102d Congress (1991 - 1992)
January 3, 1992 - October 29, 1992
Senate Committee Meetings by Date
Compiled from the Congressional Record's Daily Digests via Thomas at thomas.loc.gov
1992/01/03
Daily Digest - Friday, January 3, 1992, pages D1 - D2 (Bound vol. D3)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/01/21
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 21, 1992; pages D3 - D7 (Bd vol. D3 - D5)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
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ORPHAN DRUG ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business
Rights concluded oversight hearings on the implementation of the Orphan Drug
Act (P.L. 97-414), focusing on prices charged for certain orphan drugs, after
receiving testimony from Derek Hodel, People With AIDS Health Group, New York,
New York; Robert K. Dresing, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Bethesda, Maryland;
Abbey Meyers, National Organization for Rare Disorders, New Fairfield,
Connecticut; John P. McLaughlin, Genentech, Inc., San Francisco, California;
Henri A. Termeer, Genzyme Corp., Cambridge, Massachusetts; John L. Castello,
Ares-Serono, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts; Bruce Simpson, Fisons Corporation,
Rochester, New York; Tom and Pam Hire, Paola, Kansas; Herb Jacobson, Denver,
Colorado; Mary Nathan, Silver Spring, Maryland; and Cindy Smith, Salt Lake
City, Utah.
AMERICAN POW'S
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Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the
possibility of whether certain Soviet officials interrogated American POW's
several years after the Vietnam war had ended, receiving testimony from KGB
Gen. Oleg Kalugin, Moscow.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
No Joint hearing noted.
1992/01/22
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 22, 1992; pages D9 - D12 (Bd vol. D5 - D7)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed hearings to
examine the international security environment over the next decade, after
receiving testimony from Robert M. Gates, Director of Central Intelligence,
Robert E. Blackwell, National Intelligence Officer for Russian and Eurasian
Programs, Lawrence K. Gershwin, National Intelligence Officer for Strategic
Programs, and David Armstrong, National Intelligence Officer for Conventional
Forces, all of the Central Intelligence Agency; and Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper,
Jr., USAF, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense.
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the nomination of Albert V. Casey, of Texas, to be Chief Executive Officer,
Resolution Trust Corporation, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senators Bentsen and Stevens, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings to examine the U.S. economic
and budget outlook, focusing on the current state of the economy, economic
assumptions and budget projections for the next 5 years, and the effects of
alternative fiscal and monetary policies, receiving testimony from Robert D.
Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget Office.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items:
An original bill to provide health insurance to America's uninsured through a
public-private program, and establish procedures to contain health care costs;
and
The nomination of Kenny Jackson Williams, of North Carolina, to be a member of
the National Council on the Humanities.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1992/01/23
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 23, 1992; pages D14 - D17 (Bd vol. D7 - D9)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
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FUTURE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
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Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to examine future
requirements for U.S. nuclear weapons, after receiving testimony from Thomas
C. Reed, former Secretary of the Air Force and former Special Assistant to
President Reagan for National Security Policy; Gen. David C. Jones, USAF
(Ret.), former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Paul H. Nitze, former Special
Adviser to President Reagan on Arms Control; Michael O. Wheeler, System
Planning Corporation, Arlington, Virginia; and Keith B. Payne, National
Institute for Public Policy, Fairfax, Virginia.
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GOVERNMENT SECURITIES MARKET
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Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
concluded hearings to examine the recommendations and conclusions of the joint
report of the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve System, and the
Securities and Exchange Commission on certain regulatory activities in the
government securities market and proposals for reform, after receiving
testimony from Richard C. Breeden, Chairman, Securities and Exchange
Commission; David W. Mullins, Jr., Vice Chairman, Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System; Jerome H. Powell, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
for Domestic Finance; and E. Gerald Corrigan, President, Federal Reserve Bank
of New York.
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NUCLEAR LICENSING REFORM
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Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation
held hearings on the nuclear licensing reform provisions of S. 1220, to reduce
the nation's dependence on imported oil and to provide for the energy security
of the nation (pending on Senate calendar), receiving testimony from Ivan
Selin, Chairman, and Kenneth C. Rogers, James R. Curtiss, and E. Gail de
Planque, each a Member, all of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; and Eric R.
Glitzenstein, Harmon, Curran, Gallagher & Spielberg, on behalf of the Counsel
to the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Marcus A. Rowden, Fried, Frank,
Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, on behalf of the American Nuclear Energy Council,
both of Washington, DC.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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JAPAN TRADE CONCESSIONS
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Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine United States-Japan
trade relations, focusing on certain trade concessions made by Japan during
the President's recent trip, and future trade negotiations with Japan,
receiving testimony from Carla A. Hills, United States Trade Representative;
J. Michael Farren, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade; Robert
W. Galvin, Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, Illinois; and Owen F. Bieber, United
Auto Workers, Detroit, Michigan.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/01/24
Daily Digest - Friday, January 24, 1992; pages D18 - D22 (Bd vol. D9 - D10)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/011/27
Daily Digest - Monday, January 27, 1992; pages D23 - D26 (Bd vol. D11 - D12)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/01/28
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 28, 1992; pages D28 - D34 (Bd vol. D12 - D16)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the nominations of Lawrence U. Costiglio, of New York, Daniel F. Evans,
Jr., of Indiana, William C. Perkins, of Wisconsin, and Marilyn R. Seymann, of
Arizona, each to be a Director of the Federal Housing Finance Board, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Evans was
introduced by Senator Lugar, Mr. Perkins was introduced by Senator Kohl, and
Ms. Seymann was introduced by Senator McCain.
MULTIPARTY, MULTIFORUM JURISDICTION ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
held hearings on H.R. 2450, to grant Federal district courts jurisdiction over
certain multiparty, multiforum civil actions, receiving testimony from Stephen
Bransdorfer, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Department of
Justice; Thomas M. Reavley, Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth
Circuit, on behalf of the Judicial Conference of the United States; Douglas P.
Beighle, the Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington; Maurice Rosenberg, Columbia
University School of Law, and Lee S. Kreindler, Kreindler & Kreindler, both of
New York, New York; Robert A. Sedler, Wayne State University, Detroit,
Michigan; and Michael S. Olin, Podhurst, Orseck, Josefsberg, Eaton, Meadow,
Olin & Perwin, Miami, Florida.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/01/29
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 29, 1992; pages D35 - D40 (Bd vol. D16 -
D20)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the nomination of Alan Greenspan, of New York, to be Chairman of the Board
of Directors of the Federal Reserve System, after the nominee testified and
answered questions in his own behalf.
ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION RULEMAKINGS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held oversight hearings
on two Federal Energy Regulatory Commission proposed rulemakings regarding
pipeline service obligations (Docket No. RM91-11-000), and revision to
regulations governing authorizations for the construction of natural gas
pipeline facilities (Order No. 555), receiving testimony from Ronald L. Kuehn,
Jr., SONAT, Inc., Birmingham, Alabama, representing the Interstate Natural Gas
Association of America; Michael Baly III, American Gas Association, Arlington,
Virginia; Ronald D. Jones, United Distribution Companies, New York, New York,
representing the Associated Gas Distributors; Denise Goulet, Pennsylvania
Office of Consumer Advocates, Harrisburg, representing the National
Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates; Nicholas J. Bush, Natural Gas
Supply Association, Denise A. Bode, Independent Petroleum Association of
America, and Edward J. Grenier, Jr., Sutherland, Asbill and Brennan,
representing the Process Gas Consumers Group, all of Washington, D.C.; and
Michael Dugger, Riviera Utilities, Foley, Alabama, representing the American
Public Gas Association and United Municipal Distribution Group.
Hearings resume on Wednesday, February 5.
JOBLESS BENEFITS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on proposed legislation to
further extend unemployment compensation benefits for jobless Americans, after
receiving testimony from Lynn M. Martin, Secretary of Labor; David A. Wyss,
DRI/McGraw-Hill, Lexington, Massachusetts; Michael O. Roush, National
Federation of Independent Business, and Owen F. Bieber and Alan Reuther, both
of the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of
America (UAW), representing the AFL-CIO and the UAW, all of Washington, D.C.;
William D. Grossenbacher, Texas Employment Security Commission, Austin,
representing the Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies; and
Keith M. Brooks, Charles Chappel, and David Robinson, all of the New York
Unemployed Committee, Brooklyn.
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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 Wednesday, February 5.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/01/30
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 30, 1992; pages D42 - D46 (Bd vol. D20 - D22)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
EUROPEAN SECURITY
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance
Defense met in closed session and in conjunction with the North Atlantic
Assembly's Subcommittee on Defense Cooperation to discuss European security
issues.
LOCAL ECONOMIC NEEDS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
to examine the economic condition of America's cities, focusing on proposals
outlined in the President's State of the Union Address to meet communities'
economic needs, after receiving testimony from Mayor Kurt Schmoke, Baltimore,
Maryland, representing the U.S. Conference of Mayors; Mayor Joseph P. Ganim,
Bridgeport, Connecticut; Mayor Peggy Rubach, Mesa, Arizona; and John E. Jacob,
National Urban League, Inc., New York, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
An original bill to further extend unemployment compensation benefits for
jobless Americans; and
The nominations of Fred T. Goldberg, Jr., of Missouri, to be an Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy, and Shirley D. Peterson, of
Maryland, to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Department of the Treasury.
Prior to this action, committee concluded hearings on the nominees, after they
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Goldberg was
introduced by Senator Danforth and Ms. Peterson was introduced by
Representative Morella.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Ronald M. Whyte, to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of
California, Jon P. McCalla, to be U.S. District Judge for the Western District
of Tennessee, Julie E. Carnes, to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern
District of Georgia, Nancy G. Edmunds, to be U.S. District Judge for the
Eastern District of Michigan, David W. McKeague, to be U.S. District Judge for
the Western District of Michigan, Philip G. Reinhard, to be U.S. District
Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, Sandra S. Beckwith, to be U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio, Steven D. Merryday, to be
U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of Florida, Frederick J. Scullin,
Jr., to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of New York, and K.
Michael Moore, to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Florida,
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr.
Whyte was introduced by Senator Seymour and Representative McCollum, Mr.
McCalla was introduced by Senator Sasser and Representative Sundquist, Ms.
Carnes was introduced by Senators Nunn and Fowler, Ms. Edmunds and Mr.
McKeague were introduced by Senators Riegle and Levin and Representatives
Broomfield and Carr, Mr. Reinhard was introduced by Senator Dixon and
Representative Michel, Ms. Beckwith was introduced by Senator Glenn and
Representative Gradison, Mr. Merryday and Mr. Moore were introduced by
Senators Graham and Mack, and Mr. Scullin was introduced by Senator D'Amato.
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Joint Meetings
GPO
Joint Committee on Printing: Committee held oversight hearings to review
management activities of the Government Printing Office (GPO), including
general management practices and Inspector General audits, and the GPO
strategic plan--GPO 2001/Vision for a New Millenium, receiving testimony from
Robert W. Houk, Public Printer, Government Printing Office, who was
accompanied by several of his associates.
Committee recessed subject to call.
1992/01/31
Daily Digest - Friday, January 31, 1992; pages D48 - D54 (Bd vol. D22 - D24)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1993 for the Department of Defense, and to
review the fiscal years 1993-97 future year defense plan, 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.
1993 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings in preparation for reporting
the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1993 budget for the Federal
Government, receiving testimony from Richard G. Darman, Director, Office of
Management and Budget.
Hearings continue on Monday, February 3.
RUNAWAY EXECUTIVE PAY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management resumed hearings on the role of the Federal government in
facilitating runaway executive pay in corporate America, focusing on executive
stock options, receiving testimony from Walter P. Schuetze, Chief Accountant,
Securities and Exchange Commission; Michael A. Thrasher, Assistant Chief
Counsel, Employee Benefits and Exempt Organizations, Internal Revenue Service,
Department of the Treasury; James J. Leisenring and Wayne S. Upton, Jr., both
of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, Norwalk, Connecticut; Graef S.
Crystal, University of California, Berkeley; Ira T. Kay, The Hay Group, New
York, New York; and David Norr, David Norr, Inc., White Plains, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine the outlook for
the national economy in 1992, the President's budget, and the forecast on
which the budget is based, receiving testimony from Lawrence Chimerine, Data
Resources/McGraw-Hill, Inc., Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania; Donald Ratajczak,
Georgia State University, Atlanta; and John E. Silvia, Kemper Financial
Services, and Donald H. Straszheim, Merrill Lynch & Co., both of New York, New
York.
Committee will meet again on Thursday, February 6.
1992/02/03
Daily Digest - Monday, February 3, 1992; pages D56 - D60 (Bd vol. D24 - D26)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1993 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution for the fiscal year 1993 budget,
focusing on defense programs, receiving testimony from Richard B. Cheney,
Secretary of Defense; and Gen. Colin L. Powell, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of
Staff.
Committee will meet again on Wednesday, February 5.
STATE WELFARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy held
hearings to examine recent State efforts to revise and cut their public
welfare programs, and whether these changes call for new policies at the
Federal level, receiving testimony from Senators Kasten, Nickles, and Kohl;
New Jersey Governor James Florio, Trenton; New Jersey State Assemblyman Wayne
R. Bryant, Camden; Douglas Besharov and Charles Murray, both of the American
Enterprise Institute, Robert Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities, and Sidney Johnson, American Public Welfare Association, all of
Washington, D.C.; Lawrence Meade, New York University, New York, New York; and
Richard Nathan, Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, Albany, New
York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/02/04
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 4, 1992; pages D62 - D68 (Bd vol. D27 - D30)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Walter J.
Stewart, Secretary of the Senate; Robert D. Reischauer, Director,
Congressional Budget Office; and John H. Gibbons, Director, Office of
Technology Assessment. Testimony was also received from Senator Kennedy on
behalf of the Office of Technology Assessment.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, February 6.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Scott M. Spangler, of Arizona, to be Associate Administrator of the Agency
for International Development (Operations), after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senator McCain, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.
TERRORIST DEFECTORS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine U.S.
counterterrorism activities, focusing on U.S. efforts to attract and protect
terrorist defectors and informants, receiving testimony from Neil J.
Gallagher, Chief, Counterterrorism Section, Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Department of Justice; Victoria Toensing, Manatt, Phelps, Phillips & Kantor,
Washington, D.C., former U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General; and Howard
Safir, Safir Associates Ltd., Fairfax, Virginia, former Associate Director for
Operations, U.S. Marshals Service.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to review the progress and
initiatives of the national drug control policy of the United States,
receiving testimony from Bob Martinez, Director, Office of National Drug
Control Policy.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/02/05
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 5, 1992; pages D69 - D78 (Bd vol. D30 -
D37)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SOVIET NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to examine United States
efforts to assist the former Soviet Republics in dismantling their nuclear and
chemical weapons and preventing their proliferation, receiving testimony from
Reginald Bartholomew, Under Secretary of State for International Security
Affairs; and Stephen J. Hadley, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Policy.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AMERICA'S DOMESTIC NEEDS/1993 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings to examine current U.S.
economic policy and its impact on America's domestic needs, focusing on
productivity growth incentives, receiving testimony from Senators Byrd and
Simon.
Also, committee resumed hearings in preparation for reporting the first
concurrent resolution for the fiscal year 1993 budget, focusing on defense
programs, receiving testimony from John D. Steinbruner and Lawrence J. Korb,
both of the Brookings Institution, and William J. Beeman, Committee for
Economic Development, all of Washington, D.C.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
FOREIGN POLICY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1993 for foreign
assistance, and to review U.S. foreign policy, after receiving testimony from
James A. Baker III, Secretary of State.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Parker W. Borg, of Minnesota, to be Ambassador to the Union of Burma
(Myanmar), after the nominee, who was introduced by Representative Hoagland,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
BURMA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
concluded hearings on United States policy toward Burma, focusing on human
rights violations in Burma, after receiving testimony from Mike Jendrzejczyk,
Asia Watch, W. Courtland Robinson, United States Committee for Refugees, and
David I. Steinberg, Georgetown University, all of Washington, D.C.; Bilal M.
Raschid, National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma, Alexandria,
Virginia; and Tin Maung Win, Committee for the Restoration of Democracy in
Burma, Falls Church, Virginia.
ZAIRE AND SOMALIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs concluded
hearings to examine the emergency situation in Zaire and Somalia and the
United States response, after receiving testimony from Herman J. Cohen,
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Ali Khalis Galaydh, Syracuse
University, Syracuse, New York; and William T. Close, Big Piney, Wyoming.
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FEDERAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the
effectiveness and efficiency of Federal management practices, focusing on the
President's fiscal year 1993 budget and its impact on Federal management and
the Nation's economy, receiving testimony from Richard G. Darman, Director,
and Francis Hodsell, Deputy Director, both of the Office of Management and
Budget.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items:
S. 1729, to require drug manufacturers to provide affordable prices for drugs
purchased by certain entities funded under the Public Health Service Act, with
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
H.R. 2507, to authorize funds through fiscal year 1993 for the National
Institutes of Health and to revise and extend the programs of the National
Institutes of Health, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nomination of G.O. Griffith Jr., of Mississippi, to be Assistant Secretary
of Education for Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs.
COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION/INDIAN GAMING REGULATION
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held an organizational meeting
and adopted its rules of procedure and agenda for the second session of the
102d Congress.
Also, committee held oversight hearings on the implementation of the Indian
Gaming Regulatory Act (P.L. 100-497), focusing on the regulation and
enforcement of gaming activities on Indian lands, receiving testimony from
Senator Bryan; Eddie F. Brown, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian
Affairs; Paul L. Maloney, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal
Division, and Linda Akers, U.S. Attorney (Phoenix, Arizona), on behalf of the
Subcommittee of Attorney General's Committee of U.S. Attorneys, both of the
Department of Justice; Anthony J. Hope, Jana McKeag and Joel M. Frank, Sr.,
all of Washington, D.C., and Billy Cypress, Miccosukee Indian Tribe, Miami,
Florida, all on behalf of the National Indian Gaming Commission, Washington,
D.C.; Frank Miller, Washington State Gambling Commission, Olympia; Anthony R.
Pico, Viejas Band of the Kumeyaay Indians, Alpine, California, and Jerome
Levine, Los Angeles, California, both on behalf of the California Nevada
Indian Gaming Association; Myron Ellis, Minnesota Indian Gaming Association,
Cass Lake; and David J. Qualls, Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association, Shawnee.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Joint Committee on Taxation: Committee held an organizational meeting and
elected Senator Bentsen as Chairman and Representative Rostenkowski as Vice
Chairman for the second session of the 102d Congress.
Committee recessed subject to call.
PEACE IN YUGOSLAVIA
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission):
Commission held hearings to examine the prospects for peace and human rights
developments in the Yugoslav republics, receiving testimony from Dirk Jan van
Houten, Brussels, Belgium, former head of the European Community Monitoring
Mission to Yugoslavia; and Jeri Laber, Helsinki Watch, New York, New York.
Commission recessed subject to call.
1992/02/06
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 6, 1992; pages D79 - D86 (Bd vol. D37 - D42)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the Legislative
Branch, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from George M. White, Architect of the Capitol; Robert W. Houk, Public
Printer, Government Printing Office; and Robert K. Langley, Acting Chief of
Capitol Police, Martha S. Pope, Senate Sergeant at Arms, Jack Russ, House
Sergeant at Arms, and George M. White (listed above), all on behalf of the
Capitol Police Board.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on military conversion in
the Russian Federation, receiving testimony from Anatoly N. Fomichev, General
Director, Red October Machine-Building Corporation, Oleg I. Gapanovich,
Chairman, St. Petersburg Committee on Military Conversion, Vitaly G. Kuzmin,
Member of Russian Parliament, Member of Industry and Economics Committee of
Russian Parliament, Vladimir V. Silonov, Deputy Chief Engineer, "Temp"
Construction Bureau (Moscow), Vladimir Uskov, Chairman, Scientific-Technical
Council, "Lemma" Mathematics and Mechanics Center, St. Petersburg; and
Aleksandr V. Zakharov, General Director, Kalinin Production Association, all
of Moscow.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FINANCIAL INSTITUTION FRAUD
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Consumer and
Regulatory Affairs held hearings to examine the Federal Government's efforts
to combat fraud and abuse in financial institutions, receiving testimony from
Harold A. Valentine, Associate Director, General Government Programs, and
Edward Stephenson, Assistant Director, both of the General Accounting Office;
Ira Raphaelson, Special Counsel for Financial Institution Fraud, Office of the
Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice; and Kitty Calavita and Henry
N. Pontell, both of the University of California, Irvine.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1993 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution for the fiscal year 1993 budget,
focusing on the President's economic proposals, receiving testimony from
Nicholas F. Brady, Secretary of the Treasury.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Barbara Hackman Franklin, of Pennsylvania, to be
Secretary of Commerce, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators
Specter, Dodd, Lieberman, and Lautenberg, testified and answered questions in
her own behalf.
HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight
hearings to examine the nature and intent of the Federal Government and the
State of Hawaii responsibility under the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920,
as amended, after receiving testimony from Representatives Mink and
Abercrombie; Timothy W. Glidden, Counselor to the Secretary of the Interior;
Roger B. Clegg, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural
Resources Division, Department of Justice; Hawaii Governor John Waihee, Hawaii
Attorney General Warren Price, III, Hoaliku L. Drake, Hawaii Department of
Hawaiian Home Lands, and Alan T. Murakami, Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation,
all of Honolulu; Kamaki Kanahele, Hawaii State Council of Hawaiian Homestead
Associations, Waianae, Hawaii; Ann Kukakina Nathaniel, Federal State Task
Force on the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, Hilo, Hawaii; and Charles K.
Maxwell, Sr., Hawaii Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights, Pukalani.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of
Kevin E. Moley, of Louisiana, to be Deputy Secretary of Health and Human
Services.
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Mr. Moley, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.
COMPETITIVENESS AND LONG-TERM TAX POLICY
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Taxation held hearings to examine the
United States tax system's long-term effect on the cost of capital and the
international competitiveness of U.S. business, receiving testimony from
Martin Feldstein, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; John B. Shoven, Stanford University, Stanford, California;
Charles A. Corry, USX Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; George N.
Hatsopoulos, Thermo Electron Corporation, Waltham, Massachusetts; Winston H.
Chen, Solectron Corporation, San Jose, California; and Edward R. McCracken,
Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SOVIET NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine United
States efforts to assist certain former Soviet Republics in dismantling their
nuclear and chemical weapons and preventing their proliferation, after
receiving testimony from Reginald Bartholomew, Under Secretary of State for
International Security Affairs.
NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
concluded hearings to examine certain reports of North Korean development of
weapons of mass destruction and United States efforts to end the threat of
nuclear proliferation on the Korean Peninsula, after receiving testimony from
Arnold Kanter, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
FEDERAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee continued hearings to examine the
effectiveness and efficiency of Federal management practices, focusing on the
President's fiscal year 1993 budget and its impact on Federal management and
the Nation's economy, receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller
General, Lawrence H. Thompson, Assistant Comptroller General, Human Resources
Division, and Frank Conahan, Assistant Comptroller General for National
Security and International Affairs, all of the General Accounting Office.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
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Ronald M. Whyte, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District
of California, Jon P. McCalla, to be United States District Judge for the
Western District of Tennessee, Julie E. Carnes, to be United States District
Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, Nancy G. Edmunds, to be United
States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, David W. McKeague,
to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Michigan,
Philip G. Reinhard, to be United States District Judge for the Northern
District of Illinois, Sandra S. Beckwith, to be United States District Judge
for the Southern District of Ohio, Steven D. Merryday, to be United States
District Judge for the Middle District of Florida, Frederick J. Scullin, Jr.,
to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of New York, and
K. Michael Moore, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District
of Florida;
S. 826, to establish a specialized corps of judges necessary for certain
Federal proceedings required to be conducted;
S. 758, to clarify that States, instrumentalities of States, and officers and
employees of States acting in their official capacity, are subject to suit in
Federal court by any person for infringement of patents and plant variety
protections, and that all the remedies can be obtained in such suit that can
be obtained in a suit against a private entity;
S. 759, to amend certain trademark laws to clarify that States,
instrumentalities of States, and officers and employees of States acting in
their official capacity, are subject to suit in Federal court by any person
for infringement of trademarks, and that all the remedies can be obtained in
such suit that can be obtained in a suit against a private entity; and
S. 580, to amend title 11 of the United States Code to exclude from the estate
of the debtor certain interests in liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons.
Joint Meetings
PRESIDENT'S ECONOMIC REPORT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine the 1992 economic
report of the President, receiving testimony from Michael Boskin, Chairman,
Council of Economic Advisers.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 12.
1992/02/07
Daily Digest - Friday, February 7, 1992; pages D87 - D90 (Bd vol. D42 - D44)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the Legislative
Branch, after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Martha Pope, Senate Sergeant at Arms; James H. Billington,
Librarian of Congress; and Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the
United States, General Accounting Office.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Andrew H. Card, Jr., of Massachusetts, to be
Secretary of Transportation, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators
Kennedy and Kerry, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
Joint Meetings
EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings on the
employment-unemployment situation for January, receiving testimony from
William Barron, Acting Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of
Labor.
Committee recessed subject to call.
1992/02/11
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 11, 1992; pages D92 - D94 (Bd vol. D44 - D45)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/02/14
Daily Digest - Friday, February 14, 1992; pages D96 - D102 (Bd vol. D45 -
D46)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Committee on Finance: On Thursday, February 13, committee continued hearings
to examine the President's budget proposals and their impact on the economy,
receiving testimony from Francis M. Bator, Ford Foundation, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; Larry Chimerine, DRI/McGraw-Hill, Wayne, Pennsylvania; Lawrence
A. Kudlow, Bear Stearns, New York, New York; John J. Motley, III, National
Federation of Independent Business, Eugene L. Ames, Jr., Independent Petroleum
Association of America, Dorcas T. Helfant, National Association of Realtors,
and Steven A. Wechsler, National Realty Committee, all of Washington, D.C.;
Robert G. Gilbertson, American Electronics Association, Shelton, Connecticut;
Robert Cizik, Cooper Industries, Inc., Houston, Texas, on behalf of the
National Association of Manufacturers; William L. Fisher, University of Texas,
Austin; and Thomas M. Bloch, H&R Bloch, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri.
Also, on Wednesday, February 12, committee began hearings to examine the
President's budget proposals and their impact on the economy, receiving
testimony from Nicholas F. Brady, Secretary of the Treasury; Richard G.
Darman, Director, Office of Management and Budget; and Michael J. Boskin,
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 18.
Joint Meetings
PRESIDENT'S ECONOMIC REPORT
Joint Economic Committee: On Wednesday, February 12, committee resumed
hearings to examine the 1992 economic report of the President and the Nation's
economic outlook, receiving testimony from Robert Gordon, Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois; Lawrence Hunter, U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
Washington, D.C.; and Paul Krugman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge.
Committee recessed subject to call.
1992/02/18
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 18, 1992; pages D104 - D112 (Bd vol. D46 -
D51)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1993 BUDGET
Committee on Appropriations: Committee began hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the Federal Government, focusing on the
state of the nation's economy, receiving testimony from Richard G. Darman,
Director, Office of Management and Budget; Michael J. Boskin, Chairman,
Council of Economic Advisors; and Robert D. Reischauer, Director,
Congressional Budget Office.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
INSURANCE COMPANY FAILURES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings on
the causes and implications of insurance company failures, focusing on the
financial characteristics and regulation of four large insurance companies
recently taken over by State regulators, receiving testimony from Richard L.
Fogel, Assistant Comptroller General, General Government Programs, General
Accounting Office; John Garamendi, California Department of Insurance,
Sacramento; Martin D. Weiss, Weiss Research, Inc., West Palm Beach, Florida;
and Meredith Miller, AFL-CIO, and George K. Bernstein, both of Washington,
D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported the nominations of Barbara Hackman Franklin, of
Pennsylvania, to be Secretary of Commerce, Andrew H. Card Jr., of
Massachusetts, to be Secretary of Transportation, and routine lists of U.S.
Coast Guard nominations received in the Senate on January 22, 1992.
U.S. ECONOMIC GROWTH
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine the President's
budget proposals and their impact on the nation's economy, focusing on health
care, receiving testimony from Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of Health and
Human Resources; Gary Stangler, Missouri Department of Social Services,
Jefferson City, on behalf of the American Public Welfare Association; Dennis
Crites, Norman, Oklahoma, on behalf of the American Association of Retired
Persons; Larry Mathis, The Methodist Hospital System, Houston, Texas, on
behalf of the American Hospital Association; Joe Liu, Children's Defense Fund,
and Hope S. Foster, American Clinical Laboratory Association, both of
Washington, D.C.; G.W.N. Eggers, Jr., American Society of Anesthesiology,
Columbia, Missouri; Scott Gray, American Association of Nurse Anesthetists,
Hoquiam, Washington; and Corrine Parver, Alexandria, Virginia, and Rick
Doherty, Comprehensive Home Health Company, Avon, Massachusetts, both on
behalf of the National Association of Medical Equipment Suppliers.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
ENERGY CONSERVATION DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine certain
"state of the art" technologies to improve the nation's energy efficiency and
conservation, and how the Federal Government can promote these products,
receiving testimony from Steven E. Plotkin, Senior Associate, Energy and
Materials Program, Office of Technology Assessment; Arthur H. Rosenfeld,
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California; Bill W. Marshall, Sandia
National Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico; S. David Freeman, Sacramento
Municipal Utility District, Sacramento, California; Peter F. Gerhardinger,
Libbey-Owens-Ford Co, Toledo, Ohio; Douglas A. Decker, Johnson Controls, Inc.,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Donald R. Glenn, Energy Research Corporation, Danbury,
Connecticut; J. William Currie, Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratories,
Richland, Washington; Roberta Nichols, Advanced Battery Consortium, Detroit,
Michigan; and Thomas H. McGuinness, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power,
Los Angeles, California.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ASBESTOS LITIGATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
held oversight hearings to examine certain problems involving the management
of asbestos-related products liability suits pending in the Federal district
courts, receiving testimony from Chief Judge Robert M. Parker, United States
District Court for the Eastern District of Texas; Judge Joseph F. Anderson,
Jr., United States District Court for the District of South Carolina; Judge
Charles R. Wolle, United States District Court for the Southern District of
Iowa; Judge Sandra Moss, Court of Common Pleas for the City of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; and Deborah R. Hensler, Santa Monica, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again on Thursday, February 20.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/02/19
Daily Digest- Wednesday, February 19, 1992; pages D113 - D122 (Bd vol. D51 -
D57)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1993 BUDGET
Committee on Appropriations: Committee continued hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the Federal Government, focusing on defense
programs, receiving testimony from Senators Levin and Glenn; Frank C. Conahan,
Assistant Comptroller General, General Accounting Office; William E. Colby,
former Director of Central Intelligence; and John D. Steinbruner, William W.
Kaufmann, and Lawrence J. Korb, all of the Brookings Institution, Washington,
D.C.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
DEFENSE BUDGET
Committee on Armed Services: Committee on Armed Services concluded hearings on
U.S. defense spending practices and their implications for the economic and
budget outlook, focusing on defense spending cuts, after receiving testimony
from Robert D. Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget Office.
MILITARY INSTALLATION SCHOOL DISTRICTS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support held hearings on S. 2066, to provide financial assistance to local
educational agencies administering public school districts where military
installations are located, receiving testimony from John L. Stremple,
Director, Department of Defense Schools, and Hector Nevarez, Superintendent,
Stateside Dependent Schools, both of the Department of Defense; John
Forkenbrock, National Association of Federally Impacted Schools, Washington,
D.C.; John F. Deegan, Military Impacted Schools Association, Bellevue,
Nebraska; Joe D. Reich, Highwood-Highland Parks School District Board of
Education, Highland Park, Illinois; John O. Simpson, North Chicago Public
Schools, Chicago, Illinois; and Tom Burnham, Biloxi Public Schools, Biloxi,
Mississippi.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the nomination of J. Carter Beese, Jr., of Maryland, to be a Member of the
Securities and Exchange Commission, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senator Mikulski, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
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PUBLIC LANDS AND NATIONAL PARKS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 780, S. 1105, and H.R.
1592, bills to increase the size of the Big Thicket National Preserve in the
State of Texas, S. 801 and H.R. 479, bills to designate the California
National Historic Trail and Pony Express National Historic Trail as components
of the National Trails System, S. 1064, to establish the Dayton Aviation
Heritage National Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio, S. 1360 and H.R. 1642,
bills to establish the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site in the
State of Texas, S. 1811, to authorize the additional use of land for a fire
station in the City of Pittsburg, California, S. 1919 and H.R. 1216, bills to
modify the boundaries of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in the State of
Indiana, S.J. Res. 219, to authorize the location of a proposed memorial to
George Mason in Area I of the District of Columbia or its environs, and H.R.
2896, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to revise the boundaries of
the Minute Man National Historical Park in the State of Massachusetts, after
receiving testimony from Denis P. Galvin, Associate Director for Planning and
Development, National Park Service, Department of the Interior. Testimony was
also received on S. 1064 (listed above) from Judge Walter H. Rice, U.S.
District Court, Dayton, Ohio, on behalf of The 2003 Fund Committee; and on S.
1360 (listed above) from Ygnacio D. Garza, Texas Parks and Wildlife
Commission, Brownsville.
TRANSPORTATION VIEWS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings to
discuss the committee's jurisdiction of certain transportation related issues,
after receiving testimony from Andrew H. Card, Jr., Secretary of
Transportation-designate.
U.S. ECONOMIC GROWTH
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to examine the President's
budget proposals, focusing on proposed tax incentives to promote economic
development, including 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. 693, to allow individuals who are
involuntarily unemployed to withdraw funds from individual retirement accounts
and other qualified retirement plans without incurring a tax penalty, S. 1398,
to provide for certain exceptions from certain rules for determining
contributions in aid of construction, S. 1932, to provide a capital gains tax
differential for individual and corporate taxpayers who make high-risk,
long-term, growth-oriented venture and seed capital investments in start-up
and other small enterprises, and S. 2220, to make the targeted jobs tax credit
available for a 1-year period to employers who hire long-term unemployed
individuals, after receiving testimony from Senators Nickles, Boren, Reid,
Lautenberg, Bumpers, and Robb; Richard A. Zartler, Grace Drilling Company,
Dallas, Texas; and Marshall Plummer, Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Arizona.
ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Taxation held hearings to examine the
economic effects of the corporate alternative minimum tax provisions of the
Tax Reform Act of 1986 which were designed to assure that all profitable
corporations pay a reasonable amount in Federal income tax, receiving
testimony from Senator Nickles; Craig G. Goodman, The Woodlands, Texas, former
Director of the Office of Energy Tax Policy; Andrew B. Lyon, University of
Maryland, College Park; Robert S. McIntyre, Citizens for Tax Justice,
Washington, D.C.; Michael J. Durham, American Airlines, Inc., Fort Worth,
Texas; Joseph W. O'Toole, Phillips Petroleum Company, Bartlesville, Oklahoma;
David H. Hoag, The LTV Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio; and L.C. Heist, Champion
International Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
STRATEGIC NUCLEAR REDUCTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on issues relating to
strategic nuclear reduction in a post-cold war world, focusing on changes in
Eastern Europe, receiving testimony from James H. Billington, Librarian, and
John Hardt, Associate Director, Senior Specialist in Soviet Economics,
Congressional Research Service, both of the Library of Congress; and Murray
Feshbach, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 25.
REGULATORY RESPONSE TO BCCI
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations concluded hearings to review the Federal regulatory
response to the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) situation,
after receiving testimony from Joseph Vaez, Senior Examiner, Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency, Department of the Treasury; Douglas P.
Mulholland, Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, and
former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Intelligence; and Robert Bench,
Price Waterhouse, Washington, D.C., former Deputy Comptroller for
International Banking and Finance.
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AIR FORCE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine
financial management practices at the Air Force and the Department of Defense,
focusing on a General Accounting Office financial audit of the Air Force,
receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United
States, Donald Chapin, Assistant Comptroller General, Accounting and Financial
Management Division, David Connor, Director, Defense Financial Audits, and
Donna Helvilin, Director, Logistics Issues, all of the General Accounting
Office; and Michael B. Donley, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial
Management and Comptroller), Clyde E. Jeffcoat, Director, Defense Finance and
Accounting Service (Denver Center), Sean O'Keefe, Comptroller and Chief
Financial Officer, and Alvin Tucker, Deputy Comptroller for Management
Systems, all of the Department of Defense.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Karen J. Williams, of South Carolina, to be United States Circuit Judge for
the Fourth Circuit, Mary Little Parell, to be United States District Judge for
the District of New Jersey, Garland E. Burrell Jr., to be United States
District Judge for the Eastern District of California, Roderick R. McKelvie,
to be United States District Judge for the District of Delaware, and William
B. Traxler Jr., to be United States District Judge for the District of South
Carolina, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Ms. Williams was introduced by Senators Thurmond and Hollings, Ms.
Parell was introduced by Senators Bradley and Lautenberg, Mr. Burrell was
introduced by Senator Seymour, Mr. McKelvie was introduced by Senators Biden
and Roth, and Mr. Traxler was introduced by Senators Thurmond and Hollings and
Representative Patterson.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/02/20
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 20, 1992; pages D124 - D132 (Bd vol. D57 -
D63)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1993 BUDGET
Committee on Appropriations: Committee continued hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the Federal Government, focusing on the
state of the Nation's economy, receiving testimony from Robert Reich, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Robert Hormats, Goldman, Sachs and Co.,
New York, New York; and Jeff Faux, Economic Policy Institute, Herbert Stein,
American Enterprise Institute, and Charles L. Schultze, Brookings Institution,
all of Washington, D.C.
Committee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Adm. David E. Jeremiah, U.S. Navy, to be Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
INVESTMENT ADVISERS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
concluded hearings on proposals to strengthen the Securities and Exchange
Commission's oversight of the investment advisory industry to insure investor
protection and efficient securities markets, after receiving testimony from
Richard C. Breeden, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission; Lewis W.
Brothers, Jr., North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc., and
Matthew P. Fink, Investment Company Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; David
S. Lee, Scudder, Stevens & Clark, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of
the Investment Counsel Association of America; Elizabeth Faitella, Unionville,
Connecticut; Tom Rush, Columbia, Maryland; and Arthur Shapiro, Miami Beach,
Florida.
HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on S. 1872, to improve the
availability and affordability of health insurance to small businesses, and to
establish a Health Care Cost Commission to design strategies to reduce health
care costs, receiving testimony from Senator Bond; North Dakota Commissioner
of Insurance Earl R. Pomeroy, Bismarck, and Gary Claxton, Washington, D.C.,
both on behalf of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners; Kay
Johnson, March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, Judith Waxman, Families USA,
Bryant L. Welch, American Psychological Association, John J. Motley III,
National Federation of Independent Business, Mark Gorman, National Restaurant
Association, on behalf of the Healthcare Equity Action League, all of
Washington, D.C.; Mildred McCauley, Myrtle Creek, Oregon, on behalf of the
American Association of Retired Persons; Robert LeMond, Texas Society of
Architects Insurance Trust, Fort Worth, on behalf of the American Institute of
Architects; Ree Sailors, Florida Health Access Corporation, Tallahassee; Bruce
Butler, The Travelers Companies, Hartford, Connecticut; and Richard M.
Niemiec, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, St. Paul, on behalf of the
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CHINESE PROLIFERATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on Chinese proliferation activities from officials of the
intelligence community.
Committee recessed subject to call.
ANDEAN DRUG INITIATIVE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations concluded hearings to examine Federal efforts to
counter the threat to United States interests and U.S. allies from the illegal
trade in narcotics, focusing on the Administration's counterdrug operation
strategy within the Andean Ridge, which includes U.S. military, law
enforcement, and economic aid in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru, after receiving
testimony from Bernard W. Aronson, Assistant Secretary for Inter-American
Affairs, Melvyn Levitsky, Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics
Matters, and Sherman L. Funk, Inspector General, all of the Department of
State; Gen. George A. Joulwan, USA, Commander-in-Chief, United States Southern
Command; and Joseph E. Kelley, Director for Security and International
Relations Issues, National Security and International Affairs Division,
General Accounting Office.
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IMPACT OF DOD BASE CLOSINGS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post
Office, and Civil Service held hearings to examine the adequacy of Department
of Defense (DOD) programs for civilian employees and local communities
affected by the DOD base closing and realignment program, receiving testimony
from Senators Mitchell, Bumpers, Cohen, Levin, Pryor, and Stevens; Constance
Berry Newman, Director, and Leonard R. Klein, Associate Director, Career Entry
Group, both of the Office of Personnel Management; Christopher Jehn, Assistant
Secretary for Force Management and Personnel, and Robert M. Rauner, Director,
Office of Economic Adjustment, both of the Department of Defense; James Van
Erden, Administrator, Office of Work-Based Learning, Employment and Training
Administration, Department of Labor; Steven R. Brennen, Acting Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Program Operations, Economic Development
Administration, Department of Commerce; Mary Brennan Lukens, Associate Deputy
Administrator for Business Development, Small Business Administration; Paul W.
Johnson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Housing;
Paul Galis, Director, Office of Airport Planning and Programming, Federal
Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation; Bruce L. Moyer,
Washington, D.C., and Frank McClafferty, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, both on behalf of the Federal Managers
Association; Julia Akins Clark, Silver Spring, Maryland, and Kathy Levesque,
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, both on behalf of the
International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers; and Jimmy R.
Whitman, American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, and Sheilah
Velazco, National Federation of Federal Employees, both of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MALNUTRITION IN THE ELDERLY
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Aging concluded
hearings to examine the nutritional status of older Americans, focusing on
nutrition screening services, after receiving testimony from Nancy Wellman,
Florida International University, Miami, on behalf of the American Dietetic
Association; Gerald Keller, Mandeville, Louisiana, on behalf of the American
Academy of Family Physicians; Barbara Millen Posner, Boston University Schools
of Public Health and Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; Paul Kerschner, National
Council on the Aging, Inc., Washington, D.C.; Bill Moyer, Senior Services of
Seattle/King County, Seattle, Washington; John Wren, Mahoning County Nutrition
Programs for the Elderly, Inc., Youngstown, Ohio, on behalf of the National
Association of Nutrition and Aging Services Programs; Kathleen Cope, Sacred
Heart Medical Center, Spokane, Washington, on behalf of the American
Association of Critical Care Nurses; and Elaine White, Lutheran Social Service
of Minnesota, Moorehead.
INTELLIGENCE REORGANIZATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held hearings on S. 2198, to
reorganize the United States intelligence community to provide for the
improved management and execution of United States intelligence activities,
receiving testimony from James R. Schlesinger, Washington, D.C., former
Director of Central Intelligence, former Secretary of Defense, and former
Secretary of Energy; and Lt. Gen. William E. Odom, USA (Ret.), Hudson
Institute, Alexandria, Virginia, former Director, National Security Agency.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1992/02/21
Daily Digest - Friday, February 21, 1992; pages D133 - D140 (Bd vol. D63 -
D65)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SOVIET SPACE ASSETS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
concluded hearings to examine the acquisition of civilian space hardware and
technology from the former Soviet Union and prospects for increased civil
space cooperation between the United States and the Commonwealth of
Independent States, after receiving testimony from Richard H. Truly,
Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; John P. Boright,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental
and Scientific Affairs; Roald Z. Sagdeev, University of Maryland, College
Park; and Yuri P. Semenov, General Director, General Designer, Valery V.
Rumin, Deputy General Designer, Alexander G. Derechin, Head of Department for
Economic Relations, and Boris P. Artemov, Head of Department for International
Experiments, all of NPO Energia, Republic of Russia.
APPROPRIATIONS--ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS/LAW ENFORCEMENT
TRAINING CENTER
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1993 for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Federal Law
Enforcement Training Center of the Department of the Treasury, receiving
testimony from Nancy L. Worthington, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Law
Enforcement, David M. Nummy, Assistant Secretary for Management, Stephen E.
Higgins, Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and R.J. Miller,
Deputy Director, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, all of the
Department of the Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, February 24.
TAXPAYER RIGHTS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Private Retirement Plans and Oversight
of the Internal Revenue Service held hearings on S. 2239, to provide
additional safeguards to protect taxpayer rights, focusing on the fairness in
the collection of taxes provisions of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights of 1987,
receiving testimony from Senators Reid and Fowler; Representative Livingston;
Fred T. Goldberg, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy;
Shirley D. Peterson, Commissioner, David Blattner, Chief Operations Officer,
and Michael Dolan, Deputy Commissioner, all of the Internal Revenue Service,
Department of the Treasury; Larry Coble, Trophy Arts, Fort Worth, Texas, and
Jeff Trinca, Washington, D.C., both on behalf of the National Association of
Private Enterprise; Charlie Jones and Laurie Conner, both of TAX 1, Atlanta,
Georgia; and Harvey J. Shulman, National Association of Computer Consultant
Businesses, Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AIRLINE COMPETITION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Consumer and
Environmental Affairs held hearings to examine closings and mergers in the
airline industry, and their impact on prices for air travel, receiving
testimony from Patrick V. Murphy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Transportation
for Policy and International Affairs; Mark C. Schechter, Section Chief,
Transportation, Energy and Agriculture Section, Antitrust Division, Department
of Justice; John H. Anderson, Jr., Associate Director, Resources, Community,
and Economic Development Division, and John V. Wells and Frank P. Mulvey, both
Assistant Directors, all of Transportation Issues, General Accounting Office;
Edward R. Beauvais, America West Airlines, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona; and Cornish
F. Hitchcock, Aviation Consumer Action Project, Richard D. Mathias, Zuckert,
Scoutt & Rasenberger, and Paul Schoellhamer, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1992/02/24
Daily Digest - Monday, February 24, 1992; pages D141 - D144 (Bd vol. D65)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BANK OF AMERICA AND SECURITY PACIFIC MERGER
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, General
Government held hearings on issues relating to the proposed merger between the
Bank of America and Security Pacific, receiving testimony from Senator Adams;
Stephen R. Steinbrink, Senior Deputy Comptroller, Bank Supervisory Operations,
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Department of the Treasury; Edward
C. Ettin, Deputy Director, Research and Statistics Division, Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Constance Dunham, Urban Institute,
Chris Lewis, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN),
and Beth Schulman, United Food and Commercial Workers Union, all of
Washington, DC; Tom Schlessinger, Southern Finance Project, Charlotte, North
Carolina; Phyliss Rowe, Arizona Consumers Council, Phoenix; and John O.
Wilson, Bank of America, and Joseph M. Alioto, both of San Francisco,
California.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/02/25
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 25, 1992; pages D146 - D154 (Bd vol. D65 -
D71)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the
Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony from Edward R. Madigan,
Secretary of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 3.
APPROPRIATIONS--THE JUDICIARY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for
the Judiciary, receiving testimony from Judge Richard S. Arnold, Eighth
Circuit, Court of Appeals; and Judge John M. Roper, Magistrate, U.S. District
Court of the Southern District of Mississippi.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 5.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony from Donald J. Atwood, Deputy Secretary of Defense; and Sean
O'Keefe, Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer, Department of Defense.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, February 27.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed supplemental funds for fiscal year 1992 and proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1993 for foreign assistance programs, receiving
testimony from James A. Baker III, Secretary of State.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 3.
MONETARY POLICY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the Federal Reserve's monetary policy report for 1992, after receiving
testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System.
GEOTHERMAL DEVELOPMENT MORATORIUM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded joint hearings with the Subcommittee on
Mineral Resources Development and Production on H.R. 3359, to impose a
moratorium on subsurface geothermal development within a 15-mile radius of
Yellowstone National Park, including the Corwin Springs Known Geothermal
Resource Area in Montana and certain lands and waters not owned by the United
States until after the preparation of a study by the National Park Service on
the potential impact of such development, after receiving testimony from
Senator Baucus; Representative Williams; John M. Sayre, Assistant Secretary
for Water and Science, and Irving Friedman, Research Chemist, United States
Geological Survey (Denver, Colorado), both of the Department of the Interior;
Louisa L. Willcox, Greater Yellowstone Coalition, and Michael D. Scott,
Wilderness Society, both of Bozeman, Montana; Edward L. Francis, Church
Universal and Triumphant, Inc., Corwin Springs, Montana; and Thomas C.
Hinrichs, Magma Power Company, San Diego, California, on behalf of the
Geothermal Resources Association.
STRATEGIC NUCLEAR REDUCTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings to examine the
future of United States policy toward strategic nuclear weapons in the
post-cold war era, focusing on the role of the proposed Treaty with the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic
Offensive Arms (The Start Treaty) (Treaty Doc. 102-20), receiving testimony
from Paul H. Nitze, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.; and Hans A.
Bethe, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Hearings continue on Thursday, February 27.
NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on the impact of
nuclear disarmament on the Department of Energy (DOE), focusing on the DOE's
progress and plans for resolving safety issues, cleaning up environmental
contamination, and reconfiguring the nuclear weapons complex, receiving
testimony from Representative Tony Hall; Richard A. Claytor, Assistant
Secretary for Defense Programs, and William H. Young, Assistant Secretary for
Nuclear Energy, both of the Department of Energy; and John Ahearne, Sigma Xi,
Washington, D.C., and Harold W. Lewis, University of California, Santa
Barbara, both on behalf of the Department of Energy Advisory Committee on
Nuclear Facility Safety.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DIRECT STUDENT LOANS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 2255, to
establish a Federal direct student loan program to allow schools to borrow
money from the Federal Government to make loans to students to be repaid
through the Internal Revenue Service by increased withholding, and other
related proposals, receiving testimony from Senators Bradley, Simon, and
Durenberger; Michael S. Bigelow, Deputy Assistant Commissioner (Returns
Processing), Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury; John
Silber, Boston University, and Barry Bluestone, University of Massachusetts,
both of Boston, Massachusetts; William J. Byron, The Catholic University of
America, Washington, D.C.; Phyllis K. Hooyman, Hope College, Holland,
Michigan; Roxie LaFever, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona; and Jerry S.
Davis, Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, Harrisburg.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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Joint Meetings
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS
Joint Hearings: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint hearings
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs on the legislative
recommendations of the Disabled American Veterans, after receiving testimony
from Cleveland Jordan, Disabled American Veterans, Washington, D.C.
1992/02/26
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 26, 1992; pages D155 - D164 (Bd vol. D71 -
D77)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SUPPLEMENTAL TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS REINVESTMENT TO
UPGRADE
PRODUCTIVITY (START-UP) ACT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation concluded hearings
on S. 2169, making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 1992 for programs that will provide near-term improvements in
the Nation's transportation infrastructure and long-term benefits to those
systems and to the productivity of the United States economy, after receiving
testimony from Mayor Thomas V. Barnes, Gary, Indiana, and Judith Burrell,
Washington, D.C., both on behalf of the United States Conference of Mayors;
Roger Brinner, DRI/McGraw-Hill, Lexington, Kentucky; Richard R. Mudge, Apogee
Research, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland; J. Bruce Putnam, Billings-Logan
International Airport, Billings, Montana, on behalf of the American
Association of Airport Executives; Robert Broadbent, McCarran International
Airport, Las Vegas, Nevada, on behalf of the Airports Association Council
International; and Robert A. Georgine, Building and Construction Trades
Department, AFL-CIO, Jack R. Gilstrap, American Public Transit, T. Peter
Ruane, American Road and Transportation Builders Association, and William W.
Hoover, Air Transport Association of America, all of Washington, D.C.
DEFENSE BUILDDOWN
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to examine the impact of
the defense builddown (decrease in defense spending) on the United States
industrial base, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. Lawrence Skibbie
(USA-Ret.), American Defense Preparedness Association, Arlington, Virginia;
and Adm. James Hogg (USN-Ret.), National Security Industrial Association, and
Peter F. McCloskey, Electronic Industries Association, both of Washington,
D.C.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of Alan Greenspan, of New York, to be Chairman of the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Lawrence U. Costiglio, of
New York, Daniel F. Evans Jr., of Indiana, Marilyn R. Seymann, of Arizona, and
William C. Perkins, of Wisconsin, each to be a Director of the Federal Housing
Finance Board, J. Carter Beese Jr., of Maryland, to be a Member of the
Securities and Exchange Commission, and Frank G. Zarb, of New York, to be a
Director of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation.
THRIFT DEPOSITOR PROTECTION OVERSIGHT BOARD
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings on
the semi-annual review of the Thrift Depositor Protection Oversight Board,
which was established in November 1991 to review and modify the Resolution
Trust Corporation's major decisions, approve its budgets, and monitor its
overall performance, receiving testimony from Nicholas F. Brady, Secretary of
the Treasury and Chairman, Thrift Depositor Protection Oversight Board; Peter
Monroe, President, Thrift Depositor Protection Oversight Board; and Alan
Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Albert
V. Casey, Chief Executive Officer, Resolution Trust Corporation, William
Taylor, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, T. Timothy Ryan,
Director, Office of Thrift Supervision, Department of the Treasury, and Philip
Jackson, Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama, all Members, Thrift
Depositor Protection Oversight Board.
Committee recessed subject to call.
NASA's EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held hearings to examine the current status of NASA's
Earth Observing System program designed to conduct comprehensive long-term
measurements of the Earth's environmental systems, receiving testimony from
Lennard A. Fisk, Associate Administrator, Office of Space Science and
Applications, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Samuel W. Bowlin,
Director, Defense and Security Information Systems Division, General
Accounting Office; Edward Frieman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La
Jolla, California; Berrien Moore III, University of New Hampshire, Durham; and
D. James Baker, Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc., Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 17.
AUTHORIZATION--AMTRAK
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), after receiving
testimony from Senator Nickles; Gilbert E. Carmichael, Administrator, Federal
Railroad Administration, Department of Transportation; W. Graham Claytor, Jr.,
President and Chairman, William F. Norman, Executive Vice President, and
Dennis F. Sullivan, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, all of
the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak); and Robert J. Irvin,
American Train Dispatchers Association, Berwyn, Illinois, on behalf of the
Railway Labor Executives Association; and Ross Capon, National Association of
Railroad Passengers, Washington, D.C.
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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 1993, and agreed on
recommendations it will make thereon to the Committee on the Budget.
PROSPECTIVE ARMS SALE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the annual estimate and justification for possible arms sales for
1992 (Javits Report), from Richard A. Clarke, Assistant Secretary of State for
Politico-Military Affairs; and Glenn A. Rudd, Deputy Director, Defense
Security Assistance Agency, Department of Defense.
Committee recessed subject to call.
VOTING RIGHTS ACT LANGUAGE ASSISTANCE AMENDMENTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Constitution concluded hearings on
S. 2236, to revise the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to modify and extend the
bilingual language voting provisions of the Act for 15 years and to clarify
the coverage of American Indians living on Indian lands, after receiving
testimony from Representative Serrano; John R. Dunne, Assistant Attorney
General for Civil Rights, Department of Justice; Idaho Attorney General Larry
EchoHawk, Boise; Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina, Los Angeles,
California; Charles Pei Wang, Vice-Chairperson (New York, New York), U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights; Marshall Plummer, Navajo Nation, Window Rock,
Arizona; Henry Der, Chinese for Affirmative Action, San Francisco, California;
and George Tryfiates, English First, Springfield, Virginia.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION/ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings on S. 1598, to
authorize the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to acquire land
for watershed protection at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, and
S. 1682, to authorize the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to
acquire an Administrative Service Center, receiving testimony from Carmen
Turner, Under Secretary, Smithsonian Institution.
Also, committee met and approved certain pending administrative business.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills:
S. 1602, to ratify a compact between the Assinibone and Sioux Indian Tribes of
the Fort Peck Reservation and the State of Montana, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute; and
S. 2245, to authorize funds for the implementation of the settlement agreement
reached between the Pueblo de Cochiti and the United States Army Corps of
Engineers under the authority of Public Law 100-202.
INDIAN PROGRAMS
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1993 for Indian programs,
receiving testimony from Eddie F. Brown, Assistant Secretary for Indian
Affairs, Dave Matheson, Deputy Commissioner, Office of Indian Affairs, and
Ronal Eden, Director, Office of Tribal Services, and Linda Richardson,
Assistant Director of Financial Management, both of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, all of the Department of the Interior; Joseph G. Schiff, Assistant
Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, and Dominic Nessi, Director, Indian
Housing, both of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; Francis
Harjo, National Commission on American Indian, Alaska Native and Native
Hawaiian Housing, George Nolan, National American Indian Housing Council, and
Ed Thomas, National Congress of American Indians, all of Washington, D.C.; and
Thomas N. Tremaine, Spokane Legal Services Center, Spokane, Washington.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1992/02/27
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 27, 1992; pages D166 - D181 (Bd vol. D77 -
D85)
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 1993 for global defense programs,
receiving testimony from Gen. Colin Powell, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 3.
APPROPRIATIONS--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Steve Dola,
Deputy for Management and Budget, Cemeterial Expenses, United States Army;
Robert W. Gambino, Director, Selective Service System; and Gen. Paul X.
Kelley, USMC (Ret.), Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 5.
DEFENSE BUILDDOWN
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to examine the Department
of Defense management of the defense builddown (decrease in defense spending),
receiving testimony from Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, USA, Chief of Army Staff;
Adm. Frank B. Kelso II, USN, Chief of Naval Operations; Gen. Carl E. Mundy,
Jr., USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps; and Gen. Merrill A. McPeak, USAF,
Chief of Air Force Staff.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
GLOBAL WARMING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings to
examine recent indicators of global warming over the last 10 to 100 years of
climate history, including climate variability and long-term global climate
change, receiving testimony from Jerry D. Mahlman, Director, Geophysical Fluid
Dynamics Laboratory (Princeton, New Jersey), National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Department of Commerce; Judith Lean, Naval Research
Laboratory, Department of the Navy; David Rind, NASA Goddard Institute for
Space Studies, New York, New York; Paul E. Damon, University of Arizona,
Tucson; Roseanne D'Arrigo and Gordon Jacoby, both of the Lamont-Doherty
Geological Observatory, Palisades, New York; Henry N. Pollack, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor; and Lonnie Thompson, Ohio State University, Columbus.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CLEAN VESSEL ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings in
conjunction with the National Ocean Policy Study on H.R. 1297, to direct
coastal States to survey the adequacy and availability of pumpout stations for
marine sanitation devices and facilities to receive waste from portable
toilets of recreation vessels, receiving testimony from Representative Walter
Jones; Conley Moffett, Deputy Assistant Director, Fish and Wildlife
Enhancement, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior; Craig
Vogt, Deputy Director for Oceans and Coastal Protection, Environmental
Protection Agency; Dennis Luttrell, Buzzards Bay Action Committee, Marion,
Massachusetts; Max Peterson, International Association of Fish and Wildlife
Agencies, Norville Prosser, Sport Fishing Institute, and Margaret Podlich,
Center for Marine Conservation, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
STRATEGIC NUCLEAR REDUCTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings to examine the
future of United States policy toward strategic nuclear reduction in the
post-cold war era, focusing on national security, arms control, and
verification implications of the proposed Treaty with the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive
Arms (START Treaty) (Treaty Doc. 102-20), receiving testimony from Albert
Carnesale, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts; Richard L. Garwin, Thomas J. Watson Research Center
(IBM Research Division), Yorktown Heights, New York; Sidney N. Graybeal,
Science Applications International Corporation, McLean, Virginia; and William
R. Harris, Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
INDONESIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine United
States policy toward Indonesia, focusing on human rights violations in East
Timor as a result of Indonesia's occupation, after receiving testimony from
Geoffrey Robinson, Amnesty International USA, Washington, D.C.; and Allan
Nairn, The New Yorker, Sidney R. Jones, Asia Watch, and The Right Rev. Paul
Moore, Jr., all of New York, New York.
MONEY LAUNDERING TRENDS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
held hearings to examine current trends in money laundering, focusing on the
role of businesses that, while not "banks," perform many services of
traditional banking institutions, and are therefore the target of illegal drug
money laundering, receiving testimony from Kim L. Wherry, Staff Counsel, and
Harold B. Lippman, Staff Investigator, both of the Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations; Ronald G. Woods, United States Attorney, and Charles E. Lewis,
Assistant United States Attorney, both of the Southern District of Texas,
Houston; Ronald J. Eatinger, Chief (Houston, Texas), and Dennis E. Crawford,
Chief (Los Angeles, California), both of the Criminal Investigations Division,
Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury; and California Deputy
Attorney General James D. Dutton, Sacramento.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
The nominations of Karen J. Williams, of South Carolina, to be United States
Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, Mary Little Parell, to be United States
District Judge for the District of New Jersey, Garland E. Burrell, Jr., to be
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of California, Roderick
R. McKelvie, to be United States District Judge for the District of Delaware,
William B. Traxler, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the District
of South Carolina, David James Jordan, to be United States Attorney for the
District of Utah, and Jack W. Selden, to be United States Attorney for the
Northern District of Alabama;
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S.J. Res. 139, to designate October 1992, as "National Lock-In-Safety Month,"
with an amendment;
S.J. Res. 210, to designate March 12, 1992, as "Girl Scouts of the United
States of America 80th Anniversary Day";
H.J. Res. 343, to designate March 12, 1992, as "Girl Scouts of the United
States of America 80th Anniversary Day";
S.J. Res. 214, to designate May 16-22, 1992, as "National Awareness Week for
Life-Saving Techniques";
S.J. Res. 218, to designate the calendar year, 1993, as the "Year of American
Craft: A Celebration of the Creative Works of the Hand";
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S.J. Res. 224, to designate March 1992, as "Irish-American Heritage Month";
H.J. Res. 350, to designate March 1992, as "Irish-American Heritage Month";
S.J. Res. 233, to designate the week of April 12, 1992, as "National Public
Safety Telecommunicators Week";
S.J. Res. 239, to designate February 6, 1992, as "National Women and Girls in
Sports Day";
H.J. Res. 395, to designate February 6, 1992, as "National Women and Girls in
Sports Day";
S.J. Res. 240, to designate March 25, 1992, as "Greek Independence Day";
S.J. Res. 244, to commemorate the centennial of the founding of the National
Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws;
S.J. Res. 246, to designate April 15, 1992, as "National Recycling Day";
S.J. Res. 254, to commend the New York Stock Exchange on the occasion of its
bicentennial which is May 17, 1992; and
S.J. Res. 35, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States
relative to contributions and expenditures intended to affect Congressional
and Presidential elections.
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VETERANS PROGRAMS
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Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1993 for veterans
programs, after receiving testimony from Anthony J. Principi, Deputy Secretary
of Veterans Affairs; David S. Ritterspuch, Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor
for Veterans Employment and Training; Andrew R. Hoffman, Chief of Medicine, VA
Medical Center (Palo Alto, California), representing the American Federation
for Clinical Research; Michael F. Brinck, AMVETS, Fred Cowell, Paralyzed
Veterans of America, James N. Magill, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Richard F.
Schultz, Disabled American Veterans, all of Washington, D.C.; Dodd Wilson,
University of Arkansas College of Medicine, Fayetteville, representing the
Association of American Medical Colleges; and Harold J. Fallon, Medical
College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, representing
the Association of Professors of Medicine.
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INDIAN PROGRAMS
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Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1993 for Indian programs,
after receiving testimony from Eddie F. Brown, Assistant Secretary of Indian
Affairs, Department of the Interior; John T. MacDonald, Assistant Secretary of
Education for Elementary and Secondary Education; Everett R. Rhoades,
Director, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services;
Norine Smith, Minneapolis Indian Health Board, Minneapolis, on behalf of the
American Indian Health Care Association; David Gipp, American Indian Higher
Education Consortium, and Karen J. Funk and Carol Barbero, both of Hobbs,
Straus, Dean and Wilder, both on behalf of the National Indian Education
Association, all of Washington, D.C.; Andrew Lorentine, National Indian Health
Board, Denver, Colorado; and Terrence Hunter, Oklahoma City Urban Indian
Clinic, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on behalf of the Association of American
Indian Physicians.
Joint Meetings
AIRCRAFT INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Technology and National Security
resumed hearings to examine international competition in the commercial
aircraft industry, focusing on the impact of the proposed sale of 40 percent
of McDonnell Douglas' commercial aircraft business to Taiwan Aerospace,
receiving testimony from J. Michael Farren, Under Secretary of Commerce; James
M. Beggs, former Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration;
Lawrence W. Clarkson, Boeing Company, Arlington, Virginia; John D. Wolf,
Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California; Daniel B. Hartley, Seattle
Professional Engineering Employees Association, Seattle, Washington; and Laura
D'Andrea Tyson, University of California, Berkeley.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1992/02/28
Daily Digest - Friday, February 28, 1992; pages D182 - D188 (Bd vol. D85 -
D86)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DOD INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on inventory management
activities of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony from Sean
O'Keefe, Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer, Department of Defense; and
Frank C. Conahan, Assistant Comptroller General, General Accounting Office.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BROADBAND COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings on S. 1200, to establish a goal for the
development of a nationwide broadband communications system by the year 2015,
to promote the efficient deployment of technologies capable of supporting
multiple communications uses, and to permit local telephone companies to
provide video programming, subject to specified anti-monopoly safeguards,
after receiving testimony from Senator Dole; Alfred C. Sikes, Chairman,
Federal Communications Commission; Thomas Sugrue, Acting Assistant Secretary
of Commerce for Communications and Information; Michael Dertouzos,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science,
Cambridge; Alfred Sonnenstrahl, Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc., Silver
Spring, Maryland; Thomas Gillett, Gillett, Lehman & Associates, St. Louis,
Missouri; Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr., Economic Strategy Institute, Phil Verveer,
National Cable Television Association, and Harry M. Shooshan, National
Economic Research Associates, all of Washington, D.C.; Robert G. Harris,
University of California at Berkeley; Dennis J. Nagel, Iowa Utilities Board,
Des Moines, on behalf of the National Association of Regulatory Utility
Commissioners; William F. Squadron, New York City Department of
Telecommunications and Energy, New York, New York; and Irwin Popowsky,
Pennsylvania State Office of the Consumer Advocate, Harrisburg.
Also, committee concluded hearings on issues relating to cable-instructional
television, after receiving testimony from Senator Bingaman; David Brugger,
America's Public Television Stations, Washington, D.C.; Harry Miller, United
States Distance Learning Association, South Burlington, Vermont; John
Hendricks, Discovery Communications, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland; and Howard
Miller, Public Broadcasting System, Alexandria, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PRIVACY OF SOCIAL SECURITY RECORDS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy
concluded hearings to examine alleged illegal intrusions into personal Social
Security records, and on whether statutory controls are needed on the use of
the Social Security number in the private sector, after receiving testimony
from Larry D. Morey, Deputy Inspector General for Investigations, and Louis D.
Enoff, Principal Deputy Commissioner of Social Security, Social Security
Administration, both of the Department of Health and Human Services; and
Morton H. Halperin, American Civil Liberties Union, Evan D. Hendricks, United
States Privacy Council, and Marc Rotenberg, Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility, all of Washington, D.C.
STRATEGIC NUCLEAR REDUCTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued hearings to examine the
future of United States policy toward strategic nuclear reduction in the
post-cold war era, focusing on national security, arms control, and
verification implications of the proposed Treaty with the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive
Arms (START Treaty) (Treaty Doc. 102-20), receiving testimony from Henry A.
Kissinger, Kissinger and Associates, New York, New York, former Secretary of
State and former Assistant to President for National Security Affairs.
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Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 3.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/03/02
Daily Digest - Monday, March 2, 1992; pages D190 - D194 (Bd vol. D86 - D87)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Robert C. Frasure, of West Virginia, to be Ambassador to
Estonia, Darryl Norman Johnson, of Washington, to be Ambassador to Lithuania,
and Ints M. Silins, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to Latvia, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/03/03
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 3, 1992; pages D196 - D206 (Bd vol. D88 - D93)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held oversight
hearings on the implementation of the national school lunch program, receiving
testimony from Dale Conoscenti, Barre Town Elementary School, Barre, Vermont;
Sue Greig, Manhattan, Kansas, Elizabeth McPherson, Yanceyville, North
Carolina, Annette Bomar, Atlanta, Georgia, and Marshall Matz, Washington,
D.C., all on behalf of the American School Food Service Association; Jo Busha,
Vermont Department of Education, Montpelier; and Charles Hughes, Local 372,
Board of Education Employees, District Council 37, New York, New York, on
behalf of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees,
AFL-CIO.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the
Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Harry C. Mussman, Acting 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 Robert
Sherman, Budget Officer, all of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 17.
APPROPRIATIONS--NAVY/MARINE CORPS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1993, receiving testimony in behalf of funds
for their respective activities from H. Lawrence Garrett III, Secretary of the
Navy; Adm. Frank B. Kelso II, Chief of Naval Operations; and Gen. Carl E.
Mundy, Jr., Commandant of the Marine Corps.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 5.
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U.S. MILITARY STRATEGY FOR EUROPE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to examine United States
military strategy, roles and missions, and force levels for Europe, receiving
testimony from Gen. John R. Galvin, USA, Commander in Chief, U.S. European
Command; Gen. Crosbie E. Saint, USA, Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe;
Gen. Robert C. Oaks, USAF, Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Force Europe; and Adm.
Jeremy M. Boorda, USN, Commander, Allied Forces Southern Europe.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests held hearings on S. 1755, to reform the concessions
policies of the National Park Service, receiving testimony from Manuel Lujan,
Jr., Secretary of the Interior; and James M. Ridenour, Director, National Park
Service, Department of the Interior.
Hearings continue on Thursday, March 5.
ECONOMIC GROWTH REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported H.R. 4210, to
provide incentives for increased economic growth and to provide tax relief for
American families, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As
approved by the committee, the bill includes provisions of S. 1872 and S.
1364.)
STRATEGIC NUCLEAR REDUCTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings to examine the
future of United States policy toward strategic nuclear reduction in the
post-cold war era, focusing on national security, arms control, and
verification implications of the proposed Treaty with the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive
Arms (START Treaty) (Treaty Doc. 102-20), receiving testimony from Richard N.
Perle, American Enterprise Institute, former Assistant Secretary of Defense
for International Security Affairs, and Edward L. Warner III, RAND, both of
Washington, D.C.; and Sidney D. Drell, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Stanford, California.
Hearings continue on Thursday, March 5.
FEDERAL CONTRACTING PROCESS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee continued hearings to examine
contracting and procurement activities of certain executive branch programs,
focusing on Resolution Trust Corporation efforts to account for certain
ledgers at several financial institutions in their Western Region (Operation
Western Storm), receiving testimony from Richard C. Stiener, Director, and
Donald G. Fulwider, Assistant Director, both of the Office of Special
Investigations, and J. William Gadsby, Director, Federal Management Issues,
and Leon H. Green, Senior Evaluator, both of the General Government Division,
all of the General Accounting Office; Charles Randall Collins, Financial
Information Analyst, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; John Tierney,
Director, Office of Contracts, William H. Roelle, Senior Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer, David C. Cooke, Sr., Vice President, Lamar C. Kelly,
Jr., Senior Vice President, Sherwin R. Koopmans, Western Regional Vice
President, David J. Pyland, Western Region, Conservatorship Specialist,
Russell W. Brown, Asset Operations Specialist, Western Region, Keith Carson,
Director, Intermountain Consolidated Office, John J. Adair, Inspector General,
and Sharon Vander Vennet, Assistant Inspector General for Audit, all of the
Resolution Trust Corporation; and John R. Block and Michael E. Cunningham,
both of Baird, Kurtz & Dobson, Kansas City, Missouri.
Also, on Monday, March 2, committee held hearings to examine contracting and
procurement activities of the Environmental Protection Agency, receiving
testimony from John C. Martin, Inspector General, Kenneth A. Konz, Assistant
Inspector General for Audit, John Price, Audit Manager for the Computer
Science Corporation Report, and Christian R. Holmes, Acting Administrator for
Administration and Resource Management, all of the Environmental Protection
Agency.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ORPHAN DRUG AMENDMENTS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
2060, to revise and authorize funds through fiscal year 1994 for the orphan
drug provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Public Health
Service Act, and the Orphan Drug Act, receiving testimony from Representative
Studds; David A. Kessler, Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration,
Department of Health and Human Services; Abbey S. Meyers, National
Organization for Rare Disorders, Inc., New Fairfield, Connecticut; Catherine
V. Hayes, Huntington's Disease Society of America, Derek Hodel, People with
AIDS Health Group, and Harry H. Penner, Jr., Novo Nordisk of North America,
all of New York, New York; Robert K. Dresing, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation,
Bethesda, Maryland; Stephen A. Duzan, Immunex Corporation, Seattle,
Washington, representing the Industrial Biotechnology Association; Forrest
Anthony, Association of Biotechnology Companies, and Gerald J. Mossinghoff,
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Mitchel
Sayare, ImmunoGen, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dixie Gasparini,
Springfield, Illinois; and Philip M. Stinson, Sr., Fairfax, Virginia.
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HOUSING AND FUEL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS FOR THE ELDERLY
Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings to examine the impact of
the Administration's proposed fiscal year 1993 reductions in fuel assistance
and housing programs for the elderly, receiving testimony from Donna Neal
Givens, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for
Children and Families; LaVerne Ausman, Administrator, Farmers Home
Administration, Department of Agriculture; Arthur J. Hill, Assistant Secretary
of Housing and Urban Development for Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner;
Robert Odom, Social Development Commission, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Diana L.
Huot, York-Cumberland Housing Development Corporation, Gorham, Maine; Margaret
Dixon, American Association of Retired Persons, Diane DeVaul,
Northeast-Midwest Institute, Michael Rogers, American Association of Homes for
the Aging, and Moises Loza, Housing Assistance Council, Inc., all of
Washington, D.C.; Lois Day, Blanchard, Maine; and Mary Moore, Des Moines,
Iowa.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
PRESIDENT'S ECONOMIC REPORT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings to examine the 1992
economic report of the President and the Nation's economic outlook, receiving
testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
Joint Hearings: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint hearings
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs on the legislative
recommendations of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, after receiving testimony
from Representative Gallo; and Robert Wallace, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the
United States, Washington, D.C.
1992/03/04
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 4, 1992; pages D207 - D216 (Bd vol. D93 - D99)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--GSA/CUSTOMS/FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1993, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Richard G. Austin, Administrator, General Services Administration; and
Carol B. Hallett, Commissioner, U.S. Customs Service, and Brian M. Bruh,
Director, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, both of the Department of the
Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 18.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1993 for the Department of
Defense, and the future year defense plan, focusing on military strategy and
operational requirements of the unified commands, receiving testimony from
Adm. Leon A. Edney, USN, Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command; Adm.
Charles R. Larson, USN, Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command; and Gen.
Robert W. RisCassi, USA, Commander, U.S. Forces, Korea.
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Hearings continue tomorrow.
WATER RESOURCES INFRASTRUCTURE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure held hearings to examine water resources
infrastructure needs and impacts, receiving testimony from Anne D. Aylward,
American Association of Port Authorities, Alexandria, Virginia; Joseph E.
Lema, National Coal Association, Washington, D.C.; J. Stephen Lucas, Louis
Dreyfus Corporation, Wilton, Connecticut, on behalf of the National Grain and
Feed Association; Frank G. Martin, Jr., Indiana Port Commission, Indianapolis;
Lillian C. Liburdi, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New York, New
York; and M. John Vickerman, Vickerman-Zachery-Miller, Oakland, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered reported the following
business items:
S. Con. Res. 70, to express U.S. support for the protection of the African
elephant;
S. Con. Res. 80, to express the sense of the Congress regarding democratic
change, human rights violations, and peacekeeping arrangements in Zaire, with
amendments;
S. Con. Res. 89, concerning the United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development;
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights signed on behalf of
the United States on October 5, 1977 (Ex. E, 95th Congress, 2d Session), with
reservations, understandings, declarations;
S.J. Res. 234, expressing the sense of Congress regarding the Government of
Kenya's November 14 through 16, 1991, suppression of the democratic opposition
and suspending economic and military assistance for Kenya; and
The nominations of Scott M. Spangler, of Arizona, to be Associate
Administrator of the Agency for International Development (Operations), Herman
Jay Cohen, of New York, for the personal rank of Career Ambassador, and to be
a Member of the Board of Directors of the African Development Foundation,
Salvador Lew, of Florida, to be a Member of the Advisory Board for Cuba
Broadcasting, Eugene C. Johnson, of Maryland, and Tahlman Krumm, Jr., of Ohio,
each to be a Member of the Peace Corps National Advisory Council, and routine
Foreign Service Officers' appointments and promotion lists.
HATCH ACT REFORM AMENDMENTS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee began markup of S. 914, to revise
certain provisions of the Hatch Act governing the participation of Federal
employees in political activities, but did not complete action thereon, and
recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Robert L. Echols, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District
of Tennessee, Jimm L. Hendren, to be United States District Judge for the
Western District of Arkansas, John R. Padova, to be United States District
Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and Ira DeMent, to be United
States District Judge for the Middle District of Alabama, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Echols was
introduced by Senators Sasser and Gore, and Representatives Sundquist,
Clement, and Tanner, Mr. Hendren was introduced by Senators Bumpers and Pryor
and Representative Hammerschmidt, Mr. Padova was introduced by Senators
Specter and Wofford, and Mr. DeMent was introduced by Senator Shelby and
Representative Dickinson.
JUVENILE COURTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice resumed oversight
hearings on juvenile justice in America, focusing on the status of the
juvenile court system, receiving testimony from David A. Reiser, Public
Defender Service for the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C.; Frank
Orlando, Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Michael Malmstadt,
Milwaukee County Children's Court, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; David Mitchell,
Circuit Court for Baltimore City, Baltimore, Maryland; Barry C. Feld,
University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis; Gary Melton, University of
Nebraska, Lincoln; Robert G. Schwartz, Juvenile Law Center, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, representing the American Bar Association; and Christopher
Baird, National Council on Crime and Delinquency, Madison, Wisconsin.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to examine
proposals to reform America's health care system, receiving testimony from
Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services; Stuart H. Altman,
Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, and Chairman, Prospective Payment
Assessment Commission; and Judith Feder, Georgetown University School of
Medicine, and Stuart M. Butler, Heritage Foundation, both of Washington, D.C.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE REORGANIZATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed hearings on S. 2198, to
reorganize the United States intelligence community to provide for the
improved management and execution of United States intelligence activities,
receiving testimony from Adm. Bobby Inman, Chairman, President's Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board; Morton Abramowitz, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, Washington, D.C., former Assistant Secretary of State for
Intelligence and Research; and Ernest R. May, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
Hearings continue on Thursday, March 12.
Joint Meetings
U.S. AGRICULTURAL COMPETITIVENESS
Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Economic Goals and Intergovernmental
Policy concluded hearings to examine United States agricultural
competitiveness policy and how current trade talks on Europe's farm subsidies
and the North American Free Trade Agreement will affect the farm industry,
after receiving testimony from Robert Thompson, Purdue University, Lafayette,
Indiana, former Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Economics; Dale
Hathaway, National Center for Food and Agriculture Policy, Washington, D.C.,
former Under Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and Commodity
Programs; Robert Paarlberg, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and
Dennis Avery, Hudson Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana.
U.S. COMPETITIVENESS POLICY
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
concluded joint hearings with the Joint Economic Committee's Subcommittee on
Technology and National Security to examine the Competitiveness Policy Council
report on United States competitiveness, focusing on the need to establish a
new national strategy to promote economic recovery and safeguards, after
receiving testimony from New York State Comptroller Edward Regan, Albany, Rand
Araskog, ITT Corporation, New York, New York, and C. Fred Bergsten, Institute
for International Economics, and Albert Shanker, American Federation of
Teachers, both of Washington, D.C., all representing the Competitiveness
Policy Council.
1992/03/05
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 5, 1992; pages D218 - D228 (Bd vol. D99 - D105)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for
the Department of State, receiving testimony from James A. Baker III,
Secretary of State.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 19.
APPROPRIATIONS--ARMY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the United States Army, receiving
testimony from Michael P.W. Stone, Secretary of the Army; and Gen. Gordon R.
Sullivan, Army Chief of Staff.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 17.
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Raymond DeCarli, Assistant Inspector General, Department of Transportation;
and Edward J. Philbin, Chairman, Gail C. McDonald, Vice Chairman, and J.J.
Simmons III, Karen B. Phillips, and Edward M. Emmett, each a Commissioner, all
of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 18.
APPROPRIATIONS--CONSUMER AFFAIRS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Jacqueline
Jones-Smith, Chairman, Consumer Products Safety Commission; Ann Windham
Wallace, Director, U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs, Department of Health and
Human Services; and Teresa N. Nasif, Director, Consumer Information Center,
General Services Administration.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 19.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the
unified commands regional military strategy and operational requirements, and
to review the future year defense plan, receiving testimony from Gen. Joseph
P. Hoar, USMC, Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command; Gen. George A.
Joulwan, USA, Commander in Chief, U.S. Southern Command; and Gen. Carl W.
Stiner, USA, Commander in Chief, U.S. Special Operations Command.
Committee recessed subject to call.
RTC/AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROGRAM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
to review the Resolution Trust Corporation's (RTC) operations and its current
funding needs, and to examine the progress of its Affordable Housing Program,
after receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the
United States, General Accounting Office; Alfred A. DelliBovi, Deputy
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Conrad E. Egan, National
Corporation for Housing Partnerships, Washington, D.C.; and Bart Harvey, The
Enterprise Foundation, Columbia, Maryland.
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CONCESSIONS POLICY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 1755, to reform the
concessions policies of the National Park Service, after receiving testimony
from William J. Chandler, National Parks and Conservation Association, James
D. Santini, Conference of National Park Concessioners, and Roger Mann,
Marriott Corporation, all of Washington, D.C.; George E. Campsen, Jr., Fort
Sumter Tours, Inc., Charleston, South Carolina; Donald S. Green, Yosemite
Restoration Trust, San Francisco, California; Tom Mace, Forever Resorts,
Phoenix, Arizona; Stanley Selengut, Maho Bay Camps, Inc., New York, New York;
and Gaylord Staveley, Canyoneers, Inc., Flagstaff, Arizona, on behalf of
America Outdoors.
AUTHORIZATIONS--SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL (RECYCLING)
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection concluded hearings on S. 976, authorizing funds through fiscal year
1996 for programs of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, focusing on the need to
create a national recycling program, after receiving testimony from Mayor
Patricia Ticer, Alexandria, Virginia, on behalf of the U.S. Conference of
Mayors; Steve Cramer, Minneapolis, Minnesota, on behalf of the National League
of Cities, the National Association of Counties and the Solid Waste
Association of North America; Emily Lloyd, New York City Department of
Sanitation, and Allen Hershkowitz, Natural Resources Defense Council, both of
New York, New York; Dennis M. Sabourin, Wellman, Inc., Shrewsbury, New Jersey;
Deborah D. Anderson, Proctor and Gamble Company, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mason
Sizemore, The Seattle Times, Seattle, Washington; and Frank J. Consoli, Scott
Paper Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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STRATEGIC NUCLEAR REDUCTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings to examine the
future of United States policy toward strategic nuclear reduction in the
post-cold war era, focusing on national security, arms control, and
verification implications of the proposed Treaty with the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive
Arms (START Treaty) (Treaty Doc. 102-20), receiving testimony from Jonathan
Dean, Union of Concerned Scientists, former Ambassador to the Mutual and
Balanced Force Reduction Talks, Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr., The Arms Control
Association, former Deputy Director, United States Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency, and Jay P. Kosminsky, The Heritage Foundation, all of
Washington, D.C.; and Frank von Hippel, Princeton University, Princeton, New
Jersey.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 10.
GARNISHMENT EQUALIZATION ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post
Office, and Civil Service concluded hearings on S. 316, to provide that the
pay of Federal employees be treated in the same manner as that of other
employees for purposes of garnishment and similar legal procedures, after
receiving testimony from Senator Craig; Representative Jacobs; Jean M. Barber,
Deputy Associate Director for Personnel Systems and Oversight, Office of
Personnel Management; William P. Tayman, Jr., Director, Office of Strategic
Finance, and John Kinevich, Program Manager, Office of Payroll Systems, both
of the United States Postal Service; Lt. Gen. R. Minter Alexander, USAF,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Military Manpower and Personnel
Policy); John W. Johnson, American Collectors Association, Inc., Minneapolis,
Minnesota; Charlene Sullivan, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana; and
Warren W. Rosenfeld, McNeily and Rosenfeld, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the
Commercial Law League of America.
JOBS AND FAMILIES
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs, and Alcoholism held hearings to examine the economic and demographic
changes that will affect the work force of the 21st century, focusing on the
impact of changing economic patterns on businesses, families and the work
force, and possible solutions for creating a more productive future economy,
receiving testimony from Suzanne Bianchi, Statistician/Demographer, Bureau of
the Census, Department of Commerce; Frank P. Doyle, General Electric, and The
Committee for Economic Development, Fairfield, Connecticut; Ira Magaziner,
SJS, Inc., Providence, Rhode Island; Steven Rockwell, Peru-Miami County
Economic Development Corporation, Peru, Indiana; John Rathgeber, Connecticut
Business and Industry Association, Hartford, Connecticut; Faith Wohl, Du Pont
Company, Wilmington, Delaware; Ronald Blue, Ronald Blue and Company, Atlanta,
Georgia; Betty Williams, United Charities, Chicago, Illinois; and Rose Anna
Schurk, Guilford, Connecticut.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 10.
Joint Meetings
REINVENTING GOVERNMENT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine Federal,
State, and local efforts to restructure government through greater reliance on
competition, decentralization, and leveraging of community and private
resources, focusing on ideas contained in the book, "Reinventing Government:
How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector," after
receiving testimony from Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld, Boston; Texas
Comptroller John Sharp, Austin; Ted Gaebler, Visalia, California; and David
Osborne, Dedham, Massachusetts.
VETERANS ORGANIZATIONS
Joint Hearing: 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
from H. Louis Brooks, Veterans of World War I of the USA, Victor S. McCoy,
Sr., Paralyzed Veterans of America, and Gerard M. McDonnell, Blinded Veterans
Association, all of Washington, D.C.; Joseph R. Hems, Military Order of the
Purple Heart, Springfield, Virginia; Col. Erik G. Johnson, USA (Ret.),
Association of the United States Army, Arlington, Virginia; and Col. William
Hart, USMC (Ret.), The Retired Officers Association, Alexandria, Virginia.
1992/03/06
Daily Digest - Friday, March 6, 1992; pages D230 - D232 (Bd vol. D105 - D106)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Research and General Legislation held hearings to examine
impediments to commercialization of alternative uses of agricultural
commodities, receiving testimony from Daniel A. Sumner, Acting Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture for Economics; William R. Gibbons, South Dakota State
University, Brookings; Shelby F. Thames, University of Southern Mississippi,
Hattiesburg; Ken Tracy, Warner-Lambert Company, Morris Plains, New Jersey;
Herbert D. Knudsen, Natural Fibers Corporation, Ogallala, Nebraska; Mark
McAfee, Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, St. Paul, Minnesota; and
Michael Warner, Hillsboro, North Dakota, and Jerril Rustan, Dickinson, North
Dakota, both on behalf of the Northern Regional Agricultural Utilization
Consortium.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--HOUSING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
housing and community development programs, receiving testimony from Mayor
Kurt Schmoke, Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of the United States Conference
of Mayors; Ely Broad, Kaufman and Broad Home Corporation, Los Angeles,
California; James W. Rouse, The Enterprise Foundation, Columbia, Maryland; and
Lawrence B. Simons, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer, and Murphy, Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS PROTECTION
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade held hearings on
intellectual property rights protection and the "Special 301" provisions of
the 1988 Trade Act, receiving testimony from Joshua Bolten, General Counsel,
Office of the United States Trade Representative; and Harvey E. Bale, Jr.,
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, Robert W. Holleyman II, Business
Software Alliance, Hilary Rosen, Recording Industry Association of America,
and Jack Valenti, Motion Picture Association of America, all of Washington,
D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INDONESIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine United
States policy toward Indonesia, focusing on human rights violations in East
Timor as a result of Indonesia's occupation, after receiving testimony from
Kenneth P. Quinn, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and
Pacific Affairs.
Joint Meetings
EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings on the
employment-unemployment situation for February, receiving testimony from
William G. Barron, Acting Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department
of Labor.
Committee recessed subject to call.
1992/03/09
Daily Digest - Monday, March 9, 1992; pages D234 - D236 (Bd vol. D106)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/03/10
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 10, 1992; pages D237 - D244 (Bd vol. D106 -
D110)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
STRATEGIC NUCLEAR REDUCTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings to examine the
future of United States policy toward strategic nuclear reduction in the
post-cold war era, focusing on certain issues involving the successor states
of the former Soviet Union with regard to the proposed Treaty with the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic
Offensive Arms (START Treaty) (Treaty Doc. 102-20), receiving testimony from
Ralph Earle II, former Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, on
behalf of the Lawyer's Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control, and John B.
Rhinelander, Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge, on behalf of the Lawyers
Alliance for World Security, both of Washington, D.C.; and George Bunn,
Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
LABOR DEPARTMENT'S REGULATORY POLICY
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to examine the
Department of Labor's implementation of the President's initiative to reduce
the burden of regulation on the United States economy, focusing on the effects
of a proposed moratorium on the Occupational and Health Administration's
ability to protect worker health and safety, receiving testimony from Lynn
Martin, Secretary of Labor.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs, and Alcoholism concluded hearings to examine economic and demographic
changes that will affect the work force of the 21st century, focusing on
proposed legislation to encourage businesses and consortia to expand child
care services for their employees, and how the Federal Government can
encourage partnerships between business and government and make an investment
in children and youth, after receiving testimony from William H. Kolberg,
National Alliance of Business, and William T. Archey, U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, both of Washington, D.C.; Judy Frick, Wichita, Kansas, on behalf of
the Kansas Action for Children, Inc., and Wichita/Sedgwick County Cities in
Schools, Inc.; Linda Thompson-Black, Seattle Cities in School, Inc., Seattle,
Washington; Robert J. McNiff, Danbury Schools and Business Collaborative,
Danbury, Connecticut; Victor Mitchell, CT United Labor Agency, Bristol,
Connecticut; and Barbara Allivato, Minneapolis, Minnesota, on behalf of the
Womens Economic Development Corporation (WEDCO).
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held hearings on the nomination of
Vice Adm. William O. Studeman, U.S. Navy, to be Deputy Director of Central
Intelligence, and to have the rank of Admiral while so serving, where the
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Murkowski, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/03/11
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 11, 1992; pages D246 - D254 (Bd vol. D110 -
D115)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DOD MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
held hearings on ways in which the United States can strengthen its support of
manufacturing technology programs being undertaken by the Department of
Defense, receiving testimony from Nicholas Torelli, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Production Resources; John W. Lyons, Director, National
Institute of Standards, Department of Commerce; Roger N. Nagel, LeHigh
University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Edward A. Miller, National Center for
Manufacturing Sciences, Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Leo Reddy, The National
Coalition for Advanced Manufacturing, and Wayne Sayer, Coalition for
Intelligent Manufacturing, both of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
RESOLUTION TRUST CORPORATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed oversight
hearings on Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) operations, focusing on RTC's
contracting procedures with regard to the Western Region's Asset
Stratification and Reconciliation (Western Storm) Project, and the impact upon
real estate values of the asset management and disposition activities of RTC,
receiving testimony from William H. Roelle, Senior Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer, Resolution Trust Corporation; Peter C. Aldrich, Aldrich,
Eastman & Waltch, Boston, Massachusetts; Bennett Brown, Enterprise National
Bank of Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida; and Blake Eagle, The Frank
Russell Company, Tacoma, Washington.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AM RADIO IMPROVEMENT ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings on S. 1101, to require the Federal
Communications Commission to prescribe standards for AM stereo radio
broadcasting, and other related proposals, after receiving testimony from
Alfred C. Sikes, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission; Pierre M.
Sutton, National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters, New York, New York;
Andrew Schwartzman, Media Access Project, Peter Tannewald, Arent, Fox,
Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, and Thomas J. Buono, BIA Consulting, all of
Washington, D.C.; Amancio Suarez, American Hispanic Owned Radio Stations,
Miami, Florida; Richard D. Novik, WKIP-AM/WRNQ-FM, Poughkeepsie, New York;
Richard A. Ferguson, NewCity Communications, Inc., Bridgeport, Connecticut;
and Jerry Misner, KRQ/KNST, Tucson, Arizona.
FORMER SOVIET UNION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the situation
in the former Soviet Union, focusing on the conflict between Armenia and
Azerbaijan and its implications for the entire region, how the United States
can encourage the democratic and free market reforms in the former Soviet
Union, and the responsibilities of the four nuclear weapons possession states
of the former Soviet Union with regard to implementation of and adherence to
the START Treaty (Treaty Doc. 102-20), after receiving testimony from Robert
S. Strauss, United States Ambassador to Russia, Department of State.
DOD INVENTORY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management held hearings to examine Department of Defense inventory management
issues, focusing on the existence of large quantities of excess stock and the
DOD's current purchasing practices, receiving testimony from Frank C. Conahan,
Assistant Comptroller, National Security and Industrial Affairs Division,
General Accounting Office; and Derek J. Vander Schaaf, Deputy Inspector
General, Colin McMillan, Assistant Secretary for Procurement and Logistics,
James Reay, Director of Logistics, Support Division, Office of Production and
Logistics, Lt. Gen. Charles McCausland, USAF, Director, Defense Logistics
Agency, Maj. Gen. James W. Hopp, USAF, Director of Supply, Office of the
Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for Logistics, Maj. Gen. Fred E. Elam, USA,
Assistant Deputy Chief of Army Staff for Logistics, and Rear Adm. Ray R.
Sareeram, SC, USN, Director, Supply Programs and Policy Division, Office of
the Chief of Naval Operations, all of the Department of Defense.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following bills:
S. 2062, to equalize the remedies available to all victims of intentional
employment discrimination;
S. 1962, to revise the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to remove a provision
excluding from application of the act any disparate impact case filed before a
specified date and decided after another specified date;
S. 600, to revise the Fair Labor Standards Act to improve the enforcement of
the child labor provisions, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
and
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S. 2055, authorizing funds for the Job Training Partnership Act and to
strengthen employment and training assistance programs and to improve the
targeting of services to economically disadvantaged adults and youth, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/03/12
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 12, 1992; pages D255 - D262 (Bd vol. D116 -
D121)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE PLANNING GUIDANCE SCENARIOS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded closed hearings to review a
Department of Defense document entitled "1994-1999 Defense Planning Guidance
Scenarios," after receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. Edwin S. Leland, Jr., USA,
Director for Strategic Plans and Policy (J-5), Office of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff; Rear Adm. Alexander J. Krekich, USN, Deputy Director for Strategy and
Policy, Office of the Joint Staff; and Jack D. Crouch II, Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Policy).
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported S. 1882, to authorize the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to
extend for a specified period the time required for the licensee to acquire
the requisite real property and commence and complete construction of a
specified project.
Also, committee began consideration of H.R. 429, to authorize additional funds
for the construction of the Buffalo Bill Dam and Reservoir, Shoshone Project,
and the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin Program, Wyoming, but did not complete
action thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday, March 18.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Robert C. Frasure, of West Virginia, to be Ambassador to
Estonia, Darryl Norman Johnson, of Washington, to be Ambassador to Lithuania,
Ints M. Silins, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to Latvia, and Parker W. Borg,
of Minnesota, to be Ambassador to the Union of Burma (Myanmar).
TREATY ON DISPOSAL OF HAZARDOUS WASTE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the Basel
Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and
Their Disposal, with Annexes, done at Basel on March 22, 1989 (Treaty Doc.
102-5), after receiving testimony from Representative Synar; Richard J. Smith,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International
Environmental and Scientific Affairs, and Sean Murphy, Attorney Adviser,
Office of the Legal Adviser, both of the Department of State; David Bussard,
Director, Characterization and Assessment Division, Office of Solid Waste,
Environmental Protection Agency; Jim Vallette, Greenpeace, and Harvey Alter,
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, both of Washington, D.C.; and John C. Bullock,
International Precious Metals Institute, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
U.S. TECHNOLOGY POLICY AND COMPETITIVENESS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Government Information and
Regulation concluded hearings to examine the Federal government's role in
technology policy and competitiveness, and on S. 2270, to require that Federal
employees who allocate Federal research and development funds be evaluated in
their job appraisals on the extent to which they seek advice and input from
the private sector, and S. 2271, to require Federal agencies to submit their
research and development budget requests statements outlining the impact the
spending will have on the economy, after receiving testimony from Julie Fox
Gorte, Senior Associate, Office of Technology Assessment; Loren C. Schmid,
Chairman, Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer; Erich Bloch,
Council on Competitiveness, and Jack Simon, General Motors Corporation, both
of Washington, D.C.; M. Franklin Squires, SEMATECH, Inc., Santa Clara,
California; and Mark S. Newkirk, Lanxide Corporation, Newark, Delaware.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Robert L. Echols, to be United States District Judge for the
Middle District of Tennessee, Jimm L. Hendren, to be United States District
Judge for the Western District of Arkansas, John R. Padova, to be United
States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and Ira
DeMent, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of Alabama.
Also, committee began consideration of S. 1985, to establish a commission to
review the Bankruptcy Code, and to revise the Bankruptcy Code in certain
aspects of its application to cases involving commerce and credit and
individual debtors and add a temporary chapter to govern reorganization of
small businesses.
AUTHORIZATIONS--EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and
Humanities approved for full committee consideration, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute, S. 1275, to authorize funds through fiscal year 1997
for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Department of
Education.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on the
following measures:
S. 523, to establish the National African-American Memorial Museum within the
Smithsonian Institution, after receiving testimony from Senators Simon and
McCain; Robert McC. Adams, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution; and Jesse
Hargrove, University of Arizona, Tucson; and
S.J. Res. 259, providing for the appointment of Barber B. Conable, Jr. as a
citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, after
receiving testimony from Representative Conable; and Robert McC. Adams (listed
above).
AMERICAN FOLKLIFE CENTER
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1993 through 1997 for
the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress, after receiving
testimony from Carolyn Brown, Associate Librarian for Cultural Affairs, and
Alan Jabbour, Director, and William L. Kinney, Jr., Chairman, Board of
Trustees, both of the American Folklife Center, all of the Library of
Congress; and Lynwood Montell, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green.
SBA BUDGET
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1993 and the fiscal year 1992
supplemental and reprogramming requests for the Small Business Administration,
after receiving testimony from Patricia F. Saiki, Administrator, Lawrence R.
Rosenbaum, Comptroller, and Mitchell Stanley, Associate Deputy Administrator
for Finance, Investment and Procurement, all of the Small Business
Administration; Richard D. Turner, South Shore Bank, Chicago, Illinois, on
behalf of the National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders; Scott
Davis, Deseret CDC, Midvale, Utah, on behalf of the National Association of
Development Companies; Peter McNeish, National Association of Small Business
Investment Companies, Alexandria, Virginia; and Donald R. Lawhorne, MESBIC
Ventures, Inc., Dallas, Texas, on behalf of the National Association of
Investment Companies.
INTELLIGENCE REORGANIZATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed hearings on S. 2198, to
reorganize the United States intelligence community to provide for the
improved management and execution of United States intelligence activities,
receiving testimony from Frank C. Carlucci, The Carlyle Group, Washington,
D.C., former Secretary of Defense, former Deputy Director of Central
Intelligence, former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs,
and former Ambassador to Portugal; Gen. Paul F. Gorman, USA (Ret.), former
Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Southern Command (Panama), former National
Intelligence Officer, and former J-5 and Assistant to the Joint Chiefs of
Staff; and Gen. Alfred M. Gray, USMC (Ret.), former Commandant of the Marine
Corps, former Commander of the 2nd Marine Division FMF, Atlantic, Camp
Lejeune, North Carolina, and former Commanding General FMF Europe.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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Joint Meeting
WHITE HOUSE COIN
Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 3337, to require the Secretary of
the Treasury to mint a coin in commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary
of the White House.
1992/03/13
Daily Digest - Friday, March 13, 1992; pages D264 - D272 (Bd vol. D121 - D123)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1993 for the Department of
Defense, and the future year defense plan, focusing on the military strategy
and operational requirements of the unified, specified, and supporting
commands, receiving testimony from Gen. Edwin H. Burba, Jr., USA, Commander in
Chief, U.S. Forces Command; Gen. Hansford T. Johnson, USAF, Commander in
Chief, U.S. Transportation Command; and Gen. John M. Loh, USAF, Commander,
Tactical Air Command.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
STRUCTURAL IMPEDIMENTS INITIATIVE
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade held hearings to
examine the Administration's objectives and current progress of the Structural
Impediments Initiative, relating to the United States-Japan economic
relationship, receiving testimony from Michael H. Moskow, Deputy United States
Trade Representative; James F. Rill, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust
Division, Department of Justice; Marjory E. Searing, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Japan; Olin L. Wethington, Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for International Affairs; Robert C. Fauver, Deputy Under
Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs; and Paul Wonnacott,
Member, President's Council of Economic Advisers.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
ARMS TRADE AND PROLIFERATION
Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Technology and National Security
held hearings to review United States policies and practices concerning trade
in conventional and nonconventional arms and sensitive technologies, focusing
on the status of the arms build-up and the spread of weapons of mass
destruction in the Middle East, receiving testimony from Richard A. Clarke,
Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs; Henry D.
Sokolski, Deputy for Non-Proliferation Policy, Office of the Assistant
Secretary of Defense; James A. Le Munyon, Acting Assistant Secretary of
Commerce for Export Administration; William C. Potter, Monterey Institute of
International Affairs, Monterey, California; Michael T. Klare, Hampshire
College, Amherst, Massachusetts; Kathleen Bailey, National Security Research
Inc., Fairfax, Virginia; and Janne Nolan, Brookings Institution, Washington,
D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1992/03/16
Daily Digest - Monday, March 16, 1992; pages D273 - D276 (Bd vol. D123 - D124)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/03/17
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 17, 1992; pages D277 - D284 (Bd vol. D124 -
D129)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the Food
and Nutrition Service and the Human Nutrition Information Service of the
Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony from Catherine A. Bertini,
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Food and Consumer Services.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 20.
APPROPRIATIONS--AIR FORCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the United States Air Force,
receiving testimony from Donald B. Rice, Secretary of the Air Force; and Gen.
Merrill A. McPeak, USAF, Air Force Chief of Staff.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 19.
APPROPRIATIONS--BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the Bonneville
Power Administration, receiving testimony from Randall Hardy, Administrator,
Bonneville Power Administration, Department of Energy.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 18.
NASA BUDGET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held hearings on the President's proposed budget request
for fiscal year 1993 for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
receiving testimony from Neal P. Curtin, Director, Planning and Reporting,
National Security and International Affairs Division, and Bill Crocker,
Evaluator-in-Charge, both of the General Accounting Office; Richard H. Truly,
Administrator, Aaron Cohen, Acting Deputy Administrator, and Thomas Campbell,
Comptroller, all of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Bruce
Murray, The Planetary Society, Pasadena, CA; and Glenn Mason, Association of
American Universities, and Cort Durocher, American Institute of Aeronautics
and Astronautics, both of Washington, DC.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
FUTURE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the status
of science and technology in the former Soviet Union, focusing on the role of
United States foreign policy with regard to the problems that the former
Soviet Union has to face in moving technology from their laboratories to
industry, receiving testimony from D. Allan Bromley, Director, Office of
Science and Technology Policy; Robert L. Gallucci, Senior Coordinator on
Scientists in the former Soviet Union, Department of State; Frank Press,
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC; and David A. Hamburg, Carnegie
Corporation, New York, NY.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills:
S. 914, to restore to Federal civilian employees their right to participate
voluntarily, as private citizens, in the political processes of the Nation and
to protect such employees from improper political solicitations;
S. 2039, to limit the functions of Federal advisory committees to advice only,
unless otherwise specifically provided with operational functions, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
S. 1880, to apply the District of Columbia Policemen and Firemen's Retirement
Disability Act to an officer, member, or retiree of the United States Park
Police Force or the United States Secret Service.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Paul J. Kelly Jr., of New Mexico, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
Tenth Circuit, J. Curtis Joyner, to be United States District Judge for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Donald J. Stohr, to be United States
District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, and Ewing Werlein Jr., to
be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Kelly was
introduced by Senators Domenici and Bingaman, Mr. Joyner was introduced by
Senators Specter and Wofford, Mr. Stohr was introduced by Senators Danforth
and Bond, and Mr. Werlein was introduced by Senators Bentsen and Gramm.
OSHA REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor resumed hearings
on S. 1622, to revise the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to
improve certain provisions of such Act with respect to the health and safety
of employees, receiving testimony from Stephen C. Perry, Wakefield, RI, on
behalf of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America; David
W. Cugell, Northwestern University Medical School, Evanston, IL, on behalf of
the American Lung Association; Ian Greaves, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, on behalf of the Association of University Programs in
Occupational Health and Safety; Lawrence M. Mann, Railway Labor Executives'
Association, Jordan Barab, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal
Employees, AFL-CIO, and Jeffrey Ruch, Government Accountability Project, all
of Washington, DC; David W. Marshall, Monett, MO; Amy Delguzzo, Reading, OH;
and Linda Porter, Argyle, TX.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1992/03/18
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 18, 1992; pages D286 - D296 (Bd vol. D129 -
D136)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--TVA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the Tennessee
Valley Authority, receiving testimony from Marvin Runyon, Chairman, John B.
Waters, Director, and William H. Kennoy, Director, all of the Tennessee Valley
Authority.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 25.
APPROPRIATIONS--FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for
the Federal Highway Administration, receiving testimony from Thomas D. Larson,
Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 25.
APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY DEPARTMENT/EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE
PRESIDENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1993, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Nicholas F. Brady, Secretary of the Treasury; and Paul W. Bateman, Deputy
Assistant to the President for Management, and Director, Office of
Administration, and Ron Rasmussen, Director, Financial Management Division,
both of the Executive Office of the President.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 25.
CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
held hearings to examine dual-use critical technology programs being
undertaken by the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy,
receiving testimony from Gary L. Denman, Director, Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency, Department of Defense; Warren P. Chernock, Deputy Science and
Technology Advisor for Defense Programs, Department of Energy; Craig Fields,
Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, and William J. Spencer,
SEMATECH, both of Austin, Texas; and Steven Bomba, GreatLakes Composite
Consortium, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 1993 for the Department of Defense and the future year defense
plan, focusing on command, control, communications and intelligence matters,
receiving testimony from Duane P. Andrews, Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence); Lt. Gen. James R.
Clapper, Jr., USAF, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency; and Vice Adm.
Richard C. Macke, USN, Director of Command, Control, Communication and
Computers (J-6), Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 24.
NASA BUDGET/SPACE STATION FREEDOM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on the President's proposed budget
request for fiscal year 1993 for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, focusing on the Space Station Freedom program and issues
related to NASA's space transportation programs, after receiving testimony
from Arnold D. Aldrich, Associate Administrator, and Gerry Smith, Special
Assistant, both of the Office of Space Systems Development, and William B.
Lenoir, Associate Administrator, and Michael Mann, Director, Resource
Management, both of the Office of Space Flight, all of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for the construction of certain water resources development
projects, after receiving testimony from Nancy P. Dorn, Assistant Secretary of
the Army (Civil Works); Maj. Gen. Arthur Williams, Director of Civil Works,
Army Corps of Engineers; G. Edward Dickey, Acting Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Army (Civil Works); Marcia H. Feldman, Office of the Governor
of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Port Development Program (PennPORTS); Virginia Beach Councilwoman Nancy K.
Parker, Virginia Beach, Virginia; R. Barry Palmer, Association for the
Development of Inland Navigation in America's Ohio Valley (DINAMO),
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Virginia Valentine, Clark County Regional Flood
Control District, Las Vegas, Nevada; and Vernon Behrhorst, Gulf Intracoastal
Canal Association, Lafayette, Louisiana.
BCCI INVESTIGATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations resumed hearings to examine allegations of certain
criminal activity by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI),
receiving testimony from Nazir Chinoy, Bank of Credit and Commerce
International in Paris, France; and John F. Lauro, Zuckerman, Spaeder, Taylor
and Evans, Tampa, Florida.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items:
S. 1275, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1997 for the Office of
Educational Research and Improvement, Department of Education, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nominations of George C. White, of Connecticut, to be a Member of the
National Council on the Arts, National Foundation for the Arts and the
Humanities, Janelle Block, of Wisconsin, to be a Member of the National
Advisory Council on Educational Research and Improvement, and Ian M. Ross, of
New Jersey, to be a Member of the National Science Board, National Science
Foundation.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
S. 2342, to provide for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay judgment
in favor of the Mississippi Sioux Indians in Indian Claims Commission dockets
numbered 142, 359, 360, 361, 362, and 363; and
The nomination of Carl J. Kunasek, of Arizona, to be Commissioner on the
Navajo-Hopi Relocation, Office of Navajo-Hopi Relocation.
Also, committee reconsidered its action of February 26, when they ordered
favorably reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 1602,
to ratify a compact between the Assinibone and Sioux Indian Tribes of the Fort
Peck Reservation and the State of Montana, and today vitiated the adoption of
the amendment in the nature of a substitute.
Committee also completed its review of those programs which fall within the
committee's jurisdiction as contained in the President's proposed budget for
fiscal year 1993, and agreed on recommendations it will make thereon to the
Committee on the Budget.
INDIAN GAMING REGULATORY ACT
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings on the
implementation of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (P.L. 100-497), receiving
testimony from Eddie F. Brown, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, and
Timothy W. Glidden, Chairman of the Task Force on Indian Gaming, both of the
Department of the Interior; Paul L. Maloney, Senior Counsel for Policy, Linda
Akers, U.S. Attorney, Chair, Indian Affairs Subcommittee of Attorney General's
Committee of U.S. Attorneys (Phoenix, Arizona), and James Moody, Special
Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, all of the Department of Justice; New
Mexico Governor Bruce King, Santa Fe, on behalf of the Western Governors
Association; California Deputy Attorney General Cathy Christian, Sacramento;
Anthony J. Hope, Joel Frank, and Jana McKeag, all of the National Indian
Gaming Commission, Washington, D.C.; Dale Phillips, Cocopah Tribal Council,
Somerton, Arizona; Gilbert Jones, Ft. McDowell Mohave-Apache Indian Community
Council, Fountain Hills, Arizona; Nora Garcia, Fort Mojave Tribal Council,
Needles, California; Eddie L. Tullis, Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Atmore,
Alabama; William Richardson, Jr., Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians,
Philadelphia, Mississippi; Richard A. Hayward, Mashantucket Pequot Tribe,
Ledyard, Connecticut; Twila Martin Kekahbah, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
Indians, Belcourt, North Dakota; Stanley G. Jones, Sr., Tulalip Tribes of
Washington, Marysville; Mathew Dick, Confederated Tribes of the Colville
Reservation, Nespelem, Washington; Glenn Feldman, Phoenix, Arizona; and Robert
Gips, Portland, Maine.
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Hearings continue on Wednesday, May 6.
Joint Meetings
ECONOMIC GROWTH/TAX RELIEF
Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 4210, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide
incentives for increased economic growth and to provide tax relief for
families, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
1992/03/19
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 19, 1992; pages D298 - D306 (Bd vol. D136 -
D142)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--JUSTICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993,
receiving testimony from William P. Barr, Attorney General, Department of
Justice.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 25.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for Guard and Reserve programs,
receiving testimony from Stephen M. Duncan, Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Reserve Affairs); Lt. Gen. John B. Conaway, USAF, Chief, National Guard
Bureau; Maj. Gen. Raymond F. Rees, USA, Director, Army National Guard; Maj.
Gen. Philip G. Killey, USAF, Director, Air National Guard; Maj. Gen. Roger W.
Sandler, USA, Chief, Army Reserve; Maj. Gen. John J. Closner, III, USAF,
Chief, Air Force Reserve; Rear Adm. James B. Taylor, USN, Director, Naval
Reserve; and Maj. Gen. Mitchell J. Waters, USMC, Assistant Deputy Chief of
Marine Corps Staff (Manpower and Reserve Affairs).
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 24.
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APPROPRIATIONS--INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 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 on Thursday, March 26.
APPROPRIATIONS--NSF/OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Walter E.
Massey, Director, and James J. Duderstadt, Chairman, National Science Board,
both of the National Science Foundation; and D. Allan Bromley, Director,
Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 25.
LEAD-BASED PAINT HAZARDS IN HOUSING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs concluded hearings on S. 2341, to reduce and eliminate
lead-based paint hazards in older homes and apartments, after receiving
testimony from Joseph G. Schiff, Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, and Arthur Newburg, Director, Office of Lead-Based Paint Abatement
and Poisoning Prevention, both of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development; Harold Shultz, City of New York Department of Housing and
Development, and Alice L. Brown, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund,
Inc., both of New York, New York; Cushing N. Dolbeare, National Low Income
Housing Coalition, Karen Florini, Environmental Defense Fund, Lisa Mihaly,
Children's Defense Fund, Denise B. Muha, National Leased Housing Association,
Don Ryan, Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning, and Milan Yager, National
Association of Home Builders, all of Washington, D.C.; William Ewall,
Cambridge Housing Authority, and Miles Mahoney, Housing Environmental
Services, Inc., both of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Walter G. Farr, The
Enterprise Foundation, Columbia, Maryland; David E. Jacobs, Georgia Institute
of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; George Peek, Reno, Nevada, on behalf of the
National Association of Realtors; Ellen K. Silbergeld, University of Maryland
Medical School, Baltimore; Herbert Tasker, All Pacific Mortgage Company,
Concord, California, on behalf of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America;
Carroll D. Vinson, Insignia Capital Corporation/Insignia Financial Group,
Inc., Greenville, South Carolina, on behalf of the National Multi-Housing
Council and the National Apartment Association; and Timothy J. and Antoinette
D. Burke, both of Emmaus, Pennsylvania.
RECLAMATION PROJECTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, H.R. 429, to revise
certain Federal reclamation laws to improve enforcement of acreage
limitations.
NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 684, to strengthen the
preservation of the nation's historic heritage and resources, after receiving
testimony from Jerry Rogers, Associate Director, Cultural Resources, National
Park Service, Department of the Interior; Robert A. Alost, Northwestern State
University of Louisiana, Natchitoches; H. Bryan Mitchell, National Conference
of State Historic Preservation Officers, and Nellie L. Longsworth,
Preservation Action, both of Washington, D.C.; Alan Downer, The Navajo Nation,
Window Rock, Arizona; and W. Cecil Steward, University of Nebraska, Lincoln,
on behalf of the American Institute of Architects.
GENOCIDE IN IRAQ
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine human
rights violations in Iraq, focusing on reports of mass executions and the
torturing of Kurdish civilians, receiving testimony from Andrew Whitley,
Middle-East Watch, New York, New York; Eric Stover, Physicians for Human
Rights, and Shep Lowman, United States Catholic Conference, both of
Washington, D.C.; Najmaldin Karim, Kurdish National Congress of North America,
Silver Spring, Maryland; and Clyde Collins Snow, Norman, Oklahoma.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
UNITED STATES ASSISTANCE TO FORMER SOVIET UNION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs held hearings
to examine the recommendations of certain United States nonprofit
organizations concerning United States assistance to the new independent
states of the former Soviet Union, receiving testimony from Michael C.
Brainerd, Citizen Exchange Council, New York, New York; Dan E. Davidson, Bryn
Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the American Council of
Teachers of Russian, and the American Council for Collaboration in Education
and Language Study; Joseph M. Lukitsch, United States-Baltic Foundation, and
L. Ronald Scheman, Fund for Democracy and Development, both of Washington,
D.C.; Richard G. Neuheisel, Sister Cities International, Alexandria, Virginia;
and Stephen M. Johnson, AmeriCares, New Canaan, Connecticut.
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Hearings will resume on Wednesday, April 8.
HORN OF AFRICA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs concluded
hearings to examine the United States response to the changing situation in
the region of the Horn of Africa, after receiving testimony from Herman J.
Cohen, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Andrew S. Natsios,
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Food and Humanitarian Assistance, Agency
for International Development; James Sulton, University of Wisconsin, Madison;
Leah Leatherbee, Fund for Peace, New York, New York; Hussein A. Bulhan, Basic
Health Management, Silver Spring, Maryland; and Peter Schraeder, Loyola
University, Chicago, Illinois.
WORKER HEALTH AND SAFETY PROTECTION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the
Federal regulatory process of the Office of Management and Budget concerning
worker health and safety protection, receiving testimony from James B. MacRae,
Jr., Acting Administrator and Deputy Administrator, and John F. Morrall III,
Branch Chief, and Randy Lutter, Senior Economist, both of the Human Resources
and Housing Branch, all of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget; David C. Vladeck, Public Citizen Litigation
Group, Washington, D.C.; and Ruth Ruttenberg, Bethesda, Maryland, former
Senior Economist, Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL BANKRUPTCY REVIEW COMMISSION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 1985, to establish a commission to
review the Bankruptcy Code, and to amend the Bankruptcy Code in certain
aspects of its application to cases involving commerce and credit and
individuals debtors and add a temporary chapter to govern reorganization of
small businesses.
HEALTH EDUCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 2191, to
establish comprehensive, high quality health education programs in the
nation's elementary and high schools, receiving testimony from J. Michael
McGinnis, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health (Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion), and Lloyd Kolbe, Director of the Division of Adolescent and School
Health, Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers
for Disease Control, both of the Department of Health and Human Services;
Alicia A. Snyder, Albuquerque, New Mexico, on behalf of the American School
Health Association; Maureen Corry, March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation,
White Plains, New York, on behalf of the National School Health Education
Coalition; Ken Resnicow, American Health Foundation, New York, New York;
Arlene R. Penfield, Rouses Point, New York, on behalf of the National School
Boards Association; and Jonathan Fielding, Johnson and Johnson Health
Management Inc., Los Angeles, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE REORGANIZATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed hearings on S. 2198, to
reorganize the United States intelligence community to provide for the
improved management and execution of United States intelligence activities,
receiving testimony from Senator Specter; and Richard K. Betts, Columbia
University, New York, New York, and Harold P. Ford, Washington, D.C., both
Consultants to the Central Intelligence Agency.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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Joint Meetings
ECONOMIC GROWTH/TAX RELIEF
Conferees continued in evening session to resolve the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 4210, to amend the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986 to provide incentives for increased economic growth and to
provide tax relief for families.
1992/03/20
Daily Digest - Friday, March 20, 1992; pages D308 - D316 (Bd vol. D142 - D145)
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 1993 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony from Roland
R. Vautour, Under Secretary, Small Community and Rural Development, La Verne
Ausman, Administrator, Farmers Home Administration, James E. Cason, Manager,
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, Michael M.F. Liu, Acting Administrator,
Rural Electrification Administration, Walter E. Hill, Acting Administrator,
Rural Development Administration, and Robert E. Sherman, Deputy Director for
Budget, Legislative, and Regulatory Systems, all of the Department of
Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 27.
DEFENSE BUDGET/U.S. MILITARY STRATEGY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1993 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on force-sizing options for building United States conventional
forces for the post Cold War era, and the Joint Military Net Assessment,
designed to assess the forces and capabilities of U.S. Armed Forces and allies
against potential adversaries, receiving testimony from Gen. Colin L. Powell,
USA, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Alan Robert Swendiman, of Maryland, to be General Counsel of the
Federal Labor Relations Authority, after the nominee testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
VETERANS BENEFITS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2322, to
increase the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected
disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the
survivors of certain disabled veterans, and S. 2323, to revise the rates of
dependency and indemnity compensation payable to surviving spouses of certain
service-disabled veterans, and to provide supplemental service disabled
veterans' insurance for totally disabled veterans, after receiving testimony
from D'Wayne Gray, Chief Benefits Director, Gary Hickman, Director,
Compensation and Pension Service, and John H. Thompson, Assistant General
Counsel, all of the Department of Veterans Affairs; Thomas H. Miller, Blinded
Veterans Association, John F. Heilman, Disabled American Veterans, Russell W.
Mank, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Philip R. Wilkerson, American Legion,
James N. Magill, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Rose Lee, Gold Star Wives of
America, all of Washington, D.C.; Jean Arthurs, National Association of
Military Widows, Arlington, Virginia; Michael F. Brinck, AMVETS, Lanham,
Maryland; and Richard W. Johnson, Non-Commissioned Officers Association, and
Sydney Hickey, National Military Family Association, both of Alexandria,
Virginia.
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Joint Meetings
ECONOMIC GROWTH/TAX RELIEF
Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 4210, to amend the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986 to provide incentives for increased economic growth and to
provide tax relief for families.
1992/03/24
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 24, 1992; pages D318 - D330 (Bd vol. D145 -
D153)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
IMPORTED FOREIGN GRAIN
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Domestic
and Foreign Marketing and Product Promotion held hearings on S. 1993, to
improve the monitoring of the domestic uses made of certain foreign grain
after importation, receiving testimony from Keith Bjerke, Administrator,
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, Daniel D. Haley,
Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service, and Stephen L. Censky,
Associate Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service, all of the Department
of Agriculture; Robert R. Petersen, National Grain Trade Council, Washington,
D.C.; Madison Angell, Mocksville, North Carolina, on behalf of the National
Association of Wheat Growers; Neal Fisher, North Dakota Wheat Commission,
Bismarck; and W. Craig Corbett, Idaho Barley Commission, Grace, on behalf of
the National Barley Growers Association.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on classified programs, receiving testimony from John J. Welch, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition).
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 26.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed hearings on
the nomination of Vice Adm. William O. Studeman, U.S. Navy, to be Deputy
Director of Central Intelligence, and to have the rank of Admiral while so
serving, 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 resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1993 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the Department of
Energy's Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Program, receiving
testimony from Leo P. Duffy, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental
Restoration and Waste Management.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 27.
AUTHORIZATION--RTC
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original bill to provide funding until April 1993 for the
Resolution Trust Corporation.
APPROPRIATIONS--EPA
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1993 for the Environmental
Protection Agency, after receiving testimony from William K. Reilly,
Administrator, F. Henry Habicht II, Deputy Administrator, and Christian R.
Holmes, Acting Assistant Administrator for Administration and Resources
Management, all of the Environmental Protection Agency.
PROFESSIONAL FEES IN BANKRUPTCY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative
Practices concluded oversight hearings to examine certain problems associated
with evaluating and monitoring the fees charged by professionals against
estates in bankruptcy, after receiving testimony from John E. Logan, Director,
Executive Office for United States Trustees, and Marcy J.K. Tiffany, United
States Trustee, Region 16, Central District of California, Los Angeles, both
of the Department of Justice; Keith M. Lundin, United States Bankruptcy Judge,
Nashville, Tennessee; M.C. Lund, Professional Fee Examiners, Inc., Denver,
Colorado; Lawrence A. Weiss, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana; Bruce
H. Simon, Cohen, Weiss & Simon, New York, New York; I. William Cohen, Pepper,
Hamilton & Scheetz, Detroit, Michigan, on behalf of the Commercial Law League
of America; and Keith J. Shapiro, Holleb & Coff, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf
of the American Bankruptcy Institute.
Joint Meetings
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources' Subcommittee on
Aging concluded joint hearings with the House Select Committee on Aging's
Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care to examine long-term care and other
issues related to persons with Alzheimer's disease, after receiving testimony
from Senator Hatfield; Leonard Berg, Washington University Alzheimer's Disease
Research Center, St. Louis, Missouri, on behalf of the Alzheimer's Association
Medical and Scientific Advisory Board; Hutch Parker, HBO Pictures, Parker
Stevenson, and Shelley Fabares, all of Los Angeles, California; Catherine
Brewer, Northport, New York; and Orien Reid, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1992/03/25
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 25, 1992; pages D331 - D340 (Bd vol. D154 -
D159)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
USDA MARKET PROMOTION PROGRAM
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held oversight
hearings on the implementation of the Department of Agriculture's market
promotion program and the long-term agricultural trade strategy to promote
exports of U.S. agricultural commodities, receiving testimony from
Representative Kostmayer; Duane Acker, Administrator, and Philip L. Mackie,
Assistant Administrator for Commodity and Marketing Programs, both of the
Foreign Agricultural Service, Department of Agriculture; Bruce Andrews, Oregon
Department of Agriculture, Salem; Charles Clark, Springdale, Arkansas, on
behalf of the USA Poultry and Egg Export Council; Woods Eastland, Greenwood,
Mississippi, on behalf of the National Cotton Council; Steve Yoder, Altha,
Florida, on behalf of the American Soybean Association; Jeff Johnson, Suffolk,
Virginia, on behalf of the National Peanut Council of America; and Stephen M.
Lovett, National Forest Products Association, Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--IRS/OPM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1993, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Shirley D. Peterson, Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, Department
of the Treasury; and Constance Berry Newman, Director, Office of Personnel
Management.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 1.
APPROPRIATIONS--NASA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, receiving testimony from Adm.
Richard H. Truly, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony from Senator Conrad;
Representative Stallings; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--FCC/SEC
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Alfred C. Sikes, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission; and Richard C.
Breeden, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 1.
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the Department of
Transportation, receiving testimony from Gen. Jerry Ralph Curry,
Administrator, Michael Brownlee, Assistant Administrator for Traffic Safety
Programs, and George Parker, Assistant Administrator for Research and
Development, each of the National Highway Traffic Administration, and Travis
P. Dungan, Administrator, Douglas Ham, Deputy Administrator, Alan Roberts,
Assistant Administrator for Hazardous Materials Safety, and George Tenley,
Assistant Administrator for Pipeline Safety, each of the Research and Special
Programs Administration, all of the Department of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 2.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel held
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1993 for
the Department of Defense, focusing on personnel programs of the military
services, receiving testimony from Senators Graham and Mack; Representative
Bilirakis; Christopher Jehn, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force
Management and Personnel; Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Carney, USA, Deputy Chief of Army
Staff for Personnel; Vice Adm. Ronald J. Zlatoper, USN, Chief of Naval
Personnel; Lt. Gen. Matthew T. Cooper, USMC, Deputy Chief of Marine Corps
Staff for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; Lt. Gen. Billy J. Boles, USAF, Deputy
Chief of Air Force Staff (Personnel); Paul L. Jones, Director, and Barry W.
Holman, Assistant Director, both for Defense Force Management Issues, National
Security and International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; Col.
Paul W. Arcari, USAF (Ret.), The Retired Officers Association, Master Chief
Petty Officer John M. Adams, USN (Ret.), The Retired Enlisted Association, and
Sgt. Maj. C.A. (Mack) McKinney, USMC (Ret.), Non-Commissioned Officers
Association of USA, all of Alexandria, Virginia; Sydney T. Hickey, National
Military Family Association, Arlington, Virginia; and Col. Charles C.
Partridge, USA (Ret.), National Association for Uniformed Services,
Springfield, Virginia.
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Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
PUBLIC HOUSING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs concluded hearings on the state of public housing in the United
States, after receiving testimony from Representative Green; Joseph G. Schiff,
Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Public and Indian
Housing; Roger Ashodian, Delaware County Legal Assistance Association, and
Josephine Hood, Chester Economic Development and Tenant Management
Corporation, both of Chester, Pennsylvania; Barbara Blackmon, Housing
Authority of Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri; Alice L. Brown, NAACP Legal
Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., New York, New York; Terry Duvernay,
Georgia Housing Finance Authority, and Earl Phillips, Housing Authority of the
City of Atlanta, both of Atlanta, Georgia; Rick Gentry, Richmond Redevelopment
and Housing Authority, Richmond, Virginia; Sister Joy Jensen, Covenant Blu
Community Development Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri; Irene Johnson,
LeClaire Courts Resident Management Corporation, Chicago, Illinois; Charles
Kamasaki, National Council of LaRaza, Washington, D.C.; Joseph Shuldiner,
Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Michael
A. Stegman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North
Carolina; and Nick Lemann, Pelham, New York.
AUTHORIZATION--MARINE SANCTUARIES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings in conjunction with the National Ocean Policy Study on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Marine Protection, Research,
and Sanctuaries Act and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and
Protection Act, and to review the effectiveness of the sanctuaries program in
protecting marine areas that are of national significance, after receiving
testimony from Jennifer Joy Wilson, Assistant Secretary for Oceans and
Atmosphere, and Trudy Coxe, Director, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource
Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, both of the
Department of Commerce; Bill Dubose, National Ocean Industries Association,
and Jack Sobel, Center for Marine Conservation, both of Washington, D.C.; Jeff
Benoit, Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management Program, Boston; Lee Weddig,
National Fisheries Institute, Arlington, Virginia; and Eric Johnson,
Washington Public Ports Association, Olympia, Washington.
TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Toxic Substances,
Environmental Oversight, Research and Development concluded hearings to
examine the Environmental Protection Agency's progress in implementing the
Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, after receiving testimony from Linda J.
Fisher, Assistant Administrator, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic
Substances, Environmental Protection Agency.
AIRBORNE SELF-PROTECTION JAMMER
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post
Office, and Civil Service held hearings on issues relating to the Department
of Defense procurement and management of the Navy's Airborne Self-Protection
Jammer (ASPJ) program, designed to provide an electronic warfare defensive
system for certain tactical aircraft, receiving testimony from Robert C.
Duncan, Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, Derek J. Vander Schaaf,
Deputy Inspector General, and Donald J. Yockey, Under Secretary for
Acquisitions, all of the Department of Defense; Louis J. Rodrigues, Director,
Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence Issues, National Security
and International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; and Gerald A.
Cann, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition).
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
OSHA TOXIC CHEMICAL STANDARDS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to examine the
effects of the Office of Management and Budget directive to suspend regulatory
review of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's proposed air
contaminants standards with regard to exposure limits for toxic substances in
the construction, maritime, and agriculture sectors, receiving testimony from
Nancy Risque-Rohrbach, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Policy; John Moran,
Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America, Margaret Seminario,
Department of Occupational Safety and Health, AFL-CIO, and Jack Hadley,
Georgetown University School of Medicine, all of Washington, D.C.; Anthony
Robbins, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, on
behalf of the American Public Health Association; Robert Sheriff, Atlantic
Environmental, Inc., Dover, New Jersey, on behalf of the American Industrial
Hygiene Association; and James Clampitt, Winnemucca, Nevada.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1992/03/26
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 26, 1992; pages D341 - D355 (Bd vol. D160 -
D168)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--EPA/COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from William K.
Reilly, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; and Michael R. Deland,
Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 2.
MILITARY SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings to examine
issues relating to voluntary military service, women in the military, and
military family life, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. Robert M. Alexander,
USAF, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Military Manpower and Personnel
Policy); Millicent W. Woods, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Personnel
Support, Families and Education); and Jean Appleby Jackson, Fairfax, Virginia,
on behalf of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services.
Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, April 2.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony from Senators DeConcini,
Hatch, McCain, Daschle, Bumpers, Dole, and Gramm; Representative Brooks;
Arizona Governor Fife Symington, and former Arizona Governor Jack Williams,
both of Phoenix; Mayor George Miller, Tucson, Arizona; Mayor Francis J.
McArdle, North Plainfield, New Jersey; and numerous public witnesses.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 30.
APPROPRIATIONS--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the Bureau
of Land Management, receiving testimony from Cy Jamison, Director, Bureau of
Land Management, Department of the Interior.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 7.
DOD COUNTER-DRUG ACTIVITIES
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to examine the Department
of Defense operational support for counter-drug activities, receiving
testimony from Lt. Gen. Martin L. Brandtner, USMC, Director for Operations
(J-3); Lt. Gen. John B. Conaway, USAF, Chief, National Guard Bureau; Rear Adm.
George N. Gee, USN, Commander, Joint Task Force Four, U.S. Atlantic Command;
Rear Adm. John L. Linnon, USCG, Commander, Joint Task Force Five, U.S. Pacific
Command; and Brig. Gen. John M. Pickler, USA, Commander, Joint Task Force Six,
U.S. Forces Command.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SMALL BUSINESS FINANCE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
concluded hearings on proposed legislation to improve the current system of
financing small business, focusing on small businesses' access to capital,
after receiving testimony from Richard C. Breeden, Chairman, Securities and
Exchange Commission; Arizona Securities Commissioner Dee Harris, Phoenix, on
behalf of the North American Securities Administrators Association; Murray
Beach, Advest Inc., Hartford, Connecticut; David Gladstone, Allied Capital
Corp., Washington, D.C., on behalf of the National Association of Small
Business Investment Companies; Myron Glucksman, Citicorp Securities Markets
Inc., New York, New York; James Morgan, Morgan Holland Ventures, Boston,
Massachusetts, on behalf of the National Venture Capital Association; and
Michael J. Knight, Michael J. Knight & Co., Fairfield, Connecticut, on behalf
of the National Small Business United.
U.S. TECHNOLOGY POLICY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings to examine how the Federal Government can develop and market new
technologies for U.S. industry, focusing on a report from the National Academy
of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, entitled "The Government
Role in Civilian Technology Policy: Building a New Alliance," after receiving
testimony from Harold Brown, Johns Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced
International Studies, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Panel on the
Government Role in Civilian Technology.
PUBLIC LANDS/NATIONAL PARKS/NATIONAL FORESTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 1439, to authorize and
direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands in Livingston
Parish, Louisiana, S. 1663, to authorize increased funding for the East Saint
Louis portion of the Jefferson Expansion National Memorial, S. 1664, to
establish the Keweenaw National Historical Park in Michigan, S. 2079, to
establish the Marsh-Billings National Historical Park in the State of Vermont,
and H.R. 2790, to withdraw certain lands located in the Coronado National
Forest in Arizona from the mining and mineral leasing laws of the United
States, after receiving testimony from Senators Leahy, Danforth, Levin, Simon,
Bond, and Jeffords; James M. Ridenour, Director, National Park Service, and
Michael J. Penfold, Associate Director for Land and Renewable Resources,
Bureau of Land Management, both of the Department of the Interior; Norman
Niedergang, Associate Division Director for Superfund, Region 5 (Chicago,
Illinois), Environmental Protection Agency; Elizabeth Estill, Associate Deputy
Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; William E. Maritz, Gateway
Arch Park Expansion, St. Louis, Missouri; Earl Lazerson, Southwestern Illinois
Development Authority, Edwardsville; Robert V. Langseth, National Park
Committee, Houghton, Michigan; Noel Snyder, Portal Mining Action Coalition,
Portal, Arizona; and Laurance S. Rockefeller and Mary French Rockefeller, both
of Woodstock, Vermont.
LOBBYING DISCLOSURE ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management held hearings on S. 2279, to provide for the disclosure of certain
lobbying activities to influence the Federal Government, receiving testimony
from Frank Hodsoll, Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and
Budget; Stephen D. Potts, Director, Office of Government Ethics; Lloyd Meeds,
Preston Gates Ellis and Rouvelas Meeds, representing the American League of
Lobbyists, Thomas M. Susman, Ropes and Gray, representing the American Bar
Association, James Christy, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., representing the
National Association of Manufacturers, and Ann McBride, Common Cause, all of
Washington, D.C.; and William D. Coughlan, American Physical Therapy
Association, Alexandria, Virginia, representing the American Society of
Association Executives.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/03/27
Daily Digest - Friday, March 27, 1992; pages D356 - D358 (Bd vol. D168 - D169)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 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, Robert Melland, Administrator, Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, Daniel D. Haley, Administrator, Agricultural Marketing
Service, H. Russell Cross, Administrator, Food Safety and Inspection Service,
and Robert E. Sherman, Deputy Director for Budget, Legislative, and Regulatory
Systems, Office of Budget and Program Analysis, all of the Department of
Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, April 3.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE/NUCLEAR FACILITIES
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1993 for the Department of Defense, focusing on nuclear weapons
issues and activities of the Department of Energy Defense Laboratories, and to
review recommendations made by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board,
receiving testimony from Robert B. Barker, Assistant to the Secretary of
Defense, Office of Atomic Energy, Department of Defense; Siegfried S. Hecker,
Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Albert Narath, President, Sandia
National Laboratories, and John H. Nuckolls, Director, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory, all of the Department of Energy; and Andrew J.
Eggenberger, Vice Chairman, John W. Crawford, Jr., Member, and Herbert J.C.
Kouts, Member, all of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 2.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Daniel S. Goldin, of California, to be
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, after the
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Cranston, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
LEAD IN TABLEWARE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Consumer and
Environmental Affairs concluded hearings to examine health risks associated
with lead in ceramic tableware and leaded crystal, after receiving testimony
from Mike Taylor, Deputy Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration,
Department of Health and Human Services; Ellen K. Silbergeld, University of
Maryland, Baltimore; Steve Book, California Environmental Protection Agency,
Sacramento; David Roe, Environmental Defense Fund, Oakland, California; and
David A. Hartquist, Coalition for Safe Ceramicware, Washington, D.C.
ELDERLY CARE FACILITIES
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Aging met to receive a
briefing on the quality of care and life in board-and-care facilities serving
the elderly and disabled and the effect of regulation on quality from
Catherine Hawes, Research Triangle Institute, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1992/03/30
Daily Digest - Monday, March 30, 1992; pages D360 - D364 (Bd vol. D169 - D171)
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 1993 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony from Senator Heflin;
Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordice; Mayor Fred Palmer, Jr., Valley Park,
Missouri; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 1.
JOBS PROGRAM FUNDING
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy held
hearings on S. 2303, to require full funding of the job opportunity and basic
skills (JOBS) training program under part F of title IV of the Social Security
Act, receiving testimony from Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Assistant Secretary of
Health and Human Services for Children and Families; Washington State
Representative June Leonard, Seattle; New York State Commissioner of Social
Services Mary Jo Bane, Albany; Raymond C. Scheppach, National Governors'
Association, Washington, D.C.; Kevin W. Concannon, Oregon Department of Human
Resources, Salem; and Richard P. Nathan, Jan L. Hagen, and Irene Lurie, all of
the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, Albany, New
York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/03/31
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 31, 1992; pages D366 - D376 (Bd vol. D171 -
D178)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DOE CIVILIAN NUCLEAR WASTE PROGRAM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight
hearings on the Department of Energy's implementation of the civilian
radioactive waste management program, focusing on the suitability of the Yucca
Mountain, Nevada site for repository development, after receiving testimony
from John W. Bartlett, Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste
Management, Carl Gertz, Associate Director, Office of Geologic Disposal, and
Don U. Deere, Chairman, Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, all of the
Department of Energy; John T. Kauffman, Pennsylvania Power and Light Company,
Allentown, on behalf of the American Committee on Radwaste Disposal, the
American Nuclear Energy Council, the Edison Electric Institute, and the
Utility Nuclear Waste and Transportation Program; Cas Robinson, Georgia Public
Service Commission, Atlanta, on behalf of the National Association of
Regulatory Utility Commissioners; Hazel O'Leary, Northern States Power
Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Krista L. Sanda, Minnesota Department of
Public Service, St. Paul.
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U.S.-INDOCHINA POLICY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine how to
improve United States policy toward Indochina, and related matters including
the United Nations peacekeeping initiative in Cambodia, Indochina's occupation
of East Timor, and the threat of North Korea's nuclear weapons proliferation,
after receiving testimony from Richard H. Solomon, Assistant Secretary of
State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
YOUTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine youth
violence, focusing on strategies for prevention and the role of the Federal
Government, receiving testimony from Representative Stokes; Gregory J.
McDonald, Director of Human Services, Policy and Management Issues, Human
Resources Division, General Accounting Office; Ohio State Representative Ray
Miller, and Cheryl A. Boyce, both of Columbus, both on behalf of the Ohio
Commission on Minority Health; Ronald G. Slaby, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, and Renee Wilson-Brewer, Newton, Massachusetts, both on behalf
of the Education Development Center, Inc.; Gail F. Breakey, Hawaii Family
Stress Center, Honolulu; Leonard D. Eron, University of Illinois at Chicago,
on behalf of the American Psychological Association; Donald F. Schwarz,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia; Deborah
Prothrow-Stith, Harvard University School of Public Health, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; Carol A. Beck, Thomas Jefferson High School, Brooklyn, New
York; and Adele V. Harrell, The Urban Institute, and Marc Wilkins and Curtis
Artis, both on behalf of the District of Columbia Youth Task Force, all of
Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
approved for full committee consideration the following bills:
S. 1569, to implement the recommendations of the Federal Courts Study
Committee, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
H.R. 2324, to make an incarcerated person ineligible to receive witness fees
or allowances, with exceptions;
H.R. 2549, to recodify existing Federal law enacted under the Administrative
Conference Act, the Negotiated Rulemaking Act of 1990, and the Administrative
Dispute Resolution Act, and to redefine "issue in controversy" to include an
issue in dispute between persons who would be substantially affected by an
agency's decision on the matter;
H.R. 3237, to extend the terms of office of members of the Foreign Claims
Settlement Commission from 3 to 6 years;
H.R. 3379, to authorize the Administrative Conference of the United States to
provide assistance in response to requests relating to the improvement of
administrative procedure in foreign countries; and
H.R. 3686, to change the places of holding court in the Eastern District of
North Carolina.
SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH PROGRAM
Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Innovation, Technology and
Productivity concluded oversight hearings on the Small Business
Administration's implementation of the Small Business Innovation Research
Program as contained in the Small Business Innovation Development Act (P.L.
97-219), after receiving testimony from Jim Wells, Associate Director, Energy
Issues, Resources, Community and Economic Development Division, General
Accounting Office; Richard J. Shane, Assistant Administrator, Office of
Innovation, Research and Technology, Small Business Administration; Donald
Senich, Division Director, Industrial Science and Technological Innovation,
National Science Foundation; John W. Diggs, Deputy Director for Extramural
Research, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human
Services; Robert Wrenn, Program Coordinator, Office of Small and Disadvantaged
Business Utilization, Department of Defense; Mark H. Clevey, MERRA, Detroit,
Michigan; and Frederick A. Stevie, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Allentown,
Pennsylvania.
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Joint Meetings
SENATE ELECTION ETHICS ACT
Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of S. 3, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to
provide for a voluntary system of spending limits for Senate election
campaigns, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
1992/04/01
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 1, 1992; pages D378 - D388 (Bd vol. D178 -
D185)
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 1993 for
the Department of Commerce, receiving testimony from Barbara H. Franklin,
Secretary of Commerce.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 7.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony from numerous public
witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 7.
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1993 for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, receiving testimony from
Bob Martinez, Director of National Drug Control Policy.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 8.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1993 for the Department of
Defense and the future year defense plan, focusing on the submarine and
nuclear propulsion industrial base, receiving testimony from Gerald A. Cann,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition); Adm.
Bruce Demars, USN, Director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion, Office of the Chief of
Naval Operations; Adm. C.A.H. Trost, USN (Ret.), former Chief of Naval
Operations; and Roger E. Tetrault, General Dynamics Corporation, Arlington,
Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BANK INSURANCE FUND
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the condition of the Bank Insurance Fund, focusing on spending projections,
overall projection of losses, proposal to convert the budgetary treatment of
deposit insurance from cash to accrual, banking reform proposals, and the
administration's plan to emphasize open bank assistance, after receiving
testimony from Robert D. Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget Office.
NATIONAL PARKS AND FORESTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills:
S. 1174, to establish the Cache La Poudre River National Water Heritage Area
in the State of Colorado, after receiving testimony from Senator Brown;
Representative Allard; James W. Stewart, Assistant Director for Planning,
National Park Service, Department of the Interior; and Mayor Susan
Kirkpatrick, Fort Collins, Colorado;
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S. 1537, to designate the American Discovery Trail for Study to determine the
feasibility and desirability of its designation as a national trail, after
receiving testimony from Senator Brown; Representative Byron; James W. Stewart
(listed above); and Reese F. Lukei, Jr., American Hiking Society, Virginia
Beach, Virginia; and
S. 1704, to improve the administration and management of public lands,
national forests, units of the National Park System, and related areas by
improving the availability of adequate, appropriate, affordable, and
cost-effective housing for employees needed to effectively manage the public
lands, after receiving testimony from Representative Lagomarsino; Philip Kiko,
Director of Budget and Program Resource Management, Department of the
Interior; J. Lamar Beasley, Deputy Chief for Administration, Forest Service,
Department of Agriculture; and Rick Gale, Association of National Park
Rangers, Boise, Idaho.
NOMINATIONS/SOMALIA RESOLUTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
The nominations of Thomas R. Pickering, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to
India, Edward Joseph Perkins, of Oregon, to be the U.S. Representative to the
United Nations with rank and status of Ambassador, and the U.S. Representative
in the United Nations Security Council, and foreign service officers'
appointments and promotions lists received in the Senate on March 18, 1992;
and
S. Res. 258, expressing the sense of the Senate regarding needed action to
address the continuing state of war and chaos and the emergency humanitarian
situation in Somalia, with an amendment;
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Messrs. Pickering and Perkins (listed above), after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Edward E. Carnes, of Alabama, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
Eleventh Circuit, Joseph E. Irenas, to be United States District Judge for the
District of New Jersey, Henry C. Morgan, to be United States District Judge
for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Wayne A. Budd, of Massachusetts, to
be Associate Attorney General, Department of Justice, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Carnes was
introduced by Senator Shelby and Representative Dickinson, Mr. Morgan was
introduced by Senators Warner and Robb, Mr. Irenas was introduced by Senator
Bradley, and Mr. Budd was introduced by Senators Kennedy and Kerry. Testimony
was also received on the nomination of Mr. Carnes from former Alabama Attorney
General Bill Baxley, Rick Harris, Alabama Department of Health, Lillian
Jackson, Alabama State Conference, and Morris Dees, the Southern Poverty Law
Center, all of Montgomery, Alabama, George Kendall, NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund, Inc., New York, New York, Stephen B. Bright, Southern Center
for Human Rights, Atlanta, Georgia, Stephen D. Ellis, Montgomery, McCracken,
Walker & Rhoads, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and David Bagwell, Armbrecht,
Jackson, DeMouy, Crowe, Holmes & Reeves, Mobile, Alabama.
Also, committee began hearings on the nomination of George J. Terwilliger,
III, of Vermont, to be Associate Attorney General, Department of Justice,
where the nominee was introduced by Senator Jeffords.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATION--INDIAN HEALTH PROGRAMS
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2481,
authorizing funds for programs of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act,
after receiving testimony from Everett R. Rhoades, Director, Indian Health
Service, Department of Health and Human Services; Emery A. Johnson, Assistant
Surgeon General (Ret.), Public Health Service, and former Director, Indian
Health Service; Alvin Windy Boy, Sr., Chippewa Cree Tribal Council, Box Elder,
Montana; James Paiva, Shoshone-Paiute Tribes, Owyhee, Nevada; Deanna Bauman,
Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin, Oneida; Jeannie Lunsford, Chickasaw
Nation, Tishomingo, Oklahoma; Annette Squetimkin-Anquoe, Colville Confederated
Tribes, Seattle, Washington, on behalf of the National Association for Native
American Children of Alcoholics; Trudie Narum, Traditional Indian Alliance,
Tucson, Arizona, on behalf of the American Indian Health Care Association;
James A. Crouch, California Rural Indian Health Board, Inc., Sacramento;
Geraldine Morrow, Anchorage, Alaska, on behalf of the American Dental
Association; Judith Jennings Black Feather, Phoenix Area Nursing Branch,
Phoenix, Arizona, on behalf of the American Nurses Association; and Terrence
S. Batliner, Natick, Massachusetts.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Vice Adm. William O. Studeman, U.S. Navy, to be Deputy Director
of Central Intelligence, and to have the rank of Admiral while so serving.
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Joint Meetings
INTELLIGENCE REORGANIZATION
Joint Hearing: Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concluded joint
hearings with the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on S. 2198
and H.R. 4165, bills to reorganize the United States intelligence community to
provide for the improved management and execution of United States
intelligence activities, after receiving testimony from Robert M. Gates,
Director of Central Intelligence.
1992/04/02
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 2, 1992; pages D389 - D402 (Bd vol. D186 -
D192)
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 1993 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on manpower, personnel, and health programs, receiving testimony from Enrique
Mendez, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs); Christopher
Jehn, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Force Management and Personnel); Lt.
Gen. Thomas P. Carney, USA, Deputy Chief of Army Staff for Personnel; Vice
Adm. Ronald J. Zlatoper, USN, Chief of Naval Personnel; Lt. Gen. Matthew T.
Cooper, USMC, Deputy Chief of Marine Corps Staff for Manpower and Reserve
Affairs; and Lt. Gen. Billy J. Boles, USAF, Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff
for Personnel.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 7.
APPROPRIATIONS--NTSB
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for
the National Transportation Safety Board, receiving testimony from Susan M.
Coughlin, Acting Chairman, and Timothy P. Forte, Director, Office of Aviation
Safety, both of the National Transportation Safety Board.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 9.
APPROPRIATIONS--FDIC/RTC
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from William
Taylor, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and Jack Adair,
Inspector General, Resolution Trust Corporation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 9.
IMPACT OF CREDIT CRUNCH ON REAL ESTATE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
to examine the impact of current market conditions on real estate, focusing on
availability of credit for real estate development, after receiving testimony
from David Shulman, Salomon Brothers Incorporated, New York, New York; George
R. Puskar, Equitable Real Estate Investment Management Incorporated, Atlanta,
Georgia; John B. Kilroy, Kilroy Industries, El Segundo, California; Ramon E.
Rasco, Rasco & Reininger, Miami, Florida; William C. Dunkelberg, Temple
University School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the
National Federation of Independent Business; and J. Erik Hvide, Hvide
Shipping, Incorporated, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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BUDGET RESOLUTION
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1993 budget for the Federal
Government.
ALCOHOL BEVERAGE ADVERTISING ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee
concluded hearings on S. 664, to require that health warnings be included in
alcoholic beverage advertisements, after receiving testimony from Senator
Thurmond; Representatives Conyers and Kennedy; Patricia Taylor, Center for
Science in the Public Interest, representing the Coalition on Alcohol
Advertising and Family Education, Jeff Becker, Beer Institute, and Fred
Meister, Distilled Spirits Council, all of Washington, D.C.; Manya Ungar,
Scotch Plains, New Jersey, representing the National PTA; Edwin Baker,
University of Pennsylvania School of Law, Philadelphia; Jerry McCord, South
Carolina Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Columbia; Wayne Vriesman,
Tribune Broadcasting Company, Chicago, Illinois, representing the National
Association of Broadcasters; John DeLuca, Wine Institute, San Francisco,
California, representing the National Wine Coalition, and the Association of
American Vintners; Burt Neuborne, New York University School of Law, New York,
New York, representing the Association of Freedom to Advertise Coalition; and
Kathleen Tavenner, Bethesda, Maryland.
HONG KONG'S REVERSION TO CHINA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
held hearings on Hong Kong's reversion to China and implications for United
States policy, receiving testimony from Richard H. Solomon, Assistant
Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and Jamison M. Selby, Deputy
Legal Adviser, both of the Department of State; William H. Overholt, American
Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong; Harry Harding, The Brookings Institution, and
Donald M. Anderson, The United States-China Business Council, both of
Washington, D.C.; and David Lampton, National Committee on United States-China
Relations, New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
IRS COMPUTER MODERNIZATION AND PROCUREMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the
Internal Revenue System's progress in developing and implementing its
modernization program to improve the agency's tax processing systems,
receiving testimony from Jennie S. Stathis, Director, Tax Policy and
Administration Issues, and Sherrie L. Russ, Senior Evaluator, both of the
General Government Division, Thomas D. Venezia, Assignment Manager, Chicago
Regional Office, and Howard G. Rhile, Director, General Government Information
Systems, and Thomas Melloy, Assistant Director, both of the Information
Management and Technology Division, all of the General Accounting Office;
Steven W. Broadbent, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for
Information Systems; and Shirley D. Peterson, Commissioner, Michael Dolan,
Deputy Commissioner, David Blattner, Chief Operations Officer, Hank Philcox,
Chief Information Officer, Mark Cox, Assistant Commissioner, Information
Systems Development, Larry Westfall, Tax Systems Modernization Program
Manager, and Greg Rothwell, Assistant Commissioner for Procurement, all of the
Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
George J. Terwilliger, III, of Vermont, to be Deputy Attorney General,
Department of Justice, after the nominee testified and answered questions in
his own behalf. Testimony was also received from Deborah J. Daniels, United
States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, Shirley D. Peterson,
Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury, Alexia
Morrison, Swindler and Berlin, Washington, D.C., and Sandra Strempel, Dinse,
Erdmann and Clapp, Burlington, Vermont.
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Joint Meetings
UNITED STATES-LATIN AMERICAN ECONOMIC RELATIONS
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine United
States-Latin American economic relations, focusing on the proposed North
American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico, the effects of trade integration
throughout the Americas, economic reform efforts in Latin American countries,
and the United States role in economic development throughout the hemisphere,
receiving testimony from David Malpass, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Inter-American Affairs; Sylvia Saborio, Overseas Development Council,
Washington, D.C.; Rudiger Dornbusch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge; and Sidney Weintraub, University of Texas at Austin.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
WHITE HOUSE COMMEMORATIVE COIN
Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 3337, to require the Secretary of
the Treasury to mint a coin in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the
White House.
1992/04/03
Daily Digest - Friday, April 3, 1992; pages D403 - D406 (Bd vol. D192 - D193)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for
international commodity and conservation programs of 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, Christopher Goldthwait,
Acting General Sales Manager, William Richards, Chief, Soil Conservation
Service, and Robert Sherman, Deputy Director for Budget, Legislative, and
Regulatory Systems, Office of Budget and Program Analysis, all of the
Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 7.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance
Defense held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1993 for the Department of Defense and the future years defense plan,
focusing on acquisition plans and policies and the impact on the industrial
base, receiving testimony from Stephen K. Conver, Assistant Secretary of the
Army (Research, Development, and Acquisition); Gerald A. Cann, Assistant
Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development, and Acquisition); and John J.
Welch, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
FHA MORTGAGE INSURANCE PROGRAMS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs concluded hearings to examine the single and multifamily
mortgage insurance programs of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), after
receiving testimony from Arthur J. Hill, Assistant Secretary for Housing/FHA
Commissioner, and John C. Weicher, Assistant Secretary for Policy Development
and Research, both of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; Judy
England-Joseph, Director, Housing and Community Development Issues, General
Accounting Office; Larry Dale, Executive Director, National Housing Impact,
Federal National Mortgage Association; Thomas Watt, Senior Vice President,
Multifamily Housing, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation; J. Stephen Britt,
Executive Director, and Sylvia Martinez, Director, Housing Finance
Directorate, both of the Federal Housing Finance Board; Jay Buchert, National
Association of Homebuilders, Cincinnati, Ohio; Rick Adams, National
Association of Realtors, Warren Laska, Mortgage Bankers Association, Chris
Lewis, ACORN, Tony Freedman, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, and J.
Roderick Heller, III, NHP, Inc., all of Washington, D.C.; William A. Simpson,
Republic Mortgage Insurance Company, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Gale
Cincotta, NTIC, Chicago, Illinois; Carl M. Eifler, First Boston Corporation,
Charles Brass, New York Housing Development Corporation, and Michael D.
Lappin, The Community Preservation Corporation, all of New York, New York;
Barbara Cleary, Affirmative Investments, Boston, Massachusetts; and Jim Logue,
Michigan State Housing Development Authority, Detroit.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs
approved for full committee consideration the following bills:
S. 1216, to provide for the deferral of enforced departure and the granting of
lawful temporary resident status in the United States to certain classes of
nonimmigrant aliens of the People's Republic of China, with an amendment in
the nature of a substitute;
S. 2099, to designate special inquiry officers as immigration judges and to
provide for the compensation of such judges, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute; and
S. 2201, to authorize the admission to the United States of certain scientists
of the Commonwealth of Independent States as employment-based immigrants under
the Immigration and Nationality Act, with an amendment.
IMMIGRATION EMPLOYER SANCTIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs
held hearings to review the implementation of immigration employer sanctions,
focusing on a General Accounting Office report on employment discrimination,
receiving testimony from Lowell Dodge, Director of Administration of Justice
Issues, James M. Blume, Assistant Director, and C. Jay Jennings, Evaluator in
Charge, all of the General Government Division, General Accounting Office;
Gene McNary, Commissioner, and Grover Joseph Rees, III, General Counsel, both
of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and William Ho-Gonzalez,
Special Counsel, all of the Department of Justice; Karen Keesling, Acting
Administrator, Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor; and Former
Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, on behalf of the Federation of Americans for
Immigration Reform, Washington, D.C.
Hearings continue on Friday, April 10.
Joint Meetings
MARCH EMPLOYMENT SITUATION
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings on the
employment-unemployment situation for March, receiving testimony from William
G. Barron, Acting Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of
Labor.
Committee recessed subject to call.
1992/04/07
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 7, 1992; pages D407 - D418 (Bd vol. D193 - D201)
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 1993, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Wendy L. Gramm, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading
Commission; David L. Kessler, Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration,
Department of Health and Human Services; Harold B. Steele, Chairman, and Billy
Ross Brown and Gary Byrne, both Board Members, all of the Farm Credit
Administration; and Kenneth L. Peoples, President and Chief Executive Officer,
Farm Credit System Assistance Board.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on reserve components, receiving testimony from Maj. Gen. Robert R. Ensslin,
Jr. (Ret.), National Guard Association of the United States, and Maj. Gen.
Donald E. Edward, Adjutants General Association of the United States, both of
Washington, DC.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 9.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for
the Department of Justice, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from William S. Sessions, Director, Federal Bureau of
Investigations, and Robert C. Bonner, Administrator, Drug Enforcement
Administration, both of the Department of Justice.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 9.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREST SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the Forest Service,
receiving testimony from F. Dale Robertson, Chief, Forest Service, Department
of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 28.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
S. 2524, to provide for the temporary continuation of the current Deputy
National Security Advisor in a flag officer grade in the Navy;
S. 2525, to make the Vice Chairman a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and
to grant credit for having completed a tour of duty in a joint duty assignment
in the case of an officer who performed duty in the Persian Gulf combat zone;
An original bill combining the provisions of S. 2524 and S. 2525 (listed
above);
An original bill to make the Vice Chairman a member of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff;
An original bill to provide joint duty credit for certain duty in Operations
Desert Shield and Desert Storm; and
The nominations of Vice Admiral William O. Studeman, USN, to be Deputy
Director of Central Intelligence, and to have the rank of Admiral while so
serving, John E. Connolly, of California, and William D. Skelton, of Georgia,
both to be Members of the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services
University of the Health Sciences, Department of Defense, and 3,517
nominations in the Air Force, Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.
U.S. COMPETITIVENESS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings to
examine whether the United States should develop a national competitiveness
strategy to maintain its industrial leadership in the 21st century, receiving
testimony from Bruce Scott, Harvard University Business School, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; W. W. Rostow, University of Texas, Austin; Jeffrey E. Garten,
The Blackstone Group, New York, New York; and William S. Dietrich, Dietrich
Industries, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--U.S. TRADE REPRESENTATIVE/ITC
Committee on Finance: On Monday, April 6, Subcommittee on International Trade
concluded hearings on proposed authorizations for fiscal years 1993 and 1994
for the Office of the United States Trade Representative and the United States
International Trade Commission, after receiving testimony from Gary R. Edson,
General Counsel, Office of the United States Trade Representative; and Don E.
Newquist, Chairman, United States International Trade Commission.
GREAT LAKES BASIN CONTAMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the
environmental degradation of the Great Lakes Basin region, focusing on adverse
reproductive and developmental effects associated with contaminated fish
consumption by wildlife and humans, and the Government's effort to reduce
consumer and environmental exposure to these toxic substances, receiving
testimony from John Blankenship, Assistant Regional Director for Fish and
Wildlife Enhancement, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of
the Interior; Barry Johnson, Assistant Surgeon General and Assistant
Administrator, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Department of
Health and Human Services; Christopher Grundler, Director, Great Lakes
National Program Office, Environmental Protection Agency; Jeffrey L. Busch,
the Lake Erie Office, Toledo, Ohio; Bernard Weiss, University of Rochester
School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York; Theo Colburn, World
Wildlife Fund/The Conservation Foundation, Ellen Haas, Public Voice for Food
and Health Policy, and Jeffrey A. Foran, the George Washington University, all
of Washington, D.C.; and Lee J. Weddig, National Fisheries Institute,
Arlington, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CABLE COMPULSORY LICENSE
Committee on the Judiciary: On Monday, April 6, Subcommittee on Patents,
Copyrights and Trademarks held hearings on policy issues concerning cable
compulsory license and the satellite carrier compulsory license provisions of
the Copyright Act of 1976, receiving testimony from Ralph Oman, Register of
Copyrights and Assistant Librarian for Copyright Services, Library of
Congress; Jack Valenti, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., James B.
Hedlund, Association of Independent Television Stations, Inc. (INTV), and
Edward O. Fritts, National Association of Broadcasters, all of Washington,
DC.; Ted Turner, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia; Barry
Diller, Fox, Inc., Los Angeles, California; Joseph W. Hipple, III, People's
Choice-TV Partners, Tucson, Arizona; and G. Todd Hardy, PrimeTime 24, McLean,
Virginia, on behalf of the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications
Association.
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Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 29.
SAVE AMERICAN JOBS ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor held hearings on
S. 2311, to discourage American employers from eliminating American jobs by
relocating U.S.-based operations to a foreign country, receiving testimony
from Mayor Gerald Lucia, Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania; Anita Mingus, Zenith
Electronics Corporation, Springfield, Missouri; Tony Sanchez, Amalgamated
Clothing and Textile Workers Union, El Paso, Texas; Owen Bieber, International
Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of
America (UAW), Detroit, Michigan; and Jeff Faux, Economic Policy Institute,
Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INDIAN TRIBAL COURTS/BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings on proposed
legislation to provide for the development, enhancement, and recognition of
Indian tribal courts, receiving testimony from Ronal Eden, Director, Office of
Tribal Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior;
Elbridge Coochise, Northwest Intertribal Court System, Edmonds, Washington, on
behalf of the National American Indian Court Judges Association; Earl Old
Person, Blackfeet Tribal Business Council, Browning, Montana; Ivan Makil, Salt
River Pima-Maricopa Tribal Council, Scottsdale, Arizona; Alfred Ward, Shoshone
Business Council, Ft. Washakie, Wyoming; Jacob Viarrial, Pueblo of Pojoaque,
Santa Fe, New Mexico; Robert Yazzie, Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Arizona;
Louise E. Dixey, Shoshone-Bannock Tribal Court, Fort Hall Indian Reservation,
Idaho; Ned Norris, Jr., Tohono O'Odham Nation Tribal Court, Sells, Arizona;
Clifford Wolfe, Jr., Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, Macy; Pat Ragsdale, Cherokee
Nation of Oklahoma, Tahlequah; Shirley Lee, Tanana Chiefs Conference,
Fairbanks, Alaska; and Susan Williams, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Prior to this action, committee met to consider pending committee business,
and will meet again on Friday, April 10.
PHYSICIAN PAYMENT REFORM
Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings on the implementation of
Medicare charge limits enacted as part of Medicare physician payment reform,
focusing on the Health Care Financing Administration's enforcement of setting
limits on physician charges and notifying Medicare beneficiaries about the new
limiting charge, receiving testimony from Carol Walton, Deputy Director,
Bureau of Program Operations, Health Care Financing Administration, Department
of Health and Human Services; Carol Jimenez, Medicare Advocacy Project, Los
Angeles, California; Susan Stayn, Medicare Beneficiaries Defense Fund, New
York, New York; Jack Guildroy, American Association of Retired Persons,
Washington, DC.; Nancy W. Dickey, Richmond, Texas, on behalf of the American
Medical Association; Stanley Lipson, Bayside, New York; and David Lee, Sag
Harbor, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/04/08
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 8, 1992; pages D420 - D432 (Bd vol. D201 -
D209)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AGRICULTURE FIELD OFFICE STRUCTURE
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held oversight
hearings on certain activities of the Department of Agriculture, focusing on
the structure and number of their field offices, receiving testimony from
Edward R. Madigan, Secretary of Agriculture; and John W. Harman, Director,
Food and Agriculture Issues, and Gary R. Boss, Assistant Director, both of the
Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, General Accounting
Office.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
VACCINE RESEARCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education concluded hearings to examine the Federal Government's role in
vaccine research and development, and the effect of Federal efforts on private
sector research, after receiving testimony from William L. Roper, Director,
Centers for Disease Control, Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases, David A. Kessler, Commissioner, Food and Drug
Administration, and Kenneth J. Bart, Director, National Vaccine Program, all
of the Department of Health and Human Services; Ronald J. Saldarini,
Lederle-Praxis Biologicals, Pearl River, New York; Howard Six, Connaught
Laboratories, Inc., Swift Water, Pennsylvania; and R. Gordon Douglas, Jr.,
Merck & Company, Inc., Washington, DC.
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APPROPRIATIONS--OMB/EXECUTIVE RESIDENCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1993, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the Office of Management and
Budget from Richard G. Darman, Director, Office of Management and Budget; and
in behalf of funds for the Executive Residence at the White House from Robert
Stanton, Regional Director, National Capital Region, National Park Service,
Department of the Interior.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL AND DEFENSE POLICIES
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
held hearings to examine national and defense technology policies and
initiatives, receiving testimony from D. Allan Bromley, Director, Office of
Science and Technology Policy; Victor H. Reis, Director of Defense Research
and Engineering, Department of Defense; and Robert M. White, Under Secretary
of Commerce for Technology.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel resumed
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1993 for
the Department of Defense, focusing on Reserve and National Guard programs,
receiving testimony from Senators Ford, Bond, and Boren; Stephen M. Duncan,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs; Christopher Jehn,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management and Personnel; and Bernard
Rostker, RAND Corporation, Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL HOUSING ENTERPRISES REGULATORY REFORM ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original bill to improve the regulation of Government-sponsored
enterprises.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Rear Adm. Robert T. Nelson, USCG, to be Vice
Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, after the nominee testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
AUTHORIZATION--U.S. COAST GUARD
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings in conjunction with the National Ocean Policy Study on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1993 for the U.S. Coast Guard,
after receiving testimony from Adm. J. William Kime, Commandant, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Transportation; and Commander William E. Legg, USNR
(Ret.), Reserve Officers Association of the United States, Washington, DC.
SUPERFUND
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, Ocean
and Water Protection held oversight hearings on the Environmental Protection
Agency's implementation of the Superfund Program designed to clean up toxic
waste, receiving testimony from William K. Reilly, Administrator, and Don
Clay, Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency Response, both of
the Environmental Protection Agency; Douglas B. Stuart, Borough of Pitman,
Pitman, New Jersey; Sandy Weston, Fulton Safe Drinking Water Action Committee
for Environmental Concern, Inc., Fulton, New York; Molly Cagle, Vinson and
Elkins, Austin, Texas, representing Whirlpool, Inc.; and Mark D. C. Schmitt,
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, St. Paul.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--CUSTOMS SERVICE
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1993 for the U.S. Customs Service, after
receiving testimony from Carol B. Hallett, Commissioner, and Wayne Hamilton,
Director, Budget Division, both of the U.S. Customs Service, Department of the
Treasury; Allan I. Mendelowitz, Director, International Trade and Finance
Issues, General Government Division, General Accounting Office; Harold G.
Brauner, National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America, New
York, New York; and Jose A. Escamilla, McAllen, Texas, on behalf of the Border
Trade Alliance and the Texas-Mexico Bridge Owners Association.
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TREATIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the following
treaties, after receiving testimony from Alan Kreczko, Deputy Legal Adviser,
Department of State; and Robert Mueller, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal
Division, Department of Justice:
The Consular Convention between the United States and the Republic of Tunisia,
signed at Tunis on May 12, 1988 (Treaty Doc. 101-12);
The Consular Convention between the United States and the Democratic and
Popular Republic of Algeria, signed at Washington on January 12, 1989 (Treaty
Doc. 101-13);
The Consular Convention between the United States and the Mongolian People's
Republic, signed at Ulaanbaatar on August 2, 1990 (Treaty Doc. 102-14);
The Supplementary Treaty to the Treaty between the United States and the
Federal Republic of Germany concerning extradition, signed at Washington on
October 21, 1986 (Treaty Doc. 100-6);
The Extradition Treaty between the United States and the Commonwealth of the
Bahamas, signed at Nassau on March 9, 1990 (Treaty Doc. 102-17);
The Protocol Amending the Treaty on Extradition between the United States and
Australia, signed at Seoul on September 4, 1990 (Treaty Doc. 102-23);
The Second Supplementary Treaty on Extradition between the United States and
the Kingdom of Spain, signed at Madrid on February 9, 1988 (Treaty Doc.
102-24);
The Treaty between the United States and Jamaica on Mutual Legal Assistance in
Criminal Matters, signed at Kingston on July 7, 1989 (Treaty Doc. 102-16);
The Treaty between the United States and the Republic of Argentina on Mutual
Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, signed at Buenos Aires on December 4,
1990 (Treaty Doc. 102-18);
The Treaty between the United States and the Oriental Republic of Uruguay on
Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, signed at Montevideo on May 6,
1991 (Treaty Doc. 102-19); and
The Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters between the United
States and the Kingdom of Spain, signed at Washington on November 20, 1990
(Treaty Doc. 102-21).
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Roman Popadiuk, of New York, to be ambassador to Ukraine, and
Sigmund A. Rogich, of Nevada, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Iceland,
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr.
Rogich was introduced by Senator Reid.
EASTERN EUROPE/FORMER SOVIET UNION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs held hearings
to examine the environmental and energy challenges in Eastern Europe and the
former Soviet Union, receiving testimony from William U. Chandler, Pacific
Northwest Laboratories, Richard A. Liroff, World Wildlife Fund and the
Conservation Foundation, Margaret Bowman, Environmental Law Institute, Daniel
Reicher, Natural Resources Defense Council, Lester Brown, Worldwatch
Institute, and Alfred Friendly, Jr., all of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post
Office, and Civil Service held oversight hearings on activities of the U.S.
Postal Service, receiving testimony from Norma Pace, Chairman, Board of
Governors, John N. Griesemer, Vice Chairman of the Board, Tirso del Junco,
Robert Setrakian, Susan E. Alvarado, Bert H. Mackie, and LeGree S. Daniels,
all Members of the Board, and Harold Hughes, General Counsel, all of the U.S.
Postal Service.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
The nominations of Paul J. Kelly, Jr., of New Mexico, to be U.S. Circuit Judge
for the Tenth Circuit, J. Curtis Joyner, to be U.S. District Judge for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Donald J. Stohr, to be U.S. District Judge
for the Eastern District of Missouri, Ewing Werlein, Jr., to be U.S. District
Judge for the Southern District of Texas, Henry C. Morgan, Jr., to be U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, Joseph E. Irenas, to be
U.S. District Judge for the District of New Jersey, Wayne A. Budd, to be
Associate Attorney General, and John R. Simpson, of Maryland, to be
Commissioner of the U.S. Parole Commission, both of the Department of Justice;
George L. O'Connell, to be U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of
California, and Sandra A. O'Connor, of Maryland, David Brock, of New
Hampshire, Carlos R. Garza, of Texas, and Vivi L. Dilweg, of Wisconsin, each
to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the State Justice Institute;
H.R. 3686, to make changes in the places of holding court in the Eastern
District of North Carolina;
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S. 1338, to provide that certain individuals be lawfully admitted to the
United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality
Act;
H.R. 1917, to authorize the classification of a certain individual as a child
within the meaning of the Immigration and Nationality Act, with an amendment;
and
S. 2201, to authorize the admission to the United States of certain scientists
of the Commonwealth of Independent States as employment-based immigrants under
the Immigration and Nationality Act, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
Also, committee began consideration of S. 1521, to provide a cause of action
for victims of sexual abuse, rape, and murder, against producers and
distributors of hard-core pornographic material, but did not complete action
thereon, and recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
VETERANS PROGRAMS
Joint Hearing: 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
from James L. Singler, AMVETS, Lanham, Maryland; John J. Krejci, American
Ex-Prisoners of War, Albert L. Cohen, Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A., and
James L. Brazee, Jr., Vietnam Veterans of America, all of Washington, DC;
Command Sgt. Maj. Walter W. Krueger, USA (Ret.), Non-Commissioned Officers
Association of the U.S.A., Alexandria, Virginia; and Col. Charles C.
Partridge, USA (Ret.), National Association for Uniformed Services and Society
of Military Widows, Springfield, Virginia.
1992/04/09
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 9, 1992; pages D434 - D446 (Bd vol. D209 -
D219)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY TRADE DISPUTE
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Research and General Legislation concluded hearings to examine
U.S. efforts to resolve a trade dispute with the European Community over the
restriction of U.S. pork and beef imports, after receiving testimony from
William H. Dubbert, Deputy Administrator for International Programs, Food,
Safety, and Inspection Service, Department of Agriculture; Leonard W. Condon,
Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Agricultural Affairs; John
Hardin, Jr., Danville, Indiana, on behalf of the National Pork Producers
Council, Michael Copps, American Meat Institute, Arlington, Virginia, and Tom
Cook, Washington, DC, and Roger Stuber, Bowman, North Dakota, both on behalf
of the National Cattlemen's Association, all representing the Meat Industry
Trade Policy Council; Ron Davis, Colonial Beef Company, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; and Torben Lenzberg, T. Lenzberg & Co., Copenhagen, Denmark, on
behalf of the European Alliance for Safe Meat.
APPROPRIATIONS--NOAA/SBA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
John A. Knauss, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and Patricia Saiki,
Administrator, Small Business Administration.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 29.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for strategic programs of the Department
of Defense, receiving testimony from Henry F. Cooper, Director, Strategic
Defense Initiative Organization, and Gen. George L. Butler, USAF,
Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Air Command, both of the 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 1993 for foreign assistance,
focusing on the Agency for International Development management issues and
reform efforts, receiving testimony from Ronald W. Roskens, Administrator,
Agency for International Development.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--AMTRAK/FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from W.
Graham Claytor, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, National Railroad
Passenger Corporation (AMTRAK); and Gilbert E. Carmichael, Administrator,
Federal Railroad Administration, Department of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 30.
APPROPRIATIONS--NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION/NCUA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from George
Knight, Executive Director, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation; and Roger
W. Jepsen, Chairman, National Credit Union Administration.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 30.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence held hearings on the allocation of fiscal year 1992 funds for the
strategic defense initiative (SDI), the proposed budget request for fiscal
year 1993 for SDI, to review the Missile Defense Act provisions of the
Department of Defense Authorization, Fiscal Years 1992/1993 (P.L. 102-190),
and to resume hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1993 for the Department of Defense and the future years defense plan,
receiving testimony from Henry Cooper, Director, and Robert Snyder, Deputy for
Program Operations, both of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization,
Department of Defense.
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Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
GLOBAL WARMING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings to
examine the role of the biosphere in global warming, focusing on how plants
and ecosystems will respond as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations grow
in coming years and temperatures increase due to greenhouse warming, receiving
testimony from Sherwood B. Idso, Research Physicist, U.S. Water Conservation
Laboratory (Phoenix, Arizona), Agricultural Research Service, Department of
Agriculture; David Rind and Cynthia Rosenzweig, both Staff Scientists, Goddard
Institute for Space Studies (New York, New York), National Aeronautics and
Space Administration; Bert Drake, Staff Scientist, Smithsonian Environmental
Research Center (Edgewater, Maryland), Smithsonian Institution; Fakhri A.
Bazzaz, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Robert Berner, Yale
University, New Haven, Connecticut; Christopher B. Field, Carnegie Institution
of Washington, Stanford, California; James F. Kasting, Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, Pennsylvania; Walter Oechel, San Diego State
University, San Diego, California; and William Schlesinger, Duke University,
Durham, North Carolina.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
UNITED STATES ASSISTANCE TO THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on S. 2532,
authorizing funds for the independent states of the former Soviet Union to
promote democracy, encourage free market systems, meet humanitarian needs,
foster demilitarization of the economy and society, promote development in the
agriculture and energy sectors, and promote bilateral trade and investment,
receiving testimony from James A. Baker, III, Secretary of State.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AID TO THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs held hearings
to examine recommendations from the United States business and agriculture
sectors on aid to the Commonwealth of Independent States of the former Soviet
Union, receiving testimony from Willard Workman, United States Chamber of
Commerce, Washington, DC; Paul E. Konney, Tambrands Inc., White Plains, New
York; John T. Watson, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., Des Moines, Iowa;
and Stanley R. Johnson, Iowa State University, Ames.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
RADIOLOGICAL CONTAMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine
Department of Energy cleanup efforts of sites and facilities that have become
radiologically contaminated from weapons production activities, receiving
testimony from Leo P. Duffy, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental
Restoration and Waste Management; Thomas E. Baca, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense (Environment); James M. Taylor, Executive Director for Operations,
Robert Bernero, Director of Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards,
and Martin Malsch, Deputy General Counsel for Licensing and Regulations, all
of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Michael H. Shapiro, Deputy Assistant
Administrator for Air and Radiation, and Margo Oge, Director, Office of
Radiation Programs, both of the Environmental Protection Agency; William P.
Dornsife, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, Harrisburg, on
behalf of the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors; and Daniel W.
Reicher, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of George J. Terwilliger III, of Vermont, to be Deputy Attorney
General, Department of Justice.
HOMELESS VETERANS ASSISTANCE
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2512,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1993, 1994, and 1995 to establish a program
to provide certain housing assistance to homeless veterans, and to improve
certain other related programs, after receiving testimony from Irwin Pernick,
Counselor to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; Robin Higgins, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans Employment and Training; Dennis
Cullinan, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Ronald W. Drach,
Disabled American Veterans, James B. Hubbard, American Legion, Gary Johnson,
Paralyzed Veterans of America, Richard Baker, Vietnam Era Veterans
Inter-Tribal Association, Fairfax, Virginia; Thomas Kaulukukui, Native
American Veterans Coordinating Council, Honolulu, Hawaii; Ronald Conley,
Pennsylvania American Legion Housing for Homeless Veterans Corporation,
Pittsburgh; Mary C. Slicher, Project PLASE, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland; Jerry
Washington, National Coalition of Homeless Veterans Service Providers,
Nashville, Tennessee; and Virginia Spencer, National American Indian Housing
Council, Ken Webster, National Congress of American Indians, and Joan C.
Alker, National Coalition for the Homeless, all of Washington, DC.
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Joint Meetings
DEFENSE CONVERSION
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine how the Federal
Government can prepare defense workers, defense firms, and communities for
lower military spending, focusing on the effects of current and planned
defense reductions, lessons from the conversion experience following World War
II, Korea, and Vietnam, existing programs and policies to deal with defense
conversion, and the potential need for new programs and policies, receiving
testimony from Katherine Gillman, Senior Associate, and Robert Atkinson,
Senior Analyst, both of the Office of Technology Assessment; Ethan Kapstein,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Brian Bosworth, Tufts
University, Medford, Massachusetts; Don Fuqua, Aerospace Industries
Association of America, Inc., Washington, DC; and Daniel Flaming, Economic
Roundtable, Los Angeles, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1992/04/10
Daily Digest - Friday, April 10, 1992; pages D447 - D452 (Bd vol. D219 - D222)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FEDERAL TECHNOLOGY POLICIES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings to
examine the effects of changing Federal technology policies on economic
development and the quality of employment in the United States, receiving
testimony from Sam Kramer, Deputy Director, National Institute of Standards
and Technology, Department of Commerce; Jacques S. Gansler, The Analytic
Sciences Corporation, Arlington, Virginia; Katherine Gillman, Project
Director, Industry, Technology, and Employment Program, Office of Technology
Assessment; A. Linwood Holton and Peter Fitzpatrick, both of the Center for
Innovative Technology, Herndon, Virginia; Edward H. Bersoff, Bersoff
Technology Group, Inc., McLean, Virginia, on behalf of the Northern Virginia
Technology Council and the Professional Services Council; and Robert Templin,
Jr., Thomas Nelson Community College, Hampton, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ENDANGERED SPECIES AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
programs of the Endangered Species Act, receiving testimony from John F.
Turner, Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior;
William W. Fox, Jr., Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Marine
Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department
of Commerce; Thomas Eisner, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Robert E.
Gordon, Jr., National Wilderness Institute, Alexandria, Virginia; Jimme L.
Wilson, National Cattlemen's Association, Trout Creek, Montana; Judy Olson,
Garfield, Washington, on behalf of the National Association of Wheat Growers;
and Michael J. Bean, Environmental Defense Fund, and Donald J. Barry, World
Wildlife Fund, both on behalf of the Endangered Species Coalition, and William
Y. Brown, Waste Management, Inc., all of Washington, DC.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MEDICARE MANAGED CARE
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health for Families and the Uninsured
held hearings on S. 2077, to provide for optional State coverage of
coordinated care, and to improve Federal requirements with respect to the
provision of coordinated care by health maintenance organizations in order to
allow States to reduce costs and improve quality care in contracting for
managed-care services under the Medicaid program, receiving testimony from
Representative Towns; Kevin E. Moley, Deputy Secretary of Health and Human
Services; Janet L. Shikles, Director of Health Financing and Policy Issues,
and Richard Jensen, Senior Economist, both of the General Accounting Office;
Robert Baird, Minnesota Department of Human Services, and Jan Horvath,
Minnesota Health Policy Unit, both of St. Paul, both on behalf of the American
Public Welfare Association; Alicia Pelrine, National Governors' Association,
and Joseph Liu and Sara Rosenbaum, both of the Children's Defense Fund, all of
Washington, DC; Michele Melden, National Health Law Program, Los Angeles,
California; and Julio Bellber, William F. Ryan Community Health Center, on
behalf of the National Association of Community Health Centers, and Anthony L.
Watson, Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York, on behalf of the Group
Health Association of America, both of New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
IMMIGRATION EMPLOYER SANCTIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs
resumed hearings to review the implementation of immigration employer
sanctions, and S. 1734, to repeal provisions of the Immigration Reform and
Control Act of 1986 regarding employer sanctions and unfair
immigration-related employment practices, to strengthen enforcement of laws
regarding illegal entry into the United States, receiving testimony from
Charles Kamasaki, National Council of LaRaza, Mario Moreno, MALDEF, Rev.
Richard Ryscavage, United States Catholic Conference Migration and Refugee
Services, David S. North, New TransCentury Foundation, Michael Fix, Urban
Institute, David Simcox, Center for Immigration Studies, all of Washington,
DC; Peter N. Larrabee, Gray, Cary, Ames & Frye, San Diego, California; and
Mark J. Miller, University of Delaware, Newark.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INDIAN WATER RIGHTS
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported, with
an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 1607, to provide for the
settlement of the water rights claims of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1992/04/28
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 28, 1992; pages D453 - D464 (Bd vol. D222 -
D228)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the
Smithsonian Institution, receiving testimony from Robert McC. Adams,
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 5.
APPROPRIATIONS--FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION/WASHINGTON METRO
AREA TRANSIT
AUTHORITY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Brian W. Clymer, Administrator, and Robert H. McManus, Associate Administrator
for Grants Management, both of the Federal Transit Administration, Department
of Transportation; and David L. Gunn, General Manager, and Tracy C. Tucker,
Assistant General Manager for Design and Construction, both of the Washington
Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 6.
AUTHORIZATION--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1993 for the Department of Defense, focusing on operation and maintenance
programs, receiving testimony from John A. Flinn, Director, Operations
Programs, Office of the Comptroller, Department of Defense; Brig. Gen. Josue
Robles, Jr., USA, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Army Budget; Rear
Adm. William J. Hancock, USN, Director, Operations Division, Office of Budget
and Reports, U.S. Navy; Brig. Gen. Joseph D. Stewart, USMC, Director,
Logistics, Plans, Policy, and Strategic Mobility Division, U.S. Marine Corps;
and Maj. Gen. Robert F. Swarts, USAF, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air
Force (Budget).
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATION--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1993 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the On-Site
Inspection Agency, receiving testimony from Maj. Gen. Robert W. Parker, USAF,
Director, On-Site Inspection Agency, Jack D. Crouch II, Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary (International Security Policy), and Brig. Gen. Arthur E.
Johnson, USAF, Assistant Deputy Director, Research and Engineering (Strategic
and Theater Nuclear Forces), and Under Secretary for Acquisition, all of the
Department of Defense.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
TAX TREATMENT OF INTANGIBLE ASSETS
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on proposals to simplify the tax
treatment of intangible assets acquired in business purchases, receiving
testimony from Fred T. Goldberg, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy, and
Abraham N.M. Shashy, Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, both of the
Department of the Treasury; Peter L. Faber, American Bar Association, Leonard
Podolin, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Willie L. Baker,
Jr., The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Floyd L.
Williams, Tax Foundation, Kenneth J. Kies, Amortization of Intangibles Task
Force, and Curtis B. Uhre, Home Finance Coalition, Inc., all of Washington,
DC; Duane A. Suess, International Multifoods Corporation, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, on behalf of the Coalition for Open-Years Election; Stephen B.
Ashley, Sibley Mortgage Company, Rochester, New York, on behalf of the
Mortgage Bankers Association of America; Robert S. Cooper, Atlantic Aerospace
Electronics Corporation, Greenbelt, Maryland, on behalf of the American
Electronics Association; William P. Benac, Electronic Data Systems, Dallas,
Texas, on behalf of the Information Technology Association of America; and
John G. Buckley, the Buckley Company, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of the
Committee on Taxation of Intangible Assets.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DISABILITY INSURANCE
Committee on Finance: On Monday, April 27, Subcommittee on Social Security and
Family Policy held hearings to examine the financing and administration of the
Social Security Disability Insurance Program, receiving testimony from
Gwendolyn S. King, Commissioner of Social Security, and Harry C. Ballantyne,
Chief Actuary, both of the Social Security Administration, Department of
Health and Human Services; Joseph F. Delfico, Director, Income Security
Issues, Human Resources Division, General Accounting Office; Stanford G. Ross
and David M. Walker, Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees,
Baltimore, Maryland; Robert M. Ball, Washington, DC, former Commissioner of
Social Security; Robert J. Myers, Silver Spring, Maryland, former Chief
Actuary, Social Security Administration; and Stan Kress, Boise, Idaho, on
behalf of the National Council of Disability Determination Directors.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
LIFE/HEALTH INSURANCE GUARANTY FUND
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business
Rights held hearings to examine a General Accounting Office report on the
failure rates of life/health insurance companies and the adequacy of
protections available to policyholders, including related provisions of S.
1644, Insurance Protection Act of 1991, receiving testimony from Richard L.
Fogel, Assistant Comptroller General, General Government Programs, General
Accounting Office; Minnesota Commissioner of Commerce Bert J. McKasy, St.
Paul; Jack M. Nelson, the College of Insurance, New York, New York; Marty
Leary, Southern Finance Project, Durham, North Carolina; Jack Blaine, National
Organization of Life and Health Guaranty Association, Herndon, Virginia; Rudy
B. Miner, Standard Insurance Company, Portland, Oregon, on behalf of the
Oregon Life/Health Insurance Guaranty Association; Richard V. Minck and Daniel
A. Mica, both of the American Council of Life Insurance, Washington, DC; and
Vince and Susan Watson, Phoenix, Arizona.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EEOC
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity concluded oversight hearings on activities of the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC], after receiving testimony from
District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton; Evan J. Kemp, Jr.,
Chairman, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Richard T. Seymour,
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, Claire Gonzales, National
Council of La Raza, and Edward Watkins, National Council of Equal Employment
Opportunity Locals for the American Federation of Government Employees, all of
Washington, DC; Nancy Kreiter, Women Employed, and Michael Davidson, both of
Chicago, Illinois; and Janette Johnson, National Employment Lawyers'
Association, Dallas, Texas.
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Joint Meetings
CARBON DIOXIDE STABILIZATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine carbon
dioxide stabilization and economic growth, after receiving testimony from
Howard K. Gruenspecht, Associate Deputy Under Secretary of Energy for Program
Analysis; Eileen Claussen, Director, Office of Atmospheric and Indoor Air
Programs, Office of Air and Radiation, Environmental Protection Agency; David
Moskovitz, the Regulatory Assistance Project, Gardiner, Maine; John C. Fox,
Pacific Gas and Electric, San Francisco, California; S. Lynn Sutcliffe, SYCOM
Enterprises, Bethesda, Maryland; William U. Chandler, Battelle Institute,
Washington, DC; Florentin Krause, International Project for Sustainable Energy
Paths, El Cerrito, California; and Richard L. Stroup, Montana State
University, Bozeman.
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BOARD MEETING
Office of Technology Assessment: The Board met and approved the following
project proposals:
(1) Energy and Environmental Technology Transfer to Central and Eastern
Europe;
(2) Multinational Corporations and the U.S. Technology Base; and
(3) Privacy Rights in Computerized Medical Information.
1992/04/29
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 29, 1992; pages D465 - D476 (Bd vol. D228 -
D235)
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 1993,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Henry E. Catto, Director, U.S. Information Agency; and Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr.,
Chairman, Board for International Broadcasting.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 7.
AUTHORIZATION--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support held hearings on S. 2628, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1993 for
certain construction at military installations, focusing on military base
closures, and the Department of Defense role in community impact assistance,
receiving testimony from Christopher Jehn, Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Force Management and Personnel); David J. Berteau, Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense (Production and Logistics); Susan Livingstone, Assistant
Secretary of the Army (Installations, Logistics and Environment); Jacqualine
E. Schafer, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and Environment);
and James F. Boatright, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
(Installations).
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
CALIFORNIA DESERT WILDERNESS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests held hearings on S. 21, S. 2393, and H.R. 2929,
bills to provide protection for certain public lands in the California desert,
receiving testimony from Senator Cranston; Representative McCandless; Cy
Jamison, Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; and
Robert A. Stone, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Installations.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills:
An original bill to provide for the conservation and development of water and
related resources, to authorize the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers civil works
programs to construct various projects for improvements to the Nation's
infrastructure; and
S. 481, to authorize research into the desalting of water and water reuse,
with an amendment.
UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the short-term and
long-term needs of the unemployment compensation program, receiving testimony
from Lynn M. Martin, Secretary of Labor; Warren G. Blue, R.E. Harrington,
Inc., Columbus, Ohio, on behalf of the National Association of Manufacturers;
William J. Cunningham, AFL-CIO, Isaac Shapiro, Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities, and Wayne Vroman, the Urban Institute, all of Washington, DC; and
William D. Grossenbacher, Texas Employment Commission, Austin, on behalf of
the Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies, Inc.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FARM TAX FAIRNESS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Energy and Agricultural Taxation held
hearings on proposed legislation relating to the Federal income tax treatment
of family farms, including related proposals S. 710, S. 887, S. 900, S. 1045,
S. 1061, S. 1130, and S. 2202, receiving testimony from Senators Kassebaum,
Conrad, Jeffords, and Kasten; Representatives Dorgan and Slattery; James
Fields, Acting Deputy Tax Legislative Counsel, Department of the Treasury;
North Dakota Commissioner of Agriculture Sarah Vogel, Bismarck; William H.
Greiner, Iowa Agriculture Development Authority, Des Moines; Richard L. Dees,
McDermott, Will and Emery, Chicago, Illinois; Brad W. McNulty, McGladrey and
Pullen, Rapid City, South Dakota; David M. Saxowsky, North Dakota State
University, Fargo; Cheryl L. Cook, National Farmers Union, Ferdinand Hoefner,
Center for Rural Affairs, and Grace Ellen Rice, American Farm Bureau, all of
Washington, DC; and Jim Harris, Union Grove, Wisconsin.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INSURANCE INDUSTRY FRAUD
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
resumed hearings to examine Federal and State efforts to combat fraud and
abuse in the insurance industry, focusing on the operations of the Guarantee
Security Life Insurance Company in Florida, receiving testimony from Florida
Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner Tom Gallagher, Tallahassee; Samuel R.
Lane, Fairlane Financial Corp., Fort Lauderdale, Florida; W. Michael Heekin
and Thomas Tew, both of the Guarantee Security Life Insurance Company,
Jacksonville, Florida; John T. Baily, Hartford, Connecticut, and Donald F.
Withers, Jacksonville, Florida, both of Coopers & Lybrand; Abraham J. Briloff,
City University of New York, New York, New York; George Eliades, Fairfax
Station, Virginia; and Lucille Watkins, Van Wert, Ohio.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Robert E. Payne, to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of
Virginia, Richard H. Kyle, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of
Minnesota, Lee H. Rosenthal, to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern
District of Texas, and Joe Kendall, to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern
District of Texas, after the nominees testified and answered questions in
their own behalf. Mr. Payne was introduced by Senator Robb, Mr. Kyle was
introduced by Senators Durenberger and Wellstone, Mr. Rosenthal was introduced
by Senator Gramm, and Mr. Kendall was introduced by Senator Bryant and
Representative Sam Johnson.
COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS TECHNICAL AND PROCEDURAL IMPROVEMENTS
ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
concluded hearings on S. 2521, to make technical and procedural amendments
pertaining to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the judges thereof in order
to promote efficiency and fairness, after receiving testimony from Loren A.
Smith, Chief Judge, U.S. Claims Court; Stuart E. Schiffer, Deputy Assistant
Attorney General, Civil Division, Department of Justice; Lynda Troutman
O'Sullivan, Perkins Cole, Washington, DC; and John S. Pachter, American Bar
Association, Vienna, Virginia.
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY PREVENTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice resumed hearings
on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Juvenile Justice
and Delinquency Prevention Act, focusing on early intervention and prevention
strategies in dealing with juvenile delinquency at the county level, receiving
testimony from Kenosha County Executive John R. Collins, Kenosha, Wisconsin;
Gladys McCoy, Multnomah County Board of Commissioners, Portland, Oregon; Kevin
Soucie, Milwaukee County Intergovernmental Relations Division, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin; Michael B. Green, New York City Office of the Deputy Mayor for
Public Safety, New York, New York; Sally A. Herrick, Association of New York
State Youth Bureaus, Ballston Spa; and Ingham County Commissioner Lynne
Martinez, Lansing, Michigan, Maricopa County Supervisor Carole Carpenter,
Phoenix, Arizona, and Thomas R. English, Oregon Council on Crime and
Delinquency, Portland, all on behalf of the National Association of Counties.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CABLE TELEVISION COPYRIGHT REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
held hearings to examine cable television copyright issues, focusing on the
cable television compulsory license repeal proposal, receiving testimony from
Alfred C. Sikes, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission; Francis T.
Vincent, Jr., Major League Baseball, New York, New York; Gene Kimmelman,
Consumer Federation of America, and James P. Mooney, National Cable Television
Association, both of Washington, DC; Stephen F. Ross, University of Illinois,
Champaign; Jeffrey C. Treeman, United Video, Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma; Stephen R.
Effros, Community Antenna Television Association, Fairfax, Virginia; and Bob
Phillips, National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative, Herndon, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
2141, to improve the quality of long-term care insurance through the
establishment of Federal standards, focusing on a report on the inadequacy of
certain insurance policies to protect families against the financial burden of
Alzheimer's disease, after receiving testimony from North Dakota Insurance
Commissioner Earl R. Pomeroy, Bismarck; Richard Gehring, Alzheimer's
Association, Bloomington, Minnesota; James P. Firman, United Seniors Health
Cooperative, and Gail Shearer, Consumers Union, both of Washington, DC; Albert
Norman, Mass Home Care Association, Burlington, Massachusetts; and Robert W.
DeCoursey, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Association of Health
Insurance Agents.
Joint Meetings
U.S.-LATIN AMERICAN ECONOMIC RELATIONS
Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings to examine United
States-Latin American economic relationships, focusing on economic reforms and
the effects of democratization on United States policy in the region,
receiving testimony from Hernando de Soto, Instituto Libertad y Democracia,
Lima, Peru; Richard Feinberg, Inter-American Dialogue, and Norman Bailey,
Norman Bailey, Inc., both of Washington, DC; and Riordan Roett, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1992/04/30
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 30, 1992; pages D478 - D492 (Bd vol. D235 -
D243)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUDGET AUTHORITY RESCISSIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills:
S. 2402, to rescind certain budget authority proposed to be rescinded in a
special message transmitted to the Congress by the President on March 10,
1992, in accordance with Title X of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment
Control Act of 1974, as amended, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute;
S. 2403, to rescind certain budget authority proposed to be rescinded in
special messages transmitted to the Congress by the President on March 20,
1992, in accordance with Title X of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment
Control Act of 1974, as amended, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute;
S. 2551, to rescind certain budget authority proposed to be rescinded in a
special message transmitted to the Congress by the President on April 8, 1992,
in accordance with Title X of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control
Act of 1974, as amended; and
S. 2570, to rescind certain budget authority proposed to be rescinded in
special messages transmitted to the Congress by the President on April 9,
1992, in accordance with Title X of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment
Control Act of 1974, as amended, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
APPROPRIATIONS--HUD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, receiving testimony from Jack
Kemp, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 7.
LTV CORPORATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
held hearings on the national security implications of the proposed sale of
the aircraft and missile divisions of the LTV Corporation, receiving testimony
from Chester Paul Beach, Jr., Acting General Counsel, Department of Defense;
Stephen J. Canner, Treasury Office Director for International Investment,
Department of the Treasury; Frank C. Carlucci, The Carlyle Group, Daniel M.
Tellep, Lockheed Corporation, Susan J. Tolchin, The George Washington
University, and Theodore H. Moran, Georgetown University, all of Washington,
D.C.; James D. Bell, Thomson-CSF, Inc., Arlington, Virginia; and Norman R.
Augustine, Martin Marietta Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DOD
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel held
hearings on S. 2629, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1993 for military
functions of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe military personnel
levels for fiscal year 1993, focusing on Reserve and National Guard programs,
receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. John B. Conway, USAF, Chief, National Guard
Bureau; Maj. Gen. Raymond F. Rees, USA, Director, Army National Guard; Maj.
Gen. Philip G. Killey, USAF, Director, Air National Guard; Maj. Gen. Roger W.
Sandler, USA, Chief, Army Reserve; Rear Adm. James E. Taylor, USN, Director,
Navy Reserve; Maj. Gen. Mitchell J. Waters, USMC, Assistant Deputy Chief of
Reserve Staff for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; Maj. Gen. John J. Closnor III,
USAF, Chief, Air Force Reserve; Rear Adm. John W. Lockwood, USCG, Chief,
Office of Readiness and Reserve, U.S. Coast Guard; Lt. Gen. Edwin S. Leland,
Jr., USA, Director, J-5 (Strategy, Plans and Policy), Office of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff; Lt. Gen. J.H. Binford Peay III, USA, Deputy Chief of Army
Staff for Operations and Plans; Maj. Gen. Donald E. Edwards, USA, Adjutants
General Association of the United States, Maj. Gen. Robert F. Enselin, Jr.,
USA (Ret.), National Guard Association of the U.S., and Maj. Gen. Evan L.
Hultman, AUS (Ret.), Reserve Officers Association of the U.S., all of
Washington, D.C.; Master Sgt. Michael P. Cline, ANG, Enlisted Association of
the National Guard, Rear Adm. Philip W. Smith, USNR (Ret.), Naval Reserve
Association, and Col. Susan L. Malone, USMCR, Marine Corps Reserve Officers
Association, all of Alexandria, Virginia; and Bob Lyman, Naval Enlisted
Reserve Association, Falls Church, Virginia.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
JAPAN'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings to
examine recent economic and financial developments in Japan and the effect
those developments have on Japan's economy, receiving testimony from Jerome H.
Powell, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance; Jeffrey E.
Garten, The Blackstone Group, and Steven H. Nagourney, Lehman Brothers, both
of New York, New York; and Rudiger Dornbusch, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
COMMERCIAL AVIATION EMPLOYEE RIGHTS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
concluded hearings on S. 1565, to ensure the fair treatment of airline
employees in connection with route transfers, after receiving testimony from
Senators Graham and D'Amato; Jeffrey N. Shane, Assistant Secretary of
Transportation for Policy and International Affairs; James W. Callison, Delta
Air Lines, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia; James E. Landry, Air Transport Association
of America, Washington, D.C.; Vicki Frankovich, Independent Federation of
Flight Attendants, New York, New York; Michael Ozegovich, TWU Local 500, Key
Largo, Florida; and Kenneth McAdams, Chappaqua, New York.
CALIFORNIA DESERT WILDERNESS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 21, S. 2393, and H.R.
2929, bills to provide protection for certain public lands in the California
desert, after receiving testimony from Edward G. Heidig, California Department
of Conservation, James F. Trout, California State Lands Commission, and
Timothy J. Lindgren, California Chamber of Commerce, all of Sacramento; George
T. Frampton, Jr., The Wilderness Society, and Paul C. Pritchard, National
Parks and Conservation Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Del C. Gehrett,
Canyon Resources Corporation, Golden, Colorado; D. Ross Fitzpatrick, Viceroy
Gold Corporation, Las Vegas, Nevada; Art Montana, University of California,
and Ruth Galanter, both of Los Angeles, California; Merwyn H. Hemp, California
Desert Coalition, Riverside; William C. Matheson, Catellus Development
Corporation, San Francisco, California; and Richard J. Lewis, East Mojave
Desert Property Owners' Association, San Diego, California.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original bill authorizing funds for fiscal years 1993 through 1997
for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Also, Senate began consideration of S. 976, authorizing funds for programs of
the Solid Waste Disposal Act, but did not complete action thereon, and
recessed subject to call.
INSURANCE INDUSTRY FRAUD
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
continued hearings to examine Federal and State efforts to combat fraud and
abuse in the insurance industry, focusing on the operations and the events
surrounding the failure of the Guarantee Security Life Insurance Company in
Florida, receiving testimony from John G. Heimann, and Jerome P. Kenney, both
of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., Richard Allerton, Jr., Joseph G. Cote, and
Samuel Hunter, all of New York, New York; Mark C. Sanford, Transmark USA,
Inc., and Thomas E. Gibbs, both of Jacksonville, Florida; and William B.
Blackburn, Tampa, Florida.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
John P. Walters, of Michigan, to be Deputy Director for Supply Reduction, and
Kay Coles James, of Virginia, to be Associate Director, both for the Office of
National Drug Control Policy, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf.
FAIR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business
Rights concluded hearings on S. 2610, to revise existing antitrust laws to
safeguard United States free markets from unfair foreign competition, after
receiving testimony from James F. Rill, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust
Division, Department of Justice; Kevin J. Arquit, Director, Bureau of
Competition, Federal Trade Commission; Paul R. Roedel, Carpenter Technology
Corporation, Reading, Pennsylvania; Lewis H. Goldfarb, Chrysler Corporation,
Detroit, Michigan; Lloyd Constantine, McDermott, Will & Emery, and Eleanor M.
Fox, New York University School of Law, both of New York, New York; and Abbott
B. Lipsky, Jr., King & Spalding, Washington, DC.
ELECTRONIC FREEDOM OF INFORMATION IMPROVEMENT ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology and the Law concluded
hearings on S. 1940, to provide for public access to information in an
electronic format, after receiving testimony from Steven R. Schlesinger,
Deputy Director, Office of Policy and Communications, Department of Justice;
Peter Pritchard, USA Today, Arlington, Virginia; Scott Marshall, American
Foundation for the Blind, and Thomas M. Susman, Ropes & Gray, on behalf of the
American Bar Association, both of Washington, DC.; and Sybil Brigham McShane,
Vermont Department of Libraries, Montpelier.
Joint Meetings
COMMUNITY DISTRESS ALTERNATIVES
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine methods of
dealing with community distress, focusing on inadequate housing, education and
job training opportunities, unemployment, delinquency, and crime, receiving
testimony from Virginia Ramirez, Communities Organized for Public Service, San
Antonio, Texas; Rev. David O'Connell, South Central Organizing Committee, Los
Angeles, California; Carol Reckling, Baltimoreans United in Leadership
Development, Baltimore, Maryland; Erving Domenech, East Brooklyn
Congregations, Brooklyn, New York; Gusie Livingston, Family Day Care Home
Project, and Audley Evans, Housing Authority of the City of Tampa, both of
Tampa, Florida; Edward T. Chambers, Industrial Areas Foundation, Franklin
Square, New York; Gary Orfield, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts;
and John Berthoud, American Legislative Exchange Counsel, Washington, D.C.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PATENT SYSTEM HARMONIZATION
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Patents,
Copyrights and Trademarks concluded joint hearings with the House Committee on
the Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial
Administration on S. 2605 and H.R. 4978, bills to provide better protection of
United States inventions abroad by establishing uniform international patent
procedures and standards, after receiving testimony from Harry F. Manbeck,
Jr., Assistant Secretary and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, and
Michael K. Kirk, Assistant Commissioner for Legislation and International
Affairs, both of the Department of Commerce; Harold C. Wegner, George
Washington University National Law Center, Washington, D.C.; Robert P. Merges,
Boston University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts; Robert B. Benson,
American Intellectual Property Law Association, Arlington, Virginia; Howard W.
Bremer, Norwalk, Connecticut, on behalf of the Association of University
Technology Managers; Robert A. Armitage, Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan,
on behalf of the National Association of Manufacturers; and Douglas W. Wyatt,
Wyatt, Gerber, Burke & Badie, New York, New York.
1992/05/01
Daily Digest - Friday, May 1, 1992; pages D493 - D496 (Bd vol. D243 - D245)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AID
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for foreign assistance
programs, focusing on Agency for International Development [AID] management
and reform issues, receiving testimony from Gen. Herbert Beckington, Inspector
General, Agency for International Development; George M. Ferris, Chairman,
President's Commission on the Management of AID; and Frank C. Conahan, Acting
Controller General, National Security and International Affairs Division,
General Accounting Office.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 6.
FORMER SOVIET UNION DEBT RESCHEDULING
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Deficits, Debt Management and
International Debt held hearings to examine the debt crisis in the independent
states of the former Soviet Union, focusing on how IMF resources will be used
by the new states, receiving testimony from Roger W. Robinson, RWR Inc.,
Washington, D.C.; Donald W. Green, PlanEcon Capital Group, Inc., and Karin
Lissakers, Columbia University, both of New York, New York; and M. Peter
McPherson, Bank of America, San Francisco, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CHEMICAL WEAPONS BAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine chemical
weapons ban negotiation issues, receiving testimony from Stephen J. Ledogar,
U.S. Representative to the Conference on Disarmament, Department of State;
Will D. Carpenter, Monsanto Agricultural Group, St. Louis, Missouri, on behalf
of the Chemical Manufacturers Association; Michael Krepon, The Henry L.
Stimson Center, Washington, D.C.; and Matthew S. Meselson, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/05/04
Daily Digest - Monday, May 4, 1992; pages D497 - D500 (Bd vol. D246)
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 1993 for Army and Navy
military construction programs, receiving testimony from Susan Livingstone,
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Logistics and Environment;
Maj. Gen. John F. Sobke, Assistant Chief of Army Engineers; Brig. Gen. John
D'Araujo, Deputy Director, Army National Guard; Brig. Gen. Roger C. Bultman,
Deputy Chief, Army Reserve; Jacqueline E. Schafer, Assistant Secretary of the
Navy for Installations, Logistics and Environment; Rear Adm. Patrick W.
Drennon, CEC, Director, Shore Activities Division, and Deputy Chief of Naval
Operations (Logistics); Brig. Gen. John C. Arick, Director of Facilities and
Services Division, United States Marine Corp; and Rear Adm. Wallace N.
Guthrie, Deputy Director, Naval Reserve.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION TO ANTARCTIC TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the Protocol
on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, with Annexes, done at
Madrid October 4, 1991, and an additional Annex done at Bonn October 17, 1991
(Treaty Doc. 102-22), after receiving testimony from E.U. Curtis Bohlen,
Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and
Scientific Affairs; Tucker Scully, Director, Office of Oceans, Department of
State; Larry Rudolph, Deputy General Counsel, National Science Foundation; and
Beth Marks, The Antarctica Project, and Susan Sabella, Greenpeace, both of
Washington, DC.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/05/05
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 5, 1992; pages D502 - D510 (Bd vol. D246 - D252)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATIONS--DOD
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional
Defense held hearings on S. 2629, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1993 for
military functions of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe military
personnel levels for fiscal year 1993, focusing on the near- and long-term
outlook for the U.S. Marine Corps, receiving testimony from Gen. Carl E.
Mundy, Jr., USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--FAA
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
concluded hearings on S. 2642, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1995 for
programs of the Federal Aviation Administration, focusing on airport and
aircraft noise abatement projects, after receiving testimony from Barry L.
Harris, Acting Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation; Robert Aaronson, Air Transport Association of America,
Washington, DC; and Charles Barclay, American Association of Airport
Executives, and George Howard, American Airport Council International, both of
Alexandria, Virginia.
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U.S. ROLE IN EASTERN EUROPE/FORMER SOVIET UNION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs held hearings
on the role of the United States in protecting minority rights in the new
independent states of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, receiving
testimony from Paul Goble, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Father
J. Bryan Hehir, United States Catholic Conference, Alfred H. Moses, American
Jewish Committee, and Martin A. Wenick, National Conference on Soviet Jewry,
all of Washington, DC; and Jeri Laber, Helsinki Watch, Melvin Salberg,
Anti-Defamation League, and Henry Siegman, American Jewish Congress, all of
New York, New York.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
FEDERAL PROGRAM PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed 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 Charles
A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States, John W. Hill, Director,
Audit Support and Analysis Accounting and Financial Management Division, and
Richard L. Fogel, Assistant Comptroller General, J. William Gadsby, Director,
Federal Management Issues, and John M. Kamensky, Assistant Director, each of
the General Government Division, all of the General Accounting Office; Frank
Hodsoll, Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget;
Russell D. Morris, Commissioner, Financial Management Service, Department of
the Treasury; J. Michael McGinnis, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and
Human Services for Health (Disease Prevention and Health Promotion); and
Raymond J. Uhalde, Administrator, Office of Strategic Planning and Policy
Development, Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INVOLUNTARY TRANSFER OF INSURANCE POLICIES
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business
Rights concluded hearings to examine the frequency of involuntary transfer of
policies from one insurance company to another, focusing on Security Benefit
Life's ValuBuilder annuities transfer, why State insurance laws and
regulations permit the transfer of policies without policyholder approval, how
the National Association of Insurance Commissioners are handling certain
problems associated with the involuntary transfer of policies, and related
provisions of S. 1644, Insurance Protection Act of 1991, after receiving
testimony from Kansas Assistant Commissioner of Insurance Terry Tiede, and
Howard R. Fricke, Security Benefit Life Insurance Company, both of Topeka,
Kansas; Washington Chief Deputy Insurance Commissioner David H. Rodgers,
Olympia; Joseph M. Belth, Indiana University, Bloomington; and James McNeill,
Little Rock, Arkansas.
FIREARMS DISABILITY RELIEF
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded
hearings on S. 2304, to permanently prohibit the possession of firearms by
persons who have been convicted of a violent felony regardless of the
restoration of other civil rights, after receiving testimony from Senator
Lautenberg; Representative Lawrence Smith; Andrew L. Vita, Chief, Firearms
Division, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Department of the
Treasury; Dewey R. Stokes, Fraternal Order of Police, Columbus, Ohio; Richard
Wells, National Association of Police Organizations, Inc., Josh Sugarmann,
Violence Policy Center, and Joseph Phillips, National Rifle Association of
America, Inc., all of Washington, DC; and Chris Sullivan, International
Brotherhood of Police Officers, Arlington, Virginia.
NOMINATION
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Thomas P. Kerester, of Virginia, to be Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Small
Business Administration, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Robb
and Representative Ireland, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf. Testimony was also received on the nomination from Paul H. Cooksey,
Deputy Administrator, Small Business Administration.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1992/05/06
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 6, 1992; pages D511 - D522 (Bd vol. D252 - D260)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AID TO THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded joint
hearings with the Committee on Appropriations' Subcommittee on Foreign
Operations on proposed legislation to provide assistance to the new
independent states of the former Soviet Union to help create a democratic,
free market society, after receiving testimony from Ambassador Richard L.
Armitage, Deputy to the Coordinator for United States Assistance to the Newly
Independent States, Department of State; Malcolm Butler, Director, Task Force
for the New Independent States, Agency for International Development; and
Richard Crowder, Under Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and
Commodity Programs.
DOMESTIC FUNDING
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education concluded hearings to examine the importance of Federally
funding certain domestic programs as an investment in U.S. economic
competitiveness and long-term economic growth, after receiving testimony from
Alan S. Blinder, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; Marian Wright
Edelman, Children's Defense Fund, and Jeff Faux, Economic Policy Institute,
both of Washington, D.C.; and Ray Marshall, University of Texas, Austin.
APPROPRIATIONS--U.S. COAST GUARD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1992 for the United States Coast
Guard, receiving testimony from Adm. J. William Kime, Commandant, U.S. Coast
Guard, Department of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 14.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held open and closed hearings on S.
2629, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1993 for military functions of the
Department of Defense, and to prescribe military personnel levels for fiscal
year 1993, focusing on Department of Energy national security programs,
receiving testimony from James D. Watkins, Secretary, Leo P. Duffy, Assistant
Secretary, Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, Richard A. Claytor,
Assistant Secretary, Defense Programs, and Rear Adm. Winthrop Gerald Ellis,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Military Application, all of the Department of
Energy.
Committee will meet again on Thursday, May 21.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support held hearings on S. 2629, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1993 for
military functions of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe military
personnel levels for fiscal year 1993, focusing on logistics programs,
receiving testimony from Gen. Jimmy D. Ross, USA, Commander, Army Material
Command; Vice Adm. Stephen F. Loftus, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
(Logistics), Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; Gen. Charles C.
McDonald, USAF, Commander, Air Force Logistics Command; and Lt. Gen. Charles
McCausland, USAF, Director, Defense Logistics Agency.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
LAND REMOTE SENSING POLICY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on S. 2297, to enable the United
States to maintain its leadership in land remote sensing by providing data
continuity for the Landsat program, and by establishing a new national land
remote sensing policy, after receiving testimony from Lennard A. Fisk,
Associate Administrator, Office of Space Science and Applications, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration; Martin C. Faga, Assistant Secretary of
the Air Force for Space; Dallas Peck, Director, and Allen Watkins, Chief,
National Mapping Division, both of the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of
the Interior; James J. Frelk, Director, Office of Space Commerce, Department
of Commerce; David A. Thibault, Earth Satellite Corporation, Rockville,
Maryland; Brent Blackwelder, Friends of the Earth, Washington, D.C.; John R.
Jensen, University of South Carolina, Columbia; Frederick B. Henderson III,
The Geosat Committee, Inc., Norman, Oklahoma; Arturo Silvestrini, Earth
Observation Satellite Company, Lanham, Maryland; and Charlotte Black Elk,
Manderson, South Dakota.
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GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the current scientific understanding of global climate change, after
receiving testimony from Robert T. Watson, Director, Process Studies Program,
Earth Science and Applications Division, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration; William Happer, Director of Energy Research, Aristides
Patrinos, Director of Environmental Sciences, Office of Health and
Environmental Research, and Michael C. MacCracken, Division Leader,
Atmospheric and Geophysical Sciences Division, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
(Livermore, California), all of the Department of Energy; and Stephen H.
Schneider, Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research
(Boulder, Colorado), National Science Foundation.
NOMINATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Kenneth C. Rogers, of New Jersey, to be a Member of the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, after the nominee testified and answered questions in
his own behalf.
NUCLEAR SAFETY IN RUSSIA
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings to examine
efforts to preserve and strengthen the existing nuclear infrastructure in
Russia, receiving testimony from People's Deputy of Russia Fyodor G.
Gasparyan, Chairman, and People's Deputy of Russia Evgenii K. Nesterov, Deputy
Chairman, both of the Subcommittee on Radiation Safety, Committee on Ecology
and the Rational Use of Natural Resources, Supreme Soviet of the Russian
Federation; Vladimir G. Asmolov, Director, Department of Nuclear Safety of the
Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Nikolai N. Yegorov, Deputy Minister of
Atomic Energy, Russian Federation, Alexander A. Matveev, Director of Science
and Technology for the State Committee for the Supervision of Radiation Safety
(Gosatomnadzor), Lidia Popova, Director, Nuclear Program for the
Socio-Ecological Union, Vitalii F. Filonenko, Staff Member, Committee on
Ecology and the Rational Use of Natural Resources, and Vladimir I. Fedin,
Deputy Director for Scientific Programs of the Enterprise "Progress," State
Committee on Chernobyl, all of Moscow; Dan W. Reicher, Member, National
Academy of Sciences Board on Radioactive Waste Management, and Kristen Suokko,
Washington, D.C., both on behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council;
John F. Ahearne, Sigma Xi, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, former
Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Edward E. Purvis, III, Los Alamos
Technical Associates, Damascus, Maryland; and Terry Lash, Springfield,
Illinois.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation
providing for comprehensive reform of health care costs and the expansion of
access to insurance coverage, receiving testimony from Robert D. Reischauer,
Director, Congressional Budget Office; Karen Davis, The Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland; Alain C. Enthoven, Stanford University,
Stanford, California; Mark V. Pauly, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia;
Paul Starr, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; Drew E. Altman, The
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Menlo Park, California; and John Immerwahr,
The Public Agenda Foundation, John D. Moynahan, Jr., Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company, and Robert Leitman, Louis Harris and Associates, all of New
York, New York.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
UNITED STATES-REPUBLIC OF PANAMA TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the Treaty
Between the United States and the Republic of Panama on Mutual Assistance in
Criminal Matters, with Annex and Appendices, signed at Panama on April 11,
1991 (Treaty Doc. 102-15), after receiving testimony from R. Grant Smith,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics Matters, and
Alan Kreczko, Deputy Legal Adviser, both of the Department of State; and David
J. Kriskovich, Director, International Criminal Investigative Training
Assistance Program, Department of Justice.
CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs concluded
hearings to examine the role of children's education television in the
transformation of the former Soviet Union, after receiving testimony from
David V. B. Britt and John Baxter Urist, both of the Children's Television
Workshop, New York, New York; Manuel Petroneo and Maria Emilia Brederode, both
of RUA SESAMO, Radiotelevisao Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal; and Elena A.
Lenskaya, representing the Russia Ministry of Education, and Oleg Popotsov and
Sergie Erofeev, both of the Russian State Radio and Television, all of Moscow.
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RETAIL GASOLINE MARKET COMPETITION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business
Rights concluded hearings on S. 790, S. 2041, and S. 2043, bills to preserve
and promote wholesale and retail competition in the retail gasoline market,
after receiving testimony from Brent Crosby, Service Station Dealers of
Arizona, Phoenix; James Daskal, Service Station Dealers of America, Edwin S.
Rothschild, Citizen Action, and Robert J. Rauscher, Amoco Oil Company, on
behalf of the American Petroleum Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; L.W.
Locke, Eastern Petroleum Corporation, Ensign, North Carolina, on behalf of the
Petroleum Marketers Association of America; Deane R. Stewart, Tri-Star, Inc.,
Urbana, Illinois, on behalf of the Illinois Petroleum Marketers Association;
Stephen Sheetz, Sheetz, Inc., Altoona, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the National
Coalition for a Competitive Petroleum Market; W. Greg Ryberg, R & H Maxxon,
Inc., Aiken, South Carolina; and M. Dale Ensign, Sinclair Oil Corporation,
Salt Lake City, Utah.
OSHA REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed hearings on S. 1622,
to strengthen and improve the provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health
Act of 1970 with respect to the health and safety of employees, receiving
testimony from Deborah Berkowitz, United Food and Commercial Workers
International Union, M. Susan Marquis, RAND Institute for Civil Justice, and
Stacy Hennessy Moot, American Insurance Association, all of Washington, D.C.;
Joseph A. Kinney, National Safe Workplace Institute, Chicago, Illinois;
Michael J. Wright, United Steelworkers of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
Howard Frumkin, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; Grover A. Vos, Occidental
Petroleum Corporation, Los Angeles, California; Dianne Clodfelter, Goodwill,
Oklahoma; and Joan Lichterman, San Francisco, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
LIVE PERFORMING ARTS LABOR RELATIONS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
492, to revise the National Labor Relations Act to exempt employers engaged
primarily in the live performing arts from certain unfair labor practice
prohibitions relating to specified types of agreements with labor
organizations, after receiving testimony from Bob Osatrovsky, Nevada Resort
Association, Las Vegas; Charles Peterson and Leroy Van Dyke, both of the
National Association of Orchestra Leaders, New York, New York; Thomas F. Lee,
Washington, D.C., Ted Graham, Dallas, Texas, Raymond Marshall Hair, Jr., Fort
Worth, Texas, and Mark Tully Massagli, New York, New York, all on behalf of
the American Federation of Musicians; and Lee Greenwood, Nashville, Tennessee.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION CITIZEN REGENTS
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on S.J.
Res. 221 and S.J. Res. 275, measures providing for the appointments of Hanna
H. Gray and Wesley S. Williams, respectively, as citizen regents of the
Smithsonian Institution, after receiving testimony from Robert McC. Adams,
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution; Hanna H. Gray, University of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois; and Wesley S. Williams, Jr., Covington & Burling,
Washington, D.C.
INDIAN GAMING REGULATORY ACT
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings on
the implementation of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (P.L. 100-497), after
receiving testimony from South Dakota Governor George S. Mickelson, Pierre;
Gregg Bourland and Mark Van Norman, both of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe,
Eagle Butte, South Dakota; Lee A. Taylor, Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe,
Flandreau, South Dakota; Wendell Chino, Mescalero Apache Tribal Council,
Mescalero, New Mexico; Charles W. Blackwell, on behalf of the Chickasaw Nation
of Oklahoma, and Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, Traditional Values Coalition, both of
Washington, D.C.; Glenn Ford, Spokane Tribe of Indians, Wellpinit, Washington;
Daniel J. Tucker, and Don Sellers, both of the Sycuan Band of Mission Indians,
San Diego, California; Judy Knight-Frank, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Towaoc,
Colorado; Richard G. Hill, Oneida Tribe, Oneida, Wisconsin, on behalf of the
Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Indian Gaming
Association; Glen Miller, Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, Keshena; Bruce
Greene, Greene, Meyer and McElroy, Boulder, Colorado; Myron Ellis, Minnesota
Indian Gaming Association, Cass Lake; Charles Keechi, National Indian Gaming
Association, Anadarko, Oklahoma; James Maida, Gaming Laboratories
International, Toms River, New Jersey; Rita Keshena, Lac due Flambeau Bank of
Lake Superior Chippewa, Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin; Meryl and Staci Charles,
both of People Against Casinos, Horton, Kansas; and Ruth Picton, Hiawatha,
Kansas.
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INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/05/07
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 7, 1992; pages D523 - D536 (Bd vol. D260 - D266)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--SUPREME COURT/LSC/FTC
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the Supreme Court of the United
States from Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonin Scalia, both Associate Justices of
the Supreme Court of the United States; for the Legal Services Corporation
(LSC) from George W. Wittgraf, Chairman, and Guy V. Molinari, Vice Chairman,
both of the Board of Directors, LSC; and Talbot D'Alemberte, American Bar
Association, Miami, Florida; and for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from
Janet D. Steiger, Chairman, FTC.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the national foreign
intelligence program and for tactical intelligence and related activities,
receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 12.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the Department
of Energy, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from William Happer, Director, Office of Energy Research, B. Reid
Detchon, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Renewable
Energy, and William H. Young, Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, all of
the Department of Energy.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 12.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1993 for the Department of Labor, receiving testimony from Lynn
Martin, Secretary of Labor; and Robert A. Georgine, Building and Construction
Trade Department, AFL-CIO, William H. Kolberg, National Alliance of Business,
and George J. Kourplas, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace
Workers, all of Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 12.
APPROPRIATIONS--VETERANS PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Edward J.
Derwinski, Secretary of Veterans Affairs; and Frank Q. Nebeker, Chief Judge,
U.S. Court of Veterans Appeals.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 14.
STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to review the Strategic
Environmental Research and Development Program, which addresses environmental
matters of concern to the Departments of Energy and Defense and the
Environmental Protection Agency, receiving testimony from Sean O'Keefe,
Comptroller, Victor H. Reis, Director, Defense Research and Engineering, and
Robert B. Oswald, Acting Executive Director, Strategic Environmental Research
and Development Program, all of the Department of Defense; William Happer,
Director, Office of Energy Research, Department of Energy; John Skinner,
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Research and Development, Environmental
Protection Agency; James Baker, Joint Oceanographic Institutes, Inc.,
Washington, D.C.; and William M. Layson, Science Applications International
Corporation, McLean, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Carl W. Vogt, of Maryland, to be Chairman and a
Member of the National Transportation Safety Board, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senator McCain, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.
FIRE ADMINISTRATION AUTHORIZATION/FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee
concluded hearings on S. 1690, to authorize funds through fiscal year 1994 for
programs and activities of the U.S. Fire Administration, and on S. 1698, to
establish a National Fallen Firefighters' Foundation to operate in memory and
recognition of firefighters who die in the line of duty, after receiving
testimony from Senator Sarbanes; Olin L. Greene, Jr., Administrator, U.S. Fire
Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency; Nevada State Fire
Marshall Raymond Blehm, Carson City; and Herta Feely, National Safe Kids
Campaign, and Timothy Butters, International Association of Fire Chiefs, both
of Washington, D.C.
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NOMINATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Linda G. Stuntz, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of Energy,
after the nominee, who was introduced by former Senator James Broyhill,
testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings on proposed legislation
providing for comprehensive reform of health care costs and the expansion of
access to insurance coverage, receiving testimony from Kevin Moley, Deputy
Secretary of Health and Human Services; Lane Kirkland, Robert McGlotten, and
Karen Ignagni, all of the AFL-CIO, Deborah Steelman, Advisory Council on
Social Security, Richard J. Davidson, American Hospital Association, and
Robert M. Brandon, Citizen Action, all of Washington, D.C.; Stuart H. Altman,
Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; Gerald C. Keller, Mandeville,
Louisiana, on behalf of the American Academy of Family Physicians; Jerald R.
Schenken and Carol O'Brien, both of Omaha, Nebraska, both on behalf of the
American Medical Association; and Gregory E. Lau, General Motors Corporation,
New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
The nominations of Roman Popadiuk, of New York, to be Ambassador to Ukraine,
Sigmund A. Rogich, of Nevada, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Iceland, and
foreign service officers' appointments and promotions lists received in the
Senate on April 28, 1992;
The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous
Wastes and Their Disposal, with Annexes, done at Basel on March 22, 1989
(Treaty Doc. 102-5), with four understandings;
The Consular Convention between the United States and the Republic of Tunisia,
signed at Tunis on May 12, 1988 (Treaty Doc. 101-12);
The Consular Convention Between the United States and the Democratic and
Popular Republic of Algeria, signed at Washington on January 12, 1989 (Treaty
Doc. 101-13);
The Consular Convention Between the United States and the Mongolian People's
Republic, signed at Ulaanbaatar on August 2, 1990 (Treaty Doc. 102-14);
The Supplementary Treaty to the Treaty Between the United States and the
Federal Republic of Germany Concerning Extradition signed at Washington on
October 21, 1986 (Treaty Doc. 100-6);
The Extradition Treaty Between the Government of the United States and the
Government of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, signed at Nassau on March 9,
1990 (Treaty Doc. 102-17);
The Protocol Amending the Treaty on Extradition Between the United States and
Australia, signed at Seoul on September 4, 1990 (Treaty Doc. 102-23);
The Second Supplementary Treaty on Extradition Between the United States and
the Kingdom of Spain, signed at Madrid on February 9, 1988 (Treaty Doc.
102-24);
The Treaty Between the Government of the United States and the Government of
Jamaica on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, signed at Kingston on
July 7, 1989 (Treaty Doc. 102-16), with two provisos;
The Treaty Between the Government of the United States and the Government of
the Republic of Argentina on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters,
signed at Buenos Aires on December 4, 1990 (Treaty Doc. 102-18), with two
provisos;
The Treaty Between the Government of the United States and the Government of
the Oriental Republic of Uruguay on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal
Matters, signed at Montevideo on May 6, 1991 (Treaty Doc. 102-19), with two
provisos;
The Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Between the United
States and the Kingdom of Spain, signed at Washington on November 20, 1990
(Treaty Doc. 102-21), with two provisos;
S. Con. Res. 107, condemning the involvement of the military regime in Burma
in human rights abuses, drug trafficking and buildup of arms; and
S. 1731, to establish United States policy with respect to Hong Kong after
July 1, 1997 (the date China resumes sovereignty over Hong Kong), with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute.
U.S. SECURITY IN AFRICA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs held hearings
to examine United States security assistance policies in Africa, receiving
testimony from James L. Woods, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
African Affairs; Leonard H. Robinson, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary for
African Affairs, and Michael W. Cotter, Director, Office of Defense Relations
and Security Assistance, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, both of the
Department of State; Martin Lowenkopf, Bethesda, Maryland, former Director,
Office of Research and Analysis for Africa, Department of State; and David C.
Miller, Jr., Washington, D.C., former Senior Director, International Programs,
National Security Council.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
The nominations of Edward E. Carnes, of Alabama, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Eleventh Circuit, Robert E. Payne, to be United States District
Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richard H. Kyle, to be United
States District Judge for the District of Minnesota, Lee H. Rosenthal, to be
United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas, Joe Kendall,
to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, and
John P. Walters, to be Deputy Director for Supply Reduction, Office of
National Drug Control Policy; and
S. 1216, to provide for the adjustment of status of certain Chinese nationals
if conditions do not permit their safe return to China, with an amendment in
the nature of a substitute.
HEALTH INSURANCE PURCHASING COOPERATIVES ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 2675, to
promote the use of State-coordinated health insurance buying programs and
assist States in establishing health insurance purchasing cooperatives,
through which small employers may purchase health insurance, receiving
testimony from Alain Enthoven, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California;
Mary Jane England, Washington Business Group on Health, Washington, D.C.;
Michael Stocker, US Healthcare, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania; William P. Link, The
Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, New Jersey; Thomas O. Pyle, Interstudy,
Boston, Massachusetts; and Robert L. Schwartz, New Mexico Health Policy
Commission, Albuquerque.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again on Wednesday, May 13.
Joint Meetings
FARM POLICY
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine ways that Federal
farm policy can encourage methods of farming that are environmentally sound,
internationally competitive, and will promote family farming, receiving
testimony from Justin Ward, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington,
D.C., David Swaim, Swaim and Associates, Crawfordsville, Indiana; and Karl
Zinmeister, American Enterprise Institute, New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H. Con. Res. 287, setting forth the congressional budget for the
U.S. Government for fiscal years 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997, but did not
complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
1992/05/08
Daily Digest - Friday, May 8, 1992; pages D538 - D540 (Bd vol. D267)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance
Defense held hearings on S. 2629, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1993 for
military functions of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe military
personnel levels for fiscal year 1993, focusing on requirements and
modernization plans for tactical aircraft for the armed forces, and to review
plans for service cooperation and coordination, receiving testimony from Frank
Kendall III, Deputy Director, Defense Research and Engineering (Tactical
Warfare Programs), Office of the Secretary of Defense; Vice Adm. Richard M.
Dunleavy, USN, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations for Air Warfare, United
States Navy; Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Ralston, USAF, Director of Operational
Requirements, United States Air Force; Lt. Gen. Duane A. Wills, USMC, Deputy
Chief of Staff for Aviation, United States Marine Corps; and Maj. Gen. Jay
Montgomery Garner, USA, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and
Plans (Force Development), United States Army.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
EMPLOYMENT SITUATION
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings on the
employment-unemployment situation for April, receiving testimony from William
G. Barron, Acting Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of
Labor.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
U.S. INVESTMENT GAP
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine how the
United States investment gap affects the outlook for U.S. industry and the
condition of the U.S. economy, focusing on the high level of Japanese
manufacturing investment relative to the United States, and the competitive
challenges facing American manufacturing, after receiving testimony from Ken
Courtis, Deutsche Bank, Tokyo, Japan; and Pat Choate, Manufacturing Policy
Project, and Claude Barfield, American Enterprise Institute, both of
Washington, D.C.
1992/05/11
Daily Digest - Monday, May 11, 1992; pages D541 - D545 (Bd vol. D267 - D268)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATIVE HAWAIIAN WILDLIFE AND PLANTS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on implementation
of the provisions of the Endangered Species Act relating to the preservation
of native Hawaiian wildlife and plants, receiving testimony from Senator
Inouye; James F. Spagnole, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and
Parks, Robert P. Smith, Field Supervisor, Pacific Islands Office, U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, and Eugene Hester, Associate Director, Natural
Resources, and Don Reeser, Superintendent, Haleakala National Park, both of
the National Park Service, all of the Department of the Interior; Alison L.
Hess, Project Director/Senior Analyst, Food and Renewable Resources, Office of
Technology and Assessment; M. Lynne Corn, Environment and Natural Resources
Policy Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; Ronald
L. Walker, Wildlife Program Manager, Hawaii Department of Land and Natural
Resources; Michael R. Sherwood, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, San Francisco,
California; Audrey Newman, The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, Honolulu; and
James Waltman, National Audubon Society, and Michael J. Bean, Environmental
Defense Fund, both of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/05/12
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 12, 1992; pages D545 (sic) - D554 (Bd vol. D268 -
D275)
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 1993 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for chemical demilitarization and Department of
Defense environmental programs from Susan Livingstone, Assistant Secretary of
the Army (Installations, Logistics and Environment); Thomas E. Baca, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Environment); and Billy Richardson, Deputy
Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Chemical Matters).
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, 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 1993 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the
Army Corps of Engineers from Nancy Dorn, Assistant Secretary of the Army for
Civil Works; Lt. Gen. Henry Hatch, Chief of Corps of Engineers; and Maj. Gen.
Arthur Williams, Director of Civil Works, Army Corps of Engineers.
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Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, May 14.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN OPERATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for foreign assistance,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for export assistance programs from
John D. Macomber, President and Chairman, Export-Import Bank of the United
States; Kathryn Morgan, Director of Policy, Agency for International
Development; James D. Berg, Executive Vice President, Overseas Private
Investment Corporation; and Nancy Frame, Deputy Director, Trade and
Development Program, International Development Cooperation Agency.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--DOE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the
Department of Energy, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from J. Michael Davis, Assistant Secretary for
Conservation and Renewable Energy, and James G. Randolph, Assistant Secretary
for Fossil Energy, both of the Department of Energy.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 19.
APPROPRIATIONS--HHS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993
for the Department of Health and Human Services, receiving testimony from
Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services; Mayor David
Dinkins, New York, New York; Mayor Norman B. Rice, Seattle, Washington; Mayor
Mike White, Cleveland, Ohio; Joyce Lashof, American Public Health Association,
Washington, D.C.; and Robert N. Butler, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York,
New York.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support concluded hearings on S. 2629, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1993
for military functions of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe military
personnel levels for fiscal year 1993, and S. 2628, to authorize certain
construction for fiscal year 1993 at military installations, focusing on the
Department of Defense's environmental programs, after receiving testimony from
Thomas E. Baca, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Environment);
Jacqueline E. Schafer, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and
Environment); Lewis D. Walker, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army
(Environment, Safety and Occupational Health); Gary D. Vest, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force (Environment, Safety and Occupational Health); and
Col. James E. Jenkins, USA, Director, Office of Installation Services and
Environmental Protection, Defense Logistics Agency.
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY POLICY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Affairs and Monetary Policy concluded hearings to examine the
Department of the Treasury's annual report on international economic and
exchange rate policy, after receiving testimony from David C. Mulford, Under
Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs.
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine energy policy implications of global climate change and international
agreements regarding greenhouse gas reductions, after receiving testimony from
Linda G. Stuntz, Acting Deputy Secretary, and Howard Gruenspecht, Associate
Deputy Under Secretary for Program Analysis, both of the Department of Energy;
Richard D. Morgenstern, Acting Assistant Administrator for Policy, Planning
and Evaluation, and Eileen B. Claussen, Director, Office of Atmospheric and
Indoor Air Programs, both of the Environmental Protection Agency; Robert A.
Reinstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment, Health and
Natural Resources; and Alden Meyer, Union of Concerned Scientists, Roger C.
Dower, World Resources Institute, Michael E. Baroody, National Association of
Manufacturers, on behalf of the Global Climate Coalition, David Montgomery,
Charles River Associates, and Richard A. Hellman, United States Committee for
the United Nations Environment Programme, all of Washington, D.C.
NEW MEXICO STATE RESOURCES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills:
S. 2178 and H.R. 2502, bills to establish the Jemez National Recreation Area
in the State of New Mexico, after receiving testimony from Representative
Richardson; Elizabeth Estill, Associate Deputy Chief, Forest Service,
Department of Agriculture; Henry C. Oat, East Fork Preservation Coalition,
Santa Fe, New Mexico; Richard P. Cook, Copar Pumice Company, Espanola, New
Mexico; and Donna Smith and Gilbert M. Sandoval, both of Jemez Springs, New
Mexico;
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S. 2021, to designate a segment of the Rio Grande in New Mexico as a component
of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, after receiving testimony from
Michael J. Penfold, Assistant Director, Land and Renewable Resources, Bureau
of Land Management, Department of the Interior; and Hank Saxe, Amigos Bravos,
Taos, New Mexico; and
S. 2045, to authorize a study of the prehistoric Casas Grandes Culture in the
State of New Mexico, and S. 2544, to establish in the Department of the
Interior the Colonial New Mexico Preservation Commission, after receiving
testimony from Denis P. Galvin, Associate Director for Planning and
Development, National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
Testimony was also received on S. 2045 (listed above) from Curtis F.
Schaafsma, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe.
TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine American
competitiveness and trade issues, focusing on options for policies to restore
the competitiveness of American companies and ensure fair and open competition
in the global marketplace, receiving testimony from C. Fred Bergsten,
Institute for International Economics, on behalf of the Competitiveness Policy
Council, and Erich Bloch, Council on Competitiveness, both of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS TREATIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 1983
Partial Revision of the Radio Regulations (Geneva, 1979) and a Final Protocol
(Treaty Doc. 99-1), the Agreement for the Medium Frequency Broadcasting
Service in Region 2 (Treaty Doc. 100-7), the Regional Agreement on
Broadcasting Service Expansion in the Western Hemisphere Rio de Janeiro, 1988
Agreement (Treaty Doc. 102-10), the International Telecommunication
Regulations (Melbourne, 1988) (Treaty Doc. 102-13), the Partial Revision
(1988), Radio Regulations, Relating to Space Radiocommunications Services
(Treaty Doc. 102-27), the Partial Revision (1985), Radio Regulations, Relating
to Broadcasting-Satellite Service in Region 2 (Treaty Doc. 102-28), and the
proposed 1987 Partial Revision of Radio Regulations for Mobile Services, after
receiving testimony from Bradley P. Holmes, United States Coordinator and
Director of International Communications and Information Policy, Department of
State.
ASSASSINATION MATERIALS DISCLOSURE ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S.J. Res. 282,
to require the Federal government to release records to the American public
relevant to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, receiving
testimony from Senators Boren and Specter; Representative Stokes; Robert M.
Gates, Director of Central Intelligence; William S. Sessions, Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; James H. Lesar,
Assassination Archives and Research Center, Washington, D.C.; Ernest May,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Athan G. Theoharis,
Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
held oversight hearings on activities of the Patent and Trademark Office
(PTO), Department of Commerce, focusing on PTO's automated patent system
program, receiving testimony from Douglas B. Comer, Acting Assistant Secretary
of Commerce and Acting Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks; Jayetta Z.
Hecker, Director, Resources, Community and Economic Development Information
Systems, Information Management and Technology Division, General Accounting
Office; Jerry Shaw, Senior Executives Association, and Donald W. Banner,
Intellectual Property Owners, Inc., both of Washington, D.C.; John J. Cummins,
United States Trademark Association, New York, New York; and Robert A.
Armitage, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Arlington, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HIGH SKILLS COMPETITIVE WORKFORCE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed hearings on S. 1790,
to stimulate cooperation by business, labor, schools and colleges, and State
and local governments to improve the education and training of the United
States workforce, and to develop new systems and strategies for meeting the
economic needs of business and workers, receiving testimony from Colorado
Governor Roy Romer, Denver; John J. Sweeney, Service Employees International
Union, and Howard D. Samuel, Industrial Union Department, both of the AFL-CIO,
and Alan L. Wurtzel, Circuit City Stores, Inc., all of Washington, D.C.; Harry
Featherstone, Will-Burt Company, Orville, Ohio; and Lauren B. Resnick,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Hearings will continue on Wednesday, May 20.
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SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT COMPANY PROGRAM
Committee on Small Business: Committee held oversight hearings to examine the
Small Business Administration (SBA) management of the small business
investment company program, focusing on SBA's Investment Advisory Council
recommendations for its revitalization, receiving testimony from Patricia M.
Cloherty, Patricof & Co. Ventures, New York, New York, Robert Allsop, Allsop
Venture Partners, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and David Croll, TA Communications
Partners & Media/Communications, Boston, Massachusetts, all on behalf of the
SBA Investment Advisory Council.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/05/13
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 13, 1992; pages D555 - D564 (Bd vol. D275 -
D281)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel resumed
hearings on S. 2629, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1993 for military
functions of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe military personnel
levels for fiscal year 1993, focusing on Department of Defense medical
programs, receiving testimony from Enrique Mendez, Jr., Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Health Affairs; Christopher Jehn, Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Force Management and Personnel; Lt. Gen. Frank F. Ledford, Jr., USA,
Surgeon General, United States Army; Vice Adm. Donald F. Hagen, USN, Surgeon
General, United States Navy; Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Sloan, USAF, Surgeon
General, United States Air Force; Craig E. College, Director of the Economic
Analysis and Resources Planning Division, Office of the Assistant Secretary of
Defense (Program Analysis and Evaluation); Dorsey Chescavage, National
Military Family Association, Sgt. Maj. Michael Ouellette, USA (Ret.),
Non-Commissioned Officers Association, and CWO-4 John W. Morrison, USA (Ret.),
National Association of the Uniformed Services, all of Alexandria, Virginia;
L. Glenn Arnette, Fleet Reserve Association, Washington, DC; and John A.
Hofmann, Allen Park, Michigan, and R. Jay Wipf, Harlingen, Texas, both on
behalf of the American Chiropractic Association.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
URBAN AMERICA
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings on
urban affairs in America, focusing on the recent violence in Los Angeles and
the plight of inner cities, receiving testimony from Mayor David Dinkins, New
York, New York; Mayor Maynard Jackson, Atlanta, Georgia; Mayor Joe Riley,
Charleston, South Carolina; Mayor Jerry Abramson, Louisville, Kentucky; Mayor
Carrie Saxon-Perry, Hartford, Connecticut; Mayor Sharpe James, Newark, New
Jersey; Mayor Kurt Schmoke, Baltimore, Maryland; and Mayor Juanita Crabb,
Binghamton, New York.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS--MARITIME ADMINISTRATION/MARITIME COMMISSION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Merchant
Marine concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1993 for programs of the Federal Maritime Commission, and the Maritime
Administration, Department of Transportation, after receiving testimony from
Warren G. Leback, Administrator, Maritime Administration, Department of
Transportation; Vice Adm. Francis Donovan, USN, Commander, Military Sealift
Command, Department of the Navy; Christopher L. Koch, Chairman, Federal
Maritime Commission; Rear Adm. Floyd H. Miller, USN (Ret.), State University
of New York Maritime Academy, Fort Schuyler; William E. Evans, Texas Maritime
Academy, Texas A&M University, Galveston; and Kenneth Curtis, Maine Maritime
Academy, Castine.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items:
H.R. 2556, to designate certain lands in the Los Padres and the Angeles
National Forests, California, as wilderness areas and components of the
National Wilderness Preservation System, in lieu of S. 1225;
H.R. 1642, to establish the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site in
the State of Texas;
H.R. 2926, to authorize increased funding for the East Saint Louis portion of
the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, with an amendment;
S. 2079, to establish the Marsh-Billings National Historical Park in the State
of Vermont, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 2566, to establish partnerships involving Department of Energy laboratories
and educational institutions, industry, and other Federal agencies, for
purposes of development and application of technologies critical to national
security and scientific and technological competitiveness, with amendments;
S. 1439, to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey
certain lands in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, with amendments; and
The nomination of Linda G. Stuntz, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of
Energy.
PETROLEUM MARKETING PRACTICES ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
2656, to revise the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act of 1978 to improve
fairness and balance in negotiations between franchisors and franchisees
involved in gasoline marketing, after receiving testimony from Emmett E.
Probus and Dimitri G. Daskal, both of the Service Station Dealers of America,
R. Timothy Columbus, Collier, Shannon and Scott, on behalf of the Society of
Independent Gasoline Marketers of America and the Petroleum Marketers
Association of America, and J.W. Schutzenhofer, Shell Oil Company, all of
Washington, DC; John F. McGuire, Chevron U.S.A., San Francisco, California, on
behalf of the American Petroleum Institute; Gene B. McGraw, Texaco Refining
and Marketing Inc., Houston, Texas; and Stephen D. Pryor, Mobil Oil
Corporation, Fairfax, Virginia.
RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY ACT AMENDMENTS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee resumed markup of S. 976,
authorizing funds for programs of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, but did not
complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
NORTHERN SPOTTED OWL
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection concluded hearings to examine efforts to conserve the Northern
Spotted Owl and the old growth ecosystem upon which it depends, after
receiving testimony from Senators Hatfield, Gorton, Packwood, and Adams; Ed
Cassidy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Policy, Management and
Budget; John Beuter, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources;
John Gordon, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; Stan Gregory, Oregon
State University, Corvallis; R. Denny Scott, United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners of America, and Steve Quarles, American Forest Resource Alliance,
both of Washington, DC; W. Ed Whitelaw, University of Oregon, Eugene; and
Robert G. Lee and Jerry F. Franklin, both of the University of Washington, and
Victor Sher, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, both of Seattle, Washington.
LONG-TERM CARE
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Medicare and Long-Term Care held
hearings to examine certain problems involved with providing long-term care
for Americans suffering from disabling illnesses or conditions, receiving
testimony from Bill Keane, Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders
Association, Inc., Newtown, Pennsylvania; Jenifer Simpson, on behalf of the
Consortium for Citizens With Disabilities, Judith G. Waxman, Families USA,
Marilyn Moon, The Urban Institute, Sheldon L. Goldberg, American Association
of Homes for the Aging, Val J. Halamandaris, National Association for Home
Care, and Paul R. Willging, American Health Care Association, all of
Washington, DC; Stanley S. Wallack, Brandeis University, Waltham,
Massachusetts, on behalf of LifePlans, Inc.; and Bill and Carol Eager, Reston,
Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
UNITED STATES ASSISTANCE TO THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported, with
amendments, S. 2532, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for the
independent states of the former Soviet Union to promote democracy, encourage
free market systems, meet urgent humanitarian needs, promote the conversion of
defense-related industry and equipment to civilian purposes, promote
development in agriculture and energy, and promote bilateral trade and
investment.
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AUTHORIZATION--U.S. OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post
Office and Civil Service held hearings on S. 1981, authorizing funds for
fiscal years 1993 through 1997 for the U.S. Office of Special Counsel,
receiving testimony from Kathleen Day Koch, Special Counsel, and William E.
Ruekauf, Assistant Special Counsel for Prosecution, both of the U.S. Office of
Special Counsel; Daniel R. Levinson, Chairman, U.S. Merit Systems Protection
Board; and Thomas Devine and Jeff Ruch, both of the Government Accountability
Project, Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FREEDOM OF CHOICE ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 25, to
protect the reproductive rights of women by providing that a State may not
restrict the right of a woman to choose to terminate a pregnancy, receiving
testimony from John C. Harrison, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of
Legal Counsel, Department of Justice; Laurence H. Tribe, Harvard University
Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Walter Dellinger, Duke University Law
School, Durham, North Carolina; and Helen Alvare, National Conference of
Catholic Bishops, Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EFFECTS OF REAL ESTATE ON SMALL BUSINESS
Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Competitiveness and Economic
Opportunity concluded hearings to examine the effects of the current real
estate market on small business, after receiving testimony from William H.
Hudnut, III, Indianapolis, Indiana, on behalf of the Economic Growth Alliance;
Cynthia M. Latta, DRI/McGraw-Hill, Lexington, Massachusetts; Thomas M. Davis,
III, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Fairfax, Virginia; Sheldon L.
Pollock, Fairwood Financial Corporation, Cheshire, Connecticut; Dorothy
Sabbatis, Sarasota, Florida; and Roger Ogden, New Orleans, Louisiana.
VETERANS' EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2515, to
provide employer incentives to train and permanently employ veterans, and S.
2647, to revise and improve educational assistance programs for veterans and
members of the Armed Forces, improve certain vocational assistance programs
for veterans, and expand job counseling, training, and placement services for
veterans, after receiving testimony from D'Wayne Gray, Chief Benefits
Director, Grady Horton, Director of Education Services, Dennis Wyant, Director
of Vocational Rehabilitation Services, and Dean Gallin, Deputy Assistant
General Counsel, all of the Department of Veterans Affairs; David S.
Ritterpusch, Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment and
Training; Robert E. David, South Carolina Employment Security Commission,
Columbia; John F. Hudacs, New York State Department of Labor, Albany; Michael
F. Brinck, AMVETS, Lanham, Maryland; and Ronald W. Drach, Disabled American
Veterans, Clifton E. Dupree, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Bob Manhan,
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, and Steve A. Robertson, The
American Legion, all of Washington, DC.
NATIVE HAWAIIAN HEALTH CARE IMPROVEMENT ACT
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported S.
2681, authorizing funds for programs of the Native Hawaiian Health Care
Improvement Act.
Joint Meetings
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine recent
trends in foreign direct investment and its effect on economic growth, after
receiving testimony from Stephen Cooney, National Association of
Manufacturers, and John Kline, Georgetown University, both of Washington, DC;
Edward J. Ray, Ohio State University, Columbus; and Karl Sauvant, United
Nations Department of Economic and Social Development, New York, New York.
INDIAN SCHOOL EQUALIZATION PROGRAM
Joint Hearing: Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs concluded joint
hearings with the House Committee on Education and Labor to examine proposed
budget requests by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for the Indian School
Equalization Program, after receiving testimony from Representative Tim
Johnson; Joe Christie, Deputy Director, Office of Indian Education Programs,
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; Angela Barney-Nez, The
Navajo Area School Board Association, Window Rock, Arizona; Roger Bordeaux,
Association of Community Tribal Schools, Inc., Sisseton, South Dakota; Marcel
Kerkmans, Alamo-Navajo School, Magdalena, New Mexico, on behalf of the
National Indian Education Association; and Carmen Cornelius Taylor, National
Indian School Board Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
AUTHORIZATION--ALCOHOL, DRUG ABUSE, AND MENTAL HEALTH
ADMINISTRATION
Conferees on Tuesday, May 12, agreed to file a conference report on the
differences between the Senate-and House-passed versions of S. 1306, to
authorize funds for and restructure the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services.
BUDGET RESCISSION AUTHORITY
Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 4990, to rescind certain budget authority proposed to be
rescinded in special messages transmitted to the Congress by the President in
accordance with title X of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control
Act of 1974, as amended, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet
again tomorrow.
1992/05/14
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 14, 1992; pages D566 - D580 (Bd vol. D281 - D289)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DOE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
closed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for nuclear
weapons research and testing, new production reactors, and other national
security programs of the Department of Energy, receiving testimony from
Richard A. Claytor, Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs, Tom A.
Hendrickson, Director, Office of New Production Reactors, and Victor E.
Alessi, Director, Office of Army Control and Nonproliferation, all of the
Department of Energy; and John H. Birely, Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of
Defense for Atomic Energy, Department of Defense.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session and ordered
favorably reported the nomination of Maj. Gen. Buster C. Glosson, United
States Air Force, for appointment to the grade of lieutenant general.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations
of G. Kim Wincup, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for
Acquisition, Gen. George L. Butler, USAF, to be reappointed to the grade of
general, and to be Commander in Chief, United States Strategic Command, Lt.
Gen. Charles A. Horner, USAF, to be general, and to be Commander in Chief,
North American Aerospace Defense Command, Commander in Chief, United States
Space Command, Commander, Air Force Space Command, and Department of Defense
Manager for Space Transportation System Contingency Support Operations, and
Rear Adm. (Lower Half) John M. McConnell, USN, to be vice admiral, and to be
Director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
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AUTHORIZATIONS--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
held hearings on S. 2629, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1993 for military
functions of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe military personnel
levels for fiscal year 1993, focusing on the impact of the defense build-down
on the ability of the United States industrial and technology base to meet
national security requirements, receiving testimony from Jack H. Nunn, Senior
Analyst and Project Director, International Security and Commerce Program,
Office of Technology Assessment; Gregory D. Foster, Director of Research and
Publications, and Irene Kyriakopoulos, Professor of Economics, both of the
Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University, Fort
McNair; Joseph F. Campbell, Paine Weber Group, Inc., Washington, D.C.; and
Gary Reich, Shearson Lehman Brothers, Inc., New York, New York.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 21.
URBAN AMERICA
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued hearings
on urban affairs in America, focusing on the recent violence in Los Angeles,
receiving testimony from Senator Wofford; Representative Waters; Jack Kemp,
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Arthur A. Fletcher, Chairman,
Commission on Civil Rights; Jesse Jackson, Rainbow Coalition, Washington,
D.C.; and Jim Rouse, The Enterprise Foundation, Columbia, Maryland.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--EXPORT-IMPORT BANK
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds through fiscal year 1998 to extend the charter
for the Export-Import Bank of the United States, after receiving testimony
from Senator Rockefeller; John D. Macomber, President and Chairman,
Export-Import Bank of the United States; William E. Barreda, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury for Trade and Investment Policy; Thomas J. Mullany,
Rockwell International Credit Corporation, on behalf of the Coalition for
Employment Through Exports, and James S. Cox, International Westinghouse
Electric Corporation, on behalf of the National Foreign Trade Council, both of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Howard Lewis III, National Association of
Manufacturers, Washington, D.C.; and Douglas R. Stucky, Norwest Bank
Minnesota, N.A., Minneapolis, on behalf of the Bankers' Association for
Foreign Trade.
LTV CORPORATION'S MISSILE AND AEROSPACE DIVISIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings to examine the national security implications of the proposed sale of
LTV Corporation's missile division to Thomson-CSF, Inc. and its aerospace
division to the Carlyle Group, after receiving testimony from Frank Carlucci,
The Carlyle Group, and Frank Gaffney, Center for Security Policy, both of
Washington, D.C.; Jim D. Bell, Thomson-CSF, Inc., and Alton G. Keel, Jr.,
Washington Capital Group, both of Arlington, Virginia; Norman R. Augustine,
Martin Marietta Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland; Daniel M. Tellep, Lockheed
Corporation, Calabasas, California; and Michael B. Nicholson, United
Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW),
Detroit, Michigan.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Arthur J. Rothkopf, of the District of
Columbia, to be Deputy Secretary of Transportation, Michael James Toohey, of
Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Transportation, and Thomas C.
Richards, of Texas, to be Administrator of the Federal Aviation
Administration, Department of Transportation, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Rothkopf was introduced by Senator
Warner, Mr. Toohey was introduced by Senators Robb and Burns, and Mr. Richards
was introduced by Senators Bentsen and Gramm.
REGIONAL INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLANS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
2607, to authorize regional integrated resource planning by registered
electric utility holding companies and their regulators, after receiving
testimony from William S. Scherman, General Counsel, and Cynthia A. Marlette,
Associate General Counsel, Hydroelectric and Electric, both of the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy; Jim Singleton, City
Council of New Orleans, and Michael Fontham, Louisiana Public Service
Commission, both of New Orleans, Louisiana; Clinton A. Vince, Verner,
Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand, and Charles A. Patrizia, Paul, Hastings,
Janofsky & Walker, both of Washington, D.C.; Sam I. Bratton, Jr., Arkansas
Public Service Commission, and Kent Foster, Energy Services, Inc., both of
Little Rock, Arkansas; Ashley C. Brown, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio,
on behalf of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, and
Larry A. Frimerman, Ohio Office of the Consumers' Counsel, both of Columbus;
Bruce B. Ellsworth, New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission, Concord, on
behalf of the New England Regulatory Commissions; H. Allen Franklin, Southern
Company Services, Inc., Birmingham, Alabama; and Thomas G. Robinson, New
England Electric System, Westborough, Massachusetts.
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NATIONAL PARKS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills:
S. 1624, authorizing funds to improve the management of Glacier Bay National
Park in Alaska, after receiving testimony from James M. Ridenour, Director,
National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Carl L. Rosier, Alaska
Department of Fish and Game, Robert W. Loescher, Sealaska Corporation, and Jev
Shelton, Allied Fishermen of Southeast Alaska, all of Juneau; Allen E. Smith,
Anchorage, Alaska, on behalf of the Wilderness Society, the Sierra Club, and
the National Parks and Conservation Association; Gregory P. Streveler,
Gustavus, Alaska, on behalf of the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council; and
William P. Horn, Birch, Horton, Bittner and Cherot, Washington, D.C., on
behalf of the North West CruiseShip Association; and
S. 2321, to increase the authorizations for the War in the Pacific National
Historical Park, Guam, and the American Memorial Park, Saipan, after receiving
testimony from Senator Heflin; Representative Blaz; Mr. Ridenour (listed
above); Lt. Governor Benjamin T. Manglona, Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands; Haydn Williams, San Francisco, California; Lt. Gen. William
K. Jones, USMC (Ret.), Alexandria, Virginia; and Cyril J. O'Brien, Silver
Spring, Maryland.
JUDICIAL SPACE AND FACILITIES MANAGEMENT ACT/GSA
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure held hearings on proposed legislation to
authorize the Judiciary Branch to make space and facilities requests directly
to the Congress instead of going through the Executive Branch, and to examine
the General Service Administration's fiscal year 1993 capital improvement
program, receiving testimony from L. Ralph Mecham, Director, Administrative
Office of the United States Courts; Richard G. Austin, Administrator, General
Services Administration; and Judge Robert C. Broomfield, United States
District Court, Phoenix, Arizona, on behalf of the Committee on Space and
Facilities of the Judicial Conference of the United States.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
An original bill to remove the former Soviet Union from the list of countries
ineligible for designation as beneficiary countries under the Generalized
System of Preferences program; and
The nominations of Jerome H. Powell, of New York, to be Under Secretary of the
Treasury for Finance, and John C. Dugan, of the District of Columbia, to be
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance.
U.S. ASSISTANCE TO THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs resumed
hearings to examine certain recommendations on aid to the Commonwealth of
Independent States of the former Soviet Union, receiving testimony from
Richard L. Armitage, Deputy to the Coordinator of United States Assistance to
the New Independent States, Department of State; and George Soros, Soros
Foundations, Inc., New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BCCI INVESTIGATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations resumed hearings on allegations of certain criminal
activity by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), focusing on
cooperation efforts under the plea agreements, receiving testimony from James
Bruton, Acting Assistant Attorney General for Taxation, and Mark Richard,
Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, both of the Department
of Justice; J. Virgil Mattingly, Jr., General Counsel, Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System; John Stone, Chief of Enforcement, Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation; Dexter Lehtinen, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern
District of Florida, and Thomas Tew, both of Miami, Florida; Nicholas B. de
Katzenbach and George L. Davis, both of First American Bankshares, and Ron
Liebman, Patton, Boggs and Blow, all of Washington, D.C.; Brian Smouha, Bank
of Credit and Commerce Intl., and Michael Crystal, both of London, England.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--HOMELESS ASSISTANCE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 2624,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1993 and 1994 for the Interagency Council
on the Homeless and the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Emergency Food
and Shelter National Board Program, receiving testimony from Patricia A.
Carlile, Executive Director, Interagency Council on the Homeless; Gerald H.
Britten, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Program Systems, Office of Planning
and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services, and James N.
Forsberg, Director, Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs, Office of
Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, both on behalf of the Interagency Council on the Homeless; Robert
G. Chappell, Assistant Associate Director, Office of Disaster Assistance
Programs, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Mark E. Talisman, Council of
Jewish Federations, Brother Joseph Berg, Catholic Charities, USA, Enso V.
Bighinatti, American Red Cross, Mary Anderson Cooper, National Council of the
Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and Major Raymond Peacock, Salvation Army,
all of Washington, D.C., and Karen A. Davie, United Way of America,
Alexandria, Virginia, all on behalf of the Emergency Food and Shelter National
Board Program; Lisa Thomas, Cleveland Health Care for the Homeless Project,
Cleveland, Ohio; and Bill Faith, The Ohio Coalition for the Homeless,
Columbus.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Judith E. Retchin, Ann O'Regan Keary, William M. Jackson, and
Stephanie Duncan-Peters, each to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court
of the District of Columbia, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Michael Boudin, of Massachusetts, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
First Circuit, Morris S. Arnold, of Arkansas, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Eighth Circuit, Jerome B. Simandle, to be United States District
Judge for the District of New Jersey, and Richard G. Kopf, to be United States
District Judge for the District of Nebraska, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Boudin was introduced by Senator
Kennedy, Mr. Arnold was introduced by Senators Bumpers, Pryor, and Mack and
Representatives Hammerschmidt and Thornton, Mr. Simandle was introduced by
Senators Bradley and Lautenberg, and Mr. Kopf was introduced by Senators Exon
and Kerrey and Representatives Hoagland and Barrett.
ENDANGERED SPECIES EMPLOYMENT TRANSITION ASSISTANCE ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity concluded hearings on S. 2491, to revise the Job Training
Partnership Act to establish an employment transition assistance program for
workers who lose their jobs as a result of enforcement of the Endangered
Species Act, after receiving testimony from Senator Hatfield; Norm Gershon,
Umpqua Training and Employment, Inc., Roseburg, Oregon; Camille Preus-Braly,
Oregon Economic Development Department, and Irvin Fletcher, AFL-CIO, both of
Salem, Oregon; R. Denny Scott, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of
America, and Calvin Johnson, AFL-CIO, both of Washington, D.C.; and Bruce
Deal, Winston, Oregon.
SMALL BUSINESS COMPETITIVENESS DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM
Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Government Contracting and
Paperwork Reduction concluded oversight hearings on the Office of Federal
Procurement Policy's implementation of the Small Business Competitiveness
Demonstration Program (Title VII of P.L. 100-656, the Business Opportunity
Development Reform Act), after receiving testimony from Allan V. Burman,
Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget;
Robert J. Moffitt, Associate Administrator for Procurement Assistance, Small
Business Administration; Karen Hastie Williams, Crowell & Moring, Washington,
D.C., former Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy; and Steven L. Hale,
Hale Building Company, Anniston, Alabama, on behalf of the Associated General
Contractors of America.
INDIAN TRIBAL GOVERNMENT WASTE MANAGEMENT ACT
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings on proposed
legislation to increase the capacity of Indian tribal governments for waste
management on Indian lands, receiving testimony from Patrick Hayes, Director,
Trust and Economic Development, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the
Interior; Gary Hartz, Director, Division of Facilities Management, Office of
Environmental Health and Engineering, Indian Health Service, Department of
Health and Human Services; C. Bowdoin Train, Deputy Assistant Administrator
for Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Environmental Protection Agency;
Walter Dasheno, Santa Clara Indian Pueblo, Espanola, New Mexico; Ivan Makil,
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, Scottsdale, Arizona; Lester Herman,
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Nespelem, Washington; Luke
Beauprey and John Koss, both of the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin, Keshena,
Wisconsin; John Persell, Minnesota Chippewa Research Lab, Cass Lake,
Minnesota; Sadie Hoskie, Navajo Nation Environmental Protection
Administration, Window Rock, Arizona; David Harrison, National Tribal
Environmental Council, Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Rodney Lewis, Gila River
Indian Community, Maricopa, Arizona, representing the Inter-Tribal Council of
Arizona.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again on Wednesday, May 20.
Joint Meetings
BUDGET RESCISSION AUTHORITY
Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 4990, to rescind certain budget authority proposed to be
rescinded in special messages transmitted to the Congress by the President in
accordance with title X of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control
Act of 1974, as amended, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet
again on Tuesday, May 19.
1992/05/15
Daily Digest - Friday, May 15, 1992; pages D582 - D584 (Bd vol. D289 - D290)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
JUDICIAL SPACE AND FACILITIES MANAGEMENT ACT/GSA
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure concluded hearings on proposed legislation
to authorize the Judiciary Branch to make space and facilities requests
directly to the Congress instead of going through the Executive Branch, and to
examine the General Service Administration's fiscal year 1993 capital
improvement program, after receiving testimony from L. Ralph Mecham, Director,
Administrative Office of the United States Courts; Richard G. Austin,
Administrator, General Services Administration; and Judge Robert C.
Broomfield, United States District Court, Phoenix, Arizona, on behalf of the
Committee on Space and Facilities of the Judicial Conference
of the United States.
OZONE DEPLETION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine recent
scientific findings on the rate and extent of ozone depletion and the
environmental consequences of that depletion, and to review new technologies
designed to help phase out ozone depleting substances, receiving testimony
from Eileen B. Claussen, Director, Atmospheric and Indoor Air Programs, Office
of Air and Radiation, Environmental Protection Agency; James G. Anderson,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Raymond C. Smith and Barbara B.
Prezelin, both of the University of California, Santa Barbara; John S. Beaty,
Thermo Electron Technologies Corporation, Waltham, Massachusetts; Edward
(Jack) R. Cameron, Appliance Recycling Centers of America, Inc., Minneapolis,
Minnesota; Robert L. Polhamus, Branson Ultrasonics Corporation, Danbury,
Connecticut; and Gregory W. Swift, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos,
New Mexico.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/05/18
Daily Digest - Monday, May 18, 1992; pages D585 - D588 (Bd vol. D290)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
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APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for military
construction programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from J. Gary Cooper, Assistant Secretary for Manpower,
Reserve Affairs, Installations, and Environment, Brig. Gen. Donald W.
Shepperd, Deputy Director, Air National Guard, Brig. Gen. Wallace W. Whaley,
Deputy Chief of Air Force Reserve, Loren Klein, Program Manager, Climatic Test
Chamber, and Gary Flora, Civil Engineer, all of the Department of the Air
Force; and W. Bruce Weinrod, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and NATO
Policy, Jack O. Lanier, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health,
Vernon Chang, Associate Director of Dependents Schools, Joseph Bellomo, Chief
of Facility Engineers, National Security Agency, John Eddy, Assistant Director
for Logistics and Engineering, Defense Nuclear Agency, Michael Aimone,
Assistant Director of Test and Evaluation, Strategic Defense Initiative
Organization, Richard J. Connelly, Comptroller, Defense Logistics Agency, and
Lt. Col. David Potter, USAF, Chief, Resource Management Division, On-Site
Inspection Agency, all of the Department of Defense.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, June 8.
EFFECT OF HEALTH COSTS ON ECONOMY
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health for Families and the Uninsured
held hearings to examine the effects of high health care costs on the American
economy, receiving testimony from John J. Sweeney, Service Employees
International Union, AFL-CIO, Walter B. Maher, Chrysler Corporation, Donald W.
Moran, Lewin-ICF, and Milton Deaner, American Iron and Steel Institute, all of
Washington, D.C.; David J. Brailer, Hospital of the University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; and Bruce E. Carlson, James River Corporation,
Richmond, Virginia.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
AUTHORIZATION--NIH
Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 2507, to revise and extend the
programs of the National Institutes of Health.
1992/05/19
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 19, 1992; pages D590 - D600 (Bd vol. D291 - D297)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DIRE EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL FOR DISASTER
ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported, with
amendments, H.R. 5132, making dire emergency supplemental appropriations for
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1992 for disaster assistance to meet
urgent needs because of calamities such as those which occurred in Los Angeles
and Chicago.
APPROPRIATIONS--INDIAN PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for Indian
programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Eddie F. Brown, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, and
John Tresize, Acting Director, Office of Construction Management, both of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Anthony J. Hope, Chairman, National Indian
Gaming Commission, all of the Department of the Interior.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 9.
REFINING SECTOR OF THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight
hearings on the Environmental Protection Agency's implementation of the Clean
Air Act Amendments of 1990, focusing on the impact of environmental
regulations on refining operations, refining production, and distribution of
products of the petroleum industry, after receiving testimony from Vito
Stagliano, Associate Deputy Under Secretary for Policy, Office of Domestic and
International Energy Policy, Department of Energy; William G. Rosenberg,
Assistant Administrator for Air and Pollution, Environmental Protection
Agency; John H. Lichtblau, Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, Inc., New
York, New York; Roger C. Beach, Unocal Corp., Los Angeles, California, and
Richard E. Evans, Amoco Oil Company, Chicago, Illinois, both on behalf of the
National Petroleum Refiners Association; Dewey Mark, Independent
Refiner/Marketers Association, San Antonio, Texas; and Bill Copenhaver,
Colonial Pipeline Company, and Patrick H. Corcoran, both on behalf of the
Association of Oil Pipelines, and Edwin Rothschild, Citizen Action, all of
Washington, D.C.
FEDERAL COAL LEASE ROYALTY RATES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Mineral Resources
Development and Production concluded hearings on S. 907, to provide that
Federal coal lease royalty payments may be less than the statutory amount for
coal with a specified calorific heating value, after receiving testimony from
Hillary A. Oden, Assistant Director for Energy and Minerals, Bureau of Land
Management, Department of the Interior; and John W. Dwyer, Lignite Energy
Council, Bismarck, North Dakota.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Kenton Wesley Keith, of Missouri, to be Ambassador to the State
of Qatar, and Teresita Currie Schaffer, of New York, to be Ambassador to the
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, and to serve concurrently as
Ambassador to the Republic of Maldives, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf.
DRUG TRAFFICKING IN CHINA
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings in conjunction with
the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control to examine the drug
trafficking situation in the People's Republic of China, focusing on drug
control efforts between the United States and China, after receiving testimony
from Robert C. Bonner, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration,
Department of Justice; and Melvyn Levitsky, Assistant Secretary of State for
International Narcotics Matters.
FDA ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 2135, to
provide the Food and Drug Administration [FDA] the ability to conduct improved
inspections, recall unsafe products, assess civil penalties, subpoena
witnesses and documents, embargo dangerous or defective products pending
seizure actions, and destroy imported products posing health dangers,
receiving testimony from Michael R. Taylor, Deputy Commissioner for Policy,
and Ed McDonnell, Director of the Boston District Office, both of the Food and
Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Alan L. Hoeting,
North Potomac, Maryland, former Director, FDA Office of Enforcement; and Joan
B. Claybrook, Public Citizen, Sidney M. Wolfe, Public Citizen Health Research
Group, John C. Rother, American Association of Retired Persons, Peter Barton
Hutt, on behalf of the Grocery Manufacturers of America, Edward Dunkelberger,
on behalf of the National Food Processors Association, and Gerald J.
Mossinghoff, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, all of Washington, D.C.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
STATE PROGRAMS FOR DEFENSE CONVERSION
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine defense
conversion programs at the State level, focusing on government efforts to
ensure a sound transfer of certain resources from military to civilian uses,
receiving testimony from Brad C. Johnson, New York State Defense Advisory
Board, James C. Pirius, on behalf of the Florida Department of Education, and
Raymond C. Scheppach, on behalf of the National Governors' Association, all of
Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Joint Hearing: 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 1993 for certain programs of the District of
Columbia, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses.
Joint hearings continue tomorrow.
BUDGET RESCISSION AUTHORITY
Conferees continued to resolve the differences between the Senate- and
House-passed versions of H.R. 4990, to rescind certain budget authority
proposed to be rescinded in special messages transmitted to the Congress by
the President in accordance with title X of the Congressional Budget and
Impoundment Control Act of 1974, as amended, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
1992/05/20
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 20, 1992; pages D601 - D612 (Bd vol. D297 -
D305)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of James B. Huff, Sr., of Mississippi, to be
Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration, Betty Jo Nelsen, of
Wisconsin, to be Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Services and a
Member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation, Duane
Acker, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for Science and Education, and
Daniel A. Sumner, of North Carolina, to be Assistant Secretary for Economics
and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation,
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr.
Huff was introduced by Senator Cochran and Representative Espy, Ms. Nelsen was
introduced by Senators Kasten and Kohl, and Mr. Acker was introduced by
Senator Dole.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF 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 1993 for the Department of Education, receiving testimony from
Lamar Alexander, Secretary of Education; Keith Geiger, National Education
Association, Washington, D.C.; Blenda J. Wilson, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor; and Jonathan Kozol, Byfield, Massachusetts.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence held hearings on S. 2629, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1993
for military functions of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe military
personnel levels for fiscal year 1993, focusing on programs and architectures
for ballistic missile defense, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. Robert D.
Hammond, USA, Commander, U.S. Army Strategic Defense Command; Lt. Gen. Thomas
S. Moorman, Jr., USAF, Vice Commander, U.S. Space Command; Maj. Gen. Joseph W.
Ralston, USAF, Director of Tactical Programs, Office of the Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition; Rear Adm. John T. Mitchell, Jr.,
USN, Director, Strategic Systems Program, United States Navy; and Stephen J.
Hadley, Assistant Secretary for International Security Policy, and Henry F.
Cooper, Director, Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, both of the
Department of Defense.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
U.S. EXPORT PROMOTION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy concluded oversight hearings to
examine Federal export promotion activities, and the United States role in
promoting U.S. exports and assisting U.S. companies to establish new markets
overseas, after receiving testimony from Susan C. Schwab, Assistant Secretary
and Director General of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, International
Trade Administration, Department of Commerce; Richard J. Feeney, Senior Vice
President of the Small Business Group, Export-Import Bank of the United
States; Aileen M. Kishaba, Director, Office of International Trade, Small
Business Administration; Stephen L. Censky, Associate Administrator, Foreign
Agricultural Service, Department of Agriculture; Ralph S. Blackman, Assistant
Administrator, Bureau for Private Enterprise, Agency for International
Development; Allan I. Mendelowitz, Director, International Trade, Energy, and
Finance Issues, General Accounting Office; and Jose E. Martinez, U.S. Trade
and Development Program, Howard Lewis III, National Association of
Manufacturers, and Jody Thomas, on behalf of the National Governors'
Association, all of Washington, D.C.
GLOBAL WARMING AND THE OCEANS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings on
the role of the oceans in greenhouse warming, focusing on how the oceans may
influence the amount and rate of global warming and how the oceans, including
ocean life, will be affected in coming years as temperatures rise due to
increased concentrations of greenhouse gases, receiving testimony from James
F. Kasting, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Scott J. Lehman,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts; James J.
McCarthy and Michael B. McElroy, both of Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; Thomas F. Stocker, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory,
Palisades, New York; John R. Toggweiler, Princeton University, Princeton, New
Jersey; and Xiao-Hai Yan, University of Delaware, Newark.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
USED OIL ENERGY PRODUCTION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
2631, to promote the refining, re-refining and reprocessing of used
lubricating oil into fuels and other petroleum products, after receiving
testimony from Representative Torres; Mark C. Schroeder, Deputy General
Counsel, Department of Energy; C. Bowdoin Train, Deputy Assistant
Administrator, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Environmental
Protection Agency; Phillip J. Shepherd, on behalf of the Kentucky Natural
Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet, Frankfort; Harold B. Green,
Community Coalition for Oil Recycling, Dallas, Texas; Jackie Warren, Natural
Resources Defense Council, New York, New York; Christopher Harris, National
Oil Recycles Association, Washington, D.C.; and Larry Northup, Convenient
Automotive Services Institute, Bethesda, Maryland.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items:
S. 976, authorizing funds for programs of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, with
an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nominations of Christian R. Holmes, IV, of California, to be Assistant
Administrator for Administration, Resource Management, and Chief Financial
Officer, Environmental Protection Agency, and Kenneth C. Rogers, of New
Jersey, to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
An original bill (S. 2743), to deter and punish aggression against the newly
independent countries of the defunct Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,
and to promote human rights within the newly constituted Republic of
Yugoslavia, in lieu of S. 1793; and
The nominations of Kenton Wesley Keith, of Missouri, to be Ambassador to the
State of Qatar, and Teresita Currie Schaffer, of New York, to be Ambassador to
the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, and to serve concurrently as
Ambassador to the Republic of Maldives.
TREATY WITH NIGERIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the Treaty
between the Government of the United States and the Federal Republic of
Nigeria on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, signed at Washington
on September 13, 1989 (Treaty Doc. 102-26), after receiving testimony from
Melvyn Levitsky, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics
Matters; and John E. Hensley, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Enforcement,
U.S. Customs Service, Department of the Treasury.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Marc Allen Baas, of Florida, to be Ambassador to Ethiopia, Hume
Alexander Horan, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic
of Cote d'Ivoire, Lauralee M. Peters, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Sierra Leona, and Donald K. Petterson, of California, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of the Sudan, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf.
INSPECTOR GENERAL CONDUCT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the
integrity and effectiveness of certain Federal Offices of Inspector General in
responding to whistleblower claims of government waste and misconduct,
receiving testimony from Herbert L. Beckington, Inspector General, Agency for
International Development; Paul M. Misso, Assistant Inspector General for
Investigations, Department of Energy; Gen. Ronald H. Griffith, Inspector
General, Department of the Army; Frank Hodsoll, Deputy Director of Management,
Office of Management and Budget, on behalf of the President's Council on
Integrity and Efficiency (PCIE) and the Executive Council on Integrity and
Efficiency (ECIE); Bill D. Colvin, Inspector General, National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, on behalf of PCIE; and Hubert N. Sparks, Inspector
General, Appalachian Regional Commission, on behalf of the ECIE; Priscilla Del
Bosque, American Foreign Service Association, Washington, D.C.; Marsha Sikes
Allen, Silver Spring, Maryland; and Sonja I. Anderson, Keniwick, Washington.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HIGH SKILLS COMPETITIVE WORKFORCE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed hearings on S. 1790,
to stimulate cooperation by business, labor, schools and colleges, and State
and local governments to improve the education and training of the United
States work force, and to develop new systems and strategies for meeting the
economic needs of businesses and workers, receiving testimony from Senators
Hatfield, Nunn, and Breaux; Ben Schellenberg, North Clackamas School District,
Milwaukee, Oregon; Doreen Dailey, Clatsop Community College, Astoria, Oregon;
Gary L. Pierpoint, Bank of California, Eugene, Oregon; Hans W. Decker, Siemens
Corporation, New York, New York; Paul Osterman, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge; Martha Allen, Metropolitan Vocational Technical
Education Center, Little Rock, Arkansas; Robert I. Lerman, The American
University, Washington, D.C.; and Robert W. VanDine, Industrial Modernization
Center, Montoursville, Pennsylvania, Barry A. Rhody, Lunaire Limited, and
Merrill W. Lambert, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement
Workers of America, both of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Chris Barto,
Hughesville, Pennsylvania, and Thomas Paternostro, Unityville, Pennsylvania,
all representing the Pennsylvania Youth Apprenticeship Program.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
COURT OF VETERANS APPEALS DECISIONS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to
review the Department of Veterans Affairs' implementation of decisions
rendered by the United States Court of Veterans Appeals, after receiving
testimony from Anthony J. Principi, Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs,
D'Wayne Gray, Chief Benefits Director, Charles L. Cragin, Chairman, Board of
Veterans' Appeals, Robert E. Coy, Deputy General Counsel, Carlos L. Rainwater,
Director, St. Petersburg, Florida VA Regional Office, John H. Sims, Director,
Togus, Maine VA Regional Office and Medical Center, and Larry Woodard,
Director, Jackson, Mississippi VA Regional Office, all of the Department of
Veterans Affairs; and Ronald B. Abrams, National Veterans Legal Services
Project, Michael F. Brinck, AMVETS, James N. Magill and George Estry, both of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Richard F. Schultz,
Disabled American Veterans, Robert F. Skornik, Paralyzed Veterans of America,
and Philip R. Wilkerson, American Legion, all of Washington, D.C.
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
APPROPRIATIONS--DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Joint Hearing: 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 1993 for certain programs of the government of the
District of Columbia, after receiving testimony from numerous public
witnesses.
BUDGET RESCISSION AUTHORITY
Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 4990, to rescind certain budget
authority proposed to be rescinded in special messages transmitted to the
Congress by the President in accordance with title X of the Congressional
Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, as amended.
1992/05/21
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 21, 1992; pages D613 - D624 (Bd vol. D305 - D313)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FOREST SERVICE APPEALS PROCESS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Conservation and Forestry held oversight hearings to examine Forest Service
proposed changes to the Federal administrative appeals process to protect and
sustain regional forests and communities reliant on National Forest uses,
receiving testimony from F. Dale Robertson, Chief, Forest Service, Department
of Agriculture; Frank Estes, T&S Hardwoods, Inc., Milledgeville, Georgia; Mark
Soloman, Latah County Board of Commissioners, Moscow, Idaho; Tucker Hill,
Champion International Corporation, Milltown, Montana; and Kevin P. Kirchner,
Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--DOD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony from Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of Defense.
Subcommittee will next meet on Wednesday, June 3.
APPROPRIATIONS--FAA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the Federal Aviation
Administration, receiving testimony from Barry L. Harris, Acting
Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL COMMUNITY SERVICE/POINTS OF LIGHT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Richard
Schubert, President and Chief Executive Officer, Points of Light Foundation;
and Catherine Milton, Executive Director, and Paul N. McCloskey, Jr., Chairman
of the Board, both of the Commission on National Community Service.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on S. 2629, to
authorize funds for fiscal year 1993 for military functions of the Department
of Defense, and to prescribe military personnel levels for fiscal year 1993,
focusing on the use of advanced simulation technology, receiving testimony
from Gen. Paul B. Gorman (USA-Ret.), Chairman, Simulation Policy Study, and
Victor H. Reis, Director, Defense Research and Engineering, both of the
Department of Defense; and Capt. Herbert R. McMaster, Jr., United States Army.
Committee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
resumed hearings on S. 2629, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1993 for
military functions of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe military
personnel levels for fiscal 1993, focusing on the National Defense Stockpile,
receiving testimony from Colin McMillan, Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Production and Logistics); Brig. Gen. John S. Cowings, USA, Deputy Director
for Plans, Analysis, and Resources, Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and
Donna M. Heivilln, Director, Logistics Issues, National Security and
International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, June 4.
INVESTMENT ADVISER OVERSIGHT ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported S. 2266, to provide for recovery of costs of supervision and
regulation of investment advisers and their activities, with an amendment in
the nature of a substitute.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Karl A. Erb, of Virginia, to be an Associate
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, after the nominee testified
and answered questions in his own behalf. Testimony was also received on the
nomination from D. Allan Bromley, Director, Office of Science and Technology
Policy.
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DOE ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND WASTE MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight
hearings on the Department of Energy's budget request for fiscal year 1993 for
the Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Program, after receiving
testimony from Leo P. Duffy, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental
Restoration and Waste Management; Nancy P. Dorn, Assistant Secretary of the
Army for Civil Works; Barry M. Hartman, Acting Assistant Attorney General,
Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice; and Thomas
L. McCall, Jr., Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for Federal Facilities
Enforcement, Environmental Protection Agency.
NATIONAL PARKS AND FORESTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills:
S. 1893, to adjust the boundaries of the Targhee National Forest, Idaho, and
to authorize a land exchange involving the Kaniksu National Forest, Idaho,
after receiving testimony from David G. Unger, Associate Deputy Chief, Forest
Service, Department of Agriculture;
S. 2101, designating the Lower Salmon River in Idaho as a component of the
National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, after receiving testimony from Cy
Jamison, Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Mr.
Unger (listed above); Philip Szczpanowski, Idaho Rivers United, Boise; and
Elizabeth Norcross, American Rivers, Inc., Washington, D.C.;
S. 2572, to authorize an exchange of lands in the States of Arkansas and
Idaho, after receiving testimony from John F. Turner, Director, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior; Mr. Unger (listed above); Mark
Benson, Potlatch Corporation, Lewiston, Idaho; Nancy DeLamar, The Nature
Conservancy, and Steve N. Wilson, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, both of
Little Rock, Arkansas; and Mark Soloman, Idaho Conservation League, Boise; and
H.R. 2141, to establish the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation
Area in the State of Idaho, after receiving testimony from Representative
LaRocco; Mr. Jamison (listed above); James R. Waltman, National Audubon
Society, Washington, D.C.; and Glenn R. Stewart, Idaho Conservation League,
and Ted Hoffman, Idaho Cattle Association, both of Boise.
REDUCTION OF INAPPROPRIATE MEDICARE SPENDING
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Medicare and Long-Term Care held
hearings to examine ways of reducing inappropriate Medicare spending, focusing
on stricter oversight of waste, fraud and abuse by Medicare providers of
health care and equipment services, receiving testimony from Senator Cohen;
William Toby, Jr., Acting Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration,
and Michael F. Mangano, Deputy Inspector General for Evaluations and
Inspections, both of the Department of Health and Human Services; Janet L.
Shikles, Director, Health Financing and Policy Issues, Human Resources
Division, General Accounting Office; Sharon K. Allen, Arkansas Blue Cross and
Blue Shield, Little Rock; George E. Spalding, Transamerica Occidental Life,
Los Angeles, California; Linda Aukett, United Osteomy Association, Westmont,
New Jersey, on behalf of the Coalition for Quality Home Medical Equipment,
Supplies, and Services; Corrine Parver, National Association of Medical
Equipment Suppliers, Alexandria, Virginia; and Jim Liken, Liken Medicare
Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Reginald Bartholomew, of the District of Columbia, to be the U.S. Permanent
Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with
the rank of Ambassador, after the nominee testified and answered questions in
his own behalf.
ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine an
Office of Technology Assessment report outlining energy services in developing
countries and the potential role the United States can play in improving these
services while minimizing environmental impacts, receiving testimony from Joy
Dunkerley, Project Director, and Samuel F. Baldwin, Assistant Project
Director, both of the Energy and Materials Program, Office of Technology
Assessment; Robert A. Reinstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
Environment, Health and Natural Resources; Edward L. Saiers, Deputy Director,
Directorate for Policy, and David Jhirad, Senior Energy Adviser, Office of
Energy and Infrastructure, both of the U.S. Agency for International
Development; Michael Totten, International Institute for Energy Conservation,
and T.J. Glauthier, World Wildlife Fund, both of Washington, D.C.; Scott
Sklar, U.S. Export Council for Renewable Energy, Arlington, Virginia; and
Terrence P. Hoye, Turbo Power and Marine Systems, Inc., Farmington,
Connecticut.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MANAGEMENT OF FEDERAL CIVILIAN AIRCRAFT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on General Services,
Federalism and the District of Columbia held hearings to examine the Executive
Branch's acquisition, management, and use of government civilian aircraft,
receiving testimony from L. Nye Stevens, Director, Government Business
Operations Issues, General Government Division, General Accounting Office; and
William R. Barton, Inspector General, and Frank Pugliese, Deputy Commissioner,
Federal Supply Service, both of the General Services Administration.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Morris S. Arnold, of Arkansas, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Eighth Circuit, Michael Boudin, of Massachusetts, to be United
States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit, Jerome B. Simandle, to be United
States District Judge for the District of New Jersey, and Richard G. Kopf, to
be United States District Judge for the District of Nebraska.
PATENT EXTENSIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
approved for full committee consideration the following bills:
S. 1165, to extend the term of a patent covering the active ingredient of an
anti-inflammatory drug bearing the brand name Ansaid, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute; and
S. 1506, to extend the term of patent protection of a fat substitute given the
brand name Olestra, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
Also, the subcommittee ordered reported, without recommendation, S. 526, to
extend the term of patent covering an active ingredient of the anti-radiation
drug known as Ethiofos and its oral analog.
COMMUNITY WORKS PROGRESS ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity concluded hearings on S. 2373, to create a community works
progress and youth community corps programs to provide jobs for welfare
recipients and the unemployed, after receiving testimony from Senators Boren,
Reid, Wofford, and Warner; Eileen Sweeney, Children's Defense Fund, Kathleen
Selz, National Association of Service and Conservation Corps, Frank Slobig,
Youth Service America, and Mickey Kaus, The New Republic, all of Washington,
D.C.; and Anthony Fairbanks, Philadelphia Youth Service Corps,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Joint Meetings
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Conferees on Wednesday, May 20, agreed to file a conference report on the
differences between the Senate- and House-passed versions of H. Con. Res. 287,
setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for
fiscal years 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997.
1992/05/26
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 26, 1992; pages D626 - D628 (Bd vol. D313 - D314)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/05/27
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 27, 1992; pages D629 - D634 (Bd vol. D314 -
D316)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/05/28
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 28, 1992; pages D635 - D642 (Bd vol. D317 - D319)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/06/01
Daily Digest - Monday, June 1, 1992; pages D643 - D646 (Bd vol. D319 - D321)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CHILDHOOD IMMUNIZATION
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health for Families and the Uninsured
held hearings on S. 2116, to improve the health of children by increasing
access to childhood immunizations, focusing on the impact of Medicaid on child
immunization, receiving testimony from Christine Nye, Director, Medicaid
Bureau, Health Care Financing Administration; Mark V. Nadel, Associate
Director, Health Financing and Policy Issues, U.S. General Accounting Office;
Ed Cox, Grand Rapids, Michigan, on behalf of the American Academy of
Pediatrics; Ray Hanley, Arkansas Department of Human Services, Little Rock, on
behalf of the State Medicaid Directors Association; and Kay Johnson, March of
Dimes Birth Defects Foundation and National Vaccine Advisory Committee, and
Joseph Liu, Children's Defense Fund, both of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/06/02
Daily Digest - Tuesday, June 2, 1992; pages D647 - D654 (Bd vol. D322 - D326)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel resumed
hearings on S. 2629, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1993 for military
functions of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe military personnel
levels for fiscal year 1993, focusing on active and reserve personnel issues,
receiving testimony from Stephen M. Duncan, Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Reserve Affairs); Christopher Jehn, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Force
Management and Personnel); William D. Clark, Principal Deputy 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 & Environment); and Paul L. Jones, Director, and William E.
Beusse, Assistant Director, both of the Defense Force Management Issues, and
Martha J. Dey, Evaluator-in-Charge, all of the General Accounting Office.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY CLAIMS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings to
examine the efforts of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the
Resolution Trust Corporation to pursue civil professional liability claims
arising out of insured bank and thrift failures, receiving testimony from
Harold A. Valentine, Associate Director, Administration of Justice Issues,
General Accounting Office.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on American trade and
competitiveness issues, focusing on business and labor perspectives on how to
restore United States companies' competitiveness and ensure fair and open
global competition, receiving testimony from Charles A. Corry, USX
Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Ian M. Ross, AT&T Bell Laboratories,
Holmdel, New Jersey, on behalf of the National Advisory Committee on
Semiconductors; Lawrence W. Clarkson, The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington;
and Thomas R. Donahue, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HIV CARE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on the
implementation of the Ryan White CARE Act (P.L. 101-381), which provides
certain benefits to individuals living with HIV disease, receiving testimony
from Robert Harmon, Administrator, Health Resources and Services
Administration, and Stephen Bowen, Acting Associate Administrator for AIDS,
and Director, Bureau of Health Resources Development, both of the Department
of Health and Human Services; Mayor Frank Jordan, San Francisco, California,
on behalf of the United States Conference of Mayors; John Auerbach, Boston,
Massachusetts, and Ann Marie Kimball, Seattle, Washington, both on behalf of
the National Association of State and Territorial AIDS Directors and the
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials; Sandra Thurman, AID
Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the CAEAR Coalition; Silvia G. Corral,
Salt Lake Community Health Centers, Salt Lake City, Utah; Jessie Trice,
Economic Opportunity Family Health Center, Inc., Miami, Florida; Elizabeth
Taylor, Los Angeles, California, on behalf of the American Foundation for AIDS
Research (AmFar); Jerry and Laila Winfield, Newark, New Jersey; and Beauford
Stowell and Douglas McConell, both of Fulton, Missouri.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SBA 7(a) GUARANTEED BUSINESS LOAN PROGRAM
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings to examine a Price
Waterhouse study of the economic impact and cost effectiveness of the Small
Business Administration's 7(a) Guaranteed Business Loan Program, after
receiving testimony from Patricia F. Saiki, Administrator, Mitchell Stanley,
Associate Deputy Administrator for Finance, Investment and Procurement, and
John Whitmore, Acting Chief Financial Officer, all of the Small Business
Administration; and Glenn Galfond and Mary Garvin, both of Price Waterhouse,
Washington, D.C.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/06/03
Daily Digest - Wednesday, June 3, 1992; pages D656 - D664 (Bd vol. D326 -
D332)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
USDA COMPUTER OPERATIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings on
the status of information resources management at the Department of
Agriculture, focusing on the impact of the proposed restructuring of the
Department of Agriculture on its farm service agencies' automation plans and
programs, receiving testimony from Charles Hilty, Assistant Secretary for
Administration, John Okay, Director, Office of Information Resources
Management, and Larry Wilson, Director, Office of Finance and Management, all
of the Department of Agriculture; and JayEtta Z. Hecker, Director, Resources,
Community, and Economic Development Information Systems, and Thomas J.
Jurkiewicz, Assistant Director, both of the Information Management and
Technology Division, and George L. Jones, Senior Evaluator, Kansas City
Regional Office, all of the General Accounting Office.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for medical programs from Vice Adm. James A.
Zimble, USN (Ret.), President, Uniformed Services University of the Health
Sciences, Department of Defense; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
DEFENSE PLANNING GUIDANCE/NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
Department of Defense's "1994-1999 Defense Planning Guidance" and its
illustrative scenarios, after receiving testimony from I. Lewis Libby,
Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Strategy and Resources).
Also, committee concluded hearings on the nomination of I. Lewis Libby Jr., of
the District of Columbia, to be Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy,
after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed hearings on S. 2629, to authorize funds for fiscal year
1993 for military functions of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe
military personnel levels for fiscal year 1993, focusing on civil defense
programs and policy, receiving testimony from Wallace E. Stickney, Director,
and Grant C. Peterson, Assistant Director, State and Local Programs, both of
the Federal Emergency Management Agency; Maj. Gen. William A. Navas, Jr., USA,
Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau, Department of the Army; and Dale W.
Shipley, Ohio Emergency Management Agency, Columbus, on behalf of the National
Emergency Managers Association.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 9.
LIMITED PARTNERSHIP ROLLUP REFORM ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee began
consideration of S. 1423, to revise certain provisions of the Securities and
Exchange Act of 1934 relating to proxy solicitation rules with respect to
partnership rollup transactions (in which general partners combine several
limited partnerships into one unit that trades on a stock exchange), but did
not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
NEW ENGLAND GROUNDFISH RESTORATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings in conjunction with the National Ocean Policy Study to examine
efforts to restore the New England groundfish fishery, focusing on issues
related to conservation and management of New England groundfish resources,
and related proposals, after receiving testimony from Senator Kennedy;
Representative Studds; David Crestin, Deputy Director, Office of Fisheries
Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of
Commerce; Ted Ames, Maine Gillnetters Association, Stonington; John Bullard,
New Bedford Seafood Co-op, New Bedford, Massachusetts; Barry Gibson, New
England Fishery Management, Saugus, Massachusetts; Edward Lima, Cape Ann
Vessel Association, and Vaughn C. Anthony, National Marine Fisheries Service,
both of Gloucester, Massachusetts; and Peter Shelley, Conservation Law
Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts.
COMMUNICATIONS SPECTRUM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings to examine the Federal Communications
Commission's proposal to reallocate some communications spectrum in the 2
gigahertz band in order to accommodate new communications technologies, after
receiving testimony from Alfred C. Sikes, Chairman, Federal Communications
Commission; Thomas Sugrue, Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for
Communications and Information; Robert E. Rainear, South Carolina Public
Service Authority, Moncks Corner, on behalf of the Large Public Power Council
and the American Public Power Association; Bob Bergland, National Rural
Electric Cooperative Association, and Robert W. Blanchette, Association of
American Railroads, both of Washington, D.C.; and Wayne Schelle, American
Personal Communications, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland.
ENTERPRISE ZONES
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on proposed legislation to
create enterprise zones to encourage the investment needed to help create jobs
and expand minority entrepreneurship in economically distressed areas, after
receiving testimony from Senator Lieberman; Jack Kemp, Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development; Fred T. Goldberg, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Tax Policy; Indiana Lt. Governor Frank O'Bannon, Indianapolis;
Mayor Tom Bradley, Los Angeles, California; Mayor Edward G. Rendell,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Janet S. Burreson, Portland Development
Commission, Portland, Oregon; Marcus Alexis, Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois; C. Eugene Steuerle, The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.;
Gregg J. Bourland, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Eagle Butte, South Dakota; and
Terry Jones, SYNCOM Capital Corporation, Silver Spring, Maryland.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Richard Goodwin Capen, Jr., of Florida, to be Ambassador to
Spain, Peter Barry Teeley, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to Canada, Donald
Herman Alexander, of Missouri, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of the
Netherlands, Adrian A. Basora, of New Hampshire, to be Ambassador to the Czech
and Slovak Federal Republic, and William Henry Gerald FitzGerald, of the
District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to Ireland, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Capen was introduced
by Senators Graham and Mack, and Representative Fascell, Mr. Teeley was
introduced by Senator Stevens, and Mr. Alexander was introduced by Senators
Dole, Bond, and Danforth.
VA HEALTH CARE
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1424, to
require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a mobile health care
clinic program for furnishing health care to veterans located in rural areas
of the United States, S. 2575, to revise certain pay authorities that apply to
nurses and other health care professionals, S. 2740, to revise and improve the
provision and evaluation of preventive health services by the Department of
Veterans Affairs, and held oversight hearings on the implementation of the VA
Nurse Pay Act of 1990, and to examine the quality of care furnished in VA
psychiatric facilities, after receiving testimony from Senator Conrad; David
P. Baine, Director of Federal Health Care Delivery Issues, Human Resources
Division, General Accounting Office; James W. Holsinger, Jr., Chief Medical
Director, Department of Veterans Affairs; Richard L. Briscoe, Fort Meade,
Maryland VA Medical Center, on behalf of the Association of Veterans Affairs
Nurse Anesthetists and the Association of Veterans Administration Nurse
Anesthetists; Bette L. Davis, Washington D.C. VA Medical Center, on behalf of
the Nurses Organization of Veterans Affairs, Ann Lilly, West Virginia Nurses
Association, Beckley, on behalf of the American Nurses Association; Michael F.
Brinck, AMVETS, Lanham, Maryland; and Frank C. Buxton, The American Legion,
Dennis M. Cullinan, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, David W.
Gorman, Disabled American Veterans, and Robert F. Skornik, Paralyzed Veterans
of America, all of Washington, D.C.
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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.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/06/04
Daily Digest - Thursday, June 4, 1992; pages D666 - D676 (Bd vol. D332 - D340)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of Duane Acker, of Virginia, to be an Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture for Science and Education, and Daniel A. Sumner, of
North Carolina, to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Economics and
a Member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation.
AUTHORIZATIONS--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
concluded joint hearings with the Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and
Alliance Defense on S. 2629, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1993 for
military functions of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe military
personnel levels for fiscal year 1993, focusing on the impact of the defense
build-down on the ability of the United States industrial and technology base
to meet national security requirements, after receiving testimony from Donald
J. Atwood, Deputy Secretary of Defense; James M. LeMunyon, Acting Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration; Rear Adm. William L. Vincent,
Commandant, Defense Systems Management College (Fort Belvoir, Virginia),
Department of Defense, on behalf of the Advisory Panel on Streamlining and
Codifying the Acquisition Laws.
FOREIGN INVESTMENTS THAT IMPAIR NATIONAL SECURITY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy concluded hearings to examine the
implementation of the Exon-Florio provision of the 1988 Trade Act, which
authorizes the President to suspend or prohibit any acquisition, merger, or
takeover of a United States firm engaged in interstate commerce by a foreign
firm in order to protect United States national security, after receiving
testimony from Olin L. Wethington, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for
International Affairs; Chester Paul Beach, Jr., Acting General Counsel,
Department of Defense; Frederick W. Volcansek, Acting Assistant Secretary of
Commerce for Trade Development; Allan I. Mendelowitz, Director, International
Trade and Finance Issues, General Government Division, General Accounting
Office; Laura D'Andrea Tyson, University of California, Berkeley; Howard D.
Samuel, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C.; and Peter H. Mills, Austin, Texas.
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BALANCED FEDERAL BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings on proposals providing for a
Constitutional Amendment to balance the Federal Budget, receiving testimony
from Walter Dellinger, Duke Law School, Durham, North Carolina; Lawrence H.
Tribe, Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and John C.
Armor, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the American Legislative Exchange
Council.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ELWHA RIVER ECOSYSTEM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
2527, to restore Olympic National Park and the Elwha River ecosystem and
fisheries in the State of Washington, after receiving testimony from Senator
Adams; Representatives Dicks and Swift; John Michael Hayden, Assistant
Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks, and Neil Parrett, Chief of Dam Safety,
Bureau of Reclamation, both of the Department of the Interior; John S.
Robertson, Deputy Administrator, Bonneville Power Administration, Department
of Energy; Nicholas Iadanza, Chief, Habitat Conservation Branch, National
Marine Fisheries Service (Northwest Region), National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Department of Commerce; Paul S. Isaki, Washington Department
of Trade and Economic Development, Olympia; Mayor James D. Hallett, Carla
Elofson, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, Joan K. Sargent, Clallam County Economic
Development Council, and Harry Lydiard, Olympic Park Associates, all of Port
Angeles, Washington; Dennis R. Gathard, Elwha River Restoration Project, Steve
Taniguchi, Daishowa America Company, Ltd., and Shawn S. Cantrell, Friends of
the Earth, all of Seattle, Washington; Robert J. Morgan, James River II, Inc.,
Clatskanie, Oregon; William K. Drummond, Public Power Council, Portland,
Oregon; Carol Volk, Olympic Rivers Council, Hoodsport, Washington; and William
J. Maxon, Trout Unlimited, Vienna, Virginia.
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Taxation held hearings to examine the
Federal Government response on ways to increase disclosure to shareholders of
the amount and structure of executive compensation, and related proposals,
receiving testimony from Senator Levin; Richard C. Breeden, Chairman,
Securities and Exchange Commission; California Chief Deputy Treasurer Olena
Berg, Sacramento; Graef S. Crystal, University of California, Berkeley; Jean
G. Gumerson, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on behalf of United Shareholders
Association; and George H. Sollman, Centigram Corporation, San Jose,
California, on behalf of American Electronics Association.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DOD CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings to review
the Department of Defense (DOD) contract management procedures, focusing on
DOD contract and subcontract pricing issues, receiving testimony from Frank C.
Conahan, Assistant Comptroller General, and Paul F. Math, Director, Research
Development Acquisition and Procurement Issues, both of the National Security
and International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; and Derek J.
Vander Schaaf, Deputy Inspector General, Eleanor R. Spector, Director of
Defense Procurement, and William H. Reed, Director, Defense Contract Audit
Agency, all of the Department of Defense.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Susan H. Black, of Florida, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh
Circuit, Sonia Sotomayor and Loretta A. Preska, each to be a United States
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, and Irene M. Keeley, to
be a United States District Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia,
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Ms.
Black was introduced by Senators Graham and Mack, Ms. Sotomayor and Ms. Preska
were introduced by Senators Moynihan and D'Amato, and Ms. Keeley was
introduced by Senator Rockefeller.
SATELLITE HOME VIEWER ACT AMENDMENTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
concluded hearings on S. 2013, to enable satellite distributors to sue
satellite carriers for unlawful discrimination, after receiving testimony from
Ralph Oman, Register of Copyrights, and Associate Librarian for Copyright
Services, Library of Congress; Robert Pepper, Chief, Office of Plans and
Policy, Federal Communications Commission; Gerald Weaver, United Video, Inc.,
and Fritz E. Attaway, Motion Picture Association of America, both of
Washington, D.C.; and Bob Phillips, National Rural Telecommunications
Cooperative, Herndon, Virginia.
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CHILD SUPPORT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs and Alcoholism held hearings on S. 2343, to provide for demonstration
projects in six States to establish or improve a system of assured minimum
child support payments, receiving testimony from Senator Rockefeller;
Representative Schroeder; Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, and Elizabeth and Margaret
Adams, all of Indianapolis, Indiana; Margaret Campbell Haynes, U.S. Commission
on Interstate Child Support, Washington, D.C.; Irwin Garfinkel, Columbia
University School of Social Work, New York, New York; Jon M. Alander,
Connecticut Department of Human Resources, Hartford; Mary Jo Bane, New York
State Department of Social Services, Albany; and Joanne and Darcie Corrigan,
Coventry, Connecticut.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
DIRE EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 5132, making dire emergency supplemental appropriations for
disaster assistance to meet urgent needs because of calamities such as those
which occurred in Los Angeles and Chicago, but did not complete action
thereon, and recessed subject to call.
1992/06/05
Daily Digest - Friday, June 5, 1992; pages D678 - D684 (Bd vol. D340 - D342)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FEDERAL BUDGET DEFICIT
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Deficits, Debt Management and
International Debt concluded hearings to examine long-term economic
implications of the Federal budget deficit, focusing on the General Accounting
Office report "Budget Policy: Prompt Action Necessary to Avert Long-Term
Damage to the Economy," after receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher,
Comptroller General, General Accounting Office; Robert D. Reischauer,
Director, Congressional Budget Office; and Henry J. Aaron, Brookings
Institution, John H. Makin, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
Research, Rudolph G. Penner, KPMG Peat Marwick, and C. Eugene Steuerle, The
Urban Institute, all of Washington, DC.
SUNGLASSES AND SUNSCREEN PROTECTION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Consumer and
Environmental Affairs held hearings to examine the role of the Food and Drug
Administration in regulating sunscreens, sunglasses, and suntan equipment,
receiving testimony from Michael Weintraub, Consultant, Office of
Over-the-Counter Drug Evaluation, and William E. Gilbertson, Director,
Over-the-Counter Drug Monograph Review Staff, both of the Center for Drug
Evaluation and Research, and Elizabeth D. Jacobson, Deputy Director, and
Philip B. White, Director, Office of Standards and Regulation, both of the
Center for Devices and Radiological Health, all of the Food and Drug
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Margaret L. Kripke,
University of Texas, Houston; Jane M. Grant-Kels, University of Connecticut
Health Center, Farmington; Edward C. DeFabo, George Washington University
Medical Center, Washington, DC; Vincent A. DeLeo, Columbia-Presbyterian
Medical Center, New York, New York, on behalf of the Skin Cancer Foundation;
John M. Clayton, Schering-Plough HealthCare Products, Liberty Corner, New
Jersey; Thomas J. Loomis, Corning, Inc., and Herbert L. Hoover, both of
Corning, New York, both on behalf of the Sunglass Association of America; and
Larry O. Bymaster, Xytronyx, Inc., San Diego, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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Joint Meetings
EMPLOYMENT-UNEMPLOYMENT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine the
employment-unemployment situation for May, receiving testimony from William G.
Barron, Acting Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor.
Committee recessed subject to call.
1992/06/09
Daily Digest - Tuesday, June 9, 1992; pages D686 - D694 (Bd vol. D342 - D347)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
LAMB INDUSTRY PRICING STRUCTURE
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Research and General Legislation concluded hearings to examine
economic and statistical information on the lamb industry pricing structure
and initiatives of the Department of Agriculture to improve the price
reporting system for lambs, after receiving testimony from Kenneth C. Clayton,
Deputy Administrator, Paul M. Fuller, Director, Livestock and Seed Division,
Agricultural Marketing Service, Frederic E. Vogel, Director, Estimates
Division, National Agricultural Statistics Service, and Richard Stillman,
Cross Commodity Analyst, Economic Research Service, all of the Department of
Agriculture; Wayne D. Purcell, Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State
University, Blacksburg; Jim Magagna, Englewood, Colorado, on behalf of the
American Sheep Industry Association; Mark Crabill, Belle Fourche, South
Dakota, and Howard Wyman, Bristol, Illinois, both on behalf of the National
Lamb Feeders Association; James Hodges, American Meat Institute, Arlington,
Virginia; and Dale Lundgren, Sturgis, South Dakota, on behalf of the South
Dakota Sheep Growers Association.
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APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for foreign assistance
programs, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the Department of the
Interior, receiving testimony from Manuel Lujan, Jr., Secretary of the
Interior, John E. Schrote, Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and
Budget, and Robert J. Lamb, Acting Director of Budget, all of the Department
of the Interior.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on issues relating to fraud,
waste and abuse in the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education, receiving testimony from Julian W. De La Rosa, Inspector General,
Department of Labor; Richard P. Kusserow, Inspector General, Department of
Labor and Human Services; and James B. Thomas, Jr., Inspector General,
Department of Education.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--SECRET SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1993 for the United States Secret Service, receiving testimony from John
Magaw, Director, U.S. Secret Service, Department of the Treasury.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings in closed session on
S. 2629, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1993 for military functions of the
Department of Defense, and to prescribe military personnel levels for fiscal
year 1993, focusing on the Department of Defense Special Access Programs and
Procedures, receiving testimony from Donald J. Atwood, Deputy Secretary of
Defense.
Committee will meet again on Wednesday, June 17.
BANK INSURANCE FUND
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed hearings
to examine the condition of the banking industry and the Bank Insurance Fund,
focusing on certain economic, accounting, and regulatory issues that could
affect the future condition of, and outlook for, the Fund and the industry it
insures, receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of
the United States, Donald Chapin, Assistant Comptroller General, Accounting
and Financial Management Division, Richard Fogel, Assistant Comptroller
General, General Government Division, and Robert Gramling, Director, Corporate
Audits, all of the General Accounting Office.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on comprehensive health care
reform, focusing on proposals for expanding employment-based health insurance
coverage, including S. 1177, S. 1227, and S. 2114, receiving testimony from
Peter A. Magowan and Ronald F. Zachary, both of Safeway Inc., Oakland,
California, and Henry E. Simmons, Washington, D.C., all on behalf of the
National Leadership Coalition for Health Care Reform; Bernard R. Tresnowski,
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Chicago, Illinois; William S. Custer,
Employee Benefits Research Institute, and John J. Motley, III, National
Federation of Independent Business, both of Washington, D.C.; Paul F. Griner,
Rochester, New York, on behalf of the American College of Physicians; Daniel
W. Shea, Green Bay, Wisconsin, on behalf of the American Academy of
Pediatrics; and John Sheils, Lewin-ICF, Fairfax, Virginia.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, June 17.
UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING EFFORTS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine United
Nations peacekeeping activities, and S. 2560, to require the cost of
international peacekeeping activities of the Department of State to be treated
as a national defense cost and expense of the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony from John R. Bolton, Assistant Secretary of State for International
Organization Affairs; and James R. Lilley, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Affairs.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NUTRITION LABELING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded oversight hearings
on the implementation of the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (P.L.
101-535), focusing on a proposed one-year extension on the deadline for
compliance with mandatory nutrition labeling requirements, after receiving
testimony from Michael Taylor, Deputy Commissioner for Policy, Food and Drug
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; W. Virgil Brown,
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the
American Heart Association; Bruce A. Silverglade, Center for Science in the
Public Interest, Lester Crawford, National Food Processors Association, and
Elizabeth Toni Guarino, Grocery Manufacturers of America, Inc., all of
Washington, D.C.; Domenick Celentano, Jr., Celentano Inc., Newark, New Jersey;
and Bee McCormack, Bobs Candies, Inc., Albany, Georgia, on behalf of the
National Confectioners Association and the Chocolate Manufacturers
Association.
Joint Meetings
FORMER SOVIET UNION AND EASTERN EUROPE ECONOMIES
Joint Economic Committee: On Monday, June 8, Subcommittee on Technology and
National Security concluded hearings to examine the economies of the former
Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, focusing on the transition to market systems,
defense spending and conversion efforts in Russia and the other countries, and
arms sales from the former Soviet republics and Eastern Europe, after
receiving testimony from John McLaughlin, Director, Office of Slavic and
Eurasian Analysis, and John Gannon, Director, Office of European Analysis,
both of the Central Intelligence Agency; and Kathleen Horste, Special
Assistant for Russia/Eurasia, Defense Intelligence Agency, Department of
Defense.
1992/06/10
Daily Digest - Wednesday, June 10, 1992; pages D695 - D702 (Bd vol. D347 -
D352)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the government
of the District of Columbia, receiving testimony from Mayor Sharon Pratt
Kelly, and John A. Wilson, Chairman, Council of the District of Columbia, both
of Washington, DC.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, June 17.
EUROPEAN SECURITY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings to examine European
security issues, focusing on United States military strategy and security
policy, roles and missions, and force levels for Europe, receiving testimony
from Gen. Edward C. Meyer, USA (Ret.), former Chief of Staff, United States
Army; Richard N. Perle, American Enterprise Institute, and Fred C. Ikle,
Center for Strategic and International Studies, both of Washington, DC; and
Phillip A. Karber, BDM International, Inc., McLean, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CONDITION OF THE BANKING INDUSTRY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued hearings
to examine the current condition of the banking industry and the Bank
Insurance Fund, focusing on Federal Reserve System efforts to implement the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act (P.L. 102-242),
receiving testimony from William Taylor, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation; John P. LaWare, Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System; and Stephen R. Steinbrink, Acting Comptroller of the Currency,
Department of the Treasury.
Committee will meet again on Tuesday, June 16.
BALANCED FEDERAL BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings on proposals providing for
a Constitutional Amendment to balance the Federal Budget, receiving testimony
from Rudolph G. Penner, KPMG Peat Marwick, former Director, Congressional
Budget Office, and Charles L. Schultze, Brookings Institution, former
Chairman, President's Council of Economic Advisors, both of Washington, DC;
and Lawrence A. Kudlow, Bear Stearns and Company, Inc., New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AIRLINE COMPETITION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
concluded hearings on S. 2312, to provide for increased competition among
commercial air carriers at major airports, and the selection of air carriers
to provide small community air service at high density airports, and to place
certain restrictions on the operation of computer reservation systems, after
receiving testimony from Senator Lieberman; Jeffrey N. Shane, Assistant
Secretary of Transportation for Policy and International Affairs; Barry Kotar,
Northwest Airlines, and Michael J. Conway, America West Airlines, both of
Washington, DC; Phil Davidoff, American Society of Travel Agents, Alexandria,
Virginia; and Robert L. Crandall, American Airlines, Dallas, Texas.
CHILD WELFARE AND PREVENTIVE SERVICES ACT
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on S. 4, to improve the nation's
child welfare system by expanding health coverage for children, providing
funds for substance abuse prevention and treatment programs for pregnant women
and parents with children, and providing grants to States for services to
strengthen families and to help children who might otherwise remain in
inappropriate foster care, receiving testimony from Representative Nancy L.
Johnson; Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services
for the Administration for Children and Families; Kentucky Governor Brereton
Jones, on behalf of the National Governors' Association, and Peggy Wallace,
Kentucky Commission of Social Services, both of Frankfort; Texas State Senator
Chet Brooks, Pasadena/Galveston, on behalf of the National Conference of
States Legislatures; Peter Digre, Los Angeles County Department of Children's
Services, Los Angeles, California; Gary J. Stangler, Missouri Department of
Social Services, Jefferson City, on behalf of the American Public Welfare
Association; Helen Vann, Consumer of Family Preservation Services, St. Louis,
Missouri; Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Defense Fund, on behalf of the
Coalition of National Child Welfare, Mental Health, and Juvenile Justice
Organizations, and Cheryl D. Hayes, National Commission on Children, both of
Washington, DC; and Margaret Heagarty, Harlem Hospital Center, New York, New
York, on behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Robert E. Gribbin III, of Alabama, to be Ambassador to the
Central African Republic, Dennis P. Barrett, of Washington, to be Ambassador
to the Democratic Republic of Madagascar, Peter Jon de Vos, of Florida, to be
Ambassador to the United Republic of Tanzania, Roger A. McGuire, of Ohio, to
be Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, and William Lacy Swing, of
North Carolina, to be Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Gribbin was
introduced by Senator Heflin.
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OSHA REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed hearings on S. 1622,
to strengthen and improve the provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health
Act of 1970 with respect to the health and safety of employees, receiving
testimony from Dorothy L. Strunk, Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health; Gerard F. Scannell, Johnson & Johnson, New
Brunswick, Connecticut, former Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health; Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, National Rainbow Coalition, Inc.,
and James S. Holt, Employment Policy Foundation, both of Washington, DC; Merle
Alvis, Babcock & Wilcox, Lynchburg, Virginia; Peter Cornelison, Condar
Company, Garnettsville, Ohio, on behalf of the National Federation of
Independent Business; William Steinmetz Jr., Midland Engineering Inc., South
Bend, Indiana, on behalf of the National Roofing Contractors Association;
Thomas Evans, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, on behalf of the Chemical
Manufacturers Association; Horace A. Thompson III, McCalla, Thompson, Pyburn &
Ridley, New Orleans, Louisiana, on behalf of the National Association of
Manufacturers; Eric Frumin, Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
(AFL-CIO), New York, New York; Leslie Reid, Sierra Club, San Francisco,
California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/06/11
Daily Digest - Thursday, June 11, 1992; pages D704 - D712 (Bd vol. D352 -
D358)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--FEMA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the
Federal Emergency Management Agency, receiving testimony from Wallace E.
Stickney, Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed hearings on S. 2629, to authorize funds for fiscal year
1993 for military functions of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe
military personnel levels for fiscal year 1993, focusing on Department of
Energy work force transition and conversion issues, including S. 2483, to
provide certain assistance to Department of Energy employees at defense
nuclear facilities who are adversely affected as a result of a significant
reduction or modification in Department programs, projects, or activities at
such facility, and S. 2506, to require the development and implementation of a
plan to restructure the employee work force at Department of Energy nuclear
facilities, receiving testimony from Senators Bryan and Brown; Paul L. Ziemer,
Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety, and Health, Paul D. Grimm,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environmental Restoration and Waste
Management, and John J. Edmondson, Director, Office of Contractor Human
Resource Management, all of the Department of Energy; Paul B. Mossman,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, former Medical Director, Sandia National
Laboratories, Department of Energy; Robert A. Georgine and Gerald L.
Christean, both of the AFL-CIO, Washington, DC; Lynn R. Williams, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, and James D. Kelly, Denver, Colorado, both of the United
Steelworkers of America; and Shirley F. Lausten, Oil, Chemical, and Atomic
Workers International Union's Atomic Energy Workers Council.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Walter B. McCormick, Jr., of Missouri, to be
General Counsel, Department of Transportation, and Gregory F. Chapados, of
Alaska, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and
Information, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. McCormick was introduced by Senators Danforth and Bond, and Mr.
Chapados was introduced by Senators Stevens and Murkowski, and Representative
Don Young.
SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR K MISSION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings to review the results of the Space
Shuttle Endeavour Mission, after receiving testimony from Capt. Daniel C.
Brandenstein, Commander, Lt. Col. Kevin P. Chilton, Pilot, and Richard J.
Hieb, Commander Bruce E. Melnick, Commander Pierre J. Thuot, Kathryn C.
Thornton, and Lt. Col. Thomas D. Akers, each a Mission Specialist, all of the
Space Shuttle Endeavour Mission, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
bills:
An original bill authorizing funds for the United States Customs Service,
Department of the Treasury;
An original bill authorizing funds for the Office of the United States Trade
Representative;
An original bill authorizing funds for the United States International Trade
Commission;
An original bill to extend the emergency unemployment compensation program and
to allow States to use the total unemployment rate to provide extended
unemployment benefits;
An original bill to revise certain provisions of the Social Security Act to
raise the exempt amount that establishes the amount of earnings an individual
age 65 to 69 can have with no loss of Social Security benefits; and
An original bill to make the Social Security Administration of the Department
of Health and Human Services an independent agency in the Executive Branch.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
The nominations of Adrian A. Basora, of New Hampshire, to be Ambassador to the
Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, Richard Goodwin Capen, Jr., of Florida, to
be Ambassador to Spain, William Henry Gerald FitzGerald, of the District of
Columbia, to be Ambassador to Ireland, Peter Barry Teeley, of Virginia, to be
Ambassador to Canada, Reginald Bartholomew, of the District of Columbia, to be
the United States Permanent Representative on the Council of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization, with the rank of Ambassador, Marc Allen Baas, of
Florida, to be Ambassador to Ethiopia, Hume Alexander Horan, of the District
of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire, Lauralee M.
Peters, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Sierra Leone, Donald
K. Petterson, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the Sudan,
Pamela J. Turner, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the United
States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, Dennis P. Barrett, of
Washington, to be Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Madagascar, Peter
Jon de Vos, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the United Republic of Tanzania,
Robert E. Gribbin III, of Alabama, to be Ambassador to the Central African
Republic, Roger A. McGuire, of Ohio, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Guinea-Bissau, and William Lacy Swing, of North Carolina, to be Ambassador to
the Federal Republic of Nigeria;
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Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (Treaty Doc.
102-22);
Partial Revision of the Radio Regulations (Geneva, 1979) of the International
Telecommunication Union and a Final Protocol (Treaty Doc. 99-1);
Regional Agreement for the Medium Frequency Broadcasting Service (Rio de
Janeiro, 1981) in Region 2, with annexes, and a Final Protocol (Treaty Doc.
100-7);
Regional Agreement for the Use of the Band 1605-1705 kHz (Rio de Janeiro,
1988) in Region 2, with annexes, and two United States Statements as contained
in the Final Protocol (Treaty Doc. 102-10);
International Telecommunications Regulations, with Appendices (Melbourne,
1988) (Treaty Doc. 102-13);
Partial Revision (1988), Radio Regulations, relating to Space
Radiocommunications Services (Treaty Doc. 102-27);
Partial Revision (1985), Radio Regulations, relating to Broadcasting-Satellite
Service in Region 2 (Treaty Doc. 102-28);
1987 Partial Revision of Radio Regulations for Mobile Services (Treaty Doc.
102-29);
S. Res. 306, relating to the enforcement of United Nations Security Council
resolutions calling for the cessation of hostilities in the former territory
of Yugoslavia, with an amendment;
S. Res. 308, to condemn the assassination of Judge Giovanni Falcone; and
H. Con. Res. 299, expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the Kurds in
northern Iraq.
YUGOSLAVIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs held hearings
to examine United States intervention policy with regard to the situation in
Yugoslavia, receiving testimony from Ralph Johnson, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of State for European and Canadian Affairs; and Jenonne Walker, Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, and Patrick Glynn, American Enterprise
Institute, both of Washington, DC.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT PROCESS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 1958, to
authorize funds for fiscal year 1993 for functions and activities under the
Federal Property and Administrative Services Act, including operations of the
General Services Administration, and S. 2619, to revise the Federal Property
and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to enact provisions governing
negotiation and award of contracts under the multiple award schedule program
of the General Services Administration, receiving testimony from Milton J.
Socolar, Special Assistant to the Comptroller General, Paul F. Math, Director,
Research Development Acquisition and Procurement Issues, National Security and
International Affairs Division, and Robert Murphy, Associate Counsel, Office
of General Counsel, all of the General Accounting Office; Richard G. Austin,
Administrator, General Services Administration; Allan V. Burman,
Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and
Budget; Eleanor R. Spector, Director of Defense Procurement, Department of
Defense; Harry Fuchigami, Association for Information and Image Management,
Silver Spring, Maryland; and John F. McIver, Jr., Computer and Business
Equipment Manufacturers Association, Paul J. Caggiano, Coalition for
Government Procurement, Stephanie Biddle, Computer and Communications Industry
Association, and Luanne James, Information Technology Association of America,
all of Washington, DC; and John S. Pachter, Vienna, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
The nominations of Susan H. Black, of Florida, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Eleventh Circuit, Irene M. Keeley, to be United States District
Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia, and Loretta A. Preska and
Sonia Sotomayor, each to be a United States District Judge for the Southern
District of New York;
S. 1941, to revise and authorize funds for certain refugee resettlement
provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute; and
H.R. 3237, to extend the terms of office of members of the Foreign Claims
Settlement Commission of the United States, Department of Justice, with an
amendment.
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Also, committee resumed markup of S. 1521, to provide a cause of action for
victims of sexual abuse, rape, and murder against producers and distributors
of hard-core pornographic material, but did not complete action thereon, and
recessed subject to call.
INDIAN WATER RIGHTS
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
following bills:
S. 2684, to approve a water rights settlement contract between the Secretary
of the Interior and the Jicarilla Apache Tribe in New Mexico, after receiving
testimony from Timothy W. Glidden, Counselor to the Secretary of the Interior,
and Chairman, Working Group on Indian Water Settlements; Tim Vollman, Regional
Solicitor (Tulsa, Oklahoma), Department of the Interior; Levi Pesata,
Jicarilla Apache Tribe, Dulce, New Mexico; Albert E. Utton, New Mexico
Interstate Stream Commission, Santa Fe; and Lester K. Taylor, Albuquerque, New
Mexico; and
S. 2507, to authorize certain uses of water by the Ak-Chin Indian Community in
Arizona, after receiving testimony from Mr. Glidden (listed above); John
Bushman, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for
Indian Affairs; and Leona Kakar, Marvin Antone, and William Strickland, all of
the Ak-Chin Indian Community Council, Maricopa, Arizona.
Joint Meetings
FEDERAL BUDGET POLICY
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine alternative
approaches to Federal budget policy to improve long-term economic performance,
after receiving testimony from Sidney G. Winter, Chief Economist, General
Accounting Office; Herbert Stein, American Enterprise Institute, Washington,
DC; and Laurence Kotlikoff, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
AUTHORIZATION--HIGHER EDUCATION
Conferees continued in evening session to resolve the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of S. 1150, to authorize the Higher
Education Act of 1965.
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Daily Digest - Friday, June 12, 1992; pages D714 - D720 (Bd vol. D358 - D360)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
Joint Meetings
TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE
Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Technology and National Security
resumed hearings to examine the nation's telecommunications and information
infrastructure and the policies that will shape its future, focusing on the
potential of a switched, broadband network, receiving testimony from Mitch
Kapor, Lotus Development Corp., Boston, Massachusetts, and Jerry Berman,
Washington, DC, both on behalf of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; Robert
Lucky, AT&T Bell Labs, Basking Ridge, New Jersey; Michael Dertouzos,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; and Stephen Dimmit,
Southwestern Bell, St. Louis, Missouri.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1992/06/15
Daily Digest - Monday, June 15, 1992; pages D721 - D724 (Bd vol. D360 - D361)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
STATE HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health for Families and the Uninsured
held hearings to examine various States' plans for enhancing access to health
care and controlling health care costs, focusing on how States' proposals were
developed, difficulties States face in implementing their plans, and how they
affect health care access, cost and quality, receiving testimony from Senator
Leahy; Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, Tallahassee; Hawaii Governor John
Waihee, and John C. Lewin, Hawaii Director of Health, both of Honolulu; Robert
A. Crittenden, on behalf of the Governor of Washington, Olympia; Curtis
Johnson, on behalf of the Governor of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Alicia Pelrine,
Washington, D.C., on behalf of the National Governors' Association; Lynn Read,
Oregon Department of Human Resources, Salem; and Robert Restuccia, Health Care
For All, Boston, Massachusetts.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/06/16
Daily Digest - Tuesday, June 16, 1992; pages D726 - D734 (Bd vol. D361 - D367)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the National Park Service,
receiving testimony from James M. Ridenour, Director, National Park Service,
Department of the Interior.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, June 18.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations
of Adm. Paul D. Miller, USN, to be reappointed to the grade of admiral, and to
be Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command, Lt. Gen. John M. Shalikashvili,
USA, to be general, and to be Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command, Lt.
Gen. Henry C. Stackpole III, USMC, to be reappointed to the grade of
lieutenant general, and to be Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force Pacific,
and Maj. Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, USA, to be lieutenant general, and to be
Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
Prior to this action, the committee held hearings on security issues in the
European, Atlantic, and Pacific regions, receiving testimony from the
aforementioned nominees.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance
Defense resumed hearings on S. 2629, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1993
for military functions of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe military
personnel levels for fiscal year 1993, focusing on the procedures for
coordination and cooperation among the military services in meeting the
equipment requirements of future conventional forces, receiving testimony from
Adm. David E. Jeremiah, USN, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Gen. Dennis
J. Reimer, USA, Vice Chief of Army Staff; Adm. Jerome L. Johnson, USN, Vice
Chief of Naval Operations; Gen. Michael P. C. Carns, USAF, Vice Chief of Air
Force Staff; and Gen. John R. Dailey, USMC, Assistant Commandant, United
States Marine Corps.
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Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported the following business items:
S. 2702, to authorize funds for the United States Coast Guard, Department of
Transportation, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As approved
by the committee, the bill authorizes $2,603,000 for fiscal year 1993.);
H.R. 4364, to authorize funds to the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration for research and development, space flight, control and data
communications, construction of facilities, research and program management,
and Inspector General, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As
approved by the committee, the bill authorizes $14,671,700,000 for fiscal year
1993.);
S. 1101, to require the Federal Communications Commission to prescribe
standards for AM stereo radio broadcasting;
S. 1675, to revise Federal transportation law relating to the collection of
overpayments or undercharges on shipments via motor common carriers of
property, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 2608, to authorize funds for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation
(Amtrak), with amendments. (As approved by the committee, the bill authorizes
$331 million for each of the fiscal years 1993, 1994, and 1995.);
S. 2788, to authorize funds for programs of the Marine Protection, Research,
and Sanctuaries Act of 1972, with amendments. (As approved by the committee,
the bill authorizes $10 million for fiscal year 1993, $12.5 million for fiscal
year 1994, and $15 million for fiscal year 1995.);
S. 2849, to restore the groundfish resources off the coast of New England;
S. 2700, to authorize funds for the Federal Maritime Commission. (As approved
by the committee, the bill authorizes $19,100,000 for fiscal year 1993.);
S. 2701, to authorize funds for the Maritime Administration, Department of
Transportation, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As approved
by the committee, the bill authorizes $537,419,000 for fiscal year 1993.);
H.R. 4485, to authorize reimbursement to the Federal Government of certain
expenses for overseas inspections and examination of foreign vessels;
S. 1690, to authorize funds for programs of the Federal Fire Prevention and
Control Act of 1974, with an amendment. (As approved by the committee, the
bill authorizes $25,550,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1992,
$26,521,000 for fiscal year 1993, and $27,529,000 for fiscal year 1994.);
S. 2496, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessel Delphinus
II ;
S. 2497, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessel Touch of
Class ;
S. 2498, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessel Liquid
Gold ;
S. 2767, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the research vessel
Brown Bear ;
S. 2768, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the fish processing
vessel Yupik Star ;
S. 2816, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessel Bay Lady ;
S. 2844, to clear certain impediments to the licensing of a vessel for
employment in the coastwise trade and fisheries of the United States; and
The nominations of Walter B. McCormick, Jr., of Missouri, to be General
Counsel of the Department of Transportation, Gregory F. Chapados, of Alaska,
to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, Carl
W. Vogt, of Maryland, to be a Member and Chairman of the National
Transportation Safety Board, Karl A. Erb, of Virginia, to be an Associate
Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, lists of officers of
the United States Coast Guard and Coast Guard Reserve for appointment to the
grade of rear admiral received in the Senate on February 5, 1992 and April 28,
1992, respectively, and routine lists of nominations in the United States
Coast Guard.
SOVIET-DESIGNED NUCLEAR POWER PLANT SAFETY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the safety of Soviet-designed nuclear power plants in Eastern Europe,
and on the technical and financial assistance by Western nations to help
improve the safety of these reactors, after receiving testimony from Ivan
Selin, Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission; William H. Young, Assistant
Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy; Robert Gallucci, Senior Coordinator,
Office of the Deputy Secretary of State; Morris Rosen, Assistant Deputy
Director General, Director of the Division of Nuclear Safety, International
Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria; and Lord Marshall of Goring, Chairman
of the Governing Board, World Association of Nuclear Operators, London,
England.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
bills:
H.R. 776, to establish a comprehensive national energy policy to promote
energy conservation and efficiency and the use of renewable energy, including
measures for international energy cooperation, with an amendment. (As approved
by the committee, the amendment serves as a substitute for the revenue
provisions of title XIX of H.R. 776.); and
H.R. 3040, to establish a Federal supplemental unemployment compensation
program, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As approved by the
committee, the committee substitute extends certain expiring tax provisions
through December 31, 1993, and repeals certain luxury taxes.)
NEWS MONITORING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
held hearings on S. 1805, to amend the fair use provisions of the Copyright
Act of 1976 to permit the commercial monitoring of news programming, receiving
testimony from Ralph Oman, Register of Copyrights and Associate Librarian for
Copyright Services, Library of Congress; Robert Cohen, Video Monitoring
Services of America, Inc., New York, New York, on behalf of the International
Association of Broadcast Monitors; Harland W. Warner, Public Relations Society
of America, Washington, D.C.; L. Ray Patterson, University of Georgia, Athens;
Ed Moser, NewsCount, Phoenix, Arizona; and David Nimmer, Irell & Manella, Los
Angeles, California, on behalf of the Turner Broadcasting System and the
National Association of Broadcasters.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills:
S. 1607, to provide for the settlement of water rights claims of the Northern
Cheyenne Tribe in Montana, with an amendment;
S. 2684, to ratify and approve the settlement contract between the Secretary
of the Interior and the Jicarilla Apache Indian Tribe for the resolution of
water rights claims in New Mexico;
S. 2507, to authorize certain uses of water by the Ak-Chin Indian Community in
Arizona;
S. 1752, to provide for the development, enhancement, and recognition of
Indian Tribal Courts, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
S. 2481, authorizing funds for programs of the Indian Health Care Improvement
Act, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
Joint Meetings
AUTHORIZATION--HIGHER EDUCATION
Conferees continued in evening session to resolve the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 1150, to reauthorize the Higher
Education Act of 1965.
1992/06/17
Daily Digest - Wednesday, June 17, 1992; pages D736 - D744 (Bd vol. D367 -
D372)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SUBCOMMITTEE ALLOCATIONS
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. 287, setting forth the congressional budget for the
U.S. Government for fiscal years 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997, 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.
APPROPRIATIONS--DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the government
of the District of Columbia, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from R. David Hall, president, District of Columbia
Board of Education, and Franklin Smith, superintendent, District of Columbia
Public School System, both of Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, June 24.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on S. 2629, to
authorize funds for fiscal year 1993 for military functions of the Department
of Defense, and to prescribe military personnel levels for fiscal year 1993,
focusing on the bomber "roadmap" and related bomber programs, and on the
Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile [TSSAM], receiving testimony from Donald
B. Rice, Jr., Secretary of the Air Force; Gen. John M. Loh, USAF, Commander,
Air Combat Command; and Gen. George L. Butler, USAF, Commander in Chief,
United States Strategic Command [STRATCOM].
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
THRIFT INDUSTRY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings to
examine the current and future condition of the thrift industry, and the
transition of responsibility from the Resolution Trust Corporation to the
Saving Association Insurance Fund, receiving testimony from Robert D.
Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget Office; and T. Timothy Ryan,
Director, Office of Thrift Supervision, Department of the Treasury.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MARITIME REFORM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Merchant
Marine held hearings on proposed legislation to reform the U.S. maritime
industry in order to spur employment and activity in the industry, receiving
testimony from Andrew H. Card, Jr., Secretary of Transportation.
Hearings continue on Thursday, June 25.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Jerry Jay Langdon, of Texas, and William C. Liedtke III, of
Oklahoma, each to be a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
Department of Energy, after the nominees testified and answered questions in
their own behalf. Mr. Liedtke was introduced by Senator Nickles.
COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on comprehensive health care
reform, focusing on proposals for expanding employment-based health insurance
coverage, including S. 2320 and S. 2513, receiving testimony from Senators
Kassebaum, Kerrey, and Wellstone; Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of Health and
Human Services; Ron J. Anderson, Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Texas, on
behalf of the National Association of Public Hospitals; E. Richard Brown,
University of California at Los Angeles; David U. Himmelstein, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Alan Peres, Ameritech Corporation,
Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the National Association of Manufacturers;
Theodore R. Marmor, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; and Carl Schramm,
Health Insurance Association of America, Washington, DC.
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Hearings continue tomorrow.
NORTH PACIFIC SALMON TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the Convention
for the Conservation of Anadromous Stocks in the North Pacific Ocean, with
Annex, which was signed by the United States, Canada, Japan, and the Russian
Federation on February 11, 1992, in Moscow (Treaty Doc. 102-30), after
receiving testimony from Senator Packwood; David A. Colson, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific
Affairs; and Richard Lauber, Juneau, Alaska, on behalf of the North Pacific
Fishery Management Council, and the International North Pacific Fisheries
Commission.
NATIONAL COMMUNITY ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
S. 1866, to promote community based economic development and to provide
assistance for community development corporations, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following measures:
S. Res. 273, to provide guidance to Members of the Senate, and their
employees, in discharging the representative function of Members with respect
to communications from petitioners;
An original bill to authorize funds for fiscal years 1993 through 1997 for the
American Folklife Center;
S.J.Res. 221, providing for the appointment of Hanna Holborn Gray as a citizen
regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, with an
amendment;
S.J.Res. 259, providing for the appointment of Barber B. Conable, Jr., as a
citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution;
S.J.Res. 275, providing for the appointment of Wesley Samuel Williams, Jr., as
a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution;
S. 523, to authorize the establishment of the National African-American
Memorial Museum within the Smithsonian Institution, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute;
S. 1598, to authorize funds for the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian
Institution to acquire land for watershed protection at the Smithsonian
Environmental Research Center, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute;
S. Con. Res. 112, to authorize the printing as a Senate document "Thomas
Jefferson's Manual of Parliamentary Practice";
An original resolution to authorize the Committee on Rules and Administration
to issue regulations pertaining to Senate participation in State and local
government transit programs; and
An original resolution to authorize the purchase of 104,000 1993 United States
Capitol Historical Society wall calendars for the use of the Senate.
Joint Meetings
HOSPITAL INDUSTRY
Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Investment, Jobs, and Prices held
hearings to examine the future of the hospital industry, focusing on the role
of public hospitals, mergers, coordination between regional centers and rural
hospitals, and the mix of in and out-patient care, receiving testimony from
Stuart H. Altman, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, on behalf of
the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission; Gerard F. Anderson, Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; James L. Scott, American Health Care
Systems Institute, and Larry S. Gage, on behalf of the National Association of
Public Hospitals, both of Washington, D.C.; James R. Kimmey, St. Louis
University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; Ophelia Long, Highland
General Hospital, Oakland, California; Edward J. Renford, LAC King/Drew
Memorial Center, Los Angeles, California; Donna Fraiche, Medical Task Force of
the Downtown Development District of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana; and
Michael Morrisey, University of Alabama, Birmingham.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, June 24.
AUTHORIZATION--HIGHER EDUCATION
Conferees on Tuesday, June 16, agreed to file a conference report on the
differences between the Senate-and House-passed versions of S. 1150, to
reauthorize the Higher Education Act of 1965.
1992/06/18
Daily Digest - Thursday, June 18, 1992; pages D746 - D754 (Bd vol. D372 -
D379)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, receiving testimony from John F. Turner, Director,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
PACIFIC SECURITY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on security issues in the
Pacific region, receiving testimony from Gaston J. Sigur, former Assistant
Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; and Kenneth B. Pyle,
National Bureau of Asian Research, and Nicholas Lardy, University of
Washington, both of Seattle, Washington.
Committee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: On Wednesday, June 17, committee ordered
favorably reported the nominations of Gen. Charles C. McDonald, U.S. Air
Force, for appointment to the grade of general, Gen. Ronald W. Yates, U.S. Air
Force, for reappointment to the grade of general, Lt. Gen. Clifford H. Rees,
Jr., U.S. Air Force, for appointment to the grade of lieutenant general, Lt.
Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, U.S. Army, for appointment to the grade of
general, and Maj. Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, U.S. Army, for appointment to the
grade of lieutenant general, 7 Army nominations in the rank of general, and 7
Air Force nominations in the rank of general.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills:
An original bill authorizing funds for housing and community development
programs; and
S. 2864, authorizing funds for export-import programs and to encourage export
promotion, with an amendment.
U.S. AND FOREIGN COMMERCIAL SERVICE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Foreign
Commerce and Tourism concluded hearings on proposed reforms in programs of the
United States and Foreign Commercial Service, focusing on the export promotion
functions of certain Federal agencies, after receiving testimony from John D.
Macomber, Chairman, Export-Import Bank of the United States; Susan Schwab,
Director General, United States and Foreign Commercial Service, Department of
Commerce; Barry O'Connor, Bankers Trust Securities Corporation, New York, New
York; Robert Martin, Barclays Bank PLC, and Willard A. Workman, U.S. of
Commerce, both of Washington, D.C.; Marty Duggan, Small Business Exporters
Association, Annandale, Virginia; and Jane Wheeler Moore, International
Business Partners, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia.
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NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight
hearings to examine State regulation of natural gas production, focusing on
the recent efforts of Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana to update their systems
for setting allowables for natural gas production, after receiving testimony
from Mark C. Schroeder, Deputy General Counsel for Resources and Legislation,
Department of Energy; Cody L. Graves, Oklahoma Corporation Commission,
Oklahoma City; Herbert W. Thompson, Louisiana Department of Natural Resources,
Baton Rouge; Bob Krueger, Railroad Commission of Texas, Austin; and J. Michael
Biddison, Ohio Public Utilities Commission, Columbus.
COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings on comprehensive health
care reform, focusing on proposals for expanding employment-based health
insurance coverage, receiving testimony from Senators Cohen and Coats;
Representatives Stenholm, Michael Andrews, and Cooper; George Halvorson, Group
Health Incorporated, Minneapolis, Minnesota, on behalf of the Group Health
Association of America, Inc.; J. Patrick Rooney, Golden Rule Insurance
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana; Stuart M. Butler, the Heritage Foundation, and
Judith Feder, Georgetown University, both of Washington, D.C.; and Kenneth E.
Thorpe, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ASIAN ORGANIZED CRIME
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
resumed hearings to examine the structure and activities of Asian organized
crime groups in the United States, focusing on the international aspects of
Asian organized crime and its connections to the United States, receiving
testimony from Scott E. Orchard, Staff Investigator, Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations; Robert W. Koppe, Jr., Assistant Director, Office of Strategic
Analysis, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and Marshall Collins and
Marshall Heeger, both Senior Special Agents, U.S. Customs Service, all of the
Department of the Treasury; Detective Inspector Roy Teeft and Detective
Kenneth Yates, both of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Force, Ontario, Canada;
Donn Sickles, Visa International, San Mateo, California; and an incarcerated
witness.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BILINGUAL VOTING ASSISTANCE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 2236, to revise certain provisions
of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to extend the termination date on the
prohibition of covered States and political subdivisions providing voting
materials only in English.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Norman H. Stahl, of New Hampshire, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the First
Circuit, Thomas K. Moore, to be a judge of the District Court of the Virgin
Islands, Eduardo C. Robreno, to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania, and Gordon J. Quist, to be U.S. District Judge for
the Western District of Michigan, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Stahl was introduced by Senators Rudman and
Smith, Mr. Moore was introduced by Senator Warner and Virgin Islands Delegate
Ron de Lugo, Mr. Robreno was introduced by Senators Specter and Wofford, and
Mr. Quist was introduced by Senator Levin and Representatives Henry and Upton.
Testimony was also received on the nomination of Mr. Moore from Virgin Islands
Lt. Gov. Derek M. Hodge, Charlotte Amalie.
GLOBAL COMPETITION POLICIES
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine competition
policies, such as antitrust laws, in the global economy intended to ensure
that markets remain free from private or government distortion to give
consumers the best choice of goods and services at the lowest price, focusing
on how competition and trade policies are related, and whether the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT] system should address competition policy
conflicts, receiving testimony from Edward M. Graham, Institute for
International Economics, Robert Pitofsky, Georgetown University Law Center,
and Robert A. Lipstein, Coudert Brothers, all of Washington, D.C.; and John H.
Jackson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES ACT
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2044,
to assist Native Americans in assuring the survival and continuing vitality of
their languages, after receiving testimony from Dominic J. Mastrapasqua,
Deputy Commissioner, Administration for Native Americans, Administration for
Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services; Kenneth Hale,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Michael Krauss, Alaska
Native Language Center, Fairbanks, Alaska, representing the Linguistic Society
of America; Carl Downing, Oklahoma Native American Language Development
Institute, Choctaw; Jerry Farley, Coquille Economic Development Company,
Renton, Washington; Tommy C. Yazzie and Joe Yazzie, both of Leupp Schools,
Inc., Leupp, Arizona; and Michael J. Anderson, National Congress of American
Indians, and Karen Funk, National Indian Education Association, both of
Washington, D.C.
HEALTH BENEFITS OF ART AND DANCE FOR THE ELDERLY
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine the health
benefits of art and dance to the elderly and disabled in America, after
receiving testimony from Robert E. Ault, Topeka, Kansas, on behalf of the
American Art Therapy Association; Judith R. Bunney, Potomac, Maryland, on
behalf of the American Dance Therapy Association; Jack Palance, Tehachapi,
California; Elizabeth Layton, Wellsville, Kansas; Howard Sims, New York, New
York; Barrie Bailey, Las Vegas, Nevada; and Marie J. Seymour, Bethesda,
Maryland.
Joint Meetings
U.S. ECONOMIC DIPLOMACY WITH JAPAN
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine United
States economic diplomacy with Japan, focusing on how the United States should
manage and improve its relationship with Japan, after receiving testimony from
James Fallows, the Atlantic Monthly, Ed Lincoln, Brookings Institution, and
Michael Aho, Council on Foreign Relations, all of Washington, D.C.
1992/06/19
Daily Digest - Friday, June 19, 1992; pages D756 - D762 (Bd vol. D379 - D380)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
WILDLIFE REFUGE SYSTEM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection concluded hearings to examine the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's
administration of the National Wildlife Refuge System, and on S. 1862, to
improve the administration, management, and compatibility process of the
National Wildlife Refuge System, after receiving testimony from John R.
Turner, Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior;
David L. Harrison, Moses, Wittemyer, Harrison & Woodruff, Boulder, Colorado;
William C. Reffalt, Wilderness Society, Kathryn Tollerton, Defenders of
Wildlife, Rollin D. Sparrowe, Wildlife Management Institute, R. Max Peterson,
International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, and John W. Grandy,
Humane Society of the United States, all of Washington, D.C.; Laurie Ann
Macdonald, Sierra Club, St. Petersburg, Florida; and John Crider, Crystal
River Chamber of Commerce, Crystal River, Florida.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1992/06/22
Daily Digest - Monday, June 22, 1992; pages D764 -D768 (Bd vol. D380 - D381)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/06/23
Daily Digest - Tuesday, June 23, 1992; pages D769 - D778 (Bd vol. D381 - D387)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
URBAN AMERICA
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings to
examine problems facing urban America, focusing on the availability of capital
to inner city and minority communities, receiving testimony from Robert
Johnson, Black Entertainment Television, Dee Carroll, Computer Temporaries,
Inc., Anthony W. Robinson, Minority Business Enterprise Legal Defense and
Education Fund, Inc., Deepak Bhargava, Association of Community Organizations
for Reform Now, and Kimberly J. Levine, Adams National Bank, all of
Washington, D.C.; Ron Homer, Boston Bank of Commerce, Boston, Massachusetts;
Serafin Mariel, New York National Bank, Bronx, New York; and Carlton J.
Jenkins, Founders National Bank of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION
ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Department
of Commerce, and to discuss radiofrequency spectrum issues and policy,
international satellite policy, and the competitiveness of the United States
telecommunications industry, after receiving testimony from Gregory F.
Chapados, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information.
PUBLIC LANDS/NATIONAL PARKS/NATIONAL MONUMENTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills:
S. 1925, to remove a restriction from a parcel of land owned by the city of
North Charleston, South Carolina, in order to permit a land exchange, after
receiving testimony from Senator Hollings; and Mayor Bobby Kinard, North
Charleston, South Carolina;
S. 2006, to establish the Fox River National Heritage Corridor in Wisconsin,
after receiving testimony from Senators Kasten and Kohl; and C.D. Besadny,
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Madison; and
H.R. 3519, to authorize the establishment of the Steamtown National Historic
Site in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to preserve the resources associated with
steam-operated trains during the period of 1850-1950, after receiving
testimony from Senators Specter and Wofford; Pennsylvania Governor Robert P.
Casey, Harrisburg; and former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton,
Scranton.
Testimony was also received on the aforementioned bills and S. 225, to expand
the boundaries of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields
Memorial National Military Park, Virginia, S. 2563, to provide for the
rehabilitation of historic structures within the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway
National Recreation Area in New Jersey, H.R. 2181, to permit the Secretary of
the Interior to acquire by exchange lands in the Cuyahoga National Recreation
Area that are owned by State of Ohio, and H.R. 2444, to revise the boundaries
of the George Washington Birthplace National Monument from Denis P. Galvin,
Associate Director for Planning and Development, National Park Service,
Department of the Interior.
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LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Medicare and Long-Term Care held
hearings to examine standards for private long-term care insurance policies,
focusing on the need to establish a Federal regulatory policy for the
marketing of private long-term care insurance, and related proposals,
including S. 2571, S. 846, and S. 1693, receiving testimony from Janet L.
Shikles, Director of Health Financing and Policy Issues, Human Resources
Division, Maryanne Keenan, Social Science Analyst, and Joel Hamilton,
Evaluator, all of the General Accounting Office; Nebraska Director of
Insurance William H. McCartney, Lincoln, on behalf of the National Association
of Insurance Commissioners; Mildred McCauley, Myrtle Creek, Oregon, on behalf
of the American Association of Retired Persons; Gail Shearer, Consumers Union,
Joshua M. Wiener, Brookings Institution, and Susan I. Van Gelder, Health
Insurance Association of America, all of Washington, D.C.; Robert W.
DeCoursey, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Association of Health
Insurance Agents; and Ronald D. Hagen, AMEX Life Assurance Company, San
Rafael, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
START TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on the Treaty between
the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Reduction
and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (the START Treaty), signed at
Moscow on July 31, 1991, including Annexes on Agreed Statements and
Definitions; Protocols on Conversion or Elimination, Inspection, Notification,
Throw-weight, Telemetry, and Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission; and
Memorandum of Understanding; all integral parts of the START Treaty (Treaty
Doc. 102-20), and the Protocol to the START Treaty, dated May 23, 1992 (Treaty
Doc. 102-32), receiving testimony from James A. Baker III, Secretary of State.
Hearings continue on Thursday, June 25.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of William Clark, Jr., of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary
of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, after the nominee testified and
answered questions in his own behalf.
CONSUMER DISCLOSURE IN INSURANCE SALES
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business
Rights held hearings to examine the sales practices of certain life insurance
companies, focusing on their cost disclosure information to consumers,
receiving testimony from Rick K. Nelson, R.K. Nelson & Associates, Inc.,
Northbrook, Illinois; Harold G. Mercer, Mercer & Jenkins Limited, and James H.
Hunt, National Insurance Consumer Organization, both of Alexandria, Virginia;
Judy Faucett, Coopers & Lybrand, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the American
Academy of Actuaries; Geoff Rips, Texas Office of Public Insurance Counsel,
Austin; Armand M. de Palo, Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, New
York, New York; and T.J. Butler, Houston, Texas.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 2870,
authorizing funds for the Legal Services Corporation, receiving testimony from
Senator Rudman; Representative McCollum; George Wittgraf, Chairman of the
Board, Legal Services Corporation; Talbot S. D'Alemberte, Miami, Florida, and
John J. Curtin, Bingham, Dana & Gould, Boston, Massachusetts, both on behalf
of the American Bar Association; F. William McCalpin, St. Louis, Missouri, on
behalf of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association; Dwight Loines,
National Organization of Legal Services Workers, New York, New York; and Hazel
Filoxsian, Migrant and Immigrant Assistance Center, Apopka, Florida.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1992/06/24
Daily Digest - Wednesday, June 24, 1992; pages D779 - D788 (Bd vol. D387 -
D394)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT AND SCHOOL SYSTEMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1993 for the government
of the District of Columbia, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Judith W. Rogers, Chief Judge, District of Columbia
Court of Appeals; Fred B. Ugast, Chief Judge, District of Columbia Superior
Court; and Franklin Smith, Superintendent, District of Columbia School System.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE LABELING ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee
concluded hearings on S. 2232, to require manufacturers of new automobiles to
affix a label containing certain consumer information on each automobile
manufactured after a specified year, after receiving testimony from Senator
Mikulski; Joel Joseph, Made in the USA, Chevy Chase, Maryland; Alan Reuther,
Washington, D.C., and Rodney Trump, Baltimore, Maryland, both on behalf of the
United Auto Workers; Joan Claybrook, Public Citizen, Steve Collins, on behalf
of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association, and Steven Lande, Manchester
Trade, all of Washington, D.C.; Walter Huizenga, American International
Automobile Dealers Association, Alexandria, Virginia; and Walter Smith, Fort
Washington, Maryland.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills:
H.R. 2896, to revise the boundaries of the Minute Man National Historical Park
in the State of Massachusetts;
H.R. 2790, to withdraw certain lands located in the Coronado National Forest
in Arizona from the mining and mineral leasing laws of the United States, with
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 2725, to authorize the extension of time limitations for a Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission issued license, with an amendment;
H.R. 1514, to disclaim or relinquish all right, title, and interest of the
United States in and to certain lands conditionally relinquished to the United
States, with amendments;
S. 684, to strengthen Federal, State, and local historic preservation programs
and to establish requirement for such programs on Indian tribal lands and in
Native Hawaiian organizations, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute;
S. 1704, to improve the administration and management of public lands,
National Forests, units of the National Park System, and related areas by
improving the availability of adequate, appropriate, affordable, and cost
effective housing for employees needed to effectively manage the public lands,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 2321, to increase the authorizations for the War in the Pacific National
Historical Park, Guam, and the American Memorial Park, and Saipan;
H.R. 479, to designate the California National Historic Trail and the Pony
Express National Historic Trail as components of the National Trails System;
and
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An original bill to grant a right of use and occupancy of a certain tract of
land in Glacier National Park in Montana to Gerald R. Robinson.
PACIFIC YEW ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 2851, to provide for the
management of Federal and public lands containing the Pacific yew tree to
ensure a sufficient supply of bark for the production of taxol for the
treatment of cancer and to ensure the long-term conservation of the Pacific
yew, after receiving testimony from Michael Grever, Associate Director,
Developmental Therapeutics Program, Division of Cancer Treatment, National
Cancer Institute, Department of Health and Human Services; James Overbay,
Deputy Chief for National Forest System, Forest Service, Department of
Agriculture; Michael Penfold, Assistant Director, Land and Renewable
Resources, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; and Zola
Horovitz, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Robert L. Barry, of New Hampshire, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Indonesia, David C. Fields, of California, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Charles B. Salmon, Jr., of New York, to
be Ambassador to the Lao People's Democratic Republic, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
HEALTH INSURANCE ABUSE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to examine
certain failures in the nation's health care system, focusing on the human
impact of abuse by the health insurance industry, receiving testimony from
Florida Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner Tom Gallagher, Tallahassee; Ron
Pollack, Families USA, Washington, D.C.; Raymond Raeke, Jr., Raymond Raeke and
Son, Inc., Joppa, Maryland; Patricia and Mark Geiger, Simi Valley, California;
John Schott, Brogue, Pennsylvania; Alice Miller, Orchard Park, New York; and
Michael J. Jones, Utica, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably re |
