103d Congress (1993 - 1994)
January 5, 1993 - November 26, 1993
Senate Committee Meetings by Date
Compiled from the Congressional Record's Daily Digests via Thomas at thomas.loc.gov
1993/01/05
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 5, 1993; pages D1-D36
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/01/06
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 6, 1993; p. D38 - D40
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Ronald H. Brown, of the District of
Columbia, to be Secretary of Commerce, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senators Moynihan, D'Amato, Kennedy, and Bentsen,
Representative Rangel, and District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes
Norton, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
Joint Meetings
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Joint Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies: Committee met and approved the
committee's rules of procedure for the first session of the 103d
Congress.
1993/01/07
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 7, 1993; pages D41 - D44
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the
prospective nomination of Les Aspin, of Wisconsin, to be Secretary of
Defense, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Kohl and
Feingold, Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, and former Senator
Proxmire, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the prospective nomination of Frederico Pena, of Colorado,
to be Secretary of Transportation, after the nominee, who was introduced
by Senators Brown and Campbell, and Representatives Schroeder, Mineta,
and Skaggs, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on
the prospective nomination of Robert Reich, of Massachusetts, to be
Secretary of Transportation, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senator Kerry, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
prospective nomination of Jesse Brown, of the District of Columbia, to
be Secretary of Veterans Affairs, after the nominee, who was introduced
by Senators Warner and Robb, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf. Testimony was also received from Charles Joeckel and Joseph
Zengerle, both of the Disabled American Veterans, Washington, D.C.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/01/20
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 20, 1993; pages D45 - D50
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: On Tuesday, January
19, committee ordered favorably reported the prospective nomination of
Mike Espy, of Mississippi, to be Secretary of Agriculture.
On Thursday, January 14, committee concluded hearings on the prospective
nomination of Mr. Espy, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator
Cochran and Representative de la Garza, testified and answered questions
in his own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Les Aspin, of Wisconsin, to be Secretary of Defense.
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Tuesday, January
19, committee approved for reporting the prospective nomination of Henry
Cisneros, of Texas, to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
On Tuesday, January 12, committee concluded hearings on the prospective
nomination of Mr. Cisneros, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senators Bentsen and Gramm, Representative Serrano, and Jack Kemp,
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
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NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: On Tuesday, January 19,
committee approved for reporting the prospective nomination of Hazel R.
O'Leary, of Minnesota, to be Secretary of Energy. Prior to this action
the committee concluded hearings on Ms. O'Leary, after the nominee, who
was introduced by Senators Durenberger and Wellstone, and
Representatives Vento, Scott, and Ramstad, testified and answered
questions in her own behalf.
Also, on Tuesday, January 19, committee began hearings on the
prospective nomination of Bruce Babbitt, of Arizona, to be Secretary of
the Interior, where the nominee, who was introduced by Senator
DeConcini, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
Hearings continue on Thursday, January 21.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: On Tuesday, January 19,
committee ordered favorably reported the prospective nomination of Carol
M. Browner, of Florida, to be Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency.
On Wednesday, January 13, committee concluded hearings on the
prospective nomination of Frederico PenAE6a, of Colorado, to be
Secretary of Transportation, after the nominee testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
On Monday, January 11, committee concluded hearings on the prospective
nomination of Ms. Browner, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senator Mack and Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, testified and answered
questions in her own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: On Tuesday, January 19, committee ordered
favorably reported the prospective nominations of Donna Shalala, of
Wisconsin, to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, Roger C.
Altman, of New York, to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, and Michael
Kantor, of Tennessee, to be United States Trade Representative.
Also, on Tuesday, January 19, committee concluded hearings on the
prospective nomination of Mr. Kantor, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senators Sasser, Bond, Feinstein, Boxer, and Mathews,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
On Thursday, January 14, committee concluded hearings on the prospective
nomination of Donna Shalala, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senators Kohl and Feingold, Representative Klug, and Wisconsin Governor
Tommy Thompson, testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
On Wednesday, January 13, committee concluded hearings on the
prospective nomination of Mr. Altman, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senators Bradley and D'Amato, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
On Tuesday, January 12, committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Lloyd Bentsen, of Texas, to be Secretary of the Treasury.
Also, committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Mr. Bentsen,
after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Baucus and Gramm,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: On Tuesday, January 19, committee
ordered favorably reported the prospective nomination of Warren M.
Christopher, of California, to be Secretary of State.
On Thursday, January 14, committee concluded hearings on the prospective
nomination of Mr. Christopher, after the nominee further testified and
answered questions in his own behalf.
On Wednesday, January 13, committee began hearings on the aforementioned
prospective nomination, where the nominee, who was introduced by
Senators Boxer and Feinstein, testified and answered questions in his
own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: On Wednesday, January 13, committee
ordered favorably reported the prospective nomination of Leon E.
Panetta, of California, to be Director, Office of Management and Budget.
Also, on Wednesday, January 13, committee concluded hearings on the
prospective nomination of Alice M. Rivlin, to be Deputy Director, Office
of Management and Budget, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senator Levin, testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
On Monday, January 11, committee concluded hearings on the prospective
nomination of Mr. Panetta, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senators Boxer and Feinstein, and Representative Don Edwards, testified
and answered questions in his own behalf.
MANAGEMENT IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: On Friday, January 8, committee held
hearings to examine certain problems and issues, facing the new
Administration, relating to waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in
the Federal Government, receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher,
Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting Office.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: On Tuesday, January 19, committee began
hearings on the prospective nomination of Zoe Baird, of Connecticut, to
be Attorney General, Department of Justice, where the nominee, who was
introduced by Senators Dodd, Lieberman, and Murray, and Representative
DeLauro, testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
Hearings continue on Thursday, January 21.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Tuesday, January 19,
committee ordered favorably reported the prospective nominations of
Robert Reich, of Massachusetts, to be Secretary of Transportation, and
Richard Riley, of South Carolina, to be Secretary of Education, and
routine lists of Public Health Service Corps promotions.
On Friday, January 15, committee concluded hearings on the prospective
nomination of Donna Shalala, of Wisconsin, to be Secretary of Health and
Human Services, after the nominee, who was introduced by District of
Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, testified and answered
questions in her own behalf.
On Tuesday, January 12, committee concluded hearings on the prospective
nomination of Mr. Riley, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senators Thurmond and Hollings, testified and answered questions in his
own behalf.
INDIAN HOUSING
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: On Tuesday, January 12, committee
concluded oversight hearings to examine housing and related needs of
American Indians, Alaskan Natives and Native Hawaiians, after receiving
testimony from Dominic Nessi, Director, Office of Indian Housing,
Department of Housing and Urban Development; La Verne Ausman,
Administrator, Farmers Home Administration, Department of Agriculture;
Carol A. Bacon, Director, Office of Tribal Services, Bureau of Indian
Affairs, Department of the Interior; Bill Pearson, Associate Director,
Gary J. Hartz, Director, Division of Environmental Health, and Larry
Gaynor, Chief, Sanitation Facilities Construction Branch, all of the
Office of Environmental Health and Engineering, Indian Health Service,
Department of Health and Human Services; and Robert Gauthier, National
Commission on American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian
Housing, and Virginia E. Spencer, National American Indian Housing
Council, both of Washington, D.C.
Joint Meetings
EMPLOYMENT SITUATION
Joint Economic Committee: On Friday, January 8, committee held hearings
on the employment-unemployment situation for December 1992, receiving
testimony from William Barron, Acting Commissioner, Bureau of Labor
Statistics, Department of Labor.
Committee recessed subject to call.
1993/01/21
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 21, 1993; pages D51 - D56
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING/NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee met and
ordered favorably reported an original resolution requesting $3,386,083
for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1993, through
February 28, 1994, and $3,458,110 for operating expenses for the period
from March 1, 1994, through February 28, 1995; and adopted its rules of
procedure for the 103rd Congress.
Also, committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Laura D'Andrea
Tyson, of California, to be a Member of the Council of Economic
Advisers, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Feinstein,
testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported the nominations of Ronald H. Brown, of the District
of Columbia, to be Secretary of Commerce, and Federico PenAE6a, of
Colorado, to be Secretary of Transportation.
NOMINATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nomination of Bruce Babbitt, of Arizona, to be Secretary of
the Interior.
Prior to this action, committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Mr. Babbitt, after the nominee further testified and answered questions
in his own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Madeleine K. Albright, of the District of Columbia, to be
the United States Representative to the United Nations with rank and
status of Ambassador, and the United States Representative in the
Security Council of the United Nations, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senator Mikulski, District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor
Holmes Norton, and former Senator Muskie, testified and answered
questions in her own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed hearings on the nomination
of Zoe Baird, of Connecticut, to be Attorney General, Department of
Justice, where the nominee further testified and answered questions in
her own behalf.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/01/22
Daily Digest - Friday, January 22, 1993; pages D57 - D58
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Clifton R. Wharton, Jr., of New York, to be Deputy
Secretary of State, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator
Moynihan, Representative Rangel, and District of Columbia Delegate
Eleanor Holmes Norton, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.
FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children,
Family, Drugs and Alcoholism concluded hearings on S. 5, to grant family
and temporary medical leave under certain circumstances, after receiving
testimony from Senator Bond; Robert B. Reich, Secretary of Labor; Howard
Pearson, American Academy of Pediatrics, New Haven, Connecticut; Judith
Lichtman, Women's Legal Defense Fund, Washington, D.C.; Diane Duvall,
Lotus Development Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, representing
Businesses for Social Responsibility; Michael Losey, Society for Human
Resource Management, Alexandria, Virginia; Linda and Rudy Fernandez,
Lynn, Massachusetts; and Eva Skubel, Moodus, Connecticut.
NOMINATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Hershel W. Gober, of Arkansas, to be Deputy Secretary of
Veterans Affairs, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators
Bumpers and Pryor, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/01/25
Daily Digest - Monday, January 25, 1993; pages D60 - D62
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to
review the nomination of Bruce Babbitt, of Arizona, to be Secretary of
the Interior (confirmed by the Senate on Thursday, January 21, 1993),
after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/01/26
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 26, 1993; pages D63 - D68
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings to review the state of
the national economy and the Federal budget outlook, focusing on the
economic consequences of reducing the budget deficit and the role of the
budget process in enforcing a deficit reduction plan, receiving
testimony from Robert D. Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget
Office.
Hearings continue on Thursday, January 28.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of John H. Gibbons, of Virginia, to be
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, after the nominee,
who was introduced by Senators Warner, Robb, and Kennedy, testified and
answered questions in his own behalf.
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NOMINATIONS/ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
The nominations of Madeleine K. Albright, of the District of Columbia,
to be United States Representative to the United Nations with rank and
status of Ambassador, and the United States Representative in the
Security Council of the United Nations, and Clifton R. Wharton Jr., of
New York, to be Deputy Secretary of State; and
An original resolution requesting $3,085,530 for operating expenses for
the period from March 1, 1993, through February 28, 1994, and $3,152,524
for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1994, through
February 28, 1995.
Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 103rd Congress,
and approved the following subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on European Affairs: Senators Biden (Chairman), Sarbanes,
Simon, Feingold, Lugar, Kassebaum, and Brown.
Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Trade, Oceans and
Environment: Senators Sarbanes (Chairman), Biden, Dodd, Kerry, Wofford,
Feingold, Kassebaum, Helms, Murkowski, Brown, and Jeffords.
Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace Corps Affairs: Senators
Dodd (Chairman), Robb, Wofford, Mathews, Coverdell, Helms, and Lugar.
Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations:
Senators Kerry (Chairman), Pell, Dodd, Simon, Moynihan, Pressler, Helms,
Murkowski, and Coverdell.
Subcommittee on African Affairs: Senators Simon (Chairman), Moynihan,
Feingold, Jeffords, and Kassebaum.
Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs: Senators Moynihan
(Chairman), Sarbanes, Robb, Wofford, Mathews, Brown, Pressler, Jeffords,
and Coverdell.
Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs: Senators Robb
(Chairman), Biden, Kerry, Mathews, Murkowski, Lugar, and Pressler.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee met and approved the
following subcommittee assignments:
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: Senators Nunn (Chairman),
Glenn (Vice Chairman), Levin, Sasser, Pryor, Lieberman, Dorgan, Roth,
Stevens, Cohen, Cochran, and McCain.
Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post Office, and Civil Service:
Senators Pryor (Chairman), Sasser, Akaka, Stevens, and Cochran.
Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management: Senators Levin
(Chairman), Pryor, Lieberman, Akaka, Nunn, Dorgan, Cohen, Stevens,
Cochran, and McCain.
Subcommittee on General Services, Federalism, and the District of
Columbia: Senators Sasser (Chairman), Lieberman, Akaka, McCain, and
Stevens.
Subcommittee on Regulation and Government Information: Senators
Lieberman (Chairman), Nunn, Levin, Dorgan, Cochran, Cohen, and McCain.
INSURANCE INDUSTRY FRAUD
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations held oversight hearings to examine Federal and State
efforts to combat fraud and abuse in the insurance industry, focusing on
the operations of Group Hospitalization & Medical Services, Inc. (Blue
Cross and Blue Shield of the National Capital Area), receiving testimony
from District of Columbia Superintendent of Insurance Robert M. Willis,
Washington, D.C.; and Virginia State Commissioner of Insurance Steven T.
Foster, Richmond, on behalf of the National Association of Insurance
Commissioners.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
NIH AUTHORIZATION/FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT/SUBCOMMITTEE
ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills:
S. 1, authorizing funds for programs of the National Institutes of
Health; and
S. 5, to grant family and temporary medical leave under certain
circumstances.
Also, committee approved the following subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Labor: Senators Metzenbaum (Chairman), Harkin, Dodd,
Kennedy, Wellstone, Hatch, Kassebaum, Jeffords, and Thurmond.
Subcommittee on Education, Arts and Humanities: Senators Pell
(Chairman), Metzenbaum, Dodd, Simon, Mikulski, Bingaman, Kennedy,
Wellstone, Wofford, Harkin, Jeffords, Kassebaum, Coats, Gregg, Thurmond,
Hatch, and Durenberger.
Subcommittee on Employment and Productivity: Senators Simon (Chairman),
Harkin, Mikulski, Bingaman, Wofford, Thurmond, Coats, Gregg, and Hatch.
Subcommittee on Disability Policy: Senators Harkin (Chairman),
Metzenbaum, Simon, Bingaman, Durenberger, Jeffords, and Hatch.
Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism: Senators Dodd
(Chairman), Pell, Mikulski, Bingaman, Kennedy, Wellstone, Wofford,
Coats, Kassebaum, Jeffords, Gregg, Thurmond, and Durenberger.
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Subcommittee on Aging: Senators Mikulski (Chairman), Pell, Metzenbaum,
Dodd, Wofford, Gregg, Coats, and Durenberger.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee met and ordered favorably
reported an original resolution requesting $1,197,940 for operating
expenses for the period from March 1, 1993, through February 28, 1994,
and $1,221,872 for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1994,
through February 28, 1995.
Also, committee approved Senator Inouye as Chairman, and Senator McCain
as Vice Chairman, and adopted its rules of procedure for the 103rd
Congress.
Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee held hearings
to examine United States Senate and U.S. House of Representatives
leadership recommendations to reorganize congressional procedure,
receiving testimony from Senators Mitchell and Dole; and Representatives
Foley, Gephardt, and Michel.
Hearings continue on Thursday, January 28.
1993/01/27
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 27, 1993; pages D70 - D74
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee met and
ordered favorably reported an original resolution requesting $2,027,632
for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1993, through
February 28, 1994, and $1,973,136 for operating expenses for the period
from March 1, 1994, through February 28, 1995.
Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 103d Congress.
TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies concluded hearings on proposed legislation appropriating
supplemental funds to promote investment in transportation, and to
promote the development of new industries and technologies, after
receiving testimony from Thomas M. Downs, New Jersey Department of
Transportation, Trenton; Robert Georgine, AFL-CIO, Pete Wert, Associated
General Contractors of America, Charles W. Simpson, Morrison-Knudsen
Company, Inc., and Lester P. Lamm, Highway Users Federation, all of
Washington, D.C.; Bob Gregg, Hughes Traffic Management Systems, and
Thomas Murphy, AAI Corporation, both of Arlington, Virginia; Pete
Skarszynski, AT&T, Bridgewater, New Jersey; and Ed Silcott, Westinghouse
Electric Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland.
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FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA-HUD and Independent
Agencies concluded hearings to review the Federal Government's disaster
policy and the future of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, after
receiving testimony from Senator Graham; Representative Weldon; J.
Dexter Peach, Assistant Comptroller General, Resources, Community, and
Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office; Deborah Hart,
Assistant Inspector General, Federal Emergency Management Agency; Linda
Loomis-Shelley, Florida State Community Affairs, Tallahassee; Joe Myers,
North Carolina Emergency Management, Raleigh; William Reno, American Red
Cross, and R. Scott Fosler, National Academy of Public Administration,
both of Washington, D.C.; and Alex Muxo, Homestead, Florida.
FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE SYSTEM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held
hearings to examine the safety and soundness provisions of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991, the condition of
the banking and thrift industries, and the state of the deposit
insurance system, receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher,
Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting Office; and
Robert D. Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget Office.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee met and ordered
favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 39) requesting
$2,938,002 for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1993,
through February 28, 1994, and $3,000,982 for operating expenses for the
period from March 1, 1994, through February 28, 1995.
INSURANCE INDUSTRY FRAUD
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations continued oversight hearings to examine Federal and State
efforts to combat fraud and abuse in the insurance industry, focusing on
the operations of Group Hospitalization & Medical Services, Inc. (Blue
Cross and Blue Shield of the National Capital Area), receiving testimony
from Joseph P. Gamble, Charles P. Duvall, Benjamin W. Giuliani, Peter F.
O'Malley, and David Ward, all on behalf of the Group Hospitalization and
Medical Services, Inc., all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine the United
States economic outlook for 1993, receiving testimony from Alan
Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1993/01/28
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 28, 1993; pages D75 - D80
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee approved
the following subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Agricultural Production and Stabilization of Prices:
Senators Pryor (Chairman), Baucus, Kerrey, Feingold, Boren, Heflin,
Harkin, Helms, Dole, Cochran, McConnell, Craig, and Grassley.
Subcommittee on Domestic and Foreign Marketing and Product Promotion:
Senators Boren (Chairman), Pryor, Conrad, Baucus, Feingold, Heflin,
Cochran, Helms, Coverdell, McConnell, and Grassley.
Subcommittee on Agricultural Credit: Senators Conrad (Chairman),
Daschle, Boren, Baucus, Grassley, Craig, and Coverdell.
Subcommittee on Rural Development and Rural Electrification: Senators
Heflin (Chairman), Conrad, Daschle, Coverdell, and Dole.
Subcommittee on Nutrition and Investigations: Senators Harkin
(Chairman), Pryor, Kerrey, Feingold, McConnell, Dole, and Helms.
Subcommittee on Agricultural Research, Conservation, Forestry and
General Legislation: Senators Daschle (Chairman), Kerrey, Harkin, Craig,
and Cochran.
FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive
a briefing on the situation in former Yugoslavia from Roger Z. George,
National Intelligence Officer for Europe, National Intelligence Council;
Col. James W. Pardew, USA, Directorate of Current Intelligence, Defense
Intelligence Agency; William H. Hill, Chief Eastern European Division,
Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State; and Robert
Blackwell, Director, European Analysis, Intelligence Directorate,
Central Intelligence Agency.
Committee recessed subject to call.
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings on the United States
economic outlook for 1993, receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan,
Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported the following business items:
The nomination of John H. Gibbons, of Virginia, to be Director, Office
of Science and Technology Policy, and routine Coast Guard nominations;
and
An original resolution requesting $3,809,967 for operating expenses for
the period from March 1, 1993, through February 28, 1994, and $3,890,947
for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1994, through
February 28, 1995.
Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 103rd Congress,
and approved the following subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Aviation: Senators Ford (Chairman), Exon, Inouye, Kerry,
Bryan, Pressler, McCain, Stevens, and Gorton.
Subcommittee on Communications: Senators Inouye (Chairman), Hollings,
Ford, Exon, Kerry, Breaux, Rockefeller, Robb, Packwood, Pressler,
Stevens, McCain, Burns, and Gorton.
Consumer Subcommittee: Senators Bryan (Chairman), Ford, Dorgan, Krueger,
Gorton, McCain, and Burns.
Subcommittee on Foreign Commerce and Tourism: Senators Kerry (Chairman),
Hollings, Rockefeller, Bryan, Dorgan, Gregg, Packwood, and Pressler.
Subcommittee on Merchant Marine: Senators Breaux (Chairman), Inouye,
Krueger, Lott, and Stevens.
Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space: Senators Rockefeller
(Chairman), Hollings, Kerry, Bryan, Robb, Krueger, Burns, Pressler,
Lott, and Gregg.
Subcommittee on Surface Transportation: Senators Exon (Chairman),
Rockefeller, Inouye, Breaux, Robb, Dorgan, Krueger, McCain, Packwood,
Burns, Lott, and Gregg.
National Ocean Policy Study: Senators Hollings (Chairman), Kerry (Vice
Chairman), Inouye, Ford, Breaux, Robb, Krueger, Stevens, Danforth,
Packwood, Pressler, Gorton, Lott, and Gregg.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee approved the
following subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, and
Competitiveness: Senators Bingaman (Chairman), Wellstone (Vice
Chairman), Bradley, Akaka, Shelby, Mathews, Krueger, Nickles, Specter,
Lott, Hatfield, Domenici, and Murkowski.
Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development: Senators Ford
(Chairman), Shelby (Vice Chairman), Bumpers, Bingaman, Wellstone,
Mathews, Krueger, Domenici, Specter, Nickles, Craig, and Lott.
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Subcommittee on Mineral Resources Development and Production: Senators
Akaka (Chairman), Mathews (Vice Chairman), Bumpers, Ford, Campbell,
Craig, Murkowski, Nickles, and Bennett.
Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks and Forests: Senators
Bumpers (Chairman), Campbell (Vice Chairman), Bradley, Bingaman, Akaka,
Shelby, Wellstone, Krueger, Murkowski, Hatfield, Lott, Domenici,
Bennett, Craig, and Specter.
Subcommittee on Water and Power: Senators Bradley (Chairman), Ford,
Campbell, Bennett, and Hatfield.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee met and ordered
favorably reported an original resolution requesting $2,875,000 for
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1993, through February
28, 1994, and $2,875,000 for operating expenses for the period from
March 1, 1994, through February 28, 1995.
Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 103rd Congress.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee met and ordered favorably reported
an original resolution requesting $5,397,100 for operating expenses for
the period from March 1, 1993, through February 28, 1994, and $5,515,215
for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1994, through
February 28, 1995.
Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 103rd Congress,
and approved the following subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs: Senators Kennedy
(Chairman), Simon, and Simpson.
Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business Rights: Senators
Metzenbaum (Chairman), DeConcini, Heflin, Simon, Thurmond, Specter, and
Hatch.
Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks: Senators DeConcini
(Chairman), Kennedy, Leahy, Heflin, Feinstein, Hatch, Simpson, Grassley,
and Brown.
Subcommittee on Technology and the Law: Senators Leahy (Chairman), Kohl,
Feinstein, Specter, and Pressler.
Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice: Senators Heflin
(Chairman), Metzenbaum, Kohl, Moseley-Braun, Grassley, Thurmond, and
Cohen.
Subcommittee on the Constitution: Senators Simon (Chairman), Metzenbaum,
DeConcini, Kennedy, Brown, and Hatch.
Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice: Senators Kohl (Chairman), Biden,
Moseley-Braun, Cohen, and Pressler.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following measures:
An original resolution (S. Res. 42) providing for members on the part of
the Senate of the Joint Committee on Printing and the Joint Committee of
Congress on the Library as follows:
Joint Committee on Printing: Senators Ford (Chairman), DeConcini,
Mathews, Stevens, and Hatfield; and
Joint Committee of Congress on the Library: Senators Pell (Vice
Chairman), DeConcini, Moynihan, Hatfield, and Stevens.
An original concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 8) to allow another
member of the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate to
serve on the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library in place of the
Chairman of the Committee; and
An original resolution requesting $1,478,578 for operating expenses for
the period from March 1, 1993, through February 28, 1994, and $1,511,163
in operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1994, through
February 28, 1995.
Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 103d Congress.
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported
an original resolution (S. Res. 43) requesting $2,938,578 for operating
expenses for the period from March 1, 1993, through February 28, 1994,
and $3,003,123 for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1994,
through February 28, 1995.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Special Committee on Aging: Committee met and approved a resolution
requesting $1,184,439 for operating expenses for the period from March
1, 1993, through February 28, 1994, and $1,209,141 for operating
expenses for the period from March 1, 1994, through February 28, 1995.
Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 103d Congress.
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Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee held hearings
to examine certain recommendations to reorganize congressional
procedure, receiving testimony from former Senator Rudman, and former
Representatives Frenzel and Jim Jones.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 2.
1993/01/29
Daily Digest - Friday, January 29, 1993; pages D81 - D82
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
U.S. MILITARY OPERATIONS IN FOREIGN LANDS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met to receive a briefing on
current United States military operations in Somalia, Iraq and
Yugoslavia from Lt. Gen. Martin L. Brandtner, USMC, Director for
Operations (J-3), Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Rear Adm.
Mike W. Cramer, USN, Director of Current Intelligence (J-2), Office of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Committee recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/02/02
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 2, 1993; pages D83 - D90
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: On Monday, February 1, committee met and
ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 48)
requesting $5,830,035 for operating expenses for the period from March
1, 1993, through February 28, 1994, and $5,972,449 for operating
expenses for the period from March 1, 1994, through February 28, 1995.
Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 103d Congress,
and approved the following subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies:
Senators Bumpers (Chairman), Harkin, Kerrey, Johnston, Kohl, Feinstein,
Cochran, Specter, Bond, Gramm, and Gorton.
Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary: Senators
Hollings (Chairman), Inouye, Bumpers, Lautenberg, Sasser, Kerrey,
Domenici, Stevens, Hatfield, Gramm, and McConnell.
Subcommittee on Defense: Senators Inouye (Chairman), Hollings, Johnston,
Byrd, Leahy, Sasser, DeConcini, Bumpers, Lautenberg, Harkin, Stevens,
D'Amato, Cochran, Specter, Domenici, Nickles, Gramm, and Bond.
Subcommittee on the District of Columbia: Senators Kohl (Chairman),
Murray, Feinstein, Burns, and Mack.
Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development: Senators Johnston
(Chairman), Byrd, Hollings, Sasser, DeConcini, Reid, Kerrey, Hatfield,
Cochran, Domenici, Nickles, Gorton, and McConnell.
Subcommittee on Foreign Operations: Senators Leahy (Chairman), Inouye,
DeConcini, Lautenberg, Harkin, Mikulski, Feinstein, McConnell, D'Amato,
Specter, Nickles, Mack, and Gramm.
Subcommittee on the Interior: Senators Byrd (Chairman), Johnston, Leahy,
DeConcini, Bumpers, Hollings, Reid, Murray, Nickles, Stevens, Cochran,
Domenici, Gorton, Hatfield, and Burns.
Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education:
Senators Harkin (Chairman), Byrd, Hollings, Inouye, Bumpers, Reid, Kohl,
Murray, Specter, Hatfield, Stevens, Cochran, Gorton, Mack, and Bond.
Subcommittee on Legislative Branch: Senators Reid (Chairman), Mikulski,
Murray, Mack, and Burns.
Subcommittee on Military Construction: Senators Sasser (Chairman),
Inouye, Reid, Kohl, Gorton, Stevens, and McConnell.
Subcommittee on Transportation: Senators Lautenberg (Chairman), Byrd,
Harkin, Sasser, Mikulski, D'Amato, Domenici, Hatfield, and Specter.
Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government:
Senators DeConcini (Chairman), Mikulski, Kerrey, Bond, and D'Amato.
Subcommittee on VA-HUD, and Independent Agencies: Senators Mikulski
(Chairman), Leahy, Johnston, Lautenberg, Kerrey, Feinstein, Gramm,
D'Amato, Nickles, Bond, and Burns.
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Committee on Armed Services: On Monday, February 1, committee approved
for reporting an original resolution (S. Res. 51) requesting $3,132,733
for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1993, through
February 28, 1994, and $3,200,710 for operating expenses for the period
from March 1, 1994, through February 28, 1995.
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: On Friday, January 29, committee approved for
reporting an original resolution (S. Res. 57) requesting $3,424,833 for
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1993, through February
28, 1994, and $3,499,838 for operating expenses for the period from
March 1, 1994, through February 28, 1995.
Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 103d Congress.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Finance: On Monday, February 1, committee met and ordered
favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 56) requesting
$4,184,586 for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1993,
through February 28, 1994, and $4,289,738 for operating expenses for the
period from March 1, 1994, through February 28, 1995.
Also, committee adopted its rule of procedure for the 103d Congress.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: On Friday, January 29, committee met
and ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 55)
requesting $5,603,819 for operating expenses for the period from March
1, 1993, through February 28, 1994, and $5,213,729 for operating
expenses for the period from March 1, 1994, through February 28, 1995.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Monday, February 1, committee
met and ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 49)
requesting $5,412,714 for operating expenses for the period from March
1, 1993, through February 28, 1994, and $5,530,058 for operating
expenses for the period from March 1, 1994, through February 28, 1995.
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ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Small Business: Committee met and ordered favorably
reported an original resolution (S. Res. 58) requesting $1,137,330 for
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1993, through February
28, 1994, and $1,161,856 for operating expenses for the period from
March 1, 1994, through February 28, 1995.
Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 103d Congress,
and approved the following subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Competitiveness, Credit Availability, and Economic
Opportunity: Senators Lieberman (Chairman), Harkin, Lautenberg, Mack,
and Bond.
Subcommittee on Export Expansion and Agricultural Development: Senators
Wofford (Chairman), Harkin, Bumpers, Lautenberg, Moseley-Braun,
Coverdell, Pressler, Bennett, and Chafee.
Subcommittee on Government Contracting and Paperwork Reduction: Senators
Nunn (Chairman), Lieberman, Harkin, Kohl, Bond, and Wallop.
Subcommittee on Innovation, Manufacturing and Technology: Senators Levin
(Chairman), Kerry, Bumpers, Heflin, Burns, Kempthorne, and Bennett.
Subcommittee on Rural Economy and Family Farming: Senators Wellstone
(Chairman), Nunn, Levin, Bumpers, Heflin, Kohl, Pressler, Wallop, Burns,
Coverdell, and Kempthorne.
Subcommittee on Urban and Minority-owned Business Development: Senators
Kerry (Chairman), Nunn, Wellstone, Wofford, Moseley-Braun, Chafee, Mack,
and Pressler.
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee approved for reporting an
original resolution (S. Res. 59) requesting $1,253,028 for operating
expenses for the period from March 1, 1993, through February 28, 1994,
and $1,253,028 for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1994,
through February 28, 1995.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held open and closed
hearings on the nomination of R. James Woolsey, of Maryland, to be
Director of Central Intelligence, where the nominee, who was introduced
by Senators Sarbanes and Boren, and Representative Hoagland, testified
and answered questions in his own behalf.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine certain recommendations to reorganize congressional
procedure, receiving testimony from Senators Byrd, Bond, Brown, and
Grassley.
Hearings continue on Thursday, February 4.
1993/02/03
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 3, 1993; pages D92 - D98
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FORMER SOVIET UNION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met to receive a briefing on
developments in the former Soviet Union from George Kolt, National
Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia, Lawrence K. Gershwin,
National Intelligence Officer for Strategic Programs, and Brig. Gen.
David A. Armstrong, USA (Ret.), National Intelligence Officer for
General Purpose Forces, all of the National Intelligence Council.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BANKS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held
hearings on the Administration's proposal to expand community
development financial institution activity to help promote job-creating
initiatives, receiving testimony from Milton O. Davis, South Shore Bank,
Chicago, Illinois; Lyndon Comstock, Community Capital Bank, Brooklyn,
New York; Steven W. Lopez, The Fund to Organize The Southside Bank,
Grand Rapids, Michigan; Edward H. McNamara, Wayne County Government,
Detroit, Michigan; Robert Jackson, Quitman County Federal Credit Union,
Marks, Mississippi; Ronald L. Phillips, Coastal Enterprises, Inc.,
Wiscasset, Maine; Pauline Nunez-Morales, Albuquerque, New Mexico, on
behalf of the New Mexico Community Development Loan Fund and the
National Association of Community Development Loan Funds; and Michael
Swack, Institute for Cooperative Community Development, Manchester, New
Hampshire.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
TAX EXPENDITURES
Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings to examine the role of
tax expenditures in the Federal budget process, receiving testimony from
Jane G. Gravelle, Senior Specialist in Economic Policy, Congressional
Research Service, Library of Congress; C. Eugene Steuerle, The Urban
Institute, Washington, D.C.; and Paul R. McDaniel, University of Florida
College of Law,
Gainesville.
Committee recessed subject to call.
COMMITTEE BUDGET REQUESTS
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings to
receive testimony from Senators, as indicated, in support of resolutions
requesting funds for operating expenses of their respective committees
for periods from March 1, 1993, through February 28, 1994, and from
March 1, 1994, through February 28, 1995, as follows:
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs : (S. Res. 50),
Senators Riegle and D'Amato;
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources : (S. Res. 39), Senators
Johnston and Wallop;
Special Committee on Aging : (S. Res. 44), Senators Pryor and Cohen;
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress : (S. Res. 46), Senators
Boren and Domenici;
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry : (S. Res. 47),
Senators Leahy and Lugar;
Committee on Armed Services : (S. Res. 51), Senators Nunn and Thurmond;
Select Committee on Intelligence : (S. Res. 43), Senators DeConcini and
Warner;
Committee on Governmental Affairs : (S. Res. 55), Senators Glenn and
Roth; and
Committee on Veterans' Affairs : (S. Res. 59), Senators Rockefeller and
Murkowski.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
NOMINATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Hershel Wayne Gober, of Arkansas, to be Deputy Secretary
of Veterans Affairs.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported
the nomination of R. James Woolsey, of Maryland, to be Director of
Central Intelligence.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1993/02/04
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 4, 1993; pages D99 - D104
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COMMITTEE BUDGET REQUESTS
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings
after receiving testimony from Senators, as indicated, in support of
resolutions requesting funds for operating expenses of their respective
committees for periods from March 1, 1993, through February 28, 1994,
and from March
1, 1994, through February 28, 1995, as follows:
Committee on the Judiciary : (S. Res. 65), Senators Biden and Hatch;
Committee on Finance : (S. Res. 56), Senators Moynihan and Packwood;
Committee on Appropriations : (S. Res. 48), Senators Byrd and Hatfield;
Select Committee on Indian Affairs : (S. Res. 52), Senators Inouye and
McCain;
Committee on Labor and Human Resources : (S. Res. 49), Senators Kennedy
and Kassebaum;
Committee on the Budget : (S. Res. 57), Senators Sasser and Domenici;
Committee on Small Business : (S. Res. 58), Senators Bumpers and
Pressler;
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation : (S. Res. 45),
Senator Hollings;
Committee on Environment and Public Works : (S. Res. 53), Senators
Baucus and Chafee; and
Committee on Foreign Relations : (S. Res. 40), Senators Pell and Helms.
Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine certain recommendations to reorganize congressional
procedure, receiving testimony from numerous members of the House of
Representatives.
Committee recessed subject to call.
BOSNIA SITUATION
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission):
Commission held hearings to discuss the current status of peace
negotiations and the humanitarian situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
receiving testimony from Bosnian Foreign Minister Haris Silajdzic.
Commission will meet again tomorrow.
1993/02/16
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 16, 1993; pages D105 - D110
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Peter B. Bowman, of Maine; Beverly Butcher Byron, of
Maryland; Rebecca Gernhardt Cox, of the District of Columbia; Hansford
T. Johnson, of Texas; Arthur Levitt, Jr., of New York; Harry C.
McPherson, Jr., of Maryland; and Robert D. Stuart, Jr., of Illinois,
each to be a Member; and James A. Courter, of New Jersey, to be a Member
and Chairman, all of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment
Commission, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their
own behalf.
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SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee approved its
subcommittee
assignments for the 103d Congress as follows:
Subcommittee on Water Resources, Transportation, Public Buildings and
Economic
Development: Senators Moynihan (Chairman), Mitchell, Reid, Metzenbaum,
Boxer, Warner, Durenberger, Smith, and Kempthorne.
Subcommittee on Superfund, Recycling and Solid Waste Management:
Senators Lautenberg (Chairman), Moynihan, Graham, Metzenbaum, Wofford,
Boxer, Durenberger, Simpson, Smith, and Warner.
Subcommittee on Toxic Substances, Research and Development: Senators
Reid (Chairman), Lautenberg, Lieberman, Wofford, Boxer, Smith, Warner,
Simpson, and Faircloth.
Subcommittee on Clean Water, Fisheries and Wildlife: Senators Graham
(Chairman), Mitchell, Lautenberg, Reid, Lieberman, Wofford, Chafee,
Durenberger, Faircloth, and Kempthorne.
Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Regulation: Senators Lieberman
(Chairman), Moynihan, Graham, Metzenbaum, Simpson, Faircloth, and
Kempthorne.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Finance: Committee approved its subcommittee assignments
for the 103d Congress as follows:
Subcommittee on International Trade: Senators Baucus (Chairman),
Moynihan, Boren, Bradley, Mitchell, Riegle, Rockefeller, Daschle,
Breaux, Conrad, Danforth, Packwood, Roth, Chafee, Grassley, Hatch, and
Wallop.
Subcommittee on Taxation: Senators Boren (Chairman), Baucus, Pryor,
Conrad, Roth, Packwood, and Danforth.
Subcommittee on Deficits, Debt Management and Long-Term Economic Growth:
Senators Bradley (Chairman), Riegle, and Wallop.
Subcommittee on Private Retirement Plans and Oversight of the Internal
Revenue Service: Senators Pryor (Chairman), Moynihan, and Grassley.
Subcommittee on Health for Families and the Uninsured: Senators Riegle
(Chairman), Bradley, Mitchell, Rockefeller, Chafee, Roth, Durenberger,
and Danforth.
Subcommittee on Medicare and Long-Term Care: Senators Rockefeller
(Chairman), Baucus, Mitchell, Pryor, Daschle, Conrad, Durenberger,
Packwood, Dole, Chafee, Grassley, and Hatch.
Subcommittee on Energy and Agricultural Taxation: Senators Daschle
(Chairman), Boren, Breaux, Hatch, Dole, and Wallop.
Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy: Senators Breaux
(Chairman), Moynihan, Dole, and Durenberger.
Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine certain recommendations to reorganize congressional
procedure, receiving testimony from former Senators Baker and Ribicoff;
and Thomas E. Mann, Brookings Institution, Norman J. Ornstein, American
Enterprise Institute, and David Mason, Heritage Foundation, all of
Washington, DC.
Committee will meet again on Tuesday, February 23.
1993/02/17
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 17, 1993; pages D111 - D116
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FORMER SOVIET UNION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to examine
economic reform in the former Soviet Union, focusing on the current
situation and United States policy options, after receiving testimony
from John P. Hardt, Associate Director and Senior Specialist in Soviet
Economics, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; James R.
Millar, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.; and Jeffrey D.
Sachs, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
HOME EQUITY LENDING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
hearings to examine the lending practices of certain brokers, lenders
and home improvement contractors, focusing on the terms and conditions
of home improvement and second mortgage loans, and the effect of reverse
redlining mortgages on minority home ownership, after receiving
testimony from Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger,
Kathleen Keest, National Consumer Law Center, John P. Hamill, Fleet Bank
of Massachusetts, on behalf of the Fleet Financial Group, Inc., and
Bruce Marks, Union Neighborhood Assistance Corp., all of Boston,
Massachusetts; Terry Drent, Ann Arbor Community Development Department,
Ann Arbor, Michigan; John B. Long, Dye, Tucker, Everitt, Wheale & Long,
and Annie Diggs, both of Augusta, Georgia; and Eva L. Davis, San
Francisco, California.
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to
receive a briefing on the administration's policy toward Bosnia and
Herzegovina from Reginald Bartholomew, Under Secretary of State for
International Security Affairs.
Committee recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/02/18
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 18, 1993; pages D117 - D126
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
PRESIDENT'S ECONOMIC PLAN
Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings to examine the
administration's program to revitalize the American economy, receiving
testimony from Lloyd Bentsen, Secretary of the Treasury; and Alice M.
Rivlin, Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation to
extend unemployment compensation benefits for jobless Americans,
receiving testimony from Senator Sarbanes; Robert B. Reich, Secretary of
Labor; Carolyn Golding, Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Employment; Warren G. Blue, R.E. Harrington, Inc., Columbus, Ohio, on
behalf of the Council of State Chambers of Commerce; William J.
Cunningham, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C.; and Andrew Richardson, West
Virginia Bureau of Employment Programs, Charleston, on behalf of the
Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BOSNIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs held
hearings to examine American policy in Bosnia, receiving testimony from
Haris Silajdzic, Foreign Minister of Bosnia; William E. Colby, former
Director of Central Intelligence, Maj. Gen. William Odom (USA-Ret.),
Hudson Institute, former Director, National Security Agency, David
Gompert, RAND, former Senior Director for European Affairs, National
Security Agency, George Kenney, Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, former Yugoslav Desk Officer, Department of State, Jeane
Kirkpatrick, American Enterprise Institute, and Paul Nitze, Johns
Hopkins University, all of Washington, D.C.; and Gen. Michael J. Duggan,
USAF (Ret.), former Air Force Chief of Staff, and Aryeh Neier, Human
Rights Watch, both of New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 171, to
establish the Department of the Environment, provide for a Bureau of
Environmental Statistics, and a Presidential Commission on Improving
Environmental Protection, receiving testimony from Senators Baucus,
Chafee, Durenberger, Jeffords, and Lautenberg; Carol M. Browner,
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Douglas M. Costle,
former Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Jay D. Hair,
National Wildlife Federation, Washington, D.C.; and Stephen J. Gage,
Cleveland Advanced Manufacturing Program, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nomination of Madeleine Kunin, of Vermont, to be Deputy
Secretary of Education.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following measures:
An original resolution (S. Res. 71) authorizing biennial expenditures by
certain committees of the Senate, in lieu of S. Res. 39, S. Res. 40, S.
Res. 41, S. Res. 43, S. Res. 44, S. Res. 45, S. Res. 46, S. Res. 47, S.
Res. 48, S. Res. 49, S. Res. 50, S. Res. 51, S. Res. 52, S. Res. 53, S.
Res. 55, S. Res. 56, S. Res. 57, S. Res. 58, S. Res. 59, and S. Res. 65;
An original bill to establish national voter registration procedures for
Federal elections; and
An original resolution (S. Res. 72) authorizing the printing of a
collection of the rules of the committees of the Senate.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/02/22
Daily Digest - Monday, February 22, 1993; pages D127 - D130
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MONETARY POLICY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Friday, February
19, Committee concluded hearings to examine the Federal Reserve's
semi-annual monetary policy report, after receiving testimony from Alan
Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
PRESIDENT'S ECONOMIC PLAN
Committee on the Budget: On Friday, February 19, Committee continued
hearings to examine the Administration's program to revitalize the
American economy, receiving testimony from Leon E. Panetta, Director,
Office of Management and Budget.
Committee will meet again on Wednesday, February 24.
RTC CONTRACTING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: On Friday, February 19, Subcommittee
on Regulation and Governmental Information concluded hearings to examine
contracting practices of the Resolution Trust Corporation, after
receiving testimony from Albert Casey, President and Chief Executive
Officer, and John Adair, Inspector General, both of the Resolution Trust
Corporation.
Joint Meetings
PRESIDENT'S ECONOMIC PLAN
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine the
Administration's program to revitalize the American economy, receiving
testimony from Laura D'Andrea Tyson, Chairman, Council of Economic
Advisers.
Committee recessed subject to call.
MIGRANT FARMWORKERS
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission):
On Friday, February 19, Commission met to receive a briefing on issues
related to migrant children and their families, including child labor
and access to education from Frank Corrigan, Director, Office of Migrant
Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of
Education; William Gross, Acting Assistant Administrator for Program
Operations, Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor; former New York
State Senator John Perry, Rochester, on behalf of the Interstate Migrant
Education Council; Hazel Filoxsian, Migrant and Immigrant Assistance
Center, Fort Pierce, Florida; Diane Mull, Association of Farmworker
Opportunity Programs, Washington, D.C.; and Wendell Rollason, Redlands
Christian Migrant Association, Immokalee, Florida.
Commission recessed subject to call.
1993/02/23
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 23, 1993; pages D132 - D138
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held
hearings to examine issues and solutions for reforming foreign aid
programs, receiving testimony from John Sewell, Overseas Development
Council, and Peter Davies, Interaction, both of Washington, D.C.; and
Steven Sinding, Rockefeller Foundation, New York, New York.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday,March 2.
APPROPRIATIONS--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Walter
J. Stewart, Secretary of the Senate; Martha S. Pope, Senate Sergeant at
Arms; Senators Kennedy and Hatch, and Roger Herdman, Acting Director,
all on behalf of the Office of Technology Assessment; and Robert D.
Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget Office.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held
hearings on the Administration's transportation supplemental funding
stimulus for fiscal year 1993, receiving testimony from Federico
PenAE6a, Secretary of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 4.
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Development: Committee
concluded oversight hearings to examine the housing and urban
development provisions of the Administration's economic stimulus plan,
after receiving testimony from Henry G. Cisneros, Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development; Mayor Sandra Freedman, Tampa, Florida; Mayor Paul
Helmke, Fort Wayne, Indiana; Mayor Woodrow Stanley, Flint, Michigan; and
Mayor Michael White, Cleveland, Ohio.
ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings to
examine environmental technology issues, focusing on the relationship
between business and the environment, receiving testimony from Jonathan
Lash, World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C.; Frank Popoff, Dow
Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan; David Chittick, AT&T, Basking
Ridge, New Jersey; Daniel S. Greenbaum, Massachusetts Department of
Environmental Protection, Boston; Donald A. Deieso, Air and Water
Technology Corporation, Somerville, New Jersey; and Kay V. Adams, Los
Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
WARN ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor held
hearings to examine the coverage, compliance and enforcement of the Warn
Act, receiving testimony from Linda G. Morra, Director, Education and
Employment Issues, General Accounting Office; Julie H. Hurwitz, Maurice
and Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice, and Rick
McHugh, United Auto Workers of America, both of Detroit, Michigan;
Barbara Cigainero, Texas Department of Commerce, Austin, on behalf of
the National Association of State JTPA Liaisons; Tamala Thackston,
Higginsport, Ohio; Gary and Evelyn Allen, Harford Mills, New York; and
William Tomko, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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Joint Meetings
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint
hearings with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review the
legislative recommendations of the Disabled American Veterans, after
receiving testimony from Joseph C. Zengerle, Disabled American Veterans,
Washington, D.C.
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine certain congressional reform recommendations,
focusing on procedures for enforcing ethical standards, receiving
testimony from Senators Heflin and Lott; and Representatives Hyde,
Weldon, and Robert Andrews.
Hearings continue on Thursday, February 25.
BOARD MEETING
Office of Technology Assessment: The Board met and approved the
following project proposals:
(1) Regulatory and Health Assessment of Dietary Supplements; and (2)
Setting the Stage for Studying Persian Gulf Veterans' Health.
1993/02/24
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 24, 1993; pages D139 - D146
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 1994 for the
Legislative Branch, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from George M. White, Architect of the Capitol;
and Martha S. Pope, Senate Sergeant at Arms, Werner W. Brandt, House of
Representatives Sergeant at Arms, Mr. White (listed above), and Gary L.
Abrecht, Chief, U.S. Capitol Police, all on behalf of the Capitol Police
Board.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
U.S. BORDER DRUG-INTERDICTION SYSTEM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal
Service, and General Government held oversight hearings to examine the
effectiveness of the United States' border drug-interdiction system,
receiving testimony from Michael H. Lane, Acting Commissioner, John E.
Hensley, Assistant Commissioner for Enforcement, Harvey Pothier,
Director, Air and Marine Interdiction Program, Ray Mintz, Director,
Office of Enforcement Support, Don Shruhan, Special Agent in Charge
(Tucson, Arizona), and William Rosenblatt, Special Agent in Charge
(Miami, Florida), all of the United States Customs Service, Department
of the Treasury; Mike Williams, Chief, United States Border Patrol, and
Robert C. Bonner, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration, both
of the Department of Justice; Donna Hrinak, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of State for Inter-American Affairs; and John Walters, former Assistant
Director for Supply Reduction, Office of National Drug Control Policy,
Jack Blum, former Consultant, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and
Frank Ault, USN (Ret.), all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
FORMER SOVIET UNION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to examine the
status of United States Government assistance to the former Soviet
Union, receiving testimony from Richard L. Armitage, Deputy to the
Coordinator for U.S. Assistance to the Newly Independent States, and
Maj. Gen. William F. Burns, USA (Ret.), Head, U.S. Delegation on Safe
and Secure Dismantlement of Nuclear Weapons, both of the Department of
State.
Committee recessed subject to call.
MORTGAGE LENDING DISCRIMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held
hearings to examine the inadequate flow of capital into certain
distressed communities, focusing on discrimination in lending,
particularly in the home mortgage market, receiving testimony from James
P. Turner, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division,
Department of Justice; John P. LaWare, Member, Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System, on behalf of the Federal Financial Institutions
Examination Council; Richard Syron, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston,
Boston, Massachusetts; Retha Wilson, Michigan ACORN, Detroit; John
Gamboa, Latino Issues Forum, San Francisco, California; Allen J.
Fishbein, Center for Community Change, Washington, D.C.; and Gale
Cincotta, National Training and Information Center, Chicago, Illinois.
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Committee recessed subject to call.
PRESIDENT'S ECONOMIC PLAN
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings to examine the
Administration's program to revitalize the American economy, focusing on
health care costs, receiving testimony from Donna E. Shalala, Secretary
of Health and Human Services.
Committee recessed subject to call.
U.S. COMPETITIVENESS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held
hearings on S. 4, to promote the industrial competitiveness and economic
growth of the United States by strengthening and expanding the civilian
technology programs of the Department of Commerce, receiving testimony
from Ronald H. Brown, Secretary of Commerce.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ENERGY TAX OPTIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings to
examine the economic and environmental effects of value-added and
broad-based energy taxes, focusing on the President's proposal for a new
tax on the heat content of energy, receiving testimony from Robert D.
Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget Office; and Philip K.
Verleger, Jr., Institute for International Economics, Robert C. Repetto,
World Resources Institute, and Jerry J. Jasinowski, National Association
of Manufacturers, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION EXTENSION/PRESIDENT'S ECONOMIC PLAN
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 382, to extend the emergency
unemployment compensation program.
Prior to this action, the committee held hearings to examine the
Administration's program to revitalize the American economy, receiving
testimony from Lloyd Bentsen, Secretary of the Treasury.
Committee recessed subject to call.
WEAPONS PROLIFERATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine
worldwide proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and its
implications for global and regional security and stability, receiving
testimony from R. James Woolsey, Director of Central Intelligence.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EDUCATION REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to
examine the need to improve national education standards and job
training opportunities, receiving testimony from Richard W. Riley,
Secretary of Education; and Robert B. Reich, Secretary of Labor.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PRESCRIPTION DRUG RESEARCH
Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings to examine the
Federal Government's role in the research and development of new
pharmaceutical products in the United States, focusing on AIDS and
cancer drug treatments, receiving testimony from Representative Wyden;
Judith Wagner, Senior Associate, and Michael Gluck, Senior Analyst, both
of the Health Program, Office of Technology Assessment; Bernadine P.
Healy, Director, National Institutes of Health, and Bruce Chabner,
Director, Division of Cancer Treatment, National Cancer Institute,
National Institutes of Health, both of the Department of Health and
Human Services; Caroline Decker, Arkansas AIDS Foundation, Little Rock;
Derek Hodel, AIDS Action Council, Ralph Nader, Center for the Study of
Responsive Law, and Gerald J. Mossinghoff, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
Association, all of Washington, D.C.; Peter Arno, Montefiore Medical
Center, Bronx, New York; and George B. Rathmann, ICOS Corporation,
Seattle, Washington, on behalf of the Industrial Biotechnology
Association and the Association of Biotechnology Companies.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1993/02/25
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 25, 1993; pages D147 - D154
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 1994 for the
Legislative Branch, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress;
and Michael F. DiMario, Acting Public Printer, Government Printing
Office.
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Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
U.S. BORDER DRUG-INTERDICTION SYSTEM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal
Service, and General Government continued oversight hearings to examine
the effectiveness of the United States' border drug-interdiction system,
receiving testimony from Michael A. Wermuth, Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Drug Enforcement Policy, Lt. Gen. Martin L. Brandtner, Director for
Operations, the Joint Staff, Robert Lieberman, Assistant Inspector
General for Auditing, and Maj. Gen. Marvin S. Ervin, Director of Forces,
Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for Plans and Operation, all of the
Department of Defense; Drew Valentine, Associate Director,
Administration of Justice Issues, and Lou Rodriguez, Director of Systems
Development and Production Issues, both of the General Accounting
Office; Clarence Dupnik, Pima County, Arizona, and Jack Childress, Eddy
County, New Mexico, both on behalf of the Joint Command Group, Operation
Alliance; Ray Vinsik, Arizona Alliance Planning Committee, Tucson; Mike
Scott, Texas Department of Public Safety, Austin; and William Ray
Storment, Dona Ana County, New Mexico.
NOMINATIONS/BOSNIA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee approved for reporting its rules
of procedure for the 103d Congress, and the nominations of Peter B.
Bowman, of Maine, Beverly Butcher Byron, of Maryland, Rebecca Gernhardt
Cox, of the District of Columbia, Hansford T. Johnson, of Texas, Arthur
Levitt, Jr., of New York, Harry C. McPherson, Jr., of Maryland, and
Robert D. Stuart, Jr., of Illinois, each to be a Member, and James A.
Courter, of New Jersey, to be a Member and Chairman, all of the Defense
Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of William J. Perry, of
California, to be Deputy Secretary of Defense, after the nominee
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
Also, committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on the
situation in Bosnia from officials of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee approved its
subcommittee assignments for the 103d Congress, as follows:
Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affair: Senators Sarbanes (Chairman),
Kerry, Bryan, Boxer, Moseley-Braun, Dodd, Bond, Domenici, Mack,
Faircloth, and Roth.
Subcommittee on International Finance and Monetary Policy: Senators
Sasser (Chairman), Murray, Sarbanes, Kerry, Boxer, Campbell, Mack,
Gramm, Bennett, Roth, and Bond.
Subcommittee on Securities: Senators Dodd (Chairman), Sasser, Shelby,
Bryan, Moseley-Braun, Murray, Gramm, Roth, Bond, Faircloth, and
Domenici.
Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization and Rural Development: Senators
Shelby (Chairman), Campbell, Dodd, Kerry, Bryan, Faircloth, Bennett,
Gramm, and Mack.
PETROLEUM STANDARDS REFORM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings on S.
338, to clarify the Federal standards governing the termination and
nonrenewal of franchises and franchise relationships for the sale of
motor fuel, receiving testimony from James N. Sullivan, Chevron
Corporation, San Francisco, California; Stephen D. Pryor, Mobil Oil
Corporation, Fairfax, Virginia; Dewey Mark, Independent
Refiner/Marketers Association, San Antonio, Texas; Wayne Konitshek,
PRO-USA, Dana Point, California; and Dimitri G. Daskal, Service Station
Dealers of America, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
COLORADO PUBLIC LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 206, to designate
certain lands in the State of Colorado as components of the National
Wilderness Preservation System, and S. 341, to provide for a land
exchange between the Secretary of Agriculture and Eagle and Pitkin
Counties in Colorado, after receiving testimony from Senator Brown;
Representative Skaggs; Mark A. Reimers, Deputy Chief for Programs and
Legislation, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Larry Simpson,
Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, Loveland; and Debbie
Sease, Sierra Club, Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported,
with amendments, S. 349, to provide for the disclosure of lobbying
activities to influence the Federal Government.
Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 103d Congress.
SBA MICROLOAN PROGRAM
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded oversight hearings on
the implementation of the Small Business Administration's microloan
demonstration program, designed to make long-term direct loans to
nonprofit entities for relending to small business, after receiving
testimony from Charles Hertzberg, Assistant Administrator for Financial
Assistance, John Cox, Director, Office of Financing, and Joe Foglia,
District Director (Little Rock, Arkansas), all of the Small Business
Administration; Julia Vindasius, Good Faith Fund, Pine Bluff, Arkansas;
Curt Storly, Northeast South Dakota Energy Conservation Corp., Sisseton,
South Dakota; Lidia Paz-Beckett, Women's Business Initiative
Corporation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Mary Mathews, Northeast Entrepreneur
Fund, Inc., Virginia, Minnesota; and John F. Else, Institute for Social
and Economic Development, Iowa City, Iowa.
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Joint Meetings
VETERANS ORGANIZATIONS
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint
hearings with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review the
legislative recommendations of certain veterans organizations, after
receiving testimony from Richard F. Johnson, Paralyzed Veterans of
America, Gerard M. McDonnell, Blinded Veterans Association, and Warren
S. Dolny, Jewish War Veterans of USA, all of Washington, D.C.; Robert C.
Padgett, Jr., Military Order of the Purple Heart, Springfield, Virginia;
Col. William R. Hart, USMC (Ret.), The Retired Officers Association,
Alexandria, Virginia; and Col. Erik G. Johnson, USA (Ret.), Association
of the United States Army, Arlington, Virginia.
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine congressional reform proposals, focusing on
procedures for enforcing ethical standards, receiving testimony from
Representatives Stokes and Hansen; Harold Bruff, George Washington
University, Washington, D.C.; Alan Rosenthal, Rutgers University,
Rutgers, New Jersey; John Saxon, Birmingham, Alabama, on behalf of the
Hastings Institute Legislative Ethics Project; and Dennis Thompson,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Committee will meet again on Tuesday, March 2.
WAR CRIMES IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission):
Commission held hearings to examine the extent of human rights
violations, including rape and torture, and other war crimes taking
place in the former Yugoslavia, receiving testimony from Feryal Gharahi,
Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Board of Directors of Equality NOW;
and Bianca Jagger, New York, New York.
Commission recessed subject to call.
1993/03/01
Daily Digest - Monday, March 1, 1993; pages D156 - D160
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, February 26, Subcommittee on the
Legislative Branch held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1994, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the Joint
Committee on Printing from Senator Ford; and in behalf of funds for the
General Accounting Office from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General
of the United States, GAO.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/03/02
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 2, 1993; pages D162 - D168
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FOREIGN AID REFORM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations resumed
hearings to examine issues and solutions for reforming foreign aid
programs, receiving testimony from John Hardy, Brown & Root, Inc., and
Thomas Carothers, Arnold & Porter, both of Washington, D.C.; and William
Schneider, International Planning Services, Inc., Arlington, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
RETIREE HEALTH BENEFITS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor concluded
joint hearings with the Committee on Finance Subcommittee on Health for
Families and the Uninsured to examine why businesses are having to
reduce or eliminate health benefits for retirees, and the impact of
retiree health benefit reductions on workers and businesses, after
receiving testimony from Owen Bieber, United Automobile, Aerospace,
Agricultural Implement Workers of America, Lynn R. Williams, United
Steelworkers of America, William H. Bywater, International Union of
Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers, AFL-CIO, Harry J.
Conaway, William M. Mercer, Inc., and Walter B. Maher, Chrysler
Corporation, on behalf of the American Automobile Manufacturers
Association, all of Washington, D.C.; Alan Peres, Ameritech, Chicago,
Illinois, on behalf of the Washington Business Group on Health; Casey
Patelski, Costa Mesa, California; and Herman Fasching, Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
Joint Meetings
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint
hearings with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review the
legislative recommendations of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, after
receiving testimony from John M. Carney, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
Washington, D.C.
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine congressional reform proposals, focusing on the
Federal spending process, receiving testimony from Ross Perot, Dallas,
Texas.
Committee will meet again on Thursday, March 4.
1993/03/03
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 3, 1993; pages D170 - D176
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
PRIVATE BUSINESS INVESTMENT
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to examine U.S.
Government facilitation of private business investment in the former
Soviet Union, receiving testimony from James D. Berg, Acting President,
Overseas Private Investment Corporation; Thomas E. Moran, Vice President
for Europe and Canada, Export-Import Bank of the United States; Daniel
D. Stein, Regional Director, Trade and Development Program, U.S.
International Development Cooperation Agency; and Franklin J. Vargo,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Economic
Policy, International Trade Administration.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PRESIDENT'S ECONOMIC PLAN
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings to examine the
Administration's program to revitalize the American economy, focusing on
transportation issues, receiving testimony from Federico Pena, Secretary
of Transportation.
Committee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills:
S. 80, to increase the size of the Big Thicket National Preserve in the
State of Texas;
S. 433, to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey
certain lands in Cameron Parish, Louisiana;
S. 164, to authorize the adjustment of the boundaries of the South
Dakota portion of the Sioux Ranger District of Custer National Forest;
S. 252, to adjust the boundaries of the Targhee National Forest, and to
authorize a land exchange involving the Kaniksu National Forest;
S. 326, to revise the boundaries of the George Washington Birthplace
National Monument, with an amendment;
S. 328, to provide for the rehabilitation of historic structures within
the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area in the State of
New Jersey;
S. 375, to designate a segment of the Rio Grande in New Mexico as a
component of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System;
S. 214, to authorize the construction of a memorial on Federal land in
the District of Columbia or its environs to honor members of the Armed
Forces who served in World War II and to commemorate the United States
participation in that conflict;
S. 344, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to
determine the suitability and feasibility of designating the Fox and
Lower Wisconsin River corridors in the State of Wisconsin as a National
Heritage Corridor;
S. 336, to amend the Stock Raising Homestead Act to resolve certain
problems regarding subsurface estates; and
S. 275, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain lands
in the town of Taos, New Mexico.
Also, committee began consideration of S. 338, to amend the Petroleum
Marketing Practices Act to clarify the Federal standards governing the
termination and nonrenewal of franchises and franchise relationships for
the sale of motor fuel, but did not complete action thereon, and
recessed subject to call.
CAREER PATHWAYS PROGRAM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity concluded hearings on S. 456, to establish school-to-work
transition programs for all students, after receiving testimony from
Harvey Link, North Dakota State College of Science, Wahpeton, on behalf
of the American Vocational Association; Carol Skornicka, Wisconsin
Department of Industry, Labor and Human Resources, Madison; Robert J.
Ivry, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, New York, New York;
Mary Gonzales Koenig, Mayor's Office of Employment and Training,
Chicago, Illinois; Hilary Pennington, Jobs For The Future, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; Gordon M. Ambach, Council of Chief State School Officers,
Dennis Scott, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America,
Ray Robertson, AFL-CIO, and Leo Reddy, National Coalition For Advanced
Manufacturing, all of Washington, D.C.; Jean Wolfe, Pennsylvania Youth
Apprenticeship Program, Harrisburg; and Torry Tag, Eastern High School,
York County, Pennsylvania.
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CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on
the following Congressional election campaign finance reform proposals:
S. 3, the "Congressional Spending Limit and Election Reform Act of
1993," after receiving testimony from Senators Mitchell and Boren;
S. 7, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce
special interest influence on elections, to increase competition in
politics, and to reduce campaign costs, after receiving testimony from
Senators Domenici and Nickles;
S. 62, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for
a voluntary system of spending limits and partial public financing of
Senate general election campaigns, and to limit contributions by
multicandidate political committees, after receiving testimony from
Senator DeConcini;
S. 87, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for
a voluntary system of spending limits and partial public financing of
Senate primary and general election campaigns, and to limit
contributions by multicandidate political committees, after receiving
testimony from Senators Kerry, Biden, and Bradley;
S. 94, to provide a comprehensive congressional campaign financing
reform to encourage grassroots campaign giving, lessen the role of
special economic interests, prohibit the use of soft money, discourage
candidate expenditures of personal wealth, and otherwise restore greater
competitive balance to the congressional electoral process, after
receiving testimony from Senator Domenici; and
S. Amdt. No. 65, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 and the Federal
Election Campaign Act of 1971 to better inform the electorate in Senate
elections, after receiving testimony from Senator Pell.
Testimony was also received on Congressional election campaign finance
reform proposals from Senator Dorgan.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/03/04
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 4, 1993; pages D177 - D182
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
HIGH-SPEED RAIL TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation concluded
hearings to examine issues relating to United States investment in
high-speed rail transportation, focusing on the status of the Northeast
Corridor rail service, how Federal investment can best leverage the
maximum level of private sector funds for high speed rail, private
sector incentives to increase investment in rail projects, and the role
of States and freight railroads, after receiving testimony from W.
Graham Claytor, Jr., President and Chairman, National Railroad Passenger
Corporation (Amtrak); Kenneth M. Mead, Director, Transportation Issues,
Resources, Community and Economic Development Division, General
Accounting Office; Robert W. Blanchette, Association of American
Railroads, and Micah S. Green, Public Securities Association, both of
Washington, D.C.; Joseph Vranich, High-Speed Rail Association,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Roger A. Faulkner, Ohio Railway Organization,
Inc., Columbus; Charles H. Smith, Florida Department of Transportation,
Tallahassee; Robert C. Brown, Lehman Brothers, Kathy Evers, Moody's
Investment Services, and Marc Fasteau, Dillon Read & Co., Inc., all of
New York, New York; Harriet Stanley, The Hadley Group, Boston,
Massachusetts; and Larry E. Salci, Arlington, Virginia, on behalf of the
Texas TGV Corporation.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Frank G. Wisner, of the District of Columbia, to be Under
Secretary of Defense for Policy, after the nominee testified and
answered questions in his own behalf.
SMALL BUSINESS ACCESS TO CAPITAL
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
Securities held hearings on S. 384, to increase the availability of
credit to small businesses by eliminating impediments to securitization
and facilitating the development of a secondary market in small business
loans, S. 478, to establish the Small Business Capital Enhancement
Program to enhance the availability of financing for small business
concerns, and S. 479, to promote capital formation for small businesses
and others through exempted offerings under the Securities Act and
through investment pools that are excepted or exempted from regulation
under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and through business
development companies, receiving testimony from Marianne K. Smythe,
Director, Division of Investment Management, Securities and Exchange
Commission; John C. Rennie, Pacer Systems, Inc., Billerica,
Massachusetts, on behalf of the National Small Business United; Gary E.
Baker, Baker Investment Group, Ann Arbor, Michigan, on behalf of the
National Small Business United; Jeffrey C. Widen, Total Foam, Inc.,
Bridgeport, Connecticut; David Gladstone, Allied Capital Corp.,
Washington, D.C., on behalf of the National Association of Business
Development Companies and the National Association of Small Business
Investment Companies; Patricia M. Cloherty, Patricof & Co. Ventures,
Inc., on behalf of the National Venture Capital Association, and
Patricia A. Jehle, Bear, Stearns and Co., Inc., both of New York, New
York; Thomas N. Richmond, Jr., McDonald & Company Securities, Inc.,
Cleveland, Ohio; and Barry C. Guthary, Massachusetts Secretary of
State's Division of Securities, Boston, on behalf of the North American
Securities Administrators Association.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTO REPAIR FRAUD
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer
Subcommittee held hearings to examine the issue of fraud in the
auto-repair industry, focusing on the auto-repair industry's response to
the problem of fraud, and progress reports by the Federal Trade
Commission on an auto-repair fraud investigation, receiving testimony
from Mary L. Azcuenaga, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission; New
Jersey Attorney General Robert J. Del Tufo, Trenton; New York Attorney
General Robert Abrams, New York; Evan Johnson, Montgomery County Office
of Consumer Affairs, Rockville, Maryland; and Alyson McCarthy, Channel
KTNV-TV, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Peter Tarnoff, of New York, to be Under Secretary of State
for Political Affairs, after the nominee testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
SMALL BUSINESS CREDIT AVAILABILITY
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
issue of credit availability for small businesses and on S. 512, to
create a government sponsored enterprise which would use government
sponsored credit-enhancement to package small business industrial loans
into mortgage backed-securities, after receiving testimony from David W.
Mullins, Jr., Vice Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System; William H. Brandon, First National Bank of Phillips County,
Helena, Arkansas, on behalf of the American Bankers Association; James
Lauffer, First National Bank of Herminie, Irwin, Pennsylvania, on behalf
of the Independent Bankers Association of America; William J. Rossman,
Mid-state Bank and Trust, Altoona, Pennsylvania, on behalf of Robert
Morris Associates; and George Burnell, Icon Corporation, Woburn,
Massachusetts.
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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.
Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine congressional reform proposals, focusing on the
Federal budget process, receiving testimony from Robert D. Reischauer,
Director, Congressional Budget Office.
Committee will meet again on Tuesday, March 9.
1993/03/05
Daily Digest - Friday, March 5, 1993; pages D183 - D188
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of William J. Perry, of California, to be Deputy Secretary of
Defense.
POST-EMPLOYMENT RULES FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of
Government Management held hearings on S. 420 and S. 79, bills to
tighten Federal restrictions relating to lobbying activities of former
Executive and Legislative Branch officials and employees, receiving
testimony from Senators Boren, McCain, and DeConcini; F. Gary Davis,
General Counsel, and Jane S. Ley, Deputy General Counsel, both of the
Office of Government Ethics; and Alexander B. Trowbridge, Trowbridge
Partners, Inc., and Simon Lazarus III, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer and
Murphy, both on behalf of the Council for Excellence in Government,
Charles Lewis, Center for Public Integrity, Fred Wertheimer, Common
Cause, William N. Eskridge, Jr., Georgetown University Law School, and
Robert S. Peck, American Civil Liberties Union, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings on the
present and future role of the Department of Veterans Affairs health
care system in America, receiving testimony from Kenneth I. Shine,
President, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences; Bruce
Behringer, National Rural Health Association, Kansas City, Missouri;
Donald E. Wilson, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore,
representing the Association of American Medical Colleges; and Jonathan
T. Lord, Arnold, Maryland.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
EMPLOYMENT-UNEMPLOYMENT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings on the
employment-unemployment situation for February, receiving testimony from
William G. Barron, Jr., Acting Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Department of Labor.
Committee recessed subject to call.
1993/03/08
Daily Digest - Monday, March 8, 1993; pages D190 - D192
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/03/09
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 9, 1993; pages D194 - D200
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 2,847
military nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
Also, committee met in closed session to discuss the committee's action
on how to proceed on the issue of gays in the military, but made no
announcements, and recessed subject to call.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Committee on the Budget: Committee began markup of a proposed concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1994 budget for the Federal Government,
but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
U.S. TRADE POLICY
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the approach
and direction of the Administration's trade policy in the global market,
receiving testimony from Michael Kantor, United States Trade
Representative.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Lloyd Bentsen, of Texas, to be U.S. Governor of the
International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction
and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the African
Development Bank for five-year terms; and U.S. Governor of the Asian
Development Bank, the African Development Fund, and the European Bank
for Reconstruction and Development, and Peter Tarnoff, of New York, to
be Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
Also, committee began consideration of an original resolution expressing
the sense of the Senate concerning United States policy toward the
former Yugoslavia, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed
subject to call.
RUSSIAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS DISMANTLEMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings on
United States efforts to implement the Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction
Act (P.L. 102-228), focusing on provisions relating to the use of
Department of Defense resources to assist in the dismantlement of Soviet
nuclear weapons, receiving testimony from Senator Brown; Maj. Gen.
William F. Burns, USA (Ret.), Special Envoy on the Safety, Security, and
Dismantlement of Nuclear Weapons, Department of State; and Joseph E.
Kelley, Director-in-Charge, International Affairs Issues, National
Security and International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on the nomination of
Janet Reno, of Florida, to be Attorney General, Department of Justice,
where the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Graham and Mack and
Representative Meek, testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/03/10
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 10, 1993; pages D201 - D208
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
TOXIC SUBSTANCE EXPOSURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies concluded hearings to
review an investigation involving several health complaints related to
exposure to oxygenated fuels containing methyl tertiary butyl ether
[MTBE] in Fairbanks, Alaska, after receiving testimony from William L.
Roper, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and
Administrator, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry,
Department of Health and Human Services.
DOD ACQUISITION LAWS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to review the
report of the Defense Systems Management College Advisory Panel on
streamlining and codifying the acquisition laws of the Department of
Defense, receiving testimony from Rear Adm. W.L. Vincent, Commandant,
Defense Systems Management College, Department of Defense, Maj. Gen.
John D. Slinkard, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff for Contracting, Air Force
Materiel Command, and F. Whitten Peters, Williams & Connolly, LeRoy J.
Haugh, Aerospace Industries Association of America, Robert D. Wallick,
Steptoe & Johnson, and Thomas J. Madden, Venable, Baetjer, Howard &
Civiletti, all of Washington, D.C., all on behalf of the Advisory Panel.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL RESERVES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
hearings to examine the state of the economy in the Federal Reserve Bank
Districts, and to review the twelve district presidents' views on
monetary policy, after receiving testimony from Richard F. Syron,
President, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Massachusetts; E. Gerald
Corrigan, President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York; Edward
G. Boehne, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; Jerry L. Jordan, President, Federal Reserve Bank of
Cleveland, Ohio; J. Alfred Broaddus, Jr., President, Federal Reserve
Bank of Richmond, Virginia; Robert P. Forrestal, President and Chief
Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Georgia; Silas
Keehn, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Illinois; Thomas C.
Melzer, President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Missouri; Gary H.
Stern, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Thomas
M. Hoenig, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Kansas; Robert D.
McTeer, Jr., President, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Texas; and
Robert T. Parry, President, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco,
California.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued markup of a proposed
concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1994 budget for the Federal
Government, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again
tomorrow.
AUTO INDUSTRY COMPETITIVENESS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings to examine the state of the American automobile industry,
focusing on its global competitive position and ways to enhance the
competitiveness of the industry, after receiving testimony from Robert
A. Lutz, Chrysler Corporation, Park, Michigan; William E. Hoglund,
General Motors Corporation, Washington, D.C.; and Peter J. Pestillo,
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan.
CLEAN AIR
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air and
Nuclear Regulation concluded hearings to review the Environmental
Protection Agency's implementation of section 507 of the Clean Air Act
Amendments of 1990, the small business stationary source technical and
environmental compliance assistance program, and other approaches to
providing compliance and technical assistance to small businesses on air
pollution issues, after receiving testimony from John S. Seitz,
Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Office of Air
and Radiation, and Karen Brown, Small Business Ombudsman, Office of
Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, both of the Environmental
Protection Agency; Philip Nanzetta, Acting Director, Manager, Office of
Manufacturing Programs and Director of Manufacturing Technology Centers
Program, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of
Commerce; Kirk Watson, Texas Air Control Board, Austin; John D. Dunlap,
California Department of Toxic Substances Control, Sacramento; Benjamin
Y. Cooper, Printing Industries of America, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia;
Scott Backus, Har-Conn Chrome Company, Hartford, Connecticut, on behalf
of the National Association of Metal Finishers; Manik Roy, Environmental
Defense Fund, Washington, D.C.; and Thomas W. Carvalho, Chem-Tech
Rubber, Inc., West Haven, Connecticut.
CORRUPTION IN PROFESSIONAL BOXING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations resumed hearings to examine corruption in the
professional boxing industry, focusing on State regulation of
professional boxing and on proposals to develop uniform minimum health
and safety standards for professional boxing, receiving testimony from
Representative Bill Richardson; Stephen Levin, Minority Staff Counsel,
and W. Leighton Lord III, Minority Staff Counsel, both of the Permanent
Subcommittee on Investigations; Barry Jordan, Cornell University Medical
College, Ithaca, on behalf of the New York State Athletic Commission;
Jack E. Battalia, Oregon Boxing Commission, Portland, on behalf of the
International Boxing Federation Medical Commission; W. Timothy Ward,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Seth G. Abraham,
Time Warner Sports, and Michael Aresco, ESPN, Inc., both of New York,
New York.
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Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 17.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Janet Reno, of Florida, to be Attorney General, Department
of Justice.
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Ms. Reno, after the nominee further testified and answered questions
in her own behalf.
Joint Meetings
VIOLENCE AND CHILDREN
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Labor and Human Services'
Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs, and Alcoholism concluded joint
hearings with the House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and
Families to examine the impact of violence on children, and on proposed
legislation to provide children exposed to violence with immediate
assessment and intervention by child mental health professionals, and to
provide training for law enforcement in child, family and cultural
issues, after receiving testimony from Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Harvard
University School of Public Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Joseph E.
Marshall, Jr. and Ron Fox, both of the Omega Boys Club, San Francisco,
California; John S. Pritchard III, New York Police Department, New York,
New York, on behalf of the National Organization of Black Law
Enforcement Executives; David E.A. Carson, People's Bank, Bridgeport,
Connecticut; Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Defense Fund, and Brandon
M. Green, both of Washington, D.C.; Liany Elba Arroyo and Carmen
Siberon, both of the Bridgeport Futures Initiative, Bridgeport,
Connecticut; Wayne Meyers, P.O.W.E.R. Group, Roosevelt, New York; Byrl
Phillips-Taylor, Charles City County, Virginia; and Megan Tara
McGillicuddy and Tiffany Crystal Cruz, both of Brooklyn, New York.
1993/03/11
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 11, 1993; pages D210 - D220
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MASS TRANSIT FUNDING
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation concluded
hearings to examine the state of the Nation's transit systems, focusing
on projected funding levels to meet individual States' transit needs,
after receiving testimony from Kenneth M. Mead, Director, Transportation
Issues, Resources, Community and Economic Development, General
Accounting Office; Robert McManus, Acting Administrator, Federal Transit
Administration, Department of Transportation; Lou Gambaccini,
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority, Philadelphia; Tom Walsh,
Portland Tri-Met, and Earl Blumenauer, Portland Transportation Bureau
Commission, both of Portland, Oregon; Patrick Judge, Regional Transit
Authority, New Orleans, Louisiana, on behalf of the South West Transit
Association; Jack R. Gilstrap, American Public Transit Association,
Frank Francois, American Association of State Highway Transportation
Officials, and Rev. William L. George, Georgetown University, all of
Washington, D.C.; Art Kaufman, H-Power Corporation, Belleville, New
Jersey; and Eugene Tunila, Transportation Manufacturing Corporation,
Roswell, New Mexico.
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NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Gen. Dennis J. Reimer, USA, for reappointment to the
grade of general, and assignment as Commander in Chief, Forces Command,
Rear Adm. David B. Robinson, USN, for appointment to the grade of vice
admiral, and assignment as Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific
Fleet, Maj. Gen. Albert J. Edmonds, USAF, for appointment to the grade
of lieutenant general, and assignment as Director for Command, Control
Communications and Computer Systems (J-6), Office of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, Brig. Gen. Paul K. Van Riper, USMC, for appointment to the grade
of major general, and assignment as Director, Command, Control and
Intelligence, Headquarters, Marine Corps, and Col. Charles R. Holland,
USAF, for appointment to the grade of brigadier general and assignment
as Commander, 1st Special Operations Wing, after the nominees testified
and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued in evening session to mark
up an original concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1994 budget for
the Federal Government.
INTER-CITY BUS INDUSTRY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
surface Transportation concluded oversight hearings on the state of the
inter-city bus industry, after receiving testimony from Gail C.
McDonald, Acting Chairman, Interstate Commerce Commission; Carl W. Vogt,
Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board; Joseph F. Canny, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Policy and Regulatory Affairs;
John H. Anderson, Jr., Associate Director, and Frank Mulvey, Assistant
Director, both of Transportation Issues, General Accounting Office;
Nebraska Lt. Governor Maxine B. Moul, and Allan L. Abbott, Nebraska
Department of Roads, both of Lincoln; Elliot G. Sander, New York State
Department of Transportation, Albany; Randall K. Halvorson, Minnesota
Department of Transportation, St. Paul; Thomas W. Evans, American
Buslines, Inc.; Indianapolis, Indiana, representing the Independent Bus
Companies Creditors Committee; Robert G. Farris, Valley Transit Company,
Inc., Harlingen, Texas; Frank J. Schmieder, Greyhound Lines Inc.,
Dallas, Texas; and Harry W. Blunt, Jr., Concord Coach Lines, Inc.,
Concord, New Hampshire, representing the American Bus Association.
CHINA'S ENERGY NEEDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight
hearings to examine the energy needs of the People's Republic of China,
and related business opportunities for American industry, after
receiving testimony from David M. Lampton, National Committee on United
States-China Relations, New York, New York; William U. Chandler,
Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Washington, D.C.; John B.
Yasinsky, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
and Steve Johnson, Mitor Industries, Inc.; Mankato, Minnesota.
MONEY'S WORTH UNDER SOCIAL SECURITY
Committee on Finance: Committee held oversight hearings on the value of
the Social Security program, focusing on whether workers will receive a
fair return on their contributions in terms of Social Security benefits,
receiving testimony from Louis D. Enoff, Acting Commissioner of Social
Security, and Harry C. Ballantyne, Chief Actuary, both of the Social
Security Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Robert
J. Myers, Silver Spring, Maryland, former Chief Actuary, Social Security
Administration; Bruce D. Schobel, New York Life Insurance Company, New
York, New York; Henry J. Aaron, Brookings Institution, and Robert M.
Ball, former Commissioner of Social Security, both of Washington, D.C.;
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, on
behalf of the National Bureau of Economic Research; and John B. Shoven,
Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
TREATY ON OPEN SKIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
Treaty on Open Skies with twelve Annexes, signed at Helsinki on March
24, 1992 (Treaty Doc. 102-37), after receiving testimony from Robert L.
Gallucci, Assistant Secretary for Politico-Military Affairs, and John
Hawes, U.S. Representative to the Open Skies Conference, both of the
Department of State; Thomas Graham, Jr., Acting Director and General
Counsel, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; William Ingle, Acting
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy;
and Brig. Gen. Teddy E. Rinebarger, USAF, Assistant Deputy Director for
International Negotiations, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND PERFORMANCE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 15, S.
20, S. 101, S. 255, S. 432, S. 436, bills to improve the performance and
organization of the Federal government, receiving testimony from Senator
Reid; Leon E. Panetta, Director, Office of Management and Budget;
Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States, William M.
Hunt, Director of Federal Management Issues, and David G. Mathiasen,
Special Assistant to the Assistant Comptroller General, all of the
General Accounting Office; Peri E. Arnold, University of Notre Dame,
Notre Dame, Indiana; David Osborne, Essex, Massachusetts; and Martin L.
Gross, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine congressional reform proposals, focusing on the role
of the appropriation committees and the Federal budget process,
receiving testimony from Representative Natcher.
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Committee will meet again on Tuesday, March 16.
1993/03/15
Daily Digest - Monday, March 15, 1993; pages D222- D226
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Committee on the Budget: On Thursday, March 11, Committee ordered
favorably reported an original concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 18),
setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government
for fiscal years 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/03/16
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 16, 1993; pages D228 - D234
Committee Meetings
Committees not listed did not meet)
U.S. COMPETITIVENESS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
joint hearings with the Joint Economic Committee to review the
Competitiveness Policy Council's Second Report to the President and
Congress, A Competitiveness Strategy for America, which examines the
role the new administration can play in building a stronger and more
competitive American economy, after receiving testimony from New York
State Comptroller Edward Regan, and Rand V. Araskog, ITT Corporation,
both of New York, New York, C. Fred Bergsten, Institute for
International Economics, Washington, D.C., and Lynn Williams, United
Steelworkers of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, all on behalf of the
Competitiveness Policy Council.
MINING LAW REFORM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Mineral
Resources Development and Production concluded hearings on S. 257, to
modify provisions of the 1872 Mining Law with regard to the requirements
applicable to locatable minerals on public domain lands, consistent with
the principles of self-initiation of mining claims, and other related
proposals, after receiving testimony from Senator Burns; Bruce Babbitt,
Secretary of the Interior; Jan Paul Acton, Assistant Director, Natural
Resources and Commerce Division, Congressional Budget Office; Michael K.
Evans, Evans Economics, Inc., David Alberswerth, National Wildlife
Federation, and Philip M. Hocker, Mineral Policy Center, all of
Washington, D.C.; Nevada Governor Bob Miller, Carson City; and Patrick
Garver, Parsons Behle & Latimer, Salt Lake City, Utah, on behalf of the
Precious Metals Producers.
NAFTA
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings to
examine the environmental aspects of the North American Free-Trade
Agreement (NAFTA), and the President's plan to strengthen NAFTA through
supplemental agreements to enhance environmental quality and worker
safety and standards throughout North America, receiving testimony from
Michael Kantor, United States Trade Representative; Jay D. Hair,
National Wildlife Federation, Larry Williams, Sierra Club, Justin R.
Ward, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Calman J. Cohen, Emergency
Committee for American Trade, on behalf of USA-NAFTA, Inc., all of
Washington, D.C.; Lester B. Lave, Carnegie Mellon University, and Edgar
Berkey, University of Pittsburgh Applied Research Center, on behalf of
the Center for Hazardous Materials Research and the National
Environmental Technology Applications Corporation, both of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; and Richard J. Heckmann, United States Filter Corp., Palm
Desert, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded
hearings on S.J. Res. 41, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of
the United States to require a balanced budget, after receiving
testimony from Senators Graham, Thurmond, Danforth, and Craig; David P.
Calleo, Johns Hopkins University Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies, James D. Davidson, National Taxpayers Union, Kent Colton,
National Association of Home Builders of the United States, Max B.
Sawicky, Economic Policy Institute, Rudolph Oswald, AFL-CIO, and Robert
Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, all of Washington,
D.C.; and Kenneth Ashby, Utah Farm Bureau Federation, Delta, on behalf
of the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Joint Meetings
U.S. COMPETITIVENESS
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded joint hearings with the
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs to review the
Competitiveness Policy Council's Second Report to the President and
Congress, "A Competitiveness Strategy for America," which examines the
role the new administration can play in building a stronger and more
competitive American economy, after receiving testimony from New York
State Comptroller Edward Regan, and Rand V. Araskog, ITT Corporation,
both of New York, New York, C. Fred Bergsten, Institute for
International Economics, Washington, D.C., and Lynn Williams, United
Steelworkers of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, all on behalf of the
Competitiveness Policy Council.
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine congressional reform proposals, focusing on the
Federal budget process, receiving testimony from Senators Kassebaum and
Roth; and Representative George Brown.
Hearings continue on Thursday, March 18.
1993/03/17
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 17, 1993; pages D236 - D244
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for the
National Transportation Safety Board, focusing on certain transportation
safety recommendations after receiving testimony from Carl W. Vogt,
Chairman, Timothy P. Forte, Director, Office of Aviation Safety, and
Barry M. Sweedler, Director, Office of Safety Recommendations, all of
the National Transportation Safety Board.
RTC
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held
hearings to review the Thrift Depositor Protection Oversight Board's
semiannual report of the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) objectives
for the savings and loan cleanup, and on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for the Resolution Trust Corporation and the Savings
Association Insurance Fund, receiving testimony from Lloyd Bentsen,
Secretary of the Treasury and Chairman, RTC Oversight Board, Roger
Altman, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and Interim CEO, RTC, Peter H.
Monroe, President, RTC Oversight Board, and Alan Greenspan, Chairman,
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Andrew C. Hove, Jr.,
Acting Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Jonathan
Fiechter, Acting Director, Office of Thrift Supervision, Robert C.
Larson, Taubman Realty Group, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and Philip C.
Jackson, Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama, each a
Member, RTC Oversight Board.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings on S. 335, to require the Secretary of
Commerce to make additional frequencies available for commercial
assignment in order to promote the development and use of new
telecommunications technologies, after receiving testimony from Thomas
P. Stanley, Chief Engineer, Office of Engineering and Technology,
Federal Communications Commission; Wayne Perry, McCaw Cellular
Communications, Kirkland, Washington; Edward O. Fritts, National
Association of Broadcasters, and Robert S. Foosaner, Fleet Call, Inc.,
both of Washington, D.C.; Phillip C. Nelson, Hamilton Telephone Company,
Aurora, Nebraska, on behalf of the Rural Telephone Coalition; and Jay
Kitchen, National Association of Business and Educational Radio,
Alexandria, Virginia.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Lynn E. Davis, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of
State for International Security Affairs, and J. Brian Atwood, of the
District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary of State for Management,
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
Ms. Davis was introduced by Senator Robb, and Mr. Atwood was introduced
by former Senator Eagleton.
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to
receive a briefing on United States policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina
from Peter Tarnoff, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; Gene
Wickland, Chief, Interagency Balkan Task Force, Central Intelligence
Agency; and Lt. Gen. Martin L. Brandtner, Director for Operations, Joint
Staff.
Committee recessed subject to call.
ANTI-STALKING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 470, to
make a pattern of threats, harassment, and unwarranted attention a
Federally punishable offense, after receiving testimony from Delaware
Family Court Chief Judge Vincent J. Poppiti, Wilmington; Ruth Jones, NOW
Legal Defense and Education Fund, and Helen M. Lardner, both of
Washington, D.C.; and Kathleen Krueger, New Braunfels, Texas.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1993/03/18
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 18, 1993; pages D245 - D252
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee announced their subcommittee
assignments for the 103d Congress, as follows:
Subcommittee on Nuclear Deterrence, Arms Control and Defense
Intelligence: Senators Exon (Chairman), Levin, Bingaman, Glenn, Lott,
Warner, and Kempthorne.
Subcommittee on Coalition Defense and Reinforcing Forces: Senators Levin
(Chairman), Exon, Glenn, Shelby, Byrd, Graham, Warner, Cohen, Coats,
Smith, and Kempthorne.
Subcommittee on Regional Defense and Contingency Forces: Senators
Kennedy (Chairman), Exon, Graham, Robb, Lieberman, Cohen, Warner,
McCain, and Lott.
Subcommittee on Defense Technology, Acquisition, and Industrial Base:
Senators Bingaman (Chairman), Levin, Kennedy, Byrd, Graham, Robb,
Lieberman, Smith, Cohen, Lott, Coats, Kempthorne, and Faircloth.
Subcommittee on Military Readiness and Defense Infrastructure: Senators
Glenn (Chairman), Bingaman, Shelby, Robb, McCain, Smith, and Faircloth.
Subcommittee on Force Requirements and Personnel: Senators Shelby
(Chairman), Kennedy, Byrd, Lieberman, Coats, McCain, and Faircloth.
TELEMARKETING FRAUD
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer
Subcommittee concluded hearings on S. 568, to strengthen the authority
of the Federal Trade Commission regarding fraud committed in connection
with sales made with a telephone, focusing on recent developments in the
Federal Government's efforts to combat telemarketing fraud, after
receiving testimony from Barry Cutler, Jr., Director, Bureau of Consumer
Protection, Federal Trade Commission; Fred Verinder, Deputy Assistant
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Tammie
Smith, Nevada State Telemarketing Division, Las Vegas; Dorothy W.
Collins, Silver Spring, Maryland; and Dan L. Burkhead, Alexandria,
Virginia.
U.S. TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings on S.
473, to promote partnerships between the Department of Energy
laboratories and industry and universities in certain areas of
technology such as energy, high-performance computing, environment,
human health, advanced manufacturing, advanced materials and
transportation, receiving testimony from Albert Narath, President,
Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, New Mexico), Alvin W.
Trivelpiece, Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge,
Tennessee), Hermann A. Grunder, Director, Continuous Electron Beam
Accelerator Facility (Newport News, Virginia), and Paul North, Deputy
Laboratory Director, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (Idaho
Falls), all of the Department of Energy; and Lewis M. Branscomb, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, former Director, National
Institute of Standards and Technology.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 23.
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS ASSISTANCE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Mineral
Resources Development and Production concluded hearings on S. 558, to
provide Federal financial assistance for the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands, after receiving testimony from David H.
Heggestad, Budget Officer, Office of Territorial and International
Affairs, Department of the Interior; Northern Mariana Islands Governor
Lorenzo Guerrero, Capitol Hill, Saipan; and Northern Mariana Islands
Resident Representative Juan Babauta, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Lawrence H. Summers, of the District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary
of the Treasury for International Affairs, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senator Bradley and Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. Testimony was also
received from Jane Perkins, Friends of the Earth, Washington, D.C.
POSTAL SERVICE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services,
Post Office, and Civil Service concluded hearings to examine management
activities and goals of the United States Postal Service, after
receiving testimony from Marvin Runyon, Chief Executive Officer and
Postmaster General, United States Postal Service.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items:
S. 3, to establish a voluntary system of campaign spending limits for
the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives;
S. 564, to establish in the Government Printing Office a means of
enhancing electronic public access to a wide range of Federal electronic
information;
S. 535, authorizing funds to the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian
Institution to plan and design an extension of the National Air and
Space Museum at Washington Dulles International Airport;
S.J. Res. 27, to provide for the appointment of Hanna Holburn Gray as a
citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution;
S.J. Res. 28, to provide for the appointment of Barber B. Conable, Jr.,
as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian
Institution;
S.J. Res. 29, to provide for the appointment of Wesley Samuel Williams,
Jr., as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian
Institution; and
S. Con. Res. 13, to permit the use of the Rotunda of the United States
Capitol for a ceremony to commemorate the days of remembrance of victims
of the Holocaust.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the
intelligence community.
Committee will meet again on Tuesday, March 23.
Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine congressional reform proposals, focusing on the
Federal budget process, receiving testimony from Senator Mikulski; and
Representatives Stenholm, Clinger, Wise, Kolbe, Cox, and Orton.
Committee will meet again on Tuesday, March 23.
1993/03/19
Daily Digest - Friday, March 19, 1993; pages D254 - D260
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
U.S. NUCLEAR PLANT SECURITY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air and
Nuclear Regulation held hearings to examine the adequacy of the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission's rules and regulations to protect commercial
nuclear powerplants against terrorism and sabotage, receiving testimony
from Harry B. Brandon III, Deputy Assistant Director, Intelligence
Division, and William McGrath, Unit Chief, Counterterrorism Planning
Unit, both of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of
Justice; Ivan Selin, Chairman, and Kenneth C. Rogers, James R. Curtiss,
and E. Gail de Planque, each a Member, all of the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission; Eldon V.C. Greenberg, Garvey, Schubert & Barer, Washington,
D.C., on behalf of the Nuclear Control Institute; Joe F. Colvin,
Washington, D.C., and Phillip Clark, GPU Nuclear Corp., Parsippany, New
Jersey, both on behalf of the Nuclear Management and Resources Council;
and Bruce Hoffman, RAND Corp., Santa Monica, California.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/03/22
Daily Digest - Monday, March 22, 1993; pages D262 - D266
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Toxic
Substances, Research and Development held hearings to examine the
environmental aspects of current hydrogen/renewable energy programs,
focusing on the interface between these programs and existing
environmental regulation, emerging environmental technologies, and
proposed legislation to encourage exploration of new propulsion systems
and new domestic fuels, receiving testimony from John H. Gibbons,
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy; Robert H. Williams,
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; James M. Lents, South Coast
Air Quality Management District, Diamond Bar, California; Reinhold
Wurster, Ludwig-Bolkow-Systemtechnik GmbH, Ottobrunn, Germany; Bradford
Bates, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan; Gary Noland, Lockheed
Missiles & Space Co., Inc., Sunnyvale, California; Bob Wichert,
Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Sacramento, California; G. Neal
Richter, Texaco, Inc., Montebello, California; Willard P. Olson,
McDonnell Douglas Aerospace-Huntsville Division, Huntsville, Alabama;
and Pat Ryan, Atlantic Richfield Company, Los Angeles, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SOMALIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met to receive a briefing on
United States and United Nations operations in Somalia from Robert
Oakley, United States Envoy to Somalia.
Committee recessed subject to call.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1993/03/23
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 23, 1993; pages D267 - D274
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported, with
an amendment in the nature of a substitute, H.R. 1335, making emergency
supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30,
1993.
APPROPRIATIONS--JUDICIARY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State,
and the Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1994 for the Judiciary, receiving testimony from Judge Richard S.
Arnold, Eighth Circuit, United States Court of Appeals; Judge Charles N.
Clevert, Jr., Eastern District of Wisconsin; and L. Ralph Mecham,
Director, Administrative Office of the United States Courts.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 31.
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NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 20
routine military nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine
Corps.
U.S. TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed hearings on
S. 473, to promote partnerships between the Department of Energy
laboratories and industry and universities in certain areas of
technology such as energy, high-performance computing, environment,
human health, advanced manufacturing, advanced materials and
transportation, receiving testimony from Hazel R. O'Leary, Secretary of
Energy.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING/NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
The nominations of Lynn E. Davis, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of
State for International Security Affairs, J. Brian Atwood, of the
District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary of State for Management,
Stephen A. Oxman, of New Jersey, to be Assistant Secretary of State for
European and Canadian Affairs, and four foreign service officers'
promotion lists received in the Senate March 8, 1993; and
H. Con. Res. 34, calling for a continued United States policy of
opposition to the resumption of commercial whaling, and otherwise
expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to conserving and
protecting the world's whale, dolphin, and porpoise populations.
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Mr. Oxman (listed above), after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senator Bradley, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
Also, committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Strobe Talbott,
of Ohio, to be Ambassador at Large and Special Adviser to the Secretary
of State on the New Independent States, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senator Lugar, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.
ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT OF HEALTH CARE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and
Business Rights concluded hearings to examine the role of Federal
antitrust laws and enforcement policies in health care reform, focusing
on cost containment proposals, after receiving testimony from Senator
Cohen; Janet D. Steiger, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission; Clark C.
Havighurst, Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina;
ValGene Devitt, Ukiah Valley Medical Center, Ukiah, California; Vernon
R. Rothschild, Rothschild's Orthopedics, Forestville, Maryland; Reginald
S. Matthews, Sugar Land, Texas, on behalf of the American Association of
Retired Persons; Fredric J. Entin, American Hospital Association, and
Bruce J. Brennan, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, both of
Washington, D.C.; and Richard F. Corlin, California Medical Association,
Santa Monica, on behalf of the American Medical Association.
Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine congressional reform proposals, focusing on the
Federal budget process, receiving testimony from Representative
Beilenson; Louis Fisher, Senior Specialist, Congressional Research
Service, Library of Congress; and Stephen E. Bell, Salomon Brothers
Inc., and Joe White, Brookings Institution, both of Washington, D.C.
Hearings will continue on Thursday, March 25.
1993/03/24
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 24, 1993; pages D276 - D284
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
1994 for energy and water development programs, receiving testimony from
Senator Feinstein; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 29.
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ENVIRONMENT
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded closed hearings on the
international security environment, after receiving testimony from R.
James Woolsey, Director, who was accompanied by several of his
associates, all of the Central Intelligence Agency.
U.S. TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings
on S. 473, to promote partnerships between the Department of Energy
laboratories and industry and universities in certain areas of
technology such as energy, high-performance computing, environment,
human health, advanced manufacturing, advanced materials and
transportation, after receiving testimony from Craig Fields,
Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, Texas;
Edward A. Frieman, University of California, La Jolla, on behalf of the
Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Task Force; Joe D. Cunning, AMTEX
Partnership, Wilmington, Delaware; Jerry A. Logan, Jr., Milliken
Research Corporation, Spartanburg, South Carolina; Erich Bloch, Council
on Competitiveness, Washington, D.C.; and Dolores R. Spikes, Southern
University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
BROADCAST USE FEES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded oversight hearings to review radio
and television broadcast use fees on public lands, focusing on the
Department of the Interior progress and plans for broadcast rental
payments and a recent report of the Radio and Television Broadcast Use
Fee Advisory Committee, after receiving testimony from Senator Burns;
Michael J. Penfold, Assistant Director for Land and Renewable Resources,
Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; George M.
Leonard, Associate Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture;
Wayne Hardy, Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Olympia;
and Jerry Danziger, KOB-TV, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings to
examine the impact of certain toxic environmental exposure on human
health and wildlife, receiving testimony from Thomas Lovejoy, Assistant
Secretary for External Affairs, Smithsonian Institution; Devra Lee
Davis, Senior Scientist, National Research Council of the National
Academy of Sciences; and Theo Colborn, W. Alton Jones Foundation and
World Wildlife Fund, Deeohn Ferris, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights
Under Law, John A. Moore, Institute for Evaluating Health Risks, and
David P. Rall, all of Washington, D.C.
Committee will meet again on Wednesday, March 31.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Lawrence H. Summers, of the District of Columbia, to be
Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs.
ADMINISTRATION'S ECONOMIC PROGRAM
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the
Administration's deficit reduction proposals to stimulate the American
economy, receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Joan E. Spero, of New York, to be Under Secretary of
State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs, and Harriet C. Babbitt, of
Arizona, to be the Permanent Representative of the United States to the
Organization of American States, with the rank of Ambassador, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Ms.
Babbitt was introduced by Senators DeConcini and McCain.
TREATY ON OPEN SKIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to
receive a briefing on the Treaty on Open Skies with 12 Annexes, signed
at Helsinki on March 24, 1992 (Treaty Doc. 102-37) from officials of the
intelligence community.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following bills:
S. 171, to establish the Department of the Environment, provide for a
Bureau of Environmental Statistics and a Presidential Commission on
Improving Environmental Protection, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute; and
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S. 20, to provide for the establishment, testing, and evaluation of
strategic planning and performance measurement in the Federal
Government, with amendments.
FREEDOM OF CHOICE ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported S. 25, to protect the reproductive rights of women.
VETERANS' COMPENSATION COST-OF-LIVING ADJUSTMENT
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 616,
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 to
examine the quality and timeliness of the VA claims adjudication
process, after receiving testimony from R. John Vogel, Deputy Under
Secretary for Benefits, J. Gary Hickman, Director, Compensation and
Pension Service, and John H. Thompson, Assistant General Counsel, all of
the Department of Veterans Affairs; John Hanson, The American Legion,
John F. Heilman and Richard F. Schultz, both of the Disabled American
Veterans, Frank R. De George, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Dennis M.
Cullinan, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, and Paul S.
Egan, Vietnam Veterans of America, all of Washington, D.C.; Melvin
Romine, Houston, Texas; and Cofer Cochran, Webster Springs, West
Virginia.
Joint Meetings
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Joint Committee on Printing: Committee met and approved Senator Ford as
Chairman and Representative Rose as Vice Chairman of the committee and
adopted its rules of procedure for the 103d Congress.
1993/03/25
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 25, 1993; pages D285 - D292
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SOMALIA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met to receive a briefing on the
current situation in Somalia from James L. Woods, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense (African Affairs); Lt. Gen. Martin L. Brandtner,
USMC, Director of Operations (J3), Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff;
and David Schinn, Coordinator for Somalia, and Melinda Kimble, Deputy
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Organizations, both of the
Department of State.
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Committee recessed subject to call.
RTC AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered
favorably reported an original bill authorizing funds for the Resolution
Trust Corporation for the resolution of failed savings associations.
U.S. COMPETITIVENESS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee resumed
hearings on S. 4, to promote the industrial competitiveness and economic
growth of the United States by strengthening and expanding the civilian
technology programs of the Department of Commerce, receiving testimony
from Senator Kerrey; Clyde V. Prestowitz, Economic Strategy Institute,
Washington, D.C.; George G. Brooks, Allen-Bradley, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
on behalf of the National Coalition for Advanced Manufacturing; Brian R.
Carlisle, Adept Technology, Inc., San Jose, California, on behalf of the
American Electronics Association; W.J. Siegendorf, Hewitt-Robins,
Columbia, South Carolina; Brian Joseph, Touchstone Research
Laboratories, Triadelphia, West Virginia; Priscilla Kilcrease, Louisiana
Board of Regents, Baton Rouge; Robert W. Lucky, Bellcore, Red Bank, New
Jersey; and Nathan P. Myhrvold, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond,
Washington.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ADMINISTRATION'S ECONOMIC PROGRAM
Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings to examine the
Administration's deficit reduction proposals, focusing on the short- and
long-term effect on the American economy, receiving testimony from
Michael J. Boskin and Herbert Stein, both of the American Enterprise
Institute, Washington, D.C.; S. Jay Levy, The Jerome Levy Economics
Institute of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Mancur Olson,
University of Maryland, College Park; and John P. White, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Strobe Talbott, of Ohio, to be Ambassador at Large and
Special Adviser to the Secretary of State on the New Independent States,
Joan E. Spero, of New York, to be Under Secretary of State for Economic
and Agricultural Affairs, and Harriet C. Babbitt, of Arizona, to be the
Permanent Representative of the United States to the Organization of
American States, with the rank of Ambassador.
Prior to this action, committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Timothy E. Wirth, of Colorado, to be Counselor of the Department of
State, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Campbell and
Brown, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
IRS INTERNATIONAL TAX ENFORCEMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine
the Internal Revenue Service tax enforcement of international transfer
pricing rules, focusing on tax payments of foreign-controlled
corporations, exams, appeals, litigation, and new transfer pricing
regulations, receiving testimony from Natwar M. Ghandi, Associate
Director, Tax Policy and Administration Issues, General Government
Division, General Accounting Office; Philip Aldape, Idaho State Tax
Commission, Boise; Benjamin F. Miller, California Franchise Tax Board,
Sacramento; and Robert S. McIntyre, Citizens for Tax Justice, Dale W.
Wickham, American University, Kevin L. Kearns, United States Business
and Industrial Council, Dan R. Bucks, Multistate Tax Commission, and
Louis M. Kauder, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following measures:
S.J. Res. 11, to designate May 3, 1993, through May 9, 1993, as "Public
Service Recognition Week";
S.J. Res. 30, to designate the weeks of April 25 through May 2, 1993,
and April 10 through 17, 1994, as "Jewish Heritage Week";
S.J. Res. 42, to designate the month of April 1993 as "Civil War History
Month";
S.J. Res. 43, to designate the week beginning June 6, 1993, and June 5,
1994, as "Lyme Disease Awareness Week";
S.J. Res. 49, to designate the week of March 28, 1993 through April 3,
1993, as "Distance Learning Week";
S.J. Res. 54, designating April 9, 1993, and April 9, 1994, as "National
Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day"; and
S. 574, to extend and modify the provisions of the National Cooperative
Research Act of 1984 to provide for joint production, research and
development ventures, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
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Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine congressional reform proposals, focusing on the
Federal budget process, receiving testimony from Representatives Sabo
and Kasich.
Committee will meet again on Tuesday, March 30.
1993/03/26
Daily Digest - Friday, March 26, 1993; pages D293 - D300
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Terrence R. Duvernay, Sr., of Georgia, to
be Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Jean Nolan, of
Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development,
and Lawrence H. Summers, of the District of Columbia, to be Under
Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Duvernay was
introduced by Senator Coverdell.
FIREARMS IMPORTATION AND LICENSING PROCESS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services,
Post Office, and Civil Service concluded hearings to examine the process
for obtaining and maintaining a Federal license to import or sell
firearms, and provisions of S. 496, to strengthen Federal standards for
licensing firearms dealers and heighten reporting requirements, after
receiving testimony from Stephen E. Higgins, Director, and Daniel R.
Black, Associate Director of Office of Compliance Operations, both of
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Department of the Treasury;
Donald Cahill, Fraternal Order of Police, Louisville, Kentucky; and
Richard Gardiner and Stephen Holbrook, both of the National Rifle
Association of America, Washington, D.C.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/03/29
Daily Digest - Monday, March 29, 1993; pages D302 - D308
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
1994 for energy and water development programs, receiving testimony from
Senators Heflin, Conrad and Danforth; North Dakota Governor Ed Schaefer,
Bismarck; Mayor Fred Palmer, Jr., Valley Park, Missouri; and numerous
public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
U.S. MILITARY POLICY TOWARD HOMOSEXUALS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to examine the
historical and legal background of United States military policy
concerning the service of gay men and lesbians in the armed forces,
receiving testimony from David F. Burrelli, Analyst in National Defense,
Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division, and Charles Dale,
Legislative Attorney, American Law Division, both of the Congressional
Research Service, Library of Congress; Steven A. Saltzburg, George
Washington University, Washington, D.C.; and David A. Schlueter, St.
Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 31.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of George E. Moose, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of
State for African Affairs, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senator Sarbanes, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/03/30
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 30, 1993; pages D309 - D318
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
1994 for energy and water development programs, receiving testimony from
Senators Bennett, Hatch, McCain, Pressler, and Exon; Representative
Brooks; Utah Governor Mike Leavitt, Salt Lake City; Arizona Governor J.
Fife Symington, Phoenix; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN OPERATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for foreign
assistance, receiving testimony from Warren Christopher, Secretary of
State.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 20.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of John M. Deutch, of Massachusetts, to be Under Secretary of
Defense for Acquisition, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senator Kennedy, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
TRANSIT NEEDS AND BENEFITS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
Housing and Urban Affairs concluded hearings to examine the need for
greater transit investment to meet United States transportation needs,
and how transit can benefit the economy and the needs of the nation's
communities, after receiving testimony from Mayor Jan Laverty Jones, Las
Vegas, Nevada, on behalf of the United States Conference of Mayors;
Louis J. Gambaccini, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the American Public Transit
Association; Francis B. Francois, American Association of State Highway
and Transportation Officials, William J. Roberts, Environmental Defense
Fund, and Grace Crunican, Surface Transportation Policy Project, all of
Washington, D.C.; David Marsh, Capital Area Rural Transit Systems,
Austin, Texas, on behalf of the Community Transportation Association of
America; Edward McSpedon, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation
Authority, Los Angeles, California; and William S. Jones, Westinghouse
Electric Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland.
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings
to examine the scientific consensus surrounding the issue of global
climate change, focusing on the Administration's course for the United
States global climate change research program, and U.S. policy issues
relating to energy efficiency and renewable energy measures to reduce
emissions of greenhouse gases, after receiving testimony from John H.
Gibbons, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy; Jerry D.
Mahlman, Director, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (Princeton, New
Jersey), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of
Commerce; Gordon MacDonald, University of California at San Diego; and
Jae Edmonds, Batelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Washington, D.C.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
S. Res. 68, urging the President to seek an international oil embargo
through the United Nations against Libya because of its refusal to
comply with United Nations Security Council Resolutions concerning the
bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, with amendments; and
The nominations of Thomas E. Donilon, of the District of Columbia, to be
Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, and George E. Moose, of
Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs.
Prior to this action, committee began consideration of the nomination of
Timothy E. Wirth, of Colorado, to be Counselor of the Department of
State, but did not complete action thereon.
Also, on Friday, March 26, committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Mr. Donilon (listed above), after the nominee testified
and answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of James B. King, of Massachusetts, to be Director of the
Office of Personnel Management, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senators Kennedy and Kerry, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.
FAIRNESS IN THE WORKPLACE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor concluded
hearings on S. 55, to prevent discrimination based on participation in
labor disputes, after receiving testimony from Robert B. Reich,
Secretary of Labor; Thomas R. Donahue, AFL-CIO, Jerry J. Jasinowski,
National Association of Manufacturers, Richard L. Lesher, U.S. Chamber
of Commerce, and S. Jackson Faris, National Federation of Independent
Business, all of Washington, D.C.; Rev. Bryan G. Fulwider, Arkansas
Interfaith Conference, Little Rock, representing the National Religious
Committee for Workplace Fairness; Cynthia Zavala, Stockton, California;
and Juanita Landmesser, Hope, Arkansas.
CIA VOLUNTARY SEPARATION INCENTIVE ACT
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session and
ordered favorably reported S. 647, to authorize the Director of Central
Intelligence to offer financial incentives to CIA personnel to resign or
retire voluntarily on their own initiative.
Committee recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and
House-passed versions of H. Con. Res. 64, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years
1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998, but did not complete action thereon,
and recessed subject to call.
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine certain congressional reform proposals, receiving
testimony from Representative Michel; former Senator Bellmon; and former
Representative Gradison.
Hearings continue on Thursday, April 1.
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Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 31, 1993; pages D319 - D328
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
INTERMODAL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION EFFICIENCY ACT OVERSIGHT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on the implementation of the Intermodal Surface
Transportation Efficiency Act (P.L. 102-240), receiving testimony from
E. Dean Carlson, Acting Administrator, Federal Highway Administration,
Department of Transportation; Kenneth M. Mead, Director, Transportation
Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, General
Accounting Office; Grace Crunican, Surface Transportation Policy
Project, and Frank B. Francois, American Association of State and
Highway Transportation Officials, both of Washington, DC; and Hal
Kassoff, Maryland State Highway Administration, Baltimore, on behalf of
the Interstate 95 IVHS Corridor Coalition.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 21.
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APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water
Development held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1994 for energy and water development programs, receiving testimony from
Senators Campbell and McConnell; Representative McInnis; and numerous
public witnesses.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of John M. Deutch, of Massachusetts, to be Under Secretary
of Defense for Acquisition, and Vice Adm. Roger F. Bacon, USN, to be
Vice Admiral.
U.S. MILITARY POLICY TOWARD HOMOSEXUALS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings to examine
United States military policy concerning the service of gay men and
lesbians in the armed forces, focusing on the role of unit cohesion in
developing combat effectiveness, receiving testimony from David H.
Harlowe, Chief, Department of Military Psychiatry, Walter Reed Army
Institute of Research; William Darryl Henderson, former Commander of the
Army Research Institute; and Lawrence J. Korb, Brookings Institution,
Washington, DC.
Committee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered
favorably reported the nominations of Terrence R. Duvernay Sr., of
Georgia, to be Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and
Jean Nolan, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development.
Also, committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Eugene Allan
Ludwig, of Pennsylvania, to be Comptroller of the Currency, Department
of the Treasury, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator
Wofford, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings to
examine the Environmental Protection Agency relationship with State,
tribal and local governments with regard to implementation and
enforcement of environmental laws, receiving testimony from Carol M.
Browner, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; New Mexico
Attorney General Tom Udall, Albuquerque; Thomas C. Jorling, New York
State Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany; Whitney C. Tilt,
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Washington, DC; and David R.
Jordan, Indianapolis Air Pollution Control Section, Indianapolis,
Indiana, on behalf of the Association of Local Air Pollution Control
Officials and the State and Territorial Air Pollution Program
Administrators.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Winston Lord, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of
State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senator Moynihan, testified and answered questions in his
own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of James Lee Witt, of Arkansas, to be Director of the Federal
Emergency Management Agency, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senators Bumpers and Pryor and Representative Thornton, testified and
answered questions in his own behalf.
U.S. BANKRUPTCY SYSTEM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative
Practice held hearings on S. 540, to improve the administration of the
bankruptcy system, address certain commercial issues and consumer issues
in bankruptcy, and establish a commission to study and make
recommendations on problems with the bankruptcy system, receiving
testimony from Francis F. Szczebak, Chief of the Bankruptcy Division,
David L. Cook, Chief of the Statistics Division, and Edward M. Flynn,
Management Analyst, Bankruptcy Division, all of the Administrative
Office of the United States Courts; Judge Ralph H. Kelley, Chief United
States Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee,
Chattanooga; Jeff L. Plagge, First State Bank, Webster City, Iowa, on
behalf of the American Bankers Association; Barbara G. Webb, National
Farmers Union, Stephen H. Case, National Bankruptcy Conference, and
William J. Perlstein, American Bankruptcy Institute, all of Washington,
DC; Henry J. Sommer, Community Legal Services, Inc., Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; and Robert Mitsch, ITT Consumer Financial Corporation,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
VA HEALTH CARE
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings
to examine the current and future roles of the Department of Veterans
Affairs' health-care system, focusing on the impact of national health
care reform on the demand for VA health care services, and comparisons
between VA and non-VA health care costs, after receiving testimony from
David P. Baine, Director, and James R. Linz, Assistant Director, both of
Federal Health Care Delivery Issues, General Accounting Office; Alastair
M. Connell, Assistant Inspector General, Office of Health Care
Inspections, Department of Veterans Affairs; Donald L. Custis, Paralyzed
Veterans of America, and Jack W. Owen, on behalf of the American
Hospital Association, both of Washington, DC; Jack Zwanziger, University
of Rochester, Rochester, New York; Kerry Kilpatrick, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill; Joseph Lipscomb, Duke University, Durham, North
Carolina; and William B. Schwartz, University of Southern California,
Los Angeles.
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Joint Meetings
VETERANS ORGANIZATIONS
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint
hearings with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to examine the
legislative recommendations of certain veterans organizations, after
receiving testimony from James J. Kenney, AMVETS, Muriel Sue Parkhurst,
Veterans of World War I, Charles Minietta, American Ex-Prisoners of War,
James L. Brazee, Jr., Vietnam Veterans of America, and Col. Charles C.
Partridge, USA (Ret.), on behalf of the National Association for
Uniformed Services and the Society of Military Widows, all of
Washington, DC; and Charles R. Jackson, Non-Commissioned Officers
Association, Alexandria, Virginia.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between
the Senate- and House-passed versions of H. Con. Res. 64, setting forth
the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal
years 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998.
1993/04/01
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 1, 1993; pages D330 - D338
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 1994 for the Department of Commerce, receiving testimony from
Ronald H. Brown, Secretary of Commerce.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 22.
APPROPRIATIONS--NSF
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994
for the National Science Foundation, receiving testimony from Walter E.
Massey, Director, National Science Foundation.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Defense, and to review the fiscal years 1995-99 future years defense
program, receiving testimony from Les Aspin, Secretary of Defense; and
Gen. Colin L. Powell, USA, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered
favorably reported the nomination of Eugene A. Ludwig, of Pennsylvania,
to be Comptroller of the Currency, Department of the Treasury.
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TRANSFER OF CEQ TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings
on section 112, to abolish the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)
and to provide for the transfer of certain functions of CEQ to the
proposed Department of Environment, of S. 171, to elevate the
Environmental Protection Agency to cabinet level, after receiving
testimony from Carol M. Browner, Administrator, Environmental Protection
Agency; Michael R. Deland, former Chairman, Council on Environmental
Quality; James Moorman, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, former Assistant
Attorney General for the Land and Natural Resources Division, Department
of the Treasury, and Philip M. Hocker, Mineral Policy Center, both of
Washington, D.C.; and Lynton K. Caldwell, Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana.
ADMINISTRATION'S HEALTH BUDGET
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine health care
reform and budget reduction proposals as contained in the
Administration's economic stimulus plan, receiving testimony from Donna
E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services; Raymond C.
Scheppach, National Governors' Association, and Rick Pollack and Jim
Bentley, both of the American Hospital Association, all of Washington,
D.C.; Spencer Foreman, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, on
behalf of the Association of American Medical Colleges; and Jerald R.
Schenken, Omaha, Nebraska, on behalf of the American Medical
Association.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Timothy E. Wirth, of Colorado, to be Counselor of the
Department of State, and Winston Lord, of New York, to be Assistant
Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported
the nominations of James B. King, of Massachusetts, to be Director of
the Office of Personnel Management, and James Lee Witt, of Arkansas, to
be Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
IMPACT OF NAFTA ON AMERICAN JOBS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of
Government Management held hearings to examine the impact of the North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the displacement of the
American workforce, receiving testimony from Harry Browne,
Inter-Hemispheric Education Resource Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico;
Tom Fairfax, Rancho Santa Margarita, California; Scarlet Bachmann and
Jerry Lundy, both of Dowagiac, Michigan; and Doug Fenton, Kokomo,
Indiana.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CORRUPTION IN PROFESSIONAL BOXING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations resumed hearings to examine corruption in the
professional boxing industry, focusing on State regulation of
professional boxing and the current state of underworld connections with
boxing, receiving testimony from W. Leighton Lord III, Minority Staff
Counsel, and Stephen Levin, Minority Staff Counsel, both of the
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations; Robert Goodman, Madison Square
Garden Boxing, New York, New York; James McGirt, Brentwood, New York;
Alfred Certissimo, Secaucus, New Jersey; Stuart Weiner, Brooklyn, New
York; Edward Sciandra, Bellmore, New York; Leonard Minuto, Bronx, New
York; Andrew Licari, Bloomfield, New Jersey; and Salvatore Gravano, an
incarcerated witness.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INNOCENCE AND THE DEATH PENALTY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 221, to
allow a prisoner under the sentence of death to obtain judicial review
of newly discovered evidence showing that he is probably innocent, after
receiving testimony from California Deputy Attorney General Ward A.
Campbell, Sacramento; Alabama Deputy Attorney General Kenneth S.
Nunnelley, Bryan A. Stevenson, Alabama Capital Representation Resource
Center, Miriam Shehane, Victims of Crime and Leniency (V.O.C.A.L.), and
Walter McMillian, all of Montgomery, Alabama; Talbot D'Alemberte, Steel,
Hector and Davis, Miami, Florida; Elaine R. Jones, NAACP Legal Defense
Fund, Inc., New York, New York; Paul G. Cassell, University of Utah
College of Law, Salt Lake City; and Randall Dale Adams, Grove City,
Ohio.
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Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine certain congressional reform proposals, receiving
testimony from Senators Ford, Murray, Bennett, and Coverdell; and
Representatives Fingerhut, Shepherd, Torkildsen, and Fowler.
Committee recessed subject to call.
1993/04/02
Daily Digest - Friday, April 2, 1993; pages D339 - D342
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--POSTAL SERVICE/BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND
FIREARMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service
and General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1994, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Marvin Runyon, Postmaster General, United
States Postal Service; and John P. Simpson, Deputy Assistant Secretary,
and Stephen E. Higgins, Director, both of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms, Department of the Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 20.
APPROPRIATIONS--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1994, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Gen. Paul X. Kelley, USMC (Ret.), Chairman, American
Battle Monuments Commission; Roger W. Jepsen, Chairman, National Credit
Union Administration; Robert W. Gambino, Director, Selective Service
System; Andrew C. Hove, Acting Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation; John J. Adair, Inspector General, Resolution Trust
Corporation; and in behalf of funds for Army cemeterial expenses from
Steve Dola, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Management and
Budget).
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 22.
TERMINATION OF THE COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported section 112, to provide for the termination of the Council on
Environmental Quality (CEQ) and to provide for the transfer of certain
functions of CEQ to the proposed Department of Environment, of S. 171,
to elevate the Environmental Protection Agency to cabinet level.
DEBT LIMIT EXTENSION
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
bill (S. 766) to provide for a temporary increase in the statutory limit
on the public debt.
MEDICARE SECONDARY PAYER PROGRAM
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Regulation and
Government Information concluded hearings to examine how the Medicare
Secondary Payer Program can improve its information system so that
claims are paid correctly, after receiving testimony from Leslie G.
Aronovitz, Associate Director, Health Financing Issues, Human Resources
Division, General Accounting Office; Carol J. Walton, Director, Bureau
of Program Operations, Health Care Financing Administration, Department
of Health and Human Services; James M. Michener, The Travelers
Companies, Washington, D.C.; and Linda K. Ryan, New York Department of
Health, Albany.
Joint Meetings
EMPLOYMENT-UNEMPLOYMENT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings on the
employment-unemployment situation for March, receiving testimony from
William G. Barron, Jr., Action Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Department of Labor.
Committee recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION ACT
Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and
House-passed versions of H.R. 2, to establish national voter
registration procedures for Federal elections, but did not complete
action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
1993/04/03
Daily Digest - Saturday, April 3, 1993; pages D343 -D344
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/04/05
Daily Digest - Monday, April 5, 1993; pages D346 - D348
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1993/04/07
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 7, 1993; pages D350 - D352
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/04/19
Daily Digest - Monday, April 19, 1993; pages D353 - D362
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SPECIAL 301 TRADE REMEDY LAW
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade held hearings
on the implementation of the Special 301 provisions of the 1988 Trade
Act to identify those countries that deny adequate and effective
protection of United States intellectual property (creative works and
inventions) from illegal copying, receiving testimony from Ira S.
Shapiro, General Counsel, Office of the United States Trade
Representative; Harvey E. Bale, Jr., Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
Association, Jason S. Berman, Recording Industry Association of America,
and Eric H. Smith, International Intellectual Property Alliance, all of
Washington, D.C.; and John J. Cummins, United States Trademark
Association, New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1993/04/20
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 20, 1993; pages D364 - D372
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 1994 for the Department of Agriculture,
receiving testimony from Mike Espy, Secretary of Agriculture; and
Stephen B. Dewhurst, Director, Office of Budget and Program Analysis,
Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 27.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Defense, receiving testimony from Les Aspin, Secretary of Defense.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994
for the Indian Health Service, receiving testimony from Michel E.
Lincoln, Acting Director, Indian Health Service, Department of Health
and Human
Services.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 28.
APPROPRIATIONS--FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTER/FINANCIAL
CRIMES
ENFORCEMENT NETWORK
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal
Service and General Government held hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1994, receiving testimony in behalf of funds
for their respective activities from Charles F. Rinevich, Director,
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, and Brian M. Bruh, Director,
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, both of the Department of the
Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 22.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Defense, and to review the fiscal years 1995-99 future years defense
program, focusing on military strategy and operational requirements of
the unified commands, receiving testimony from Gen. Joseph P. Hoar,
USMC, Commander in Chief, United States Central Command; Adm. Paul D.
Miller, USN, Commander in Chief, United States Atlantic Command; and
Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, USA, Commander in Chief, United States
European Command.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
LIMITED PARTNERSHIP ROLLUP REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
Securities concluded hearings on S. 424, to revise proxy solicitation
rules with respect to limited partnership rollup transactions (in which
general partners combine several limited partnerships into one unit that
trades on a stock exchange, or a single limited partnership is
reorganized so that some or all of the investors receive new securities
or securities in another entity), after receiving testimony from Charles
K. Barro, Shurgard Incorporated, Seattle, Washington; Joseph Bridges,
Kelley Oil Corp., Houston, Texas; Philip Cottone, NASD, and Louis
Garday, NAREIT, both of Washington, D.C.; Mark Goldberg, Royal Alliance
Associates, Inc., and Douglas Peabody, Meigher, Peabody & Co., both of
New York, New York; Barry Guthary, North American Securities
Administrators Association, Boston, Massachusetts; Spencer Jefferies,
Partnership Profiles, Inc, and Bob Nelson, both of Dallas, Texas; and
Estelle Heyman, Bellmore, New York.
NASA BUDGET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Science, Technology and Space held hearings on the Administration's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1994 for the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), focusing on civil space and
aeronautics programs, recent procurement and management initiatives, the
proposed redesign of the Space Station program, and plans for
international cooperation in future space initiatives, receiving
testimony from Daniel S. Goldin, Administrator, and Leslie T. Huntress,
Associate Administrator for Space Science, both of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ENERGY TAX
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the
Administration's energy tax proposal, receiving testimony from Lloyd
Bentsen, Secretary of the Treasury; Victor G. Beghini, Marathon Oil
Company, Houston, Texas, on behalf of American Petroleum Institute;
Eugene L. Ames, Jr., Venus Oil Company, San Antonio, Texas, on behalf of
the Independent Petroleum Association of America; Robert B. Catell,
Brooklyn Union Gas Company, Brooklyn, New York, on behalf of the Natural
Gas Council; and Richard L. Lawson, National Coal Association,
Washington, D.C.
Hearings continue on Thursday, April 22.
U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to review United
States foreign policy with regard to Russia's struggle to make the
transition from communism to democracy and a free market system, and
proposed budget requests for fiscal year 1994 for international affairs,
receiving testimony from Warren Christopher, Secretary of State.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Thomas R. Pickering, of New Jersey, with the personal rank
of Career Ambassador, to be Ambassador to the Russian Federation, after
the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Lautenberg and Bradley,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
INDIAN TRIBAL JUSTICE ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 521, to
strengthen tribal judicial systems, after receiving testimony from
Denise Homer, Chief, Division of Judicial Services, Department of the
Interior; Darwin St. Clair, Sr., Shoshone Business Council, Fort
Washakie, Wyoming, on behalf of the Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribes
of the Wind River Indian Reservation; Robert Yazzie, Navajo Nation
Judicial Branch, Window Rock, Arizona; Elbridge Coochise, Edmonds,
Washington, on behalf of the National American Indian Court Judges
Association; and Kevin Gover, Gover, Stetson, and Williams, Albuquerque,
New Mexico, on behalf of the Eight Northern Pueblos.
LONG-TERM HEALTH CARE COST
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
access to affordable home and community-based services for long-term
care of older people with chronic conditions, after receiving testimony
from Herb Sanderson, Arkansas Department of Human Services, Little Rock;
T. Franklin Williams, University of Rochester School of Medicine and
Dentistry, Rochester, New York; Beverly Baldwin, University of Maryland,
College Park; James Sikking, Hollywood, California; Beverly Hynes,
Vassalboro, Maine; Virginia Di Manna, Germantown, Maryland; Walter
Dawson, Falls City, Oregon; Kojo Nnamdi, Washington, D.C.; and Shelley
Fabares, Sherman Oaks, California.
Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings on congressional reform proposals, focusing on committee
structure, receiving testimony from former Senators Brock and Stevenson;
Daniel P. Mulhollan, Acting Deputy Librarian of Congress; Roger
Davidson, University of Maryland, College Park, former staff member of
the House Select Committee on Committees (93rd Congress), and the
Temporary Select Committee to Study the Senate Committee System (94th
Congress); and Norman J. Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute for
Public Policy Research, and Thomas E. Mann, Brookings Institution, both
on behalf of the Renewing Congress Project; and Roger Sperry, National
Academy of Public Administration, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings will continue on Thursday, April 22.
1993/04/21
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 21, 1993; pages D374 - D382
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed
hearings to review global defense programs, receiving testimony from
Gen. Colin L. Powell, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for foreign
assistance programs, focusing on the transition to democracy in the
former Soviet Union, receiving testimony from Strobe Talbott, Ambassador
at Large, and Special Advisor to the Secretary for the Newly Independent
States of the former Soviet Union.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 27.
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994
for the Department of Transportation, receiving testimony from Federico
Pena, Secretary of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 6.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Defense, and to review the fiscal years 1995-99 future years defense
program, focusing on military strategy and operational requirements of
the unified commands, receiving testimony from Gen. George A. Joulwan,
USA, Commander in Chief, United States Southern Command; Adm. Charles R.
Larson, USN, Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Command; Gen.
Carl W. Stiner, USA, Commander in Chief, United States Special
Operations Command; and Gen. Robert W. RisCassi, USA, Commander, United
States Forces, Korea.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held open and closed hearings to
examine the scope of current threats of terrorism to the United States
and its allies, receiving testimony from William S. Sessions, Director,
and W. Douglas Gow, Associate Deputy Director of Investigations, both of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; R. James
Woolsey, Director of Central Intelligence; Laurence Pope, Acting
Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism, Department of State; Clayton
McManaway, The Fairfax Group, Falls Church, Virginia, former Deputy
Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism, Department of State; and Robert
Kupperman, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington,
D.C.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
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Joint Meetings
COMPREHENSIVE CHILD IMMUNIZATION ACT
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources concluded
joint hearings with the House Committee on Energy and Commerce
Subcommittee on Health and the Environment on S. 732 and H.R. 1640,
bills to provide for the immunization of all children in the United
States against vaccine-preventable diseases, after receiving testimony
from Senator Danforth; Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human
Services; David Smith, Texas Department of Health, Austin, on behalf of
the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers; Ed Marcuse,
University of Washington, Seattle, on behalf of the Academy of
Pediatrics; Gladys LeBron, Centro de Educacion Durante el Embarazo,
Holyoke, Massachusetts; Dean Sienko, Ingham County Health Department,
Lansing, Michigan; Marian Wright Edelman (by video), Children's Defense
Fund, Washington, D.C.; R. Gordon Douglas, Merck and Co., Inc.,
Whitehouse, New Jersey; David Williams, Connaught Laboratories, Inc.,
Swiftwater, Pennsylvania; Ronald J. Saldarini, Lederle-Praxis
Biologicals, Wayne, New Jersey; Jean-Pierre Garnier, Smithkleine
Beecham, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the North American
Pharmaceuticals; Fred Thomson, Jr., Mississippi State Health Office,
Jackson, on behalf of the Council of State and Territorial
Epidemiologists; Richard J. Duma, National Foundation for Infectious
Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland; and Michael E. Moen, Minnesota Department
of Health, Minneapolis.
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CONFLICT IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission):
Commission resumed hearings to examine the conflict in former
Yugoslavia, focusing on proposals to form a war crimes tribunal to hold
individual perpetrators of war crimes personally accountable for their
actions, receiving testimony from former Representative Ferraro, on
behalf of the United Nations Human Rights Commission; Morris B. Abram,
former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva;
and Thomas Buergenthal, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Commission recessed subject to call.
1993/04/22
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 22, 1993; pages D384 - D396
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--ARMY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for programs of the
Department of the Army, receiving testimony from Gen. Gordon R.
Sullivan, Chief of Army Staff.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 28.
APPROPRIATIONS--JUSTICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State,
and Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1994 for the Department of Justice, receiving testimony from Janet Reno,
Attorney General, Department of Justice.
Subcommittee will next meet on Tuesday, April 27.
APPROPRIATIONS--EPA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994
for the Environmental Protection Agency, receiving testimony from Carol
M. Browner, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency.
Subcommittee will next meet on Thursday, April 29.
APPROPRIATIONS--SECRET SERVICE/EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal
Service, and General Government held hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1994, receiving testimony in behalf of funds
for their respective activities from John W. Magaw, Director, United
States Secret Service, Department of the Treasury; and Patsy L.
Tomasson, Director, Office of Administration, Executive Office of the
President.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 29.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Defense, and to review the fiscal years 1995-99 future years defense
program, focusing on military strategy and operational requirements of
the unified commands, receiving testimony from Gen. George L. Butler,
USAF, Commander in Chief, United States Strategic Command; Gen. Ronald
R. Fogleman, USAF, Commander in Chief, United States Transportation
Command; Gen. Charles A. Horner, USAF, Commander in Chief, United States
Space Command; and Gen. Dennis J. Reimer, USA, Commander in Chief,
United States Forces Command.
Committee recessed subject to call.
NAFTA
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held
hearings to examine the impact of the proposed North American Free-Trade
Agreement [NAFTA] on American jobs and wages, receiving testimony from
Ross Perot, Dallas, Texas.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY TECHNOLOGIES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Renewable
Energy, Energy Efficiency, and Competitiveness concluded hearings to
examine opportunities and obstacles in the development and
commercialization of renewable energy and energy efficiency
technologies, after receiving testimony from Robert L. San Martin,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy,
and Duane Sunderman, Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
(Golden, Colorado), both of the Department of Energy; Renz D. Jennings,
Arizona Corporation Commission, Phoenix, representing the National
Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; Scott A. Weiner, New
Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Energy, Trenton,
representing the National Association of State Energy Officials; Gerald
G. Leigh, University of New Mexico, and Thomas Volek, New Mexico Solar
Energy Industries Association, both of Albuquerque; and James L. Wolf,
The Alliance to Save Energy, and Scott Sklar, Solar Energy Industries
Association, both of Washington, D.C.
ENERGY TAX
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine the
Administration's energy tax proposal, receiving testimony from Melanie
L. Griffin, Sierra Club, Roger C. Dower, World Resources Institute, John
G. Hemphill, Business Council for a Sustainable Energy Future, Paul R.
Fry, American Public Power Association, Paul R. Huard, National
Association of Manufacturers, and John J. Collins, American Trucking
Associations, Inc., all of Washington, D.C.; William K. Drummond, Public
Power Council, Portland, Oregon; Dennis J. Nagel, Iowa Utilities Board,
Des Moines, on behalf of the National Association of Regulatory Utility
Commissioners; A.W. Dahlberg, Georgia Power Company, Atlanta, on behalf
of the Edison Electric Institute; Ellen S. Roy, Intercontinental Energy
Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of the National
Independent Energy Producers; Leland H. Swenson, Denver, Colorado, on
behalf of the National Farmers Union; John G. Buckley, Cotuit,
Massachusetts, on behalf of the New England Fuel Institute, Empire State
Petroleum Association, Fuel Merchants Association of New Jersey, Oregon
Petroleum Marketers Association, Michigan Petroleum Association,
Delaware Valley Fuel Oil Dealers Association (Delaware, Pennsylvania),
and the Minnesota Petroleum Association; and Gordon A. Aoyagi,
Montgomery County Department of Transportation, Rockville, Maryland, on
behalf of the American Public Transit Association.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee continued hearings to examine the
scope of current threats of terrorism to the United States and its
allies, focusing on explosives and explosives regulation, and related
extradition, international law, and immigration issues, receiving
testimony from James L. Brown, Chief, Explosives Division, and Bill
Davis, Deputy Chief, Firearms and Explosives Division, Office of
Compliance Operations, both of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
Firearms, Department of the Treasury; James L. Ward, Acting Assistant
Secretary for Consular Affairs, and Robert Harris, Assistant Legal
Adviser for Law Enforcement, both of the Department of State; Michael D.
Cronin, Assistant Commissioner for Inspections, Immigration and
Naturalization Service, and Mark Richard, Deputy Assistant Attorney
General, Criminal Division, both of the Department of Justice; Frederick
Smith, Jr., and Don Waugaman, both of the Institute of Makers of
Explosives, Washington, D.C.; C.C. Gardner, Sporting Arms and Ammunition
Manufacturers' Institute, Inc., Wilton, Connecticut; and Joseph C. Lund,
Sr., International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators,
Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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AUTHORIZATION--FEC
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the
Federal Election Commission [FEC], after receiving testimony from Scott
E. Thomas, Chairman, Trevor Potter, Vice Chairman, and Danny L.
McDonald, Commissioner, all of the Federal Election Commission.
Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine congressional reform proposals, focusing on
committee structure, receiving testimony from Representatives Glickman,
Combest, Rostenkowski, Meyers, and George Miller.
Committee will meet again on Tuesday, April 27.
1993/04/23
Daily Digest - Friday, April 23, 1993; pages D397 - D398
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/04/26
Daily Digest - Monday, April 26, 1993; pages D399 - D402
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for certain programs of the
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and
related agencies, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 28.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Ronald K. Noble, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
for Enforcement, Frank N. Newman, of California, to be Under Secretary
of the Treasury for Finance, Leslie B. Samuels, of New York, to be
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy, and Jack R. DeVore,
Jr., of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public
Affairs, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their
own behalf.
HUMAN GENOME DIVERSITY PROJECT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine
the Human Genome Diversity Project, a research initiative to analyze the
structure of human DNA and determine the location of human genes,
receiving testimony from Cora Marrett, Assistant Director, Social,
Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, National Science Foundation; Francis
S. Collins, Director, National Center for Human Genome Research,
National Institutes for Health, Department of Health and Human Services;
David J. Galas, Associate Director for Health and Environmental
Research, Office of Energy Research, Department of Energy; Robyn Y.
Nishimi, Senior Associate, Office of Technology Assessment; L. Luca
Cavalli-Sforza, Stanford University, Stanford, California; and
Mary-Claire King, University of California at Berkeley.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/04/27
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 27, 1993; pages D403 - D412
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 1994 for the Department of Agriculture,
focusing on international, commodity and conservation programs,
receiving testimony from Charles J. O'Mara, Acting Under Secretary of
Agriculture for International Affairs and Commodity Programs.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 29.
APPROPRIATIONS--STATE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State,
and the Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1994 for the Department of State, receiving testimony from Warren
Christopher, Secretary of State.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for foreign
assistance, focusing on multilateral assistance funding and policy
issues, receiving testimony from Lloyd Bentsen, Secretary of the
Treasury.
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Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
HOME PROGRAM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
Housing and Urban Affairs concluded hearings on the implementation of
the HOME Investment Partnerships Program of the National Affordable
Housing Act (P.L. 101-625), designed to promote affordable housing and
community development, after receiving testimony from James W. Rouse,
Enterprise Foundation, Columbia, Maryland, and David O. Maxwell,
Washington, D.C., former Chairman and CEO, Federal National Mortgage
Association, both on behalf of the National Housing Task Force; Trudy P.
McFall, Maryland Community Development Administration, Baltimore, on
behalf of the National Council of State Housing Finance Agencies; Diane
Voneida, Community Development Department, Rockford, Illinois, on behalf
of the National Community Development Association; Barry Zigas, National
Low Income Housing Coalition, Washington, D.C.; and Lawrence A. Swanson,
ACTION-Housing, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings
on the nominations of Robert Armstrong, of Texas, to be Assistant
Secretary for Lands and Minerals Management, Bonnie R. Cohen, of
Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management, and
Budget, Elizabeth Ann Reike, of Arizona, to be Assistant Secretary for
Water and Science, and Leslie M. Turner, of New Jersey, to be Assistant
Secretary for Territorial and International Affairs, all of the
Department of the Interior, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Ms. Cohen was introduced by Senator
Kennedy, and Ms. Rieke was introduced by Senators DeConcini and McCain.
Also, committee began hearings on the nomination of Jim Baca, of New
Mexico, to be Director of the Bureau of Land Management, Department of
the Interior, where the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Bingaman
and Domenici, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
CALIFORNIA DESERT PROTECTION ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests held hearings on S. 21, to provide for the
protection of public lands in the California desert by designating their
resources as part of the National Park and National Wilderness System,
receiving testimony from Senators Feinstein and Boxer; Representatives
Lehman, Jerry Lewis, and McCandless; and Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the
Interior.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
CLEAN CAR TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air and
Nuclear Regulation held hearings to examine developments in technologies
for building, operating, and recycling automobiles to ensure a cleaner
environment, focusing on the use of battery-powered electric cars, fuel
cells, and compressed natural gas, receiving testimony from Alan C.
Lloyd, South Coast Air Quality Management District, Diamond Bar,
California; Gary A. Davis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; B. Jack
Smith, Southern California Gas Company, Los Angeles; Albert J. Sobey,
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; and Michael P. Walsh, Arlington, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Ronald K. Noble, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary
for Enforcement, Frank N. Newman, of California, to be Under Secretary
for Finance, Leslie B. Samuels, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary
for Tax Policy, and Jack R. DeVore, Jr., of Texas, to be Assistant
Secretary for Public Affairs, all of the Department of the Treasury.
FOREIGN TAX PROPOSALS
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the
Administration's proposals to tax foreign source royalties as passive
income for the foreign tax credit limitation (Section 936 of the
Internal Revenue Code), revise the earnings stripping rules, and the
revenue provisions affecting international businesses, receiving
testimony from Representatives Rangel and Gutierrez; Samuel Y. Sessions,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Puerto Rico
Governor Pedro J. Rossello, Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner Carlos
Romero-Barcelo, Arturo L. Carrion, Puerto Rico 936 Private Sector
Coalition, and Victoria Munoz, Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico,
each of San Juan; Luis P. Costas Elena, Puerto Ricans in Civic Action,
Santurce, Puerto Rico; Louis Nunez, National Puerto Rican Coalition,
Inc., Washington, D.C.; and Richard W. Leonard, AFL-CIO, Lakewood,
Colorado.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HATCH ACT REFORM AMENDMENTS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 185, 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, receiving testimony from James B. King, Director, Office
of Personnel Management.
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Hearings will continue on Friday, April 30.
VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee resumed hearings to examine
the present and future role of the Department of Veterans Affairs health
care system in America, receiving testimony from Michael F. Brinck,
AMVETS, Lanham, Maryland; Frank C. Buxton, The American Legion, Dennis
M. Cullinan, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Paul S.
Egan, Vietnam Veterans of America, David W. Gorman, Disabled American
Veterans, Gordon H. Mansfield, Paralyzed Veterans of America, all of
Washington, D.C.; Thomas L. Garthwaite, VA Medical Center, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, representing the National Association of VA Chiefs of Staff;
Thomas G. Kotheimer, Jr., VA Outpatient Clinic, Orlando, Florida,
representing the VA Physician Assistants Association and the American
Academy of Physician Assistants; George McKay, Marshall University
School of Medicine, Huntington, West Virginia; Margaret Ann Mahoney,
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts; Louise M. Stephens, VA
Medical Center, Dayton, Ohio, representing the Nurses Organization of
Veterans Affairs; and Daniel P. van Kammen, Highland Drive VA Medical
Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, representing the American Psychiatric
Association.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine congressional reform proposals, focusing on
committee structure, receiving testimony from Senators Chafee, Pell,
Leahy, Rockefeller, and Murkowski.
Committee will meet again on Thursday, April 29.
1993/04/28
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 28, 1993; pages D414 - D424
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Bob J. Nash, of Arkansas, to be Under
Secretary of Agriculture for Small Community and Rural Development and a
Member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation,
James R. Lyons, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
for Natural Resources and Environment, Richard E. Rominger, of
California, to be Deputy Secretary of Agriculture and a Member of the
Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation, Wardell C.
Townsend, Jr., of North Carolina, to be Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture for Administration, and Eugene Branstool, of Ohio, to be
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Inspection Services
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. Nash was introduced by Senators Bumpers and Pryor,
Mr. Lyons was introduced by Representative de la Garza, Mr. Rominger was
introduced by Senators Feinstein and Boxer and Representative Fazio, and
Mr. Branstool was introduced by Senators Glenn and Metzenbaum.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for the United States Air
Force, receiving testimony from Gen. Merrill A. McPeak, Chief of Air
Force Staff.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for certain programs of the
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and
related agencies, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, April 30.
BOSNIA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to discuss
the situation in Bosnia.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 12
military nominations in the Army, Marine Corps, and the Air Force.
Also, committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Jamie S.
Gorelick, of Maryland, to be General Counsel of the Department of
Defense, Maj. Gen. Michael E. Ryan, USAF, for appointment to the grade
of lieutenant general and to be Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, Maj. Gen. John J. Sheehan, USMC, for appointment to the
grade of lieutenant general and to be Director for Operations (J-3),
Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Lt. Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey,
USA, for reappointment to the grade of lieutenant general and to be
Director for Strategy, Plans and Policy (J-5), Office of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, after the nominees testified and answered questions in
their own behalf.
URBAN AMERICA
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held
hearings on the state of urban America, focusing on the status of the
civil unrest in Los Angeles, California, the impact of global and
national economic trends, community development initiatives, and 25
years after the report of the Kerner Commission (President Lyndon
Johnson's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders in the summer
of 1967), receiving testimony from Representative Waters; former Senator
Fred R. Harris, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Henry G.
Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; John W. Mack, Los
Angeles Urban League, Los Angeles, California; Lynn A. Curtis, Milton S.
Eisenhower Foundation, Washington, D.C.; and Joanne Watson, NAACP,
Detroit, Michigan.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings
on the nominations of Jim Baca, of New Mexico, to be Director of the
Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, after the nominee
further testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
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CALIFORNIA DESERT PROTECTION ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 21, to provide for
the protection of public lands in the California desert by designating
their resources as part of the National Park and National Wilderness
System, after receiving testimony from Sherri Wasserman Goodman, Deputy
Under Secretary of Defense for Environmental Security; Los Angeles City
Councilwoman Ruth Galanter, and Elden Hughes, Sierra Club, both of Los
Angeles, California; Imperial County Supervisor Sam Sharp, El Centro,
California; Bill Tilden, Desert Conservation Institute of the California
Mining Association, San Bernadino; Dana Bell, California Desert District
Advisory Council, Long Beach, on behalf of the American Motorcyclist
Association; William C. Matheson, Catellus Development Corporation, San
Francisco, California; Gerald E. Hillier, California Desert Coalition,
Riverside; and Karin P. Sheldon, The Wilderness Society, Washington,
D.C.
NOMINATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings
on the nomination of Robert M. Sussman, of the District of Columbia, to
be Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, after
the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Patrick Francis Kennedy, of Illinois, to be an Assistant
Secretary of State for Administration, Mary A. Ryan, of Texas, to be
Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, Eric James Boswell,
of California, to be Director of the Office of Foreign Missions, with
the rank of Ambassador, and Victor Marrero, of New York, to be the
Representative of the United States of America on the Economic and
Social Council of the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, after
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
FEDERAL TRADE DATA
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of
Government Management held oversight hearings to examine the credibility
of the Federal Government's State-by-State and national export data and
how this information was used to project North American Free Trade
Agreement related job growth, receiving testimony from Charles A. Waite,
Associate Director for Economic Programs, Bureau of the Census,
Department of Commerce; Allan I. Mendelowitz, Director, International
Trade, Finance, and Competitiveness Issues, General Government Division,
General Accounting Office; Thomas J. Plewes, Associate Commissioner,
Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics, Bureau of Labor
Statistics, Department of Labor; Steve Beckman, United Auto Workers,
Kevin L. Kearns, United States Business & Industrial Council, and
Jeffrey Schott, Institute for International Economics, all of
Washington, D.C.; and Fred Goff, DataCenter, Oakland, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AGING POPULATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Aging concluded
hearings to examine new directions in policy for the aging population,
after receiving testimony from Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and
Human Services.
FAMILY SUPPORT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children,
Family, Drugs, and Alcoholism concluded hearings to examine approaches
for supporting families in an effort to eliminate abuse and neglect and
to assist families that have, or may develop, health and related
problems, focusing on home visiting, family-centered substance abuse
treatment, and family resource and support programs, after receiving
testimony from Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, Tallahassee, and Lynda
Johnson Robb, McLean, Virginia, both on behalf of the National
Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality; Sarah E. Whye, Wanda Cave, and
Lillie Monroe-Lord, all of Washington, D.C., all on behalf of the Infant
Mortality Project (University of the District of Columbia); Joanne
Woodward, Westport, Connecticut, on behalf of the America Belongs to Our
Children Campaign; Lisa DeMatteis and Gail Higgins, both on behalf of
the Connections Women and Children Center, Middletown, Connecticut; Judy
Langford Carter, Family Resource Coalition, Chicago, Illinois; Margaret
E. Williams, Friends of the Family, Inc., and Shurnice Mackey, both of
Baltimore, Maryland; and Judith Anderson Moler, Corporation for Change,
Topeka, Kansas.
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Joint Meetings
NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION ACT
Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between
the Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 2, to establish national
voter registration procedures for Federal elections.
1993/04/29
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 29, 1993; pages D425 - D434
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered
favorably reported the nominations of Richard E. Rominger, of
California, to be Deputy Secretary, Eugene Branstool, of Ohio, to be
Assistant Secretary for Marketing and Inspection, and Bob J. Nash, of
Arkansas, to be Under Secretary for Small Community and Rural
Development, and each to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the
Commodity Credit Corporation, James R. Lyons, of Maryland, to be
Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources and the Environment, and
Wardell C. Townsend, Jr., of North Carolina, to be Assistant Secretary
for Administration, all of the Department of Agriculture.
ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND COMMERCIALIZATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Research, Conservation, Forestry and General Legislation
held oversight hearings on the implementation of the Alternative
Agricultural Research and Commercialization Act (P.L. 101-624),
receiving testimony from Paul F. O'Connell, Director, and Lee M. Reeve,
Member of the Board of Directors, both of the Alternative Agricultural
Research and Commercialization Center, Department of Agriculture; Gary
D. Jolliff, Oregon State University, Corvallis; Jeff Gain, New Uses
Council, St. Louis, Missouri; Mark Carver, Arkenol, Inc., Laguna Hills,
California; Michael J. Riebel, Phoenix Composites, Inc., Mankato,
Minnesota; and Bob Herzfeld, Cenex/Land O'Lakes Agronomy Services, and
Mark McAfee, Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, both of St.
Paul, Minnesota.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural
Development, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1994 for the Food and Consumer Services of the
Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony from George A. Braley,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Food and Consumer
Services.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for Navy and Marine Corps
programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from 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 Tuesday, May 4.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water
Development held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1994 for the Bonneville Power Administration, receiving testimony from
Randall W. Hardy, Administrator, Bonneville Power Administration,
Department of Energy.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--OPM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal
Service, and General Government held hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1994 for the Office of Personnel Management,
receiving testimony from James B. King, Director, Office of Personnel
Management.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 4.
APPROPRIATIONS--HUD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994
for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, receiving testimony
from Henry G. Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 6.
MILITARY POLICY TOWARD HOMOSEXUALS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings to examine
United States military policy concerning the service of gay men and
lesbians in the Armed Forces, focusing on the experience in foreign
countries, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. Calvin Waller, USA (Ret.);
Charles C. Moskos, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; David R.
Sega, University of Maryland, College Park; and Judith H. Stiehm,
Florida International University, Miami.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Development: Committee
concluded hearings on the nominations of Kenneth D. Brody, of New York,
to be President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, and
Roberta Achtenberg, of California, to be Assistant Secretary for Fair
Housing and Equal Opportunity, and Nicolas P. Retsinas, of Rhode Island,
to be an Assistant Secretary (as Federal Housing Commissioner), both of
the Department of Housing and Urban Development, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Ms. Achtenberg was
introduced by Senators Boxer, Feinstein, and Lieberman, and
Representative Pelosi, and Mr. Retsinas was introduced by Senator Pell.
INDUSTRIAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Renewable
Energy, Energy Efficiency and Competitiveness concluded hearings to
examine ways to improve energy efficiency and minimize waste in the
industrial sector, focusing on prospects for industrial energy
efficiency and pollution prevention in the United States, technical
opportunities available for improving industrial energy efficiency and
minimizing waste, and to assess the Federal Government's role in
improving the Nation's use of energy in the industrial sector, after
receiving testimony from Alan J. Streb, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Industrial Technologies, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy, and Dan Hartley, Vice President of the Energy and Environment
Division, Sandia National Laboratories, both of the Department of
Energy; Peter D. Blair, Acting Assistant Director, and John Newman,
Project Director, Energy and Materials Program, both of the Office of
Technology Assessment; Samuel Kramer, Associate Director, National
Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce; Clark W.
Gellings, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, California; and
Michael E. Baroody, National Association of Manufacturers, and Howard
Geller, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, both of
Washington, D.C.
INVESTMENT TAX CREDIT
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the
Administration's investment tax credit proposals to increase private
investment in the United States, and proposals to reform the tax
deduction for business meals and entertainment, receiving testimony from
Jane G. Gravelle, Senior Specialist in Economic Policy, Congressional
Research Service, Library of Congress; C. Fred Bergsten, Competitiveness
Policy Council, Harry Sullivan, Tax Reform Action Coalition, Peter
McNeish, Small Business Legislative Council, Mortimer M. Caplin, Caplin
& Drysdale, Robert E. Juliano, Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees
International Union (AFL-CIO), and Robert S. McIntyre, Citizens for Tax
Justice, all of Washington, D.C.; Chip Berman, The Outta The Way Cafe,
Rockville, Maryland, on behalf of the National Restaurant Association;
and George A. Wachtel, League of American Theatres and Producers, New
York, New York.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of J. Brian Atwood, of the District of Columbia, to be
Administrator of the Agency for International Development, United States
International Development Cooperation Agency, Wendy Ruth Sherman, of
Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs,
and Conrad Kenneth Harper, of New York, to be Legal Advisor of the
Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered questions
in their own behalf. Ms. Sherman was introduced by Senators Sarbanes and
Mikulski.
NATIONAL DRUG STRATEGY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine the
national drug control policy, focusing on law enforcement, drug
treatment and prevention programs, receiving testimony from Herbert D.
Kleber, Columbia University, New York, New York; Mark A.R. Kleiman,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Peter Reuter, RAND
Corporation, Washington, D.C.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
OREGON ELECTION PETITIONS
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee met and received a
proposal regarding the petitions relating to the election in Oregon by
Claire M. Sylvia, Assistant Legal Counsel, Office of Senate Legal
Counsel.
Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine congressional reform proposals, focusing on
committee structure, receiving testimony from Representatives Tony Hall,
Emerson, Solomon, Dingell, Studds, Bateman, Clay, Myers, Gonzalez, and
Leach.
Committee will meet again on Tuesday, May 4.
1993/04/30
Daily Digest - Friday, April 30, 1993; pages D436 - D442
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION/RELATED AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for certain programs of the
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and
related agencies, receiving testimony from Senator Exon; and numerous
public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, May 3.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to discuss
field visits concerning the issue of gays and lesbians in the Armed
Forces.
Committee recessed subject to call.
FOREIGN TAX PROPOSALS
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine the
Administration's proposals to tax foreign source royalties as passive
income for the foreign tax credit limitation (Section 936 of the
Internal Revenue Code), revise the earnings stripping rules, and the
revenue provisions affecting international businesses, receiving
testimony from Senator Burns; Michael W. Brown, Microsoft Corporation,
Redmond, Washington; Murray S. Scureman, Amdahl Corporation, J.D.
Foster, Tax Foundation, and Harvey L. Coustan, American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants, all of Washington, DC; and Erik G. Nelson,
Procter and Gamble, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HATCH ACT REFORM AMENDMENTS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed hearings on S. 185,
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, receiving testimony from David H. Rosenbloom, on behalf
of the National Academy of Public Administration, and Bernard Rosen,
former Executive Director, United States Civil Service Commission, both
of American University, David Burckman, Association of Former Internal
Revenue Executives, and Marvin H. Morse, Federal Bar Association, all of
Washington, DC; and David Denholm, Public Service Research Council,
Reston, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1993/05/03
Daily Digest - Monday, May 3, 1993; pages D444 - D448
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION/RELATED AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for certain programs of the
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and
related agencies, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 5.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/05/04
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 4, 1993; pages D450 - D458
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--SDI
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on the future of the Strategic Defense Initiative
program, receiving testimony from Maj. Gen. Malcolm O'Neill, USA, Acting
Director, Strategic Defense Organization, Department of Defense.
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Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--SMITHSONIAN
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994
for the Smithsonian Institution, receiving testimony from Robert McC.
Adams, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 6.
APPROPRIATIONS--EXECUTIVE RESIDENCE/OMB
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service,
and General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1994, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Robert G. Stanton, Regional Director, James
I. McDaniel, Associate Regional Director, and Maryanne Murillo, Budget
Analysis, all of the Executive Residence at the White House; and Leon E.
Panetta, Director, Office of Management and Budget.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 6.
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered
favorably reported the nomination of Kenneth D. Brody, of New York, to
be President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
HUD MANAGEMENT REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held
hearings to examine the management activities of the Department of
Housing and Urban Development [HUD], focusing on systemic management
deficiencies and possible solutions, receiving testimony from Henry G.
Cisneros, Secretary, and John J. Connors, Deputy Inspector General,
Office of Inspector General, both of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION ASPECTS OF NAFTA
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings to examine the implications of the North American Free-Trade
Agreement [NAFTA] on the competitiveness of the United States surface
transportation industry, including the impact on bus and trucking
operations between Mexico and the United States, and the effect of
continued restrictions on United States investment in Mexican domestic
and international trucking companies, after receiving testimony from
Arnold Levine, Director, Office of International Transportation and
Trade, Department of Transportation; John Collins, American Trucking
Associations, Edwin L. Harper, Association of American Railroads, Aaron
Belk, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and James M.
Brunkenhoefer, United Transportation Union, representing the Rail Labor
Executives' Association, all of Washington, D.C.; Fred E. Kaiser,
Kerrville Bus Company, Inc., Kerrville, Texas, representing the United
Bus Owners Association and the American Bus Association; and Ronald R.
Maas, Nebraska Wheat Board, Lincoln, representing the National
Association of Wheat Growers.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings
on the nominations of Thomas P. Grumbly, of Virginia, to be Assistant
Secretary for Environmental Restoration and Management, and Susan
Fallows Tierney, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secretary for
Domestic and International Energy Policy, both of the Department of
Energy, and John D. Leshy, of Arizona, to be Solicitor of the Department
of the Interior, after the nominees testified and answered questions in
their own behalf. Ms. Tierney was introduced by Senators Kennedy and
Kerry and Representative Markey. Testimony was also received on the
nominations of Mr. Grumbly and Ms. Tierney from Hazel R. O'Leary,
Secretary of Energy.
HARDROCK MINING REFORM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Mineral
Resources Development and Production concluded hearings on proposals to
impose royalties on the extraction of hardrock minerals from public
lands and impose fees on the holders of claims, including S. 775, to
modify the requirements applicable to locatable minerals on public
lands, consistent with the principles of self-initiation of mining
claims, after receiving testimony from Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the
Interior; Jan Paul Acton, Assistant Director, Natural Resources and
Commerce Division, Congressional Budget Office; John L. Dobra,
University of Nevada, Reno, on behalf of the Natural Resource Industry
Institute; Philip M. Hocker, Mineral Policy Center, Washington, D.C.;
and Stephen D. Alfers, Morrison & Foerster, Denver, Colorado.
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NOMINATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nomination of Robert M. Sussman, of the District of
Columbia, to be Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection
Agency.
TAXATION OF SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the Administration's
proposal to make the rules for taxing Social Security benefits more
consistent with the rules for taxing benefits under private retirement
plans, by increasing the maximum taxable portion of Social Security
benefits from 50 to 85 percent, receiving testimony from Randolf H.
Hardock, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy, and Marina L.
Weiss, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Policy, both of the
Department of the Treasury; Louis D. Enoff, Acting Commissioner of
Social Security, Department of Health and Human Services; Robert J.
Myers, Silver Spring, Maryland, former Chief Actuary, Social Security
Administration; Robert M. Ball, National Academy of Social Insurance,
former Commissioner of Social Security, Letitia Chambers, Chambers
Associates Incorporated, C. Eugene Steuerle, The Urban Institute, and
Ronald F. Pollack, Families USA, all of Washington, D.C.; Jonathan Barry
Forman, University of Oklahoma College of Law, Norman; and Judith Brown,
Edina, Minnesota, on behalf of the American Association of Retired
Persons.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Harry J. Gilmore, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Armenia, Pamela Harriman, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to
France, Victor Jackovich, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Bosnia and Herzegovina, and E. Allan Wendt, of California, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Slovenia, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Ms. Harriman was introduced by
Senator Robb.
SUDAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs held
hearings to examine the situation in Sudan, focusing on human rights
violations, and on S. Res. 94, expressing the sense of the Senate with
respect to the tragic humanitarian crisis in Sudan, receiving testimony
from George E. Moose, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs;
James Kunder, Director, Office of United States Foreign Disaster
Assistance, Agency for International Development; Nelson Kasfi,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Robert O. Collins, University
of California, Santa Barbara; Roger P. Winter, U.S. Committee for
Refugees, Washington, D.C.; and Judith A. Mayotte, Women's Commission
for Refugee Women and Children and Refugees International, New York, New
York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EDUCATION REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S.
846, to improve learning and teaching by providing a national framework
for educational reform, receiving testimony from Richard W. Riley,
Secretary of Education; Vermont Commissioner of Education Richard P.
Mills, Montpelier; George H. Kaye, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston,
Massachusetts; Linda F. Davis, San Francisco Unified School District,
San Francisco, California; Tracey L. Bailey, Satellite High School,
Melbourne, Florida; and Norman Conard, Uniontown High School, Uniontown,
Kansas.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine congressional reform proposals, focusing on
committee structure, receiving testimony from Senators Inouye and
McCain; and Representative LaFalce.
Committee will meet again on Thursday, May 6.
1993/05/05
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 5, 1993; pages D459 - D468
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 1994 for the Department of
Defense medical programs, receiving testimony from Edward D. Martin,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs; Vice Adm.
Donald F. Hagen, USN, Surgeon General of the Navy; Lt. Gen. Alexander M.
Sloan, USAF, Surgeon General of the Air Force; Lt. Gen. Alcide M.
Lanoue, USA, Surgeon General of the Army; Rear Adm. Mariann Stratton,
USN, Director of the Navy Nurse Corps; Brig. Gen. Nancy R. Adams, USA,
Chief of the Army Nurse Corps; and Brig. Gen. Sue E. Turner, USAF,
Director, Nursing Services, Air Force Nurse Corps.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 11.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for certain programs of the
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and
related agencies, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, May 7.
APPROPRIATIONS--FAA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for the
Federal Aviation Administration [FAA], focusing on the modernization of
the air traffic control system, receiving testimony from Allen Li,
Associate Director of Transportation Issues, Resources, Community and
Economic Development, General Accounting Office; Joseph M. Del Balzo,
Acting Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation; John R. Ryan, Air Transport Association, Washington, DC;
and Phil Boyer, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, Frederick,
Maryland.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 13.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Readiness and
Defense Infrastructure held open and closed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Defense, and to review the fiscal years 1995-99 future years defense
program, focusing on the readiness and sustainability of posture of
selected unified combatant commands, receiving testimony from Rear Adm.
Harold W. Gehman, Jr., USN, Director for Operations, United States
Atlantic Command; Maj. Gen. Waldo D. Freeman, USA, Deputy Commander in
Chief, United States Central Command; Maj. Gen. Frank L. Miller, Jr.,
USA, Director for Operations, United States Forces Command; and Maj.
Gen. George R. Christmas, USMC, Director for Operations, United States
Pacific Command.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered
favorably reported the nominations of Roberta Achtenberg, of California,
and Nicolas P. Retsinas, of Rhode Island, each to be an Assistant
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
ABANDONED LAND REUSE ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
hearings on S. 299, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1994-1996 for
grants to local governments or nonprofit community development
corporations to carry out a program to redevelop or rehabilitate
abandoned industrial and commercial facilities that are located in
economically and socially distressed communities, after receiving
testimony from Senator Jeffords; Michigan State Representative Gregory
E. Pitoniak, Lansing; Edward Parker, Connecticut Department of
Environmental Protection, Hartford; Ted Wysocki, Chicago Association of
Neighborhood Development Organizations, Chicago, Illinois; Salvatore
Scotto, Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation, Brooklyn, New
York; Sandy McCollum, Southeast Community Development Inc., Baltimore,
Maryland; and Benjamin Chavis, NAACP, Washington, DC.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of Robert Armstrong, of Texas, to be Assistant
Secretary for Land and Minerals Management, Jim Baca, of New Mexico, to
be the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, Bonnie R. Cohen, of
Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and
Budget, Elizabeth Ann Reike, of Arizona, to be Assistant Secretary for
Water and Science, and Leslie M. Turner, of New Jersey, to be Assistant
Secretary for Territorial and International Affairs, all of the
Department of the Interior.
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NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Alexander Fletcher Watson, of Massachusetts, to be
Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, after the
nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
AUTHORIZATION--FOREIGN AID
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic
Policy, Trade, Oceans and Environment held hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for foreign
assistance programs, focusing on changing priorities in foreign aid,
receiving testimony from Richard E. Bissell, former Assistant
Administrator for the Agency for International Development, and John W.
Sewell, both of the Overseas Development Council, Janet Welsh Brown,
World Resources Institute, Richard N. Haass, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, Kenneth D. Wollack, National Democratic Institute,
and Lorne Craner, International Republican Institute, all of Washington,
DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills:
S. 55, to prevent discrimination based on participation in labor
disputes; and
H.R. 670, to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to
ensure that pregnant women receiving assistance under title X of the
Public Health Service Act are provided with information and counseling
regarding their pregnancies.
HYSTERECTOMIES
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Aging held
hearings to examine issues related to hysterectomies, focusing on the
need to better understand the conditions and diseases treated by
hysterectomy, the psychological and familial impact resulting from this
type of surgical procedure, and the need for additional research to
develop alternative therapies and nonsurgical interventions, receiving
testimony from Vivian W. Pinn, Director, Office of Research on Women's
Health, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human
Services; George W. Morley, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann
Arbor, on behalf of the American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists; Veronica Ravnikar, University of Massachusetts Medical
Center, and Karen Carlson, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard
Medical School, both of Boston; Arnold L. Widen, Blue Cross and Blue
Shield of Illinois, Chicago; Joseph C. Gambone, University of California
School of Medicine, Los Angeles; Gloria A. Bachmann, University of
Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Brunswick; Mary Lou Ballweg,
Endometriosis Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Mary Anne Marchese,
Arnold, Maryland; and Greta Eley, Cheverly, Maryland.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ALASKA WATER AND SANITATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings to
examine water and sanitation problems in Alaska, receiving testimony
from Tudor T. Davies, Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of
Water, Environmental Protection Agency; Gary Hartz, Director,
Environmental Health Division, Indian Health Service, Department of
Health and Human Services; Terrence R. Duvernay, Deputy Secretary, and
Dominic A. Nessi, Director, Office of Indian Housing, both of the
Department of Housing and Urban Development; Joe Kahklen, Alaska Liaison
Officer, Office of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; John
Sandor, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, Juneau; Mayor
Niles Smith, Hooper Bay, Alaska; former Mayor Franklin Matchian, Chevak,
Alaska; Julie Kitka, Alaska Federation of Natives, and Anne M. Walker,
Alaska Native Health Board, both of Anchorage; Larry Merculieff, Alaska
Rural Sanitation Task Force, Saint Paul Island; Donn G. Kruse, Bethel,
Alaska, and Myrtle Van Dorn, Aniak, Alaska, both on behalf of the
Yukon-Kuskokwin Health Corporation; Maurice Ninham, Norton Sound Health
Corporation, Nome, Alaska; Mary Nathaniel, Tanana Chief Conference,
Chalkyitsik, Alaska; and Paul Gregory, Bethel, Alaska.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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Joint Meetings
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 1994 for certain programs of the
government of the District of Columbia, receiving testimony from
numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
1993/05/06
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 6, 1993; pages D469 - D478
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994
for the National Park Service, receiving testimony from Herbert S.
Cables, Jr., Acting Director, and C. Bruce Sheaffer, Comptroller, both
of the National Park Service, and Thomas Williams, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, all of the Department of the
Interior.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday,May 11.
APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service,
and General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1994 for the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony
from Lloyd Bentsen, Secretary of the Treasury.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994
for the Commission on National and Community Service, receiving
testimony from Catherine Milton, Executive Director, and Frances
Hesselbein, Board Member, both of the Commission on National and
Community Service; and Peter B. Edelman, Counselor to the Secretary of
Health and Human Services, and Senior Adviser, White House Office of
National Service.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday,May 13.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Force Requirements and
Personnel held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Defense, and the future years
defense program, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. Robert M. Alexander,
USAF, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Manpower and
Personnel Policy; 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 Wednesday, May 19.
U.S. COMPETITIVENESS ASPECTS OF NAFTA
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held
hearings to examine the effects of the North American Free-Trade
Agreement on United States competitiveness, receiving testimony from
Michael Kantor, United States Trade Representative; Thomas Donahue,
AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C.; Lester C. Thurow, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge; and Walter Y. Elisha, Springs Industries, Fort
Mill, South Carolina.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HARDROCK MINING REFORM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported S. 775, to modify the requirements applicable to locatable
minerals on public lands, consistent with the principles of
self-initiation of mining claims.
INTERNATIONAL FUSION ENERGY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources : Committee concluded hearings
on S. 646, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1994-1996 to establish
within the Department of Energy an international fusion energy program,
after receiving testimony from James F. Decker, Deputy Director of the
Office of Energy Research, Department of Energy; Paul-Henri Rebut,
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, La Jolla, California;
Robert L. Hirsch, Electric Power Research Institute, Washington, D.C.;
David O. Overskei, General Atomics, San Diego, California; and Joseph G.
Gavin, Jr., Huntington, New York, on behalf of the Grumman Aerospace
Corporation.
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PUBLIC LANDS AND NATIONAL RIVERS SYSTEM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills:
S. 172 and H.R. 63, bills to establish the Spring Mountains National
Recreation Area in Nevada, after receiving testimony from Lois Sagel,
Citizens for a Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, Las Vegas,
Nevada; and Ted Wilton, Nevada Mining Association, Reno;
S. 184, to provide for the exchange of certain lands within the State of
Utah, after receiving testimony from Senator Hatch; and Utah Governor
Michael O. Leavitt, Salt Lake City;
S. 250, to designate certain segments of the Red River in Kentucky as
components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, after
receiving testimony from Oscar H. Geralds, Jr., Sierra Club (Cumberland
Chapter), Lexington, Kentucky;
S. 489, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire, by exchange
and cash equalization, certain lands and interests along the Gallatin
Range north of Yellowstone National Park, after receiving testimony from
Senator Baucus and Burns; Joseph W. Sabol, Big Sky Lumber Company, and
Bart Koehler, Greater Yellowstone Coalition, both of Bozeman, Montana;
and Verna Lou Landis, North Bridger Alliance, Wilsall, Montana; and
S. 577, to require the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior to
identify certain lands that were transferred to the United States under
the Forest Management Act of 1897 without compensation or selection
rights received in return, after receiving testimony from Representative
Hansen.
Testimony was also received on all the aforementioned bills from Kemp
Conn, Deputy Assistant Director for Land and Renewable Resources, Bureau
of Land Management, Department of the Interior; and Mark Reimers, Deputy
Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.
AUTHORIZATION--SUPERFUND
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund,
Recycling, and Solid Waste Issues held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for programs of the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund), focusing
on the human health and environmental effects of hazardous substances
released at Superfund sites, receiving testimony from Barry L. Johnson,
Assistant Administrator, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry, Department of Health and Human Services; David M. Kennedy,
Director, Hazardous Materials Response and Assessment Division, National
Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Department of Commerce; Bruce Blanchard, Deputy Director, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior; Elizabeth Bowen, Morehouse
School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of Physicians for Social
Responsibility; Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., NAACP, Cleveland, Ohio, on
behalf of the Commission for Racial Justice; Penny J. Newman, Glen Avon,
California, on behalf of Concerned Neighbors in Action; Terry L. Hale,
Aspen Concerned Citizens, Aspen, Colorado; and Trygve B. Sletteland,
Redding, California, on behalf of the Sacramento River Information
Center.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Alicia Haydock Munnell, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant
Secretary for Economic Policy, Michael B. Levy, of Texas, to be Deputy
Under Secretary for Legislative Affairs, Jeffrey Richard Shafer, of New
Jersey, to be Deputy Under Secretary for International Affairs, Margaret
Milner Richardson, of Texas, to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Service, and George J. Weise, of Virginia, to be Commissioner of
Customs, all of the Department of the Treasury.
Prior to this action, committee concluded hearings on the above
nominations, after the nominees testified and answered questions in
their own behalf. Mr. Weise was introduced by Senator Baucus and
Representative Rostenkowski, Ms. Munnell was introduced by
Representative Kennedy, Ms. Richardson was introduced by Representative
Pickle, and Mr. Levy was introduced by Representative Geren.
CHILD IMMUNIZATION
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health for Families and the
Uninsured held hearings to examine the state of childhood immunizations
in the United States, and on S. 733, to provide for the immunization of
all children in the United States against vaccine-preventable diseases,
receiving testimony from Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human
Services; Louis Z. Cooper, St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital Center, New
York, New York, on behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics; Marian
Wright Edelman, Children's Defense Fund, Washington, D.C.; Samuel L.
Katz, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, on
behalf of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices; Jean-Pierre
Garnier, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
Ronald J. Saldarini, Lederle-Praxis Biologicals, Wayne, New Jersey;
David J. Williams, Connaught Laboratories, Inc., Swiftwater,
Pennsylvania; and Heidi Snarr, Lansing, Michigan.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Thomas R. Pickering, of New Jersey, with the personal
rank of Career Ambassador to the Russian Federation, Patrick Francis
Kennedy, of Illinois, to be Assistant Secretary of State for
Administration, Mary A. Ryan, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary of
State for Consular Affairs, Eric James Boswell, of California, to be
Director of the Office of Foreign Missions, with the rank of Ambassador,
Victor Marrero, of New York, to be the U.S. Representative on the
Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, with the rank of
Ambassador, J. Brian Atwood, of the District of Columbia, to be
Administrator of the Agency for International Development, Wendy Ruth
Sherman, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative
Affairs, Conrad Kenneth Harper, of New York, to be Legal Adviser of the
Department of State, George E. Moose, of Maryland, to be a Member of the
Board of Directors of the African Development Foundation, Harry J.
Gilmore, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia,
Pamela Harriman, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to France, Victor
Jackovich, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, and E. Allan Wendt, of California, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Slovenia.
MEDICAL RADIATION REGULATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine
Federal and State regulation of the medical uses of ionizing radiation,
receiving testimony from Ivan Selin, Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory
Commission; D. Bruce Burlington, Director, and Ronald M. Johnson,
Director, Office of Compliance and Surveillance, Marvin Rosenstein,
Director, Office of Health Physics, and Donald Hamilton, Radiation
Policy Advisor, Office of Health Physics, all of the Center for Devices
and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration, Department of
Health and Human Services; and Aubrey V. Godwin, Conference of Radiation
Control Program Directors, Inc., Frankfort, Kentucky.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills:
S. 578, to protect the free exercise of religion;
S. 298, to provide additional patent protection to the biotechnology
industry; and
S. 409, to extend the terms of certain patents, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute.
NOMINATION
Committee on Small Business: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Erskine B. Bowles, of North Carolina, to be Administrator,
Small Business Administration.
Prior to this action, committee concluded hearings on the above
nomination, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Helms and
Faircloth and Representatives Watt and McMillan, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
VA FACILITIES AND CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Veterans Affairs major medical facility construction and lease projects,
after receiving testimony from C. Wayne Hawkins, Deputy Under Secretary
of Veterans Affairs for Health for Administration and Operations; David
P. Baine, Director, Federal Health Care Delivery, Human Resources
Division, General Accounting Office; and Marjorie R. Quandt, former
Executive Director, Commission on the Future Structure of Veterans
Health Care, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Terry Grandison,
Paralyzed Veterans of America, both of Washington, D.C.
PREVENTIVE HEALTH
Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings to examine the
importance of health promotion and disease prevention programs for older
Americans, receiving testimony from Robert N. Butler, Mount Sinai School
of Medicine, New York, New York; Pearl S. German, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland; Mary Edith Rogers, Gastonia, North
Carolina, on behalf of the American Association of Retired Persons;
Dileep G. Bal, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, on
behalf of the Coalition on Smoking or Health; and Michael F. Jacobson,
Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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Joint Meetings
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 1994 for the government of the District
of Columbia, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday,May 11.
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine congressional reform proposals, focusing on
committee structure, receiving testimony from Representatives Schroeder,
Maloney, Clayton, Montgomery, Rose, Mineta, Shuster, Hyde, and Roberts.
Committee will meet again on Tuesday, May 11.
BUSINESS MEETING
Office of Technology Assessment: The Board met and approved the
following new project proposals:
1. Agriculture, Trade, and the Environment.
2. Aquaculture: Food and Renewable Resources from U.S. Waters. 11
3. Issues Related to AIDS/HIV Technologies.
Also, committee approved the appointment of Dr. Roger C. Herdman as the
new Director of the Office of Technology Assessment.
1993/05/07
Daily Digest - Friday, May 7, 1993; pages D479 - D486
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for certain programs of the
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and
related agencies, receiving testimony from Senators Craig and Feinstein;
Arthur S. Flemming, former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare;
and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 12.
MILITARY POLICY TOWARD HOMOSEXUALS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings to examine
United States military policy concerning the service of gay men and
lesbians in the Armed Forces, receiving testimony from Senators
Metzenbaum, Murkowski, Kerry, Burns, Feinstein, and Boxer.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 11.
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Frank N. Newman, of California, to be
Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance, after the nominee
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
ANTITRUST IMPACT ON HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Medicare and Long-Term Care held
hearings to examine antitrust implications of recent proposals to reform
the national health care delivery system, receiving testimony from
Senator Metzenbaum; James C. Egan, Jr., Director for Litigation, Bureau
of Competition, Federal Trade Commission; Maryland Assistant Attorney
General Ellen S. Cooper, Baltimore, on behalf of the National
Association of Attorneys General; Phillip A. Proger, Jones, Day, Reavis,
and Pogue, and Erling Hansen, Group Health Association of America, Inc.,
both of Washington, DC; Jerald R. Schenken, Omaha, Nebraska, on behalf
of the American Medical Association; Beverly L. Malone, North Carolina
A&T University, Greensboro, on behalf of the American Nurses
Association; Eugene P. Pawlowski, Bluefield Regional Medical Center,
Bluefield, West Virginia, on behalf of the American Hospital
Association; and Steve Wetzell, Business Health Care Action Group,
Minnetonka, Minnesota.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Douglas J. Bennet, Jr., of Connecticut, to be Assistant
Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, Elinor G.
Constable, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of
State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs,
and John Howard Francis Shattuck, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant
Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr.
Bennet was introduced by Senator Dodd, and Mr. Shattuck was introduced
by Senator Kennedy.
Joint Meetings
EMPLOYMENT--UNEMPLOYMENT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings on the
employment-unemployment situation for April, receiving testimony from
William G. Barron, Jr., Acting Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Department of Labor.
Committee recessed subject to call.
1993/05/10
Daily Digest - Monday, May 10, 1993; pages D487 - D490
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
OREGON ELECTION PETITIONS
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee met and received oral
arguments regarding the petitions relating to the election in Oregon
from Katherine A. Meyer, Meyer and Glitzenstein, Counsel for the
Petitioners, and James F. Fitzpatrick, Arnold and Porter, Counsel for
Senator Packwood, both of Washington, DC.
Committee recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/05/11
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 11, 1993; pages D491 - 500
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Ellen W. Haas, of New York, to be
Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Services, and a Member of the
Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation, Eugene Moos, of
Washington, to be Under Secretary for International Affairs and
Commodity Programs, and a Member of the Board of Directors of the
Commodity Credit Corporation, and James S. Gilliland, of Tennessee, to
be General Counsel, all of the Department of Agriculture, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Ms. Haas
was introduced by Senator Leahy, Mr. Moos was introduced by
Representative Foley, and Mr. Gilliland was introduced by Senators
Sasser and Mathews.
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural
Development, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Agriculture,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from R. Dean Plowman, Acting Assistant Secretary for Science and
Education, Essex E. Finney, Acting Administrator, Agricultural Research
Service, John Patrick Jordan, Administrator, Cooperative State Research
Service, Myron D. Johnsrud, Administrator, Extension Service, Martin L.
Andreas, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Alternative Agricultural
Research and Commercialization Center, and Stephen B. Dewhurst, Budget
Officer, all of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 18.
APPROPRIATIONS--U.S. TRADE REPRESENTATIVE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State,
and the Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1994 for the Office of the United States Trade Representative,
receiving testimony from Michael Kantor, U.S. Trade Representative.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 20.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE (NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE)
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on National Guard and Reserve programs, receiving
testimony from John L. Laughlin, Senior Civilian Official, Office of the
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs; Lt. Gen. John B.
Conaway, USAF, Chief, National Guard Bureau; Maj. Gen. John R. D'Araujo,
Jr., USA, Director, Army National Guard; Maj. Gen. Philip G. Killey,
USAF, 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. Thomas F. Hall, USN, Director of Naval Reserve; and Maj. Gen.
Jeffrey W. Oster, USMC, Assistant Deputy Chief of Marine Corps Staff for
Manpower and Reserve Affairs.
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Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1994, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Anthony J. Hope, Chairman, Indian Gaming Commission,
Eddie F. Brown, Assistant Secretary, and Hilda Manuel, Director, Indian
Gaming Management Staff, both of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Oscar
Mueller, Acting Director, Office of Construction Management, all of the
Department of the Interior.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
MILITARY POLICY TOWARD HOMOSEXUALS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings to examine
United States military policy concerning the service of gay men and
lesbians in the armed forces, receiving testimony from Maj. Kathleen G.
Bergeron, USMC, Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Quantico,
Virginia; Command Master Chief David Borne, USN, U.S.S. America; Col.
Frederick C. Peck, USMC, Public Affairs Officer, Camp Pendleton,
California; Chief Petty Officer Stevens R. Amidon, USN, Chief
Electronics Technician; Sgt. Justin Elzie, USMC, Camp Lejeune, North
Carolina; Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA (Ret.); Margarethe
Carnmermeyer, former Colonel and Chief Nurse, Washington Army National
Guard; and Thomas Paniccia, former Staff Sergeant, United States Air
Force.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Nuclear Deterrence, Arms
Control and Defense Intelligence held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Defense and
the future years defense program, focusing on Trident submarine and
missile programs, receiving testimony from Rear Adm. John T. Mitchell,
USN, Director, Strategic Systems Program Office, United States Navy.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 19.
PUBLIC HOUSING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
Housing and Urban Affairs concluded hearings to examine tools to
revitalize severely distressed public housing, after receiving testimony
from David Gilmore, San Francisco Housing Authority, San Francisco,
California; Stephen J. O'Rourke, Providence Housing Authority,
Providence, Rhode Island; Richard C. Gentry, Richmond Redevelopment and
Housing Authority, Richmond, Virginia; Irene Johnson, LeClaire Courts
Resident Management Corporation (Chicago Housing Authority), Chicago,
Illinois; and James G. Stockard, Jr., Stockard & Engler, Inc.,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings
on the nominations of Vicky A. Bailey, of Indiana, James John Hoecker,
of Virginia, William Lloyd Massey, of Arkansas, and Donald Farley Santa,
of Connecticut, 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. Ms. Bailey was introduced by
Senator Lugar and Representative Sharp, and Mr. Massey was introduced by
Senator Bumpers.
EPA BUDGET
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings
on the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1994 for the
Environmental Protection Agency, focusing on improved management of
environmental programs, and increased Federal investments to protect
public health and natural ecosystems, after receiving testimony from
Carol M. Browner, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency.
START II TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the
Treaty Between the United States and the Russian Federation on Further
Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START II Treaty)
signed at Moscow on January 3, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 103-1), receiving
testimony from Warren Christopher, Secretary of State.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HATCH ACT REFORM AMENDMENTS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee began markup of S. 185, 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, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again
on Thursday, May 13.
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NATIONAL SERVICE TRUST ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on
S. 919, to authorize funds to establish a Corporation for National
Service, enhance opportunities for national service, and provide
national service educational awards to persons participating in such
service, after receiving testimony from Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the
Interior; Catherine Milton, Executive Director, Commission on National
and Community Service; Gerald W. McEntee, American Federation of State,
County and Municipal Employees, Washington, D.C.; Dennis Brunton and Ada
Liz Merced, both of Roger L. Putnam Vocational Technical High School,
Springfield, Massachusetts; and Mary Noble and Robert Hurt, both of
Webster Open School, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Joint Meetings
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
Joint Committee on Printing: Committee concluded hearings to review the
current financial status of the Government Printing Office (GPO), and
certain recommendations resulting from a recent audit of GPO's fiscal
year 1992 financial statements, after receiving testimony from David L.
Clark, Director, Legislative Review and Audit Oversight, General
Accounting Office; Michael F. DiMario, Acting Public Printer, Government
Printing Office; George Lord, Chairman, Joint Council of GPO Unions; and
J.A. Meriwether, Arthur Andersen & Company, and William J. Boarman,
Communications Workers of America (AFL-CIO), both of Washington, D.C.
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 1994 for certain programs of the
government of the District of Columbia, after receiving testimony from
Representative Hoyer; and numerous public witnesses.
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine congressional reform proposals, focusing on
committee structure, receiving testimony from Senators Pryor, Cohen, and
Bumpers; and Representatives de la Garza, Moorhead, and Clinger.
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Committee will meet again on Thursday, May 13.
1993/05/12
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 12, 1993; pages D501 - D508
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 1994 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on tactical aircraft programs, receiving testimony
from Senator Feinstein; John Deutch, Under Secretary of Defense for
Acquisition; and Robert F. Hale, Assistant Director for National
Security, Congressional Budget Office.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for foreign
assistance programs, focusing on United States foreign policy and
security interests, receiving testimony from Lynn E. Davis, Under
Secretary of State for International Security Affairs.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 18.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1994, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Robert L. San Martin, Acting Assistant Secretary for
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and Jack S. Siegel, Acting
Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, both of the Department of Energy.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 19.
APPROPRIATIONS--EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Education,
receiving testimony from Richard W. Riley, Secretary, and Madeleine
Kunin, Deputy Secretary, both of the Department of Education; and Peter
B. Edelman, Counselor to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and
Senior Adviser, White House Office of National Service.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, May 14.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of John D. Leshy, of Arizona, to be Solicitor
of the Department of the Interior, and Susan Fallows Tierney, of
Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secretary (Domestic and International
Energy Policy), and Thomas P. Grumbly, of Virginia, to be Assistant
Secretary (Environmental Restoration and Management), both of the
Department of Energy.
AUTHORIZATION--SUPERFUND
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund,
Recycling, and Solid Waste Issues resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980
(Superfund), receiving testimony from Carol M. Browner, Administrator,
Environmental Protection Agency.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--FOREIGN RELATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations held hearings on proposed authorizations for
fiscal years 1994 and 1995 for foreign assistance programs, receiving
testimony from Richard L. Greene, Associate Comptroller for Budget and
Planning, Department of State; Stanley M. Silverman, Comptroller, United
States Information Agency; Carl Gershman, President, National Endowment
for Democracy; and Mark Pomar, Executive Director, Board for
International Broadcasting.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations held hearings to examine issues relating to the
establishment of an international criminal court by the United Nations,
and on related proposals, including S.J. Res. 32, calling for the United
States to support efforts of the United Nations to conclude an
international agreement to establish an international criminal court,
receiving testimony from Senator Specter; M. Cherif Bassiouni, DePaul
University, Chicago, Illinois; and Thomas Buergenthal, George Washington
University, and Edwin D. Williamson, Sullivan & Cromwell, both of
Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FREEDOM OF ACCESS TO CLINIC ENTRANCES
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on
S. 636, to establish new Federal criminal offenses for violent acts and
threats aimed at abortion providers, and for physical obstruction and
destruction of certain health clinics, after receiving testimony from
Janet Reno, Attorney General, Department of Justice; Pablo Rodriguez,
Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island, Providence; Willa Craig, Blue
Mountain Clinic, Missoula, Montana; Laurence H. Tribe, Harvard
University School of Law, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Joan Appleton,
Pro-Life Action Ministries, St. Paul, Minnesota; David R. Lasso, Falls
Church, Virginia; Carol Crossed, Rochester, New York; and Nikolas T.
Nikas, American Family Association Law Center, Tupelo, Mississippi.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Jerry W. Bowen, of Arkansas, to be Director of the
National Cemetery System, D. Mark Catlett, of Virginia, to be Assistant
Secretary (Finance and Information Resources Management), Mary Lou
Keener, of Georgia, to be General Counsel, and Edward P. Scott, of New
Jersey, to be Assistant Secretary (Congressional Affairs), all of the
Department of Veterans Affairs, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the
intelligence community.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1993/05/13
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 13, 1993; pages D509 - D520
Committee Meetings
Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered
favorably reported the nominations of Eugene Moos, of Washington, to be
Under Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs and a
Member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation,
James S. Gilliland, of Tennessee, to be General Counsel, and Ellen W.
Haas, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer
Services and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit
Corporation, all of the Department of Agriculture.
GRAIN INSPECTION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Research, Conservation, Forestry and General Legislation
held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Federal
Grain Inspection Service, Department of Agriculture, focusing on
industry views on the decline in official inspections and inspection
costs, receiving testimony from David R. Galliart, Acting Administrator,
and Dave Shipman, Director of the Field, Management Division, both of
the Federal Grain Inspection Service, Department of Agriculture; John W.
Harman, Director, Food and Agriculture Issues, Resources, Community, and
Economic Development Division, Jim Hoffman, Evaluator-in-Charge, and
Carl Aubrey, Assistant Director (Kansas City, Kansas), all of the
General Accounting Office; Robert Gore, American Association of Grain
Inspection and Weighing Agencies, Olympia, Washington; Jon A. Jacobson,
Peavey Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, on behalf of the North American
Export Grain Association, Terminal Elevator Grain Merchants Association,
and the National Grain Trade Council; Marion Hartman, Hillsboro, Ohio,
on behalf of the National Corn Growers Association; Boyd Schwieder,
Idaho Falls, Idaho, on behalf of the Wheat and Barley Producers of
Idaho, and the National Association of Wheat Growers; and Charles R.
Hurburgh, Jr., Iowa State University, Ames.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on enlisted personnel issues, receiving testimony from
Sgt. Major of the Army Richard A. Kidd; Chief Master Sgt. Gary R.
Pfingston, United States Air Force; Master Chief Petty Officer of the
Navy John Hagan; and Sgt. Maj. Harold G. Overstreet, United States
Marine Corps.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 18.
APPROPRIATIONS--DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for the
government of the District of Columbia, receiving testimony from Mayor
Sharon Pratt Kelly, and John A. Wilson, Council Chairman (At Large),
both of Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 20.
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for the
United States Coast Guard, focusing on marine safety programs, receiving
testimony from Rear Adm. J. William Kime, Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard,
Department of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 20.
APPROPRIATIONS--FEMA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994
for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), receiving testimony
from James L. Witt, Director, FEMA.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
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NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Thomas P. Grumbly, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary
of Energy for Environmental Restoration and Management, after the
nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Technology,
Acquisition, and Industrial Base held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Defense,
and the future years defense program, focusing on the state of the
National Defense Industrial and Technology Bases, receiving testimony
from Jack H. Nunn, Senior Analyst and Project Director, Office of
Technology Assessment; Jacques S. Gansler, Analytic Sciences
Corporation, Donald A. Hicks, Hicks and Associates, Inc., McLean,
Virginia; Bernard L. Schwartz, Loral Corporation, New York, New York;
and Richard A. Aubrecht, Moog Inc., East Aurora, New York.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 18.
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE ADVERTISING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on S. 674, to require health warnings to be included in
alcoholic beverage advertisements, after receiving testimony from
Senators Thurmond, Simon, and Kennedy; Steven Shiffrin, Cornell
University Law School, Ithaca, New York; Larry Wallack, University of
California, Berkeley; Joseph Wright, Children's National Medical Center,
Jeffrey Becker, Beer Institute, Edward O. Fritts, National Association
of Broadcasters, Robert P. Koch, Wine Institute, and Fred A. Meister,
Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, all of Washington, DC;
Burt Neuborne, New York University School of Law, New York, New York;
Martin P. Block, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; Michael
Dorris, Kalispell, Montana; Dean Smith, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and
Joyce Brune, Corpus Christi, Texas.
CAMPAIGN ADVERTISING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications held hearings on S. 334, to revise the Communications Act
of 1934 regarding the broadcasting of certain material regarding
candidates for Federal elective office, S. 329, to revise section 315 of
the Communications Act of 1934 with respect to the purchase and use of
broadcasting time by candidates for public office, and S. 829, to revise
the Communications Act of 1934 to regulate the length and certain other
aspects of television commercials authorized by a political candidate,
receiving testimony from Senator Dorgan; Curtis B. Gans, Committee for
the Study of the American Electorate, Charles E. Guggenheim, Guggenheim
Production, Inc., Robert Peck, American Civil Liberties Union, Jan
Crawford, Jan Crawford & Associates, Inc., Edward O. Fritts, National
Association of Broadcasters, and David Bartlett, Radio and Television
News Directors Association, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings
on the nominations of Daniel P. Beard, of Washington, to be Commissioner
of Reclamation, and George T. Frampton Jr., of the District of Columbia,
to be Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife, both of the Department
of the Interior, after the nominees testified and answered questions in
their own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Ruth R. Harkin, of Iowa, to be President of the Overseas
Private Investment Corporation, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senators Harkin and Grassley, testified and answered questions in her
own behalf.
NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to
receive a briefing on Chinese compliance with the Missile Technology
Control Regime and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty obligations from
officials of the intelligence community.
Committee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 185, 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.
Also, committee began consideration of S. 587, to establish the Mike
Mansfield Fellowship Program for intensive training in the Japanese
language, government, politics, and economy, but did not complete action
thereon, and recessed subject to call.
MENTAL HEALTH CARE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the importance of including coverage for mental and addictive
disorders in the health care reform proposal, after receiving testimony
from Senator Domenici; Tipper Gore, Mental Health Advisor to the
President's White House Health Care Task Force; Danna Mauch, PDM Health
Strategies, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts; Herbert Kleber, Center on
Addiction and Substance Abuse, New York, New York; Veronica V. Goff,
Washington Business Group on Health, Washington, D.C.; and Ronald A.
Finch, BellSouth Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia.
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UNIFORMED SERVICES EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 843, to
improve reemployment rights and benefits of veterans and other benefits
of employment of certain members of the uniformed services, receiving
testimony from Francis M. Rush, Jr., Principal Director, Manpower and
Personnel, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve
Affairs; Hary Puente-Duany, Director, Office of Veterans' Employment,
Reemployment and Training, and Susan M. Webman, Counsel, Office of the
Solicitor, both of the Department of Labor; and Judith Mazo and Lynn
Dudley, both of the Association of Private Pension and Welfare Plans,
D.J. Gribbin, National Federation of Independent Business, Michael F.
Brinck, American Veterans of World War II, Lennox E. Gilmer, Disabled
American Veterans, James B. Hubbard, The American Legion, Robert D.
Manhan, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Major Gen. Robert
F. Ensslin, Jr. (Ret.), National Guard Association of the United States,
and Lt. Col. James Rodenberg, USAF (Ret.), Reserve Officers Association,
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 will meet again on Wednesday, May 19.
Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine certain congressional reform proposals, focusing on
committee structure, receiving testimony from Senators Graham and
DeConcini; and Representatives Derrick, Gilman, and Don Young.
Committee will meet again on Tuesday, May 18.
1993/05/14
Daily Digest - Friday, May 14, 1993; pages D522 - D524
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--HHS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Health and
Human Services, receiving testimony from Donna Shalala, Secretary,
William Roper, Director, Centers for Disease Control, and Joseph
Mottola, Acting Commissioner, Administration for Children, Youth &
Families, all of the Department of Health and Human Services; and Mary
Jean LeTendre, Acting Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary
Education, and Bill Smith, Acting Assistant Secretary for Special
Education and Rehabilitative Services, both of the Department of
Education.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 19.
APPROPRIATIONS--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1994, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Jacqueline Jones-Smith, Chairman, Consumer Products
Safety Commission; Patricia Faley, Acting Director, Office of Consumer
Affairs; Teresa N. Nasif, Director, Consumer Information Center; George
Knight, Executive Director, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation; Chief
Judge Frank Nebeker, Court of Veterans Appeals; and John H. Gibbons,
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, May 21.
PRIMARY CARE WORKFORCE
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Medicare and Long-Term Care
concluded hearings to examine primary care workforce issues, after
receiving testimony from John M. Eisenberg, Chairman, Physician Payment
Review Commission; Marilyn H. Gaston, Director, Bureau of Primary Health
Care, Health Resources and Services Administration, and Assistant
Surgeon General, Department of Health and Human Services; David M.
Brown, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, on behalf of
the Association of American Medical Colleges; Roger J. Bulger,
Association of Academic Health Centers, and Alan R. Nelson, American
Society of Internal Medicine, both of Washington, D.C.; Leah Harrison,
Montefiore Medical Center, on behalf of the National Association of
Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners, and Wanda D. Huff,
International Coalition of Women Physicians, both of New York, New York;
and James P. Nolan, American College of Physicians, Buffalo, New York.
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL LAW
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 24, to
authorize funds for and extend independent counsel law for an additional
five years, receiving testimony from Janet Reno, Attorney General,
Department of Justice; Arthur Liman, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &
Garrison, former Chief Counsel to the Senate Select Committee on
Iran-Contra, Samuel Dash, Georgetown University Law Center, former Chief
Counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee, and Talbot D'Alemberte,
representing the American Bar Association, all of Washington, D.C.; and
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti,
former Attorney General of the United States, Morristown, New Jersey.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EDUCATION REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on
S. 846, to improve learning and teaching by providing a national
framework for educational reform, after receiving testimony from Linda
Morra, Director, Education and Employment Issues Division, General
Accounting Office; Marc Tucker, National Center on Education and the
Economy, Rochester, New York; Harry Featherstone, Will-Burt Co.,
Orville, Ohio, on behalf of the National Association of Manufacturing;
and John Sweeney, Service Employees International Union, and Larry
Lorber, Lipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand, each of Washington, D.C.
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INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION AND EDUCATION ACT AMENDMENTS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings on
proposed regulations to implement the 1988 Amendments to the Indian
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, after receiving
testimony from Eddie F. Brown, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for
Indian Affairs; Mike Lincoln, Acting Director, Indian Health Service,
Department of Health and Human Services; W. Ron Allen, Jamestown Klallam
Tribe, Sequim, Washington; Nora Garcia, Fort Mojave Tribe, Needles,
California; Bennie Cohoe, Ramah Navajo School Board, Ramah, New Mexico;
Gene Peltola, Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation, Bethel, Alaska; Donna
Vandall, Aberdeen Area Health Board, Aberdeen, South Dakota; Buford
Roland, Poarch Creek Indians, Atmore, Alabama; Lloyd Benton Miller,
Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse & Endreson, Anchorage, Alaska; Bobo Dean,
Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Wilder, Washington, D.C.; and Britt Clapham,
Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Arizona.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/05/17
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Mortimer L. Downey, of New York, to be
Deputy Secretary, Michael P. Huerta, of California, to be Associate
Deputy Secretary, and Stephen H. Kaplan, of Colorado, to be General
Counsel, all of the Department of Transportation, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Downey was
introduced by Senator Moynihan, Mr. Huerta was introduced by Senator
Feinstein, and Mr. Kaplan was introduced by Representatives Schroeder
and Skaggs.
HIGHER EDUCATION IN AFRICA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs
concluded hearings to examine the status of higher education in Africa,
after receiving testimony from John Hicks, Acting Assistant
Administrator, Bureau for Africa, Agency for International Development;
Carl Schleren, African American Institute, New York, New York; Pearl
Robinson, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts; Frank L. Morris, Sr.,
Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland; and Fred Hayward, American
Council on Education, both of Washington, D.C.
Joint Meetings
STATUS OF KURDS
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Commission met to
receive a briefing on the situation of Kurds living in Turkey, Iraq and
Iran from Ahmet Turk, People's Labor Party and Turkish Grand National
Assembly, Mardin, Turkey; Barham A. Salih, Iraqi Kurdish Representative
in the United States; and Mark Epstein, Washington, D.C.
Commission recessed subject to call.
1993/05/18
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 18, 1993; pages D530 - D538
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION/FOOD AND
DRUG
ADMINISTRATION/FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural
Development, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1994, receiving testimony in behalf of funds
for their respective activities from William P. Albrecht, Acting
Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission; David A. Kessler,
Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and
Human Services; and Harold B. Steele, Chairman, and Gary C. Byrne and
Billy Ross Brown, both Members of the Board, all of the Farm Credit
Administration.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 20.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for the
Department of Defense, focusing on classified programs, receiving
testimony from Brig. Gen. Ralph H. Graham, USAF, Director of Special
Programs, Office of the Secretary of Defense; Lt. Gen. John E. Jaquish,
USAF, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for
Acquisition; and Rear Adm. Riley D. Mixson, USN, Assistant Chief, Naval
Operations (Air Warfare).
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 20.
APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for military
construction programs of the Army and Navy, receiving testimony from
Paul W. Johnson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installations
and Housing); Maj. Gen. John F. Sobke, Deputy Chief of Army Engineers;
Brig. Gen. John R. D'Araujo, Director, Army National Guard; Brig. Gen.
Thomas J. Kilmartin, Deputy Chief, Army Reserve; Col. William T. Harvey,
Chief, Base Realignment and Closure Office; Rear Adm. Jack E.
Buffington, Civil Engineer Corps, U.S. Navy Commander, Naval Facilities
Engineering Command; Brig. Gen. Claude W. Reinke, USMC, Director,
Facilities and Services Division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff,
Installations and Logistics; and Rear Adm. John T. Natter, USNR, Deputy
Director of Naval Reserve.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Lt. Gen. Gary E. Luck, USA, Commanding General, XVIII
Airborne Corps, for appointment to the grade of general and to be
Commander in Chief, United Nations Command/Combined Forces
Command/Commander, U.S. Forces, Korea, Lt. Gen. Wayne A. Downing, USA,
Commanding General, U.S. Army Special Operations Command, for
appointment to the grade of general and to be Commander in Chief, U.S.
Special Operations Command, Rear Adm. David E. Frost, USN, Director of
Operations, U.S. European Command, for appointment to the grade of vice
admiral and to be Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. Space Command and Vice
Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command, and Col.
Ronald G. Richard, USMC, Commanding Officer, Recruit Training Regiment,
Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, for promotion to brigadier
general, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their
own behalf.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Technology,
Acquisition, and Industrial Base resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on the state of
the defense industrial and technology bases, receiving testimony from
John H. Gibbons, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology,
and Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy; John M. Deutch,
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition; John Richards, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for the Industrial Resource
Administration, Bureau of Export Administration; William Happer,
Director, Office of Energy Research, Department of Energy; Lt. Gen.
Lawrence F. Skibbie, USA (Ret.), American Defense Preparedness
Association, Arlington, Virginia; Adm. James R. Hogg, USN (Ret.),
National Security Industrial Association, and Don Fuqua, Aerospace
Industries Association, both of Washington, D.C.; and Barry G. Campbell,
Vitro Corporation, Silver Spring, Maryland, on behalf of the American
Electronics Association.
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Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
U.S. COMPETITIVENESS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Foreign Commerce and Tourism held hearings to examine certain factors
that affect the competitiveness of United States industries in the
global marketplace, receiving testimony from Paul Volcker, J.D.
Wolfensohn & Co., New York, New York; Lester Thurow, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge; and Clyde Prestowitz, Economic
Strategy Institute, William Spriggs, Economic Policy Institute, and
Robert S. Housman, Center for International Environmental Law-US, all of
Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings
on S. 721, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1994-1998 for the Federal
land and water conservation fund, after receiving testimony from Bruce
Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior; George M. Leonard, Associate Chief,
Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Donald J. Hellmann, The
Wilderness Society, William C. Chandler, National Parks and Conservation
Association, and Alan Front, The Trust for Public Land, all of
Washington, D.C.; John C. Sawhill, The Nature Conservancy, Arlington,
Virginia; Perry J. Segura, National Recreation and Parks Association,
New Iberia, Louisiana; Kenneth E. Travous, National Association of State
Outdoor Recreation Liaison Officers, Phoenix, Arizona; Michael
DiBerardinis, Commissioner of Recreation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
Bryan T. Kellar, Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism, Little Rock;
and Andrew Sansom, Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife, Austin.
START II TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on the Treaty
Between the United States and the Russian Federation on Further
Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START II Treaty),
signed at Moscow on January 3, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 103-1), receiving
testimony from Thomas Graham, Jr., Acting Director, and Linton Brooks,
START II Negotiator, both of the United States Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency; and Douglas MacEachin, Deputy Director for
Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Joseph D. Duffey, of West Virginia, to be Director of the
United States Information Agency, and Karl Frederick Inderfurth, of
North Carolina, to be the Alternate Representative of the United States
for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, with the rank of
Ambassador, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their
own behalf. Mr. Duffey was introduced by Senator Lieberman.
FEDERAL RESPONSE TO DISASTERS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine
the adequacy of the Federal emergency management and disaster
preparedness policy and recommendations on how the Federal Emergency
Management Agency can better prepare for the next disaster, receiving
testimony from Representatives Weldon; J. Dexter Peach, Assistant
Comptroller General, Resources, Community, and Economic Development,
General Accounting Office; James L. Witt, Director, Federal Emergency
Management Agency; Robert C. Sheets, Director, National Hurricane
Center, National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Department of Commerce; R. Scott Fosler, National
Academy of Public Administration, Washington, D.C.; Dale W. Shipley,
Ohio Emergency Management Agency, Columbus, on behalf of the National
Emergency Managers Association; and Richard T. Sylves, University of
Delaware, Newark.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Philip B. Heymann, of Massachusetts, to be Deputy Attorney
General, Department of Justice, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senator Kennedy, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
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NATIONAL SERVICE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children,
Family, Drugs and Alcoholism concluded hearings to examine the
implementation of domestic volunteer service programs, and on related
provisions of S. 919, to authorize funds to establish a Corporation for
National Service, to enhance opportunities for national service, and
provide national service educational awards to persons participating in
such service, after receiving testimony from Peter B. Edelman, Counselor
to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Senior Adviser, White
House Office of National Service; Col. Frank F. Parry, USMC (Ret.),
Retired Senior Volunteer Program of Montgomery County, Inc., Plymouth
Meeting, Pennsylvania; Wilhelmenia O. Mayden, Emily Price Jones Head
Start Program-School, Baltimore, Maryland; W. William Cegelka, Windham
Area Community Action Program, Windham, Connecticut; Margaret Goolsby,
Brooklyn, New York; Kathleen Wilken, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Edith
Courville and Helen Fiske, both of Worcester, Massachusetts.
Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine congressional reform proposals, focusing on
procedures governing debate on the floor, ways to improve the
deliberative process, and potential reforms in scheduling to provide
greater rationality and coordination between activity on the floor and
committee action, receiving testimony from William H. Brown,
Parliamentarian of the House of Representatives; Alan S. Frumin,
Parliamentarian of the Senate; Lloyd Cutler, former Counsel to President
Carter; Hyde Murray, former Counsel to the House of Representatives
Minority Leader; Murray Zweben, former Parliamentarian of the Senate;
Pete Robinson, former Assistant Parliamentarian of the House of
Representatives and former Staff Director to the House Democratic
Steering and Policy Committee; and William H. Hildenbrand, former
Secretary of the Senate.
Hearings will continue on Thursday, May 20.
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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 1994
for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, receiving testimony
from Thomas B. Williams, Acting Assistant Secretary for Fish and
Wildlife and Parks, and Richard N. Smith, Acting Director, Fish and
Wildlife Service, both of the Department of the Interior.
Subcommittee will meet on Tuesday, May 25.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Labor,
receiving testimony from Robert B. Reich, Secretary, Carolyn Golding,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training, and Ricky Takai,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education, all of
the Department of Labor.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
S. Con. Res. 14, welcoming the XLVI Congress of the Interallied
Confederation of Reserve Officers (CIOR), commending the Department of
Defense and the Reserve Officers Association of the United States for
hosting the XLVI Congress of the CIOR, and urging other departments and
agencies of the Federal Government to cooperate with and assist the XLVI
Congress of the CIOR to carry out its activities and programs; and
The nominations of Lt. Gen. Gary E. Luck, USA, Commanding General, XVIII
Airborne Corps, for appointment to the grade of general and to be
Commander in Chief, United Nations Command/Combined Forces
Command/Commander, U.S. Forces, Korea, Lt. Gen. Wayne A. Downing, USA,
Commanding General, U.S. Army Special Operations Command, for
appointment to the grade of general and to be Commander in Chief, U.S.
Special Operations Command, Rear Adm. David E. Frost, USN, Director of
Operations, U.S. European Command, for appointment to the grade of vice
admiral and to be Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. Space Command and Vice
Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Thomas P.
Grumbly, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of Energy for
Environmental Restoration and Management, and 11,345 military
nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Defense and for the future years defense program, receiving testimony
from Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, USA, Chief of Army Staff; Gen. Carl E.
Mundy, Jr., USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps; Adm. Frank B. Kelso
II, USN, Chief of Naval Operations; and Gen. Merrill A. McPeak, USAF,
Chief of Air Force Staff.
Committee will meet again on Wednesday, June 9.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Nuclear Deterrence, Arms
Control and Defense Intelligence held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Defense and
the future years defense program, focusing on the Department of Energy's
environmental restoration and waste management programs, receiving
testimony from Paul D. Grimm, Acting Assistant Secretary (Environmental
Restoration and Waste Management), Roger P. Whitfield, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Environmental Restoration, and Clyde Frank, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Technology Development, all of the Department of
Energy.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 26.
HOME OWNERSHIP AND EQUITY PROTECTION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held
hearings on S. 924, to protect home ownership and equity through
enhanced disclosure of the risks associated with certain mortgages,
receiving testimony from Eugene A. Ludwig, Comptroller of the Currency,
Department of the Treasury; Lawrence B. Lindsey, Member, Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Terry Drent, Ann Arbor
Community Development Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Dianne M. Lopez,
First Interstate Bank of Texas, Austin, on behalf of the American
Bankers Association, and the Consumer Bankers Association; Margot
Saunders, National Consumer Law Center, and Michelle Meier, Consumers
Union, both of Washington, D.C.; and Robert F. Elliott, Household
Finance Corporation, Prospect Heights, Illinois.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
COMPETITIVENESS OF THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on S. 419, to provide for enhanced cooperation between the
Federal Government and the United States commercial aircraft industry in
aeronautical technology research, development, and commercialization,
after receiving testimony from Senators Dodd and Lieberman; Timothy J.
Hauser, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade;
Daniel S. Goldin, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration; William J. Perry, Deputy Secretary of Defense; John
Wolf, Douglas Aircraft Company, Arlington, Virginia; Mike Hudson,
Allison Gas Turbines, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Aerospace
Industries Association; and Timothy Pettee, Alliance Capital Management
Corporation, New York, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items:
S. 341, to provide for a land exchange between the Secretary of
Agriculture and Eagle and Pitkin Counties in Colorado, with an
amendment;
S. 646, to establish within the Department of Energy an international
fusion energy program, with amendments;
S. 184, to provide for the exchange of certain lands within the State of
Utah, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 577, to resolve the status of certain lands relinquished to the
United States under the Act of June 4, 1897 (30 stat. 11, 36), with
amendments; and
The nominations of James John Hoecker, of Virginia, William L. Massey,
of Arkansas, Donald F. Santa, of Connecticut, and Vicky A. Bailey, of
Indiana, each to be a Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Department of Energy, and Daniel P. Beard, of Washington, to
be Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the
Interior.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings
on the nominations of David Gardiner, of Virginia, to be Assistant
Administrator for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, and Steven A. Herman,
of New York, to be Assistant Administrator for Enforcement, both of the
Environmental Protection Agency, George T. Frampton, Jr., of the
District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish
and Wildlife and Parks, and Rodney E. Slater, of Arkansas, to be Federal
Highway Administrator, Department of Transportation, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Slater was
introduced by Senators Bumpers and Pryor.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Rufus Hawkins Yerxa, of the District of Columbia, and Charlene
Barshefsky, of the District of Columbia, each to be a Deputy United
States Trade Representative, Walter D. Broadnax, of New York, to be
Deputy Secretary, David T. Ellwood, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant
Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Jerry D. Klepner, of Virginia, to
be Assistant Secretary for Legislation, Avis LaVelle Sampson-Elliot, of
Illinois, to be Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (pending receipt
of the Senate), Kenneth S. Apfel, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary
for Management and Budget, Bruce C. Vladeck, of New York, to be
Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration, and Harriet S.
Rabb, of New York, to be General Counsel, all of the Department of
Health and Human Services, and Jean E. Hanson, of New York, to be
General Counsel, Department of the Treasury, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Apfel was
introduced by Senator Bradley.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Mark Johnson, of Montana, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Senegal, and Marshall Fletcher McCallie, of Tennessee, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Namibia, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf.
AUTHORIZATION--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic
Policy, Trade, Oceans and Environment concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for foreign
assistance programs, focusing on the role and experience of private
volunteer organizations and non-government organizations, after
receiving testimony from Holly Burkhalter, Human Rights Watch, Sol
Polansky, Citizens' Democracy Corps, Phillip Fishman, AFL-CIO, Julia
Taft, InterAction, and Werner Fornos, Population Institute, all of
Washington, D.C.; Talbot D'Alemberte, Miami, Florida, on behalf of the
American Bar Association; Thomas Carroll, International Executive
Service Corps, Stamford, Connecticut; John Swenson, Catholic Relief
Services, Baltimore, Maryland; and Robert P. DeVecchi, International
Rescue Committee, New York, New York.
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NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Sally Katzen, of the District of Columbia, to be
Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget, after the nominee, who was introduced
by District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton and Alice Rivlin,
Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget, testified and answered
questions in her own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Webster L. Hubbell, of Arkansas, to be Associate Attorney
General, Department of Justice, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senators Bumpers and Pryor, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items:
The nominations of Kay Casstevens, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary
for Legislation and Congressional Affairs, and Norma V. Cantu, of Texas,
to be Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, both of the Department of
Education, Thomas P. Glynn, of Massachusetts, to be Deputy Secretary,
Geri D. Palast, of California, to be Assistant Secretary for
Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, and Thomas S. Williamson,
Jr., of California, to be Solicitor, all of the Department of Labor;
An original bill to require each recipient of a grant or contract under
section 1001 of the Public Health Service Act to provide information
concerning breast and cervical cancer;
S. 732, to provide for the immunization of all children in the United
States against vaccine-preventable diseases, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute; and
S. 846, to improve learning and teaching by providing a national
framework for educational reform, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings on the
President's proposal to reform financing of congressional election
campaigns, receiving testimony from Senator Boren; Fred Wertheimer,
Common Cause, David Keating, National Taxpayers Union, and Robert S.
Peck, American Civil Liberties Union, all of Washington, D.C.; and Larry
J. Sabato, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Committee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
S. 616, 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, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 970, to revise title 38, United States Code, to codify the rates of
disability compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities
and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for survivors of
such veterans as such rates took effect on December 1, 1992, and to make
a technical correction relating to the financing of discount points for
certain veterans loans;
An original bill to authorize major medical facility projects and leases
for the Department of Veterans Affairs, to revise and extend the
authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into
enhanced-use leases, and to authorize the disposal of Pershing Hall,
France; and
The nominations of Jerry W. Bowen, of Arkansas, to be Director of the
National Cemetery System, D. Mark Catlett, of Virginia, to be Assistant
Secretary for Finance and Information Resources Management, Mary Lou
Keener, of Georgia, to be General Counsel, and Edward P. Scott, of New
Jersey, to be Assistant Secretary for Congressional Affairs, all of the
Department of Veterans Affairs.
VA'S ROLES IN GERIATRICS AND LONG-TERM CARE
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine
the Department of Veterans Affairs' roles in clinical care, and research
and education in geriatrics and long-term care, focusing on the needs of
the elderly, after receiving testimony from Sandra Fresh, VA Medical
Center, Portland, Oregon; Anne Haney Gooden, VA Medical Center, Tucson,
Arizona; Terry L. Harbert, VA Medical Center, Topeka, Kansas; Lissy F.
Jarvik, VA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; Laurence J. Robbins,
VA Medical Center, Denver, Colorado; Paul Smits, VA Medical Center,
Martinsburg, West Virginia; Robert N. Butler, Mount Sinai Medical
Center, New York, New York; D. Joanne Lynn, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical
Center, Hanover, New Hampshire, on behalf of the American Geriatrics
Society; John A. Talbott, University of Maryland School of Medicine, on
behalf of the American Psychiatric Association, and Clarice Bowen, both
of Baltimore, Maryland; and Paul A. Kerschner, the Gerontological
Society of America, and John Azzara, both of Washington, D.C.
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AUTHORIZATION--INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for
activities of the intelligence community, receiving testimony from
officials of the intelligence community.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
No Joint hearings noted.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural
Development, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Agriculture,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Bob J. Nash, Under Secretary for Small Community and Rural
Development, Sharron S. Longino, Acting Administrator, Farmers Home
Administration, Kathleen H. Connelly, Acting Manager, Federal Crop
Insurance Corporation, James B. Huff, Sr., Administrator, Rural
Electrification Administration, L. Glenn Bennett, Acting Administrator,
Rural Development Administration, and Stephen B. Dewhurst, Director,
Office of Budget, and Program Analysis, all of the Department of
Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, May 24.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on defense infrastructure, receiving testimony from
William J. Perry, Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 26.
CHILDHOOD IMMUNIZATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings to examine
the Administration's proposed budget request for the national
vaccination program to immunize children against preventable diseases,
receiving testimony from Walter Dowdle, Deputy Director, Walter
Orenstein, Director, Immunization Program Office, both of the Centers
for Disease Control, Department of Health and Human Services; Michael
Osterholm, Association of State Epidemiologists, Minneapolis, Minnesota;
Robert Ross, Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; Janet Bobo, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; J.P. Lofgren,
Arkansas Department of Health, Little Rock; Mike Chaney, State of
Georgia (Immunization), Atlanta; and Elizabeth Bobo, Maryland Department
of Human Resources, Annapolis.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, May 24.
APPROPRIATIONS--FAA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994
for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), focusing on FAA's
research, engineering, and development program, receiving testimony from
Allen Li, Associate Director, Transportation Issues, Resources,
Community, and Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office;
Joseph M. Del Balzo, Acting Administrator, and Martin Pozesky, Associate
Administrator for System Engineering and Development, both of the
Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation; Kevin
Dopart, Senior Analyst, Federal Research and Technology for Aviation,
Office of Technology Assessment; Norman R. Augustine, Martin Marietta
Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland, on behalf of FAA's Research,
Engineering and Development Advisory Committee; and John J. Fearnsides,
MITRE Corporation, McLean, Virginia.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 27.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Readiness and
Defense Infrastructure held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1994 for military construction, proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on policy matters
concerning the Department of Defense facility infrastructure, and the
implementation of military base closures, receiving testimony from
Sherri Wasserman Goodman, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
(Environmental Security); David J. Berteau, Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense (Production and Logistics); D.O. Cooke, Director,
Administration and Management, Office of the Secretary of Defense; Paul
W. Johnson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army, (Installations and
Housing); Frederick S. Sterns, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Navy,
(Installations and Environment); Gary D. Vest, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force (Environment, Safety and Occupational
Health); Alan K. Olsen, Director, Air Force Base Disposal Agency; Elsie
L. Munsell, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Environment and
Safety; Rear Adm. Jack E. Buffington, USN, Commander, Naval Facilities
Engineering Command; and Brig. Gen. Claude W. Reinke, USMC, Director,
Facilities and Service Division Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, May 24.
SECURITIES AND FINANCIAL MARKETS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
Securities concluded hearings to examine the future structure of United
States securities markets, and the impact of Federal regulatory
structure on the ability of American financial marketplaces and
financial institutions to compete in worldwide financial markets, after
receiving testimony from William H. Donaldson, New York Stock Exchange,
and Stephen Friedman, Goldman, Sachs & Co., both of New York, New York;
John F. Sandner, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago, Illinois; James
S. Riepe, T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, and
Timothy P. Hartman, NationsBank Corporation, Dallas, Texas.
HIGH-SPEED RAIL
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Surface Transportation concluded hearings on S. 839, authorizing funds
through fiscal year 1998 to establish a program to facilitate
development of high-speed rail transportation in the United States, and
to examine current initiatives in high- speed ground transportation,
after receiving testimony from Federico Pena, Secretary, and Mark
Lindsey, Acting Administrator, and Mark Yachmetz, Director, High-Speed
Rail Staff, both of the Federal Railroad Administration, all of the
Department of Transportation; W. Graham Claytor, Jr., President and
Chairman, National Railroad Passenger Corporation; Edwin L. Harper and
Robert Blanchette, both of the Association of American Railroads, and
Donald C. Buchanan, Sheet Metal Workers International Association,
representing the Rail Labor Executives' Association, both of Washington,
D.C.; Joseph Vranich, High Speed Rail/Maglev Association, Alexandria,
Virginia; Richard J. Gran, Grumman Corporation, Bethpage, New York; and
Larry E. Salci, Bombardier Corporation, Arlington, Virginia.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Rufus Hawkins Yerxa, of the District of Columbia, and
Charlene Barshefsky, of the District of Columbia, each to be a Deputy
United States Trade Representative, Walter D. Broadnax, of New York, to
be Deputy Secretary, David T. Ellwood, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant
Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Jerry D. Klepner, of Virginia, to
be Assistant Secretary for Legislation, Avis LaVelle Sampson-Elliot, of
Illinois, to be Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (pending receipt
by the Senate), Kenneth S. Apfel, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary
for Management and Budget, Bruce C. Vladeck, of New York, to be
Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration, and Harriet S.
Rabb, of New York, to be General Counsel, all of the Department of
Health and Human Services, and Jean E. Hanson, of New York, to be
General Counsel, Department of the Treasury.
FAST TRACK AUTHORITY/GSP PROGRAM
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the
Administration's proposals to extend "fast track" authority to complete
the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations by mid-December,
and to extend for 15 months the existing Generalized System of
Preference (GSP) program, receiving testimony from Michael Kantor,
United States Trade Representative; Robert Cizik, Cooper Industries,
Inc., Houston, Texas, on behalf of the National Association of
Manufacturers; R. Michael Gadbaw, General Electric Company, Washington,
D.C., on behalf of the Coalition for GSP Renewal; and Henry G. Parker
III, Warren, New Jersey, on behalf of the Coalition of Service
Industries, Inc.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
The Treaty on Open Skies, with twelve Annexes, signed at Helsinki on
March 24, 1992 (Treaty Doc. 102-37);
S.J. Res. 32, calling for the United States to support efforts of the
United Nations to conclude an international agreement to establish an
international criminal court; and
The nominations of Douglas J. Bennet, Jr., of Connecticut, to be
Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs,
Elinor G. Constable, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant
Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and
Scientific Affairs, Ruth R. Harkin, of Iowa, to be President of the
Overseas Private Investment Corporation, United States International
Development Cooperation Agency, Joseph D. Duffey, of West Virginia, to
be Director of the United States Information Agency, Karl Frederick
Inderfurth, of North Carolina, to be the Alternate Representative of the
United States for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, with
the rank of Ambassador, Mark Johnson, of Montana, to be Ambassador to
the Republic of Senegal, and Marshall Fletcher McCallie, of Tennessee,
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Namibia.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Drew S. Days III, of Connecticut, to be Solicitor General,
Department of Justice, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators
Dodd and Lieberman, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
HEALTH REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the impact of escalating health care costs on business,
government, and the American family, and the need to enact comprehensive
health care reform, after receiving testimony from Laura D'Andrea Tyson,
Chair, Council of Economic Advisers; Robert L. Crandall, American
Airlines, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas; Morton Bahr, Communications Workers
of America, Washington, D.C.; John Sheils, Lewin-VHI, Fairfax, Virginia;
and Francine Wilson, Logan Dispatch, Inc., East Boston, Massachusetts.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills:
S. 779, to continue the authorization of the appropriated funds for the
refurbishment of the East Court of the National Museum of Natural
History;
S. 345, to authorize the Library of Congress to establish a revolving
fund in the U.S. Treasury for furnishing certain information products
and services, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 685, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1994-1997 for the American
Folklife Center of the Library of Congress;
An original bill to authorize funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Federal
Election Commission;
S. 27, to authorize the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity to establish a
memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr., in the District of Columbia; and
An original resolution (S. Res. 110) to authorize the purchase of
104,000 1994 U.S. Capitol Historical Society wall calendars for the use
of the Senate.
NATIONAL INDIAN POLICY CENTER
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to
examine the activities and performance of the National Indian Policy
Center, focusing on proposed legislation to establish the Center as a
federally chartered research institute, after receiving testimony from
W. Ron Allen, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, Sequim, Washington; Alan R.
Parker and Bambi Kraus, both of the National Indian Policy Center,
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, George Washington University, and Norm
DeWeaver, Indian and Native American Employment and Training Coalition,
all of Washington, D.C.; Lois J. Risling, Humbolt State University,
Arcata, California; Eddie Tullis, Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Atmore,
Alabama; Susan Williams, Gover, Stetson & Williams, Albuquerque, New
Mexico; Steven Stallings, National Center for American Indian Enterprise
Development, Mesa, Arizona; and Regis Pecos, New Mexico State Office of
Indian Affairs, Santa Fe.
AUTHORIZATION--INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for
activities of the intelligence community, receiving testimony from
officials of the intelligence community.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, May 26.
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ETHICS REFORM
Senate Ethics Study Commission: Commission held hearings on reforming
the process the Senate uses to investigate and decide on alleged ethical
misconduct by Senators, receiving testimony from Bob Bennett, Skadden,
Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and James Hamilton, Swidler and Berlin,
both of Washington, D.C.; and John Saxon, Cooper & Mitch, Birmingham,
Alabama, former Counsel, Senate Select Committee on Ethics.
Commission recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine congressional reform proposals, focusing on
procedures governing debate on the floor, ways to improve the
deliberative process, and potential reforms in scheduling to provide
greater rationality and coordination between activity on the floor and
committee action, receiving testimony from Representatives Moakley,
Dreier, Pryce, and Diaz-Balart; Steve Smith, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis; and Barbara Sinclair, University of California at
Riverside.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 25.
1993/05/21
Daily Digest - Friday, May 21, 1993; pages D558 - D564
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--VA/HUD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994
for certain programs of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing
and Urban Development, and independent agencies, receiving testimony
from Senator Kennedy; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 27.
ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings
on S. 978, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1994, 1995, and 1996 to
promote the development and use of innovative environmental technology,
after receiving testimony from John H. Gibbons, Director, Office of
Science and Technology Policy; Robert M. Sussman, Deputy Administrator,
Environmental Protection Agency; R. Darryl Banks, World Resources
Institute, and William A. Sonntag, National Association of Metal
Finishers, both of Washington, D.C.; Dag Syrrist, Technology Funding,
San Mateo, California; Robin J. Robinson, Clean Sites, Alexandria,
Virginia; and Bruno Brodfeld, Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation,
Boston, Massachusetts.
TELEVISION PROGRAMMING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution held
oversight hearings on the implementation of the Television Program
Improvement Act of 1990, focusing on certain television network
standards on violence in entertainment programs, receiving testimony
from Senators Conrad and Dorgan; Representative Markey; Brandon
Centerwall, University of Washington, Seattle; Brian L. Wilcox, American
Psychological Association, and Thomas S. Murphy, Capital Cities/ABC,
Inc., both of Washington, D.C.; Howard Stringer, Broadcast Group, CBS,
Warren Littlefield, NBC Entertainment, Frank J. Biondi, Jr. Viacom
International Inc., and David Kenin, USA Network, all of New York, New
York; George Vradenburg, Fox, Inc., Los Angeles, California; and Scott
Sassa, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, June 8.
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Joint Meetings
NIH AUTHORIZATION
Conferees on Thursday, May 20, agreed to file a conference report on the
differences between the Senate-and House-passed versions of S. 1,
authorizing funds for programs of the National Institutes of Health,
Department of Health and Human Services.
1993/05/24
Daily Digest - Monday, May 24, 1993; pages D565 - D572
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural
Development, and Related Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Agriculture, after
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Eugene Branstool, Assistant Secretary for Marketing and Inspection
Services, Lonnie J. King, Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, Kenneth C. Clayton, Acting Administrator,
Agricultural Marketing Service, H. Russell Cross, Administrator, Food
Safety and Inspection Service, and Stephen B. Dewhurst, Director, Office
of Budget and Program Analysis, all of the Department of Agriculture.
APPROPRIATIONS--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for the Public Health Service,
receiving testimony from Audrey F. Manley, Acting Assistant Secretary
for Health, William A. Robinson, Acting Administrator, Health Resources
and Services Administration, William L. Roper, Director, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, Elaine M. Johnson, Acting Administrator,
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and J.
Jarrett Clinton, Administrator, Agency for Health Care Policy and
Research, all of the Public Health Service, Department of Health and
Human Services.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 26.
APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for military
construction programs of the Air Force and Department of Defense
agencies, receiving testimony from James F. Boatright, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force (Installations); Brig. Gen. James E.
McCarthy, Air Force Civil Engineer; Brig. Gen. Donald W. Shepperd,
Deputy Director, Air National Guard; Brig. Gen. John A. Bradley, Deputy
to the Chief of Air Force Reserve; John Stremple, Director, Department
of Defense Education Activity, Office of the Assistant Secretary of
Defense (Force Management and Personnel); Hector Nevarez, Director,
Section 6 Schools, Department of Defense; Patricia Watson, Principal
Deputy, Health Services Operations, Office of the Assistant Secretary of
Defense (Health Affairs); Rear Admiral Irve C. LeMoyne, Director of
Resources, United States Special Operations Command; Brig. Gen. Robert
P. McFarlin, USA, Executive Director (Distribution), Defense Logistics
Agency; and Joseph Bellomo, Chief, Installations and Logistics, National
Security Agency.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
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AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Readiness and
Defense Infrastructure resumed hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Defense and
the future years defense program, focusing on logistics programs,
receiving testimony from Gen. Jimmy D. Ross, USA, Commander, Army
Materiel Command; Vice Adm. Stephen F. Loftus, USN, Deputy Chief of
Naval Operations (Logistics), Office of the Chief of Naval Operations;
Lt. Gen. Robert A. Tiebout, USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff, Installations
and Logistics, Headquarters Marine Corps; Gen. Ronald W. Yates, USAF,
Commander, Air Force Materiel Command; and Vice Adm. Edward M. Straw,
SC, USN, Director, Defense Logistics Agency.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Aida Alvarez, of California, to be
Director, Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, Andrew M.
Cuomo, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and
Development, Marilyn A. Davis, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary
for Administration, Michael A. Stegman, of North Carolina, to be
Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, and Joseph
Shuldiner, of California, to be Assistant Secretary for Public and
Indian Housing, all of the Department of Housing and Urban Development,
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
Mr. Stegman was introduced by Representative Price.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Arati Prabhakar, of Texas, to be Director
of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Clarence L.
Irving Jr., of New York, to be Assistant Secretary for Communications
and Information, Douglas Kent Hall, of Kentucky, to be Assistant
Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, D. James Baker, of the District of
Columbia, to be Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, and Kathryn
D. Sullivan, of Texas, to be Chief Scientist of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, all of the Department of Commerce, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr.
Prabhakar was introduced by Senator Bingaman and Representative Pickle,
Mr. Irving was introduced by Representatives Markey and Jack Fields, Mr.
Hall was introduced by Senator Sasser, Mr. Baker was introduced by
District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Ms. Sullivan
was introduced by Representative Michael Andrews.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/05/25
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 25, 1993; pages D573 - D582
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FOOD STAMP BARRIERS FOR INDIANS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
joint hearings with the Committee on Indian Affairs to examine certain
barriers to participation in food stamp and other nutrition programs of
the Department of Agriculture by persons residing on Indian lands, after
receiving testimony from Senator Pressler; George Braley, Acting
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Food and Consumer Services; Julie
Osnes, South Dakota Department of Social Services, Pierre, representing
the American Public Welfare Association; John Steele, Oglala Sioux
Tribal Council, Pine Ridge, South Dakota; Linda Walker and Martha
Yallup, both of the Yakima Indian Nation, Toppenish, Washington; and
Faith Roessel, The Navajo Nation, Washington, D.C.
APPROPRIATIONS--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for the Bureau of Land
Management, receiving testimony from Jim Baca, Director, Bureau of Land
Management, Department of the Interior.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Ashton B. Carter, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant
Secretary for Nuclear Security and Counter Proliferation, Walter B.
Slocombe, of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy Under Secretary for
Policy, Edward L. Warner, III, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary
for Strategy and Resources, Anita K. Jones, of Virginia, to be Director,
Defense Research and Engineering, Emmett Paige, Jr., of Maryland, to be
Assistant Secretary for Command, Control, Communications and
Intelligence, Harold P. Smith, Jr., of California, to be Assistant
Secretary for Atomic Energy, Steven S. Honigman, of New York, to be
General Counsel of the Department of the Navy, and Deborah R. Lee, of
Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary for Reserve Affairs, all of the
Department of Defense, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Ms. Jones was introduced by Senators Robb
and Warner, and Ms. Lee was introduced by Representatives Hoyer and
Montgomery.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Force Requirements and
Personnel resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Defense and the future years
defense program, focusing on personnel compensation and benefits
programs, receiving testimony from Senator Graham; Representative
Bilirakis; Lt. Gen. Robert M. Alexander, USAF, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense, Military Manpower and Personnel Policy; 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 for Personnel; and Col. Paul W. Arcari, USAF (Ret.), Sgt.
Maj. Michael Ouellette, USA (Ret.), Col. Charlee Partridge, USA (Ret.),
and Master Chief Petty Officer John Adams, USN (Ret.), all on behalf of
the Military Coalition.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Nuclear Deterrence, Arms
Control and Defense Intelligence held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Defense and
the future years defense program, focusing on the civil defense budget
and programs of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, receiving
testimony from James Lee Witt, Director, Federal Emergency Management
Agency; Maxwell Alston, Acting Director for Emergency Planning, Office
of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; J. Dexter Peach, Assistant
Comptroller General, Resources, Community, and Economic Development
Division, General Accounting Office; and Philip A. Odeen, BDM
International, Inc., McLean, Virginia.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
ECONOMIC AND EXCHANGE RATE POLICY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
hearings to review the Department of the Treasury's recent report on
international economic and exchange rate policy, after receiving
testimony from Lawrence H. Summers, Under Secretary of the Treasury for
International Affairs.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported the following business items:
S. 4, authorizing funds to promote the industrial competitiveness and
economic growth of the United States by strengthening and expanding the
civilian technology programs of the Department of Commerce, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As approved by the committee,
the bill authorizes $837 million for fiscal year 1994, and $1.511
billion for fiscal year 1995.);
S. 335, to require the Secretary of Commerce to make additional
frequencies available for commercial assignment in order to promote the
development and use of new telecommunications technologies, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 329, to revise section 315 of the Communications Act of 1934 with
respect to the purchase and use of broadcasting time by candidates for
public office, with an amendment;
S. 412, to revise title 49, United States Code, regarding the collection
of certain payments for shipments via motor carriers of property and
nonhousehold goods freight forwarders, with an amendment;
S. 608, to provide for the reciprocity of weapons licenses issued to
armored car company crew members among States that require crew members
to provide satisfactory information on an annual basis;
S. 444, to require a study and report on the safety of the Juneau
International Airport, with recommendations to Congress, with an
amendment;
S. 568, to strengthen the authority of the Federal Trade Commission
regarding fraud committed in connection with sales made with a
telephone, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 228, authorizing funds to establish a grant program under the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to promote the use of
bicycle helmets by individuals under the age of 16. (As approved by the
committee, the bill authorizes $2 million for fiscal year 1994, $3
million for fiscal year 1995, and $4 million for fiscal year 1996.);
S. 1006, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the Vessel
Arbitrage II;
S. 121, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the Vessel
Enterprise;
S. 122, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the Vessel
Kalena;
S. 888, to authorize a certificate of documentation and a coastwise and
fishery endorsement for the Vessel Reel Class;
S. 889, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the Vessel Da
Warrior to be endorsed with a fishery endorsement;
S. 386, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the Vessel
Pandacea ; and
The nominations of Mortimer L. Downey, III, of New York, to be Deputy
Secretary, Stephen H. Kaplan, of Colorado, to be General Counsel, and
Michael P. Huerta, of California, to be Associate Deputy Secretary, all
of the Department of Transportation, D. James Baker, of the District of
Columbia, to be Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, Douglas K.
Hall, of Kentucky, to be Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere,
Kathryn D. Sullivan, of Texas, to be Chief Scientist of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Arati Prabhakar, of Texas, to be
Director of the Institute of Standards and Technology, and Clarence L.
Irving, Jr., of New York, to be Assistant Secretary for Communications
and Information, all of the Department of Commerce, a list of United
States Coast Guard nominations for appointment to the grade of rear
admiral, and routine United States Coast Guard nominations.
MULTISTATE UTILITY COMPANY CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings
on S. 544, to protect consumers of multistate utility systems, and an
amendment to S. 544, to transfer responsibility for administering the
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 from the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, after
receiving testimony from Elizabeth Anne Moler, Chair, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission; Sam I. Bratton, Jr., Arkansas Public Service
Commission, Little Rock; Joseph I. Giarrusso, Council for the City of
New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana; Scott Hempling, Silver Spring,
Maryland, on behalf of the Energy Project, the Environmental Action
Foundation, and the Consumer Federation of America; Charles A. Patrizia,
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Washington, D.C., on behalf of an Ad
Hoc Group of Registered Utility Holding Companies; and Rex
Katterheinrich, Wapakoneta, Ohio, on behalf of the Ohio Power Company
Wholesale Customer Group.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of David Gardiner, of Virginia, to be Assistant
Administrator for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, and Steven A. Herman,
of New York, to be Assistant Administrator for Enforcement,both of the
Environmental Protection Agency, George T. Frampton, Jr., of the
District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish
and Wildlife and Parks, and Rodney E. Slater, of Arkansas, to be Federal
Highway Administrator, Department of Transportation.
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INDOOR AIR QUALITY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air and
Nuclear Regulation concluded hearings on S. 656 and S. 657, bills
authorizing funds for indoor air pollution abatement, including indoor
radon abatement, after receiving testimony from Representative Kennedy;
Robert Sussman, Deputy Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency;
Jill Lipoti, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and
Energy, Trenton, on behalf of the Conference of Radiation Control
Program Directors; Genevieve Matanoski, Johns Hopkins University School
of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland; Arlene Zielke, on
behalf of the National Parent-Teacher Association and the National
Education Association, Lynn Rhinehart, Department of Occupational Safety
and Health (AFL-CIO), Paul Cammer, Business Council on Indoor Air, and
Mary Ellen R. Fise, Consumer Federation of America, all of Washington,
D.C.; Thomas J. Godar, St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center,
Hartford, Connecticut, on behalf of the American Lung Association; and
Nancy Alderman, North Haven, Connecticut.
BOSNIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to
receive a briefing on the Administration's policy toward Bosnia from
Stephen A. Oxman, Assistant Secretary for European and Canadian Affairs,
and Reginald Bartholomew, United States Permanent Representative on the
Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, both of the
Department of State.
Committee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Philip Lader, of South Carolina, to be Deputy Director for
Management, Office of Management and Budget, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senators Hollings and Thurmond, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Lee Patrick Brown, of Texas, to be Director of National
Drug Control Policy, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator
Moynihan and Representatives Rangel and Brooks, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
Also, on Monday, May 24, committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Webster L. Hubbell, of Arkansas, to be Associate Attorney
General, Drew S. Days III, of Connecticut, to be Solicitor General of
the United States, and Philip Benjamin Heymann, of Massachusetts, to be
Deputy Attorney General, all of the Department of Justice.
CONSUMER DISCLOSURE OF LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and
Business Rights concluded hearings to examine State regulation and the
adequacy of information available to consumers of life insurance, after
receiving testimony from Iowa Commissioner of Insurance David J. Lyons,
Des Moines, on behalf of the National Association of Insurance
Commissioners; Mark Rakich, California Department of Insurance,
Sacramento; Mel G. Todd, Clark/Bardes, Inc., Dallas, Texas; Gloria
Darleen Newberry, Parkville, Missouri; Wayne Bohrer, Sterling, Virginia;
and Jerry C. Keating, McCook Lake, South Dakota.
ELDER INVESTMENT FRAUD
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine
investment fraud and abuses which target senior citizens and its impact
on their retirement savings, after receiving testimony from G.W.
McDonald, California Department of Corporations, Sacramento, and Barry
C. Guthary, Massachusetts Secretary of State's Division of Securities,
Boston, both on behalf of the North American Securities Administrators
Association; Stephen L. Diamond, Maine Department of Professional and
Financial Regulation, Augusta; Mary E. Calhoun, Calhoun Consulting
Group, Inc., Watertown, Massachusetts; Paul Westbrook, Westbrook
Financial Advisers, Inc., Watchung, New Jersey; Lester I. Kaplan, Jewish
Community Center of Greater Washington, Rockville, Maryland; John Us,
Fairfield, Connecticut; and Minnie Lou Pharr, Walls, Mississippi.
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Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine congressional reform proposals, focusing on
procedures governing debate on the floor, ways to improve the
deliberative process, and potential reforms in scheduling to provide
greater rationality and coordination between activity on the floor and
committee action, receiving testimony from Senators Exon, Pryor, and
Harkin; and Representatives Emerson and Tauzin.
Hearings continue on Thursday, May 27.
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Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 26, 1993; pages D583 - D592
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 1994 for the
Department of Defense, focusing on space, command and control issues,
receiving testimony from Thomas P. Quinn, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense (Strategic and Tactical C3), OASD (C3I); Gen. Charles A. Horner,
USAF, Commander in Chief, United States Space Command; and Maj. Gen.
Donald G. Hard, USAF, Director of Space Programs, Office of the
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition).
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
1994 for the United States Army Corps of Engineers, receiving testimony
from G. Edward Dickey, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil
Works, and Lt. Gen. Arthur E. Williams, Chief of Army Engineers, 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 1994 for foreign
assistance, focusing on goals and strategies for sustainable development
assistance, receiving testimony from Brian Atwood, Administrator, Agency
for International Development.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 8.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREST SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994
for the Forest Service, receiving testimony from F. Dale Robertson,
Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 8.
APPROPRIATIONS--NIH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1994 for the National Institutes of Health, receiving
testimony from Bernadine P. Healy, Director, National Institutes of
Health, and Samuel Broder, National Cancer Institute, Claude Lenfant,
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Harold Loe, National
Institute of Dental Research, Phillip Gorden, National Institute of
Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Patricia A. Grady, National
Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Anthony S. Fauci,
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Ruth L.
Kirschstein, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Duane F.
Alexander, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development,
Carl Kupfer, National Eye Institute, Kenneth Olden, National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences, Gene Cohen, National Institute on
Aging, Lawrence E. Shulman, National Institute of Arthritis and
Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, James B. Snow, Jr., National
Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Alan Leshner,
National Institute of Mental Health, Richard A. Millstein, National
Institute of Drug Abuse, Enoch Gordis, National Institute of Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism, Judith L. Vaitukaitis, National Center for
Research Resources, Ada Sue Hinshaw, National Center for Nursing
Research, Francis Collins, National Center for Human Genome Research,
Philip Schambra, Fogarty International Center, and Donald A.B. Lindberg,
National Library of Medicine, each a Director, all of the Department of
Health and Human Services.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, June 18.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Walter B. Slocombe, of the District of Columbia, to be
Deputy Under Secretary for Policy, Edward L. Warner, III, of Virginia,
to be Assistant Secretary for Strategy and Resources, Anita K. Jones, of
Virginia, to be Director, Defense Research and Engineering, Emmett
Paige, Jr., of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary for Command, Control,
Communications and Intelligence, Harold P. Smith, Jr., of California, to
be Assistant Secretary for Atomic Energy, Steven S. Honigman, of New
York, to be General Counsel of the Department of the Navy, and Deborah
R. Lee, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary for Reserve Affairs, all
of the Department of Defense, and Brig. Gen. Michael J. Nardotti, Jr.,
USA, to be Judge Advocate General, and Brig. Gen. Kenneth D. Gray, USA,
to be Assistant Judge Advocate General, both for the United States Army
in the grade of major general.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Nuclear Deterrence, Arms
Control and Defense Intelligence continued hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on chemical
demilitarization and chemical defense programs, receiving testimony from
Billy Richardson, Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Chemical
Matters); Michael W. Owen, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army
(Installations, Logistics and Environment); Lewis D. Walker, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Environment, Safety and Occupational
Health; and Brig. Gen. Walter L. Busbee, USA, Director, United States
Army Chemical Materiel Destruction Agency.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, June 9.
AUTHORIZATION--COAST GUARD
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994
for the United States Coast Guard, focusing on personnel requirements,
fleet modernization, enforcement of fishery and marine environmental
protection laws, improvement of vessel and harbor safety, drug
interdiction, alien migration, and reserve level requirements, after
receiving testimony from Adm. J. William Kime, Commandant, United States
Coast Guard, Department of Transportation; and Commander William E.
Legg, USNR (Ret.), Reserve Officers Association of the United States,
Washington, D.C.
HIGH RISK DRIVERS ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on S. 738, authorizing funds to promote the implementation of
programs to improve the traffic safety performance of high risk drivers,
after receiving testimony from Carl W. Vogt, Chairman, National
Transportation Safety Board; Paul Rothberg, Specialist in Science and
Technology Policy, Congressional Research Service, Science Policy
Research Division, Library of Congress; Judith Stone, Advocates for
Highway and Auto Safety, and David Snyder, American Insurance
Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Allan F. Williams and Steven
Oesch, both of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington,
Virginia; and Milo Kirk, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Irving, Texas.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills:
H.R. 63, to establish the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area in
Nevada, with amendments; and
S. 473, to promote the industrial competitiveness and economic growth of
the United States by strengthening the linkages between the laboratories
of the Department of Energy and the private sector and by supporting the
development and application of technologies critical to the economic,
scientific, and technological competitiveness of the United States, with
an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
ASIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to
receive a briefing on the Administration's policy toward China from
Winston Lord, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific
Affairs.
Committee recessed subject to call.
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NORTH KOREA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific
Affairs held hearings to examine United States policy with regard to
North Korea's withdrawal from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons, and on S. Res. 92, a related resolution, receiving
testimony from Robert L. Gallucci, Assistant Secretary for
Political-Military Affairs, and Thomas C. Hubbard, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, both of the Department of
State; Donald P. Gregg, former Ambassador to South Korea; Paul
Wolfowitz, former Under Secretary of Defense for Political Affairs; and
Selig S. Harrison, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL EMPLOYEE FAIRNESS ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 404, to
improve the effectiveness of administrative review of employment
discrimination claims made by Federal employees, receiving testimony
from Senator Mikulski; Nancy Kingsbury, Director, Federal Human Resource
Management Issues, and Douglas Stone, Assistant Director, both of the
General Government Division, and Barney L. Gomez, Assistant Director,
and Cecelia Porter, Special Agent, both of the Office of Special
Investigations, all of the General Accounting Office; Diana Miller,
Civil Engineer (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Department of the Army;
Marilyn L. Hudson, Assistant United States Attorney (Knoxville,
Tennessee), and Suzane J. Doucette, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of
Investigation (Tucson, Arizona), both of the Department of Justice;
Curtis Cooper, Regional Inspector, Internal Affairs Division (Lisle,
Illinois), and Sandra I. Hernandez Special Agent, (Ellicott, Maryland),
both of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Department of the
Treasury; and John N. Sturdivant, American Federation of Government
Employees (AFL-CIO), Robert M. Tobias, National Treasury Employees
Union, and Joseph M. Sellers, Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil
Rights Under Law, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported
the nominations of Philip Lader, of South Carolina, to be Deputy
Director for Management, and Sally Katzen, of the District of Columbia,
to be Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
both of the Office of Management and Budget.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original bill to stimulate the development and adoption of a
voluntary national system of skill standards and certification to serve
as a cornerstone of the national strategy to enhance workforce skills.
STUDENT LOAN SYSTEM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on
S. 920, to simplify the Federal student loan program by making it easier
for students to pay off their loans through flexible repayment terms and
lower interest rates, after receiving testimony from Madeleine Kunin,
Deputy Secretary of Education; Fr. Bartley MacPhaidin, Stonehill
College, North Easton, Massachusetts; Lloyd V. Hackley, Fayetteville
State University, Fayetteville, North Carolina; Claire Roemer, Tarrant
County Junior College District, Fort Worth, Texas, on behalf of the
National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators; R.
Marshall Witten, Bennington, Vermont, on behalf of the National
Commission on Responsibilities for Financing Postsecondary Education;
Robert H. Atwell, American Council on Education, Washington, D.C.;
Daniel S. Cheever, Jr., American Student Assistance, Boston,
Massachusetts, on behalf of the Coalition for Student Loan Reform;
Stephen C. Biklen, The Student Loan Corporation, Rochester, New York;
John Schullo, Bemidji State University, Bemidji, Minnesota; Aisha
Satterwhite, Worcester, Massachusetts; Jerome L. Nelson, Jr., Ames,
Iowa; and Robert Kraig, Madison, Wisconsin.
AUTHORIZATION--INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for
activities of the intelligence community, receiving testimony from
officials of the intelligence community.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1993/05/27
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 27, 1993; pages D593 - D602
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 1994 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on John M. Deutch, Under Secretary of Defense for
Acquisition; Renso Caporali, Grumman Corporation, Bethpage, New York;
James F. Turner, General Dynamics, Groton, Connecticut; and Bob
Dankanvin, Hughes Electronics Company, Torrence, California.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994
for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, focusing on
drunk driving issues, receiving testimony from Antonia C. Novello,
Surgeon General, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human
Services; Michael Brownlee, Associate Administrator for Traffic Safety
Programs, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of
Transportation; Milo Kirk, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Irving, Texas;
and James A. Arena, New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety,
Trenton, on behalf of the National Association of Governors' Highway
Safety Representatives.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--VETERANS AFFAIRS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994
for the Department of Veterans Affairs, receiving testimony from Jesse
Brown, Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, June 10.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Technology,
Acquisition, and Industrial Base resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Defense and to review the future years defense program, focusing on the
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) program, and science and
technology programs, receiving testimony from Gary L. Denman, Director,
Advanced Research Projects Agency; John M. Bachkosky, Deputy Director,
Defense Research and Engineering, Department of Defense; George T.
Singley, III, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology,
Department of the Army; Donald J. Campbell, Director for Science and
Technology, Department of the Air Force; and Rear Adm. William C.
Miller, USN, Chief of Naval Research, Department of the Navy.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered
favorably reported the following bills:
S. 422, to ensure the efficient and fair operation of the government
securities market, in order to protect investors and facilitate
government borrowing at the lowest possible cost to taxpayers, and to
prevent false and misleading statements in connection with offerings of
government securities;
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S. 50, to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in
commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson;
S. 183, to authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of
the Congress to Richard "Red" Skelton, and to provide for the production
of bronze duplicates of such medal for sale to the public, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
S. 216, to provide for the minting of coins to commemorate the World
University Games.
CONSUMER REPORTING REFORM ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
hearings on S. 783, to strengthen the accuracy and the privacy
protection provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act with regard to
credit reporting agencies' file information systems, after receiving
testimony from David Medine, Associate Director for Credit Practices,
Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission; Maryland State
Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Baltimore; Barry Connelly,
Associated Credit Bureaus, Inc., Michelle Meier, Consumers Union, and
Edmund Mierzwinski, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, all of
Washington, D.C.; Robert D. Hunter, Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New
York; and Ronald Prill, Mervyn's, Hayward, California, on behalf of the
National Retail Federation.
AVIATION SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Aviation held hearings to examine the relationship between the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety
Board (NTSB) as it affects safety and regulatory policy, receiving
testimony from Senator Daschle; Representative Tim Johnson; Carl W.
Vogt, Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board; Anthony J.
Broderick, Associate Administrator of Regulation and Certification,
Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation; Barry
Harris, Arlington, Virginia, former Deputy Administrator (FAA); Ira
Furman, Woodmere, New York, former Deputy Director for Public Affairs
(NTSB); and Arthur Wolk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE MODERNIZATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine possible
uses of high-technology/advanced materials in reducing the cost of civil
infrastructure modernization and reliability, focusing on certain
problems, including global competition, that may affect American
manufacturers of advanced materials and the role the Federal government
can play in making this manufacturing sector more competitive, after
receiving testimony from Joseph Bordogna, Assistant Director for
Engineering, National Science Foundation; Stephen G. Borleske, Du Pont
Company, Wilmington, Delaware; Julio Davalos, West Virginia University,
Morgantown; and Harvey M. Bernstein, Civil Engineering Research
Foundation, Washington, D.C.
LOWER MISSISSIPPI DELTA INITIATIVE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings
on S. 991, to direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of
Energy to undertake initiatives to address certain needs in the Lower
Mississippi Delta Region, after receiving testimony from Susan F.
Tierney, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Domestic and International
Energy Policy; Joseph E. Doddridge, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of
the Interior; Patricia Robinson-Sanders, Louisiana Department of
Economic Development, Robert L. Ford, Southern University, and James B.
Henry, Louisiana State University, all of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and
Claude Jenkins, Dewitt, Arkansas, and H. Dan Derbes, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, both on behalf of the Mississippi River Corridor Study
Commission.
ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP OF MILITARY BASES
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings
to examine the Department of Defense environmental cleanup and economic
redevelopment of certain military bases slated to be closed, after
receiving testimony from Sherri Wasserman Goodman, Deputy Under
Secretary of Defense for Environmental Security; Gary D. Vest, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Environment, Safety & Occupational
Health); Dave Olsen, Head of Installation Restoration Branch,
Environmental Protection, Safety and Occupational Health Division of the
Chief of Naval Operations; Rick Newsome, Assistant for Environmental
Restoration to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army; Thomas L.
McCall, Jr., Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator, and Gordon M.
Davidson, Director, both of the Office of Federal Facilities
Enforcement, Environmental Protection Agency; John D. Dunlap III and
David Wang, both of the California Environmental Protection Agency,
Sacramento; and Samuel W. Goodhope, Texas State Office of the Attorney
General, Austin.
BUSINESS MEETING/NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of John Howard Francis Shattuck, of Massachusetts, to be
Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs,
Joan E. Spero, of New York, to be U.S. Alternate Governor of the
following banks: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development,
Inter-American Development Bank, African Development Fund, Asian
Development Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development, Marilyn McAfee, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Guatemala, William Thornton Pryce, of Pennsylvania, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Honduras, and James R. Cheek, of Arkansas,
to be Ambassador to Argentina;
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S. Res. 92, condemning the proposed withdrawal of North Korea from the
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; and
S. Res. 112, urging sanctions to be imposed against the Burmese
government.
Also, committee began consideration of S. Res. 113, condemning the
extraconstitutional and antidemocratic actions of President Serrano of
Guatemala, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to
call.
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Ms. McAfee, Mr. Pryce, and Mr. Cheek (all listed above),
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
Mr. Cheek was introduced by Senators Bumpers and Pryor.
AUTHORIZATION--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic
Policy, Trade, Oceans and Environment concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for foreign
assistance, focusing on United States policies and programs for economic
growth and development in developing countries, after receiving
testimony from Joan E. Spero, Under Secretary of State for Economic and
Agricultural Affairs; Lawrence H. Summers, Under Secretary of the
Treasury for International Affairs; and Douglas Hellinger, The
Development Group for Alternative Policies, John R. Petty, Czech and
Slovak American Enterprise Funds, and Lori Udall, Environmental Defense
Fund, all of Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following measures:
S.J. Res. 39, to designate the weeks beginning May 23, 1993, and May 15,
1994, as "Emergency Medical Services Week";
S.J. Res. 61, to designate the week of October 3 through October 9,
1993, as "Mental Illness Awareness Week";
S.J. Res. 73, to designate July 5 through July 12, 1993, as "National
Awareness Week for Life-Saving Techniques";
S.J. Res. 88, to designate July 1, 1993, as "National NYSP Day"; and
S. 11, to combat violence and crimes against women on the streets and in
homes, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
NATIVE AMERICAN GRAVES PROTECTION AND REPATRIATION ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings on
the implementation of the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (P.L. 101-601), after receiving testimony from Jerry L.
Rogers, Associate Director, Cultural Resources, National Park Service,
Department of the Interior; Tessie Naranjo, Santa Clara Pueblo, Santa
Clara, New Mexico; Kina'u Boyd Kamali'i, Hawaii State Office of Hawaiian
Affairs, Honolulu; Jonathan Haas, Field Museum of Natural History,
Chicago, Illinois; and Henry J. Sockbeson, Native American Rights Fund,
and Dean Suagee, Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Wilder, both of Washington, D.C.
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1994 for programs of
the Indian Health Service, after receiving testimony from Michel E.
Lincoln, Acting Director, Indian Health Service, Department of Health
and Human Services.
AUTHORIZATION--INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for
activities of the intelligence community, receiving testimony from
officials of the intelligence community.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine congressional reform proposals, focusing on fair
employment practices, receiving testimony from Representatives Schroeder
and Snowe; and Nancy Kingsbury, Director, Federal Human Resource
Management Issues, General Government Division, General Accounting
Office.
Committee will meet again on Tuesday, June 8.
1993/05/28
Daily Digest - Friday, May 28, 1993; pages D603 - D606
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee
Affairs concluded hearings on S. 667, to revise the Immigration and
Nationality Act to improve the procedures for the exclusion of aliens
seeking to enter the United States by fraud, and to examine issues
relating to immigration laws preventing terrorism and on issues relating
to immigrants seeking asylum, after receiving testimony from Chris Sale,
Acting Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, and Neil J.
Gallagher, Section Chief, Counter Terrorism Section, Federal Bureau of
Investigation, both of the Department of Justice; David Hobbs, Acting
Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs, and Priscilla Clapp, Principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau for Refugee Programs, both of the
Department of State; Robert Juceam, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights,
and Daniel Stein, Federation for American Immigration Reform, both of
Washington, D.C.; David Martin, University of Virginia School of Law,
Charlottesville; and Richard Boswell, University of California, San
Francisco.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/06/07
Daily Digest - Monday, June 7, 1993; pages D607 - D614
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/06/08
Daily Digest - Tuesday, June 8, 1993; pages D615 - D622
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--SUPPLEMENTAL
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported, with
amendments, H.R. 2118, making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 1993.
APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994
for the Department of the Interior, focusing on the reorganization of
research science, receiving testimony from Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of
the Interior.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 15.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Technology,
Acquisition, and Industrial Base resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on specific critical sectors of the defense industrial
base, receiving testimony from Ralph E. Gomory, Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation, New York, New York; Alexander MacLachlan, E.I. duPont
deNemours and Company, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware; M. Franklin Squires,
Sematech, Austin, Texas; Toby G. Warson, Alliant Techsystems, Inc.,
Edina, Minnesota; Renso Caporali, Grumman Corporation, Bethpage, New
York; and John J. Stocker, Shipbuilders Council of America, Arlington,
Virginia.
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Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
U.S. FISHERIES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings to examine the adequacy of Federal financial assistance and
development programs affecting commercial fisheries in the United
States, after receiving testimony from Douglas K. Hall, Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere; Phillip L. Mackie,
Assistant Administrator for Commodity and Marketing Programs, Foreign
Agricultural Service, Department of Agriculture; Charles R. Hertzberg,
Assistant Administrator for Financial Assistance, Small Business
Administration; Rodney M. Avila, F/V Trident, Mattapoisett,
Massachusetts; Barney White, Zapata Corporation, Houston, Texas; James
P. Walsh, San Diego, California, on behalf of the United States Tuna
Foundation; and Gerald B. Leape, Greenpeace, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings
on the nominations of William H. White, of Texas, to be Deputy Secretary
of Energy, Archer L. Durham, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of
Energy for Human Resources and Administration, and William J. Taylor
III, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary of Energy for Congressional,
Intergovernmental, and International Affairs, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. White was
introduced by Senator Krueger and Representative Michael Andrews, Mr.
Durham was introduced by Senator Sarbanes, and Mr. Taylor was introduced
by Representative Washington.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on the
nomination of Roger W. Johnson, of California, to be Administrator of
the General Services Administration, where the nominee, who was
introduced by Senator Boxer and Representative Cox, testified and
answered questions in his own behalf.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
VIOLENCE IN TELEVISION PROGRAMMING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution held joint
oversight hearings with the Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice on the
implementation of the Television Program Improvement Act of 1990,
focusing on the impact of television violence on children, receiving
testimony from Senator Levin; Representative Schumer; Leonard Eron,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; William H. Dietz, New England Medical
Center, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of the American Academy of
Pediatrics; Jack J. Valenti, Motion Picture Association of America,
Washington, D.C.; Leslie Moonves, Lorimar Television, Kerry McCluggage,
Paramount Pictures, and Ned Nalle, Universal Television, all of Los
Angeles, California; Ralph W. Gabbard, WKYT-TV, Lexington, Kentucky, on
behalf of the National Association of Broadcasters and the Network
Affiliated Stations Alliance; Stephen W. Palley, King World Productions,
Inc., New York, New York; and Al Devaney, WPWR-TV, Chicago, Illinois, on
behalf of the Association of Independent Television Stations, Inc.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL SERVICE TRUST ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on
S. 919, to authorize funds to establish a Corporation for National
Service, enhance opportunities for national service, and provide
national service educational awards to persons participating in such
service, after receiving testimony from Mike Espy, Secretary of
Agriculture; Edward James Olmos, Los Angeles, California, on behalf of
Make a Difference Day/USA Today, and Heal LA; Franco Harris, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, on behalf of PennSERVE; Cedric Parker, Pennsylvania
Conservation Corps, Erie; Dwayne Andreas, Archer-Daniels-Midland
Corporation, Miami Beach, Florida; J. Richard Munro, Points of Light
Foundation, New York, New York; Jeffrey Swartz, Timberland Company,
Hampton, New Hampshire, on behalf of Americans for National Service;
Sandra Broadwater, VOLUNTEER MARYLAND, Baltimore; Rev. Edward A. Malloy,
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana; Councilmember Sue
Donaldson, Seattle, Washington, on behalf of the Seattle Youth
Involvement Network; and Kenneth Bailey, Campus Outreach Opportunity
League Road Scholars Program, St. Louis, Missouri.
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, June 10.
LONG-TERM CARE FOR ELDERLY
Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings to examine the role
of the Aging Network (composed of the Administration on Aging, 50 State
Offices on Aging, and 670 Area Agencies on Aging) in the delivery of
home and community-based long-term care services for older Americans,
receiving testimony from Fernando M. Torres-Gil, Assistant Secretary for
Aging, Administration on Aging, Department of Health and Human Services;
Donna McDowell, Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services,
Madison; James C. Wilson, Oregon State Agency on Aging, Portland; Elaine
Eubank, Central Arkansas Area Agency on Aging, Inc., Little Rock; Donna
Sargent, Community Health and Counseling Services, Bangor, Maine; and
Frances Hicks, Alexandria, Virginia.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ETHICS REFORM
Senate Ethics Study Commission: Commission resumed hearings on reforming
the process the Senate uses to investigate and decide on alleged ethical
misconduct by Senators, receiving testimony from former Senator Rudman;
Norman Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
Research, Washington, D.C.; and Dennis F. Thompson, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Hearings continue on Thursday, June 17.
Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine congressional reform proposals, focusing on the
application of laws, receiving testimony from Senators Grassley and
Nickles; Representatives Shays, Swett, Goodling, and Fawell; Steven
Ross, former General Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives; Hal Bruff
and David Frederick, both of the American Bar Association, Barbara
Arnwine, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and Marcia
Greenberger, National Women's Law Center, all of Washington, D.C.; and
Nelson Lund, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.
Committee will meet again on Thursday, June 10.
1993/06/09
Daily Digest - Wednesday, June 9, 1993; pages D624 - D632
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--IRS/CUSTOMS SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service,
and General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1994, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Margaret M. Richardson, Commissioner,
Internal Revenue Service, and George J. Weise, Commissioner, United
States Customs Service, both of the Department of the Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, June 16.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Readiness and
Defense Infrastructure resumed hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Defense and
to review the future years defense program, focusing on environmental
programs, receiving testimony from Sherri Wasserman Goodman, Deputy
Under Secretary of Defense (Environmental Security); Alan P. Babbitt,
Deputy for Hazardous Material and Waste, Office of the Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force (Environment, Safety and Occupational
Health); Brig. Gen. Gerald C. Brown, USA, Director of Environmental
Programs, Department of the Army; Elsie L. Munsell, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Navy (Environment and Safety); and Jan Reitman,
Director of Environment and Safety Policy, Defense Logistics Agency.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Nuclear Deterrence, Arms
Control and Defense Intelligence resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Defense and to review the future years defense program, focusing on the
ballistic missile defense program, receiving testimony from Maj. Gen.
Malcolm R. O'Neill, USA, Acting Director, and Edward T. Gerry, Systems
Architect, both of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization,
Department of Defense.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
RECONCILIATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee completed
its review of certain spending reductions and revenue increases to meet
reconciliation expenditures as imposed by H. Con. Res. 64, setting forth
the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal
years 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998, and agreed on recommendations
which it will make thereon to the Committee on the Budget.
RECONCILIATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee began consideration
of certain recommendations which it will make to the Committee on the
Budget with respect to spending reductions and revenue increases to meet
reconciliation expenditures as imposed by H. Con. Res. 64, setting forth
the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal
years 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday, June 16.
NATIONAL WILDLIFE IMPROVEMENT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Water,
Fisheries and Wildlife concluded hearings on S. 823, authorizing funds
to improve the management of the National Wildlife Refuge System, after
receiving testimony from Donald Barry, Acting Assistant Secretary of the
Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks; and William C. Reffalt,
National Wildlife Refuge Association, James R. Waltman, National Audubon
Society, R. Max Peterson, International Association of Fish and Wildlife
Agencies, Rollin D. Sparrowe, Wildlife Management Institute, John W.
Grandy, Humane Society of the United States, and Rodger Schlickeisen,
Defenders of Wildlife, all of Washington, DC.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Jean Kennedy Smith, of New York, to be Ambassador to
Ireland, and Peter W. Galbraith, of Vermont, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Croatia, after the nominees testified and answered questions
in their own behalf. Ms. Smith was introduced by Senator Kennedy.
LIBERIA/TOGO/ZAIRE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs
concluded hearings to examine developments in and United States policy
toward Liberia, Togo, and Zaire, after receiving testimony from George
E. Moose, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Janet
Fleischman, Africa Watch, Washington, D.C.; Sister Stephanie Mertens,
The Order of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, Ruma, Illinois; and
Kennedy Graham, Parliamentarians for Global Action, and Steve Askin,
both of New York, New York.
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AUTHORIZATION--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations resumed hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1994 and 1995 for foreign assistance
programs of the Department of State, focusing on the future of United
Nations peacekeeping and related collective security operations,
receiving testimony from Madeleine K. Albright, U.S. Permanent
Representative to the United Nations, Department of State; Frank C.
Conahan, Assistant Comptroller General, National Security and
International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; Robert B.
Oakley, Washington, D.C., former Special Envoy to Somalia; Richard L.
Thornburgh, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, former Under-Secretary-General
for Administration and Management of the United Nations; Ronald I.
Spiers, South Londonderry, Vermont, former Under Secretary-General for
Administration and Management of the United Nations; and Sir Brian
Urquhart, former Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs
of the United Nations, Paul A. Volcker, Independent Advisory Group on
United Nations Financing, and Edward C. Luck, United Nations Association
of the USA, all of New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 314, to authorize
funds for fiscal years 1994-1999 for the National Historical
Publications and Records Commission.
Also, committee completed its review of certain spending reductions and
revenue increases to meet reconciliation expenditures as imposed by H.
Con. Res. 64, setting forth the congressional budget for the United
States Government for fiscal years 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998, and
agreed on recommendations which it will make thereon to the Committee on
the Budget.
Also, committee failed to approve for reporting S. 587, to establish the
Mike Mansfield Fellowship Program for intensive training in the Japanese
language, government, politics, and economy.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Anne Bingaman, of New Mexico, to be an Assistant Attorney
General, Department of Justice, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senators Domenici and Bingaman, testified and answered questions in her
own behalf.
CHILDREN AND GUN VIOLENCE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice held
hearings on S. 1087, to prohibit the possession of a handgun or
ammunition by, or the private transfer of a handgun or ammunition to a
juvenile, focusing on certain gun related incidents involving children,
receiving testimony from Senator Chafee; Dewey Stokes, Fraternal Order
of Police, Columbus, Ohio; Janie R. Hill Hatton, Milwaukee Trade and
Technical High School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Alex Haller, Johns Hopkins
Children's Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland; Susan Lamson, National Rifle
Association of America, and Sarah Brady, Handgun Control, Inc., both of
Washington, DC; and Jennifer Ramsay, Columbia, Maryland.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of David A. Longanecker, of Colorado, to be
Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education, and Marshall S. Smith,
of California, to be Under Secretary, both of the Department of
Education.
SBA FINANCE PROGRAMS
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
contribution the Small Business Administration finance programs have
made to technology development, after receiving testimony from Erskine
B. Bowles, Administrator, Small Business Administration; Jeffrey C.
Walker, Chemical Venture Partners, Harvey Wertheim, Harvest Ventures,
Inc., and Patricia M. Cloherty, Patricof & Co. Ventures, on behalf of
the National Venture Capital Association, all of New York, New York;
Donald R. Lawhorne, MESBIC Ventures Holding Company, Dallas, Texas, on
behalf of the National Association of Investment Companies; and James A.
Parsons, RFE Investment Partners, New Canaan, Connecticut, on behalf of
the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1993/06/10
Daily Digest - Thursday, June 10, 1993; pages D633 - D644
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--SBA/INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State,
and the Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1994, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Erskine B. Bowles, Administrator, Small Business
Administration; and Don E. Newquist, Administrator, United States
International Trade Commission.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, June 16.
APPROPRIATIONS--NASA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994
for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, receiving
testimony from Daniel S. Goldin, Administrator, National Aeronautics and
Space Administration.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
RECONCILIATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee completed its review of certain
spending reductions and revenue increases to meet reconciliation
expenditures as imposed by H. Con. Res. 64, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government, and agreed on
recommendations which it will make thereon to the Committee on the
Budget.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Force Requirements and
Personnel resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Defense and to review the future
years defense program, focusing on the National Guard and Reserve
personnel and force structure programs of the military services,
receiving testimony from Deborah R. Lee, Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Reserve Affairs; Maj. Gen. Raymond F. Rees, USA, Vice Chief,
National Guard Bureau; Maj. Gen. John R. D'Araujo, USA, Director, Army
National Guard; Maj. Gen. Philip G. Killey, USAF, Director, Air National
Guard; Rear Adm. Thomas F. Hall, USN, Director, Naval Reserve; Maj. Gen.
Roger W. Sandler, USA, Chief, Army Reserve; Maj. Gen. Jeffrey W. Oster,
USMC, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Reserve Affairs, Manpower and
Reserve Affairs; Maj. Gen. John J. Closner III, USAF, Chief Air Force
Reserve; Rear Adm. Robert E. Kramek, USCG, Chief of Staff, U.S. Coast
Guard Headquarters; Maj. Gen. Donald E. Edwards, USA, Adjutants General
Association of the United States, Maj. Gen. Robert F. Ensslin, Jr., USA
(Ret.), National Guard Association of the United States, and Maj. Gen.
Evan L. Hultman, AUS (Ret.), Reserve Officers Association of the United
States, all of Washington, D.C.; and Capt. J. Robert Lunney, JAGC, USNR
(Ret.), Naval Reserve Association, and Col. Frank A. Tauches, Jr.,
USMCR, Marine Corps Reserve Officers Association, both of Alexandria,
Virginia.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Nuclear Deterrence, Arms
Control and Defense Intelligence resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Defense and to review the future years defense program, focusing on
Department of Energy national security programs, receiving testimony
from Hazel R. O'Leary, Secretary of
Energy.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
RECONCILIATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee completed its
review of certain spending reductions and revenue increases to meet
reconciliation expenditures as imposed by H. Con. Res. 64, setting forth
the congressional budget for the United States Government, and agreed on
recommendations which it will make thereon to the Committee on the
Budget.
EPA MANAGEMENT OF SUPERFUND
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund,
Recycling, and Solid Waste Issues concluded hearings to examine the
Environmental Protection Agency's fiscal and contract management
practices with regard to hazardous waste cleanup under Superfund, after
receiving testimony from Richard L. Hembra, Director, Environmental
Protection Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development
Division, General Accounting Office; and John C. Martin, Inspector
General, Sallyanne Harper, Acting Assistant Administrator for
Administration and Resources Management, and Richard G. Guimond, Acting
Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency Response, all of
the Environmental Protection Agency.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
S. Con. Res. 29, relating to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
organization; and
The nominations of Jean Kennedy Smith, of New York, to be Ambassador to
Ireland, Peter W. Galbraith, of Vermont, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Croatia, and a Foreign Service Officers' appointments and
promotions list received by the Senate on May 28, 1993.
Also, committee completed its review of certain spending reductions and
revenue increases to meet reconciliation expenditures as imposed by H.
Con. Res. 64, setting forth the congressional budget for the United
States Government, and agreed on recommendations which it will make
thereon to the Committee on the Budget.
NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to
receive a briefing on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
and the on-going negotiations on the labor and environmental side
agreements, receiving testimony from Joan E. Spero, Under Secretary of
State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs.
Committee recessed subject to call.
U.S. NUCLEAR DETERRENCE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine
the efficiency and effectiveness of a General Accounting Office report
on the strengths and weaknesses of the United States strategic nuclear
triad (which includes long-range bombers, intercontinental ballistic
missiles, and submarine-launched ballistic missiles), and the
cost-effectiveness of the principal weapon system upgrades, receiving
testimony from Eleanor Chelimsky, Assistant Comptroller General, Program
Evaluation and Methodology Division, General Accounting Office; and
William J. Perry, Deputy Secretary of Defense.
The hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Lee Patrick Brown, of Texas, to be Director of National
Drug Control Policy, and Anne Bingaman, of New Mexico, to be an
Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice.
Also, committee completed its review of certain spending reductions and
revenue increases to meet reconciliation expenditures as imposed by H.
Con. Res. 64, setting forth the congressional budget for the United
States Government, and agreed on recommendations which it will make
thereon to the Committee on the Budget.
RECONCILIATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee met to review certain
spending reductions and revenue increases to meet reconciliation
expenditures as imposed by H. Con. Res. 64, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government, and agreed to
certain recommendations which it will make thereon to the Committee on
the Budget.
RECONCILIATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee completed its review of
certain spending reductions and revenue increases to meet reconciliation
expenditures as imposed by H. Con. Res. 64, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government, and agreed on
recommendations which it will make thereon to the Committee on the
Budget.
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, June 17.
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Joint Meetings
U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY
Joint Hearing: Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
(Helsinki Commission) concluded joint hearings with the House Committee
on Foreign Affairs' Subcommittee on International Security,
International Organizations and Human Rights to examine United States
human rights policy prior to the United Nations World Conference on
Human Rights to be held in Vienna from June 14-25, 1993, after receiving
testimony from Timothy E. Wirth, Counselor, Department of State.
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine congressional reform proposals, focusing on support
agencies, receiving testimony from Joseph E. Ross, Director,
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; Charles A. Bowsher,
Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting Office;
Roger C. Herdman, Director, Office of Technology Assessment; Robert D.
Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget Office; and Michael F.
DiMario, Acting Public Printer, Government Printing Office.
Committee will meet again on Wednesday, June 16.
1993/06/14
Daily Digest - Monday, June 14, 1993; pages D645 - D650
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN AID
Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, June 11, Subcommittee on Foreign
Operations held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1994 for foreign assistance programs, focusing on transnational issues,
including population, environment, health, narcotics and anti-terrorism
issues, receiving testimony from Timothy E. Wirth, Counselor, Department
of State.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 15.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: On Friday, June 11, Committee ordered
favorably reported the nomination of Ashton B. Carter, of Massachusetts,
to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Security and Counter
Proliferation.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Coalition Defense and
Reinforcing Forces resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Defense and the future
years defense program, focusing on Army long-term modernization
requirements and modernization programs, receiving testimony from Gen.
Frederick M. Franks, Jr., USA, Commander, United States Army Training
and Doctrine Command; Lt. Gen. William H. Forster, USA, Military Deputy
to the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research, Development and
Acquisition); and Maj. Gen. Paul E. Funk, USA, Commanding General,
United States Army Armor Center and School (Fort Knox, Kentucky).
On Friday, June 11, Subcommittee on Coalition Defense and Reinforcing
Forces held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Defense and the future years
defense program, focusing on DOD's requirements for modernization of
tactical combat aircraft, receiving testimony from Adm. David E.
Jeremiah, USN, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Chairman, Joint
Requirements Oversight Council.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
U.S. TRADE POLICY
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade held hearings
on proposals to renew the "Super 301" provision of the Trade Act of
1974, which required the United States Trade Representative, in 1989 and
1990, to identify United States trade liberalization priorities, both in
terms of priority countries and priority practices, and to encourage
effective market-opening trade policy, receiving testimony from Senator
Levin; Michael Kantor, United States Trade Representative; and Willard
A. Workman, United States Chamber of Commerce, Lori B. Garver, National
Space Society, and Stephen M. Lovett, American Forest and Paper
Association, all of Washington, D.C.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
JUDICIAL RECORDS PRESERVATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: On Friday, June 11, Subcommittee on
Regulation and Government Information held hearings on the disposition
of certain public papers of United States Supreme Court justices,
focusing on assuring their preservation and access, receiving testimony
from James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress; E. Barrett Prettyman,
Jr., Hogan and Hartson, Washington, D.C.; Dennis J. Hutchinson,
University of Chicago, on behalf of the Supreme Court Review, and Anne
Kenney, on behalf of the Society of American Archivists, both of
Chicago, Illinois; and Jane E. Kirtley, Reporters Committee for Freedom
of the Press, Reston, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INDIAN PROGRAMS BUDGET
Committee on Indian Affairs: On Friday, June 11, Committee concluded
oversight hearings on the President's proposed budget request for fiscal
year 1994 for Indian programs within the Bureau of Indian Affairs, after
receiving testimony from Eddie F. Brown, Assistant Secretary of the
Interior for Indian Affairs.
Joint Meetings
FORMER SOVIET UNION ECONOMIES
Joint Economic Committee: On Friday, June 11, Committee held hearings to
examine the economies of the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern
Europe, focusing on the current economic reforms, receiving testimony
from Christine Williams, Deputy Director of Slavic and Eurasian
Analysis, and Robert Blackwell, Deputy Director, Office of European
Analysis, both of the Central Intelligence Agency; and William
Grundmann, Director of Combat Support, Defense Intelligence Agency,
Department of Defense.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1993/06/15
Daily Digest - Tuesday, June 15, 1993; pages D651 - D658
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for foreign
assistance programs, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 29.
APPROPRIATIONS--DOE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994
for certain programs of the Department of Energy, receiving testimony
from Hazel R. O'Leary, Secretary of Energy.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Nuclear Deterrence, Arms
Control and Defense Intelligence resumed hearings, in closed session, on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the
Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on
intelligence support to military operations, receiving testimony from
Keith R. Hall, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Intelligence);
Vice Adm. Richard C. Macke, USN, Director, Joint Staff; and Maj. Gen.
John A. Leide, USA, Director, National Military Intelligence Collection
Center, Defense Intelligence Agency.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Regional Defense and
Contingency Forces held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Defense and the future
years defense program, focusing on Marine Corps programs, receiving
testimony from Gen. Carl E. Mundy, Jr., USMC, Commandant of the Marine
Corps.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
BUDGET RECONCILIATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee completed
its review of certain spending reductions and revenue increases to meet
reconciliation expenditures as imposed by H. Con. Res. 64, setting forth
the congressional budget for the United States Government, and agreed on
recommendations which it will make thereon to the Committee on the
Budget.
RECONCILIATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee completed its
review of certain spending reductions and revenue increases to meet
reconciliation expenditures as imposed by H. Con. Res. 64, setting forth
the congressional budget for the United States Government, and agreed on
recommendations which it will make thereon to the Committee on the
Budget.
CONTINGENT WORKERS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor concluded
hearings to examine the use and growth of a "contingent" work force in
the United States, which consists of part time, temporary, and leased
employees, including independent contractors, and its impact on the
nation's standard of living, productivity and competitiveness, after
receiving testimony from Delores Crockett, Acting Deputy Director,
Women's Bureau, Department of Labor; Eileen Appelbaum, Economic Policy
Institute, Washington, DC; Mitchell S. Fromstein, Manpower Inc.,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin; John R. Heneisen, Berry College, Rome, Georgia, on
behalf of the National Association of Student Employment Administrators;
Richard Delaney, Office and Professional Employees International Union
(AFL-CIO), Oakland, California; Michael D. Hobbs, Hobbs Inc., New
Canaan, Connecticut, on behalf of the Carpentry Industry Partnership;
Wendy Perkins, Scottsdale, Arizona; Jimmie Ruth Daughtrey, Nashville,
Tennessee; and Helen Axel, Lebanon, New Jersey.
INDIAN FISH AND WILDLIFE RESOURCES
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings on proposed
legislation to establish within the Bureau of Indian Affairs a program
to improve the management of Indian fish, wildlife, trapping, gathering
and outdoor recreation resources, receiving testimony from Nelson
Wallulatum, Tribal Council of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation, Warm Springs, Oregon; Jerry Meninick, Yakima Indian
Nation, Toppenish, Washington; Sue Masten, Yurok Tribe Interim Council,
Eureka, California; Jim Harp, Quinault Indian Nation, Taholah,
Washington; Peterson Zah, Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Arizona; Laurence
Kenmille, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
Nation, Pablo, Montana; W. Clay Bravo, Hualapai Tribal Council, Peach
Springs, Arizona; Robert Neuman, Washington, DC, on behalf of the White
Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation; Tom
Maulson, Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, Lac du
Flambeau, Wisconsin; Bobby Whitefeather, Red Lake Band of Chippewa
Indians Tribal Council, Red Lake, Minnesota; Gerald White, Leech Lake
Band of Chippewa Indians, Cass Lake, Minnesota; and F.K. Jones,
Miccosukee Tribe of Indians, Miami, Florida.
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Hearings continue tomorrow.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/06/16
Daily Digest - Wednesday, June 16, 1993; pages D660 - D670
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
RECONCILIATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee completed
its review of certain spending reductions and revenue increases to meet
reconciliation expenditures as imposed by H. Con. Res. 64, setting forth
the congressional budget for the United States Government, and agreed on
recommendations which it will make thereon to the Committee on the
Budget.
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APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND
TECHNOLOGY/NOAA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State,
and the Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1994, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Arati Prabhakar, Director, National Institute of
Standards and Technology, and D. James Baker, Under Secretary for Oceans
and Atmosphere, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, both of
the Department of Commerce.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Readiness and
Defense Infrastructure resumed hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Defense and
the future years defense program, focusing on operation and maintenance
programs and the Defense Business Operations Fund, receiving testimony
from John A. Flinn, Director of Operations, Office of the Comptroller,
and Alice Maroni, Principal Deputy Comptroller, both of the Department
of Defense; Brig. Gen. Roger G. Thompson, Jr., USA, Director for
Operations and Support, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army
(Financial Management); Rear Adm. William A. Earner, Jr., USN, Director
of Budget and Reports, Office of the Comptroller of the Navy; Brig. Gen.
Joseph D. Stewart, USMC, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, Installations
and Logistics (Plans), Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps; Brig. Gen. Allen
D. Bunger, USAF, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Budget);
and Donald H. Chapin, Assistant Comptroller General, Accounting and
Financial Management Division, General Accounting Office.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of William H. White, of Texas, to be Deputy
Secretary of Energy, Archer L. Durham, of Maryland, to be Assistant
Secretary of Energy for Human Resources and Administration, William J.
Taylor III, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary of Energy for
Congressional, Intergovernmental, and International Affairs, and George
T. Frampton, Jr., of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary
of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife.
PUBLIC LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 294, to authorize
funds to formulate a program for the research, interpretation, and
preservation of various aspects of colonial New Mexico history, S. 310,
designating the Chaco Cultural Archeological Protection Sites, S. 313,
to designate additional lands in New Mexico as wilderness and to
establish the Fossil Forest Research Natural Area, S. 643 and H.R. 38,
bills to establish the Jemez National Recreation Area in the State of
New Mexico, S. 836, to provide for a study of El Camino Real de Tierra
Adentro (The Royal Road of the Interior Lands) for inclusion in the
National Historic Trails System, S. 983, to direct the Secretary of the
Interior to study the El Camino Real Para Los Texas for potential
addition to the National Trails System, S. 1049 and H.R. 698, bills to
provide additional protection to Lechuguilla Cave and other cave
resources located in and near Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New
Mexico, and H.R. 843, 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 Jim Baca, Director,
Bureau of Land Management, and Denis Galvin, Associate Director,
Planning and Development, National Park Service, both of the Department
of the Interior; Henry M. Montrey, III, Associate Deputy Chief for the
National Forest System, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; John
Gustavson, Gustavson Associates, Inc., Boulder, Colorado, on behalf of
the Yates Energy Corporation; and David C. Culver, American University,
Washington, D.C., on behalf of the National Speleological Society.
AUTHORIZATION--CLEAN WATER
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Water,
Fisheries and Wildlife held hearings on S. 1114, authorizing funds for
programs of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, receiving testimony
from Carol M. Browner, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency;
William Cooper, Michigan State University, East Lansing; Robert J.
Huggett, College of William and Mary (Virginia Institute of Marine
Sciences), Gloucester Point, Virginia; Richard A. Conway, Union Carbide
Corporation, South Charleston, West Virginia; and James R. Karr,
University of Washington, Seattle.
Hearings will continue on Wednesday, June 23.
CAMBODIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific
Affairs held hearings to examine the post-election situation and the
prospects for peace in Cambodia, receiving testimony from Winston Lord,
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs; Marvin
C. Ott, Professor, The National War College, Department of Defense; and
William Herod, Indochina Program, and Dinah PoKempner, Human Rights
Watch, both of Washington, D.C.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic
Policy, Trade, Oceans and Environment resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for foreign
assistance programs, focusing on security assistance in the post-cold
war era, receiving testimony from Lynn E. Davis, Under Secretary of
State for International Security Affairs; Lt. Gen. Teddy G. Allen, USA,
Director, Defense Security Assistance Agency, Department of Defense;
William W. Keller, Project Director, Office of Technology Assessment;
and Lt. Gen. William E. Odom, USA (Ret.), Hudson Institute, Washington,
D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Frank Hunger, of Mississippi, and Sheila Foster Anthony,
of Arkansas, each to be an Assistant Attorney General, Department of
Justice, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their
own behalf. Mr. Hunger was introduced by Senators Cochran and Lott, and
Representative Thompson, and Ms. Anthony was introduced by Senators
Bumpers and Pryor.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items:
S. 919, to authorize funds to establish a Corporation for National
Service, enhance opportunities for national service, and provide
national service educational awards to persons participating in such
service, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nominations of Olena Berg, of California, and John D. Donahue, of
Indiana, each to be an Assistant Secretary, and Karen Beth Nussbaum, of
Ohio, to be Director of the Women's Bureau, all of the Department of
Labor, Judith Heumann, of California, to be Assistant Secretary for
Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, and Augusta Souza
Kappner, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult
Education, both of the Department of Education, and Philip R. Lee, of
California, to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Also, committee completed its review of certain spending reductions and
revenue increases to meet reconciliation expenditures as imposed by H.
Con. Res. 64, setting forth the congressional budget for the United
States Government, and agreed on recommendations which it will make
thereon to the Committee on the Budget.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills:
S. 442, to provide for the maintenance of dams located on Indian lands
by the Bureau of Indian Affairs or through contracts with Indian tribes;
S. 1078, to confirm the Federal relationship with the Jena Band of
Choctaw Indians of Louisiana;
S. 293, to provide for a National Native American Veterans' Memorial,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 521, to strengthen tribal judicial systems, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute; and
S. 654, to authorize funds for the Indian Environmental General
Assistance Program, with an amendment.
INDIAN FISH AND WILDLIFE RESOURCES
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation to establish within the Bureau of Indian Affairs a program
to improve the management of Indian fish, wildlife, trapping, gathering
and outdoor recreation resources, after receiving testimony from Edward
K. Thomas, Tlingit and Haida Tribes, Juneau, Alaska; Bob Polasky, Rural
Alaska Community Action Program, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska; Kitty Simonds,
Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, Honolulu, Hawaii;
Billy Frank, Jr., Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, Olympia,
Washington; John Platt, Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission,
Portland, Oregon; James Zorn, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife
Commission, Odanah, Wisconsin; Etta Burns, 1854 Authority, Duluth,
Minnesota; Randy Noka, Narragansett Indian Tribe, Charleston, Rhode
Island, on behalf of the Native American Fish and Wildlife Society; Fred
DuBray, Intertribal Bison Cooperative, Eagle Butte, South Dakota; Mark
Reeff, International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies,
Washington, D.C.; and Wilfred Kaupiko, Miioli'i, Hawaii.
Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings on congressional reform proposals, receiving testimony from
Representatives Roemer, Regula, Mica, Pallone, Gunderson, McMillan,
Burton, Gilchrest, Slattery, Buyer, Andrews, Greenwood, Minge, Gekas,
Kanjorski, Goodlatte, Fowler, Torkildsen, Shepherd, and Fingerhut.
Hearings will continue tomorrow.
1993/06/17
Daily Digest - Thursday, June 17, 1993; pages D672 - D680
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. 64, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years
1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998, and agreed to report to the Senate
under the provisions of 602(b), of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on DOD plans for
maintaining combat readiness and the potential impact of certain budget
reductions, receiving testimony from William J. Perry, Deputy Secretary
of Defense.
Committee will meet again on Wednesday, June 23.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Technology,
Acquisition, and Industrial Base resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on manufacturing
technology, receiving testimony from Anita K. Jones, Director, Defense,
Research and Engineering, Department of Defense; Arati Prabhakar,
Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of
Commerce; Heinz W. Schmitt, Vice President of Corporate Development and
Engineering, Support Division, Sandia National Laboratory (Albuquerque,
New Mexico), Department of Energy; Herm Reinings, Rockwell
International, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and William B. Bullock, Lockheed
Aeronautical System Company, Marietta, Georgia.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
Securities held hearings on proposals to reform private enforcement of
the Federal securities laws, focusing on the effect of securities fraud
lawsuits on certain investors, receiving testimony from William R.
McLucas, Director, Division of Enforcement, Securities and Exchange
Commission; Mark J. Griffin, Utah Department of Commerce, Salt Lake
City, on behalf of the North American Securities Administrators
Association, Inc.; John G. Adler, Adaptec, Inc., Milpitas, California,
on behalf of the American Business Conference; Edward R. McCracken,
Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, California, on behalf of the
American Entrepreneurs for Economic Growth; Richard J. Egan, EMC
Corporation, Hopkinton, Massachusetts; F. Thomas Dunlap, Jr., Intel
Corporation, Santa Clara, California; Joel Seligman, University of
Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor; Vincent E. O'Brien, Law & Economics
Consulting Group, Inc., Emeryville, California; Patricia Reilly, AG
Edwards Company, and William S. Lerach, Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes &
Lerach, both of San Diego, California; Edward J. Radetich, Jr., Heffler
& Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Russell E. Ramser, Mount Vernon,
Ohio; and Gordon Billipp, Jaffrey, New Hampshire.
Hearings will continue on Thursday, June 24.
PUBLIC LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills:
S. 273, to remove certain restrictions from a parcel of land owned by
the City of North Charleston, South Carolina, in order to permit a land
exchange, S. 742, to establish the Friends of Kaloko-Honokohau, an
advisory commission for the Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park in
Hawaii, S. 752, to modify the boundary of Hot Springs National Park in
Arkansas, S. 851, to establish the Carl Garner Federal Lands Cleanup
Day, S. 971, to provide for an increase in the authorization for the War
in the Pacific National Historical Park, Guam, and the American Memorial
Park, Saipan, and S.J. Res. 78, designating the beach on Hog Island,
Unalaska, Alaska, the Arkansas Beach in commemoration of the 206th Coast
Artillery Regiment and for the men who served and died during the air
attacks on Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, on June 3 and 4, 1942, after
receiving testimony from John H. Davis, Associate Director for
Operations, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; and
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H.R. 236, to establish the Snake River Birds of Prey National
Conservation Area in the State of Idaho, after receiving testimony from
Representative LaRocco; and Geoffrey Webb, Special Assistant to the
Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior.
Also, testimony was received on S. 851 (listed above) from J. Lamar
Beasley, Deputy Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.
VOLUNTARY ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP AND ECONOMIC REDEVELOPMENT
ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund,
Recycling, and Solid Waste Management concluded hearings on S. 773, to
authorize funds for fiscal years 1994-1997 to require the Administrator
of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to
encourage voluntary environmental cleanup of facilities to foster their
economic redevelopment, after receiving testimony from Robert M.
Sussman, Deputy Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Scott A.
Weiner, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Energy,
Trenton; James P. O'Brien, Chapman and Cutler, Chicago, Illinois; and
Diane S. Shea, National Association of Counties, Ann Pendergrass Hill,
First Interstate Bank of Oregon, Portland, on behalf of the American
Bankers Association; and A. Blakeman Early, Sierra Club, and Harvey
Alter, United States Chamber of Commerce, both of Washington, D.C.
RECONCILIATION
Committee on Finance: Committee met to consider certain recommendations
which it will make to the Committee on the Budget with respect to
spending reductions and revenue increases to meet reconciliation
expenditures as imposed by H. Con. Res. 64, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government, but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
START II TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on the Treaty
Between the United States and the Russian Federation on Further
Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (Start II Treaty),
signed at Moscow on January 3, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 103-1), receiving
testimony from Lawrence S. Eagleburger, former Deputy Secretary of
State.
Hearings continue on Thursday, June 24.
AUTHORIZATION--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations resumed hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for foreign assistance, focusing
on the role of public diplomacy in the post Soviet/post Cold War era,
including the role and structure of United States international
broadcasting, receiving testimony from Joseph D. Duffey, Director,
United States Information Agency; Daniel A. Mica, Chairman, Board for
International Broadcasting; Richard M. Krasno, Institute of
International Education, New York, New York, on behalf of the Alliance
for International Educational and Cultural Exchange; and Charles W.
Dunn, J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
ENTERPRISE ZONES
Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Competitiveness, Capital
Formation, and Economic Opportunity held hearings to examine small
business development in economically distressed areas (enterprise
zones), receiving testimony from Representative Rangel; Andrew M. Cuomo,
Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Community
Planning and Development; Maurice Foley, Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Tax Policy; Jack Kemp, former Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development; Michael Allan Wolf, University of Richmond, Virginia;
Richard Cowden, American Association of Enterprise Zones, Washington,
D.C.; and Paul Pryde, Pryde and Company.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the
intelligence community.
Committee will meet again on Tuesday, June 22.
ETHICS REFORM
Senate Ethics Study Commission: Commission concluded hearings on
reforming the process the Senate uses to investigate and decide on
alleged ethical misconduct by Senators, after receiving testimony from
Senators Heflin and Wallop; and David M. Mason, Heritage Foundation, and
Ann McBride, Common Cause, both of Washington, D.C.
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Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee continued
hearings to examine certain congressional reform proposals, focusing on
the administration of certain offices of the House of Representatives,
receiving testimony from Representatives William Thomas and Ridge; and
Lt. Gen. Leonard Wishart III (Ret.), Director of Non-Legislative and
Financial Services, United States House of Representatives.
Committee will meet again on Tuesday, June 22.
1993/06/18
Daily Digest - Friday, June 18, 1993; pages D682 - D688
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
GOVERNMENT WASTE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education concluded hearings to examine alleged incidents
of waste, fraud, and abuse in certain Federal agencies, and to examine
efforts to streamline the operation of the Federal Government, after
receiving testimony from Charles C. Masten, Acting Inspector General,
Department of Labor; Bryan B. Mitchell, Acting Inspector General,
Department of Health and Human Services; James B. Thomas, Jr., Inspector
General, Department of Education; and Clarence C. Crawford, Associate
Director, Human Resources Division, General Accounting Office.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Coalition Defense and
Reinforcing Forces resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Defense and the future
years defense program, focusing on the future of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO) and its relevance to the security challenges
of the post-Cold War era, receiving testimony from Walter B. Slocombe,
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Stephen A. Oxman,
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs; Adm.
William D. Smith, USN, United States Military Representative, NATO
Military Committee; and John C. Kornblum, Head of the Conference on
Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings
on the nomination of Roger W. Johnson, of California, to be
Administrator of General Services, General Services Administration,
after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
RECONCILIATION
Committee on Finance: Committee completed its review of certain spending
reductions and revenue increases to meet reconciliation expenditures as
imposed by H. Con. Res. 64, setting forth the congressional budget for
the United States Government, and agreed on recommendations which it
will make thereon to the Committee on the Budget.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Christopher Finn, of New York, to be Executive Vice
President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, United States
International Development Cooperation Agency, after the nominee
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
ENTERPRISE ZONES
Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Competitiveness, Capital
Formation, and Economic Opportunity concluded hearings to examine the
Administration's proposal to stimulate small business development in
economically distressed areas (enterprise zones), after receiving
testimony from Representative Rangel; Andrew M. Cuomo, Assistant
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Community Planning and
Development; Maurice B. Foley, Acting Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Tax Policy; Jack Kemp, former Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development; Michael Allan Wolf, University of Richmond, Virginia;
Richard Cowden, American Association of Enterprise Zones, and Paul
Pryde, Pryde and Company, both of Washington, D.C.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1993/06/21
Daily Digest - Monday, June 21, 1993; pages D689 - D692
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1994, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Richard Carlson, President,
Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Gary Kowalczyk, Acting Director,
ACTION; Glen L. Bower, Chairman, and William J. Doyle, III, Inspector
General, both of the Railroad Retirement Board; Chester Crocker,
Chairman, United States Institute of Peace; Bernard E. DeLury, Director,
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; James M. Stephens, Chairman,
and Jerry M. Hunter, General Counsel, both of the National Labor
Relations Board; Kimberly A. Madigan, Chairman, National Mediation
Board; Arlene Holen, Chairman, Federal Mine Safety and Health Review
Commission; and Edwin G. Foulke Jr., Chairman, Occupational Safety and
Health Review Commission.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, June 24.
Joint Meetings
U.S. TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
Administration's technology policy, focusing on proposals to improve
productivity and the quality of American jobs, after receiving testimony
from Laura D. Tyson, Chair, Council of Economic Advisers; and John H.
Gibbons, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy.
1993/06/22
Daily Digest - Tuesday, June 22, 1993; pages D693 - D702
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Force Requirements and
Personnel resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Defense and the future years
defense program, focusing on the morale, welfare, and recreation
programs of the military services, receiving testimony from Gail H.
McGinn, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Personnel
Support, Families and Education (Force Management and Personnel); Brig.
Gen. Raymond T. Roe, USA, Army Community and Family Support; Rear Adm.
Paul E. Tobin, USN, Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel; Brig. Gen.
Normand G. Lezy, USAF, Director, Morale, Welfare, Recreation and
Services, United States Air Force; Brig. Gen. James R. Joy, USMC (Ret.),
Marine Corps MWR Support Activity; Maj. Gen. Robert F. Swarts, USAF,
Army and Air Force Exchange Service; Maj. Gen. Richard E. Beale, Jr.,
USA, Defense Commissary Agency; and Rear Adm. Harvey D. Weatherson, USN,
Navy Exchange Command.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Regional Defense and
Contingency Forces resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Defense and the future
years defense program, focusing on strategic airlift and sealift
programs, receiving testimony from John M. Deutch, Under Secretary of
Defense for Acquisition.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
MULTIFAMILY HOUSING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
Housing and Urban Affairs concluded hearings to examine the management
and disposition of the multifamily housing program of the Department of
Housing and Urban Development, after receiving testimony from Henry G.
Cisneros, Secretary, and Nicholas P. Retsinas, Assistant Secretary, and
Commissioner, Federal Housing Administration, both of the Department of
Housing and Urban Development; James R. Grow, National Housing Law
Project, Oakland, California; Alan R. Cravitz, Developers Mortgage
Corporation, Chicago, Illinois; James L. Logue III, Michigan State
Housing Development Authority, Detroit, on behalf of the National
Council of State Housing Agencies; and Ronald Ratner, Forest City
Residential Development, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, on behalf of the
National Multi Housing Council and the National Apartment Association.
OMNIBUS BUDGET RECONCILIATION
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported an
original bill (S. 1134) to provide for reconciliation pursuant to
section 7 of H. Con. Res. 64, setting forth the congressional budget for
the United States Government for fiscal year 1994.
AUTHORIZATION--NOAA
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994
for programs of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA), Department of Commerce, focusing on NOAA's role in developing
and using marine biotechnology, modernization of the National Weather
Service, climate and global change program, coastal monitoring efforts,
and modernization of the oceanographic fleet, after receiving testimony
from Senator Pell; D. James Baker, Under Secretary for Oceans and
Atmosphere, Douglas K. Hall, Assistant Secretary for Oceans and
Atmosphere, Andrew Moxam, Comptroller, Elbert W. Friday, Assistant
Administrator, National Weather Service, and Nancy Foster, Acting
Assistant Administrator, National Marine Fisheries Service, all of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce;
John Burris, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts;
Bennett Helms, Atlantic Little Neck Clam Farms, Inc., Charleston, South
Carolina; and Mark Silva, American Proteins, Sandwich, Massachusetts.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Science, Technology, and Space held hearings to examine what goals and
principles should guide Federal science and technology policy, focusing
on how science and technology can contribute to a higher quality of life
in the post-Cold War era, receiving testimony from Frank Press,
President, and Phillip A. Griffiths, Chair, Committee on Science,
Engineering, and Public Policy, both of the National Academy of
Sciences.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EPA CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine
contract management problems within the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), and on S. 1139, to restore accountability and proper management
of contractors by EPA, receiving testimony from Senator Lautenberg; and
Carol M. Browner, Administrator, and John C. Martin, Inspector General,
both of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Walter Dellinger, of North Carolina, to be an Assistant
Attorney General (Office of Legal Counsel), and Eleanor Acheson, of
Massachusetts, to be an Assistant Attorney General (Office of Policy
Development), both of the Department of Justice, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Dellinger was
introduced by Representative Price, and Ms. Acheson was introduced by
Senators Kennedy and Kerry. Testimony was also received on the
nomination of Mr. Dellinger from North Carolina State Attorney General
Mike Easley, Raleigh.
PRIVACY FOR CONSUMERS AND WORKERS ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity concluded hearings on S. 984, to restrict the use of
electronic monitoring in the workplace, after receiving testimony from
Charles Piller, Macworld Magazine, San Francisco, California; Lewis L.
Maltby, American Civil Liberties Union, New York, New York; Barbara J.
Easterling, Communications Workers of America, and Gwendylon Johnson,
American Nurses Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Michael J. Tamer,
Teknekron Infoswitch Corporation, Fort Worth, Texas; John Gerdelman, MCI
Communications Corporation, Arlington, Virginia; and Richard J. Barry,
First Security Services Corporation, on behalf of the Security Companies
Organized for Legislative Action, and Franklin Ettienne, both of Boston,
Massachusetts.
NATIVE AMERICAN TRUST FUND MANAGEMENT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 925, to
reform the Bureau of Indian Affairs' accounting and management
operations of the Native American Trust Fund, receiving testimony from
Brian P. Crowley, Director of Planning and Reporting, Accounting and
Financial Management Division, General Accounting Office; Woodrow
Hopper, Acting Deputy Commissioner, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department
of the Interior; Harold Monteau, Monteau, Gunter & Decker, Great Falls,
Montana, on behalf of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Reorganization Task
Force; Elouise Cobell, Intertribal Monitoring Association on Indian
Trust Funds, Browning, Montana; Gerald F. Brun, Red Lake Band of
Chippewa Indians, Cass Lake, Minnesota; and Martin J. Whitman, M. J.
Whitman, New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to
receive a briefing on intelligence matters from officials of the
intelligence community.
Committee recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine certain congressional reform proposals, focusing on
legislative and executive relations, receiving testimony from former
Representatives John Brademas and John O. Marsh Jr.; Edward J.
Derwinski, former Secretary of Veterans Affairs; Richard L. Thornburgh,
former United States Attorney General; and Paul A. Volcker, former
Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Committee will meet again on Thursday, June 24.
BOARD MEETING
Office of Technology Assessment: The Board met and approved the
following new project proposals:
1. Teachers and Technology.
2. Information Security and Privacy in Network Environments.
3. Commercialization of Emerging Technologies.
1993/06/23
Daily Digest - Wednesday, June 23, 1993; pages D703 - D710
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY/GSA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service,
and General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1994, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Lee Patrick Brown, Director, Office of
National Drug Control Policy; and Julia Stasch, Deputy Administrator,
General Services Administration.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on the defense
conversion and reinvestment program, receiving testimony from William J.
Perry, Deputy Secretary of Defense; and focused on counterproliferation,
weapons reduction and the implementation of arms control treaties,
receiving testimony from Walter B. Slocombe, Deputy Under Secretary of
Defense for Policy; Harold P. Smith, Jr., Assistant to the Secretary of
Defense (Atomic Energy); John G. Keliher, Director, Office of
Intelligence and National Security, and Victor E. Alessi, Director,
Office of Arms Control and Nonproliferation, both of the Department of
Energy; and Maj. Gen. Robert W. Parker, USAF, Director, On-Site
Inspection Agency, Department of the Air Force.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
hearings to examine the first annual report of the Department of
Commerce on the international economic position of the United States,
focusing on current efforts to improve America's international trade
position, after receiving testimony from Ronald H. Brown, Secretary of
Commerce.
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NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Albert J. Herberger, of New York, to be
Administrator of the Maritime Administration, Department of
Transportation, and Everett M. Ehrlich, of Pennsylvania, to be Under
Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs, after the nominees testified
and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Herberger was introduced
by Senator Robb.
AUTHORIZATION--CLEAN WATER
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Water,
Fisheries and Wildlife resumed hearings on S. 1114, authorizing funds
for programs of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, focusing on
State revolving fund, stormwater, and combined sewer overflow issues,
receiving testimony from Martha Prothro, Acting Assistant Administrator,
Office of Water, Environmental Protection Agency; Mayor Donald M.
Fraser, Minneapolis, Minnesota, on behalf of the National League of
Cities; Greg Smith, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Columbus,
Ohio, on behalf of the Association of State and Interstate Water Control
Administration; Edward O. Wagner, New York City Department of
Environmental Protection, on behalf of the Association of Metropolitan
Sewerage Agencies, Terry Agriss, New York State Environmental Facilities
Corporation, on behalf of the Council of Infrastructure Financing
Authorities, and Ronald Marino, Smith Barney, Harris & Upham & Co.,
Inc., on behalf of the Public Securities Association, all of New York,
New York; Robert W. Adler, Natural Resources Defense Council,
Washington, D.C.; Kenneth Bruzelius, Rural Community Assistance Program,
New Prague, Minnesota; and Paul Marchetti, Pennsylvania Infrastructure
Investment Authority, Harrisburg.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 1003, to
provide for the President to enter into trade agreements to conclude the
Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations under the auspices of
the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, to extend tariff
proclamation authority to carry out such agreements, and to apply
Congressional "fast track" procedures to a bill implementing such
agreements.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Penn Kemble, of New York, to be Deputy Director of the
United States Information Agency, Robert E. Hunter, of the District of
Columbia, to be the United States Permanent Representative on the
Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with rank and status
of Ambassador, and Raymond Leo Flynn, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador
to the Holy See, after the nominees testified and answered questions in
their own behalf. Mr. Hunter was introduced by Senator Kennedy and
Representative McCurdy, and Mr. Flynn was introduced by Senators Kennedy
and Kerry.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Benjamin Leader Erdreich, of Alabama, to be a Member and
Chairman of the Merit Systems Protection Board, after the nominee
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items:
S. 636, to establish new Federal criminal offenses for violent acts and
threats aimed at abortion providers, and for physical obstruction and
destruction of certain health clinics, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute; and
The nominations of Maria Echaveste, of New York, to be Administrator of
the Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor, and Sharon Porter
Robinson, of Kentucky, to be Assistant Secretary for Educational
Research and Improvement, and Judith A. Winston, of the District of
Columbia, to be General Counsel, both of the Department of Education.
VA HEALTH CARE
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1030,
to provide sexual trauma counseling services to veterans, proposed
legislation to provide for certain health care needs of women veterans,
S. 1094, to extend the authority to provide veterans with hospital and
nursing home care for disabilities which resulted from their exposure to
agent orange and radiation, S. 852, to enhance the ability of States to
offer veterans adult day health care programs in State homes, S. 452, to
expand VA efforts to provide health care to veterans living in remote
and rural areas, proposed legislation to provide hospice care services
to terminally ill veterans, and S. 1122, to provide for a VA student
loan repayment program to retain certain health care professionals,
after receiving testimony from Senators Conrad and Mikulski; James W.
Holsinger, Jr., Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health; Michael
F. Brinck, AMVETS, Lanham, Maryland; and Frank C. Buxton, American
Legion, Paul S. Egan, Vietnam Veterans of America, David W. Gorman,
Disabled American Veterans, Terry Grandison, Paralyzed Veterans of
America, James N. Magill, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States,
and June Willenz, American Veterans Committee, all of Washington, D.C.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1993/06/24
Daily Digest - Thursday, June 24, 1993; pages D711 - D724
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BELOW-COST TIMBER SALES
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Research, Conservation, Forestry and General Legislation
held hearings to examine the Administration's proposal to phase out
below-cost timber sales on the National Forest System, receiving
testimony from Senator Gregg; James R. Lyons, Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture for Natural Resources; Michael A. Francis, Wilderness
Society, Washington, DC; and James S. Riley, Intermountain Forest
Industry Association, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE (NIH)
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for the Office of Alternative
Medicine of the National Institutes of Health, receiving testimony from
former Representative Berkley Bedell; Joseph Jacobs, Director, and
Daniel Eskinazi, Assistant Director, both of the Office of Alternative
Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human
Services; David Eisenberg, Harvard University Medical School, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; Robert Lehman, Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan;
Brian Berman, University of Maryland, Baltimore; Charles Simone, Simone
Protective Cancer Center, Lawrenceville, New Jersey; and Harvey Kaltsas,
American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Raleigh,
North Carolina.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
MILITARY OPERATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive
a briefing on current military operations from Lt. Gen. John J. Sheehan,
USMC, Director for Operations, Rear Adm. Michael W. Cramer, USN,
Director for Current Intelligence, both of the Office of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff; Darel S. Johnson, Director, European Policy, Office of
the Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs); and
Capt. William S. Boniface, Iraq Country Director, Office of the
Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs/Near
Eastern and South Asian Affairs).
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Committee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Technology,
Acquisition, and Industrial Base resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on DOD research
and development programs for education, environment and medical
technology, receiving testimony from Anita K. Jones, Director, Defense,
Research and Engineering, John L. Stremple, Director, Dependent Schools,
Robert B. Oswald, Director, Research and Development, United States Army
Corps of Engineers, and Joseph V. Osterman, Director, Environmental and
Life Studies, Office of the Director of Defense Research and
Engineering, all of the Department of Defense; and Col. Donald S. Burke,
Director of the Division of Retrovirology, Walter Reed Army Institute of
Research.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, June 28.
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Foreign Commerce and Tourism held hearings to examine the need to
increase United States leadership in promoting environmental
technologies, goods, and services in the global market, receiving
testimony from Jonathan Sallet, Director, Office of Policy and Strategic
Planning, Department of Commerce; James Ekstrom, Acting Chief of
International Operations, Peace Corps; Donald Connors, Environmental
Business Council, Joan Gardener, Applied Geographics, Inc., and Joseph
Petrillo, Stone and Webster, all of Boston, Massachusetts; William
Snape, Defenders of Wildlife, Washington, DC; Hyman Bielsky,
Safety-Kleen Corp., Elgin, Illinois; Jack Driscoll, HNU Systems, Inc.,
Newton Highlands, Massachusetts; Steve Munson, Vulcan Power, Petaluma,
California; and J.P. Routhier, J.P. Routhier & Sons, Littleton,
Massachusetts.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL PARK CONCESSIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 208, to reform the
concessions policies of the National Park Service, after receiving
testimony from Bonnie R. Cohen, Assistant Secretary for Policy,
Management and Budget, Department of the Interior; William C. Chandler,
National Parks and Conservation Association, and Robert Brock, Golf
Course Specialists, Inc., both of Washington, DC; Joseph K. Fassler,
Restaura, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona, on behalf of the National Park
Hospitality Association; and J. Richard Hill, Hill Partners, Inc.,
Charlotte, North Carolina.
START II TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings in open and
closed sessions on the Treaty Between the United States and the Russian
Federation on Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive
Arms (START II Treaty), signed at Moscow on January 3, 1993, (Treaty
Doc. 103-1), receiving testimony from R. James Woolsey, Director of
Central Intelligence.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
UKRAINIAN SECURITY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs held
hearings to examine United States policy on Ukrainian security,
receiving testimony from Strobe Talbott, Ambassador at Large and Special
Adviser to the Secretary of State on the New Independent States; Walter
B. Slocombe, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; I. Lewis
Libby, former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Bruce Blair,
Brookings Institution, Washington, DC; and Yaroslav Bilinsky, University
of Delaware, Newark.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items:
S. 404, to improve the effectiveness of administrative review of
employment discrimination claims made by Federal employees, with an
amendment;
S. 24, to authorize funds for and extend independent counsel law for an
additional five years, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 1130, to authorize funds for programs of the Federal Employees Leave
Sharing Act which allows Federal employees to transfer annual leave to
coworkers facing personal or family medical emergencies;
S. 1131, to extend through contract year 1998 the proxy premium formula
for determining the Federal Government's share of premiums under the
Federal Employees Health Benefits Program;
H.R. 588, to designate the postal service facility in Beaver, Utah, as
the "Abe Murdock United States Post Office";
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S. 464, to designate the postal service facility in Pulaski, Tennessee,
as the "Ross Bass Post Office";
H.R. 490, to provide for the conveyance of certain lands and
improvements in Washington, DC, to the Columbia Hospital for Women to
provide a site for the construction of a facility to house the National
Women's Health Resource Center; and
The nominations of Roger W. Johnson, of California, to be Administrator
of General Services, General Services Administration, and Benjamin
Leader Erdreich, of Alabama, to be a Member and Chairman of the Merit
Systems Protection Board.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Frank Hunger, of Mississippi, and Sheila Foster Anthony,
of Arkansas, each to be an Assistant Attorney General, Department of
Justice.
VEGETABLE INK PRINTING ACT
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on
S. 716, to require all Federal lithographic printing to be performed
using the maximum amount of vegetable-based ink that is technologically
feasible and commercially cost-competitive with printing using
petroleum-based inks, after receiving testimony from Senators Bond and
Wellstone; Michael F. DiMario, Acting Public Printer, Government
Printing Office; Marvin Bagby, Director of Ink Research (Peoria,
Illinois), Department of Agriculture; John Burns, Kentucky Soybean
Association, Utica, on behalf of the American Soybean Association;
Eleanor Lewis, Government Purchasing Project, Washington, DC; Dale
Ludwig, Missouri Soybean Association, Jefferson City; and Charles Stuart
McMichael, Custom Print, Arlington, Virginia, on behalf of the Printing
Industries of America.
Joint Meeting
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee resumed
hearings to examine congressional reform proposals, focusing on
legislative and executive relations, receiving testimony from Senators
Glenn, Levin, and Cohen; and Representative Conyers.
Committee will meet again on Tuesday, June 29.
1993/06/28
Daily Digest - Monday, June 28, 1993; pages D725 - D730
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Technology,
Acquisition, and Industrial Base resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 and the future years
defense program, focusing on DOD's acquisition reform agenda, receiving
testimony from Colleen Preston, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for
Acquisition Reform.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--CUSTOMS SERVICE/TRADE REPRESENTATIVE/INTERNATIONAL
TRADE
COMMISSION
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade held hearings
on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the United States Customs
Service, United States Trade Representative, and the United States
International Trade Commission, receiving testimony from Ira Shapiro,
General Counsel, Office of the United States Trade Representative;
George J. Weise, Commissioner, United States Customs Service, Department
of the Treasury; and Don E. Newquist, Chairman, and Peter S. Watson,
Vice Chairman, both of the United States International Trade Commission.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Daniel K. Tarullo, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant
Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, after the nominee,
who was introduced by Senator Kennedy, testified and answered questions
in his own behalf.
BLUE CROSS/BLUE SHIELD
Committee on Governmental Affairs: On Friday, June 25, Permanent
Subcommittee on Investigations held hearings to examine allegations of
mismanagement and fraud within the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Empire
Insurance Plan of New York, focusing on State regulation and the effect
of the State's recent community-rated, open enrollment legislation,
receiving testimony from John F. Sopko, Deputy Chief Counsel, Alan
Edelman, Counsel, and Eleni P. Kalisch, Counsel, all of the Permanent
Subcommittee on Investigations; Joan Boyle, Chicago, Illinois; and
William Fuessler, New York, New York.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, June 30.
NOMINATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Friday, June 25, Committee
concluded hearings on the nomination of Sheldon Hackney, of
Pennsylvania, to be Chairperson of the National Endowment for the
Humanities, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Wofford and
Representative Foglietta, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/06/29
Daily Digest - Tuesday, June 29, 1993; pages D731 - D740
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
PESTICIDES AND CHILDREN
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held
hearings to examine a National Academy of Science report on the health
risks associated with pesticide residues found in the diets of infants
and children, focusing on recommendations for a health-based standard
for pesticide tolerances, receiving testimony from Senator Kennedy;
Representatives Waxman and Lehman; Kenneth Shine, President, Institute
of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences; and Philip J. Landrigan,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, Donald Mattison,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Richard Jackson,
California State Department of Health Services, Berkeley, all on behalf
of the National Research Council's Committee on Pesticides in the Diets
of Infants and Children.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Nuclear Deterrence, Arms
Control, and Defense Intelligence resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of
Defense and the future years defense program, receiving testimony from
Gen. John M. Loh, USAF, Commander, Air Combat Command.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Regional Defense and
Contingency Forces resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Defense and the future
years defense program, focusing on Navy programs, receiving testimony
from Robert F. Hale, Assistant Director, National Security Division,
Congressional Budget Office; and Adm. Frank B. Kelso II, USN, Acting
Secretary of the Navy and Chief of Naval Operations.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
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LIMITED PARTNERSHIP ROLLUP REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered
favorably reported, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S.
424, to revise proxy solicitation rules with respect to limited
partnership rollup transactions (in which general partners combine
several limited partnerships into one unit that trades on a stock
exchange, or a single limited partnership is reorganized so that some or
all of the investors receive new securities or securities in another
entity).
FTC AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Federal Trade
Commission, after receiving testimony from Senator Chafee; and Janet D.
Steiger, Chairman, and Mary L. Azzuenaga, Deborah Owen, and Dennis A.
Yao, all Commissioners, all of the Federal Trade Commission.
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight
hearings to examine the administration's proposal to develop a National
Action Plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to their 1990 levels
by the year 2000, after receiving testimony from Hazel O'Leary,
Secretary of Energy; and Robert Sussman, Deputy Administrator,
Environmental Protection Agency.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings
on the nominations of Johnny H. Hayes, of Tennessee, and Craven H.
Crowell, Jr., of Tennessee, each to be a member of the Board of
Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, after the nominees, who
were introduced by Senators Sasser and Mathews, testified and answered
questions in their own behalf.
LEAD EXPOSURE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Toxic
Substances, Research and Development concluded hearings on S. 729, to
authorize funds for fiscal years 1994-1997 to reduce the levels of lead
in the environment, after receiving testimony from Victor J. Kimm,
Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and
Toxic Substances, Environmental Protection Agency; Anne Guthrie, on
behalf of the Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning and the
Environmental Defense Fund, and Gary Shapiro, on behalf of the
Electronic Industries Association and the Ad Hoc Electronics Coalition
on Lead, both of Washington, D.C.; Marlene Blum, Fairfax, Virginia, on
behalf of the National PTA and the National Education Association;
Bernard O'Rourke, Essex Fells School District, Essex Fells, New Jersey,
on behalf of the National School Boards Association; Robert J. Muth,
Asarco Incorporated, New York, New York, on behalf of the Lead
Industries Association, Inc.; Arthur M. Hawkins, Exide Corporation,
Troy, Michigan, on behalf of the Battery Council International; Bill
Wilson, PRADCO, Ft. Smith, Arkansas, on behalf of the American Fishing
Tackle Manufacturers Association; and James E. Boldt, Wayne Pigment
Corporation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on behalf of the Color Pigments
Manufacturers Association, Inc.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
S. Con. Res. 28, expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the Taif
Agreement and urging Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon; and
The nominations of Alexander F. Watson, of Massachusetts, to be
Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Christopher
Finn, of New York, to be Executive Vice President of the Overseas
Private Investment Corporation, Penn Kemble, of New York, to be Deputy
Director of the United States Information Agency, Robert E. Hunter, 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, Raymond Leo Flynn, of Massachusetts, to be
Ambassador to the Holy See, and Daniel K. Tarullo, of Massachusetts, to
be an Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs.
AUTHORIZATION--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations approved for full committee consideration an
original bill to authorize funds for the fiscal years 1994-1995 for the
Department of State, the U.S. Information Agency, and related agencies.
(As approved by the committee, the bill incorporates certain provisions
of S. 1099, a related
measure.)
WOMEN IN PRISON
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
concerns of and the importance of providing certain services to
incarcerated women, and on S. 1158, to authorize the National Institute
of Corrections to make grants to States to carry out family unity
demonstration projects, after receiving testimony from Senator
Durenberger; Judge Gladys Kessler, Superior Court of the District of
Columbia, on behalf of the National Association of Women Judges, and
Brenda V. Smith, National Women's Law Center, both of Washington, D.C.;
Jean Harris and Elaine A. Lord, both of the Bedford Hills Correctional
Facility, Bedford Hills, New York; Cassandra Newkirk, Georgia Department
of Corrections, Atlanta, on behalf of the American Correctional Health
Services Association; Ellen M. Barry, Legal Services for Prisoners with
Children, San Francisco, California; Harriette Davis, Berkeley,
California, on behalf of the California Community Prisoner Mother
Program; Gail T. Smith, Chicago Legal Aid to Incarcerated Mothers,
Chicago, Illinois; and Charlotte S. Arnold, the Program for Female
Offenders, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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STATE INSURANCE GUARANTY FUND SYSTEM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust Monopolies and
Business Rights held hearings to examine the current system the State
guaranty fund system uses to pay off insurance policyholders, receiving
testimony from Jack H. Blaine, National Organization of Life and Health
Insurance Guaranty Associations, Herndon, Virginia; David Simmons,
National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Kansas City, Missouri;
Arthur O. Dummer, Utah Life and Disability Insurance Guaranty
Association, Salt Lake City; Mary Griffin, Consumers Union, Washington,
D.C.; and Joseph M. Belth, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DISABILITIES ASSISTANCE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Disability
Policy concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
programs of the Technology-Related Assistance for Individuals with
Disabilities Act (P.L. 100-407), and for programs of the Developmental
Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act, after receiving
testimony from William L. Smith, Acting Assistant Secretary of Education
for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services; John A. Gannon and
Edward P. Burke, both on behalf of the National Council on Disability,
and Jenifer Simpson, United Cerebral Palsy Associations, Inc., on behalf
of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities, all of Washington,
D.C.; James C. Hardy, University of Iowa, and Casey Hayse, both of Iowa
City, Iowa, both on behalf of the Iowa Program for Assistive Technology;
Lee Graber, Capability Teaching, Chicago, Illinois; Nancy Weisenmiller,
Baltimore, Maryland, and Debra Turner, Columbia, Maryland, both on
behalf of the Kennedy Krieger Institute University Affiliated Program;
and Ann and Rachel Esparza, Mendota Heights, Minnesota.
Joint Meetings
SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Conferees continued in evening session to resolve the differences
between the Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 2118, making
supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30,
1993.
1993/06/30
Daily Digest - Wednesday, June 30, 1993; pages D741 - D750
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--REFUGEE PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1994 for refugee
programs of the Department of State, receiving testimony from Warren
Zimmerman, Director for Refugee Programs, Department of State.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee approved for reporting the
nominations of Frank G. Wisner, of the District of Columbia, to be Under
Secretary of Defense for Policy, Charles W. Freeman, Jr., of Rhode
Island, to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Regional Security
Affairs, Edwin Dorn, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Personnel and Readiness, and 2,504 military nominations in the Army,
Navy, and Air Force.
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Messrs. Freeman and Dorn, after the nominees testified
and answered questions in their own behalf.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Force Requirements and
Personnel resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1994 for the Department of Defense and the future years
defense program, focusing on the health care programs of the military
services, receiving testimony from Representative Buyer; Rear Adm.
Edward D. Martin, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health
Affairs; Lt. Gen. Alcide M. LaNoue, USA, Surgeon General, and United
States Army; Vice Adm. Donald F. Hagen, USN, Surgeon General, and
Director of Naval Medicine, United States Navy; Lt. Gen. Alexander M.
Sloan, USAF, Surgeon General, United States Air Force; Petty Officer
Sterling Symms, First Class Equipment Operator, United States Naval
Reserve; Staff Sgt. Willie Hicks, Army National Guard; and Staff Sgt.
Kerry Reigle, United States Army.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--FISHERY CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the
Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act, focusing on resource
ownership rights, fishery enforcement, methods of preventing
overfishing, economic and ecological considerations in restoring
depleted stocks, and problems with fishery bycatch, after receiving
testimony from Douglas K. Hall, Assistant Secretary for Oceans and
Atmosphere, and Nancy Foster, Acting Assistant Administrator, and
Michael Sissenwine, Chief Scientist, both of the National Marine
Fisheries Service, all of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Department of Commerce; William S. Perret, Louisiana
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Baton Rouge; Michael K. Orbach,
Duke University School of the Environment, Beaufort, North Carolina; Ray
Hilborn, University of Washington, and Bob Alverson, Fishing Vessel
Owners' Association, both of Seattle, Washington; James Wilson,
University of Maine, Orono; Louis M. MacKeil, Jr., Cape Cod Salties
Sport Fishing Club, West Hyannisport, Massachusetts; Henry Mitchell,
Bering Sea Fishermen's Association, Anchorage, Alaska; and Michael
Sutton, World Wildlife Fund, Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills:
S. 273, to remove certain restrictions from a parcel of land owned by
the city of North Charleston, South Carolina, in order to permit a land
exchange, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 294, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to formulate a
program for the research, interpretation, and preservation of various
aspects of colonial New Mexico history, with amendments;
S. 310, designating the Chaco Cultural Archeological Protection Sites,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 742, to establish the Friends of Kaloko-Honokohau, an advisory
commission for the Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park in Hawaii,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 851, to establish the Carl Garner Federal Lands Cleanup Day;
S. 983, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the El Camino
Real Para Los Texas for potential addition to the National Trails
System;
H.R. 843, to withdraw certain lands located in the Coronado National
Forest from the mining and mineral leasing laws of the United States;
H.R. 1347, to modify the boundary of Hot Springs National Park in
Arkansas, in lieu of S. 752, Senate companion measure;
S. 836, to provide for a study of El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (The
Royal Road of the Interior Lands) for inclusion in the National Historic
Trails System, with an amendment;
H.R. 1944, to provide for additional development at War in the Pacific
National Historical Park, Guam, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute, and in lieu of S. 971, Senate companion measure;
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H.R. 236, to establish the Snake River Birds of Prey National
Conservation Area in the State of Idaho; and
S.J. Res. 78, to designate the beach on Hog Island, Unalaska, Alaska,
the Arkansas Beach in commemoration of the 206th Coast Artillery
Regiment and for the men who served and died during the air attacks on
Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, on June 3 and 4, 1942.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of Johnny H. Hayes, of Tennessee, and Craven H.
Crowell, Jr., of Tennessee, each to be a member of the Board of
Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air and
Nuclear Regulation concluded hearings on S. 1162, to authorize funds for
fiscal years 1994 and 1995 for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, S.
1165, to provide judicial review of petitions submitted to the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC) requesting that the NRC take enforcement
action against NRC licensees, such as nuclear powerplants, regarding
safety problems or regulatory violations, and S. 1166, to enhance the
safety and security of nuclear power facilities, after receiving
testimony from Ivan Selin, Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission; and
Bill Magavern and James Riccio, both of Public Citizen, Washington, D.C.
EMPIRE BLUE CROSS/BLUE SHIELD
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations resumed hearings to examine allegations of mismanagement
and fraud within the Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield Plan of New York,
focusing on State regulation and the effect of the State's recent
community-rated, open enrollment legislation, receiving testimony from
Salvatore R. Curiale, New York State Superintendent of Insurance, and
Harold E. Vogt, Donald L. Morchower, Jerry Weissman, and Maroa Velez,
all of the Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New York, and Albert A.
Cardone, all of New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DISADVANTAGED MINORITY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the current state of health care for minority populations, and
on proposed legislation to authorize funds for programs of the
Disadvantaged Minority Health Improvement Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-527),
after receiving testimony from Representatives Stokes and Richardson;
Claudia R. Baquet, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and Human
Services for Minority Health; Barbara Garcia, Salud Para La Gente,
Watsonville, California; Gerald Hill, University of Minnesota, Duluth;
Hortensia Amaro, Boston University School of Public Health, and David
Leung, South Cove Community Health Center, on behalf of the Association
of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations, both of Boston,
Massachusetts; Jesse Barber, D.C. General Hospital, Washington, D.C., on
behalf of the National Medical Association; Elizabeth Stapleton-Roach,
Leverett, Massachusetts; and Celinnette Baez, Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Joint Meetings
SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Conferees continued in evening session to resolve the differences
between the Senate-and House-passed versions of H.R. 2118, making
supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30,
1993.
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: On Tuesday, June 29,
Committee resumed hearings on certain congressional reform proposals,
receiving testimony from Senators Craig, Dorgan, Coats, Nunn, and Glenn;
Representative Neal Smith; former Representatives Joseph J. DioGuardi
and Frank Horton; and numerous public witnesses; and focused on
legislative and judicial relations, receiving testimony from Patricia
Wald, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; Alex Kozinski, U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; and numerous public witnesses.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
1993/07/01
Daily Digest - Thursday, July 1, 1993; pages D752 - D760
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MONETARY POLICY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
hearings to examine the challenges and opportunities confronting the
conduct of monetary policy in the United States, after receiving
testimony from Henry Kaufman, Henry Kaufman & Company, Inc., New York,
New York; and Paul A. Samuelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge.
CHILD SAFETY WARNING LABELS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer
Subcommittee concluded hearings on S. 680, to require labels on certain
toys warning of and explaining potential safety hazards, and S. 799, to
require permanent labels on 4- to 6-gallon buckets warning of the
potential drowning hazard to young children, after receiving testimony
from Senators Dodd and Metzenbaum; Representative Cardiss Collins;
Joseph Greensher, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, New York, on
behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics; Stephen P. Teret, Johns
Hopkins Injury Prevention Center, Baltimore, Maryland; Herta Feely,
National Safe Kids Campaign, Kristen Rand, Consumers Union, Daniel A.
Flynn, Balloon Council, and Warren Stickle, Coalition for Container
Safety, all of Washington, DC; David A. Miller, Toy Manufacturers of
America, New York, New York; and Peter Eio, LEGO Systems, Enfield,
Connecticut.
SPACE STATION PROGRAM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine the
President's proposal for continuing the space station program of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, focusing on the need for
a redesigned space station and how NASA intends to improve the internal
management of the program, and the accuracy of projected costs, after
receiving testimony from Daniel S. Goldin, Administrator, and Malcolm
Peterson, Acting Chief Financial Officer/Comptroller, both of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Charles M. Vest,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Louis Friedman, The
Planetary Society, Pasadena, California; and Robert L. Park, American
Physical Society, Washington, DC.
AUTHORIZATION--CLEAN WATER
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Water,
Fisheries and Wildlife resumed hearings on S. 1114, authorizing funds
for programs of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, focusing on
State revolving fund, stormwater, and combined sewer overflow issues,
receiving testimony from Martha G. Prothro, Acting Assistant
Administrator, Office of Water, Environmental Protection Agency; Morgan
R. Rees, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Policy, Planning,
and Legislation, United States Corps of Engineers; Bruce Baker,
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Madison, on behalf of the
Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control
Administrators; Beth Millemann, Coastal Alliance, Jessica C. Landman,
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Manik Roy, Environmental
Defense Fund, and Carolyn Hartmann, U.S. Public Interest Research Group,
all of Washington, D.C.; James R. Batchelder, Koppers Industries, Inc.,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the American Wood Preservers
Institute; John Stein, Anheuser-Busch, on behalf of the National
Environmental Development Association, and Frank H. Hackmann,
Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, on behalf of the United States Chamber
of Commerce, both of St. Louis, Missouri; Anita Dawson, American
Cyanamid Company, Wayne, New Jersey, on behalf of the Chemical
Manufacturers Association; and Jeffrey Silliman, Milliken & Company,
Spartanburg, South Carolina, on behalf of the American Textile
Manufacturers Institute.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DEFENSE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine
the financial management of the Department of Defense, focusing on DOD
compliance with the Chief Financial Officers Act (P.L. 101-576), and the
fiscal 1992 financial audits for the Army, Air Force, and the Defense
Business Operations Fund, receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher,
Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting Office; and
Robert J. Lieberman, Assistant Inspector General for Auditing, Alvin
Tucker, Acting Chief Financial Officer, and Deputy Comptroller
(Management Systems), Gary Amlin, Principal Deputy Director, Defense
Financial and Accounting Service, Jackie R. Crawford, Auditor General of
the Air Force; Albert V. Conte, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Navy
(Financial Management), John W. Beach, Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management), and Lt. Gen. Merle
Freitag, USA, Comptroller of the Army, all of the Department of Defense.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on
the nomination of Thomas W. Payzant, of California, to be Assistant
Secretary of Education for Elementary and Secondary Education, after the
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Feinstein and Representatives
Filner and Cunningham, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.
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WORKERS TECHNOLOGY SKILL DEVELOPMENT ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S.
1020, to promote economic growth and job creation in the United States
by facilitating worker involvement in the development and implementation
of advanced workplace technologies and advanced workplace practices and
by identifying and disseminating information on best workplace
practices, receiving testimony from Robert B. Reich, Secretary of Labor;
Norman E. Garrity, Corning Incorporated, Corning, New York; Charles
Edmunson, Web Industries, Westborough, Massachusetts; Paul Walters,
Detroit Diesel Corporation, Detroit, Michigan; William N. Bronson,
Aluminum, Brick and Glass International Union Workers, Charleroi,
Pennsylvania; Robert Zicharo, Web Converting, Inc., Framingham,
Massachusetts; Jim Brown, United Automobile Workers, Redford Township,
Michigan; Mark Lang, Northeast Tier Ben Franklin Technology Center,
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; George Sutherland, NIST Great Lakes
Manufacturing Technology Center, Cleveland, Ohio; Charles Richardson,
University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Mary Herrington, Eastman Kodak,
Rochester, New York; and Clifford Ehrlich, Marriott Corporation,
Bethesda, Maryland.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Victor P. Raymond, of the District of Columbia, to be
Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Policy and Planning), after the
nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
Joint Meetings
SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Conferees, on Wednesday, June 30, agreed to file a conference report on
the differences between the Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R.
2118, making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 1993.
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress: Committee concluded
hearings on certain congressional reform proposals, focusing on the
impact of campaign fundraising, committee structure, redundant
legislative procedures, and the executive-legislative relationship,
after receiving testimony from Walter F. Mondale, former Vice President
of the United States.
1993/07/13
Daily Digest - Tuesday, July 13, 1993; pages D761 - D768
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings, in open and
closed session, on the nomination of John H. Dalton, of Texas, to be
Secretary of the Navy, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators
Pryor, Johnston, Gramm, and Hutchison, testified and answered questions
in his own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Arthur Levitt, Jr., of New York, to be a
Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Alan S. Blinder,
of New Jersey, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, of California, each to be a
Member of the Council of Economic Advisers, after the nominees testified
and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Blinder was introduced
by Senator Bradley.
On Monday, July 12, committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Richard S. Carnell, of Florida, to be Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Financial Institutions, and G. Edward DeSeve, of
Pennsylvania, to be Chief Financial Officer, and Susan Gaffney, of
Virginia, to be Inspector General, both of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development, after the nominees testified and answered questions
in their own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Jolene Moritz Molitoris, of Ohio, to be
Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, Department of
Transportation, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Glenn
and Representative Sherrod Brown, testified and answered questions in
her own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of William H. Dameron III, of the District of Columbia, to
be Ambassador to the Republic of Mali, Howard Franklin Jeter, of South
Carolina, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Botswana, Dennis C. Jett,
of New Mexico, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mozambique, Laurence
Everett Pope II, of Maine, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Chad,
William Christie Ramsay, of Michigan, to be Ambassador to the Republic
of the Congo, Joseph A. Saloom III, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Guinea, and Andrew J. Winter, of New York, to be Ambassador
to the Republic of The Gambia, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Jeter was introduced by Senator
Coverdell, and Mr. Jett was introduced by Senator Bingaman.
No Joint hearings noted.
1993/07/14
Daily Digest - Wednesday, July 14, 1993; pages D770 - D780
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 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, Superior Court of the District of Columbia; Ulysses B. Hammond,
Executive Officer, District of Columbia Courts; Richard D. Winston,
Deputy Superintendent, Office of Administration and Business Services,
District of Columbia Public Schools; and R. David Hall, President,
Franklin Smith, Superintendent, and Bernard Gray and Karen Shook, each a
Member, all of the District of Columbia Board of Education.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Coalition Defense and
Reinforcing Forces held hearings to examine the current state and future
policy of international peacekeeping and peace enforcement operations of
the United States and the United Nations, receiving testimony from Karl
F. Inderfurth, United States Alternate Representative to the United
Nations for Special Political Affairs; Frank G. Wisner, Under Secretary
of Defense for Policy; Adm. Leon A. Edney, USN (Ret.), former
Commander-in-Chief, United States Atlantic Command; and Richard L.
Armitage, Armitage Associates, former Assistant Secretary of Defense,
and Jonathan Dean, Union of Concerned Scientists, both of Washington,
D.C.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--MARINE MAMMAL PROTECTION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the
Marine Mammal Protection Act, after receiving testimony from Nancy
Foster, Acting Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, and Tom Eagle,
Fisheries Management Specialist with Protected Resources, both of the
National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Department of Commerce; Robert J. Hofman, Scientific
Program Director, Marine Mammal Commission; Suzanne Iudicello, Center
for Marine Conservation, and Sharon Young, International Wildlife
Coalition, on behalf of the Marine Mammal Protection Coalition, both of
Washington, D.C.; Guy N. Thornburgh, Pacific States Marine Fisheries
Commission, Gladstone, Oregon; Brad Gilman, Robertson, Monagle and
Eastaugh, Arlington, Virginia, on behalf of the Gulf of Alaska
Coalition; and Jeff Kaelin, Maine Sardine Council, Brewer.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings on S. 1086, to encourage private
investment in the Nation's communications networks by promoting
competition in the market for local exchange telephone services, after
receiving testimony from Daniel F. Burton, Jr., Council on
Competitiveness, Gary McBee, United States Telephone Association, Allen
R. Frischkorn, Jr., Telecommunications Industry Association, James
Cullen, Bell Atlantic Corporation, James M. Smith, Comptel, and Steven
J. Metalitz, Information Industries Association, all of Washington,
D.C.; James Q. Crowe, Metropolitan Fiber Systems, Omaha, Nebraska; Brian
L. Roberts, Comcast Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Lawrence C.
Ware, Garden Valley Telephone Co., Erskine, Minnesota; Kermit Coe, Visa
International, San Mateo, California; Michael Niggli, Entergy
Corporation, Little Rock, Arkansas; Dalton C. Wright, Lebanon Publishing
Co., Lebanon, Missouri, representing the National Newspaper Association;
and Uzal H. Martz, Jr., Pottsville Republican, Pottsville, Pennsylvania,
representing the Newspaper Association of America.
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AUTHORIZATION--CLEAN WATER
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Water,
Fisheries and Wildlife resumed hearings on S. 1114, authorizing funds
for programs of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, focusing on
non-point pollution control efforts, receiving testimony from Geoffrey
Grubbs, Director, Assessment and Watershed Protection Division, Office
of Water, Environmental Protection Agency; Richard T. McGuire, New York
State Department of Agriculture and Markets, and Albert F. Appleton, New
York City Department of Environmental Protection, both of New York, New
York, both on behalf of the National Association of State Departments of
Agriculture; Diane M. Cameron, Natural Resources Defense Council,
Washington, D.C.; Gerald Vap, McCloud, Nebraska, on behalf of the
National Association of Conservation Districts; Rob Olszewski,
Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the American
Forest and Paper Association; Willard De Golyer, Castile, New York, and
Stanley Weeks, Syracuse, New York, both of Agway Inc., both on behalf of
the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives; Judy Olson, Garfield,
Washington, on behalf of the National Association of Wheat Growers; Paul
Genho, St. Cloud, Florida, on behalf of the National Cattlemen's
Association; and L. Scott Tucker, Urban Drainage and Flood Control
District, Denver, Colorado, on behalf of the National Association of
Flood and Stormwater Management Agencies.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT AGENCY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on S. 1182, to
authorize funds for fiscal years 1994 and 1995 for the United States
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, focusing on the future of the
Agency and congressional oversight of the Agency's arms control,
nonproliferation, and disarmament activities, receiving testimony from
Thomas Graham, Jr., Acting Director, United States Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency; Ted McNamara, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
of State for Politico- Military Affairs; and Janne E. Nolan, Brookings
Institution, and Michael Krepon, The Henry L. Stimson Center, both of
Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic
Policy, Trade, Oceans and Environment resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1994 for foreign
assistance programs, focusing on the policy recommendations of the
Interagency Task Force to Reform the Agency for International
Development (A.I.D.), receiving testimony from Clifton R. Wharton, Jr.,
Deputy Secretary of State; and J. Brian Atwood, Administrator, Agency
for International Development.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services,
Post Office and Civil Service concluded hearings on recommendations to
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