as a result of the Persian Gulf
conflict; and
The nominations of Jon David Glassman, of the District of Columbia, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Paraguay, William A. Geoghegan, of Maryland, to
be a Member of the Advisory Board for Cuba Broadcasting, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson,
of New York, to be a Member of the Board for International Broadcasting, and
certain Foreign Service Officers' promotion lists.
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AUTHORIZATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1992 and 1993 for foreign assistance, and proposed
legislation authorizing supplemental funds for fiscal year 1991 for the
Department of State for certain emergency costs associated with the Persian
Gulf conflict, receiving testimony from Ivan Selin, Under Secretary for
Management, and Jill E. Kent, Chief Financial Officer, both of the Department
of State.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 12.
FEDERAL PROCUREMENT OF SPARE PARTS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee continued hearings to examine the
purchase and use of spare parts by the Federal Government which are either
counterfeit or substandard and do not meet specifications, focusing on the
Government-Industry Data Exchange Program, an information sharing program,
receiving testimony from George A. Rodney, Associate Administrator for Safety
and Mission Quality, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; James M.
Taylor, Executive Director for Operations, Nuclear Regulatory Commission; and
Allan V. Burman, Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
S. 213, to revise the Federal Charter for the Boys' Club of America to reflect
the change of the name of the organization to the Boys' and Girls' Clubs of
America; and
The nominations of Bob Martinez, of Florida, to be Director of National Drug
Control Policy, Ronald G. Woods, to be United States Attorney for the Southern
District of Texas, E. Montgomery Tucker, to be United States Attorney for the
Western District of Virginia, Maurice Owens Ellsworth, to be United States
Attorney for the District of Idaho, and James Edward Denny, of Maryland, to be
an Assistant Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, Department of Commerce.
EDUCATION REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities concluded hearings to examine the need for a nationwide testing
system, focusing on recommendations to establish national student performance
standards, after receiving testimony from William H. Kolberg, National
Alliance of Business, Gordon Ambach, Council of Chief State School Officers,
and Albert Shanker, American Federation of Teachers, all of Washington, D.C.;
and Burton W. Faldet, Test Consultants, Ltd., Washington, D.C., and Michael E.
Melody, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts, both on behalf of the
Association of American Publishers; Lauren Resnick, University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Jack Anderson, East Ramapo Central School District,
Spring Valley, New York, on behalf of the American Association of School
Administrators; Richard A. DiPatri, Educate America, Inc., Morristown, New
Jersey; Monty Neill, FAIR TEST, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Marc S. Tucker,
National Center on Education and the Economy, Rochester, New York; C.L.
Hutchins, Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory, Aurora, Colorado; and
Maureen Daniels, Lynbrook Elementary School, Fairfax, Virginia, on behalf of
the National Education Association.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings on the
following Congressional election campaign finance reform proposals:
S. 3, to provide for a voluntary system of spending limits for Senate election
campaigns, receiving testimony from Senators Mitchell and Boren;
S. 53, 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, receiving testimony from Senator
DeConcini;
S. 128, 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, receiving testimony from
Senators Kerry, Biden, and Bradley;
S. 294, to exclude from the definition of "independent expenditures" those
expenditures that are not truly independent of the legislative process,
receiving testimony from Senator Bumpers; and
S. Res. 70, limiting expenditures in campaigns for election to the Senate,
setting Senate standards of conduct for those seeking election or re-election
to the United States Senate, and providing sanctions against those elected who
bring discredit to the United States Senate by violating the established
standards of conduct, receiving testimony from Senator Sanford.
Committee will meet again Wednesday, March 13.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1991/03/08
Daily Digest - Friday, March 8, 1991; pages D264 - D270 (Bd vol. D124 - D126)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1992 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony from Richard
T. Crowder, Under Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs,
James R. Moseley, Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment,
Keith D. Bjerke, Administrator, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
Service, Duane Acker, Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service, F. Paul
Dickerson, General Sales Manager, William Richards, Chief, Soil Conservation
Service, and Dennis Kaplan, Budget Officer, all of the Department of
Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again Friday, March 15.
APPROPRIATIONS--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the Legislative Branch,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Walter J. Stewart, Secretary of the Senate; Martha Pope, Sergeant at Arms of
the Senate; and Robert D. Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget Office.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
WELFARE DEPENDENCY
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy
resumed hearings on the effects of the Family Support Act of 1988 and the need
for indicators to measure increases or decreases in welfare dependency,
receiving testimony from Douglas J. Besharov, American Enterprise Institute,
and William Gorham, The Urban Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Judith
Jones, Columbia University School of Public Health, New York, New York, on
behalf of the National Center for Children in Poverty; Greg J. Duncan,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Randall J. Olsen, Ohio State University,
Columbus; Charles F. Manski, University of Wisconsin, Madison; and Timothy M.
Smeeding, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution approved for full
committee consideration the following measures:
S.J. Res. 18, proposing an amendment to the U.S. Constitution relating to a
Federal balanced budget; and
S.J. Res. 5, proposing an amendment to the U.S. Constitution relating to a
Federal balanced budget and tax limitation.
Joint Meetings
EMPLOYMENT SITUATION
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings on the
employment-unemployment situation for February, receiving testimony from Janet
L. Norwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor.
Committee recessed subject to call.
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE EMERGENCY
Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings to examine the
unemployment insurance emergency situation and the impact a shortfall in
administrative funds has on jobless workers during the recession, and to
review the economic outlook, receiving testimony from Roger Brinner,
McGraw-Hill, Inc., and Richard Rahn, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, both of
Washington, D.C.; David M. Jones, Aubrey G. Langston & Co., New York, New
York; and Geoffrey H. Moore, Columbia University, New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1991/03/11
Daily Digest - Monday, March 11, 1991; pages D272 - D276 (Bd vol. D126 - D128)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
LOUISIANA CLEAN WATER PERMITS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
concluded hearings to examine permit program enforcement by the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers in the State of Louisiana, as mandated by section 404 of
the Clean Water Act, receiving testimony from G. Edward Dickey, Acting
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works); Maj. Gen. C.E.
Edgar III, Deputy Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Mayor
Billy Cobb, Winsboro, Louisiana, representing the Louisiana Municipal
Association; Bob Odom, Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry, Baton
Rouge, Charles Parent, Police Jury Parish of Ascension, Donaldsonville,
Louisiana; Ronald Anderson, Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation, Inc., Ethel;
William Allen, Louisiana Homebuilders Association, St. Tammany Parish; Pat
Miramon, Louisiana Realtors Association, Slidell; and Buck Vandersteen,
Louisiana Forestry Association, Alexandria.
APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1991 for military
construction programs, focusing on base closure and NATO infrastructure,
receiving testimony from David J. Berteau, Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense (Production and Logistics).
Subcommittee will meet again Monday, March 18.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Rockwell A. Schnabel, of California, to be
Deputy Secretary of Commerce, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator
Burns, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed hearings on S.
341, to establish a national energy policy to reduce U.S. dependence on
imported oil, focusing on Title VII, to require importers of petroleum
products to pay an oil security premium in the form of a percentage of the
imported product to help maintain the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and Title
VIII, relating to oil and gas development on the Outer Continental Shelf,
receiving testimony from Senator Chafee; Robert H. Gentile, Assistant
Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy; Barry A. Williamson, Director, Minerals
Management Service, Department of the Interior; Denise A. Bode, Independent
Petroleum Association of America, Charles J. DiBona, American Petroleum
Reserve, and Andrew Palmer, American Oceans Campaign, and Natural Resources
Defense Council, all of Washington, D.C.; and John M. Arnold, Petroleum
Products Corporation, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, representing the Petroleum
Marketers Association of America.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/03/12
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 12, 1991; pages D277 - D286 (Bd vol. D128 -
D136)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on Navy and Marine Corps programs, receiving testimony from H. Lawrence
Garrett III, Secretary of the Navy; Adm. Frank B. Kelso II, Chief of Naval
Operations; and Gen. Alfred M. Gray, Commandant of the Marine Corps.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, March 14.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for foreign assistance,
focusing on development assistance programs, receiving testimony from Ronald
W. Roskens, Administrator, Agency for International Development.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 19.
APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Dallas L.
Peck, Director, U.S. Geological Survey, and Cy Jamison, Director, Bureau of
Land Management, both of the Department of the Interior.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--HHS/NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1992, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from James O. Mason, Assistant Secretary for Health, J.
Jarrett Clinton, Acting Administrator, Agency for Health Care Policy and
Research, William O. Roper, Director, Centers for Disease Control, Frederick
K. Goodwin, Administrator, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health
Administration, and Robert G. Harmon, Director, Health Resources and Services
Administration, all of the Department of Health and Human Services; and Sandra
S. Parrino, Chairperson, National Council on Disability.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, March 14.
BANKING REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed hearings
on proposals to promote a safe and financially strong banking system, focusing
on Federal deposit insurance reform, receiving testimony from James R. Barth,
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama; Robert A. Eisenbeis, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Robert E. Litan, Brookings Institution,
Washington, D.C.
Hearings continue Wednesday, March 20.
NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee continued hearings on S.
341, to establish a national energy policy to reduce U.S. dependence on
imported oil, focusing on Title IX provisions which authorizes a competitive
oil and gas leasing program for the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge in Alaska (ANWR), receiving testimony from James D. Watkins,
Secretary of Energy; David O'Neal, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for
Land and Minerals Management; Rear Adm. David E. Ciancaglini, Commander, 17th
Coast Guard District (Juneau, Alaska), Department of Transportation; Alaska
Governor Walter J. Hickel, Juneau; James B. Hermiller, Alyeska Pipeline
Service Company, and Roger C. Herrera, BP Exploration (Alaska), Inc., both of
Anchorage, Alaska; and Mike Matz, Alaska Coalition, and Brooks B. Yeager,
National Audubon Society, both of Washington, D.C.
Committee will meet again Thursday, March 14.
AUTHORIZATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for foreign assistance, receiving
testimony from John R. Bolton, Assistant Secretary for International
Organization Affairs, and Princeton Lyman, Director, Refugee Programs, both of
the Department of State; and Theodore S. Wilkinson III, American Foreign
Service Association, and Graeme Bannerman, Thomas Commission, both of
Washington, D.C.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
LABOR DISPUTES
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor concluded
hearings on S. 55, to revise the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway
Labor Act to prevent discrimination based on participation in labor disputes,
after receiving testimony from Roderick DeArment, Deputy Secretary of Labor;
Most Rev. Frank J. Rodimer, Paterson, New Jersey, representing the United
States Catholic Conference; Lynn Williams, United Steelworkers, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; Paul Weiler, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts;
Edward J. Kelly, State University of New York College at Brockport,
representing the Society for Human Resource Management; Thomas C. Foley, NTC
Group, Greenwich, Connecticut; Peter G. Nash, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak,
and Stewart, representing the National Association of Manufacturers, and
Thomas Donahue, AFL-CIO, both of Washington, D.C.; Karen Behnke, Eastlake,
Ohio; and Charles Noonan, Jay, Maine.
REBUILDING KUWAIT
Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings on involving American
small businesses in the rebuilding of Kuwait, receiving testimony from
Teresita Schaffer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and
South Asian Affairs; Maj. Gen. James W. Ray, Director of Military Programs,
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Thomas Duesterberg, Assistant Secretary of
Commerce for International Economic Policy; Carolyn Golding, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training; Robert O. Draggon, Vice
President for Finance, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, U.S.
International Development Cooperation Agency; William S. Becker, Counselor to
the Administrator, Small Business Administration; Arthur Pilzer, Vice
President, Africa and Middle East, Export-Import Bank of the United States;
Joseph Saba, U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce, and Joshua Smith, Commission on
Minority Business Development, both of Washington, D.C.; Joseph Wenzler,
Sta-Rite, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Bruce Talley, Asea Brown Boveri,
Inc., Windsor, Connecticut.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/03/13
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 13, 1991; pages D288 - D300 (Bd vol. D136 -
D147)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--INDIAN PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Eddie F.
Brown, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; David J.
Matheson, Director, Office of Construction Management, Bureau of Indian
Affairs, Department of the Interior; and Anthony J. Hope, Chairman, National
Indian Gaming Commission.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 19.
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for
the Office of the Secretary of Transportation, receiving testimony from Elaine
L. Chao, Deputy Secretary, and Adm. Clyde Robbins, Director, Office of
Intelligence and Security, both of the Department of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, March 20.
APPROPRIATIONS--EPA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the
Environmental Protection Agency, receiving testimony from F. Henry Habicht,
Deputy Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; and Michael R. Deland,
Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, March 20.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for the
Department of Defense, and the proposed fiscal years 1992-1997 future year
defense plan, focusing on unified commands oriented to regional defense
concerns on their military strategy and operational requirements, receiving
testimony from Gen. George A. Joulwan, USA, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Southern
Command; Adm. Charles R. Larson, USN, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific
Command; and Gen. Robert W. RisCassi, USA, Commander, U.S. Forces, Korea.
Committee will meet again Tuesday, March 19.
STATE AND LOCAL FINANCE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Development: Subcommittee on
Securities held hearings on the role of capital markets in raising funds for
State and local governments under financial stress, receiving testimony from
Mayor W. Wilson Goode, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, representing the United
States Conference of Mayors; John B. Cregan, General Reinsurance Corporation,
Stamford, Connecticut; Ralph Horn, First Tennessee Bank, Memphis, and William
W. Fish, Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette, New York, New York, both representing
the Public Securities Association; and Daniel N. Heimowitz, Moody's Investor's
Service, Gedale B. Horowitz, Salomon Brothers, Incorporated, representing the
New York Local Government Assistance Corporation, and Richard P. Larkin,
Standard and Poor's Corporation, each of New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY ASSISTANCE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation concluded hearings on S. 631, authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1992-1996 for the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance program, after
receiving testimony from Eugene R. McCormick, Deputy Administrator, Federal
Highway Administration, and Michael F. Trentacoste, Director, Office of Motor
Carrier Safety Field Operations, both of the Department of Transportation;
Paul F. Rothberg, Specialist in Science and Technology, Congressional Research
Service, Library of Congress; Paul Henry, Oregon Public Utility Commission,
Salem, representing the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance; Lana Batts,
American Trucking Associations, and Gene Bergoffen, National Private Truck
Council, both of Alexandria, Virginia; and J. Todd Spencer, Owner-Operators
Independent Drivers Association, Inc., Washington, D.C.
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GLOBAL WARMING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection held hearings to examine and evaluate the effects of global warming
on climate change and other environmental consequences of energy strategies,
receiving testimony from Daniel L. Albritton, Director, Aeronomy Laboratory,
Environmental Research Laboratories (Boulder, Colorado), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; and Rafe Pomerance, World
Resources Institute, Mary Beth Zimmerman, The Alliance to Save Energy,
Christopher Flavin, Worldwatch Institute, and Daniel A. Lashof, Natural
Resources Defense Council, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MIDDLE EAST
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine post war
issues in the Middle East, receiving testimony from Joseph S. Nye, Jr.,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; William B. Quandt, Brookings
Institution, and Phebe Marr, Institute for National Strategic Studies, both of
Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy,
Trade, Oceans and Environment concluded hearings to examine the scope of U.S.
foreign assistance, after receiving testimony from Ronald W. Roskens,
Administrator, Agency for International Development; Reginald Bartholomew,
Under Secretary of State for International Security Affairs; and Lt. Gen.
Teddy Allen, Director, Defense Security Assistance Agency.
ENERGY CRISIS REPORT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine issues
related to oil prices and supplies, focusing on the National Association of
Attorneys General final report on the December 1989 energy crisis, the role of
the futures market and heating oil and propane market concentration, the use
of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to stabilize oil prices, and oil industry
profits, receiving testimony from Judy A. England-Joseph, Associate Director,
Energy Issues, Resources, Community, and Development Division, General
Accounting Office; John J. Easton, Jr., Assistant Secretary for International
Affairs and Energy Emergencies, and Larry Pettis, Deputy Administrator, Energy
Information Administration, both of the Department of Energy; William P.
Albrecht, Commissioner, and John R. Mielke, Director, Office of Market
Surveillance, both of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Pennsylvania
Attorney General Ernest D. Preate, Jr., Harrisburg; North Carolina Attorney
General Lacy H. Thornburg, Raleigh; Connecticut Attorney General Richard
Blumenthal, Hartford; R. Patrick Thompson, New York Mercantile Exchange, and
Joan Claybrook, Public Citizen, both of Washington, D.C.; and Vera Haskins,
Mauger and Company, Inc., Malvern, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Petroleum
Marketers Association of America.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Richard W. Goldberg, of North Dakota, to be a Judge of the United States Court
of International Trade, Oliver W. Wanger, to be a United States Judge for the
Eastern District of California, and Robin J. Cauthron, to be a United States
District Judge for the Western District of Oklahoma, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Goldberg was
introduced by Senators Burdick and Conrad, Mr. Wanger was introduced by
Senator Seymour and former Representative Charles Pashayan, and Ms. Cauthron
was introduced by Senators Boren and Nickles.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items:
S. 64, to provide for the establishment of a National Commission on a Longer
School Year, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 382, to provide shelter, food, and supportive services to communities in
which substantial percentages of resident members of the Armed Forces have
been assigned to duty outside the communities in connection with the Persian
Gulf conflict, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 509, to establish a program for the prevention of disabilities; and
The nominations of Andrew Lamar Alexander, Jr., of Tennessee, to be Secretary
of Education; Marye Anne Fox, of Texas, to be a Member of the National Science
Board, National Science Foundation, and Eugene L. Madeira, of Pennsylvania, A.
Pierre Guillermin, of Virginia, and June Scobee Rodgers, of Arizona, each to
be a Member of the National Advisory Council on Educational Research and
Improvement.
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CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee resumed hearings on
Congressional election campaign finance reform proposals, including S. 3, S.
6, S. 7, S. 53, S. 91, S. 128, S. 143, S. 294 and S. Res. 70, receiving
testimony from Senators Packwood, Domenici, and Nickles; John McGinnis, Deputy
Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice;
and Norman Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee adopted its rules of procedure
for the 102d Congress.
HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings to examine the role of the
Federal Government in reviewing the quality of care received by Medicare
patients enrolled in health maintenance organizations, receiving testimony
from Janet Shikles, Director, Health Financing and Policy Issues, Human
Resources Division, General Accounting Office; Gail Wilensky, Administrator,
Health Care Financing Administration, Department of Health and Human Services;
William Monocrief, California Medical Review, Inc., San Francisco, California,
representing the American Medical Peer Review Association; John Duggan, Fallon
Community Health Plan, Worcester, Massachusetts, representing the Group Health
Association of America; Anne Jackson, American Association of Retired Persons,
Queens Village, New York; and Michael Stocker, U.S. HealthCare, East
Rutherford, New Jersey.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings to examine the
unemployment insurance emergency situation and the impact a shortfall in
administrative funds has on jobless workers during the recession, and to
review the economic outlook, receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan,
Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
1991/03/14
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 14, 1991; pages D302 - D316 (Bd vol. D147 -
D156)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--OPERATION DESERT SHIELD/STORM SUPPLEMENTAL
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills:
H.R. 1281, making dire emergency supplemental appropriations for the
consequences of Operation Desert Shield/Storm, food stamps, unemployment
compensation administration, veterans compensation and pensions, and urgent
needs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1991, with amendments; and
H.R. 1282, making supplemental appropriations and transfers for Operation
Desert Shield/Storm for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1991, with
amendments.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for
the Department of Justice, receiving testimony from Dick Thornburgh, Attorney
General of the United States, Department of Justice.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 19.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1992, receiving testimony in behalf of funds
for their respective activities from Christopher Jehn, Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Force Management and Personnel; Enrique Mendez, Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs; Lt. Gen. William H. Reno, USA, Deputy
Chief of Army Staff for Personnel; Vice Adm. Jeremy M. Boorda, USN, Deputy
Chief of Naval Operations (Manpower, Personnel and Training); Lt. Gen. Norman
H. Smith, USMC, Deputy Chief of Marine Corps Staff for Manpower and Reserve
Affairs; Lt. Gen. Thomas J. Hickey, USAF, Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff
(Personnel); and David P. Baine, Director, Federal Health Care Delivery
Issues, Human Resources Division, General Accounting Office.
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Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 19.
APPROPRIATIONS--NIH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992
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 Lenfant, Director,
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Harold Loe, Director, National
Institute of Dental Research, Anthony S. Fauci, Director, Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, and Associate Director for HIV Research, Phillip Gorden,
Director, Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney, Duane F. Alexander, Director, Child
Health and Human Development, David Hoel, Acting Director, National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences, Phillip Schambra, Director, Fogarty
International Center, Murray Goldstein, Director, National Institute of
Neurological Disorders and Stroke, James B. Snow, Jr., Director, National
Institute of Deafness and other Communication Disorders, Ruth Kirschstein,
Director, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Carl Kupfer,
Director, National Eye Institute, T. Franklin Williams, Director, National
Institute on Aging, Lawrence D. Shulman, Director, National Institute of
Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, Robert A. Whitney, Director,
National Center for Research Resources, Ada Sue Hinshaw, Director, National
Center for Nursing Research, James B. Watson, Director, National Center for
Human Genome Research, and Donald Lindberg, Director, National Library of
Medicine, all of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and
Human Services.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 19.
APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1992 for the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony from Nicholas F.
Brady, Secretary of the Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 19.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items:
S. 534, to award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Gen. H. Norman
Schwarzkopf, and to provide for the production of bronze duplicates of such
medal for sale to the public;
S. 565, to award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Gen. Colin L.
Powell, and to provide for the production of bronze duplicates of such medal
for sale to the public; and
The nominations of Cecil B. Thompson, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Board
of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, Arthur J. Hill,
of Florida, and Jim E. Tarro, of New Mexico, each to be an Assistant Secretary
of Housing and Urban Development, and George H. Pfau, Jr., of California, to
be a Director of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation.
CABLE TV CONSUMER PROTECTION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications held hearings on S. 12, to ensure carriage on cable television
of local news and other programming and to restore the right of local
regulatory authorities to regulate cable television rates, receiving testimony
from Senator Lieberman; Mayor Sharpe James, Newark, New Jersey; Mayor David
Adkisson, Owensboro, Kentucky; James P. Mooney, National Cable Television
Association, Edward O. Fritts, National Association of Broadcasters, James
Hedlund, Association of Independent Television Stations, Inc., Gene Kimmelman,
Consumer Federation of America, John Sodolski, United States Telephone
Association, and Robert L. Schmidt, Wireless Cable Association, all of
Washington, D.C.; R. E. Turner, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., and James
Kennedy, Cox Enterprises, Inc., both of Atlanta, Georgia; D. J. Everett, III,
Community Broadcasters Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Bob Phillips,
National Rural Telecommunication Cooperative, Herndon, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed hearings on S.
341, to establish a national energy policy to reduce U.S. dependence on
imported oil, focusing on Title XV provisions relating to reform of the Public
Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA), receiving testimony from Edward
H. Fleischman, Commissioner, and Marianne K. Smythe, Director, and William C.
Weeden, Assistant Director, both of the Division of Investment Management, all
of the Securities and Exchange Commission; Linda G. Stuntz, Deputy Under
Secretary, Office of Policy, Planning, and Analysis, and Cynthia A. Marlette,
Associate General Counsel for Hydroelectric and Electric, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, both of the Department of Energy; William W. Berry,
Dominion Resources, Inc. and Virginia Power, Richmond; Paul Elston, Long Lake
Energy Corporation, New York, New York; Scott Hempling, representing the
Environmental Action Foundation, Thomas R. Kuhn, Edison Electric Institute,
Clinton Vince, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, and Charles A.
Patrizia, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky and Walker, all of Washington, D.C.;
Sherwood H. Smith, Jr., Carolina Power & Light Company, Raleigh, North
Carolina; Don D. Jordan, Houston Lighting and Power Company, Houston, Texas;
Joseph I. Giarrusso, City of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana; Patricia M.
Eckert, California Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco; and Mark N.
Cooper, Consumer Federation of America, Silver Spring, Maryland.
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Committee will meet again Monday, March 18.
NOMINATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of William H. Kennoy, of Kentucky, to be a Member of the Board of
Directors, Tennessee Valley Authority, after the nominee, who was introduced
by Senator McConnell, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS SERVICE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation and Infrastructure concluded hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1992 for the Public Buildings Service,
General Services Administration, and proposals relating to the public building
design competition process, after receiving testimony from Richard G. Austin,
Administrator, General Services Administration; L. Ralph Mecham, Director,
Administrative Office of the United States Courts; Robert Peck, Member, U.S.
Commission of Fine Arts; Mina Berryman, Acting Director, Design Arts Program,
National Endowment for the Arts; Rex M. Ball, HTB, Inc., Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma, representing the American Institute of Architects; and Brendan Gill,
The New Yorker, New York, New York.
TRADE AGREEMENTS
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the President's request for
extension of fast track legislative procedures for the consideration of
international trade agreements, receiving testimony from Carla A. Hills,
United States Trade Representative.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NEW WORLD ORDER
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs concluded
hearings to review the lessons of the Helsinki process for the new world
order, after receiving testimony from Senator DeConcini and Representative
Hoyer, both on behalf of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe;
Max Kampelman, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, Samuel Lewis, U.S.
Institute of Peace, Peter Constable, Search for Common Ground, and Helena
Cobban, Foundation for Middle East Peace, all of Washington, D.C.; and James
E. Goodby, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
UNITED STATES-MEXICO FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace
Corps Affairs held hearings to examine issues relating to a bilateral free
trade agreement between the United States and Mexico, receiving testimony from
Senator McCain; David Mulford, Under Secretary of the Treasury for
International Affairs; Julius Katz, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative; Timothy
Atkeson, Assistant Administrator for International Activities, Environmental
Protection Agency; Roger W. Wallace, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for
International Trade Administration; and William H. Bywater, International
Union of Electrical Workers, Evelyn Dubrow, International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union, and Don Stillman, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural
Implement Workers of America, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings continue on Friday, March 22.
INFANT FORMULA
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business
Rights concluded joint hearings with the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition,
and Forestry to examine pricing practices and promotion of infant formula, and
issues related to the procurement of infant formula for the Women, Infants,
and Children Program (WIC), after receiving testimony from Representative
Wyden; Mary Lou Steptoe, Deputy Director, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade
Commission; Jerome W. Hoffman, Florida State Office of the Attorney General,
Tallahassee; Joseph Liu and Stefan Harvey, both of the Center on Budget and
Policy Priorities, Washington, D.C.; Birt Harvey, American Academy of
Pediatrics, Elk Grove Village, Illinois; Laurie MacDonald, Carnation
Nutritional Products, Glendale, California; and Ruth Lawrence, University of
Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York.
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NOMINATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Bernadine P. Healy, of Ohio, to be Director of the National
Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, after the
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Metzenbaum, testified and answered
questions in her own behalf.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on
Congressional election campaign finance reform proposals, including S. 3, S.
6, S. 7, S. 53, S. 91, S. 128, S. 143, S. 294 and S. Res. 70, after receiving
testimony from Fred Hardin, United Transportation Union, Cleveland, Ohio;
Martin Garber, National Association of Business PACs, Bartlesville, Oklahoma;
James M. Ratcliffe, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., Chicago, Illinois, representing
the National Association of Manufacturers; Michael J. Malbin, Rockefeller
Institute of Government, Albany, New York; Curtis B. Gans, Committee for the
Study of the American Electorate, Washington, D.C.; and Michael J. Conly,
National Association of Broadcasters, San Antonio, Texas.
Joint Meetings
STATE AND LOCAL FISCAL POLICY
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine the links between
the recession and the fiscal condition of State and local governments,
receiving testimony from Steven Gold, State University of New York, Albany;
Raymond Scheppach, National Governors Association, and Frank Shafroth and
Douglas Peterson, both of the National League of Cities, both of Washington,
D.C.; and Richard Vedder, Ohio University, Athens.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1991/03/15
Daily Digest - Friday, March 15, 1991; pages D318 - D320 (Bd vol. D156 - D157)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1992 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Jo Ann Smith, Assistant Secretary
for Marketing and Inspection Services, James W. Glosser, Administrator, Animal
and Plant Health Inspection Service, Lester Crawford, Administrator, Food
Safety and Inspection Service, Daniel D. Haley, Administrator, Agricultural
Marketing Service, and Dennis Kaplan, Budget Office, all of the Department of
Agriculture.
Committee will meet again Friday, March 22.
MASS TRANSIT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Development: Subcommittee on Housing
and Urban Affairs held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
programs of the Urban Mass Transit Act, receiving testimony from Brian Clymer,
Administrator, Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Department of
Transportation; Louis J. Gambaccinni, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation
Authority, Philadelphia; Wes Watson, Florida Transit Authority, Tallahassee;
Frank Wilson, Bay Area Rapid Transit District, San Francisco, California;
Peter Stengl, New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York, New
York; and Gordon Aoyagi, Montgomery County Division of Transit Services,
Rockville, Maryland.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Disability Policy held
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act, focusing on Part H, relating to early intervention
services for infants and toddlers, receiving testimony from Robert R. Davila,
Assistant Secretary of Education for Special Education and Rehabilitative
Services; Tom Gillung, Connecticut Department of Education, Middletown, on
behalf of National Association of State Directors of Special Education;
Richard Nelson, University of Iowa, Iowa City, on behalf of Association of
Maternal and Child Health Programs; Jonathan Wilson, Des Moines, Iowa, on
behalf of National Schools Boards Association; Ruth Rucker, Mazique
Parent/Child Center, Washington, D.C., on behalf of Low-Income Minority Parent
Empowerment Task Force; George Jesien, University of Wisconsin, Madison, on
behalf of Division of Early Childhood Council for Exceptional Children;
Phillippa Campbell and Aric Murray, both of Akron Children's Hospital, Akron,
Ohio, on behalf of Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities; Ann Taylor,
Nichols Hills, Oklahoma, on behalf of Council of Interagency Coordinating
Council Chairs; Michelle Marlow, Baltimore, Maryland; Robert, Diane, Monica
and Gretchen Sanny, all of Fairfield, Iowa; and Jeanette Behr, Lake Elmo,
Minnesota.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
OLDER AMERICANS ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Aging resumed hearings
on S. 243, authorizing funds for the Older Americans Act, focusing on services
to low-income minority elders, receiving testimony from Joyce Berry,
Commissioner, Administration on Aging, Department of Health and Human
Services; Eleanor Chelimsky, Assistant Comptroller General, Program Evaluation
and Methodology Division, General Accounting Office; Louise Kamlkawa, National
Pacific/Asian Resource Center on Aging, Seattle, Washington; David A. Affeldt,
Associacion Nacional Pro Personas Mayores, Los Angeles, California; David
Baldridge, National Indian Council on Aging, Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Jane
Gould, National Association of State Units on Aging, Sue Ward, National
Association of Area Agencies on Aging, Ruth Scarborough, American Association
of Retired Persons, and Samuel Simmons, National Caucus and Center on Black
Aged, Inc., each of Washington, D.C.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/03/18
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for military
construction programs, focusing on Guard and Reserve and military services,
receiving testimony from Maj. Gen. William Navas, Vice Chief, National Guard
Bureau; Maj. Gen. Peter J. Offringa, Assistant Chief of Army Engineers; Rear
Adm. David E. Bottorff, Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command; and
Maj. Gen. Joseph A. Ahearn, Civil Air Force Engineer.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed hearings on S.
341, to establish a national energy policy to reduce U.S. dependence on
imported oil, focusing on Title V, section 5101 provisions relating to the
applicability of new source review to existing steam electric generating
units-WEPCo, receiving testimony from Richard Schmalensee, Member, Council of
Economic Advisers; David G. Hawkins, Natural Resources Defense Council,
Washington, D.C.; and Anthony J. Ahern, American Electric Power Services
Corporation, Columbus, Ohio.
Committee will meet again Wednesday, March 20.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Charles R. Baquet III, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Djibouti, Michael T.F. Pistor, of Arizona, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Malawi, Katherine Shirley, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Senegal, Jennifer C. Ward, of the District of Columbia, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Niger, Melissa Foelsch Wells, of Connecticut, to
be Ambassador to the Republic of Zaire, and Edward Johnson, of Michigan, to be
a Member of the Board of Directors of the African Development Foundation,
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
Joint Meetings
AUTHORIZATION--HIGHER EDUCATION ACT
Joint Hearings: Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources' Subcommittee on
Education, Arts and Humanities concluded joint hearings with the House
Committee on Education and Labor's Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Higher Education
Act, after receiving testimony from Tajel Shah, New Brunswick, New Jersey,
representing the United States Student Association; Tim O'Brien, New Britain,
Connecticut, representing the Connecticut Student Association; Glenn Becerra,
Moorpark, California, representing the California Student Association of
Community Colleges; Beverly Jenkins, Madison, Wisconsin, representing the
United Council of University of Wisconsin; Jean LaMarre, Brooklyn, New York,
representing the University Student Senate; Sheila Stowell, Albany, New York,
representing the Student Association of the State University; Brian Hooker,
Stanford, California, representing the Committee on Undergraduate Admissions
and Financial Aid; Matt Ortega, Tempe, Arizona; Vaughn Thompson, Ypsilanti,
Michigan; and Tammy Jackson, Providence, Rhode Island.
1991/03/19
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 19, 1991; pages D328 - D340 (Bd vol. D159 -
D168)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--SBA/COMMERCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and The
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Susan S. Engeleiter, Administrator, Small Business Administration; and L.
Joyce Hampers, Assistant Secretary for Economic Development, and Joseph Lira,
Acting Director, Minority Business Development Agency, both of the Department
of Commerce.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, April 9.
APPROPRIATIONS--SSN-21
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on issues relating to the submarine Sea Wolf (SSN-21), receiving testimony
from H. Lawrence Garrett III, Secretary of the Navy; Edward J. Campbell,
Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia; and James E. Turner, Jr.,
General Dynamics Electric Boat Division, Groton, Connecticut.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, March 21.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for energy and
water development, receiving testimony from Senators Bumpers, Pryor, Specter,
and Breaux; former Representative Lindy Boggs; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1992, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Franklyn G. Jenifer, Howard University, I. King
Jordan, Gallaudet University, William E. Castle, National Technical Institute
for the Deaf, and Tuck Tinsley III, American Printing House for the Blind, all
of Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, March 21.
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APPROPRIATIONS--GSA/POSTAL SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1992, receiving testimony from Richard G. Austin, Administrator, General
Services Administration; and Anthony Frank, Postmaster General, U.S. Postal
Service.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, March 21.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of James A. Courter, of New Jersey, to be Chairman, and James C.
Smith II, of South Carolina, and Howard H. Callaway, of Colorado, both to be
Members, all of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, and 2,134
military nominations in the Army, Navy and Air Force.
AUTHORIZATION--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for the
Department of Defense, and to review the fiscal year 1992-1997 future year
defense plan, receiving testimony from Gen. Carl E. Vuono, USA, Chief of Army
Staff; Adm. Frank B. Kelso II, USN, Chief of Naval Operations; Gen. Alfred M.
Gray, Jr., USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps; and Gen. Merrill A. McPeak,
USAF, Chief of Air Force Staff.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
URBAN BLACK MALES
Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings to
examine problems confronting African-American males in urban America,
receiving testimony from Virginia Governor L. Douglas Wilder, Richmond;
Dorothy Height, National Council of Negro Women, Marc Mauer, The Sentencing
Project, and Douglas Glasgow, all of Washington, D.C.; Billy E. Jones, New
York State Office of Mental Health, New York, New York; Marvin H. McKinney,
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Flint, Michigan; Samuel L. Myers Jr.,
University of Maryland, College Park; and Margaret Beale Spencer, Emory
University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported the following business items:
S. 173, to permit the Bell Telephone Companies to conduct research on, design,
and manufacture telecommunications equipment;
S.J. Res. 77, relative to telephone rates and procedures for Operation Desert
Storm personnel, with an amendment;
S. 279, to require new standards for corporate average fuel economy, with
amendments;
S 272, to authorize funds to provide for a coordinated Federal research
program to ensure continued United States leadership in high-performance
computing, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As approved by
the committee, the bill authorizes $650 million for the National Science
Foundation, $338 million for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, and $31 million for the National Institute of Standards and
Technology, Department of Commerce for fiscal years 1992 through 1996.);
S. 676, to provide for testing for the use, in violation of law or Federal
regulation, of alcohol or controlled substances by persons who operate
aircraft, trains, and commercial motor vehicles, with an amendment; and
The nominations of J.J. Simmons III, of Oklahoma, to be a Member of the
Interstate Commerce Commission, Donald A. Henderson, of Maryland, to be an
Associate Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Stanford E.
Parris, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the Saint Lawrence Seaway
Development Corporation, Department of Transportation, Carl W. Vogt, of
Maryland, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Railroad
Passenger Corporation, and a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
list for appointment to the grade of admiral, a United States Coast Guard list
for appointment to the grade of rear admiral, and a routine list in the U.S.
Coast Guard.
NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development concluded hearings on S. 341, to establish a national energy
policy to reduce U.S. dependence on imported oil, focusing on subtitle A of
Title V relating to coal and coal research, after receiving testimony from
Robert H. Gentile, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Fuels; Jack
Kaltic, National Coal Association, Ben Yamagata, Clean Coal Technology
Coalition, and Kurt Yaeger, Electric Power Research Institute, each of
Washington, D.C.; William Carr, Jim Walter Resources, Birmingham, Alabama,
representing the National Coal Council; and Paul G. LaHaye, Hague
International, South Portland, Maine.
NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Regulation
and Conservation concluded hearings on S. 341, to establish a national energy
policy to reduce U.S. dependence on imported oil, focusing on Title III
provisions relating to building energy efficiency standards, after receiving
testimony from B. Reid Detchon, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Conservation and Renewable Energy, and John P. Milhone, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Building Technologies, both of the Department of Energy; David
Conover, National Conference of States, Herndon, Virginia; J.L. Lach, Manville
Corporation, on behalf of the Mineral Insulations Manufacturing Association,
William Prindle, Alliance to Save Energy, and Jay Buchert, National
Association of Home Builders, all of Washington, D.C.; William Jelin, NRG
Barriers, Inc., Saco, Maine, on behalf of the Polyisocyanurate Insulation
Manufacturers Association; and Richard P. Kuchnicki, Council of American
Building Officials, Falls Church, Virginia.
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation
concluded hearings to examine the financial and programmatic management of the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, after receiving testimony from David C.
Williams, Inspector General, and James M. Taylor, Executive Director for
Operations, both of the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
MEDICARE
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the President's proposed
budget for fiscal year 1992, focusing on reductions in Medicare benefits,
receiving testimony from Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human
Services; Texas State Senator Chet Brooks, Pasadena/Galveston; Stuart H.
Altman and Donald A. Young, both of the Prospective Payment Assessment
Commission, Waltham, Massachusetts; Philip R. Lee and Paul B. Ginsburg, both
of the Physician Payment Review Commission, San Francisco, California; and
Gary J. Stangler, Missouri Department of Social Services, Jefferson City, on
behalf of the American Public Welfare Association.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
The nominations of Charles R. Baquet III, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Djibouti, Michael T.F. Pistor, of Arizona, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Malawi, Katherine Shirley, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Senegal, Jennifer C. Ward, of the District of Columbia, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Niger, Edward Johnson, of Michigan, to be a
Member of the Board of Directors of the African Development Foundation, Lewis
W. Douglas, Jr., of California, to be a Member of the U.S. Advisory Commission
on Public Diplomacy, and a Foreign Service officers' promotion list received
in the Senate January 4, 1991;
S. Con. Res. 16, urging Arab states to recognize and end the state of
belligerency with Israel;
S. Con. Res. 18, expressing concern for the ongoing human rights abuses in
Burma and for the status of displaced Burmese and Burmese refugees;
S. Con. Res. 19, condemning the People's Republic of China's continuing
violation of universal human rights principles, with amendments;
S. Res. 81, commending the Baltic states for their efforts to regain
independence and urging measures to support such efforts; and
S.J. Res. 94, concerning the continuation of sanctions against Iraq, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on the nomination of
Kenneth L. Ryskamp, of Florida, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
Eleventh Circuit, where the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Mack,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. Testimony was also
received from Mark Freedman, American Jewish Congress, Johnnie McMillan,
NAACP, Miami-Dade County Branch, Arthur Teitelbaum, Anti-Defamation League of
B'nai Brith, and Jose Quinon, Florida Criminal Defense Lawyers Association,
all of Miami, Florida; and Elaine Jones, Leadership Conference on Civil
Rights, and Samuel Rabinove, The American Jewish Committee, both of
Washington, D.C.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
CHILD LABOR AMENDMENTS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor and Subcommittee
on Children, Family, Drugs, and Alcoholism concluded joint hearings on S. 600,
to strengthen and improve enforcement of the child labor provisions of the
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, after receiving testimony from Samuel D.
Walker, Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment Standards; Oklahoma
Commissioner of Labor David Renfro, Oklahoma City; Adolfo Correa, Johns
Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of
the American Academy of Pediatrics; Jack R. Anderson, East Ramapo School
District, Spring Valley, New York, on behalf of the American Association of
School Administrators; James M. Coleman, National Council of Chain
Restaurants, Washington, D.C.; Jackie Trujillo, Harmon Management, Los Altos,
California, on behalf of the National Restaurant Association; Matthew Garvey
and Valerie Tyra, both of Laurel, Maryland; and Fernando Cuevas, Jr., Winter
Garden, Florida.
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Joint Meetings
CENSUS POST-ENUMERATION SURVEY
Joint Hearings: Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs' Subcommittee on
Government Information and Regulation concluded joint hearings with the House
Committee on Post Office and Civil Service's Subcommittee on Census and
Population to review the progress of the post-enumeration survey and whether
additional statistical methods should be initiated to improve the census,
after receiving testimony from Michael R. Darby, Under Secretary for Economic
Affairs, and Barbara Everitt Bryant, Director, Bureau of the Census, both of
the Department of Commerce; L. Nye Stevens, Director, Government Business
Operations Issues, General Accounting Office; Texas Attorney General Dan
Morales, Austin; J. Michael McGehee, McGehee & Associates, and Peter Zimroth,
Arnold & Porter, both of Washington, D.C.; Kenneth Wachter, University of
California, Berkeley; and Robert Rifkind, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York,
New York.
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AUTHORIZATION--RTC
Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate and House-passed versions of S. 419, to amend the Federal Home Loan
Bank Act to enable the Resolution Trust Corporation to meet its obligations to
depositors and others by the least expensive means
1991/03/20
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 20, 1991; pages D340 (sic) - D352 (Bd vol.
D169 - D180)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony from Senators McCain,
Pressler, Daschle, and Kerrey; Arizona Governor J. Fife Symington, Phoenix;
and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--ARTS/HUMANITIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from John E.
Frohnmayer, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts; and Lynne V. Cheney,
Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, April 17.
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Brian W. Clymer, Administrator, Urban Mass Transportation Administration,
Department of Transportation; and David L. Gunn, General Manager, and Bill
Boleyn, Assistant General Manager for Finance and Comptroller, both of the
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, April 11.
APPROPRIATION--RTC/NATIONAL CREDIT UNION ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from L. William
Seidman, Chairman, and Jack Adair, Inspector General, both of the Resolution
Trust Corporation, Department of the Treasury; and Roger W. Jepsen, Chairman,
National Credit Union Administration.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, April 10.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1992 for the Department of
Defense, and to review the fiscal years 1992-1997 future year defense plan,
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.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations
of Duane H. Cassidy, of Virginia, and William L. Ball III, of Georgia, each to
be a Member of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
INTERSTATE BANKING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on proposed legislation to provide for interstate banking, and S. 300, to
permit full interstate banking and branching to provide efficient delivery of
banking services domestically and to create stronger domestic banks to compete
in the international market, after receiving testimony from Robert Carswell,
Sherman & Sterling, New York, New York, former Deputy Secretary of the
Treasury; Texas Banking Commissioner Kenneth Littlefield, Austin, representing
the Conference of State Bank Supervisors; Hugh L. McColl Jr., North Carolina
National Bank Corporation, Charlotte; and Edwin Gordon Hebb, Jr., Hebb &
Gitlin, Hartford, Connecticut.
U.S. TECHNOLOGY POLICY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings to examine the findings and recommendations of the Council on
Competitiveness for U.S. technology priorities, after receiving testimony from
George M.C. Fisher, Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, Illinois, and Erich Bloch,
Washington, D.C., both representing the Council on Competitiveness.
NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed hearings on S.
341, to establish a national energy policy to reduce U.S. dependence on
imported oil, focusing on Title XI, subtitle A provisions relating to
Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE), receiving testimony from Steven E.
Plotkin, Senior Associate, Office of Technology Assessment; K.G. Duleep,
Energy and Environmental Analysis, Inc., Arlington, Virginia; Marina Whitman,
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, Michigan; Ronald R. Boltz, Chrysler
Corporation, Highland Park, Michigan; Peter J. Pestillo, Ford Motor Company,
Dearborn, Michigan; and James Olson, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., and John
DeCicco and Howard Geller, both of the American Council for an Energy
Efficient Economy, all of Washington, D.C.
Also, committee held hearings on the aforementioned bill, focusing on Title XI
provisions relating to transportation issues, and on Title VII provisions
relating to alternative fuel fleets, of S. 570, to implement a national energy
strategy, receiving testimony from Senator Jeffords; Linda G. Stuntz, Deputy
Under Secretary of Energy for Policy, Planning, and Analysis; David Lefever,
National Association of Fleet Administrators, Inc., Iselin, New Jersey; Lana
R. Batts, American Trucking Associations, and Eric Vaughan, Renewable Fuels
Association, both of Washington, D.C.; T. Boone Pickens, Jr., Mesa Limited
Partnership, Dallas, Texas, on behalf of the Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition;
and Robert Krueger, Railroad Commission of Texas, Austin.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
GLOBAL WARMING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection resumed hearings to examine and evaluate the effects of global
warming on climate change and other environmental consequences of energy
strategies, receiving testimony from Robert A. Reinstein, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for Environment, Health and Natural Resources; Richard D.
Morgenstern, Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Policy, Planning
and Evaluation, Environmental Protection Agency; and Linda G. Stuntz, Deputy
Under Secretary of Energy for Policy, Planning and Analysis.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HEALTH AND INCOME SECURITY
Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings on the President's proposed
budget request for fiscal year 1992 for health and income security issues,
focusing on proposed reductions in the Medicare program, receiving testimony
from Kenneth W. Gideon, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy;
Margaret A. Dixon, American Association of Retired Persons, and Paul C.
Rettig, American Hospital Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Jerome H.
Grossman, New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, representing the
Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Teaching Hospitals; Joseph
D. Painter, American Medical Association, Houston, Texas; and Alfred T.
Wilkins, Jr. and Randal Caldwell, both of the National Association of Medical
Equipment Suppliers, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FTS 2000
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the
General Services Administration's implementation and management of the Federal
Government's long distance telecommunications contract (FTS 2000), focusing on
revenue allocations between certain contractors, receiving testimony from
Richard G. Austin, Administrator, and Michael L. Corrigan, Assistant
Commissioner for Telecommunications Services, both of the General Services
Administration; and Richard J. Lombardi and Carole Spurrier, both of the
American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and Christopher Rooney, U.S. Sprint
Communications Company, all of Washington, D.C.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee announced the following
subcommittee assignments:
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: Senators Nunn (Chairman), Glenn
(Vice Chairman), Levin, Sasser, Pryor, Kohl, Lieberman, Roth, Stevens, Cohen,
Rudman, and Seymour;
Federal Services, Post Office and Civil Service: Senators Pryor (Chairman),
Sasser, Akaka, Stevens, and Heinz;
Oversight of Government Management: Senators Levin (Chairman), Pryor, Kohl,
Lieberman, Akaka, Nunn, Cohen, Rudman, Heinz, Seymour, and Stevens;
Government Information and Regulation: Senators Kohl (Chairman), Nunn, Levin,
Lieberman, Rudman, Cohen, and Seymour; and
General Services, Federalism and the District of Columbia: Senators Sasser
(Chairman), Lieberman, Akaka, Heinz, and Stevens.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Kenneth L. Ryskamp, of Florida, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
Eleventh Circuit, after receiving testimony from Judge Larry King, Chief
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Judge Alan
Schwartz, Chief Judge, Third District Court of Appeals, Hugo Black Jr., Kelly,
Black, Black, Byrne, Beasley and Bales, and James Green, all of Miami,
Florida; John Tanner, Assistant State Attorney for the Seventh Judicial
District of Florida, Daytona Beach; Mary Manemann, Wilmer, Cutler and
Pickering, and Eric Schnapper, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.,
both of Washington, D.C.; and Michael Gerhardt, College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following measures:
S. 3, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for a
voluntary system of spending limits for Senate election campaigns;
S. Res. 79, authorizing the printing of additional copies of the Senate report
titled "Developments in Aging: 1990"; and
H. Con. Res. 45, permitting the use of the Capitol for ceremonies as part of
the commemoration of the days of remembrance of victims of the Holocaust.
Also, committee ordered reported, without recommendation, S. 6, to amend the
Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide a voluntary system of
flexible fund raising targets for Senate elections, to increase public
disclosure of activities of Senators, to reduce special interest influence in
Senate elections, and to increase competition in politics.
NOMINATION
Committee on Small Business: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Patricia F. Saiki, of Hawaii, to be Administrator, Small
Business Administration.
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Ms. Saiki, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Inouye and Akaka,
and Representative Abercrombie, testified and answered questions in her own
behalf.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/03/21
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D192)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on the National Foreign Intelligence Program, receiving testimony
from William H. Webster, Director of Central Intelligence.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, April 9.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony from Senator Conrad; North
Dakota Governor George A. Sinner, Bismarck; and numerous public witnesses.
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Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, April 10.
APPROPRIATIONS--GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1992, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Jane A. Kenney, Director, ACTION; Bernard E.
DeLury, Director, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; Joshua M.
Javits, Chairman, National Mediation Board; Glen L. Bower, Chairman, and
William J. Doyle III, Inspector General, both of the Railroad Retirement
Board; Richard V. Backley, Acting 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; Edwin G. Foulke Jr.,
Chairman, Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; Capt. Francis J.
Ferry, on behalf of the Naval Home; Lynda Robb, on behalf of the National
Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality; Paul B. Ginsburg, Executive Director,
Physician Payment Review Commission; Donald E. Ledwig, President and Chief
Executive Officer, and Marshall C. Turner, Jr., Chairman of the Board of
Directors, both of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Charles E. Reid,
Chairman, National Commission on Libraries; Samuel W. Lewis, President, U.S.
Institute of Peace; June E. Osborn, Chairman, National Commission on AIDS;
Richard Berman, Director, Prospective Payment Assessment Commission; and Maj.
Gen. Donald C. Hilbert, USA (Ret.), on behalf of the Soldiers' and Airmen's
Home.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, April 16.
APPROPRIATIONS--IRS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1992 for the Internal Revenue Service, receiving testimony from Fred Goldberg,
Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, April 10.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: On Wednesday, March 20, committee ordered
favorably reported the nominations of William L. Ball III, of Georgia, and
Duane H. Cassidy, of Virginia, each to be a Member of the Defense Base Closure
and Realignment Commission, and Lt. Gen. Anthony J. Burshnick, United States
Air Force, for appointment to the grade of lieutenant general on the retired
list pursuant to the provisions of title 10, United States code, section 1370.
BANKING REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings on
S. 713, to reform the Federal deposit insurance system, to improve the
supervision and regulation of Federally insured depository institutions, to
reform the financial services industry as to the activities in which that
industry may engage, to consolidate the regulatory structure for depository
institutions, and to recapitalize the Bank Insurance Fund, receiving testimony
from L. William Seidman, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and
Robert R. Glauber, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Finance.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HIGHWAY FATALITY AND INJURY REDUCTION ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee
concluded hearings on S. 591, to increase automobile safety by requiring
airbags for certain newly manufactured vehicles, after receiving testimony
from Jerry Curry, Administrator, Barry Felrice, Associate Administrator of
rulemaking, and Donald Bischoff, Associate Administrator for Plans and Policy,
all of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of
Transportation; Joan Claybrook, Public Citizen, Clarence Ditlow, Center for
Auto Safety, and Thomas V. Hanna, Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association, all
of Washington, D.C.; Benjamin Kelley, Institute for Injury Reduction, Upper
Marlboro, Maryland; Gregory Dana, Association of International Automobile
Manufacturers, Arlington, Virginia; and Michael Hines and William A. Hines,
Jr., both of Newport
News, Virginia.
NUCLEAR WASTE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings to review
the status of the Department of Energy's civilian radioactive waste management
program mandated by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act and its revisions, focusing
on the impact on the proposed site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada for the disposal
of commercial spent fuel and defense high-level radioactive waste, receiving
testimony from Senators Reid and Bryan; Representatives Bilbray and
Vucanovich; James D. Watkins, Secretary of Energy; Don U. Deere, Chairman,
Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board; Robert M. Bernero, Director, Office of
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Nuclear Regulatory Commission; and
Nevada Governor Bob Miller, Carson City.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL SECURITY ENERGY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Regulation
and Conservation held hearings on S. 341, to establish a national energy
policy to reduce U.S. dependence on imported oil, focusing on Subtitle A of
Title IV, relating to the export of renewable energy and energy efficiency
technology, receiving testimony from George A. Helland, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Export Assistance, Office of International Affairs and Energy
Emergencies, and Ronald W. Bowes, Director, Office of Technical Assistance,
Conservation and Renewable Energy, both of the Department of Energy; James D.
Berg, Executive Vice-President, Overseas Private Investment Corporation;
Franklin Tugwell, Environmental Enterprises Assistance Fund, Arlington,
Virginia; and Deborarh Bleviss, International Institute for Energy
Conservation, and Scott Sklar, U.S. Export Council for Renewable Energy, both
of Washington, D.C.
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Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL PARKS/PUBLIC LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills:
S. 292, to expand the boundaries of the Saguaro National Monument in Arizona,
after receiving testimony from Senator McCain; Stanley T. Albright, Regional
Director, Western Region, National Park Service, Department of the Interior;
Dave Simon, National Parks and Conservation Association, Washington, D.C.;
Chris Monson, Rocking K Development Company, Tucson, Arizona; and James P.F.
Egbert, X9 Ranch, Vail, Arizona;
S. 363, to authorize the addition of 15 acres to Morristown National
Historical Park, New Jersey, after receiving testimony from Gerald D. Patten,
Regional Director, North Atlantic Region, National Park Service, Department of
the Interior;
S. 545, to authorize the additional use of land in Merced County, California,
after receiving testimony from Mr. Albright (listed above); and
S. 549, to designate the Lower Merced River in California as a component of
the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, after receiving testimony from
Michael J. Penfold, Assistant Director for Land and Renewable Resources,
Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Donald J. Hellmann, The
Wilderness Society, Washington, D.C.; and Jay Anderson, Merced Irrigation
District, Merced, California.
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for Federal surface transportation programs, and on issues
relating to transportation infrastructure financing and highway congestion
pricing, after receiving testimony from Clifford Winston, Brookings
Institution, Washington, D.C.; Steven A. Morrison, Northeastern University,
Boston, Massachusetts; Allan V. Johnson, Ohio Turnpike Commission, Berea, on
behalf of the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association; Daniel V.
Flanagan, Jr., The Flanagan Group, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia; Heather L.
Ruth, Public Securities Association, New York, New York; and Don H. Pickrell,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of
Renato Beghe, of New York, to be a Judge of the United States Tax Court.
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Mr. Renato, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Heinz, testified
and answered questions in his own behalf.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee announced the following subcommittee
assignments:
European Affairs: Senators Biden (Chairman), Sarbanes, Simon, Pressler, and
Brown;
International Economic Policy, Trade, Oceans and Environment: Senators
Sarbanes (Chairman), Biden, Cranston, Dodd, Pell, McConnell, Lugar, Murkowski,
and Kassebaum;
East Asian and Pacific Affairs: Senators Cranston (Chairman), Biden, Dodd,
Kerry, Robb, Murkowski, Lugar, McConnell, and Brown;
Western Hemisphere and Peace Corps Affairs: Senators Dodd (Chairman),
Cranston, Kerry, Sanford, Robb, Lugar, Kassebaum, Hatch, and Helms;
Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations: Senators Kerry (Chairman),
Simon, Moynihan, Pell, Brown, McConnell, and Hatch;
African Affairs: Senators Simon (Chairman), Sanford, Moynihan, Kassebaum, and
Helms;
Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs: Senators Sanford (Chairman), Sarbanes,
Moynihan, Robb, Hatch, Pressler, and Murkowski.
AUTHORIZATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for foreign assistance, receiving
testimony from Ronald Lehman II, Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency, and Carl Gershman, President, National Endowment for Democracy.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, April 11.
STUDENT FINANCIAL AID
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Government Information and
Regulation held hearings on improving access to student financial aid
information, focusing on related provisions of S. 501, to establish a data
collection, information dissemination, and student counseling and assistance
network, receiving testimony from Ernie Canellos, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Education for Higher Education; Col. John Myers, United States Army
Recruiting Command, Advertising and Public Affairs; Wisconsin State
Representative Gwendolyn Moore, Madison; A. Dallas Martin, National
Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, and Gary Bass, OMB Watch,
both of Washington, D.C.; and Regina E. Manley, National Association of
College Admission Counselors, Alexandria, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
The nominations of Robin J. Cauthron, to be a United States District Judge for
the Western District of Oklahoma, Oliver W. Wanger, to be a United States
District Judge for the Eastern District of California, and Richard W.
Goldberg, of North Dakota, to be a Judge of the United States Court of
International Trade;
S. 119, for the relief of Fanie Phily Mateo Angeles;
S. 159, for the relief of Maria Erica Bartski;
S. 295, for the relief of Mary P. Carlton and Lee Alan Tan;
S. 426, for the relief of Abby Cooke;
S. 464, for the relief of John Gabriel Robledo-Gomez Dunn; and
S. 134, to establish a United States Marshals Association, with an amendment
in the nature of a substitute.
Also, committee ordered reported, without recommendation, S. 429, to promote
retail competition and assure lower prices on products for the benefit of
American consumers by codifying that resale price fixing agreements are
unlawful.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Wednesday, March 20, Committee
ordered favorably reported the nominations of Bernadine P. Healy, of Ohio, to
be Director, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human
Services, George H. Oberle, Jr., of Oklahoma, to be a Member of the National
Council on Disability, Mikiso Hane, of Illinois, to be a Member of the
National Council on the Humanities, and Marta Istomin, of the District of
Columbia, Donald Hall, of New Hampshire, and Catherine Yi-yu Cho Woo, of
California, each to be a Member of the National Council on the Arts.
AUTHORIZATION--HIGHER EDUCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
programs of the Higher Education Act, focusing on the financing of a college
education, receiving testimony from Hoke L. Smith, Towson State University,
Towson, Maryland, on behalf of the American Council on Education; Richard F.
Rosser, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, and
Norine Fuller, Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, both of
Washington, D.C.; John L. Henderson, Wilberforce University, Wilberforce,
Ohio, on behalf of the United Negro College Fund; Bill Wyckoff, Labette State
Bank, Altamont, Kansas, on behalf of the American Association of Community and
Junior Colleges; Rev. John P. Whalen, University Support Services, Herndon,
Virginia; Kate Wilson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, on
behalf of the Coalition of Higher Education Assistance Organizations; and
Thomas Hood, University of Mississippi, University, on behalf of the National
Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION ACT
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings on S. 250, to
establish national voter registration procedures for Federal elections,
receiving testimony from Oregon Governor Barbara Roberts, Salem; Washington
Secretary of State Ralph Munro, Olympia; Anita Tatum, Alabama Director of
Voter Registration, Montgomery; and Emmett H. Fremaux, Jr., District of
Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics, and Susan S. Lederman, The League of
Women Voters, both of Washington, D.C.
Hearings continue Wednesday, April 10.
NOMINATION
Committee on Small Business: Committee approved for reporting the nomination
of James F. Hoobler, of New York, to be Inspector General, Small Business
Administration.
INTELLIGENCE REORGANIZATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held hearings on issues relating
to the reorganization of the intelligence community, receiving testimony from
Adm. Bobby R. Inman, USN (Ret.), former Deputy Director of Central
Intelligence; Gen. William Odem, USA (Ret.), former Director, National
Security Agency; and Donald C. Latham, former Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
SAN CARLOS WATER RIGHTS SETTLEMENT
Joint Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs concluded joint
hearings with the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs on S. 291,
to settle certain water rights claims of the San Carlos Apache Tribe in
Arizona, after receiving testimony from Representatives Kyl and Kolbe; Patrick
Hayes, Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs;
Mayor Robert Hickman, Globe, Arizona; Greenlee County Supervisor Fred Zumwalt,
Clifton, Arizona; Pinal County Supervisor Dean Weatherly, Florence, Arizona;
N.W. Plummer, Arizona Department of Water Resources, and Doug Miller, Central
Arizona Water Conservation District, both of Phoenix; Buck Kitcheyan, San
Carlos Apache Tribe, San Carlos, Arizona; Richard Silverman, Salt River
Project, Tempe, Arizona; Michael Leonard, Roosevelt Water Conservation
District, Higley, Arizona; Jeffrey Clevenger, Phelps-Dodge Corporation,
Morenci, Arizona; Thomas R. White, Gila River Indian Community, Sacaton,
Arizona; and Michael J. Clinton, Bookman-Edmondston Engineering, Inc.,
Glendale, California, representing the Central Arizona and Maricopa-Stanfield
Irrigation and Drainage Districts.
DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS, 1991
Conferees continued in closed evening session to resolve the differences
between the Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 1282, making
supplemental appropriations and transfers for "Operation Desert Shield/Desert
Storm" for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1991.
DIRE EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS, 1991
Conferees continued in evening session to resolve the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 1281, making dire emergency
supplemental appropriations for the consequences of Operation Desert
Shield/Desert Storm, food stamps, unemployment compensation administration,
veterans compensation and pensions, and other urgent needs for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 1991.
1991/03/22
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1992 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Catherine Bertini, Assistant
Secretary for Food and Consumer Services, Betty Jo Nelson, Administrator, Food
and Nutrition Service, Sue Ann Ritchko, Administrator, Human Nutrition and
Information Service, and Dennis Kaplan, Budget Officer, all of the Department
of Agriculture.
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Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, April 10.
APPROPRIATIONS--CAPITAL POLICE BOARD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the Capitol
Police Board, receiving testimony from Martha S. Pope, Senate Sergeant at
Arms; Jack Russ, House Sergeant at Arms; George M. White, Architect of the
Capitol; and Frank Kerrigan, Chief, U.S. Capitol Police.
Subcommittee will meet again Friday, April 19.
UNITED STATES-JAPAN SEMICONDUCTOR TRADE AGREEMENT
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade held hearings on the
renewal of the United States-Japan Semiconductor Trade Agreement which expires
July, 1991, receiving testimony from Jerry R. Junkins, Texas Instruments
Incorporated, Dallas, on behalf of the Semiconductor Industry of America; and
Joseph R. Canion, Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, Texas, on behalf of
the Computer Systems Policy Project.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
UNITED STATES-MEXICO FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace
Corps Affairs resumed hearings to examine issues relating to a bilateral free
trade agreement between the United States and Mexico, receiving testimony from
Clark W. Reynolds, Stanford University, Stanford, California; Walter Russell
Mead, World Policy Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana; James Giermanski, Laredo
State University, Laredo, Texas; and Thomas R. Donahue, AFL-CIO, Jeffrey
Schott, Institute for International Economics, Holly Burkhalter, Human Rights
Watch, Michael McCloskey, Sierra Club, and William W. Treanor, Child Labor
Coalition, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings continue Thursday, April 11.
Joint Meetings
DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS, 1991
Conferees on Thursday, March 21, agreed to file a conference report on the
differences between the Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 1282, making
supplemental appropriations and transfers for "Operation Desert Shield/Desert
Storm" for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1991.
DIRE EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS, 1991
Conferees on Thursday, March 21, agreed to file a conference report on the
differences between the Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 1281, making
dire emergency supplemental appropriations for the consequences of Operation
Desert Shield/Desert Storm, food stamps, unemployment compensation
administration, veterans compensation and pensions, and other urgent needs for
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1991.
1991/04/09
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D202)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--COMMERCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and The
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
John A. Knauss, Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, and John W. Lyons,
Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology, both of the
Department of Commerce.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, April 11.
APPROPRIATIONS--GUARD AND RESERVE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1992, receiving testimony in behalf of funds
for their respective activities from Stephen M. Duncan, Assistant Secretary of
Defense (Reserve Affairs); Christopher Jehn, Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Force Management and Personnel); Lt. Gen. John B. Conaway, USA, Chief,
National Guard Bureau; Maj. Gen. Donald Burdick, USA, Director, Army National
Guard; Maj. Gen. Philip G. Killey, USAF, Director, Air National Guard; Maj.
Gen. William F. Ward, USA, Chief, Army Reserve; Rear Adm. James E. Taylor,
USN, Director, Navy Reserve; Maj. Gen. Hollis E. Davison, USMC, Assistant
Deputy Chief of Marine Corps Staff for Manpower; and Maj. Gen. John J.
Closner, USAF, Chief, Air Force Reserve.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, April 11.
NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
concluded hearings to examine certain manufacturing technology programs being
undertaken by the Department of Defense and the Department of Commerce and to
identify ways in which the U.S. can strengthen its support of these programs
and use achievements to advance national defense goals, after receiving
testimony from Colin McMillan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Production
and Logistics; Robert M. White, Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology;
and Lawrence Rhoades, Extrude Hone Corporation, Irwin, Pennsylvania.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations
of Arthur Levitt, Jr., of New York, Robert D. Stuart, Jr., of Illinois, and
Alexander B. Trowbridge, of the District of Columbia, each to be a Member of
the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Levitt was
introduced by Senator Moynihan. Testimony was also received on all the
aforementioned nominees from James A. Courter, Chairman, Defense Base Closure
and Realignment Commission.
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RTC REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings on
proposals to reform the structure and practices of the Resolution Trust
Corporation of the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony from
Senators Chafee, Pell, and Kerrey; Representative Vento; Anthony M. Frank,
Postmaster General, U.S. Postal Service; Marshall J. Breger, Chairman,
Administrative Conference of the United States; Rhode Island Governor Bruce
Sundlun, Providence; David D. Braun, The Nature Conservancy, Arlington,
Virginia; James D. Davidson, National Taxpayers Union, and Chris Lewis,
Financial Democracy Campaign, both of Washington, D.C.; and Martin Mayer, New
York, New York.
Committee will meet again Thursday, April 11.
WETLANDS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection concluded hearings to examine the current condition of wetlands in
America, focusing on wetland creation and restoration, quality and quantity of
wetland resources and the ecological role of the wetland, after receiving
testimony from Mary E. Kentula, Research Ecologist, Research and Development
Laboratory (Corvallis, Oregon), Environmental Protection Agency; Daniel E.
Hubbard, South Dakota State University, Brookings; Mark M. Brinson, East
Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina; Joseph S. Larson, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst; Joy B. Zedler, San Diego State University, San
Diego, California; and Russell Lea, North Carolina State University, Raleigh.
HEALTH CARE
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the causes and
effects of rising health care costs and the status of access to health
insurance, receiving testimony from Robert D. Reischauer, Director,
Congressional Budget Office; Robert J. Blendon, Harvard University School of
Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Lane Kirkland, Karen Ignagni, and Robert
McGlotten, all of the AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C.; Gary Kushner, Kushner and
Company, Inc., Kalamazoo, Michigan, representing National Small Business
United; John C. Morley, Reliance Electric, Cleveland, Ohio; Michael R. Peevey,
Southern California Edison Company, Rosemead; and Don Summers, Austin Welder
and Generator Service, Austin, Texas, representing the National Federation of
Independent Business.
Hearings continue Tuesday, April 16.
WAR CRIMES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the
question of war crimes during the Persian Gulf War, and on S. 253, to provide
for the establishment of appropriate legal forums for the enforcement of the
Geneva Conventions, receiving testimony from Senator McConnell; Elie Wiesel,
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; Robert K. Woetzel, Foundation for
the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, Santa Barbara,
California; and Anthony D'Amato, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of David Floyd Lambertson, of Kansas, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of
Thailand, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Dole, testified and
answered questions in his own behalf.
SOVIET DISUNITY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs resumed
closed hearings on the U.S. response to Soviet disunity, receiving testimony
from Robert Blackwell, National Intelligence Officer for Soviet Affairs, and
George Kolt, Director, Soviet Analysis Office, both of the Central
Intelligence Agency.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
VIOLENT CRIME AGAINST WOMEN
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine issues relating
to violence against women, including S. 15, to combat violence and crimes
against women on the streets and in homes and to establish the National
Commission on Violent Crime Against Women, receiving testimony from Illinois
Attorney General Roland W. Burris, Springfield; Iowa Attorney General Bonnie
J. Campbell, Des Moines; Gill S. Freeman, Florida Supreme Court Gender Bias
Study Implementation Commission, Miami; Cass R. Sunstein, University of
Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Burt Neuborne, New York University School of Law,
New York, New York; and Amy Kaylor, Toledo, Ohio.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NAIC MODEL INSURANCE LAWS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business
Rights held hearings to examine the legislative process of State regulation of
the insurance industry, focusing on how the National Association of Insurance
Commissioners (NAIC) prepare and propose model state insurance laws and the
States' implementation of those laws, receiving testimony from Nebraska State
Senator Don Wesely, Lincoln, representing National Conference of State
Legislatures' Task Force on Insurance Company Insolvencies; North Dakota
Commissioner of Insurance Earl Pomeroy, Bismarck; Maryland Commissioner of
Insurance John Donaho, Annapolis; Ross Sargent, on behalf of California State
Senator Patrick Johnston, Sacramento; and James Firman, United Seniors Health
Co-op, Phil Schwartz, American Insurance Association, and Dan Mica, American
Council of Life Insurance, all of Washington, D.C.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/04/10
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 10, 1991; D381 - D388 (Bd vol. D203 - D207)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/04/11
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 11, 1991; pages D389 - D402 (Bd vol. D207 -
D217)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FOREST MANAGEMENT
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Conservation and Forestry held hearings to examine the implementation of the
below cost timber sale program of the U.S. Forest Service and to review
overall national forest management issues, receiving testimony from John H.
Beuter, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, and
George M. Leonard, Associate Chief, Forest Service, both of the Department of
Agriculture; Richard E. Rice, The Wilderness Society, Washington, D.C.; James
Riley, Intermountain Forest Industries Association, Coeur D'Alene, Indiana;
Margaret Hogan, Hogan Lumber Company, Cleveland, Georgia; and Robert E. Wolf,
St. Leonard, Maryland.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for
the Drug Enforcement Administration, receiving testimony from Robert C.
Bonner, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, April 16.
APPROPRIATIONS--B-2 BOMBER
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on the B-2 bomber program, receiving testimony from John J. Welch, Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition); and Maj. Gen. Steven B. Croker,
Director, Strategic and Special Operations Forces Sealift Program.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, April 16.
APPROPRIATIONS--LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the Library of Congress,
receiving testimony from James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress, Joseph E.
Ross, Director, Congressional Research Service, and Ralph Oman, Register of
Copyrights, all of the Library of Congress.
Subcommittee will meet again Friday, April 19.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: On Wednesday, April 10, committee approved for
reporting the nominations of Arthur Levitt, Jr., of New York, Robert D.
Stuart, Jr., of Illinois, and Alexander B. Trowbridge, of the District of
Columbia, each to be a Member of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment
Commission.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for the national
defense program, and to review the fiscal years 1992-1997 future year defense
program, focusing on U.S. military strategy, receiving testimony from Paul D.
Wolfowitz, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; and Adm. David E. Jeremiah,
USN, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Committee will meet again Thursday, April 18.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1992 and 1993 for the Department of Defense, focusing on logistics
programs, receiving testimony from Rear Adm. Edward Straw, Director, Materiel
Division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Logistics; Mike
Cocchiola, Executive Director for Aviation Depots, Department of the Navy; Lt.
Gen. R.J. Winglass, USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff for Installations and
Logistics, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps; and Lt. Gen. Charles McCausland,
USAF, Director, Defense Logistics Agency.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, April 17.
BANKING REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed hearings
on S. 713, to reform the Federal deposit insurance system, to improve the
supervision and regulation of Federally insured depository institutions, to
reform the financial services industry as to the activities in which that
industry may engage, to consolidate the regulatory structure for depository
institutions, and to recapitalize the Bank Insurance Fund, focusing on the
restructure of Federal regulation of insured depository institutions,
receiving testimony from former Senator William Proxmire; Steven M. Roberts,
KPMG Peat Marwick, and Wolfgang Reinicke, Brookings Institution, both of
Washington, D.C.; Bernard Shull, Hunter College, City University of New York,
New York, New York; and David F. Holland, Boston Federal Savings Bank,
Burlington, Massachusetts.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Committee on the Budget: Committee began markup of a proposed concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1992 budget for the Federal Government, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again Tuesday, April 16.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications held hearings on S. 218, to make additional frequencies
available for commercial assignment in order to promote the development and
use of new telecommunications technologies, receiving testimony from Alfred C.
Sikes, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission; Janice Obuchowski,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information; Wayne
Schelle, American Personal Communications, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland; Michael
Roehrs, FiberBox, Inc., Dallas, Texas; David Nagel, Apple Computer, Cupertino,
California; John W. Carmody, Florida Highway Patrol, Tallahassee; Lawrence
Gitten, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, New Jersey; Edward R. Cheramy, IDB
Communications Group, Inc., Culver City, California; and Veronica Haggart,
Motorola, and Craig Roos, Local Area Telecommunications, Inc., both of New
York, New York.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee held
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, receiving testimony from Jerry Curry,
Administrator, Barry Felrice, Associate Administrator for Rulemaking, William
Boehly, Associate Administrator for Enforcement, George Parker, Associate
Administrator for Research and Development, Adele Derby, Associate
Administrator for Traffic Safety Programs, and Don Bischoff, Associate
Administrator for Plans and Policy, all of the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, Department of Transportation; Eleanor Chelimsky, Assistant
Comptroller General, General Accounting Office; Joan Claybrook, Public
Citizen, and Clarence Ditlow, Center for Auto Safety, both of Washington,
D.C.; Mickey Sadoff, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Irving, Texas; Thomas
Hanna, Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of International Automobile
Manufacturers, Gregory Dana, Association of International Automobile
Manufacturers, and Brian O'Neill, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, all
of Arlington, Virginia; and J. Daniel Khazzoom, San Jose State University, San
Jose, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
343, to provide for continued United States leadership in high-performance
computing, after receiving testimony from Senator Gore; Eugene Wong, Associate
Director for Physical Sciences and Engineering, Office of Science and
Technology; David B. Nelson, Executive Director, Office of Energy Research,
Department of Energy; Lloyd Thorndyke, Data Max, Inc., Bloomington, Minnesota;
Kenneth King, EDUCOM, Washington, D.C.; Glenn Ricart, University of Maryland,
College Park; and Siegfried S. Hecker, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los
Alamos, New Mexico.
ENVIRONMENTAL LENDER LIABILITY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, Ocean
and Water Protection concluded hearings on issues relating to lender liability
for hazardous substance clean-up costs and damages as imposed by the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
(Superfund) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, after receiving
testimony from Senator Garn; Raymond B. Ludwiszewski, Acting Assistant
Administrator, Office of Enforcement, Environmental Protection Agency; Steven
A. Seelig, Director, Division of Liquidation, Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation; David C. Cooke, Executive Director, Resolution Trust Corporation,
Department of the Treasury; Michigan Attorney General Frank J. Kelley,
Lansing; New York Assistant Attorney General John Privitera, Albany; John J.
Motley, National Federation of Independent Business, and Morton Mullins,
Monsanto Company, representing the Chemical Manufacturers Association, both of
Washington, D.C.; Charles E. Waterman, South Holland Trust and Savings Bank,
South Holland, Illinois, representing the American Bankers Association; and
Andrew Buchsbaum, Ann Arbor, Michigan, representing U.S. Public Interest
Research Group.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: On Wednesday, April 10, committee approved for
reporting the nomination of Nicholas F. Brady, of New Jersey, to be United
States Governor of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
CAMBODIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
concluded hearings on the effects of the continued diplomatic stalemate in
Cambodia, after receiving testimony from Senator Kerrey; and Richard H.
Solomon, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
U.S. DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy,
Trade, Oceans and Environment held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for U.S. development assistance programs, receiving
testimony from John W. Sewell, President, Overseas Development Council; and
Douglas Siglin, InterAction, and Nick Eberstadt, representing Harvard Center
for Population Studies and American Enterprise Institute, both of Washington,
D.C.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for foreign assistance, focusing on the
Board for International Broadcasting, receiving testimony from Malcolm S.
Forbes, Jr., Chairman, Board for International Broadcasting.
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Subcommittee will meet again Friday, April 19.
UNITED STATES-MEXICO FREE TRADE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace
Corps Affairs concluded hearings to examine issues relating to a bilateral
free trade agreement with Mexico, after receiving testimony from Robert B.
Zoellick, Counselor, Department of State.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee failed to approve for reporting the
nomination of Kenneth L. Ryskamp, of Florida, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Eleventh Circuit.
IMPACT OF DRUGS ON ENVIRONMENT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
environmental damage inflicted by the production of methamphetamines and
cocaine and the domestic environmental consequences of certain drug
productions, after receiving testimony from Frank Thompson, California
Department of Justice, Sacramento; Jean-Michel Cousteau, The Cousteau Society,
Los Angeles, California; Paul Pearce, Clandestine Laboratory Investigators
Association, Camas, Washington; and Robert Brown, Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
AUTHORIZATION--PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Patent
and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce, after receiving testimony from
Harry F. Manbeck, Jr., Commissioner, Patent and Trademark Office, Department
of Commerce; Donald W. Banner, Intellectual Property Owners, Inc., and Richard
D. Godown, Industrial Biotechnology Association, both of Washington, D.C.;
Jerome G. Lee, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Arlington,
Virginia; Thomas F. Smegal, Jr., American Bar Association, San Francisco,
California; Herbert S. Goldberg, University of Missouri, Columbia; and Garo
Partoyan, United States Trademark Association, New York, New York.
HIGHER EDUCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and
Humanities resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
programs of the Higher Education Act, receiving testimony from Andrew Lamar
Alexander, Jr., Secretary of Education; Ted Sanders, Deputy Secretary of
Education; and Sally H. Christensen, Acting Deputy Under Secretary of
Education for Plans, Budget and Evaluation.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/04/15
Daily Digest - Monday, April 15, 1991; pages D403 - D408 (Bd vol. D217 - D220)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--WHITE HOUSE RESIDENCE/OPM
Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, March 12, Subcommittee on the
Treasury, Postal Service and General Government held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1992, receiving testimony in behalf of funds
for their respective activities from Robert Stanton, Regional Director,
National Capital Region, National Park Service (Executive residence at the
White House); and Constance Berry Newman, Director, Office of Personnel
Management.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, April 17.
STRUCTURAL IMPEDIMENTS INITIATIVE
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade held hearings to
review the progress made in the Structural Impediments Initiative (SII) talks
between the United States and Japan, receiving testimony from John D. Ong,
Akron, Ohio and Gerrie Bjornson, Washington, D.C., both representing BF
Goodrich; and John E. Howard, United States Chamber of Commerce, R.K. Morris,
National Association of Manufacturers, Howard D. Samuel, AFL-CIO, on behalf of
the Labor-Industry Coalition for International Trade, John Ragosta, Dewey
Ballantine, William K. Krist, American Electronics Association, Robert Z.
Lawrence, Brookings Institution, and Kevin L. Kearns, Economic Strategy
Institute, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DEFICIT OUTLOOK
Committee on Finance: On Friday, April 12, Subcommittee on Deficits, Debt
Management and International Debt held hearings to examine the outlook for the
long-term Federal deficit, receiving testimony from Robert D. Reischauer,
Director, Congressional Budget Office; Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General
of the United States, David Mathiasen, Special Assistant to the Assistant
Comptroller General, Sidney Winter, Chief Economic Specialist, and James
Kirkman, Director of Budget Issues, Accounting and Financial Management
Division, all of the General Accounting Office; Jane Gravelle, Congressional
Research Service, Library of Congress; Elmer B. Staats, Federal Accounting
Standards Advisory Board, Herbert Stein, American Enterprise Institute, and
Henry J. Aaron, The Brookings Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; Laurence J.
Kotlikoff, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; and Alan S. Blinder,
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PERSIAN GULF REFUGEES
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs
concluded hearings to examine the international humanitarian response to the
Persian Gulf refugee crisis, after receiving testimony from Princeton Lyman,
Director, Bureau of Refugee Programs, Department of State; Andrew S. Natsios,
Director, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, United States International
Development Cooperation Agency; Peter Fuchs, International Committee of the
Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland; and Lionel Rosenblatt, Refugees International,
Washington, D.C.
THREE AFFILIATED TRIBES/STANDING ROCK SIOUX COMPENSATION ACT
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: On Friday, March 12, Committee concluded
hearings on S. 168, to provide additional financial compensation to the Three
Affiliated Tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Tribes that reside on the Fort
Berthold Indian Reservation) and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe for the taking
of reservation lands for the sites of the Garrison Dam and Reservoir and the
Oahe Dam and Reservoir, after receiving testimony from T. Vincent Griffith,
Director, Operations of Resources, Community and Economic Development
Division, General Accounting Office; Patrick A. Hayes, Director, Trust and
Economic Development, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior;
Morgan Rees, Deputy for Planning Policy and Legislation, and Robert Roumph,
Head of Indian Desk and Deputy District Engineer for Project Management, both
of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; C. Emerson Murry, Garrison Diversion
Conservancy District, Carrington, North Dakota; Dennis Hill, North Dakota
Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives, Mandan; Stephen Petry, National
Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Washington, D.C; Charles Murphy,
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Fort Yates, North Dakota; and Wilbur Wilkinson,
Three Affiliated Tribes, New Town, North Dakota.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1991/04/16
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 16, 1991; pages D410 - D420 (Bd vol. D220 -
D229)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1992, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Roland R. Vautour, Under Secretary for Small Community and
Rural Development, La Verne Ausman, Administrator, Farmers Home
Administration, James E. Cason, Manager, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation,
Gary Byrne, Administrator, Rural Electrification Administration, and Dennis
Kaplan, Budget Officer, all of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again Friday, April 19.
APPROPRIATIONS--U.S. TRADE REPRESENTATIVE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for
the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, receiving testimony from Carla A.
Hills, U.S. Trade Representative.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, April 18.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for defense programs, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Stephen K.
Conver, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research, Development and
Acquisition); and Maj. Gen. Peter M. McVey, Program Executive Officer for
Armored Systems Modernization Program, Department of the Army.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, April 23.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for foreign assistance,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Robert Barry, Special Advisor for Eastern European Assistance, Department of
State; and Carol Adelman, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Europe and Near
East, Agency for International Development.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, April 23.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1992 for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and related agencies, receiving testimony from Senator Exon and
Craig; and numerous public witnesses.
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Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992
and 1993 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the defense industrial
base, receiving testimony from Nicholas M. Torelli, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Production Resources; Paul F. Math, Director of Research,
Development, Acquisition and Procurement, General Accounting Office; and
Bernard L. Schwartz, The Loral Corporation, and Jacques Gansler, The Analytic
Sciences Corporation, both of Arlington, Virginia.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, April 25.
COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on Title III, relating to margins on stock index futures and exclusivity
provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act of S. 207, to authorize funds for,
and increase the effectiveness, of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
(pending on Senate calendar), after receiving testimony from Richard C.
Breeden, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission; Robert R, Glauber,
Under Secretary of the Treasury for Finance; Wendy L. Gramm, Chairman,
Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Federal
Reserve System.
OZONE LAYER
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held hearings to review recent data on the depletion of
the ozone layer, receiving testimony from Robert T. Watson, Branch Chief,
Upper Atmosphere Research Tropospheric Chemistry, Earth Science and
Applications Division, and Richard S. Stolarski, Astrophysicist, Atmospheric
Chemistry and Dynamics Branch, Earth Sciences Directorate, both of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Dan Albritton, Director,
Aeronomy Lab (Boulder, Colorado), National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Department of Commerce; F. Sherwood Rowland, University of
California, Irvine; David Doniger, Natural Resources Defense Council,
Washington, D.C.; and Kevin Fay, Alliance for Responsible CFC Policy, Rosslyn,
Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SPACE STATION FREEDOM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held hearings to review the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration's revised design and assembly launch cycle for the Space
Station Freedom, receiving testimony from Richard H. Truly, Administrator,
J.R. Thompson, Deputy Administrator, William B. Lenoir, Associate
Administrator, Office of Space Flight, Lennard A. Fisk, Associate
Administrator, Office of Space Science and Applications, and Richard H. Kohrs,
Director, Space Station Freedom, all of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration; Louis J. Lanzerotti, Chairman, Space Studies Board, National
Academy of Science; Robert J. Bayuzick, Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
Tennessee; Harry C. Holloway, Aerospace Medical Advisory Committee, Bethesda,
Maryland; Bruce Murray, The Planetary Society, Pasadena, California; and John
E. Pike, Federation of American Scientists, Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, April 19.
NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee began markup of S. 341,
to establish a national energy policy to reduce U.S. dependence on imported
oil, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
SUPERCONDUCTING SUPER COLLIDER
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development concluded hearings on the President's proposed budget request for
fiscal year 1992 for the Department of Energy's superconducting super collider
program, after receiving testimony from D. Allan Bromley, Director, Office of
Science and Technology Policy; W. Henson Moore, Deputy Secretary of Energy;
Leon M. Lederman, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois;
Nicolaas Bloembergen, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
representing the American Physical Society; and Paul A. Fleury, AT&T Bell
Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: On Friday, April 12, committee
approved for reporting the nominations of William H. Kennoy, of Kentucky, to
be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and
Rickey Dale James, of Missouri, to be a Member of the Mississippi River
Commission.
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FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection concluded hearings on S. 596, to require Federal agencies to comply
with Federal and State environmental laws and requirements, after receiving
testimony from Christian R. Holmes, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Federal
Facilities Enforcement, Environmental Protection Agency; Thomas E. Baca,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Environment; Mark C. Schroeder,
Deputy General Counsel for Energy Resources and Legislation, Department of
Energy; Idaho Attorney General Larry EchoHawk, Boise, representing National
Association of Attorneys General; Terry Husseman, Washington Department of
Ecology, representing National Governors Association, and Gerald M. Pollet,
Heart of America Northwest, both of Seattle, Washington; Shira A. Flax, Sierra
Club, Washington, D.C.; and Lisa Crawford, Fernald Residents for Environmental
Safety and Health, Inc., Harrison, Ohio.
HEALTH CARE
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine the causes and
effects of rising health care costs and the status of access to health
insurance, receiving testimony from Richard G. Darman, Director, Office of
Management and Budget; Edward L. Hennessy, Jr., Allied-Signal, Inc.,
Morristown, New Jersey; Kenneth A. Macke, Dayton Hudson Corporation,
Minneapolis, Minnesota; Walter F. Williams, Bethlehem Steel Corporation,
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Rhoda H. Karpatkin and Gail Shearer, both of
Consumers Union, Yonkers, New York; and Dallas L. Salisbury, Employee Benefit
Research Institute, Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MARITIME TREATIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
International Convention on Standards of Training Certification and
Watchkeeping for Seafarers 1978 (Ex. EE, 96th Cong., 1st Sess.), the Annex III
to the 1973 Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL)
(Treaty Doc. 101 7), and the Protocols Relating to the Safety of Life at Sea
and Load Line Conventions (Treaty Doc. 102 2), after receiving testimony from
Adm. J. William Kime, Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of
Transportation.
AUTHORIZATION--CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs, and Alcoholism concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for programs of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, after
receiving testimony from Robert Zampano, Senior U.S. District Judge, Federal
District Court, New Haven, Connecticut; Janet Wiig, Minnesota Department of
Human Services, St. Paul; Phil Newsome and David Stewart, both of the Prince
Georges County Department of Protective Services, Upper Marlboro, Maryland;
Barbara Sinatra and John Shields, both of the Barbara Sinatra Center, Rancho
Mirage, California; Carolyn Newberger, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; Richard Krugmen, Child Abuse Advisory Board, Denver, Colorado;
Deborah Daro, National Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse, Chicago,
Illinois; and Gary Allen, Wallingford, Connecticut.
ERISA PREEMPTION AMENDMENTS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor held hearings on
S. 794, to revise the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974
to provide that such Act does not preempt certain State laws that regulate
employee benefit plans, receiving testimony from New York Attorney General
Robert O. Abrams, Albany; Jack Norris Jr., Office of the Attorney General for
the State of Florida, Tallahassee; Robert A. Georgine, AFL CIO, Peter Kelly,
Murphy, Smith and Polk, on behalf of the United States Chamber of Commerce,
Anne Marie Walsh, Health Insurance Association of America, and Maurice Baskin,
Associated Builders and Contractors, all of Washington, D.C.; James R. Noble,
Mechanical Contractors Association of America, Bethesda, Maryland; Cindy
Ferguson, Los Angeles, California; and William Denton, Biloxi, Mississippi.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/04/17
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 17, 1991; pages D421 - D432 (Bd vol. D229 -
D239)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1992 for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and related agencies, receiving testimony from numerous public
witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--OMB/EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1992, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Richard G. Darman, Director, Office of Management and Budget; Paul W.
Bateman, Deputy Assistant to the President for Management, and Director,
Office of Administration; Ron Rasmussen, Director, Financial Management
Division, Office of Administration; and D. Allan Bromley, Director, Office of
Science and Technology Policy.
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Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, April 25.
APPROPRIATIONS--VETERANS AFFAIRS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Frank
Nebeker, Chief Judge, United States Court of Veterans Appeals; Edward J.
Derwinski, Secretary of Veterans Affairs; and Anthony J. Principi, Deputy
Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, April 23.
AUTHORIZATION--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel held
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992 and
1993 for the Department of Defense, focusing on manpower programs, receiving
testimony from Christopher Jehn, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force
Management and Personnel; Lt. Gen. William H. Reno, USA, Deputy Chief of Army
Staff Personnel; Vice Adm. Jeremy M. Boorda, USN, Chief of Naval Personnel;
Lt. Gen. Thomas J. Hickey, USAF, Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff Personnel;
and Lt. Gen. Norman H. Smith, USMC, Deputy Chief of Marine Corps Staff,
Manpower and Reserve Affairs.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, April 24.
AUTHORIZATION--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1992 and 1993 for the Department of Defense, focusing on logistics
programs, receiving testimony from Gen. William G. T. Tuttle, Jr., USA,
Commander, Army Materiel Command; and Gen. Charles C. McDonald, USAF,
Commander, Air Force Logistics Command.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, April 24.
AUTHORIZATION--MASS TRANSIT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs resumed hearings on proposed legislation to authorize funds for
programs of the Urban Mass Transportation Act, to establish flexibility and
fairness between highway and transit funding, and to provide long-term project
financing, receiving testimony from Senator Specter; Mayor Peggy Rubach, Mesa,
Arizona, representing National League of Cities and U.S. Conference of Mayors;
Emil Frankel, Connecticut Department of Transportation, Hartford; Carl B.
Williams, California Department of Transportation, Sacramento; Rod Diridon,
Santa Clara County Supervisor, San Jose, California, representing National
Association of County Officials; Dave Mosena, City of Chicago Planning
Department, Chicago, Illinois; Carol Bellamy, Bear, Stearns, New York, New
York; Francis B. Francois, American Association of State Highway and
Transportation Officials, Bruce M. Fried, America's Coalition for Transit NOW,
David L. Gunn, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Jessica
Matthews, World Resources Institute, and William L. Roberts, Environmental
Defense Fund, all of Washington, D.C.; John Kain, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Robert Kochanowski, Southwestern Pennsylvania
Regional Planning Commission, Pittsburgh, representing National Association of
Regional Councils.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1992 budget for the Federal
Government.
U.S. COAST GUARD
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings in conjunction with the National Ocean Policy Study on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1992 for the U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Transportation, after receiving testimony from Adm. J.
William Kime, Commandant, Capt. J. David Spade, Chief, Budget Division, and
John E. Shkor, Chief, Programs Division, all of the U.S. Coast Guard,
Department of Transportation.
NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee continued markup of S.
341, to establish a national energy policy to reduce U.S. dependence on
imported oil, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again
tomorrow.
LEAD EXPOSURE REDUCTION ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Toxic Substances,
Environmental Oversight, Research and Development approved for full committee
consideration, with amendments, S. 391, to revise the Toxic Substances Control
Act to reduce the levels of lead in the environment.
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URUGUAY ROUND OF TRADE NEGOTIATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to evaluate the status of the
Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations under the auspices of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), focusing on ways to insure that
future trade agreements are effective in creating an open trading system by
all nations, receiving testimony from James D. Robinson III, American Express
Company, New York, New York; Donald V. Fites, Caterpillar, Inc., Peoria,
Illinois; Dean R. Kleckner, American Farm Bureau Federation, Rudd, Iowa;
Leland Swenson, National Farmers Union, Denver, Colorado; Lloyd Cline,
National Cotton Council of America, Lamesa, Texas; and Merle McCann, American
Soybean Association, Carson, Virginia.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
START TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the current
status and prospects of the proposed START Treaty, receiving testimony from
Richard Burt, former Chief of Delegation, Nuclear and Space Talks; Sidney
Graybeal, Science Applications International Corporation, McLean, Virginia;
Frank von Hippel, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; Michael May,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; and William R.
Harris, Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Raymond G. H. Seitz, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland, after the nominee testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
CYPRUS SETTLEMENT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs concluded
hearings on international law and the prospects for settlement for Cyprus,
after receiving testimony from Nelson Ledsky, Special Coordinator for Cyprus,
Department of State; Thomas Boyatt, IRC Corporation, and David Scheffer,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, both of Washington, DC; and
Matthew Nimetz, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, New York, New
York.
CORPORATE TAX COMPLIANCE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
concluded hearings to review tax fairness, focusing on corporate
non-compliance with U.S. tax laws and the Internal Revenue Service's
Coordinated Examination Program (CEP), which was established to more
effectively audit the tax returns of large, complex corporations, after
receiving testimony from Jennie S. Stathis, Director, Royce L. Baker, Senior
Evaluator, and Tom Short, Assignment Manager, all for Tax Policy and
Administration Issues, General Government Division, General Accounting Office;
and Fred T. Goldberg, Jr., Commissioner, Michael Murphy, Deputy Commissioner,
Abraham Shashy, Chief Counsel, David G. Blattner, Chief Operations Officer,
James J. Casmir, National Director of Appeals, and John J. Monaco, Director,
Coordinated Examination Program, all of the Internal Revenue Service.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items:
S. 2, to promote the achievement of national education goals, to establish a
National Council on Educational Goals and an academic report card to measure
the progress of the goals, and to promote literacy in the United States, with
an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nominations of Jack R. Reed, of Mississippi, Sandra Mills, of Wisconsin,
Dale P. Gold, of Virginia, Eunice N. Sato, of California, and Pedro Roig, of
Florida, each to be a Member of the National Advisory Council on Educational
Research and Improvement, Hans M. Mark, of Texas, Donald J. Sutherland, of New
York, and Timothy W. Tong, of Arizona, each to be a Member of the Board of
Trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship Foundation, and Peter deCourcy
Hero, of California, to be a Member of the National Council on the Arts.
NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION ACT
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on S. 250,
to establish national voter registration procedures for Federal elections,
after receiving testimony from Robert G. Krause, Director, Office of Address
Information Systems, Marketing and Customer Service Group, United States
Postal Service; R.H. Brennenman, Lancaster County Board of Commissioners and
Board of Elections, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Tony Bernhard, California County
Clerks Association, Woodland; Elaine R. Jones, NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund, Inc., Edward A. Hailes, Jr., Washington Bureau of the NAACP,
and Birgit Seifert, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, all
of Washington, D.C.; and Steve Barr, Rock the Vote, Beverly Hills, California.
INDIAN JURISDICTIONAL AUTHORITY
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to
review the status of jurisdictional authority in Indian country, after
receiving testimony from Wayne Ducheneaux, National Congress of American
Indians, Washington, D.C.; Peterson Zah, Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Arizona;
Georgia George, Suquamish Tribe, Suquamish, Washington; Ivan Makil, Salt River
Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Council, Scottsdale, Arizona; James Hena, All
Indian Pueblo Council, Susan Williams, Counsel to the Shoshone and Arapaho
Tribes of the Wind River Reservation, and Kevin Gover, Campo Band of Mission
Indians, all of Albuquerque, New Mexico; Jeff Sanders, Confederated Tribes and
Bands of the Warm Springs Reservation, Warm Springs, Oregon; Carey N. Vicenti,
Jicarilla Apache Tribe, Dulce, New Mexico; Ralph Darden, Chitimacha Tribe,
Charenton, Louisiana; George Wahquahboshkuk, Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribal
Council, Mayetta, Kansas; Pat Lefthand and Pat Smith, both of the Confederated
Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council of the Flathead Reservation, Pablo,
Montana; and F. Browning Pipestem, Norman, Oklahoma.
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INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again Tuesday, April 23.
Joint Meetings
VETERANS PROGRAMS
Joint Hearings: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint hearings
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs on the legislative
recommendations of certain veterans organizations, after receiving testimony
in behalf of their respective activities from Orval M. Hooten, Veterans of
World War I, Vaughn L. Brown, Sr., AMVETS, Francis W. Agnes, American
Ex-Prisoners of War, and Alfred Schwartz, Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A.,
all of Washington, D.C.; Col. Erik Johnson, Jr., USA (Ret.), Association of
the United States Army, Arlington, Virginia; and Col. Paul Arcari, USAF
(Ret.), The Retired Officers Association, Alexandria, Virginia.
1991/04/18
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 18, 1991; pages D433 - D448 (Bd vol. D239 -
D248)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--USIA/BIB
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Eugene P. Kopp, Acting Director, U.S. Information Agency; and Malcolm S.
Forbes, Jr., Chairman, Board for International Broadcasting.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, April 23.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1992 for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and related agencies, receiving testimony from numerous public
witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, April 23.
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for
the Federal Highway Administration, receiving testimony from Thomas D. Larson,
Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, April 25.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for the
Department of Energy national security programs, receiving testimony from
James D. Watkins, Secretary of Energy; Richard A. Claytor, Assistant Secretary
of Energy for Defense programs; and Leo P. Duffy, Director, Office of
Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, Department of Energy.
Committee will meet again Tuesday, April 23.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence held closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for national defense programs, focusing on recent
developments in Soviet strategic forces, receiving testimony from Lawrence K.
Gershwin, National Intelligence Officer for Soviet Strategic Forces, Central
Intelligence Agency; and Daniel J. Spohn, Defense Intelligence Officer for
Strategic Programs and Research and Development, Defense Intelligence Agency.
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Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, April 23.
AUTHORIZATION--MASS TRANSIT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs continued hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
programs of the Urban Mass Transportation Act, receiving testimony from
Senator Adams; Mayor Carole Scott, Manila, Utah, representing American
Association of Retired Persons; Craig Cole, Topeka Metropolitan Transit
Authority, Topeka, Kansas, representing South West Transit Association and the
Kansas Public Transit Association; Jerry L. Hall, Regional Transportation
Commission, Reno, Nevada; David King, North Carolina Department of
Transportation, Raleigh; Bill Schomisch, Kalamazoo Department of
Transportation, Kalamazoo, Michigan; Ben G. Watts, Florida Department of
Transportation, Tallahassee; Thomas Allen, New York State Department of
Environmental Conservation, Albany, representing State and Territorial Air
Pollution Program Administrators and the Association of Local Air Pollution
Control Office; John R. Clare, Central New York Regional Transportation
Authority, Syracuse; Thomas M. Downs, New Jersey Department of Transportation,
Trenton; Charles Garcia, Detroit Diesel Corporation, Detroit, Michigan; Alan
F. Pegg, Southern California Rapid Transit District, Los Angeles; David M.
Capozzi, Project Action, Washington, D.C.; Alvin Pearson, Southwest Human
Resources Agency, Henderson, Tennessee; Thomas Quigley, Greater Bridgeport
Transit District, Bridgeport, Connecticut; and Alfred H. Savage, Chicago
Transit Agency, Chicago, Illinois.
Hearings continue Wednesday, April 24.
NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills:
S. 292, to expand the boundaries of the Saguaro National Monument in Arizona,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 363, to authorize the addition of 15 acres to Morristown National
Historical Park, New Jersey; and
S. 545, to authorize the additional use of land in Merced County, California.
Also, committee continued markup of S. 341, to establish a national energy
policy to reduce U.S. dependence on imported oil, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again Tuesday, April 23.
CIVILIAN RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROGRAM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation
concluded hearings to review the management of the civilian radioactive waste
program of the Department of Energy, after receiving testimony from John W.
Bartlett, Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management,
Department of Energy; Judy England-Joseph, Associate Director for
Environmental Issues, General Accounting Office; Grant Sawyer, Lionel, Sawyer
and Collins, Las Vegas, Nevada; and Cas Robinson, Georgia Public Service
Commission, Atlanta.
URUGUAY ROUND OF TRADE NEGOTIATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings to evaluate the status of
the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations under the auspices of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), focusing on ways to insure that
future agreements are effective in creating an open trading system by all
nations, receiving testimony from Senator Hollings; William E. Brock, The
Brock Group, Jack Valenti, Motion Picture Association of America and Motion
Picture Export Association of America, Ernest H. Preeg, Center for Strategic
and International Studies, and Clyde Prestowitz, Economic Strategy Institute,
all of Washington, D.C.; Frank P. Popoff, The Dow Chemical Company, Midland,
Michigan, representing the Chemical Manufacturers Association; Jack Sheinkman,
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, New York, New York,
representing the Fiber, Fabric and Apparel Coalition; and Robert E. Hudec,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
The nominations of Melissa Foelsch Wells, of Connecticut, to be Ambassador to
the Republic of Zaire, Raymond G.H. Seitz, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and a Foreign Service
Officers' Promotion list received in the Senate April 11, 1991;
S. 786, to authorize the provision of medical supplies and other humanitarian
assistance to the Kurdish peoples to alleviate suffering;
S. 100, to set forth U.S. policy toward Central America and to assist the
economic recovery and development of that region;
S. 253, to provide for the establishment of appropriate legal forums for the
enforcement of the Geneva Conventions, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute;
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International Convention on Standards of Training Certification and
Watchkeeping for Seafarers 1978 (Ex. EE, 96th. Cong., 1st Sess.);
Annex III to the 1973 Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships
(MARPOL) (Treaty Doc. 101-7);
Protocols Relating to the Safety of Life at Sea and Load Line Conventions
(Treaty Doc. 102-2); and
An original resolution (S. Res. 104) to withdraw from the Senate the following
treaties, at the request of the President:
(1) A 1979 Amendment to Regulation 49(4)(b) of Annex II of the International
Convention on Load Lines, 1966, adopted at London November 15, 1979 (Treaty
Doc. 97-14); and
(2) The 1983 Amendments to Regulations 47 and 48 of Annex II of the
International Convention on Load Lines, 1966, adopted at London November 17,
1983 (Treaty Doc. 100-12).
Also, committee began consideration of S. Con. Res. 26, calling for the United
States to support a new agreement among the Antarctic Treaty Consultative
Parties which would provide comprehensive environmental protection of
Antarctica and would prohibit indefinitely commmercial mineral development and
related activities in Antarctica, but did not complete action thereon, and
recessed subject to call.
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace
Corps Affairs concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1992 for foreign assistance, focusing on the Western Hemisphere,
after receiving testimony from Bernard Aronson, Assistant Secretary of State
for Inter-American Affairs; James H. Michel, Assistant Administrator, Bureau
for Latin America and the Caribbean, Agency for International Development; and
Nancy Dorn, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Inter-American Affairs.
VA HEALTH CARE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the
quality of health care provided by VA medical centers, focusing on the
Department of Veterans Affairs procedures for diagnosing and treating
veterans' alcohol use problems, receiving testimony from David P. Baine,
Director, Federal Health Care Delivery Issues, Human Resources Division,
General Accounting Office; James W. Holsinger, Jr., Chief Medical Director,
Department of Veterans Affairs; and David C. Lewis, Brown University,
Providence, Rhode Island.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CRIME CONTROL
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on proposals to control
and reduce violent crime, including S. 618 and S. 635, receiving testimony
from Richard L. Thornburgh, U.S. Attorney General, Department of Justice.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, April 23.
Joint Meetings
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Joint Committee on Taxation: Committee held an organizational meeting where it
elected Representative Rostenkowski as Chairman, and Senator Bentsen as Vice
Chairman for the first session of the 102d Congress.
1991/04/19
Daily Digest - Friday, April 19, 1991; pages D450 - D452 (Bd vol. D248 - D250)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1992, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Wendy L. Gramm, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading
Commission; David A. Kessler, Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration,
Department of Health and Human Services; Harold B. Steele, Chairman and CEO,
Farm Credit Administration; and Kenneth L. Peoples, President and CEO, Farm
Credit System Assistance Board.
Subcommittee will meet again Friday, April 26.
APPROPRIATIONS--GAO/OTA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Charles A.
Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting Office;
and John H. Gibbons, Director, Office of Technology Assessment.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, April 25.
DEPOSIT INSURANCE PREMIUMS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings on
provisions relating to the feasibility of risk-based deposit insurance
premiums, as contained in S. 713, S. 261, and S. 274, bills to reform the
banking industry, receiving testimony from Roger Watson, Director, Division of
Research, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and Roberto G. Mendoza, J.P.
Morgan and Company Inc. and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Robert
Clements, Marsh and McLennan Inc., and John B. Caouette, Capital Markets
Assurance Corporation, representing the Association of Financial Guaranty
Insurors, all of New York, New York.
Committee will meet again Tuesday, April 23.
NASA BUDGET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held hearings on the President's proposed budget request
for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, receiving testimony
from Adm. Richard H. Truly, Administrator, James R. Thompson, Deputy
Administrator, and Thomas Campbell, Comptroller, all of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration; and Norman R. Augustine, Martin Marietta
Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, April 24.
ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection held hearings on S. 39, to designate the Coastal Plain of the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness, receiving testimony from James
E. Eason, Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Juneau; Ethyl McDermott,
Arctic Slope Regional Corp., Wainwright, Alaska; Sara James, Gwich'in Steering
Committee, Arctic Village, Alaska; Albert Peter, Porcupine Caribou Management
Board, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada; and Gaylord Nelson, The Wilderness Society,
Rogert C. Herrera, BP America, Inc., Lisa Speer, Natural Resources Defense
Council, and Mike Matz, Alaska Coalition, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for foreign assistance,
focusing on the U.S. Information Agency and the Voice of America, after
receiving testimony from Eugene P. Kopp, Acting Director, Joseph B. Bruns,
Chief of Staff, Voice of America, and William P. Glade, Associate Director,
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, all of the U.S. Information
Agency.
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HEALTH OF MID-LIFE AND OLDER WOMEN
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Aging concluded
hearings to examine the health of mid-life and older women, focusing on the
health effects of menopause and its treatment (hormone replacement therapy or
HRT), after receiving testimony from Representative Schroeder, on behalf of
the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues; Bernadine Healy, Director,
National Institutes of Health; T. Franklin Williams, Director, National
Institute on Aging, Samuel Broder, Director, National Cancer Institute, Claude
J.M. Lenfant, Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Lawrence E.
Shulman, Director, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and
Skin Diseases, Florence P. Haseltine, Director, Center for Population
Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and Ruth
L. Kirschstein, Acting Director, Office of Women's Health, all of the National
Institutes of Health; D. Bruce Burlington, Deputy Director, and Solomon Sobel,
Director, Division of Endocrine Drug, both of the Office of Drug Evaluation,
Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Kathi
E. Hanna, Senior Analyst, Office of Technology Assessment; Maureen Henderson,
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington; B. Lawrence
Riggs, National Osteoporosis Foundation, Nancy W. Dickey, American Medical
Association, Anne Colston Wentz, Society for the Advancement of Women's Health
Research, and Sidney Wolfe, Public Citizen, all of Washington, D.C.; Trudy L.
Bush, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Sonja M. McKinlay, New
England Research Institute, Watertown, Massachusetts; and Gail Sheehy, New
York, New York.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/04/22
Daily Digest - Monday, April 22, 1991; pages D454 - D458 (Bd vol. D250 - D252)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ARMED FORCES RECOGNITION
Committee on Armed Services: On Thursday, April 18, committee approved for
reporting, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S.J. Res. 97, to
recognize and honor members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces of
the United States for their contribution to victory in the Persian Gulf.
DEFENSE--AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance
Defense held open and closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for national defense programs, focusing
on review and evaluation of Air Force acquisition plans and modernization
requirements for tactical air forces, receiving testimony from Robert F. Hale,
Assistant Director, National Security and International Affairs Division,
Congressional Budget Office; Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Ralston, USAF, Director,
Tactical Programs, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for
Acquisition; and Maj. Gen. Richard Hawley, USAF, Director, Operations, Office
of the Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for Plans and Operations.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the nomination of Raoul Lord Carroll, of the District of Columbia, to be
President, Government National Mortgage Association, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, after the nominee, who was introduced by Secretary of
Veterans Affairs Edward J. Derwinski, testified and answered questions in his
own behalf.
CONVENTION ON ABOLITION OF FORCED LABOR
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on ILO Convention
(No. 105) Concerning the Abolition of Forced Labor (Ex. K, 88th Congress, 1st
Session), after receiving testimony from Representative Wolf; Lynn Martin,
Secretary of Labor, Robert P. Davis, Solicitor, and Shellyn G. McCaffrey,
Deputy Under Secretary for International Affairs, all of the Department of
Labor; Anthony Freeman, Special Assistant to the Secretary and Coordinator for
International Labor Affairs, Department of State; Abraham Katz and Kevin
Cornacchio, both of New York, New York, and Edward Potter, Washington, D.C.,
all of U.S. Counsel for International Business; F.M. Lunnie, Jr., National
Association of Manufacturers, Lane Kirkland and Edward J. Hickey, Jr., both of
AFL-CIO, and Holly Burkhalter, Human Rights Watch, all of Washington, D.C.
MIDDLE EAST
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs held hearings on the Middle East, focusing on the region's historical,
cultural and religious roots, receiving testimony from Clyde Mark, Analyst,
Foreign Affairs, National Defense Division, Congressional Research Service,
Library of Congress; George McGhee, former Assistant Secretary of State for
Near Eastern, South Asian and African Affairs; Bruce R. Kuniholm, Duke
University, Durham, North Carolina; Bernard Reich, George Washington
University, Washington, D.C.; and Richard W. Bulliet, Columbia University, and
David Fromkin, both of New York, New York.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1991/04/23
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 23, 1991; pages D460 - D472 (Bd vol. D252 -
D262)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--FBI
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, receiving testimony from William S.
Sessions, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--CLASSIFIED DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense met in closed session to
review proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for certain classified
defense programs.
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Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, May 7.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for foreign assistance,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Bernard W. Aronson, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs;
and James H. Michel, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the
Caribbean, Agency for International Development.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, May 7.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1992 for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and related agencies, receiving testimony from Senator
Thurmond; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--MATH/SCIENCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for math and
science education programs of various Federal agencies, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from Allan D. Bromley,
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy; Walter E. Massey, Director,
National Science Foundation; and Ted Sanders, Under Secretary of Education.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for national
defense programs, and to review the fiscal years 1992-1997 future year defense
plan, focusing on strategic issues, receiving testimony from Gen. George L.
Butler, USAF, Commander in Chief, U.S. Strategic Air Command; and Gen. Donald
J. Kutyna, USAF, U.S. Space Command.
Hearings continue Thursday, April 25.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for national defense programs, focusing on space
launch issues and programs, receiving testimony from Martin C. Faga, Assistant
Secretary of Air Force (Space); John J. Welch, Assistant Secretary of Air
Force (Acquisition); and Michael T. Lyons, Deputy Associate Administrator for
Flight Systems, and Robert Rosen, Deputy Associate Administrator for
Aeronautics, Exploration, and Technology, both of the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, May 22.
BANKING REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed hearings
on proposals to reform the Federal deposit insurance system, protect the
deposit insurance funds, and improve supervision and regulation of and
disclosure relating to federally insured depository institutions, including S.
543 and S. 713, receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System; L. William Seidman, Chairman, Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation; and Robert L. Clarke, Comptroller of the
Currency.
Committee will meet again Thursday, April 25.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported, with amendments, S. 210, to establish the United States Enrichment
Corporation to operate the Federal uranium enrichment program on a profitable
and efficient basis to maximize the long-term economic value to the United
States.
Also, committee resumed markup of S. 341, to establish a national energy
policy to reduce U.S. dependence on imported oil, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
UNITED STATES-MEXICO FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held joint hearings with
the Committee on Labor and Human Resources' Subcommittee on Labor to review
the economic and environmental implication of the proposed United States free
trade agreement with Mexico, receiving testimony from Edgar A. Krueger,
American Friends Service Committee, Rio Grande Valley, Texas; Robert Blecker,
American University, and Ellen Haas, Public Voice for Food and Health Policy,
both of Washington, D.C.; Laurance N. Nickey, El Paso City-County Health
Department, El Paso, Texas; Homero Aridjis, Grupo de Los Cien, Mexico City,
Mexico; Michael Gregory, Arizona Toxics Information, Bisbee; Craig Merrilees,
Fair Trade Campaign, San Francisco, California; and Elizabeth Macias, Juarez,
Mexico.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the U.S. unemployment
compensation program, focusing on whether the program is providing income
support for people who lose their jobs and stimulating the economy, whether
the States have enough funds to administer the programs for fiscal years 1991
and 1992, and whether the extended benefit program needs to be revised to make
it more accessible to more workers, receiving testimony from Representative
Levin; Lynn Martin, Secretary of Labor; Robert Jones, Assistant Secretary of
Labor; William J. Cunningham, AFL-CIO, Alan Reuther, United Automobile,
Aerospace, Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), John Motley,
National Federation of Independent Business, and Gary Burtless, Brookings
Institution, all of Washington, D.C.; John G. Thodis, the Michigan
Manufacturers Association, Lansing, representing the National Association of
Manufacturers; Robert H. Topel, University of Chicago Graduate School of
Business, Chicago, Illinois; William D. Grossenbacher, Texas Employment
Commission, Austin, representing the Interstate Conference of Employment
Security Agencies; and Anthony Snider, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Robert B. Zoellick, of the District of Columbia, to be Under
Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs, and to be U.S.
Alternate Governor of the International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, the African Development
Bank, the African Development Fund, the Asian Development Bank, and the
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and William G. Curran, of
New York, to be U.S. Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf.
ARMS SUPPLIERS' CARTEL
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs concluded
hearings to examine issues relating to the creation of an arms suppliers'
cartel between American and Europe, after receiving testimony from James
Leonard, former U.S. Ambassador to Conference on Disarmament, Arlington,
Virginia; and Richard Burt, former Chief START Negotiator, Richard Perle,
American Enterprise Institute, Andrew Pierre, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, and Mitchell Wallerstein, National Academy of Sciences,
all of Washington, D.C.
AUTHORIZATION--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy,
Trade, Oceans and Environment concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for foreign assistance, focusing on multilateral development
banks, after receiving testimony from David C. Mulford, Under Secretary of the
Treasury for International Affairs.
PENTAGON SUPPLY SYSTEM PRACTICES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management held hearings to review the Department of Defense inventory and
supply system management practices, focusing on wasteful ordering practices,
receiving testimony from Donna M. Heivilin, Director of Logistics Issues,
National Security and International Affairs Division, General Accounting
Office; and David J. Berteau, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Production and Logistics, James H. Reay, Director, Supply Management Policy,
and Capt. John G. Hekman, SC, USN, Deputy Commander, Fleet Support, Corporate
Plans and Logistics, Naval Supply Systems Command, all of the Department of
Defense.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CRIME CONTROL
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed hearings on proposals to control
and reduce violent crime, including S. 618 and S. 635, focusing on State and
local needs in fighting crime, receiving testimony from Mayor Richard M.
Daley, Chicago, Illinois; Mayor Raymond L. Flynn, Boston, Massachusetts, on
behalf of the U.S. Conference of Mayors; Councilman Paul Thornton, Vienna,
West Virginia; on behalf of the National League of Cities; Chief of Police
Steven C. Bishop, Kansas City, Missouri; and Chief of Police C. Roland Vaughn
III, Conyers, Georgia, on behalf of the International Association of Chiefs of
Police.
Hearings continue Tuesday, May 7.
EDUCATION REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
Administration's proposal to reform the national education system, after
receiving testimony from A. Lamar Alexander, Jr., Secretary of Education.
VA HEALTH CARE
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on parts A, B,
and C of title II of S. 127, relating to veterans mental health, general
health, and health-care personnel matters, S. 869, to improve the availability
of treatment of veterans for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, S. 327, to
require comprehensive outpatient treatment to former prisoners of war, and to
review certain issues regarding health-facility security matters and VA
prosthetics and special-disability programs, after receiving testimony from
Anthony J. Principi, Deputy Secretary, John Baffa, Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Security, Robert Coy, Deputy General Counsel, and Wayne Hawkins, Deputy
Chief Medical Director for Administration, all of the Department of Veterans
Affairs; Frank C. Buxton, The American Legion, Dennis M. Cullinan, Veterans of
Foreign Wars, Paul Egan, Vietnam Veterans of America, Charles M. Williams and
William Rolen, both of the American Ex-Prisoners of War, Clifton Dupree,
Paralyzed Veterans of America, David W. Gorman, Disabled American Veterans,
Thomas H. Miller, Blinded Veterans Association, all of Washington, D.C.;
Patrick Boudewyns, Augusta VA Medical Center, Augusta, Georgia, representing
the American Psychological Association; and Spencer Falcon, Ann Arbor VA
Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, representing the American Psychiatric
Association.
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INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee recessed subject to call.
RESPITE CARE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings to examine the benefits of
programs to provide aid to families with chronically ill members receiving
respite care, receiving testimony from Lisa Gwyther, Duke Family Support
Program, Durham, North Carolina; William Ditto, New Jersey Office of Planning
and Special Initiatives, Trenton; Lolo Sarnoff, Arts for the Aging, Bethesda,
Maryland; Mary Barnett, Monticello, Arkansas; Louis Spadero, Toms River, New
Jersey; and Samuel and Mollie Kaplan, Los Angeles, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
ARMS TRADE AND NONPROLIFERATION
Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Technology and National Security
held hearings to examine U.S. policies on arms trade and nonproliferation,
focusing on exports and transfers of weapons and sensitive technologies used
in building missile, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, receiving
testimony from Richard A. Clarke, Assistant Secretary of State for
Politico-Military Affairs; James M. LeMunyon, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Commerce for Export Administration; Henry Sokolski, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Nonproliferation Policy; Stephen D. Bryen, former Deputy Under
Secretary of Defense for Trade Security Policy; Paul Freedenberg, former Under
Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration; and Gary Milhollin,
University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, on behalf of the Wisconsin
Project on Nuclear Arms Control.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--D.C. GOVERNMENT
Joint Hearings: Senate Committee on Appropriations' Subcommittee on the
District of Columbia held joint hearings with the House Committee on
Appropriations' Subcommittee on the District of Columbia on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the government of the District of Columbia,
receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
1991/04/24
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 24, 1991; pages D473 - D484 (Bd vol. D263 -
D273)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY CONSERVATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for energy
conservation programs, receiving testimony from J. Michael Davis, Assistant
Secretary of Energy for Conservation and Renewable Energy.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1992 for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and related agencies, receiving testimony from Senator Akaka;
Representatives Mink and Abercrombie; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY/NSF
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from D. Allan
Bromley, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy; and Walter E.
Massey, Director, National Science Foundation.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, May 8.
OPERATION PROVIDE COMFORT
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on Operation Provide Comfort to assist the Kurdish refugees from
officials of the Department of Defense and the Department of State.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel resumed
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992 and
1993 for national defense programs, focusing on reserve and national guard
programs, receiving testimony from Stephen M. Duncan, Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Reserve Affairs; Lt. Gen. John B. Conaway, ANG, Chief, National
Guard Bureau; Maj. Gen. Donald Burdick, ARNGUS, Director, Army National Guard;
Maj. Gen. Philip Killey, ANG, Director, Air National Guard; Maj. Gen. William
F. Ward, USAR, Chief, Army Reserve; Rear Adm. James E. Taylor, USN, Director,
Navy Reserve; Maj. Gen. Hollis E. Davison, USMC, Assistant Deputy Chief of
Staff for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, Marine Corps Reserve; Maj. Gen. John
J. Closner, USAFR, Chief, Air Force Reserve; and Rear Adm. John N. Faigle,
Chief, Office of Readiness and Reserve, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support held open and closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for national defense programs, focusing
on Army and Air Force ammunition programs, receiving testimony from Brig. Gen.
William J. Schumancer, USA, Deputy Chief of Army Staff for Ammunition; Maj.
Gen. James W. Hoop, USAF, Director of Supply, Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff
for Logistics; Richard H. Allen, Talley Defense Systems, Inc., Mesa, Arizona;
Howard Appleman, Armtec Defense Products, Coachela, California; and Angelo
Catani, Olin Ordnance, St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--MASS TRANSIT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
programs of the Urban Mass Transportation Act, focusing on capital needs of
transit systems and methods for improving the management and financing of
major capital projects, and the operational needs of transit systems,
receiving testimony from New Jersey Governor James Florio, Trenton; John K.
Leary, Jr., Bi-State Development Agency, St. Louis, Missouri; Joseph M.
Magaldi, Jr., Department of Transportation Services for the City and County of
Honolulu, Hawaii; Peter E. Stangl, Metropolitan Transportation Authority of
New York, New York; Steve Weir, Metropolitan Transportation Commission,
Oakland, California; Ronald J. Hartman, Mass Transit Administration,
Baltimore, Maryland; Albert Martin, Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional
Transportation, Detroit, Michigan; Ryland McClendon, Metropolitan Atlanta
Rapid Transit Authority, Atlanta, Georgia; Arthur Luby, Transport Workers
Union of America, AFL-CIO, and Robert A. Molofsky, Amalgamated Transit Union,
AFL-CIO, both of Washington, D.C.; and Kay Marrin, Chicago, Illinois.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
STATE AND LOCAL FINANCE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
resumed hearings on the role of capital markets in raising funds for State and
local governments under financial stress, receiving testimony from
Representative Anthony; Mayor Robert Bolen, Fort Worth, Texas, on behalf of
National League of Cities; Francisco L. Borges, Connecticut State Office of
the Treasury, Hartford; Jeffrey S. Green, Port Authority of New York and New
Jersey, New York, New York, on behalf of Government Financial Officers
Association; and Raymond C. Scheppach, National Governors Association,
Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of John G. Keller, Jr., of the District of
Columbia, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism, Preston
Moore, of Texas, to be Chief Financial Officer, Department of Commerce, and
Jack W. Lentfer, of Alaska, and John E. Reynolds III, of Florida, each to be a
Member of the Marine Mammal Commission, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Keller was introduced by Senator
Warner, and Mr. Moore was introduced by Senator Bentsen.
ARCTIC OCEANS RESEARCH
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings in
conjunction with the National Ocean Policy Study to examine research
priorities for the Arctic region, focusing on ocean and global change areas,
and to review current Federal participation in Arctic research activities,
international research efforts in the Arctic, and scientific goals and
infrastructure needs of the Federal program for fiscal year 1992 and beyond,
receiving testimony from Senator Murkowski; Robert Corell, Assistant Director
for Geosciences, National Science Foundation; Leonard G. Johnson, Director,
Arctic Sciences Division, Office of Naval Research, Department of the Navy;
Ned Ostenso, Assistant Administrator for Oceanic and Atmospheric Research,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce;
Philip L. Johnson, U.S. Arctic Research Commission, Washington, D.C.; Mark
Meier, University of Colorado, Boulder, on behalf of the Arctic Research
Consortium of the United States; and Norbert Untersteiner, University of
Washington, Seattle.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NASA SPACE MISSIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held hearings to review National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) plans for future space science missions, focusing on
NASA's planned Mission to Planet Earth, intended to provide long-term,
integrated data on the Earth's environmental systems, receiving testimony from
Lennard A. Fisk, Associate Administrator, A.V. Diaz, Deputy Associate
Administrator, and Kathryn S. Schmoll, Assistant Associate Administrator, all
of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Berrien Moore III,
University of New Hampshire, Durham, on behalf of the Institute for the Study
of Earth, Oceans, and Space; D. James Baker, Joint Oceanographic Institutions,
Inc., Washington, D.C.; and Gordon J. MacDonald, University of California at
San Diego, on behalf of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee continued markup of S.
341, to establish a national energy policy to reduce U.S. dependence on
imported oil, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to
call.
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ENTERPRISE FOR THE AMERICAS INITIATIVE
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the Enterprise for the
Americas Initiative and its connection to the President's request for an
extension of fast-track negotiating authority to enable the U.S. to pursue
trade agreements with Latin American countries under the initiative, receiving
testimony from Julius L. Katz, Deputy United States Trade Representative; and
David C. Mulford, Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SDI PROGRAM
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
Strategic Defense Initiative program as it relates to the Anti-Ballistic
Missile (ABM) Treaty, after receiving testimony from Stephen J. Hadley,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy; Henry F.
Cooper, Director, Strategic Defense Initiative, Department of Defense; Ashton
Carter, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and John Pike,
Federation of American Scientists, and John Rhinelander, Shaw, Pittman, Potts
and Trowbridge, both of Washington, D.C.
EAST EUROPEAN ECONOMIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs held hearings
to examine the transformation of East European economies, receiving testimony
from Carol C. Adelman, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Europe and Near
East, Agency for International Development; Curtis W. Kamman, Deputy Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, Office of Soviet and East
European Affairs, and Robert Barry, Special Advisor for Eastern European
Assistance, both of the Department of State; Madeleine Albright, Center for
National Policy, and J. Brian Atwood, National Democratic Institute for
International Affairs, both of Washington, D.C.; and Jeffrey Sachs, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INSURANCE FRAUD
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
held hearings to examine regulatory efforts to combat fraud and abuse in the
insurance and reinsurance industries, receiving testimony from Alan Edelman
and Eleni A. Pryles, both Counsel, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations;
James E. Long, North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance, Raleigh, Susan
Gallinger, Arizona Department of Insurance, Phoenix, and James Schacht,
Illinois Department of Insurance, Springfield, all on behalf of the National
Association of Insurance Commissioners; Tim Ryles, Georgia Commissioner of
Insurance, and Georgia Special Assistant Attorney General Andrew J. Ekonomou,
both of Atlanta; James E. Kelly, Buffalo Bills, West Seneca, New York; Roynell
Young, Pro-Vision Ministries, Houston, Texas; Kenneth C. Flowers, Deluth,
Georgia; and John G. Whittier, New York, New York.
Hearings continue Tuesday, June 18.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Henry M. Herlong, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the District of
South Carolina, William Harold Albritton III, to be United States District
Judge for the Middle District of Alabama, Marilyn L. Huff, to be United States
District Judge for the Southern District of California, and William Fremming
Nielsen and Frederick L. Van Sickle, each to be a United States District Judge
for the Eastern District of Washington, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Herlong was introduced by Senator
Thurmond and Representatives Spence and Derrick, Mr. Albritton was introduced
by Senators Heflin and Shelby, and Representative Dickinson, Ms. Huff was
introduced by Senator Seymour, Mr. Nielsen was introduced by Senators Adams
and Gorton, and Mr. Van Sickle was introduced by Senators Adams, Gorton and
Symms.
FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported,
with an amendment, S. 5, to grant family and temporary medical leave to
permanent employees under certain circumstances.
STAR SCHOOLS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the status of the star schools program, a Federal program that enables
students to be linked together via satellite or cable TV hookup with teachers
in different parts of the country, focusing on its effectiveness and what
resources are needed to continue the program, and on S. 890, to authorize
funds for programs of the Star Schools Assistance Act, after receiving
testimony from Nancy Carson, Program Manager, Office of Technology Assessment;
Inabeth Miller, Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications,
Cambridge; Gregory J. Liptak, Englewood, Colorado, representing Jones
Spacelink and Mind Extension University; William F. Werwaiss, Southern New
England Bell Telephone, New Haven, Connecticut; and Gary Vance, Satellite
Educational Resources Consortium, Columbia, South Carolina.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following measures:
S. 250, to establish national voter registration procedures for Federal
elections, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 739, to authorize the Architect of the Capitol to accept certain gifts on
behalf of the United States Botanic Garden; and
S. Res. 96, to update Senate Resolution 219 (95th Congress, 2d Session)
relating to the Senior Citizen Intern Program.
INDIAN SCHOOL FACILITIES
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to
review the status of new school construction, improvement, and repair of
Bureau of Indian Affairs' schools facilities, after receiving testimony from
Representative Dicks; James R. Richards, Inspector General, and David
Matheson, Director, Office of Construction and Management, both of the
Department of the Interior; Roleen L. Hargrove, Puyallup Tribe of Indians,
Tacoma, Washington; Phillip Martin, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians,
Tucker Day School, Philadelphia, Mississippi; Phyllis Badoni, Pinon Community
School, Pinon, Arizona; Gregg Bourland, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Eagle
Butte, South Dakota; Jimmie C. Begaye, Rock Point Community School, Chinle,
Arizona; Eddie Arthur, Many Farms High School Board, Many Farms, Arizona;
Raymond Morgan, Haskell Indian Junior College, Lawrence, Kansas; Ferrell
Secakuku, The Hopi Tribe, Kykotsmovi, Arizona; Harold Saylor, Pyramid Lake
High School, Nixon, Nevada; Roger Bordeaux, Association of Community Tribal
Schools, Agency Village, South Dakota; Don Wiesen, Minneapolis Area Community
Tribal Schools, Inc., Cloquet, Minnesota; Marshall Plummer, The Navajo Nation,
Lorena M. Bahe, Association of Navajo Community Controlled School Boards,
Inc., and Leonard N. Begaye, Navajo Area School Board Association, all of
Window Rock, Arizona; and Bennie Cohoe, Pine Hill, New Mexico.
Joint Meetings
APPROPRIATIONS--D.C. GOVERNMENT
Joint Hearings: Senate Committee on Appropriations' Subcommittee on the
District of Columbia concluded joint hearings with the House Committee on
Appropriations' Subcommittee on the District of Columbia on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the government of the District of Columbia,
after receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses.
1991/04/25
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 25, 1991; pages D485 - D496 (Bd vol. D273 -
D282)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREST SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the U.S.
Forest Service, receiving testimony from John H. Beuter, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, and F. Dale Robertson, Chief,
Forest Service, both of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, May 14.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1992 for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and related agencies, receiving testimony from A. Lamar
Alexander, Jr., Secretary of Education; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL/GPO
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from George M.
White, Architect of the Capitol; and Robert W. Houk, Public Printer,
Government Printing Office.
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 1992,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Gen. Jerry R. Curry, Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety
Administraion, and Travis P. Dungan, Administrator, Research and Special
Programs Administration, both of the Department of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, May 9.
APPROPRIATIONS--FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK/NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL
POLICY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1992, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Brian Bruh, Director, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Department of
the Treasury; and Bob Martinez, Director, Office of National Drug Control
Policy.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for national
defense programs, and to review the fiscal years 1992-1997 future year defense
plan, receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General, and
Frank C. Conahan, Assistant Comptroller General, National Security and
International Affairs Division, both of the General Accounting Office.
Committee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992
and 1993 for national defense programs, focusing on the National Critical
Technologies report, receiving testimony from William D. Phillips, Associate
Director for Industrial Technology, Office of Science and Technology Policy;
and Adm. Bobby R. Inman, USN, Ret., Science Applications International
Corporation, Rockville, Maryland.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BANKING REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed hearings
on proposals to reform the Federal deposit insurance system, protect the
deposit insurance funds, and improve supervision and regulation of and
disclosure relating to federally insured depository institutions, including S.
300, S. 529, S. 543 and S. 713, receiving testimony from Michele Meier,
Consumers Union, Sherry Ettleson, Public Citizen, Allen J. Fishbein, Center
for Community Change, Ed Mierzwinski, US PIRG, Michael Aronstein, National
Taxpayer's Union, Joan King, American Association of Retired Persons, and
Sharon Bush, ACORN, all of Washington, D.C.
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Hearings continue tomorrow.
GREENHOUSE WARMING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings to
review a recent report on global warming by the National Academy of Sciences,
focusing on the causes and effects, the costs of slowing and adapting to
global warming, and recommendations for U.S. policy, receiving testimony from
D. Allan Bromley, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy; Frank Press, President,
National Academy of Sciences; Daniel J. Evans, Daniel J. Evans and Associates,
Seattle, Washington; and William A. Nitze, Alliance to Save Energy,
Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Henry E. Catto, of Texas, to be Director of the United States Information
Agency, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Bentsen, testified
and answered questions in his own behalf.
VIETNAM RELATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
concluded hearings to examine the prospects for normalization of relations
with Vietnam, after receiving testimony from Senators McCain and Smith;
Richard Solomon, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific
Affairs; Bruce St. John, Caterpillar, Inc., William T. Archey, U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, Robert Muller, Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, and Richard
Moe, Davis, Polk and Wardwell, all of Washington, DC; and Richard B. Lillich,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
ENTERPRISE FOR THE AMERICAS INITIATIVE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace
Corps Affairs held hearings to review the Enterprise for the Americas
Initiative to promote trade in Latin America, receiving testimony from David
C. Mulford, Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs; Bernard
Aronson, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs; James H.
Michel, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean,
Agency for International Development; and David Luft, Organization of American
States, Dallas, Texas, former Alternate Representative and Principal Economic
Advisor to the U.S. Delegation.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL ASSET-FORFEITURE PROGRAMS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the
effectiveness of the management of the Federal government's asset-forfeiture
programs, focusing on the Department of Justice and U.S. Customs Service's
legal ability to seize cash, real estate, or personal property from people who
break the law, and to examine the recent drug raid at the University of
Virginia and procedures local and Federal law enforcement agents used in
seizing fraternity property, receiving testimony from J. William Gadsby,
Director, Federal Management Issues, General Government Division, General
Accounting Office; Richard Hankinson, Inspector General, George Terwilliger,
Associate Deputy Attorney General, and Cary Copeland, Director, Executive
Office for Asset Forfeiture, all of the Department of Justice; Nancy L.
Worthington, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Law Enforcement, and Charles P.
Bartoldus, Director, Seizures and Penalties Division, United States Customs
Service, both of the Department of the Treasury; and John deKoven Bowen,
Charlottesville Virginia Police Department, Charlottesville, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL CANCER ACT ANNIVERSARY
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation recognizing the 20th anniversary of the National Cancer
Act, after receiving testimony from Samuel Broder, Director, National Cancer
Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human
Services; Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., former Speaker of the House; Emil Frei, III,
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts; Harold Freeman, Columbia
University, New York, New York; Kathy Price, Amelia, Ohio; and Elizabeth and
Ann Manning, both of Fairfax Station, Virginia.
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Joint Meetings
DEPOSITORY LIBRARY PROGRAM
Joint Committee on Printing: Committee concluded hearings on the sufficiency
of public access to government information as provided through Depository
Library Program administered by the Government Printing Office, which supplies
Federal Government publications free of charge to libraries across the
country, after receiving testimony from James Billington, Librarian of
Congress; Donald C. Curran, Associate Librarian of Congress for Constituent
Services; John L. Okay, Director, Office of Information Resources Management,
and Ronald N. De Munbrun, Information Technology Management Staff, both of the
Department of Agriculture; Alvin M. Pesachowitz, Director, Office of
Information Resources Management, Environmental Protection Agency; Robert W.
Houk, Public Printer, Government Printing Office; Cynthia Bower, University of
Arizona, Tucson; Ridley Kessler, University of North Carolina, and Jeanne
Isacco, Readex, both of Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Sandra McAninch,
University of Kentucky Library, Lexington; and James Love, Center for Study of
Responsive Law, and Joan Claybrook, Public Citizen, both of Washington, D.C.
1991/04/29
Daily Digest - Monday, April 29, 1991; pages D498 - D502 (Bd vol. D282 - D284)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, April 26, Subcommittee on Agriculture,
Rural Development, and Related Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the Department of Agriculture, after
receiving testimony from Edward Madigan, Secretary of Agriculture; Jack C.
Parnell, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture; and Stephen B. Dewhurst, Budget
Officer, Department of Agriculture.
BANKING REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Friday, April 26,
Committee continued hearings on proposals to reform the Federal deposit
insurance system, protect the deposit insurance funds, and improve supervision
and regulation of and disclosure relating to federally insured depository
institutions, including S. 543 and S. 713, receiving testimony from Charles
Bowsher, Comptroller General, General Accounting Office; Felix Rohatyn, Lazard
Freres and Company, New York, New York, on behalf of the Municipal Assistance
Corporation for the City of New York; Lloyd Cutler, Wilmer, Cutler and
Pickering, Washington, D.C.; Christopher James, University of Florida,
Gainesville; and Roger Kormendi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
GLOBAL WARMING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: On Friday, April 26, Subcommittee
on Environmental Protection concluded hearings to examine and evaluate the
impact of global warming on climate change and other environmental
consequences of energy strategies, after receiving testimony from Rosina
Bierbaum, Project Director for Climate Change, Office of Technology
Assessment; John W. Rowe, Northeast Electric System, Westborough,
Massachusetts; John M. DeCicco, American Council for an Energy Efficient
Economy, and Mark Hopkins, The Alliance to Save Energy, both of Washington,
D.C.; William H. Podolny, International Fuel Cells Corporation, South Windsor,
Connecticut; Harry A. Kauffman, Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, New
Jersey; and R. Harold Chappell, IllumElex Corp., Raleigh, North Carolina.
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE HOMELESS
Committee on Finance: On Friday, April 26, Subcommittee on Health for Families
and the Uninsured held hearings to examine the problems of homeless mentally
ill people who need mental health care services, and on S. 62, to require
States to establish mobile outreach teams in metropolitan statistical areas to
identify homeless mentally ill people and assist them in obtaining psychiatric
and other services to which they may be entitled, receiving testimony from
Christine Nye, Director, Medicaid Bureau, Health Care Financing
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Richard C. Surles,
New York Commissioner of Mental Health, Albany, on behalf of the Federal Task
Force on Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness; Lee Partridge, District of
Columbia Office of Health Care Financing, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the
State Medical Directors' Association of the American Public Welfare
Association; Gary Morse, Missouri Department of Mental Health, St. Louis; Saul
Cooper, Washtenaw County Department of Human Services, Ypsilanti, Michigan;
Tom Posey, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Arlington, Virginia; Lionel
Aldridge, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Oliver Sacks, New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
LONG-TERM CARE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Friday, April 26, Subcommittee on
Aging concluded hearings to examine home and community based long-term care,
focusing on current roles and contributions of the Older Americans Act and
State and local aging networks; after receiving testimony from Senator
Rockefeller; Charles Reed, Aging and Adult Services Administration, Seattle,
Washington; Jane Kennedy, Southern Mississippi Planning and Development
District Area Agency on Aging, Gulf Port; Robert Dolson, Region IV Area Agency
on Aging, St. Joseph, Michigan; Rosalie Kane, Long-Term Care Decisions Center,
Minneapolis, Minnesota; John Capitman, National Aging Resource Center,
Waltham, Massachusetts; Linda Redford, National Council on Aging, and Mary
Gardner Jones, Older Women's League, both of Washington, D.C.; Helen Lee,
Arnold Senior Center, Arnold, Maryland; and George and Jean Glakas, both of
Lincolnia Adult Day Health Care Center, Fairfax, Virginia.
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HIGHER EDUCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Friday, April 26, Subcommittee on
Education, Arts, and Humanities concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for programs of the Higher Education Act, after receiving
testimony from Gregory Roberts, Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust,
Baltimore, Maryland; Melissa Gregory, Frederick Community College, Frederick,
Maryland; Elizabeth Hicks, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Tally
Hart, State Student Assistance Commission of Indiana, Indianapolis, on behalf
of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators; Linda
Waddell, Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon; and Brian K. Fitzgerald,
Washington, D.C., and Stanley Z. Koplik, Kansas Board of Regents, Topeka, both
on behalf of the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/04/30
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 30, 1991; pages D504 - D510 (Bd vol. D284 -
D289)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/05/01
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 1, 1991; pages D511 - D518 (Bd vol. D289 - D295)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/05/02
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 2, 1991; pages D519 - D528 (Bd vol. D296 - D300)
Committee Meetings
No Committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/05/06
Daily Digest - Monday, May 6, 1991; pages D530 - D534 (Bd vol. D300 - D302)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
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BANK OF NEW ENGLAND COLLAPSE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings to
examine the failure of the Bank of New England, focusing on the cost to the
Federal government, the bank's management and lending practices, its real
estate loans, and the state of its books, and to review the Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency's examination of the Bank of New England,
receiving testimony from Joseph Hooks, National Bank Examiner, Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency, Department of the Treasury.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MICRO-LOANS FOR SMALL BUSINESS
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings to examine Small
Business Administration efforts to promote small dollar amount loan
(micro-loan) programs for new and growing small businesses, after receiving
testimony from Mitchell F. Stanley, Deputy to the Associate Deputy
Administrator for Finance, Investment and Procurement, Small Business
Administration; Brian M. Kelley, Arkansas Enterprise Group, Arkadelphia;
Kathryn Keeley, Women's Economic Development Corporation, St. Paul, Minnesota;
Ronald L. Phillips, Coastal Enterprises, Inc., Wiscasset, Maine; Beverly
Smith, Women's Self Employment Project, Chicago, Illinois; and David Ballweg,
Community State Bank, Union Grove, Wisconsin, on behalf of the Independent
Bankers Association of America.
Joint Meetings
EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT
Joint Economic Committee: On Friday, May 3, Committee held hearings to examine
the employment/unemployment situation for April, receiving testimony from
Janet L. Norwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of
Labor.
Committee recessed subject to call.
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
Joint Economic Committee: On Friday, May 3, Committee held hearings to examine
the extension of unemployment insurance assistance to long-term unemployed
workers, receiving testimony from Walter Corson, Mathematica Policy Research,
Inc., Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1991/05/07
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 7, 1991; pages D536 - D544 (Bd vol. D303 - D309)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for defense programs, focusing on
strategic programs and the Strategic Defense Initiative, receiving testimony
from Gen. George L. Butler, USAF, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Strategic Air
Command; and Henry Cooper, Director, Strategic Defense Initiative
Organization.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
closed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for energy
and water development programs, focusing on atomic energy defense activities,
receiving testimony from Richard Claytor, Assistant Secretary of Energy for
Defense Programs; Dominic Monetta, Director, Office of New Production
Reactors, Department of Energy; and Robert Barker, Assistant to the Secretary
of Defense (Atomic Energy).
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, May 9.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for foreign assistance
programs, focusing on Agency for International Development management issues
and reform efforts, receiving testimony from Ronald W. Roskens, Administrator,
and Herbert Beckington, Inspector General, both of the Agency for
International Development.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, May 14.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance
Defense resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1992 and 1993 for national defense programs, focusing on modernization
requirements and acquisition plans for Navy carrier aviation, receiving
testimony from Gerald A. Cann, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research,
Development, and Acquisition; and Vice Adm. Richard M. Dunleavy, USN,
Assistant Chief of Staff for Naval Operations (Air Warfare).
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Subcommittee will meet again Friday, May 10.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years
1992 and 1993 for national defense programs, focusing on the defense critical
technologies plan, receiving testimony from Charles M. Herzfeld, Director of
Defense Research and Engineering, Department of Defense; Rear Adm. J. Michael
Barr, USN, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Military Applications, Defense
Programs Office, Department of Energy; and John M. Swihart, National Center
for Advanced Technologies, Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, May 15.
BANKING REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed hearings
on proposals to reform the Federal deposit insurance system, protect the
deposit insurance funds, and improve supervision and regulation of and
disclosure relating to federally insured depository institutions, including S.
543 and S. 713, receiving testimony from Richard C. Breeden, Chairman,
Securities and Exchange Commission; Timothy Ryan, Director, Office of Thrift
Supervision, Department of the Treasury; and Roger W. Jepsen, Chairman,
National Credit Union Administration.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the nomination of Lawrence B. Lindsey, of Virginia, to be a Member of the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senator Warner, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.
GRAMM-RUDMAN-HOLLINGS
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered reported, unfavorably, S.J. Res.
137, suspending certain provisions of law pursuant to section 258(a)(2),
relating to the suspension of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings during periods of economic
recession, of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
INSURANCE COMPANY INSOLVENCY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings to
examine the fiscal solvency of the nation's insurance industry, focusing on
the recent failure of the Executive Life Insurance Company of California and
its subsidiary Executive Life of New York, receiving testimony from Senator
Metzenbaum; John Garamendi and Richard D. Baum, both of the California
Department of Insurance, Sacramento; Salvatore R. Curiale and Terence Lennon,
both of the New York Insurance Department, New York; William H. McCartney,
National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Lincoln, Nebraska; and Martin
P. Weiss, Weiss Research, West Palm Beach, Florida.
Hearings continue Thursday, May 9.
UNITED STATES-MEXICO FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to examine the President's
response to certain issues concerning the proposed free trade agreement with
Mexico, focusing on the extension of trade negotiating authority under
fast-track legislative procedures, after receiving testimony from Carla A.
Hills, United States Trade Representative; Lynn Martin, Secretary of Labor;
and William K. Reilly, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
The nominations of Henry E. Catto, of Texas, to be Director of the United
States Information Agency, David Floyd Lambertson, of Kansas, to be Ambassador
to the Kingdom of Thailand, Robert B. Zoellick, of the District of Columbia,
to be Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs, and to
be U.S. Alternate Governor of the following banking institutions:
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Inter-American
Development Bank, African Development Bank, African Development Fund, Asian
Development Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development,
William G. Curran, of New York, to be U.S. Director of the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development, and Ann Brownell Sloane, of New York, to be a
Member of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Foundation;
Convention Concerning the Abolition of Forced Labor (Convention No. 105),
adopted by the International Labor Conference at its 40th Session, Geneva,
June 25, 1957 (Ex. K, 88th Cong., 1st Sess.), with two understandings; and
S. Con. Res. 26, calling for the United States to support a new agreement
among the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties which would provide
comprehensive environmental protection of Antarctica and would prohibit
indefinitely commercial mineral development and related activities in
Antarctica, with an amendment.
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CRIME CONTROL
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed hearings on proposals to control
and reduce violent crime, including S. 618 and S. 635, focusing on habeas
corpus reform, receiving testimony from Chief Judge James L. Oakes, United
States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Brattleboro, Vermont;
California Attorney General Daniel E. Lungren, Sacramento; North Carolina
Special Deputy Attorney General Joan Herre Byers, Raleigh; Utah Special
Prosecutor Robert Wallace, Salt Lake City; William M. Leech, Jr., former
Tennessee Attorney General, Nashville; John A. Collins, Citizens for Law and
Order, Springfield, Virginia; Bryan A. Stevenson, Alabama Capital
Representation Resource Center, Montgomery; and John J. Curtin, Jr.,
Washington, D.C., and James S. Ledman, Columbia School of Law, New York, New
York, both on behalf of the American Bar Association.
Hearings continue Wednesday, May 15.
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs, and Alcoholism concluded hearings to examine efforts by all levels of
government to coordinate children and family services, and the role of the
recently created Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for
Children and Families in improving service delivery, after receiving testimony
from Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Assistant Secretary, and Michael Mangano, Deputy
Inspector General, both for the Administration for Children and Families,
Department of Health and Human Services; Jon Alander, Connecticut Department
of Human Resources, Hartford; Hennepin County Associate Administrator Kevin P.
Kenney, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Prince George's County Council Member Hilda
Pemberton, Upper Marlboro, Maryland; Isabel Sawhill, The Urban Institute,
Washington, D.C.; and Antoinette Eaton, American Academy of Pediatrics,
Columbus, Ohio.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/05/08
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 8, 1991; pages D545 - D554 (Bd vol. D309 - D317)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FAST TRACK EXTENSION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings to
review the extension of fast track procedures for international trade
negotiations as related to the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade, the North American Free Trade Area, and the Enterprise for
the Americas Initiative, receiving testimony from Edward R. Madigan, Secretary
of Agriculture; and Carla A. Hills, United States Trade Representative.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for defense programs, focusing on A-12
follow-on issues, receiving testimony from Gerald A. Cann, Assistant Secretary
of the Navy (Research, Development, Acquisition; Vice Adm. R. M. Dunleavy,
USN, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations (Air Warfare); and Robert Hale,
Assistant Director, National Security Division, Congressional Budget Office.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--NASA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), receiving testimony from
Adm. Richard Truly, Administrator, NASA.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, May 15.
OPERATION DESERT SHIELD
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met to receive a briefing on the
conduct of ground operations in certain tactical areas during Operation Desert
Shield/Desert Storm from Maj. Gen. James M. Myatt, USMC, Commanding General,
and Lt. Col. Jerry Humble, Lt. Col. Ray Cole, Capt. Ed Ray, and Corp. Bryan
Freeman, each a Member, all of the 1st Marine Division.
Committee recessed subject to call.
BANKING REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued hearings
on proposals to reform the Federal deposit insurance system, protect the
deposit insurance funds, and improve supervision and regulation of and
disclosure relating to federally insured depository institutions, including S.
543 and S. 713, receiving testimony from Paul Volcker, James D. Wolfensohn,
Inc., New York, New York, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of
Governors.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
NEW COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held hearings to examine a new development in computer
technology, virtual reality, which allows humans to interact more closely with
computers, focusing on how this technology could be used to improve U.S.
competitiveness, receiving testimony from Charles N. Brownstein, Acting
Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering,
National Science Foundation; Lee B. Holcomb, Director, Information Sciences
and Human Factors Division, Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Jaron Lanier, VPL Research,
Redwood City, California; Fred Brooks, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill; and Thomas A. Furness, III, University of Washington, Seattle.
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Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed markup of S. 341,
to establish a national energy policy to reduce U.S. dependence on imported
oil, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power
held hearings on S. 484, to establish conditions for the sale and delivery of
water from the Central Valley Project, California, receiving testimony from
Representatives Condit and Dooley; Dennis B. Underwood, Commissioner, Bureau
of Reclamation, Michael Brennan, Executive Assistant to the Director, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, and Patrick A. Hayes, Director for Trust and
Economic Development, Bureau of Indian Affairs, all of the Department of the
Interior; Richard Sanderson, Director, Office of Federal Activities,
Environmental Protection Agency; Daniel A. Sumner, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture for Economics; Benjamin Haddad, California Governor's Office,
Bob Potter, California Department of Water Resources, Jason Peltier, Central
Valley Project Water Association, and Bob L. Vice, California Farm Bureau
Federation, all of Sacramento, California; Thomas J. Graff, Environmental
Defense Fund, Oakland, California; William W. Howard, National Wildlife
Federation, Washington, D.C.; Leslie Friedman, California Nature Conservancy,
San Francisco; Nathaniel S. Bingham, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's
Associations, Mendocino, California; Roger A. Fontes, Northern California
Power Agency, Roseville; and Richard M. Moss, Friant Water Users Authority,
Lindsay, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
UNITED STATES-MEXICO FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded joint hearings
with the Committee on Labor and Human Resources' Subcommittee on Labor to
review the economic and environmental implications of the proposed United
States free trade agreement with Mexico, after receiving testimony from Carla
A. Hills, United States Trade Representative; Lynn Martin, Secretary of Labor;
and William K. Reilly, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency.
RADON AND INDOOR AIR
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, Ocean
and Water Protection concluded hearings on S. 791, to require certain
information relating to radon to be made available in connection with certain
real estate transactions, and to require that radon testing devices offered
for sale be tested by the Environmental Protection Agency, S. 792, to
authorize funds for programs of the Indoor Radon Abatement Act, S. 779, to
authorize funds for and to revise the Indoor Radon Abatement Act, S. 575, to
require local educational agencies to test for and remediate radon in school
buildings, and S. 455, to establish a national program to reduce the threat to
human health posed by exposure to contaminants in the air indoors, after
receiving testimony from Michael Shapiro, Deputy Assistant Administrator for
Air and Radiation, Environmental Protection Agency; John Weicher, Assistant
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Policy Development and
Research; Richard L. Hembra, Director, Environmental Protection Issues,
Resources, Community and Economic Development Division, General Accounting
Office; James Krueger, American Association of Radon Scientists and
Technologists, Park Ridge, New Jersey; Thomas Gerusky, Pennsylvania Department
of Environmental Resources, Harrisburg, representing the Conference of
Radiation Control Program Directors; and Patricia Campbell-White, National
Association of Realtors, and Dave Jackson, National Association of Home
Builders, both of Washington, D.C.
UNITED STATES TRADE POLICY WITH JAPAN
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management held oversight hearings to examine the status of the U.S. trade
policy with Japan, receiving testimony from S. Linn Williams, Deputy United
States Trade Representative; James Willis, U.S.A. Rice Council, Houston,
Texas; David R. Graves, Rice Millers' Association, Arlington, Virginia; R. K.
Morris, National Association of Manufacturers, and Kevin L. Kearns, Economic
Strategy Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; and Lee Kadrich, Automotive
Parts and Accessories Association, Lanham, Maryland.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SOCIAL SERVICES FOR YOUTH
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to examine the
need to provide comprehensive services to youth to help the nation meet the
education goals of school readiness, dropout prevention, improved school
achievement, and drug and violence free schools, and to examine what the
Federal Government can to do to support and expand social service programs for
youth, receiving testimony from Senator Bradley; Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke,
Baltimore, Maryland; Janet Levy, Joining Forces, Washington, D.C.; Jeanne
Jehl, New Beginnings, San Diego, California; William P. Doherty, Boston
Community Schools and Recreation Program, Boston, Massachusetts; Harold E.
Dooley and David Smith, both of the Kansas City Metropolitan YMCA, and Steven
Tinsley, all of Kansas City, Missouri; Jean Ekins, Family Learning Center, and
Heather Collins, both of Leslie, Michigan; and Hillary Rodham Clinton, Little
Rock, Arkansas.
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Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
SMALL BUSINESS DREDGING PROGRAM
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the
implementation of Section 722 of the Business Opportunity Development Reform
Act (P.L. 100-656), which established the small business dredging program to
expand the participation of small business and emerging small business firms
in contracting opportunities for dredging, after receiving testimony from John
P. Elmore, Chief, Operations and Readiness Division, Civil Works Directorate,
and Diane S. Sisson, Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business,
both of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Donald C. Lind, Mid-South Dredging
Company, Fort Smith, Arkansas; Walter Larke Sorg, Walter Larke Sorg
Associates, Washington, D.C., representing the American Association of Small
Dredging and Marine Construction Companies; H. Don Boling, Pine Bluff Sand and
Gravel Company, Pine Bluff, Arkansas; and G. W. James, T.L. James & Company,
Inc., Kenner, Louisiana.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again Thursday, May 16.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/05/09
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 9, 1991; pages D556 - D570 (Bd vol. D317 - D327)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
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APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for defense programs, focusing on NATO
issues, receiving testimony from Steven J. Hadley, Assistant Secretary of
Defense (International Security Policy); and Gen. John R. Galvin, USA,
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. European Command.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, May 14.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992, focusing on the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, receiving testimony from G. Edward Dickey,
Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works; and
Lt. Gen. Henry J. Hatch, Chief of Engineers, U.S. Corps of Engineers.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, May 14.
APPROPRIATIONS--FAA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for
the Federal Aviation Administration, receiving testimony from Adm. James B.
Busey, Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, May 16.
OPERATION DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met to receive a briefing on the
conduct of ground operations in certain tactical areas of responsibility
during Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, receiving testimony from Maj.
Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, USA, Commanding General, Maj. Walter Holton, USA,
Executive Officer, 2nd Brigade, Capt. Elizabeth Schwab, USA, Intelligence
Operations Officer, Capt. Kevin Woods, USA, Apache Helicopter Company
Commander, Capt. Wayne Grigsby, USA, Mechanized Infantry Company Commander,
and Staff Sgt. Robert Green, USA, Tank Commander, all of the 24th Infantry
Division (Mechanized), United States Army, Fort Stewart, Georgia.
Committee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed open and closed hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for national defense
programs, focusing on nuclear weapons issues, receiving testimony from Richard
A. Claytor, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Defense Programs; Robert B.
Barker, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy; and John H.
Nuckolls, Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Siegfried S.
Hecker, Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Albert Narath,
President, Sandia National Laboratory, all of the Department of Energy.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, May 22.
BANKING REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued hearings
on proposals to reform the Federal deposit insurance system, protect the
deposit insurance funds, and improve supervision and regulation of and
disclosure relating to federally insured depository institutions, including S.
261, S. 280, S. 543, and S. 713, receiving testimony from John Seymour,
Illinois Savings and Residential Finance, Springfield, on behalf of the
American Bankers Association; Richard A. Kirk, United Bank of Denver, Denver,
Colorado, on behalf of the American Bankers Association; David Ballweg,
Community States Bank, Union Grove, Wisconsin, on behalf of the Independent
Bankers of America; Eugene A. Miller, Coamerica, Inc., Detroit, Michigan, on
behalf of the Association of Bank Holding Companies; James R. Daniel, The
Friendly Bank, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on behalf of the Consumer Bankers
Association; Donald Shackelford, State Savings Mortgage Company, Columbus,
Ohio, on behalf of the United States League of Savings Institutions; and
Edward P. Lorenson, Bristol Savings Bank, Bristol, Connecticut, on behalf of
the National Council of Savings Institutions.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INSURANCE COMPANY INSOLVENCY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee resumed hearings
to examine the fiscal solvency of the nation's insurance industry, focusing on
the recent failure of the Executive Life Insurance Company of California and
its subsidiary Executive Life of New York, receiving testimony from Alfred
Sigman, Sigman and Lewis, Oakland, California; Donn Sigerson, Executive Life
Support Network, Los Angeles, California; Eden D. Sarfaty, National
Organization of Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Associations, Herndon,
Virginia; Thomas C. Sutton, Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co., Newport Beach,
California, and Richard V. Minck, Washington, D.C., both representing the
American Council of Life Insurance; Tom Borman, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and
John E. Washburn, Chicago, Illinois.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills:
S. 929, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of
Agriculture to undertake interpretive and other programs on public lands and
lands withdrawn from the public domain under their jurisdiction; and
S. 343, to provide for continued United States leadership in high-performance
computing, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
Also, committee continued markup of S. 341, to establish a national energy
policy to reduce U.S. dependence on imported oil, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again Tuesday, May 14.
DOE FAST FLUX TEST FACILITY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development concluded hearings on S. 395, to establish the Department of
Energy's Fast Flux Test Facility in the State of Washington as a research and
development center to be known as the Research Reactor User Complex, after
receiving testimony from Senators Gorton and Adams; Representative Morrison;
Tom A. Hendrickson, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear
Energy; Jeff Breckel, Washington State Governor's Office, Olympia; and Roger
C. Nichols, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Richland, Washington.
LAWN CARE CHEMICALS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Toxic Substances,
Environmental Oversight, Research and Development concluded hearings to
examine issues relating to the use and application of lawn care chemicals,
including S. 849, to require commercial applicators of lawn and other
nonagricultural chemicals to disclose information about the chemicals being
applied and their potential effect on health and the environment, after
receiving testimony from Peter F. Guerrero, Associate Director for
Environmental Protection Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic
Development Division, and Margaret Reese, Assignment Manager for Pesticide
Issues, all of the General Accounting Office; John H. Gibbons, Director,
Office of Technology Assessment; Victor J. Kimm, Deputy Assistant
Administrator for Pesticides and Toxic Substances, Environmental Protection
Agency; Lee Peeler, Associate Director for Advertising Practices, Bureau of
Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission; New York Attorney General
Robert Abrams, Albany; Jay Feldman, National Coalition Against the Misuse of
Pesticides, and Warren E. Stickle, Chemical Producers and Distributors
Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Ann McClure, Professional Lawn Care
Association of America, Marietta, Georgia; Fred Hundt, Ringer Corporation,
Minneapolis, Minnesota; William R. Roberts, Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan, on
behalf of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America; Thomas L.
Latimer, Dallas, Texas; Jared Arminger, Baltimore, Maryland; Katherine
Shannon, Boulder, Colorado; Christina Locek, River Grove, Illinois; and
Janette D. Sherman, Alexandria, Virginia.
MIDDLE EAST
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs held hearings to review the current situation in the Middle East,
focusing on prospects for democratization, receiving testimony from
Representative Lagomarsino, on behalf of the National Republican Institute for
International Affairs; John Esposito, College of Holy Cross, Boston,
Massachusetts; and Phebe Marr, National Defense University, and Seth Tillman,
Georgetown University, both of Washington, D.C.; and focusing on regional
economic issues, receiving testimony from Theodore Kettoul, Office Director,
Syrian Affairs, and Melinda Kimball, Office Director, Egyptian Affairs, both
of the Department of State; Alfred Leroy Atherton, Jr., former Assistant
Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs; James A. Placke,
Cambridge Energy Research Association, Washington, D.C.; and Patrick Clawson,
Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of William H. Albritton, III, to be United States District Judge
for the Middle District of Alabama, Marilyn L. Huff, to be United States
District Judge for the Southern District of California, Wm. Fremming Nielsen,
to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Washington,
Frederick L. Van Sickle, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern
District of Washington, Henry M. Herlong, Jr., to be United States District
Judge for the District of South Carolina, Richard D. Bennett, to be United
States Attorney for the District of Maryland, Harry A. Rosenberg, to be United
States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Michael Chertoff, to be
United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Larry J. Joiner, to be
United States Marshal for the Western District of Missouri, Willie Greason,
Jr., to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Missouri, and
Jose R. Mariano, to be United States Marshal for the District of Guam and
concurrently United States Marshal for the District of the Northern Mariana
Islands.
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NOMINATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of David T. Kearns, of Connecticut, to be Deputy Secretary of
Education, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Dodd, testified
and answered questions in his own behalf.
AUTHORIZATION--HIGHER EDUCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
programs of the Higher Education Act, receiving testimony from Robert B.
Knutsen, Education Management Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; A. Dallas
Martin, Jr., National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators,
Lawrence A. Hough, Student Loan Marketing Association, and Edward M.
Elmendorf, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, all of
Washington, D.C.; Jose R. Gonzalez, Inter-American University, San Juan,
Puerto Rico; Stephen C. Biklen, Citibank Student Loan Business, Rochester, New
York; Michael R. Zucchini, Fleet/Norstar Financial Group, Providence, Rhode
Island; and Carl C. Donovan, Northwest Education Loan Association, Seattle,
Washington, representing the National Council of Higher Education Loan
Programs.
Hearings continue on Friday, May 17.
INDIAN TRIBAL JUSTICE
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings on the
impact of the Supreme Court of the United States' ruling in Duro v. Reina on
the administration of justice in Indian country, and on S. 962 and S. 963,
bills to reaffirm the inherent authority of tribal governments to exercise
criminal jurisdiction over all Indian people on reservation lands, receiving
testimony from Ronal D. Eden, Director of Tribal Services, Bureau of Indian
Affairs, Department of the Interior; Philip N. Hogen, United States Attorney
for the District of South Dakota, Sioux Falls; Joseph A. Myers, National
Indian Justice Center, Petaluma, California; Jerilyn Decoteau, Native American
Rights Fund, and Richard Collins, University of Colorado, both of Boulder,
Colorado; Wayne Ducheneaux, National Congress of American Indians, and Nell
Newton, American University, both of Washington, D.C.; Elbridge Coochise,
Northwest Intertribal Court System, Edmonds, Washington, representing the
National American Indian Court Judges Association; Tom Tso, Navajo Supreme
Court, Window Rock, Arizona; Don Dupuis, Flathead Tribal Court, Pablo,
Montana; Deanna Fairbanks, Cass Lake Tribal Court, Cass Lake, Minnesota;
Michael Zunie, Zuni Tribal Court, Zuni, New Mexico; Hollif Cough and Shiela
McCord, both of the Fort Mohave Tribal Court, Needles, California; Leon Jones,
Indian Court for Eastern Band of Cherokees, Cherokee, North Carolina; Frank
Pommersheim, University of South Dakota, Vermillion; Kristen Dillon, Western
Governors Association, Denver, Colorado; and Tom Tobin, Winner, South Dakota.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
FEDERAL RESERVE
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine the Federal
Reserve's monetary policy and credit conditions, focusing on the role of the
Federal Open Market Committee, whether monetary policy has been appropriate
during the recent recession, and whether changes need to be made in monetary
policy or in the manner in which the Federal Reserve implements monetary
policy, after receiving testimony from James Tobin, Yale University, New
Haven, Connecticut; Hyman Minsky, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York;
and Edward J. Kane, Ohio State University, Columbus.
1990 CENSUS OF THE HOMELESS
Joint Hearings: Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs' Subcommittee on
Government Information and Regulation concluded joint hearings with the House
Committee on Post Office and Civil Service Subcommittee on Census and
Population to examine the 1990 census shelter and street night, focusing on
the quality and limitations of the one-night operation to enumerate persons in
preidentified emergency shelters for the homeless and persons visible at
preidentified street locations, after receiving testimony from Representative
Vento; Barbara Everitt Bryant, Director, Bureau of the Census, Department of
Commerce; L. Nye Stevens, Director, Government Business Operations Issues,
General Government Division, General Accounting Office; Joel A. Devine, Tulane
University, New Orleans, Louisiana; Kim Hopper, Nathan S. Kline Institute for
Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York; Michael R. Cousineau, Los Angeles
Homeless Health Care Project, Los Angeles, California; Bill Friskics-Warren,
Nashville Coalition for the Homeless, Nashville, Tennessee; Fred Karnas, Jr.,
National Coalition for The Homeless, and Maria Foscarinis, National Law Center
on Homelessness and Poverty, both of Washington, D.C.; and Karina S. O'Malley,
St. Norbert's College, West de Pere, Wisconsin.
1991/05/13
Daily Digest - Monday, May 13, 1991; pages D571 - D576 (Bd vol. 327 - D330)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: On Friday, May 10, Subcommittee on Conventional
Forces and Alliance Defense resumed hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for national defense
programs, focusing on modernization requirements and acquisition plans for the
Army, receiving testimony from Stephen K. Conver, Assistant Secretary of the
Army (Research, Development and Acquisition); and Maj. Gen. Richard D.
Beltson, USA, Deputy for Systems Management, Office of the Assistant Secretary
of the Army (Research, Development and Acquisition).
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED ENTERPRISES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Friday, May 10, Committee
held hearings on proposed legislation to insure the safety and soundness of
government-sponsored enterprises, receiving testimony from Robert R. Glauber,
Under Secretary of the Treasury, for Finance; Robert D. Reischauer, Director,
Congressional Budget Office; and Harry Havens, Assistant Comptroller General,
General Accounting Office.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MEDICARE
Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings to examine alleged waste and
abuse in the Medicare program, focusing on practices involving payment and
coverage of medical equipment and supplies, receiving testimony from Richard
P. Kusserow, Inspector General, and James Cottos, Regional Inspector General
for Investigations (Atlanta, Georgia), both of the Department of Health and
Human Services; Corrine Parver, National Association of Medical Equipment
Suppliers, Alexandria, Virginia; and Jerry Thompson and Robert Sherborne, both
of The Tennessean, Nashville, Tennessee.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ARCTIC-ANTARCTIC ENVIRONMENT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held hearings to examine environmental problems in the
Arctic and the Antarctic, focusing on the need to reduce environmental damage
caused by certain United States activities in the Antarctic, and how the U.S.
could effectively contribute to monitoring efforts in the Arctic, receiving
testimony from E. U. Curtis Bohlen, Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans,
International Environmental, and Scientific Affairs; Robert W. Corell,
Assistant Director of Geosciences, and Peter Wilkniss, Director, Division of
Polar Programs, both of the National Science Foundation; Robert C. Worrest,
Program Manager, Global Change Research Program, Environmental Protection
Agency; Claire L. Parkinson and Robert Bindschadler, both of Oceans and Ice
Branch, Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration; Will Steger, International Polar Expeditions, Inc.,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Will Martin, Wilderness Society, Jim Barnes,
Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition, both of Washington, D.C.; and Wallace
S. Broecker, Columbia University, Palisades, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NUCLEAR WASTE MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
570, to implement a national energy strategy, focusing on nuclear waste
provisions as contained in subtitle B of Title V, after receiving testimony
from Senator Bryan; Representative Bilbray; W. Henson Moore, Deputy Secretary
of Energy; F. Henry Habicht II, Deputy Administrator, Environmental Protection
Agency; Robert R. Loux, Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects, Carson City;
Thalia Dondero, Clark County Board of County Commissioners, Las Vegas, Nevada;
Stephen Bradhurst, Nye County Board of Commissioners, Tonopah, Nevada; and E.
Linn Draper, Gulf States Utilities Companies, Beaumont, Texas.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings on S. 823
and S. 965, bills to authorize funds for fiscal years 1992-1996 for the
improvement of highways to further international competitiveness of the United
States, receiving testimony from Senators Bryan, Pressler, and Burns; George
Parker, Associate Administrator for Research and Development, National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Transportation; South Dakota
State Representative Jack Rentschler, on behalf of the National Association of
Truck Stop Operators, and Richard Howard, South Dakota Department of
Transportation, both of Pierre; John Rothwell, Montana Department of Highways,
Helena; Garth Dull, Nevada Department of Transportation, Carson City; Don
Diller, Wyoming Department of Highways, Cheyenne; Duane Berentsen, Washington
Department of Transportation, and Eugene Peterson, Washington Traffic Safety
Commission, on behalf of the National Association of Governors' Highway Safety
Representatives, both of Olympia; Eugene Findlay, Utah Department of
Transportation, Salt Lake City; Mike Naylor, Clark County Air Pollution
Control Division, Las Vegas, Nevada; Thomas J. Donohue, American Trucking
Associations, Joan Claybrook, Citizens for Responsible and Safe Highways, R.
V. Durham, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and Jim Bensberg, American
Motorcyclist Association, all of Washington, D.C.; Allan S. Williams,
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Virginia; Louis Gambaccini,
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Tim
Hoyt, Nationwide Insurance, Columbus, Ohio, on behalf of the Advocates for
Highway and Auto Safety; and Richard D. Morgan, National Asphalt Pavement
Association, Riverdale, Maryland.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: On Friday, May 10, Subcommittee on
Environmental Protection concluded joint hearings with the Subcommittee on
Superfund, Ocean and Water Protection to examine and evaluate the Department
of the Interior's report and recommendation to the Congress and final
legislative environmental impact statement concerning the coastal plain of the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, after receiving testimony from
Manuel Lujan, Jr., Secretary of the Interior; and David O'Neal, Assistant
Secretary for Lands and Minerals Management, and John Turner, Director, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, both of the Department of the Interior.
DEBT CONVERSIONS
Committee on Finance: On Friday, May 10, Subcommittee on Deficits, Debt
Management, and International Debt concluded hearings on debt conversions and
their potential to assist sustainable development and the protection of
natural resources, after receiving testimony from Thomas E. Lovejoy, Assistant
Secretary for External Affairs, Smithsonian Institution, representing the
Society for Conservation Biology; James Gustave Speth, World Resources
Institute, and J. Eugene Gibson, Natural Resources Defense Council, on behalf
of the National Wildlife Federation and the Sierra Club, both of Washington,
D.C.; Carlos Quintela, Fondo Nacional para el Medio Ambiente, La Paz, Bolivia;
and Michael Chamberlin, Sherman & Sterling, and Lamond Godwin, American
Express Bank Ltd., both of New York, New York.
MIDDLE EAST
Committee on Foreign Relations: On Friday, May 10, Subcommittee on Near
Eastern and South Asian Affairs continued hearings to review the current
situation in the Middle East, focusing on the role of the United Nations,
receiving testimony from Eugene V. Rostow, Distinguished Fellow, U.S.
Institute of Peace, former Under Secretary of State and former Director, U.S.
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Max M. Kampelman, Washington, D.C.,
former Head, Nuclear and Space Talks in Geneva, and Edward C. Luck, New York,
New York, both representing the Board of Governors of the United Nations
Association; Richard W. Murphy, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, New
York; and David J. Scheffer, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1991/05/14
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for defense programs, focusing on women
in the military, volunteer services, and family life issues, receiving
testimony from Lt. Gen. Don Jones, USA, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Military Manpower and Personnel Policy), and Millicent W. Woods, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Family Support, Education and Safety), both of
the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Force Management and
Personnel); and Becky Constantino, Chairman, Defense Advisory Committee on
Women in the Services.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, May 16.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for foreign assistance and
U.S. trade, focusing on exports and economic competitiveness, receiving
testimony from Henrietta Holsman Fore, Assistant Administrator for Private
Enterprise, and Priscilla Rabb Ayres, Director, U.S. Trade and Development
Program, both of the Agency for International Development; John Macomber,
President, Export-Import Bank of the United States; and Fred Zeder, President,
Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
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Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, May 23.
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the
National Park Service, receiving testimony from James M. Ridenour, Director,
National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 10,210
routine nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for national defense
programs, focusing on the Strategic Environmental Research and Development
Program, receiving testimony from John C. Tuck, Under Secretary, and Siegfried
S. Hecker, Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory, both of the Department of
Energy; Jacqueline E. Schafer, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for
Installations and Environment; John H. Skinner, Deputy Assistant Administrator
(Research and Development), Environmental Protection Agency; Joseph V.
Osterman, Director, Environment and Life Sciences, Department of Defense; and
Bill Buzbee, Director, Scientific Computing, National Center for Atmospheric
Research, Department of Commerce.
Committee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported the following business items:
S. 12, to ensure carriage on cable television of local news and other
programming and to restore the right of local regulatory authorities to
regulate cable television rates, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute;
S. 218, to require the Secretary of Commerce to make additional frequencies
available for commercial assignment in order to promote the development and
use of new telecommunications technologies, with amendments;
S. 521, to revise section 315 of the Communications Act of 1934 with respect
to the purchase and use of broadcasting time by candidates for public office;
H.R. 1988, authorizing funds for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration for research and development, space flight, control, and data
communications, construction of facilities, research and program management,
and Office of Inspector General, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute. (As approved by the committee, the bill authorizes $15.272 billion
for fiscal year 1992.);
S. 631, to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to States
for the development of programs for the enforcement of Federal and State
commercial motor vehicle safety standards, with an amendment in the nature of
a substitute;
S. 1012, authorizing funds for the activities and programs of the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration. (As approved by the committee, the bill
authorizes $81,338,000 for fiscal year 1992, $84,428,854 for fiscal year 1993,
and $87,638,139 for fiscal year 1994.);
S. 591, to reduce highway fatality and injury by requiring airbags for certain
newly manufactured vehicles;
S. 230, to authorize the transfer from the Secretary of Commerce to the
Secretary of the Interior certain responsibilities relating to archiving land
remote-sensing data, with amendments;
S. 1004, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessel Billfish ;
S. 1005, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessel Marsh
Grass III ;
S. 1006, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessel Miss Lelia
; and
The nominations of John G. Keller, of the District of Columbia, to be Under
Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism, Preston Moore, Jr., of Texas, to
be Chief Financial Officer, Department of Commerce, Jack W. Lentfer, of
Alaska, and John E. Reynolds III, of Florida, each to be a Member of the
Marine Mammal Commission, Rear Admiral Paul A. Welling, United States Coast
Guard as Commander, Atlantic Area, with the grade of vice admiral while so
serving, and John N. Faigle, United States Coast Guard, for appointment to the
grade of rear admiral.
NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed markup of S. 341,
to establish a national energy policy to reduce U.S. dependence on imported
oil, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
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AUTHORIZATION--FEDERAL HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on S.
823, S. 883 and S. 965, bills to authorize funds for fiscal years 1992-1996
for the improvement of the nation's highways to further international
competitiveness of the United States, after receiving testimony from Senators
Warner, Bond, Cranston, and Mack; Thomas D. Larson, Administrator, and Eugene
McCormick, Deputy Administrator, both of the Federal Highway Administration,
Department of Transportation; Kenneth M. Mead, Director, Transportation
Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, General
Accounting Office; Commissioner Hal Rives, Georgia Department of
Transportation, Atlanta, on behalf of the American Association of State
Highway and Transportation Officials; Secretary Ben G. Watts, Florida
Department of Transportation, Tallahassee; Commissioner Thomas M. Downs, New
Jersey Department of Transportation, Trenton; Commissioner Kermit Kiebert,
Idaho Department of Transportation, Boise; Secretary Patrick Garahan, Vermont
Agency for Transportation, Montpelier; Carl Williams, California Department of
Transportation, Sacramento; Mayor Sue Myrick, Charlotte, North Carolina, on
behalf of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the National League of Cities;
Deputy Mayor Harriet Stockwell, El Cajon, California, on behalf of the
National Association of Regional Councils; James A. Anderson, Anderson
Brothers Construction Co., Brainerd, Minnesota, on behalf of the Associated
Builders and Contractors; Robert Desjardins, Cianbro Co., Pittsfield, Maine,
on behalf of the Associated General Contractors of America; Tony Hobeika,
Center for Transportation Research, Virginia Polytechnic Institute,
Blacksburg; Allan S. Boyd, former Secretary of Transportation, on behalf of
the National Trust for Historic Preservation, William T. Pound, National
Conference of State Legislators, Jack R. Gilstrap, American Public Transit
Association, Fred Krupp, Environmental Defense Fund, J. C. Lanford, American
Road and Transportation Builders Association, John Archer, American Automobile
Association, Lester P. Lamm, Highway Users Federation, and Thomas Cole, Rubber
Manufacturers' Association, all of Washington, D.C.; and John Hassell, former
Federal Highway Administrator.
FAST-TRACK EXTENSION
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered reported, unfavorably, S. Res. 78, to
disapprove the President's request for extension of fast-track procedures
under the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 and the Trade Act of
1974.
AUTHORIZATIONS--STATE/USIA/BIB
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations approved for full committee consideration an original
bill authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for the Department of
State, United States Information Agency, and the Board for International
Broadcasting.
HORN OF AFRICA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs concluded
hearings to examine the current situation in the Horn of Africa, including
Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia, after receiving testimony from Jeffrey Davidow,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Andrew S.
Natsios, Director, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, Department of State;
Edmond Keller, University of California, Los Angeles; and Roger Winter and
Hiram Ruiz, both of the U.S. Committee for Refugees, Washington, D.C.
FEDERAL ENERGY MANAGEMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine
energy management and usage in the Federal Government, and S. 1040, to provide
a Government-wide comprehensive energy management plan for Federal agencies,
after receiving testimony from Robin Roy, Senior Analyst, Office of Technology
Assessment; Rebekah T. Johnson, Deputy Administrator, General Services
Administration; B. Reid Detchon, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Energy for Conservation and Renewable Energy; Jeffrey A. Jones, Director,
Energy Policy, Office of the Secretary of Defense; Stanley W. Smith, Assistant
Postmaster General for Facilities, United States Postal Service; Van C.
Jamison, Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, Helena, on
behalf of the National Association of State Energy Officials; and Mark
Hopkins, The Alliance to Save Energy, and Rob Watson, Natural Resources
Defense Council, both of Washington, D.C.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY/FAST TRACK EXTENSION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
held oversight hearings to examine the extension of fast track authority for
the President relating to the intellectual property aspects of the General
Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations and the proposed North
American Free Trade Agreement, receiving testimony from Carla A. Hills, United
States Trade Representative; Jason S. Berman, Recording Industry Association
of America, Inc., Gerald J. Mossinghoff, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
Association, and Karen Casser, Software Publishers Association, all of
Washington, D.C.; and D. Michael Clayton, Samsonite Corporation, Denver,
Colorado.
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Hearings continue on Thursday, May 16.
CHILDRENS INVESTMENT TRUST
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs, and Alcoholism concluded hearings on S. 1073, to provide for the
creation and operation of the Childrens Investment Trust, after receiving
testimony from Beverly Greenberg, Connecticut State Board of Education,
Hartford; William H. Kolberg, National Alliance of Business, Jule M. Sugarman,
Special Olympics International, Gordon M. Ambach, Council of Chief State
School Officers, and Anne R. West, Children's National Medical Center, all of
Washington, D.C.; Jay Berkelhamer, American Academy of Pediatrics, Chicago,
Illinois; and Erling W. Clausen, American Association of School
Administrators, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey; and Joyce Brothers, New York,
New York.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/05/15
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 15, 1991; pages D590 - D600 (Bd vol. D339 -
D348)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FARM BILL/TRADE TITLE
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held oversight
hearings to review the implementation of titles II and III of the Food,
Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act (P.L. 101-624), receiving testimony
from Ronald W. Roskens, Administrator, and Mark L. Edelman, Deputy
Administrator, both of the Agency for International Development; Richard
Crowder, Under Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and
Commodity Programs; and John Gordley, Export Processing Industry Coalition,
Steven A. McCoy, North American Export Grain Association, and Charles Sykes,
CARE, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART/SMITHSONIAN
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992, receiving testimony in behalf
of funds for their respective activities from J. Carter Brown, Director,
National Gallery of Art; and Robert McC. Adams, Secretary of the Smithsonian
Institution.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the Points
of Light Foundation, receiving testimony from Richard F. Schubert, President
and Chief Executive Officer, Points of Light Foundation.
Subcommittee will meet again Friday, May 17.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel held
hearings on S. 1066, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for the
Department of Defense, focusing on medical programs, receiving testimony from
Enrique Mendez, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs; David
P. Baine, Director, Federal Health Care Delivery Issues, and Stephen P.
Backhus, Assistant Director, Defense Health, both of the General Accounting
Office; Lt. Gen. Frank F. Ledford, USA, Army Surgeon General; Vice Adm. James
A. Zimble, USN, Navy Surgeon General; Lt. Gen. Monte B. Miller, USAF, Air
Force Surgeon General; Michael A. Zieman, Charter Hospital of Savannah,
Savannah, Georgia, on behalf of the National Association of Private
Psychiatric Hospitals; and Joy Midman, National Association of Psychiatric
Treatment Centers for Children, Washington, D.C.
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Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
held hearings on S. 1066, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for
the Department of Defense, focusing on the progress being made by the
Department of Defense in supporting science, mathematics and technical
education at all levels, receiving testimony from H. Steven Kimmel, Deputy
Director, Defense Research and Engineering, Plans and Resources, Department of
Defense; H. Kent Bowen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge;
Michael E. Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta; and Henry T.
Yang, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support held hearings on S. 1066, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992 and
1993 for the Department of Defense, focusing on operation and maintenance
programs, receiving testimony from Donald B. Shycoff, Deputy Comptroller of
Defense; Barbara Lieby, Deputy Director, Operations Division, Office of the
Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management); Rear Adm. William J.
Hancock, USN, Director, Operations Division, Office of the Navy Comptroller;
Brig. Gen. J.C. Arick, USMC, Director, Facilities and Services Division
Headquarters, United States Marine Corps; and Brig. Gen. John L. Finan, USAF,
Director of Budget Operations, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air
Force (Financial Management and Comptroller).
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
BANKING REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed hearings
on proposals to reform the Federal deposit insurance system, protect deposit
insurance funds, and improve supervision and regulation of disclosure relating
to federally insured depository institutions, focusing on the Treasury's
proposal to permit the merging of banking and commerce, including S. 713,
receiving testimony from E. Gerald Corrigan, Federal Reserve Bank of New York,
and Henry Kaufman, Henry Kaufman and Company, Inc., both of New York, New
York.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
PIPELINE SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation concluded hearings on proposed legislation to authorize funds
for pipeline safety programs, and to increase the safety to humans and the
environment from the transportation by pipeline of natural gas and hazardous
liquids, after receiving testimony from Travis P. Dungan, Administrator,
Research and Special Programs Administration, and George Tenley, Associate
Administrator for Pipeline Safety, both of the Department of Transportation;
James L. Kolstad, Chairman, and Charles Batten, Chief, Pipeline Division, both
of the National Transportation Safety Board; Bruce B. Ellsworth, New Hampshire
Public Utility Commission, Concord, representing the National Association of
Regulatory Utility Commissioners; Patrick E. Clarke, Washington Gas Light
Company, Arlington, Virginia, representing the American Gas Association; John
D. Kobasa, ANR Pipeline Company, Detroit, Michigan, representing the
Interstate Natural Gas Association of America; and William Thacker, Unocal
Pipeline Company, Los Angeles, California, representing the Association of Oil
Pipelines and the American Petroleum Institute.
NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee continued markup of S.
341, to establish a national energy policy to reduce U.S. dependence on
imported oil, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again
tomorrow.
DROUGHT ASSISTANCE/CARRIAGE OF WATER
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power
concluded hearings on S. 586 and S. 711, bills to provide authority to the
Secretary of the Interior to undertake certain activities to reduce the
impacts of drought conditions, H.R. 355, to revise the Reclamation States
Drought Assistance Act of 1988 to extend the period of time during which
drought assistance may be provided by the Secretary of the Interior, and S.
404, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into contracts
pursuant to the Warren Act for domestic, municipal, fish and wildlife, and
other beneficial purposes, after receiving testimony from Senator Cranston;
Dennis Underwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, and Gary Edwards,
Assistant Director for Fisheries, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, both of the
Department of the Interior; Daniel A. Sumner, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture for Economics; Doug Wheeler, California Resources Agency,
Sacramento; Mayor Sheila Lodge, Santa Barbara, California; and Tony
Willardson, Western States Water Council, Midvale, Utah.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items:
S. 596, to require Federal agencies to comply with Federal and State
environmental laws and regulations; and
An original bill (S. 1083) to extend for two years the provisions of Public
Law 100-582, the Medical Waste Tracking Act.
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure concluded hearings to examine budget issues
and lessons learned by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, after
receiving testimony from Senator Cohen; Representative Louise M. Slaughter;
John M. Ols, Jr., Director, Housing and Community Development Issues, General
Accounting Office; Wallace Stickney, Director, Federal Emergency Management
Agency; Selectman Roy Gardner, Allagash, Maine; County Executive Thomas R.
Frey, Rochester, New York; Jim McNall, Bonner County Commission, Sandpoint,
Idaho; and Steve Tanner, Idaho Division of Environmental Quality, Coeur
d'Alene.
U.N. CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the status of
the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, after receiving
testimony from William K. Reilly, Administrator, Environmental Protection
Agency; E.U. Curtis Bohlen, Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and
International Environmental and Scientific Affairs; Richard Bissell, Assistant
Administrator for Science and Technology, Agency for International
Development; James Gustave Speth, World Resources Institute, Michael
McCloskey, Sierra Club, and William A. Nitze, The Alliance to Save Energy, all
of Washington, D.C.; and Michael McCoy, New York, New York, on behalf of the
International Negotiations Project of the TIDES Foundation, and the
Organization of Citizens' Networks for U.N. Conference on Environment and
Development.
RUNAWAY EXECUTIVE PAY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management held hearings on the state of senior executive compensation in the
United States, and to examine the inadequacies of the Securities and Exchange
Commission's requirements for letting stockholders know just what a company's
top executives are getting paid, receiving testimony from Linda C. Quinn,
Director, Division of Corporate Finance, Securities and Exchange Commission;
Robert A.G. Monks, Institutional Shareholder Partners, Inc., Nell Minow,
Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc., and Ralph V. Whitworth, United
Shareholders Association, all of Washington, D.C.; and Graef S. Crystal,
University of California at Berkeley.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
STATISTICS ON ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Government Information and
Regulation concluded hearings to examine the President's initiative for
improving statistics on economic activity, after receiving testimony from
Michael J. Boskin, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors; David Devlin,
Citibank, New York, New York; and Gail Fosler, The Conference Board, Courtenay
Slater, Slater-Hall Information Products, and Joel Popkin, Joel Popkin and
Company, all of Washington, D.C.
CRIME CONTROL
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed hearings on proposals to control
and reduce violent crime, including S. 618 and S. 635, focusing on the law
enforcement perspective, receiving testimony from Thomas J. Charron, National
District Attorney's Association, and Charles Meeks, National Sheriff's
Association, both of Alexandria, Virginia; Dewey Stokes, Galloway, Ohio, on
behalf of the Fraternal Order of Police; Robert David, Delaware State
Trooper's Association, Dover, on behalf of the National Trooper's Coalition;
and Pennsylvania Attorney General Ernest Preate, Harrisburg.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Emilio M. Garza, of Texas, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth
Circuit, Sharon Lovelace Blackburn, to be United States District Judge for the
Northern District of Alabama, Louis J. Freeh, to be United States District
Judge for the Southern District of New York, Richard T. Haik, Sr., to be
United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, and Ira H.
Raphaelson, of Illinois, to be Special Counsel of the Financial Institutions
Fraud Unit, Department of Justice, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Garza was introduced by Senator Gramm, and
Representative Bustamante, Ms. Blackburn was introduced by Senators Heflin and
Shelby, and Representative Callahan, Mr. Freeh was introduced by Senators
D'Amato and Nunn, Mr. Haik was introduced by Senator Breaux, and Mr.
Raphaelson was introduced by Senators Dixon and Simon.
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FDA REPORT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings to review
the Advisory Committee on the Food and Drug Administration report on the
current state of FDA, and its recommendations to strengthen FDA, after
receiving testimony from Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human
Services; Charles C. Edwards, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La
Jolla, California; Sherwin Gardner, Grocery Manufacturers of America, Inc.,
and Frank E. Samuel, Jr., Health Industry Manufacturers Association, both of
Washington, D.C.; and Lawrence C. Horowitz, Palo Alto, California.
NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAMS
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Native American Programs
Act, and the effectiveness of the Administration for Native Americans (ANA) in
serving the Native American population, after receiving testimony from Jo Anne
B. Barnhart, Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families,
and Timothy Wapato, Commissioner, Administration for Native Americans, both of
the Department of Health and Human Services; John E. Echohawk, Native American
Rights Fund, Boulder, Colorado; A. Gay Kingman, National Congress of American
Indians, and Lee Ann Tall Bear, National American Indian Council, both of
Washington, D.C.; A. David Lester, Council of Energy Resource Tribes, Denver,
Colorado; Conrad D. Edwards, Council For Tribal Employment Rights, Seattle,
Washington; Jacob Viarrial, Pueblo of Pojoaque, Santa Fe, New Mexico;
Zachariah Anderson, Holdenville, Oklahoma, Vivian Juan, Tempe, Arizona, and
J.R. Cook, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, all representing the United National
Indian Tribal Youth, Inc.; Julie Kitka, Alaska Federation of Natives,
Anchorage, Alaska; Willie Kasayulie, Native Village of Akiachak, Alaska; and
Williamson Chang, Native Hawaiian Advisory Council, Honolulu.
Joint Meetings
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate-and House-passed
versions of H. Con. Res. 121, setting forth the congressional budget for the
United States Government for fiscal years 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996,
but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
1991/05/16
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 16, 1991; pages D602 - D610 (Bd vol. D348 - D356)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for defense programs, receiving
testimony from numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, May 21.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for energy and
water development programs, focusing on environmental restoration and waste
management (defense and non-defense), and the Civilian Nuclear Waste Fund of
the Department of Energy, receiving testimony from Leo T. Duffy, Director,
Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, and Frank Peters,
Deputy Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, both of the
Department of Energy.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, May 21.
APPROPRIATIONS--INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the Indian
Health Service, receiving testimony from Everett R. Rhoades, Director, Indian
Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, May 21.
APPROPRIATIONS--COAST GUARD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for
the U.S. Coast Guard, receiving testimony from Adm. J. William Kime,
Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
OPERATION DESERT STORM/DESERT SHIELD
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met to receive a briefing on the
conduct of Naval operations during Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm from
Vice Adm. Stanley R. Arthur, USN, Navy Component Commander for the Central
Command; Maj. Gen. Harry Jenkins, USMC, Landing Force Commander; Rear Adm.
(selectee) David S. Bill, USN, Commanding Officer of the USS Wisconsin during
Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm; Capt. Mike Bowman, USN, Commander of the
Air Group on board USS America ; Lt. Commander Steve Lehr, USN, Commanding
Officer of USS Leader , a Navy minesweeper; Lt. Brenda Holder, USN, Pilot of a
vertical replenishment helicopter; Capt. Brian Phillips, HMH-461, CH-53 Pilot,
Flew Somalia Evacuation; Staff Sgt. David Miller, 2nd Force Recon, Maritime
Interception Force; Sgt. Jeffrey Jennings, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines; and
Corp. Russell Boyker III, HMLA-269, Crew Chief/Door Gunner (Huey).
Committee will meet again Tuesday, May 21.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support continued hearings on S. 1066, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992
and 1993 for the Department of Defense, focusing on facility management and
military construction, receiving testimony from Colin R. McMillan, Assistant
Secretary of Defense (Production and Logistics); Susan M. Livingstone,
Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installations, Logistics and Environment);
Maj. Gen. Peter J. Offringa, USA, Assistant Chief of Engineers, Department of
the Army; Jacqueline E. Schafer, Assistant Secretary of the Navy
(Installations and Environment); and James F. Boatright, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force (Installations).
[Page: D604]
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
BANKING REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued hearings
on proposals to reform the Federal deposit insurance system, protect deposit
insurance funds, and improve supervision and regulation of disclosure relating
to federally insured depository institutions, including S. 543 and S. 713,
receiving testimony from David Silver, Investment Company Institute, Gedale
Horowitz, Securities Industry Association, Peggy Miller, Consumer Federation
of America, all of Washington, D.C.; and Lee Smith, Mutual Life Insurance
Company, New York, New York.
Hearings continue Wednesday, May 22.
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC AND EXCHANGE RATE POLICY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy held hearings to examine the
Department of the Treasury report on international economic and exchange rate
policy, focusing on efforts to lower interest rates, implications of the
recent increase in the value of the dollar for the U.S. balance of trade and
economic recovery, and currency manipulation for competitive advantage in
international trade by the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and South Korea,
receiving testimony from David C. Mulford, Under Secretary of the Treasury for
International Affairs; and C. Fred Bergsten, Institute for International
Economics, Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of John A. Hammerschmidt, of Arkansas, to be a
Member of the National Transportation Safety Board, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senator Bumpers, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.
NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee continued markup of S.
341, to establish a national energy policy to reduce U.S. dependence on
imported oil, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again
Tuesday, May 21.
NUCLEAR REACTOR LICENSING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation
concluded hearings on the licensing of nuclear reactors and nuclear power
plants, focusing on Title III, the Nuclear Reactor Licensing Act of 1991, of
S. 341, to reduce the nation's dependence on imported oil, and Title V,
Subtitle A, to revise procedures under the Atomic Energy Act for licensing
nuclear power plants, of S. 570, to implement a national energy strategy,
after receiving testimony from William H. Young, Assistant Secretary of Energy
for Nuclear Energy; James M. Taylor, Executive Director for Operations,
Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Sherwood H. Smith, Jr., Carolina Power and
Light Company, Raleigh, North Carolina; and Eric R. Glitzenstein, Harmon,
Curran, Gallagher & Spielberg, Washington, D.C.
SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT/IRA's
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on S. 612, to encourage savings
and investment through individual retirement accounts (IRA's) in an effort to
stimulate economic growth for Americans and the nation, receiving testimony
from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System;
Jane Gravelle, Senior Specialist for Economic Policy, Congressional Research
Service, Library of Congress; Robert Bergland, National Rural Electric
Cooperative Association, Dallas L. Salisbury and Joseph Piacentini, both of
the Employee Benefit Research Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; Neal E.
Cutler, Boettner Institute of Financial Gerontology, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania;
Jonathan S. Skinner, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; and David Wise,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on behalf of the National Bureau
of Economic Research.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AFRICA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs held hearings
on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1992 for foreign
assistance, focusing on Africa, receiving testimony from Scott M. Spangler,
Assistant Administrator for Africa, Agency for International Development;
Jeffrey Davidow, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African
Affairs; Gregory Smith, President, African Development Foundation; Randall
Robinson, TransAfrica, Richard G. Sincere, International Freedom Foundation,
Douglas Hellinger, Development Gap, and Holly Burkhalter, Human Rights Watch,
all of Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--ACDA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations approved for full committee consideration an original
bill authorizing funds for fiscal year 1992 for the U.S. Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency.
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FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT AND PROMOTION OPPORTUNITIES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the
employment and promotion opportunities in the Federal Government for women and
minorities, receiving testimony from Bernard L. Ungar, Director, Federal Human
Resource Management Issues, General Government Division, General Accounting
Office; Evan J. Kemp, Jr., Chairman, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission; and Joseph M. Sellers, Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil
Rights Under Law, and Jean M. Christiansen and Lynn Eppard, both of the
Federally Employed Women, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
COCAINE KINDERGARTNERS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine current
special education needs of kindergarten age children who were born while their
mothers were under the influence of the use of crack cocaine, after receiving
testimony from Judy Howard, University of California School of Medicine, Los
Angeles; Evelyn Davis, Harlem Hospital, New York, New York; and Diane Powell,
DAISY Program, Washington, D.C.
BANKRUPTCY JUDGESHIP AUTHORIZATION/BANKRUPTCY CODE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for bankruptcy
judgeships, and to review the implementation of the bankruptcy code, receiving
testimony from Lloyd George, Las Vegas, Nevada, on behalf of the Judicial
Conference Committee on the Administration of the Bankruptcy System; Roger
Whelan, Washington, D.C., and Robin Phelan, Dallas, Texas, both on behalf of
the American Bankruptcy Institute; Leonard Rosen, New York, New York, and
Bernard Shapiro, Los Angeles, California, both on behalf of the National
Bankruptcy Conference; Nathan B. Feinstein, Washington, D.C., and Herbert P.
Minkel, New York, New York, both on behalf of the American Bar Association;
Joseph Cosetti, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; Jeff Apperson, National Conference of Bankruptcy Clerks,
Louisville, Kentucky; Henry Hildebrand, National Association of Chapter
Thirteen Trustees, Nashville, Tennessee; and Dennis Bezanson, National
Association of Bankruptcy Trustees, South Portland, Maine.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, June 6.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY/FAST TRACK EXTENSION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
concluded oversight hearings to examine the extension of fast track authority
for the President relating to the intellectual property aspects of the General
Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations and the proposed North
American Free Trade Agreement, after receiving testimony from Jack Valenti,
Motion Picture Association of America, and Robert Jerome, Economic Strategy
Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Howard G. Figueroa, IBM, Purchase, New
York; C.L. Clemente, Pfizer, Inc., New York, New York; and Frank Ingari,
Ontologic, Inc., Burlington, Massachusetts.
HEALTH IMPLICATIONS FOR POOR WOMEN
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded oversight hearings
on the implementation of Title X regulation provisions (Gag Rule) of the
Public Health Service Act relating to health implications for poor women,
after receiving testimony from Senator Chafee; William Archer, Deputy
Assistant Secretary, Office of Population Affairs, Department of Health and
Human Services; Rhoda E. Perry, Thundermist Health Associates, Woonsocket,
Rhode Island; Lee Minto, Planned Parenthood of Seattle-King County, Seattle,
Washington; Beth Quill, Women and Infants Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island;
David Cole, Georgetown University Law Center, and Robert Destro, Catholic
University Columbus School of Law, both of Washington, D.C.; and Anita Nelson,
West Area and Coastal County Health Centers, Los Angeles, California, on
behalf of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; and Teresa
Wagner, Bellevue, Washington.
FEDERAL WETLANDS REGULATIONS
Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings to examine the effect
current wetlands regulations are having on small business development, and how
the regulations impact on economic development and jobs, receiving testimony
from Mark Tipton, National Association of Home Builders, Steve Moyer, National
Wildlife Federation, and Elizabeth Raisbeck, National Audubon Society, all of
Washington, D.C.; Michael Zunich, Michael Zunich and Associates, North
Ridgeville, Ohio; James T.B. Tripp, Environmental Defense Fund, New York, New
York; Nancy De Lamar, Arkansas Nature Conservancy, Little Rock, on behalf of
The Nature Conservancy; Michael E. Wood, E.S.G. Enterprises, Inc., Virginia
Beach, Virginia; Oliver John Grah, Ecotone Environmental Consulting, Inc.,
Logan, Utah; David Yocum, Lake Village, Arkansas; and Erik Jonjak, Spooner,
Wisconsin.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INDIAN ENVIRONMENT
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 668, to
authorize consolidated grants to Indian tribes to regulate environmental
quality on Indian reservations, after receiving testimony from Raymond B.
Ludwiszewski, Acting Assistant Administrator for Enforcement, Environmental
Protection Agency; Nelson Gorman, Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Arizona; Gene
Joseph and Ed Palmanteer, Jr., both of the Colville Confederated Tribes,
Nespelem, Washington; Jana Walker, Gover, Stetson & Williams, Albuquerque, New
Mexico, on behalf of the Wind River Reservation; Billy Frank, Jr., Northwest
Indian Fisheries Commission, Olympia; and A. Gay Kingman, National Congress of
American Indian, Washington, D.C.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again Tuesday, May 21.
Joint Meetings
SOVIET ECONOMY
Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Technology and National Security
held hearings to examine the state of the Soviet economy, receiving testimony
from George Kolt, Director, Office of Soviet Analysis, Directorate of
Intelligence, and John McLaughlin, Director, Office of European Analysis,
Directorate of Intelligence, both of the Central Intelligence Agency; Charles
P. Duecy, Assistant Deputy Director for Research, Defense Intelligence Agency;
Charles Wolf, Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California; and Vladimir Tremi,
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1991/05/17
Daily Digest - Friday, May 17, 1991; pages D612 - D620 (Bd vol. D356 - D359)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
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Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Sheila C. Bair, of Kansas, and Joseph B. Dial,
of Texas, each to be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf.
APPROPRIATIONS--VA/HUD/INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the
Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Housing and Urban
Development, and independent agencies, receiving testimony from numerous
public witnesses.
Subcommittee will next meet Wednesday, June 5.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence held hearings on S. 1066, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992
and 1993 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the Office of Technology
Assessment's report on the Department of Energy environmental clean-up program
and issues of concern to Department of Energy clean-up contractors, receiving
testimony from Peter A. Johnson, Senior Associate, and Tara O'Toole and Emila
L. Govan, both Senior Analysts, all of the Office of Technology Assessment;
Christian Holmes, Deputy Assistant Administrator, and Gordon M. Davidson,
Acting Director, both for Federal Facilities Enforcement, Environmental
Protection Agency; W. John Denson, Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Company,
Houston, Texas; and Earl E. Gjelde, Chem-Nuclear Environmental Services, Inc.,
and George L. Gleason, Hazardous Waste Action Committee, both of Washington,
D.C.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, May 22.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional
Defense held hearings on S. 1066, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992 and
1993 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the current U.S. Marine Corps
capabilities, including their capability to respond to potential conflicts in
the Third World, receiving testimony from Gen. Alfred M. Gray, Jr., USMC,
Commandant of the Marine Corps.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, Ocean
and Water Protection concluded oversight hearings on implementation of the
Safe Drinking Water Act (P.L. 99-339), after receiving testimony from LaJuana
Wilcher, Assistant Administrator for Water, Environmental Protection Agency;
Erik D. Olsen, National Wildlife Foundation, Washington, D.C.; L.D. McMullen,
Des Moines, Iowa Water Works, representing the Association of Metropolitan
Water Agencies; John Huber, Louisville, Kentucky Water Company, representing
the American Water Works Association; Frederick Marrocco, Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Resources, Harrisburg, representing the
Association of State Drinking Water Administrators; Thomas Brazier, Kennebec,
Maine Water District; James Plahn, Minnesota Rural Water Association, Elbow
Lake, representing the National Rural Water Association; and Joan Rose,
University of South Florida, Tampa.
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE--ASIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year
1992 for foreign assistance, focusing on Asia, after receiving testimony from
Richard Solomon, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific
Affairs; Henrietta H. Holsman Fore, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for
Private Enterprise, Agency for International Development; and Carl W. Ford,
Jr., Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International
Security Affairs.
MORTGAGE ESCROW ACCOUNTS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine consumer
protection issues in mortgage escrow accounts, focusing on violations of
escrow account limits and loopholes in State requirements for payment of
interest on escrow accounts, receiving testimony from John C. Weicher,
Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Policy Development
and Research; Jonathan L. Fiechter, Deputy Director for Washington Operations,
Office of Thrift Supervision, Department of the Treasury; New York Attorney
General Robert Abrams, Albany; Wisconsin Deputy Commissioner of Savings and
Loan, Madison; Allan B. Morrison, Public Citizen Litigation Group, and Robert
Bartlett, United States League of Savings Institutions, both of Washington,
D.C.; Peter M. Ross, Mortgage Servicing Mortgage and Trust, Houston, Texas;
Louis V. Stadler, Security Bank, S.S.B., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, representing
the National Council of Savings Institutions; and Stephen B. Ashley, Sibley
Mortgage Corporation, representing the Mortgage Bankers Association of
America, and Robert Herloski, both of Rochester, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS
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Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded oversight hearings
to review the activities of the Office of Civil Rights, Department of
Education, after receiving testimony from Michael L. Williams, Assistant
Secretary of Education for Civil Rights; and Franklin Frazier, Director of
Education and Employment Issues, Barry R. Bedrick, Associate General Counsel,
and Richard J. Wenning, Senior Evaluator, all of the General Accounting
Office.
AUTHORIZATION--HIGHER EDUCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
the Humanities resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
programs of the Higher Education Act, receiving testimony from Elaine H.
Hairston, Ohio Board of Regents, Columbus, and Donald J. Nolan, New York
Deputy Commissioner of Higher and Continuing Education, Albany, both on behalf
of the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association; Leonard M. Wenc,
Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota; Patrick F. Taylor, Taylor Energy
Company, New Orleans, Louisiana; Stephen J. Blair, National Association of
Trade and Technical Schools, and Robert H. Atwell, American Council on
Education, both of Washington, D.C.; Theodore Ziolkowski, Princeton
University, Princeton, New Jersey; Carole Glover, National Association of
Graduate and Professional Students, Great Falls, Virginia; and Helen Oloroso,
University of Illinois, Chicago, on behalf of the Cooperative Education
Association.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, May 23.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/05/20
Daily Digest - Monday, May 20, 1991; pages D621 - D626 (Bd vol. D359 - D361)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
PERSIAN GULF REFUGEE CRISIS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs
concluded hearings to provide an update on the crisis of the Iraqi refugees
and displaced people in the Persian Gulf, focusing on the United Nations
humanitarian response, after receiving testimony from Princeton N. Lyman,
Director, Bureau for Refugee Programs, Department of State; Lt. Gen. Martin
Brandtner, USMC, Director of Operations, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of
Defense; Michael J. Priestley, New York, New York, on behalf of the United
Nations Secretary-General for the Humanitarian Program for Iraq, Kuwait, and
the Iraq/Iran and Iraq/Turkey Border Areas; Christopher Elias, Physicians for
Human Rights, Somerville, Massachusetts; Curtis L. Bakken, Rochester,
Minnesota, on behalf of AmeriCares; and Bill Frelick, U.S. Committee for
Refugees, Washington, D.C.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/05/21
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 21, 1991; pages D628 - D638 (Bd vol. D362 - D370)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
GOVERNMENT SPONSORED ENTERPRISES
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings to
examine implications of government sponsored enterprises (GSE's) on the Farm
Credit Administration, Farm Credit System, and the Federal Agricultural
Mortgage Corporation, receiving testimony from Robert R. Glauber, Under
Secretary of the Treasury for Finance; Henry D. Edelman, President and CEO,
Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation; Harry S. Haven, Assistant
Comptroller General, and Craig A. Simmons, Director, and Larry Harrell,
Assistant Director, both of the Financial Institutions and Markets Issues,
General Government Division, all of the General Accounting Office; Robin S.
Seiler, Analyst, Congressional Budget Office; Harold B. Steele, Chairman, Farm
Credit Administration; and C. T. Frederickson, Chief Executive Officer, Farm
Credit Bank of St. Louis.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony from Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of Defense.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, May 23.
APPROPRIATIONS--DOE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for certain
programs of the Department of Energy, receiving testimony from James D.
Watkins, Secretary of Energy.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, June 5.
OPERATION DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met to receive a briefing on the
conduct of the air campaign during Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm from
Lt. Gen. Charles Horner, USAF, Air Component Commander, U.S. Central Command;
Brig. Gen. Harold E. Keistler, ANG, Commander, 126th Air Refueling Wing
(KC-135), Illinois Air National Guard, Chicago; Lt. Col. W. R. Jones, USMC,
Commanding Officer, VMA-231 (AV-8B), Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point,
North Carolina; Commander William J. Luti, USN, Executive Officer, VAQ-130
(EA-6B), Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Oak Harbor, Washington; Lt.
Commander Mark I. Fox, USN, Strike Fighter Squadron-81 (F-18), Naval Air
Station Cecil Field, Jacksonville, Florida; Lt. Col. Steven L. Turner, USAF,
Commander, 336th Tactical Fighter Squadron (F-15E), Seymour Johnson Air Force
Base, Goldsboro, North Carolina; and Lt. Col. George W. Walton, USAF,
Commander, 561st Tactical Fighter Squadron (F-4G), George Air Force Base,
Victorville, California.
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Committee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
held hearings on S. 1066, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for
the Department of Defense, focusing on the current issues involving the
Department of Defense in-house laboratory system, receiving testimony from
Charles E. Adolph, Acting Director of Defense Research and Engineering,
Department of Defense; George T. Singley, III, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
the Army for Research and Technology; Genie M. McBurnett, Principal Deputy to
the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development and
Acquisition; and Brig. Gen. Stephen B. Condon, USAF, Acting Director for
Science and Technology, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
BLACK MEN IN URBAN AMERICA
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed hearings
to examine problems confronting African-American males in urban America,
focusing on solutions to problems that impede the progress of young black men
in mainstream American society, receiving testimony from Clifford L.
Alexander, Alexander and Associates, Inc., and Robert L. Woodson, National
Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, both of Washington, D.C.; Blair Underwood,
Los Angeles, California, on behalf of the Twenty-First Century Commission on
African American Males; John Hope Franklin, Duke University, Durham, North
Carolina; and Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, University of California, Berkeley.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--NOAA
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1992 for programs of
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, focusing on the
modernization of NOAA's oceanographic fleet and coastal environmental
monitoring programs, NOAA's involvement and contribution in the area of
climate and global change study, and the National Sea Grant College Program,
receiving testimony from Jennifer Joy Wilson, Assistant Secretary for Oceans
and Atmosphere, Gray Castle, Deputy Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere,
Ned Ospenso, Assistant Administrator for Ocean and Atmospheric Research,
Virginia Tippie, Assistant Administrator for National Ocean Service, Bill Fox,
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, and Andrew Moxam, Comptroller, all of
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce;
Rear Adm. Richard F. Pittenger, USN (Ret.), and David A. Ross, both of the
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts; Michael
Hirshfield, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Annapolis, Maryland; Anders Andren,
University of Wisconsin, Madison; and Amos S. Eno, National Fish and Wildlife
Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed markup of S. 341,
to establish a national energy policy to reduce U.S. dependence on imported
oil, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
PUBLIC LANDS/NATIONAL PARKS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills:
S. 749, to rename and expand the boundaries of the Mound City Group National
Monument in Ohio, after receiving testimony from Senator Metzenbaum; and Mark
Michel, The Archaeological Conservancy, Santa Fe, New Mexico;
S. 52 and H.R. 1143, bills to direct the Secretary of the Interior to prepare
a national historic landmark theme study on American labor history, and H.R.
690, to authorize the National Park Service to acquire and manage the Mary
McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic site, after receiving testimony
from Representative John Lewis;
S. 550, authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to designate the Nez Perce
National Historical Park in the State of Idaho, S. 638 and H.R. 749, bills to
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to accept a donation of land for
addition to the Ocmulgee National Monument in the State of Georgia, S. 639 and
H.R. 904, bills to direct the Secretary of the Interior to prepare a national
historic landmark theme study on African American history, S. 996, to
authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior to terminate a reservation
of use and occupancy at the Buffalo National River, and S. 749, S. 52 and H.R.
1143, and H.R. 690 (all listed above), after receiving testimony from Jerry L.
Rogers, Associate Director for Cultural Resources, National Park Service,
Department of the Interior; and
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S. 663, to allow the city of Pocatello, Idaho, to use certain lands for a
correctional facility for women, and H.R. 427, to disclaim any interests of
the United States in certain lands on San Juan Island, Washington, after
receiving testimony from Michael J. Penfold, Assistant Director for Land and
Renewable Resources, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Mike Hayden, of Kansas, to be Assistant Secretary of the
Interior for Fish and Wildlife, and Ivan Selin, of the District of Columbia,
to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Hayden was
introduced by Senators Dole and Kassebaum, and Mr. Selin was introduced by
Senators Warner and Chafee.
CLEAN WATER
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection held hearings on proposed legislation to revise and authorize funds
for programs of the Clean Water Act, receiving testimony from William K.
Reilly, Administrator, and LaJuana Wilcher, Assistant Administrator for Water,
both of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AT&T CONSENT DECREE'S MANUFACTURING RESTRICTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business
Rights concluded oversight hearings to examine whether the Bell Telephone
Companies should be allowed to manufacture telecommunications equipment,
focusing on the impact of the AT&T consent decree's manufacturing restriction
on consumers and the telecommunications industry, and related provisions
contained in S. 173, Telecommunications Equipment Research and Manufacturing
Competition Act, after receiving testimony from Peter Bradford, New York State
Public Service Commission, Albany; Joan E. Spero, American Express Company,
New York, New York; Gene Kimmelman, Consumer Federation of America, Phillip
Mink, Citizens for a Sound Economy, Bert C. Roberts, Jr., MCI Communications
Corporation, Robert E. Allen, American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T),
and Michael Birck, Tellabs Inc., all of Washington, D.C.; Mark C. Smith,
Adtran, Inc., Huntsville, Alabama; Lawrence A. Sullivan, University of
California, Berkeley; and Stephen M. Shapiro, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago,
Illinois.
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.
Joint Meetings
FmHA NATIONAL APPEALS STAFF PROGRAM
Joint Hearings: Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry's
Subcommittee on Agricultural Credit held joint oversight hearings with the
House Committee on Government Operations' Subcommittee on Government
Information, Justice, and Agriculture on the implementation of the National
Appeals Staff program of the Farmers Home Administration, Department of
Agriculture, which provides FmHA borrowers and applicants an option to appeal,
receiving testimony from Pamela M. Dillon, Director, National Appeals Staff,
and La Verne Ausman, Administrator, both of the Farmers Home Administration,
and James Ebbitt, Assistant Inspector General for Audit, all of the Department
of Agriculture; Flora Milans, Associate Director, Resources, Community, and
Economic Development Division, Robert E. Robertson, Assistant Director, and
James Sheppard, Senior Evaluator, Dallas (Texas) Regional Office, all of the
General Accounting Office; Sarah Vogel, North Dakota Department of
Agriculture, Bismarck; Jay F. Guin, Tanner and Guin, Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Pam
Baldwin, National Family Farm Coalition, Lawndale, North Carolina; and Timothy
Sullivan, Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc., St. Paul, Minnesota.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--DIRE EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL
Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate-and House-passed versions of H.R. 2251, making dire emergency
supplemental appropriations from contributions of foreign governments and/or
interest for humanitarian assistance to refugees and displaced persons in and
around Iraq as a result of the recent invasion of Kuwait and for peacekeeping
activities, and for other urgent needs for the fiscal year ending September
30, 1991.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate-and House-passed versions of H. Con. Res. 121, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1992,
1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996.
1991/05/22
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 22, 1991; pages D639 - D650 (Bd vol. D370 -
D381)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MILK SUPPLY REDUCTION AND FOOD DONATION ACT
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings on
S. 1098, to require the purchase of dairy cows and heifers for certain
purposes and to raise the price support level for milk, receiving testimony
from Senator Jeffords; Bruce Gardner, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for
Economics; J. Bob Drake, Davis, Oklahoma, on behalf of the National
Cattlemen's Association; James C. Barr, National Milk Producers Federation,
Arlington, Virginia; James N. Putnam II, Farm Credit Banks of Springfield,
Springfield, Massachusetts; James L. Copper, National Holstein Association,
Brattleboro, Vermont; Brian Stone, East Montpelier, Vermont; and Steve Kerr,
Council of Northeast Farmer Cooperatives, Westminster, Vermont.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Donald J. Yockey, of California, to be Under Secretary of Defense for
Acquisition, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence held hearings on S. 1066, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992
and 1993 for the Department of Defense, focusing on Department of Energy
environmental restoration and waste management programs, receiving testimony
from Leo P. Duffy, Director, Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste
Management, Department of Energy.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
BANKING REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed hearings
on proposals to reform the Federal deposit insurance system, protect deposit
insurance funds, and improve supervision and regulation of disclosure relating
to federally insured depository institutions, including S. 543 and S. 713,
receiving testimony from John G. Medlin Jr., Wachovia Corporation,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Herbert M. Sandler, World Savings and Loan
Association, Oakland, California; John B. McCoy, Banc One Corporation,
Columbus, Ohio; Robert E. Schrull, Brattleboro Savings and Loan Association,
Brattleboro, Vermont; Francis Wald, Wald Agency, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia;
John Stanton, National Association of Federal Credit Unions, Arlington,
Virginia; and Janet Miller, Credit Union National Association, and Bob Elrod,
National Association of Realtors, both of Washington, D.C.
Committee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--FCC
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for the Federal Communications Commission,
after receiving testimony from Alfred C. Sikes, Chairman, Federal
Communications Commission.
NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee continued markup of S.
341, to establish a national energy policy to reduce U.S. dependence on
imported oil, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again
tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATION--HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported, with amendments, S. 965, authorizing funds for fiscal years
1992-1996 to improve the efficiency of the existing surface transportation
system, and to establish the National Recreational Trails Trust Fund.
CHEMICAL WEAPONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on the status of the
1990 bilateral chemical weapons agreement and the multilateral negotiation on
chemical weapons ban, receiving testimony from Ronald F. Lehman II, Director,
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Stephen J. Ledogar, U.S.
Representative to the Conference on Disarmament, Department of State; and
Brig. Gen. Walter L. Busbee, USA, Program Manager for Chemical
Demilitarization, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen, Maryland.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
TREATY--SOUTH PACIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the Convention
for the Protection of the Natural Resources and Environment of the South
Pacific Region, with Annex, and the Protocol for the Prevention of Pollution
of the South Pacific Region by Dumping, with Annexes, done at Noumea, New
Caledonia, on November 24, 1986, after receiving testimony from Richard J.
Smith, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and
International Environmental and Scientific Affairs; and Charles Sheehan,
Attorney Advisor, Office of the Legal Advisor, Department of State.
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MIDDLE EAST
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs resumed hearings on the current situation in the Middle East, focusing
on Arab-Israeli relations and the Palestinian issue, receiving testimony from
Samuel Lewis, President, U.S. Institute of Peace, former U.S. Ambassador to
Israel; George Ball, Princeton, New Jersey, former Under Secretary of State;
Lucius Battle, former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South
Asian Affairs, Martin Indyk, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and
Helena Cobban, Foundation for Middle East Peace, all of Washington, D.C.; and
Ian Lustick, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
DOD SUBCONTRACT MANAGEMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the
Department of Defense management of subcontracting practices by certain
defense contractors, receiving testimony from Frank C. Conahan, Assistant
Comptroller General, National Security and International Affairs Division,
General Accounting Office; Derek J. Vander Schaaf, Deputy Inspector General,
Eleanor R. Spector, Director of Defense Procurement, William H. Reed,
Director, Defense Contract Audit Agency, and Gary Thurber, Acting Deputy
Executive Director, Contract Management, Defense Logistics Agency, all of the
Department of Defense; Francis J. Harvey and Robert B. Spiker, both of
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Sunnyvale, California; and Clarence T.
Kipps, Jr., Miller & Chevalier, Chartered, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the
National Security Industrial Association.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
JUVENILE JUSTICE IN AMERICA
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice concluded
hearings on the implementation of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention Act of 1974, and to examine current prevention and treatment
strategies for status offenders, young people who commit certain offenses that
would not be considered criminal if they were over eighteen, after receiving
testimony from former Senator Bayh; Carol J. Behrer, Associate Commissioner,
Family and Youth Services Bureau, Administration for Children and Families,
and Coleen Kivlahan, Chief Medical Officer, Health Resources and Services
Administration, both of the Department of Health and Human Services; Lowell
Dodge, Director, Administration of Justice Issues, General Government
Division, General Accounting Office; Angela Scepanski, Walker's Point Youth
and Family Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Janna Koschene, Urban Peaks Youth
Center, Denver, Colorado; La Fonda Brown, Sasha Bruce Youth Center,
Washington, D.C.; Trudee Able-Peterson, Victim Services Agency, New York, New
York; Virginia Price, The Bridge, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts; and Gary B.
Melton, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, on behalf of the American
Psychological Association.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items:
S. 1106, to authorize funds to provide financial assistance to States to
develop and implement a statewide comprehensive interagency program of early
intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their
families; and
The nominations of David T. Kearns, of Connecticut, to be Deputy Secretary of
Education, Linda Allison, of Texas, and John A. Gannon, of Ohio, each to be a
Member of the National Council on Disability, Kay W. Riddle, of Colorado, to
be a Member of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science,
Robert W. Naylor, of California, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of
the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation, and candidates for personnel
action in the regular corps of the Public Health Service.
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Joint Meetings
RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT/COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine the links
between communications technologies and rural economic development, after
receiving testimony from Linda Garcia, Project Director, Office of Technology
Assessment; George Connick, University of Maine, Augusta; and Phillip Mink,
Citizens for a Sound Economy, Washington, D.C.
ALBANIA
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission):
Commission concluded hearings to examine recent developments in Albania,
focusing on prospects for the further development of democracy in Albania and
ways in which the United States can encourage this development, and to review
human rights issues, after receiving testimony from Sali Berisha, University
of Tirane Medical Center, Tirana, Albania, on behalf of Albania's Democratic
Party; and Ismail Kadare, Paris, France.
1991/05/23
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 23, 1991; pages D651 - D660 (Bd vol. D381 - D390)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for defense programs, focusing on the
Defense Business Operations Fund, receiving testimony from Sean O'Keefe,
Comptroller, Department of Defense.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for foreign assistance,
focusing on implications of the Persian Gulf War and other international
developments, receiving testimony from James A. Baker III, Secretary of State.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, June 4.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Lt. Gen. Bradley C. Hosmer, United States Air Force, Lt. Gen.
Howard D. Graves, United States Army, and Maj. Gen. Harold T. Fields, Jr.,
United States Army, each to the grade of Lieutenant General.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence continued hearings on S. 1066, authorizing funds for fiscal years
1992 and 1993 for the Department of Defense, focusing on command, control, and
communications issues, receiving testimony from Duane P. Andrews, Assistant
Secretary of Defense (Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence); Lt.
Gen. James S. Cassity, Jr., USAF, Director (Command, Control and
Communications), Joint Chiefs of Staff; Rear Adm. Arlington F. Campbell, USN,
Vice Director, Defense Communications Agency; and Vice Adm. Jerry O. Tuttle,
USN, Director, Space and Electronic Warfare, Department of the Navy.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, June 5.
FOREIGN BANK OPERATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Consumer and
Regulatory Affairs concluded hearings on S. 1019, to strengthen Federal
supervision, regulation and examination of foreign bank operations in the
United States, to enhance cooperation with foreign banking supervisors, and to
improve reporting of bank stock loans, and to examine the Bank of Credit and
Commerce International (BCCI) money laundering case as an example of a recent
prosecution of a foreign bank, after receiving testimony from Paul L. Maloney,
Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice;
J. Virgil Mattingly, Jr., General Counsel, Legal Division, and William Taylor,
Staff Director, Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation, both of the
Federal Reserve System; New York County District Attorney Robert M.
Morgenthau, and John G. Heimann, Merrill Lynch and Company, Inc., both of New
York, New York; and Virginia Commissioner of Financial Institutions Sidney
Bailey, Richmond.
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FIRST CAPITAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings to
examine issues relating to the takeover of First Capital Insurance Company in
California, receiving testimony from Steven T. Foster, Virginia Bureau of
Insurance, Richmond; Richard Baum, California Insurance Department,
Sacramento; and Benjamin J. Stein, Malibu, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
U.S. EXPORT PROMOTION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Foreign
Commerce and Tourism concluded hearings to examine issues related to the
consolidation of U.S. export promotion activities, after receiving testimony
from Roger W. Wallace, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for International
Trade; James R. Sharpe, Executive Vice-President, Export-Import Bank of the
United States; James Berg, Executive Vice-President, Overseas Private
Investment Corporation; Allan I. Mendelowitz, Director, National Security and
International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; and Clyde V.
Prestowitz, Economic Strategy Institute, and Nancie S. Johnson, DuPont Corp.,
both of Washington, D.C.
NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original bill to establish a national energy policy to reduce U.S.
dependence on imported oil, in lieu of S. 341.
NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation
concluded hearings on sections 511 and 512 of S. 570, to revise the Nuclear
Waste Policy Act with respect to procedures for the characterization of Yucca
Mountain, Nevada, and the construction of a monitored retrievable storage
facility for spent nuclear fuel, after receiving testimony from John W.
Bartlett, Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management,
Department of Energy; Robert M. Bernero, Director, Office of Nuclear Materials
Safety and Safeguards, Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Christian Holmes, Deputy
Assistant Administrator for Federal Facilities Enforcement, Office of
Enforcement, Environmental Protection Agency; Georgia Public Service
Commissioner Cas Robinson, Atlanta; Robert R. Loux, Nevada Nuclear Waste
Project Office, Carson City; Allen J. Keesler, Jr., Florida Power Corporation,
St. Petersburg; Dan W. Reicher, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington,
D.C.; Dale E. Klein, University of Texas, Austin; and David H. Leroy, Boise,
Idaho.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
Convention for the Protection of the Natural Resources and Environment of the
South Pacific Region, with Annex; and the Protocol for the Prevention of
Pollution of the South Pacific Region by Dumping, with Annexes (Treaty Doc.
101-21), with two understandings;
The nomination of Bruce S. Gelb, of New York, to be Ambassador to Belgium;
S. Res. 129, regarding the recent parliamentary elections in Albania;
S. Con. Res. 41, declaring that China's control of Tibet is illegal;
S. Res. 121, supporting the breakthrough for peace in Angola; and
S. Res. 132, commending the humanitarian relief efforts for Iraqi refugees.
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Mr. Gelb, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator D'Amato, testified
and answered questions in his own behalf.
EASTERN EUROPE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs held hearings
to examine environmental and energy issues relating to Eastern Europe,
receiving testimony from Carol C. Adelman, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for
Asia, Near East and Europe, Agency for International Development; Dan
Beardsley, Director, Soviet and East European Programs, Office of
International Activities, Environmental Protection Agency; and Arlen Erdahl,
Principle Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs and
Energy Emergencies.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
MIDDLE EAST
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs concluded hearings to examine the current situation in the Middle
East, after receiving testimony from Anthony Cordesman, Legislative Assistant,
Office of Senator McCain; Brad Gordon, Assistant Director for Nuclear and
Weapons Control, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Geoffrey Kemp, Carnegie
Endowment, and former Director, Near East and South Asia, National Security
Council, Barry Blechman, Defense Forecast Inc., William Quandt, Brookings
Institution, Michael Hudson, Georgetown University, Marvin Feuerwerger,
Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and George Moffett III, The
Christian Science Monitor, all of Washington, D.C.; Dov S. Zakheim, SPC
International Corporation, Arlington, Virginia; and Bruce R. Kuniholm, Duke
University, Durham, North Carolina.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills:
S. 533, to establish the Department of the Environment, to provide for a
Bureau of Environmental Statistics and a Presidential Commission on Improving
Environmental Protection, with amendments; and
S. 260, to provide for the efficient and cost effective acquisition of
nondevelopmental items for Federal agencies, with amendments.
FEDERAL PROGRAM PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 20, to
provide for the establishment and evaluation of performance standards and
goals for expenditures in the Federal budget, receiving testimony from Senator
Graham; Steven Kelman, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Joseph S.
Wholey, University of Southern California-Washington Public Affairs Center,
Washington, DC.; Sunnyvale City Manager Thomas F. Lewcock, Sunnyvale,
California; and Dennis Affholter, Florida Department of Health and
Rehabilitative Services, Tallahassee.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
The nominations of Emilio M. Garza, of Texas, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Fifth Circuit, Sharon Lovelace Blackburn, to be United States
District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, Louis J. Freeh, to be
United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, Richard T.
Haik, Sr., to be United States District Judge for the Western District of
Louisiana, Edward G. Bryant, to be United States Attorney for the Western
District of Tennessee, Ira H. Raphaelson, of Illinois, to be Special Counsel,
Financial Institutions Fraud Unit, Department of Justice, Donald R.
Brookshier, to be United States Marshall for the Southern District of
Illinois, and W. Bruce Beaty, to be United States Marshal for the Northern
District of Texas;
S.J. Res. 18, proposing an amendment to the Constitution relating to a Federal
balanced budget, with an amendment;
S. 113, to revise title 18 of the United States Code to increase the term of
imprisonment for offenses involving driving while intoxicated when a minor is
present in the vehicle, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
S. 909, to revise chapter 9 of title 17, United States Code, regarding
protection extended to semiconductor chip products of foreign entities.
Also, committee failed to approve for reporting S.J. Res. 5, proposing an
amendment to the Constitution relating to a Federal balanced budget and tax
limitation.
AUTHORIZATION--HIGHER EDUCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
the Humanities concluded hearings on S. 1150, authorizing funds for programs
of the Higher Education Act, after receiving testimony from William H. Mobley,
Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas; Mary Ellen Lane, Council of
American Overseas Research Centers, Washington, D.C.; Oswald P. Bronson, Sr.,
Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida, on behalf of the United Negro
College Fund; Paul C. Gianini, Jr., Valencia Community College, Orlando,
Florida; Toni Weight, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah; Robin Bartlett,
Denison University, Grandeville, Ohio; Richard Traina, Clark University,
Worcester, Massachusetts; and Merrily Taylor, Brown University, Providence,
Rhode Island.
VETERANS EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS/EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE/VETERANS APPEALS
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1095 and
H.R. 1578, bills to improve reemployment rights and benefits of veterans and
other benefits of employment of certain members of the uniformed services, S.
868, to improve educational assistance benefits for members of the Selected
Reserve of the Armed Forces who served on active duty during the Persian Gulf
War, S. 1050, to allow the United States Court of Veterans Appeals to accept
voluntary services and gifts and bequests, and H.R. 153, to repeal certain
provisions relating to decisions made in veterans' benefits determinations by
the Court of Veterans Appeals, after receiving testimony from D'Wayne Gray,
Chief Benefits Director, Ronald Cowles, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Personnel and Labor Relations, Grady Horton, Director of Education Service,
and Dean Gallin, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, all of the Department of
Veterans Affairs; Frank Q. Nebeker, Chief Judge, United States Court of
Veterans Appeals; Thomas E. Collins, III, Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Veterans Employment and Training; Stephen Duncan, Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Reserve Affairs; Stuart Schiffer, Deputy Assistant Attorney
General for the Civil Division, Department of Justice; Patricia Lattimore,
Deputy Associate Director for Career Entry Group, Office of Personnel
Management; Harold H. Bruff, University of Texas, Austin; and John Hanson,
American Legion, Robert Manham, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Lennox Gilmer,
Disabled American Veterans, Jonathon Gaffney, AMVETS, and Clifton Dupree,
Paralyzed Veterans of America, all of Washington, D.C.
INDIAN DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 290, to
authorize funds for certain programs of the Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse
Prevention and Treatment Act, after receiving testimony from Michael F.
Mangano, Inspector General, Office of Health and Human Services, and Everett
Rhoades, Director, Indian Health Service, both of the Department of Health and
Human Services; David Matheson, Deputy Commissioner for Indian Affairs, Bureau
of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; Don Johnson, Makah Tribal
Council, Neah Bay, Washington; Richard Ramirez, Tohono O'odham Nation, Sells,
Arizona; Lionel John, United South and Eastern Tribes, Nashville, Tennessee;
Juanita Learned, Cheyenne-Arapaho Business Committee, Concho, Oklahoma; and
Joann Kauffman, National Association for Native American Children of
Alcoholics, Washington, D.C.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INDIAN LIBRARIES/ARCHIVES/INFORMATION SERVICES
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to
examine the quality and condition of Indian libraries, archives and
information services, after receiving testimony from Dick W. Hays, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement, and Anne J.
Mathews, Director, Library Programs Office, Office of Educational Research and
Improvement, both of the Department of Education; Gerald George, Executive
Director, and Nancy Sahli, Director of Records Programs, both of the National
Historical Publications and Records Commission, National Archives and Records
Administration; Charles E. Reid, Chairman, and Elinor H. Swaim, Vice-Chairman,
both of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; Ted
Hamilton, Oglala Lakota College, Kyle, South Dakota, and Magdelene Medicine
Horse, Little Big Horn College, Crow Agency, Montana, both on behalf of the
American Indian Higher Education Consortium; Irving Nelson, Navajo National
Library System, Window Rock, Arizona; Mahealani Merryman, Alu Like, Inc.,
Honolulu, Hawaii; Harold Tarbell, National Congress of American Indians
Library Committee, Hogansburg, New York; Naomi Caldwell-Wood, Providence,
Rhode Island, and Lottsee Patterson, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, both on behalf
of the American Indian Library Association; Deana Harragarra-Waters, Native
American Rights Fund, Boulder, Colorado; Jim May, California State University,
Chico; Ron Hall, Transportation Associates, Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Alan
Parker, George Washington University, and Suzan Shown Harjo, The Morning Star
Foundation, both of Washington, D.C.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/05/24
Daily Digest - Friday, May 24, 1991; pages D661 - D664 (Bd vol. D390 - D392)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional
Defense resumed hearings on S. 1066, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1992
and 1993 for the Department of Defense, focusing on current strategic lift
capability and programs, receiving testimony from Gen. Hansford T. Johnson,
USAF, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Transportation Command; Capt. Warren Leback,
Administrator, Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation; and Vice
Adm. Stephen F. Loftus, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Logistics).
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/05/29
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 29, 1991; pages D666 - D670 (Bd vol. D392 -
D395)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/05/30
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 30, 1991; pages D672 - D678 (Bd vol. D395 - D398)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/06/03
Daily Digest - Monday, June 3, 1991; pages D679 - D684 (Bd vol. D399 - D402)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/06/04
Daily Digest - Tuesday, June 4, 1991; pages D686 - D692 (Bd vol. D403 - D408)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
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APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for foreign assistance,
focusing on aid to Africa, receiving testimony from Herman J. Cohen, Assistant
Secretary of State for African Affairs; Scott Spangler, Assistant
Administrator, Bureau of African Affairs, Agency for International
Development; and Audrey Hepburn, UNICEF, New York, New York.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, June 11.
CLASSIFIED SYSTEMS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held open and closed hearings on the
operational use of stealth technology and the use of other classified systems
during the Persian Gulf conflict, receiving testimony from Gen. John M. Loh,
USAF, Commander-in-Chief, Tactical Air Command, U.S. Air Force; Lt. Col. Ralph
Getchell, USAF, Squadron Commander, 415th T.F.S., 37th T.F.W., U.S. Air Force
(F-117 wing); Maj. Terry Leatherman, USAF, Wing Weapons and Tactics Officer,
37th T.F.W., U.S. Air Force (F-117 wing); and Rear Adm. James R. Fitzgerald,
USN, Deputy Director for Operations (Current Operations), Joint Chiefs of
Staff.
Committee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Wendell P. Gardner, Jr., to be an Associate Judge of the
Superior Court of the District of Columbia, and Warren Roger King, to be an
Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
SBA LOAN LIQUIDATION
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings to review the
General Accounting Office report on the effectiveness of the Small Business
Administration's efforts to liquidate the collateral of certain general
business loans, after receiving testimony from John M. Ols, Jr., Director,
Housing and Community Development Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic
Development Division, General Accounting Office; and Mitchell F. Stanley,
Associate Deputy Administrator for Finance, Investment, and Procurement, Small
Business Administration.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again Thursday, June 6.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/06/05
Daily Digest - Wednesday, June 5, 1991; pages D694 - D703 (Bd vol. D409 -
D416)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
[Page: D694]
PESTICIDE TRADE IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES
[Page: D695]
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings to
examine the health impact of certain pesticides manufactured in the United
States and exported to Third World countries, receiving testimony from
Catharina Wesseling, National University, Heredia, Costa Rica; Rob McConnell,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York; Roberto A. Chaves, Silver
Spring, Maryland; and Mario Zumbado, Victoria Sibaja de Zumbado, and Waldemar
Loaiza, all of Rio Frio, Costa Rica.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SUBCOMMITTEE ALLOCATIONS
[Page: D694]
Committee on Appropriations: Committee completed its review of subcommittee
allocations of budget outlays and new budget authority allocated to the
committee in H. Con. Res. 121, setting forth the congressional budget for the
United States Government for fiscal years 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996,
and agreed to report to the Senate under the provisions of 302(b)(1) and
602(b)(1), as amended, of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
[Page: D695]
APPROPRIATIONS--HUD
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Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, receiving testimony from Jack
Kemp, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
[Page: D695]
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
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Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel resumed
hearings on S. 1066, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for the
Department of Defense, focusing on the total force policy report, and manpower
and force structure plans, receiving testimony from Christopher Jehn,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management and Personnel; Stephen M.
Duncan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs; Lewis Libby,
Principal Under Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Resources; Brig. Gen.
William Fedorochko, Jr., Deputy Director for Force Structure and Resource,
Joint Staff (J-8); Brig. Gen. Thomas Montgomery, USA, Deputy Director of
Strategy, Plans and Policy, U.S. Army; Rear Adm. Edward B. Baker, Jr., USN,
Director, Strategy, Plans and Policy, U.S. Navy; Brig. Gen. Robert
Rosenkrantz, USA, Director of Force Programs Integration, U.S. Army; Maj. Gen.
Donald R. Gardner, USMC, Deputy Chief of Marine Corps Staff for Requirements
and Programs Division; Maj. Gen. Richard E. Hawley, USAF, Director of
Operations, U.S. Air Force; Maj. Gen. Robert F. Ensslin, Jr., and Lt. Gen.
LaVern Weber, both on behalf of the National Guard Association of the United
States, and Maj. Gen. Evan L. Hultman, AUS (Ret), on behalf of the Reserve
Officers Association, all of Washington, D.C.; and Rear Adm. Lester Robert
Smith, USNR (Ret), on behalf of the Naval Reserve Association, and Col. Kevin
Doyle, USMCB, on behalf of the Marine Corps Reserve Officers Association, both
of Alexandria, Virginia.
[Page: D695]
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
[Page: D696]
AUTHORIZATION--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
[Page: D695]
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed hearings on S. 1066, authorizing funds for fiscal years
1992 and 1993 for the Department of Defense, focusing on ICBM modernization,
receiving testimony from Maj. Gen. Stephen B. Croker, USAF, Director of
Strategic, SOF and Airlift Programs, and Maj. Gen. John L. Borling, USAF,
Director of Operational Requirements, both of the U.S. Air Force.
[Page: D696]
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, June 12.
HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT LICENSING
[Page: D695]
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power
concluded hearings on S. 106, to prohibit the granting of a Federal license
for a hydroelectric project unless the applicant complies with all substantive
and procedural requirements of the affected State in which the project is
located with respect to water acquisition and use, after receiving testimony
from Kevin A. Kelly, Director of Electricity, Coal, Nuclear, and Renewable
Policy, and Paul Carrier, Policy Analyst, both of the Office of Policy,
Planning and Analysis, William S. Scherman, General Counsel, and Fred
Springer, Director, Office of Hydropower Licensing, both of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, all of the Department of Energy; American Samoa
Governor Peter T. Coleman, Pago Pago, and Keith Higginson, Idaho Department of
Water Resources, Boise, both on behalf of the Western Governors' Association;
Idaho Attorney General Larry EchoHawk, and Idaho Deputy Attorney General Clive
Strong, both of Boise, both on behalf of the Conference of Western Attorneys
General; D. Craig Bell, Western States Water Council, Midvale, Utah; John
McSparran, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, Harrisburg, on
behalf of the Interstate Council on Water Policy; John P. Fraser, Association
of California Water Agencies, Sacramento; Ted Strong, Columbia River
Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, Portland, Oregon; Doug Nash, Nez Perce Tribe,
Lapwai, Idaho; Zane Jackson, Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs
Reservation of Oregon; Gerald R. Garman, Seattle City Light, Seattle,
Washington, on behalf of the Public Generating Pool; Robert J. Haywood,
Pacific Gas & Electric Company, San Francisco, California, on behalf of the
Edison Electric Institute; and Jerome C. Muys, Will & Muys, on behalf of the
National Hydropower Association, John D. Echeverria, American Rivers, Inc.,
and David R. Conrad, National Wildlife Federation, all of Washington, D.C.
[Page: D696]
MUNICIPAL WASTE RECYCLING
[Page: D695]
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection held hearings on the municipal solid waste recycling provisions of
S. 976, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992-1996 for programs of the
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (P.L. 94-580), receiving testimony from
Rep. Torres; Missoula County Commissioner Janet L. Stevens, Missoula, Montana;
Louise Durfee, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management,
Providence; Fred Hansen, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Portland;
New York City Sanitation Commissioner Steven Polan, and Allen Hershkowitz,
Natural Resources Defense Council, both of New York, New York; Diana Gale,
Seattle Solid Waste Utility, Seattle, Washington; Herschel Cutler and David
Serles, both of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc., Washington,
D.C; and Jane Witheridge, Waste Management of North America, Oak Brook,
Illinois.
[Page: D696]
Hearings continue tomorrow.
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
[Page: D695]
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy,
Trade, Oceans and Environment approved for full committee consideration an
original bill authorizing funds for fiscal year 1992 for foreign assistance.
[Page: D696]
MOSCOW EMBASSY CONSTRUCTION
[Page: D695]
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations met in closed session to receive a briefing on Moscow
Embassy construction plans from officials of the intelligence community and
the Department of State.
[Page: D696]
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AGRICULTURAL QUARANTINE ENFORCEMENT ACT
[Page: D695]
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post
Office, and Civil Service held oversight hearings on the implementation of the
Agricultural Quarantine Enforcement Act (P.L. 100-574), focusing on provisions
which amended postal laws and the criminal code to declare products
quarantined by the Secretary of Agriculture nonmailable, receiving testimony
from Senator Inouye; Robert Melland, Associate Administrator, Glen Lee, Deputy
Administrator for Plant Protection and Quarantine, and John P. Duncan III,
Director, Legislative and Public Affairs, all of the Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, Department of Agriculture; Harold J. Hughes, General
Counsel, U.S. Postal Service; Ilima A. Piianaia, Hawaii Department of
Agriculture, James Nakatani, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, and Kelvin H.
Taketa, The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, all of Honolulu; James Waltman,
Washington, D.C., on behalf of the National Audubon Society; Isi A. Siddiqui,
California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento; and Paul B. Engler,
California Citrus Quality Council, Claremont.
[Page: D697]
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
[Page: D696]
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Saundra Brown Armstrong, to be United States District Judge for the Northern
District of California, Timothy K. Lewis, to be United States District Judge
for the Western District of Pennsylvania, and William L. Osteen, Sr., to be
United States District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina, after
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Ms.
Armstrong was introduced by Senator Seymour, Mr. Lewis was introduced by
Senator Wofford, and Mr. Osteen was introduced by Senators Helms and Sanford.
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TRIBAL JUDICIAL ENHANCEMENT
[Page: D696]
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 667, to
provide support for and assist the development of tribal judicial systems,
after receiving testimony from Ronal D. Eden, Director, Office of Tribal
Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; Idaho Attorney
General Larry EchoHawk, Boise; Richard Hughes, Rothstein Law Offices, Santa
Fe, New Mexico; Mike Taylor, Colville Confederated Tribes, Nespelem,
Washington; Tom Tso, Navajo Nation Supreme Court, Navajo Nation, Arizona; Ned
Norris, Tohono O'odham Nation, Sells, Arizona; Louise E. Dixey,
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Fort Hall, Idaho; Elbridge Coochise, National Indian
Court Judges Association, Edmunds, Washington; Allene Ross, Shakopee Sioux
Community Council, Prior Lake, Minnesota; and Earl Old Person, Blackfeet
Tribal Business Council, Browning, Montana.
[Page: D697]
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/06/06
Daily Digest - Thursday, June 6, 1991; pages D704 - D710 (Bd vol. D416 - D422)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Nancy Patricia Dorn, of Texas, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil
Works), after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Bentsen and Gramm,
testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
[Page: D705]
TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT/SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original bill authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992 through 1996
to improve urban mass transportation throughout the United States, in lieu of
S. 1194.
Also, committee announced the following subcommittee assignments:
Housing and Urban Affairs: Senators Cranston (Chairman), Sasser, Sanford,
Graham, Kerry, Bryan, Sarbanes, Dodd, Shelby, D'Amato, Gramm, Bond, Mack,
Roth, Domenici, Kassebaum, and Chafee.
International Finance and Monetary Policy: Senators Sarbanes (Chairman),
Dixon, Graham, Wirth, Mack, Domenici, and Kassebaum.
Securities: Senators Dodd (Chairman), Shelby, Wirth, Cranston, Sasser,
Sanford, Gramm, Roth, D'Amato, Bond, and Mack.
Consumer and Regulatory Affairs: Senators Dixon (Chairman), Kerry, Bryan,
Bond, and Chafee.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of John Schrote, of Ohio, to be Assistant Secretary of the
Interior for Program, Budget and Administration, and Mike Hayden, of Kansas,
to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Hayden was
introduced by Senator Dole and Representative Roberts.
MUNICIPAL WASTE RECYCLING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee continued hearings on the
municipal solid waste recycling provisions of S. 976, authorizing funds for
fiscal years 1992-1996 for programs of the Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act (P.L. 94-580), receiving testimony from Senator Hatfield; Clifford Raber,
McDonald's Corporation, Oak Brook, Illinois; Robert Wehling, Proctor and
Gamble, and Bruce Kuiken, Quantum Chemical Corporation, both of Cincinnati,
Ohio; Barry A. Mannis, Morgan Stanley and Company, Inc., and Robert Johnson,
Newsday, both of New York, New York; Red Cavaney, American Paper Institute,
Susan Birmingham, U.S. Pirg, and Chaz Miller, Glass Packaging Institute, all
of Washington, D.C.; and Charles W. Rayfield, Reynolds Aluminum Recycling
Company, Richmond, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HEALTH CARE
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine the causes and
effects of rising health care costs and the status of access to health
insurance, focusing on health insurance coverage for employees of small
businesses and their dependents, receiving testimony from Jack Meyer, New
Directions for Policy, Washington, D.C.; Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey; Ken L. Evason, The Association Life Insurance Company,
Inc., Brookfield, Wisconsin; Robert L. Laszewski, Liberty Mutual Insurance
Group, Dover, New Hampshire; G. Robert O'Brien, CIGNA Corporation, Hartford,
Connecticut; Bernard R. Tresnowski, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association,
Chicago, Illinois; Iowa Commissioner of Insurance David J. Lyons, Des Moines,
representing the National Association of Insurance Commissioners; and John J.
Polk, Council of Smaller Enterprises, Cleveland, Ohio.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MID EAST ARMS TRANSFER
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the Middle
East arms transfer policy, receiving testimony from Reginald Bartholomew,
Under Secretary of State for Coordinating Security Assistance Programs; and
Henry S. Rowen, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security
Affairs.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SOVIET DISUNITY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs resumed
hearings on the U.S. response to Soviet disunity, focusing on the future of
the Soviet military, receiving testimony from Col. William Scott, USAF (Ret.),
Adjunct Professor, Defense Intelligence College, Bolling Air Force Base,
Washington, D.C.; Gen. William Odom, USA (Ret.), Hudson Institute, and Ted
Warner, RAND Corporation, both of Washington, D.C.; and Stephen Meyer,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, June 19.
RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE CRAMDOWNS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
concluded hearings to examine the impact of court decisions which have allowed
"cramdowns", which allows the mortgagor (debtor) to restructure certain debts
over the objection of the mortgagee (creditor), of residential mortgage loans
under Chapter 13 of the Bankruptcy Code, after receiving testimony from Frank
Keating, General Counsel, Department of Housing and Urban Development; Dean S.
Cooper, Associate General Counsel, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation;
Henry J. Sommer, Community Legal Services, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
John P. Davey, Draper & Kramer, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of Mortgage
Bankers Association of America; and Larry Gilmore, Oakwood Acceptance
Corporation, Greensboro, North Carolina, on behalf of the Manufactured Housing
Institute and the National Manufactured Housing Federation.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items:
S. 323, to ensure that pregnant women receiving assistance under title X of
the Public Health Service Act are provided with information and counseling
regarding their pregnancies; and
The nominations of Louise M. McClure, of Idaho, to be a Member of the National
Council on the Arts, and Daphne Wood Murray, of California, to be a Member of
the National Museum Services Board.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills:
An original bill to improve educational assistance benefits for members of the
Selected Reserve of the Armed Forces who served on active duty during the
Persian Gulf War, in lieu of S. 868;
An original bill to improve the availability of treatment of veterans for
post-traumatic stress disorder, in lieu of S. 869; and
H.R. 153, to make miscellaneous administrative and technical improvements in
the operation of the United States Court of Veterans Appeals, with an
amendment.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again Wednesday, June 12.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/06/07
Daily Digest - Friday, June 7, 1991; pages D712 - D719 (Bd vol. D422 - D423)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional
Defense resumed hearings on S. 1066, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992
and 1993 for the Department of Defense, focusing on antisubmarine warfare
programs, including attack submarine programs, receiving testimony from Gerald
A. Cann, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Research, Development and
Acquisition; Vice Adm. James D. Williams, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval
Operations, Naval Warfare; and Rear Adm. Raymond G. Jones, USN, Deputy
Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, Undersea Warfare.
Subcommittee will meet again Friday, June 14.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Preston Moore, of Texas, to be Chief Financial Officer,
Department of Commerce, after the nominee testified and answered questions in
his own behalf. Testimony was also received from Charles A. Bowsher,
Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting Office; and P.
Norman Roy, Financial Executive Institute, Washington, D.C.
Joint Meetings
EMPLOYMENT SITUATION
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings on the
employment-unemployment situation for May, receiving testimony from Janet L.
Norwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor.
Committee recessed subject to call.
1991/06/10
Daily Digest - Monday, June 10, 1991; pages D719 (sic) - D722 (Bd vol. D424 -
D423)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATIONAL EDUCATION GOALS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on proposals
for meeting national education goals, receiving testimony from A. Lamar
Alexander, Jr., Secretary of Education; Al Shanker, American Federation of
Teachers, Washington, D.C.; Ted Sizer, Brown University, Providence, Rhode
Island; and David Zwiebel, Agudath Israel of America, New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/06/11
Daily Digest - Tuesday, June 11, 1991; pages D724 - D732 (Bd vol. D425 - D431)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
approved for full committee consideration, with amendments, H.R. 2427, making
appropriations for fiscal year 1992 for energy and water development.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for foreign assistance,
focusing on security assistance in the post-cold war era, receiving testimony
from Reginald Bartholomew, Under Secretary of State for International Security
Affairs; and Lt. Gen. Teddy Allen, Director, Defense Security Assistance
Agency.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, June 18.
NATIONAL GUARDSMEN/RESERVISTS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel held
hearings on the policy and procedures of the Department of Defense with regard
to the return and release from active duty of National Guardsmen and
Reservists called up for Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, receiving
testimony from Stephen M. Duncan, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Reserve
Affairs); G. Kim Wincup, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve
Affairs); Barbara S. Pope, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and
Reserve Affairs); J. Gary Cooper, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
(Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installations and Environment); Maj. Gen. Donald
L. Owens, ANG, Phoenix, Arizona, representing the Arizona National Guard; and
Ted Jarvi, Tempe, Arizona.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
RESOLUTION TRUST CORPORATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings to
examine the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) estimates for future funding,
the status of RTC's current operations and initiatives, and proposals to
restructure RTC, receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller
General of the United States, General Accounting Office; and John W. Harshaw,
American League of Financial Institutions, Anthony N. Robinson, Minority
Business Enterprise Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., and Evelyn Reeves,
National Association of Real Estate Brokers, Inc., all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MINING REFORM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Mineral Resources
Development and Production concluded hearings on S. 433, to provide for the
disposition of certain minerals on Federal lands, and S. 785, to establish a
Commission to study existing laws and procedures relating to mining, after
receiving testimony from Senators Simpson, DeConcini, Hatch, Reid, and Bryan;
Representative Vucanovich; Cy Jamison, Director, Bureau of Land Management,
Department of the Interior; John H. Beuter, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture; Jim Baca, New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands, and George
Byers, Santa Fe Pacific Minerals Corporation, on behalf of New Mexico Mining
Association, both of Santa Fe; Mel Shilling, Public Lands Foundation,
Alexandria, Virginia; Philip M. Hocker, on behalf of Mineral Policy Center and
the Sierra Club, Lynn A. Greenwalt, on behalf of National Wildlife Federation,
Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Wilderness Society, and Milton H.
Ward, Freeport-McMoran, Inc., on behalf of American Mining Congress, all of
Washington, D.C.; John D. Leshy, Arizona State University, Tempe; Karl W.
Mote, Northwest Mining Association, Spokane, Washington; Patrick J. Garver,
Parsons, Behle and Latimer, Salt Lake City, on behalf of Utah Mining
Association; Karen Galatz, First Interstate Bank of Nevada, Las Vegas, on
behalf of Western Regional Council; and Stephen D. Alfers, Davis, Graham &
Stubbs, Denver, Colorado.
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OZONE DEPLETION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection held hearings on issues relating to ozone depletion, focusing on
Federal efforts to eliminate the production and use of certain atmospherically
damaging chemicals, receiving testimony from Dean Stockwell, Susan Clark,
Richard Moll, and Joy Stockwell, all of Los Angeles, California; and Vivienne
Verdun-Roe, Oakland, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ELECTRIC AND HYBRID VEHICLE TECHNOLOGIES
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Toxic Substances,
Environmental Oversight, Research and Development concluded hearings on the
status of the Department of Energy's research and development program on
electric and hybrid vehicles and their potential contribution for the future,
after receiving testimony from Senator Rockefeller; J. Michael Davis,
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Conservation and Renewable Energy; James M.
Lents, South Coast Air Quality Management District, El Monte, California;
James J. MacKenzie, World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C.; Paul B.
MacCready, AeroVironment Inc., Monrovia, California; David H. Swan, Texas A&M
University System, College Station; Kenneth R. Baker, General Motors
Corporation, Warren, Michigan; and John R. Wallace, Ford Motor Company,
Dearborn, Michigan.
AUTHORIZATION--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported an
original bill authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for foreign
assistance programs.
MOSCOW EMBASSY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations met in closed session to receive a briefing on the
Moscow Embassy construction plans from officials of the intelligence community
and the Department of State.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
HEALTHAMERICA
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on provisions
of S. 1227, to reform the nation's health care system to assure access to
affordable health care for all Americans, receiving testimony from Joseph
Califano, Dewey, Ballentine, and Elliott Richardson, Milband, Tweed, Hadley,
and McCloy, both of Washington, D.C., both former Secretaries of the
Department of Health Education and Welfare; Gregory Hauptman and Joan Conry,
both of Bethesda, Maryland; Kurt Homan, Plymouth, Minnesota; Hester Hill,
Boston, Massachusetts; and Salvatore Risalvato, Riverdale, New Jersey.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1991/06/12
Daily Digest - Wednesday, June 12, 1991; pages D734 - D746 (Bd vol. D431 -
D443)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Ann M. Veneman, of California, to be Deputy
Secretary of Agriculture, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Representative Panetta, testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER/LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills:
H.R. 2427, making appropriations for fiscal year 1992 for energy and water
development, with amendments; and
H.R. 2506, making appropriations for fiscal year 1992 for the Legislative
Branch, with amendments.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for
the Department of State, receiving testimony from James A. Baker, III,
Secretary of State.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
PERSIAN GULF
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met to receive a briefing on the
Persian Gulf War from Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA, Commander in Chief,
U.S. Central Command.
Committee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed hearings on S. 1066, authorizing funds for fiscal years
1992 and 1993 for the Department of Defense, focusing on safety and restart
issues, receiving testimony from Richard A. Claytor, Assistant Secretary of
Energy for Defense Programs; Victor Stello, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Energy for Facilities (Defense Programs); Dana A. Powers, Member, Advisory
Committee on Nuclear Facility Safety, Department of Energy; and John T.
Conway, Chairman, and Edson G. Case, John W. Crawford, Jr., Andrew J.
Eggenberger, and Herbert J.C. Kouts, each a Member, all of the Defense Nuclear
Facilities Safety Board.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
ENVIRONMENTAL LENDER LIABILITY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
to discuss issues of lender liability under the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, including S. 651, to limit
hazardous waste clean-up responsibility for certain regulatory agencies and
lenders, after receiving testimony from L. William Seidman, Chairman, Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation; Edward W. Kelley, Jr., Member, Board of
Governors, Federal Reserve System; J. French Hill, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury for Corporate Finance; Raymond B. Ludwiszewski, Acting
Assistant Administrator for Enforcement, Environmental Protection Agency;
Douglas Wolf, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, D.C.; Joseph
Philip Forte, Thatcher, Proffitt & Wood, New York, New York, representing the
American Bar Association; Harris H. Simmons, Zions Bancorporation, Salt Lake
City, Utah, representing the American Bankers Association; and David Adcox,
Highland Corporation, Hohenwald, Tennessee, representing the Petroleum
Marketers Association of America.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
GOVERNMENT SECURITIES ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the
Government Securities Act, receiving testimony from Richard C. Breeden,
Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission; John P. LaWare, Governor, Board
of Governors of the Federal Reserve; Robert R. Glauber, Under Secretary of the
Treasury for Finance; Robert V. Stout, Ridgefield, Connecticut, on behalf of
the Government Finance Officers Association; Joseph R. Hardiman, National
Association of Securities Dealers, Washington, D.C.; and Jon S. Corzine,
Goldman Sachs & Company, New York, New York, on behalf of the Public
Securities Association.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items:
H.R. 427, to disclaim any interests of the United States in certain lands on
San Juan Island, Washington;
H.R. 690, to authorize the National Park Service to acquire and manage the
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site in Washington, D.C.;
H.R. 749, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to accept a donation of
land for addition to the Ocmulgee National Monument in the State of Georgia;
H.R. 904, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to prepare a National
Historic Landmark theme study on African American history, with an amendment;
H.R. 1143, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to prepare a National
Historic Landmark theme study on American labor history, with an amendment;
S. 1138, to direct the Secretary of Energy to carry out site characterization
activities at the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada, with amendments; and
The nomination of Mike Hayden, of Kansas, to be Assistant Secretary of the
Interior for Fish and Wildlife.
MISCELLANEOUS TAX BILLS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Taxation held hearings on miscellaneous
tax bills, including S. 90, to modify the tax-exempt bond and depreciation
rules with respect to infrastructure facilities, S. 150, to generally treat
bonds issued for section 501(c)(3) organizations in a manner similar to
government bonds, S. 267, to prohibit a State from imposing an income tax on
the pension or retirement income of individuals who are not residents or
domiciliaries of that State, S. 284, to revise the tax treatment of payments
under life insurance contracts for terminally ill patients, S. 649, to repeal
the luxury tax on boats, and S. 913, to increase the amounts of bonds eligible
for certain small governmental issuer exceptions and to modify other tax rules
with respect to bonds issued by State and local governments, receiving
testimony from Senators Domenici, Dodd, Pell, Graham, Lieberman, Reid, and
Bryan; Representatives Snowe, Shaw, and Vucanovich; Kenneth W. Gideon,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Dennis Zimmerman,
Specialist in Public Finance, and John Killian, Senior Specialist, American
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