103d Congress (1993 - 1994

January 25, 1994 - November 20, 1994

Senate Committee Meetings by Date
Compiled from the Congressional Record's Daily Digests via Thomas at thomas.loc.gov

1994/01/25
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 25, 1994;  pages D1 - D24

Committee Meetings 


(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FOREIGN AID TO FORMER SOVIET UNION 

Committee on Appropriations: On Monday, January 24, Subcommittee on Foreign
Operations held hearings to examine proposed foreign assistance to the former
Soviet Union, receiving testimony from Strobe Talbott, Ambassador at Large and
Special Adviser to the Secretary of State on the New Independent States; J.
Brian Atwood, Administrator, Agency for International Development; and Stephen
Cohen, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. 

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Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

PRIVATE SECTOR IN EDUCATION REFORM 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings to examine possible roles
for the private sector in developing comprehensive educational improvement in
public schools, receiving testimony from Thomas W. Payzant, Assistant
Secretary of Education for Elementary and Secondary Education; Baltimore City
Superintendent of Schools Walter G. Amprey, Baltimore, Maryland; Benno C.
Schmidt, Jr., and Deborah M. McGriff, both of the Edison Project, Knoxville,
Tennessee; John T. Golle, Education Alternatives, Inc., Minneapolis,
Minnesota; District of Columbia Superintendent of Schools Franklin L. Smith,
and Bella Rosenberg, American Federation of Teachers, both of Washington,
D.C.; Denis Doyle, Hudson Institute, Alexandria, Virginia; and Patricia
Parham, South Point Elementary School, Miami, Florida. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the
Federal Government's role in radiation and other scientific experiments,
focusing on the guidelines and laws governing the use of human subjects in any
type of experiment, receiving testimony from Hazel R. O'Leary, Secretary of
Energy; Jesse Brown, Secretary, Mary Lou Keener, General Counsel, and Susan
Mather, Associate Chief Medical Director for Environmental Health, all of the
Department of Veterans Affairs; Harold Smith, Assistant to the Secretary of
Defense for Atomic Energy; Maj. Gen. Kenneth L. Hagemann, USAF, Director,
Defense Nuclear Agency; Col. John F. Glenn, USA, Acting Chairman, Army Surgeon
General's Human Subjects Research Review Board, United States Army Medical
Service Corporation; Donald A. Henderson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health
and Human Services for Health and Science; H. Jack Geiger, City University of
New York Medical School, New York, New York; Steven Piantadosi, Johns Hopkins
University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland; Francis
X. Masse, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston; and Emma Craft, West
Nashville, Tennessee. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NATIONAL SECURITY 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held hearings to examine threats
to United States national security and its interests abroad, receiving
testimony from R. James Woolsey, Director, and George Kolt, National
Intelligence Officer, both of the Central Intelligence Agency; and Lt. Gen.
James R. Clapper, Jr., USAF, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency and General
Defense Intelligence Program Manager. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/01/26
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 26, 1994;  pages D25 - D30

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Alice Marie Dear, of New York, to be United States Director of
the African Development Bank, and Jill B. Buckley, of Washington, to be
Assistant Administrator for Legislation and Public Affairs and Thomas A. Dine,
of Ohio, to be Assistant Administrator for Europe and the New Independent
States, both of the Agency for International Development, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Dine was introduced
by Senators Glenn and Metzenbaum. 

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HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed hearings on the
Administration's proposed Health Security Act, to establish comprehensive
health care for every American, focusing on the training of health personnel,
receiving testimony from Philip R. Lee, Assistant Secretary of Health and
Human Services for Health; John Naughton, State University of New York,
Buffalo; H. Richard Nesson, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston,
Massachusetts; Stuart Bondurant, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, on
behalf of the Association of American Medical Colleges; Eli Ginzberg, Columbia
University, New York, New York; Jack M. Colwill, University of Missouri School
of Medicine, Columbia; Ann Elderkin, American Academy of Physician Assistants,
Washington, D.C.; Reed V. Tuckson, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and
Science, Los Angeles, California, on behalf of the Association of Minority
Health Professions Schools; and Edward H. O'Neil, University of California,
San Francisco, on behalf of the Pew Health Professions Commission. 

Committee will meet again on Wednesday, February 2. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Raymond John Vogel, of West Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Veterans
Affairs for Benefits, after the nominee testified and answered questions in
his own behalf. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/01/27
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 27, 1994;  pages D31 - D36

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

SOIL AND WATER QUALITY 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Research, Conservation, Forestry and General Legislation held
hearings to examine the National Research Council's recent report on soil and
water quality, receiving testimony from Paul W. Johnson, Chief, and Richard W.
Arnold, Director, Soil Survey Division, both of the Soil Conservation Service,
Department of Agriculture; Robert H. Wayland III, Director, Office of
Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds, Office of Water, and Geoffrey Grub,
Director, Assessment and Watersheds Protection Division, both of the
Environmental Protection Agency; Craig A. Cox, Senior Staff Officer, Board on
Agriculture, National Research Council; and Sandra S. Batie, Michigan State
University, East Lansing. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK 

Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine the state of
the national economy and the Federal budget outlook for fiscal years 1995
through 1999, after receiving testimony from Robert D. Reischauer, Director,
Congressional Budget Office. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following measures: 

H.R. 3693, to designate the United States courthouse under construction in
Denver, Colorado, as the "Byron White United States Courthouse," in lieu of S.
812; 

H.R. 2223, to designate the Federal building located at 525 Griffin Street in
Dallas, Texas, as the "A. Maceo Smith Federal Building," in lieu of S. 1050; 

H.R. 2318, to redesignate the Federal building located at 380 Trapelo Road in
Waltham, Massachusetts, as the "Frederick C. Murphy Federal Center," in lieu
of S. 1206; 

S. 1314, to designate the United States courthouse located in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, as the "Brien McMahon Federal Building"; 

H.R. 2868, to designate the Federal building located at 600 Camp Street in New
Orleans, Louisiana, as the "John Minor Wisdom United States Courthouse," in
lieu of S. 1582; 

H.R. 3186, to designate the United States courthouse located in Houma,
Louisiana, as the "George Arceneaux, Jr. United States Courthouse," in lieu of
S. 1584; 

S. 1650, to designate the United States courthouse for the Eastern District of
Virginia in Alexandria, Virginia, as the "Albert V. Bryan United States
Courthouse"; 

H.R. 3356, to designate the United States courthouse under construction at 611
Broad Street, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, as the "Edwin Ford Hunter, Jr.
United States Courthouse," in lieu of S. 1673; 

S. 1712, to designate the United States courthouse located at Ninth and Locust
Streets, Kansas City, Missouri, as the "Charles Evans Whittaker United States
Courthouse"; 

H.R. 1303, to designate the Federal building and United States courthouse
located at 402 East State Street in Trenton, New Jersey, as the "Clarkson S.
Fisher Federal Building and United States Courthouse"; 

H.R. 2555, to designate the Federal building located at 100 East Fifth Street
in Cincinnati, Ohio, as the "Potter Stewart United States Courthouse"; 

H.R. 2559, to designate the Federal building located at 601 East 12th Street
in Kansas City, Missouri, as the "Richard Bolling Federal Building"; 

S. 476, authorizing funds for programs of the National Fish and Wildlife
Foundation Establishment Act, in lieu of H.R. 2684. (As approved by the
committee, the bill includes provisions of related measures H.R. 2604 and H.R.
2495); and 

S. 1789, to permit the use of funds under the highway bridge replacement and
rehabilitation program for seismic retrofit of bridges. 

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held oversight hearings
to examine the response of the Department of Transportation and related
agencies to the Southern California earthquake, receiving testimony from
Federico Pena, Secretary, and Rodney E. Slater, Administrator, Federal Highway
Administration, both of the Department of Transportation; and Richard Katz,
California Assembly Transportation Committee, Panorama City. 

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Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

MEXICO 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace
Corps Affairs met in closed session to receive a briefing on the situation in
Mexico from James R. Jones, United States Ambassador to Mexico. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT REFORM 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on proposals to
improve government management and accountability, receiving testimony from
Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States, Richard L.
Fogel, Assistant Comptroller General, and Gene Dodaro, Assistant Comptroller
General, Accounting and Information Management Division, all of the General
Accounting Office. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 2. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Judith W. Rogers, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of
Columbia Circuit; Lesley Brooks Wells, to be United States District Judge for
the Northern District of Ohio, Michael A. Ponsor, to be United States District
Judge for the District of Massachusetts, Thomas I. Vanaskie, to be United
States District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Marjorie O.
Rendell, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania, Helen G. Berrigan, to be United States District Judge for the
Eastern District of Louisiana, and Tucker L. Melancon, to be United States
District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Ms. Rogers was
introduced by District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Ms. Wells
was introduced by Senators Glenn and Metzenbaum and Representative Stokes, Mr.
Ponsor was introduced by Senator Kennedy, Mr. Vanaskie and Ms. Rendell were
introduced by Senators Specter and Wofford, and Ms. Berrigan and Mr. Melancon
were introduced by Senator Breaux and Representative Jefferson. 

HIGH TECH HEALTH CARE 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology and the Law concluded
hearings to examine high technology privacy issues with regard to health care,
after receiving testimony from Representative Velazquez; Nan D. Hunter, Deputy
General Counsel, Department of Health and Human Services; Carolyn C. Roberts,
Copley Hospital and Copley Health Systems, Morrisville, Vermont, on behalf of
the American Hospital Association; and Janlori Goldman, American Civil
Liberties Union, Washington, D.C. 

WELFARE REFORM 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity held hearings to examine proposals to reform the current welfare
system and the system of producing public sector employment, receiving
testimony from Senator Boren; Mayor Michael White, Cleveland, Ohio; Audrey
Rowe, Connecticut Department of Social Services, Hartford, on behalf of the
American Public Welfare Association; Leila Hardaway, Franklin County
Department of Human Services, Columbus, Ohio; Kathleen Selz, National
Association of Service and Conservation Corps, Washington, D.C.; and Thomas
Brock, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, New York, New York. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Michael H. Trujillo, of Oregon, to be Director of the Indian Health Service,
Department of Health and Human Services, after the nominee, who was introduced
by Senators Bingaman and Domenici and Representative Richardson, testified and
answered questions in his own behalf.  Testimony was also received from Anne
Walker, Alaska Native Health Board, Anchorage; Ralph Foquera, American Indian
Health Care Association, St. Paul, Minnesota; and Julia Davis, Portland,
Oregon, on behalf of the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board and the
National Indian Health Board. 

FEDERAL AID TO INDIANS 

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on H.R. 734, to
provide for the extension of certain Federal benefits, services, and
assistance to the Pascua Yaqui Indians of Arizona, after receiving testimony
from Ada Deer, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, and Richard Monette,
Director, Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs, Bureau of Indian
Affairs, both of the Department of the Interior; and Octaviana Trujillo,
Anselmo Valencia, and Luis Gonzales, all of the Pascua-Yaqui Tribal Council,
Tucson, Arizona. 

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No Joint hearings noted.



1994/01/28
Daily Digest - Friday, January 28, 1994;  pages D38 - D44

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/01/31
Daily Digest - Monday, January 31, 1994;  pages D45 - D48

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

INDIAN HEALTH CARE 

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the impact of
the Administration's proposed Health Security Act on Indian health care
services and the financing of health care reform in Indian country, receiving
testimony from Judith Feder, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning
and Evaluation, and Michel Lincoln, Acting Director, Indian Health Service,
both of the Department of Health and Human Services; Julia A. Davis, National
Indian Health Board, Denver, Colorado; Gerald Hill, Association of American
Indian Physicians, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Veronica Murdock, National
Congress of American Indians, and Pamela Iron, George Washington University,
both of Washington, D.C.; and Jo Ann Kauffman, American Indian Health Care
Association, St. Paul, Minnesota. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meetings

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine the overall
economic outlook for 1994, after receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan,
Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. 



1994/02/01
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 1, 1994;  pages D49 - D58

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FUTURE OF NATO

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Coaliation Defense and
Reinforcing Forces held joint hearings with the Committee on Foreign
Relations' Subcommittee on European Affairs to examine the future of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), receiving testimony from Robert E.
Hunter, U.S. Ambassador to NATO; Stephen A. Oxman, Assistant Secretary of
State for European and Canadian Affairs; Frank G. Wisner, Under Secretary of
Defense for Policy; and Lt. Gen. Daniel W. Christman, USA, United States
Representative to the NATO Military Committee. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the nominations of Ricki Rhodarmer Tigert, of Tennessee, to be Chairman and
a Member, Anne L. Hall, of Ohio, to be a Member, and Andrew C. Hove Jr., of
Nebraska, to be a Member, each of the Board of Directors of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Ms. Tigert was introduced by Senator Sasser,
Ms. Hall was introduced by Senator Glenn, and Mr. Hove was introduced by
Senators Exon and Kerrey. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Charles B. Curtis, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of
Energy, and Robert Jay Uram, of California, to be Director of the Office of
Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Department of the Interior, after
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine health care reform
issues, focusing on the need for insurance market reform to assure a workable
health care system, receiving testimony from Salvatore R. Curiale, New York
State Superintendent of Insurance, New York; William S. Custer, Employee
Benefit Research Institute, W. David Helms, Alpha Center, Willis D. Gradison,
Jr., Health Insurance Association of America, and Mary Nell Lehnhard, Blue
Cross and Blue Shield Association, all of Washington, D.C.; and William P.
Link, The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Newark, New Jersey, on
behalf of the Alliance for Managed Competition. 

Committee will meet again on Thursday, February 3. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Henry Franklin Graff, of New York, Kermit L. Hall, of Oklahoma,
William L. Joyce, of New Jersey, Anna Kasten Nelson, of the District of
Columbia, and John Raymond Tunheim, of Minnesota, each to be a Member of the
Assassination Records Review Board, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Hall was introduced by Senator Boren, and
Mr. Tunheim was introduced by Senator Wellstone. 

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, February 8. 

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No Joint hearings noted.



1994/02/02
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 2, 1994;  pages D59 - D66

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FRAUD IN FEDERAL NUTRITION PROGRAMS 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings to
examine instances of fraud in the Federal Food Stamp Program and the Special
Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and the
proposed use of an electronic benefits transfer system as a means for reducing
fraud in the administration of Federal nutrition assistance programs,
receiving testimony from Illinois Attorney General Roland W. Burris, Chicago;
Ellen W. Haas, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Food and Consumer
Services; Emilio Gonzalez, Analyst, Telecommunications and Computing
Technologies Program, Office of Technology Assessment; Robert H. Rasor,
Special Agent, Financial Crimes Division, United States Secret Service,
Department of the Treasury; and Ricky D. Dodd, Group Manager,
External/Internal Crimes and Prevention, Postal Inspection Service, United
States Postal Service. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
William J. Perry, of California, to be Secretary of Defense, after the nominee
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills: 

S. 208, to reform the concessions policies of the National Park Service, with
an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 455, to increase Federal payments to units of general local government for
entitlement land, with amendments; 

S. 313, to revise the San Juan Basin Wilderness Protection Act of 1984 to
designate additional lands as wilderness and to establish the Fossil Forest
Research Natural Area, with amendments; 

H.R. 1134, to provide for the transfer of certain public lands located in
Clear Creek County, Colorado, to the United States Forest Service, the State
of Colorado, and certain local governments in the State of Colorado, with
amendments; and 

H.R. 3617, to revise the Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion Act
of 1989 to authorize funds to assist the State of Florida in the acquisition
of certain lands adjacent to the park. 

CLEAN WATER 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Water,
Fisheries and Wildlife approved for full committee consideration S. 1114,
authorizing funds for programs of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. 

PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Constitution concluded hearings on
constitutional issues relating to the death of a President-designate between
the general election and the inauguration, after receiving testimony from
former Senator Birch Bayh; Walter Dellinger, Assistant Attorney General,
Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice; Trevor Potter, Chairman,
Federal Election Commission; Akhil Reed Amar, Yale Law School, New Haven,
Connecticut; and Walter Berns, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items: 

S. 1597, to authorize funds for 1994 and fiscal years 1995 and 1996 for organ
transplant and procurement programs of the Department of Health and Human
Services, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and  

The nominations of James A. Joseph, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Board
of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service, J. Davitt
McAteer, of West Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety
and Health, Shirley Sachi Sagawa, of Virginia, to be a Managing Director of
the Corporation for National and Community Service, James A. Scheibel, of
Minnesota, to be Director of the ACTION Agency, and Stuart E. Weisberg, of
Maryland, to be a Member of the Occupational Safety and Health Review
Commission. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed hearings on the
Administration's proposed Health Security Act, to establish comprehensive
health care for every American, focusing on the role of the States in health
care reform, receiving testimony from Utah Governor Michael Leavitt, Salt Lake
City, and Hawaii Governor John Waihee, Honolulu, both on behalf of the
National Governors Association; Massachusetts Representative Carmen Buell,
Greenfield, on behalf of the National Conference of State Legislatures;
Kenneth Thorpe, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for
Planning and Evaluation; Robert Waller, Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota;
Steve Wetzell, Business Health Care Action Group, Minneapolis, Minnesota;
Richard E. Curtis, Institute for Health Policy Solutions, Washington, D.C.;
and Glenn Pearson, Health Care Campaign of Minnesota, St. Paul. 

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Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/02/03
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 3, 1994;  pages D67 - D74

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

ABUSE OF FMHA'S LOAN PROGRAMS 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Credit held hearings to examine ways of preventing delinquent
farm loans in the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA), receiving testimony from
Michael V. Dunn, Administrator, Farmers Home Administration, Department of
Agriculture. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE AID 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
concluded hearings to examine the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA)
response to the recent Southern California earthquake, after receiving
testimony from James Lee Witt, Director, Richard W. Krimm, Associate Director,
and Gary Johnson, Acting Chief Financial Officer, all of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency; and Henry G. Cisneros, Secretary, and Joseph Shuldiner,
Assistant Secretary, both of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of William J. Perry, of California, to be Secretary of Defense. 

SERVICE ACADEMIES 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Force Requirements and Personnel
concluded hearings to examine honor systems and sexual harassment at the
various Service Academies, after receiving testimony from Vice Adm. David M.
Bennett, USN, Inspector General, Department of the Navy; Mark E. Gebicke,
Director, and William E. Beusse, Assistant Director, both of Military
Operations and Capability Issues, General Accounting Office; Rear Adm. Thomas
C. Lynch, USN, Superintendent, United States Naval Academy; Lt. Gen. Howard D.
Graves, USA, Superintendent, United States Military Academy; Lt. Gen. Bradley
C. Hosmer, USAF, Superintendent, United States Air Force Academy; and
Ambassador Richard L. Armitage, Chairman, Board of Visitors to the Naval
Academy.  

EXPORT ADMINISTRATION 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy held hearings on the reauthorization
of the Export Administration Act, receiving testimony from Senator Gregg;
Gerald Epstein and Thomas H. Karas, both of the International Security and
Commerce Program, Office of Technology Assessment; Christopher A. Padilla,
AT&T, on behalf of the National Association of Manufacturers, Boyd J.
McKelvain, General Electric Company, on behalf of the National Foreign Trade
Council, and Paul Freedenberg, Baker and Botts, all of Washington, D.C.;
Timothy Dwyer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Moutainview, California, on behalf of
the Emergency Committee for American Trade; Henry D. Sokolski, National
Institute for Public Policy, Fairfax, Virginia; and Derrel De Passe, Varian
Associates, Inc., Palo Alto, California, on behalf of the American Electronics
Association. 

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Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 9. 

TRADE AND THE ENVIRONMENT 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Foreign
Commerce and Tourism concluded hearings to examine proposals to establish
trade policy that will help combat environmental problems, focusing on
discussions of GATT member nations and a possible environmental framework to
accompany the Uruguay Round, after receiving testimony from Timothy E. Wirth,
Counselor, and David A. Colson, Deputy Secretary for Oceans, both of the
Department of State; and Stewart J. Hudson, National Wildlife Federation,
David K. Schorr, World Wildlife Fund, Kenneth Berlin, Winthrop, Stimson,
Putnam and Roberts, and Robert F. Housman, Center for International
Environmental Law, on behalf of the Sierra Club, all of Washington, D.C. 

GUAM EXCESS LANDS ACT 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Mineral Resources
Development and Production concluded hearings on H.R. 2144, to provide for the
transfer of excess land to the Government of Guam, after receiving testimony
from Representative Underwood; Guam Governor Joseph F. Ada, Agana; Guam
Senator Pilar Lujan, Agana; Leslie M. Turner, Assistant Secretary of the
Interior for Territorial and International Affairs; and Philip E. Barringer,
Director, Foreign Military Rights Affairs, Office of Assistant Secretary of
Defense (Regional Security Affairs). 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine health care reform
issues, focusing on how the States will be affected by health care reform,
receiving testimony from South Carolina Governor Carroll A. Campbell, Jr.,
Columbia, and Vermont Governor Howard Dean, Montpelier, both on behalf of the
National Governors' Association; Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, Tallahassee;
and Utah Governor Michael O. Leavitt, Salt Lake City. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of James H. Scheuer, of New York, to be U.S. Director of the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senator Moynihan, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

MILITARY INTERVENTION IN BOSNIA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs met in closed
session to receive a briefing on military intervention in Bosnia by Croatia
and Serbia from officials of the intelligence community. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT REFORM 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed hearings on proposals to
improve government management and accountability, receiving testimony from
Leon E. Panetta, Director, and Alice M. Rivlin, Deputy Director, both of the
Office of Management and Budget. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

UNITED STATES-JAPAN AUTO PARTS NEGOTIATIONS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management held oversight hearings to review the ongoing auto parts
negotiations being conducted under the United States-Japan Framework for a New
Economic Partnership agreement that was signed in Tokyo in July 1993,
receiving testimony from Jeffrey E. Garten, Under Secretary of Commerce for
International Trade Administration; Robert E. Cole, Kaiser Aluminum and
Chemical Corporation, on behalf of the Auto Parts Advisory Committee, and
Andrew H. Card, Jr., American Automobile Manufacturers Association, both of
Washington, D.C.; and Michael S. Flynn, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Rosemary Barkett, of Florida, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Eleventh
Circuit, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Graham and Mack and
Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, testified and answered questions in her own
behalf. 

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HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor concluded
hearings to examine the quality of health care that would be provided to
consumers under a proposed managed health care system, after receiving
testimony from William J. Rand, Rand Eye Institute, Pompano Beach, Florida;
Sara S. Nichols, Congress Watch, and Gail Shearer, Consumers Union, both of
Washington, D.C.; Geraldine Dallek, Center for Health Care Rights, Los
Angeles, California, on behalf of the Coalition for Consumer Protection and
Quality in Health Care Reform; David J. Lyons, Des Moines, Iowa, on behalf of
the National Association of Insurance Commissioners; John Tooker, Portland,
Maine, on behalf of the American College of Physicians; Penny Puhl, Chicago,
Illinois; Karin Smith, Nashoteh, Wisconsin; and Steven Bosworth, Simi Valley,
California. 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING PRACTICES 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings on improving
the effectiveness and efficiency of Government printing practices, focusing on
provisions contained in title XIV of H.R. 3400, the Government Reform and
Savings Act, title XIV of the National Performance Review Report, and the
Organization of Congress Report of the Senate members of the Joint Committee
on the Organization of Congress, receiving testimony from Alice M. Rivlin,
Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget; and Michael F. DiMario,
Public Printer, Government Printing Office. 

Hearings will continue on Thursday, February 10. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/02/04
Daily Digest - Friday, February 4, 1994;  pages D75 - D84

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of William W. Ginsberg, of Connecticut, to be an Assistant
Secretary of Commerce, Richard Thomas Moore, of Massachusetts, to be Associate
Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Jesse L. White, Jr., of
North Carolina, to be Federal Co-Chairman of the Appalachian Regional
Commission, and Brig. Gen. Eugene S. Witherspoon, USA, to be a Member and
President of the Mississippi River Commission, after the nominees testified
and answered questions in their own behalf.  Mr. Moore was introduced by
Senator Kerry.  

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of David N. Merrill, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the People's
Republic of Bangladesh, and Sandra L. Vogelgesang, of Ohio, to be Ambassador
to the Kingdom of Nepal, after the nominees testified and answered questions
in their own behalf. 

SOUTH ASIA

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs concluded hearings to examine current developments in South Asia,
after receiving testimony from Robin L. Raphel, Assistant Secretary of State
for South Asian Affairs.  

HEALTH CARE REFORM

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed hearings on the
Administration's proposed Health Security Act, to establish comprehensive
health care for every American, focusing on guaranteed preventive and primary
care benefits, receiving testimony from Edwin C. Hustead, Hay/Huggins Company,
Inc., and Gail Shearer, Consumers Union, both of Washington, D.C.; Margaret H.
Jordan, Southern California Edison Company, Rosemead, California; Cindy Mann,
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, Boston, Massachusetts; Ronald Burd, The
Deveraux Foundation, Devon, Pennsylvania; and William H. Straub, Westport,
Connecticut, on behalf of the Jackson Hole Group. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 8. 

Joint Meetings

EMPLOYMENT--UNEMPLOYMENT

Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings on the
employment-unemployment situation for January, receiving testimony from
Katharine G. Abraham, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of
Labor. 

                                [Page: D79]

Committee recessed subject to call. 



1994/02/07
Daily Digest - Monday, February 7, 1994;  pages D85 - D90

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Wesley W. Egan, Jr., of North Carolina, to be Ambassador to the
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and Robert H. Pelletreau, Jr., of Connecticut, to
be Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/02/08
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 8, 1994;  pages D92 - D100

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet.) 

NOMINATION

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Frederick Gilbert Slabach, of Mississippi, to be
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Congressional Relations, after the
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Cochran, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf. 

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills: 

H.R. 3759, making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 1994, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
(As approved by the committee, the bill incorporates provisions of S. 1608 and
S. 1832.);  

S. 1608, to rescind certain budget authority proposed to be rescinded in
special messages transmitted to the Congress by the President on November 1,
1993, in accordance with title X of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment
Control Act of 1974, as amended, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute; and 

S. 1832, to rescind certain budget authority proposed to be rescinded in a
special message transmitted to the Congress by the President on February 7,
1994, in accordance with title X of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment
Control Act of 1974, as amended, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute. 

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
concluded hearings to examine National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) efforts to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, after receiving testimony
from Jeremiah W. Pearson III, Associate Administrator, Office of Space Flight,
Wesley T. Huntress, Jr., Associate Administrator, and Edward Weiler, Program
Scientist, Hubble Telescope, both of the Office of Space Science, and Richard
C. Covey, Commander, Kenneth Bowersox, Pilot, and Story Musgrave, Tom Akers,
Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Kathryn C. Thornton, and Claude Nicollier, all Mission
Specialists, all Members of the STS-61 Crew, all of NASA. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of Defense and the
future years defense program, receiving testimony from William J. Perry,
Secretary of Defense; and John M. Shalikashvili, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of
Staff. 

                                [Page: D95]

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

RUSSIAN ECONOMIC REFORM

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
to examine the condition of the Russian economy, focusing on the impact of
International Monetary Fund and World Bank policies on Russia's economic
health and political future and the implications for the United States, after
receiving testimony from Lawrence H. Summers, Under Secretary of the Treasury
for International Affairs; Thomas W. Simons, Jr., Coordinator of United States
Assistance to the Newly Independent States, Department of State; Jeffrey Sachs
and Marshall Goldman, both of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts;
Jude Wanniski, Polyconomics, Morristown, New Jersey; and Peter Reddaway,
George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 

1995 BUDGET

Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings in preparation for reporting
the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1995 budget for the Federal
Government, receiving testimony from Leon E. Panetta, Director, Office of
Management and Budget. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Greta Joy Dicus, of Arkansas, Margaret Hornbeck Greene, of
Kentucky, Frank G. Zarb, of New York, William J. Rainer, of Connecticut, and
Kneeland C. Youngblood, of Texas, each to be a Member of the Board of
Directors of the United States Enrichment Corporation, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Rainer was
introduced by Senators Dodd and Lieberman, and Mr. Youngblood was introduced
by Senator Bradley. 

URUGUAY ROUND

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the results of the
Uruguay Round trade negotiations and what more needs to be accomplished before
the trade agreements are to be signed on April 15, 1994, as well as the timing
and process for implementation of the agreements, receiving testimony from
Michael Kantor, United States Trade Representative. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Strobe Talbott, of Ohio, to be Deputy Secretary of State, after the
nominee, who was introduced by Senators Glenn and Metzenbaum, testified and
answered questions in his own behalf. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Edward Jay Gleiman, of Maryland, to be a Commissioner of the
Postal Rate Commission, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator
Sarbanes, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

Joint Meetings

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA 

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission):  
Commission held hearings to examine the current situation in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, focusing on the prospects of a negotiated settlement, receiving
testimony from Leonard Sullivan, System Planning Corporation, and Lionel
Rosenblatt, Refugees International, both of Washington, D.C.; and Kemal
Kurspahic, Oslobodenje, Saravejo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

Commission recessed subject to call. 



1994/02/09
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 9, 1994;  pages D102 - D112

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

RUSSIA AND UKRAINE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held closed
hearings to examine current conditions in Russia and Ukraine, receiving
testimony from Strobe Talbott, Ambassador at Large and Special Adviser to the
Secretary of State on the New Independent States; and Thomas R. Pickering,
Ambassador to the Russian Federation. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations
of Lt. Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, USA, to be Commander in Chief, United States
Southern Command, Vice Adm. William A. Owens, USN, to be Vice Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Vice Adm. Henry G. Chiles, Jr., USN, to be
Commander in Chief, United States Strategic Command, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. 

Also, committee ordered favorably reported 9,185 military nominations in the
Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. 

1995 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1995 budget for
the Federal Government, receiving testimony from Lloyd Bentsen, Secretary of
the Treasury; and Alice M. Rivlin, Deputy Director, Office of Management and
Budget. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Ann Winkelman Brown, of Florida, to be
Commissioner and Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, after the
nominee, who was introduced by Representative Matsui and District of Columbia
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, testified and answered questions in her own
behalf. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of William W. Ginsberg, of Connecticut, to be an
Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Richard Thomas Moore, of Massachusetts, to be
Associate Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Jesse L. White,
Jr., of North Carolina, to be Federal Co-Chairman of the Appalachian Regional
Commission, and Brig. Gen. Eugene S. Witherspoon, USA, to be a Member and
President of the Mississippi River Commission. 

CBO ANALYSIS OF HEALTH SECURITY ACT 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to review the Congressional
Budget Office's (CBO) analysis of the Administration's health care reform
proposal, after receiving testimony from Robert D. Reischauer, Director,
Congressional Budget Office. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of
Mary Ellen Withrow, of Ohio, to be Treasurer of the United States, Department
of the Treasury. 

Prior to this action, committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Ms.
Withrow, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Glenn and
Metzenbaum, testified and answered questions in her own behalf. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items: 

S. Res. 94, expressing the sense of the Senate with respect to the tragic
humanitarian crisis in Sudan; and 

The nominations of Strobe Talbott, of Ohio, to be Deputy Secretary of State,
Jill B. Buckley, of Washington, to be Assistant Administrator for Legislative
and Public Affairs, and Thomas A. Dine, of Ohio, to be Assistant Administrator
for Europe and the New Independent States, both of the Agency for
International Development, Alice M. Dear, of New York, to be United States
Director of the African Development Bank, Wesley W. Egan, Jr., of North
Carolina, to be Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, David N.
Merrill, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the People's Republic of Bangladesh,
Robert H. Pelletreau, Jr., of Connecticut, to be Assistant Secretary of State
for Near Eastern Affairs, Esther Peterson, of the District of Columbia, to be
United States Representative to the Forty-eighth Session of the General
Assembly of the United Nations, James H. Scheuer, of New York, to be United
States Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development,
Sandra L. Vogelgesang, of Ohio, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Nepal, and
Foreign Service Officers' promotion lists, received by the Senate on January
26, 1994, with an exception. 

U.S.-VIETNAM RELATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
held hearings to examine certain implications for the United States from the
lifting of the trade embargo against North Vietnam, receiving testimony from
Winston Lord, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs;
R. Richard Newcomb, Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department of
the Treasury; and Edward W. Ross, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for POW/MIA Affairs. 

                               [Page: D105]

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

FOREIGN AID REFORM 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy,
Trade, Oceans and Environment held hearings on proposed legislation to
reorganize United States foreign assistance programs, receiving testimony from
J. Brian Atwood, Administrator, Agency for International Development; and
Richard M. Moose, Under Secretary of State for Management.  

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Michael A. Ponsor, to be United States District Judge for the
District of Massachusetts, Lesley Brooks Wells, to be United States District
Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, Marjorie O. Rendell, to be United
States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Thomas I.
Vanaskie, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of
Pennsylvania, Tucker L. Melancon, to be United States District Judge for the
Western District of Louisiana, Rebecca Aline Betts, to be United States
Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia, Robert Charles Bundy, to
be United States Attorney for the District of Alaska, Mark Timothy Calloway,
to be United States Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina,
Janice McKenzie Cole, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of
North Carolina, Larry Herbert Colleton, to be United States Attorney for the
Middle District of Florida, Michael Hayes Dettmer, to be United States
Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, Stephen Lawrence Hill, to be
United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, David Lee
Lillehaug, to be United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota, Don
Carlos Nickerson, to be United States Attorney for the Southern District of
Iowa, Stephen John Rapp, to be United States Attorney for the Northern
District of Iowa, Michael David Skinner, to be United States Attorney for the
Western District of Louisiana, James Lamar Wiggins, to be United States
Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, Harry Donival Dixon Jr., to be
United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, Charles M.
Adkins, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of West
Virginia, Brian C. Berg, to be United States Marshal for the District of North
Dakota, Hugh Dinsmore Black Jr., to be United States Marshal for the Western
District of Arkansas, G. Ronald Dashiell, to be United States Marshal for the
Eastern District of Washington, Phylliss Jeanette Henry, to be United States
Marshal for the Southern District of Iowa, Alan D. Lewis, to be United States
Marshal for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Charles William Logsdon, to
be United States Marshal for the Western District of Kentucky, John Patrick
McCaffrey, to be United States Marshal for the Western District of New York,
James J. Molinari, to be United States Marshal for the Northern District of
California, Robert James Moore, to be United States Marshal for the Southern
District of Alabama, Joe Russell Mullins, to be United States Marshal for the
Eastern District of Kentucky, Nancy J. McGillivray Shaffer, to be United
States Marshal for the District of Massachusetts, James Robert Oakes, to be
United States Marshal for the Western District of Louisiana, Conrad S.
Patillo, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Arkansas,
Floyd A. Kimbrough, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of
Missouri, James Marion Hughes Jr., to be United States Marshal for the
Northern District of Oklahoma, John Steven Sanchez, to be United States
Marshal for the District of New Mexico, James V. Serio Jr., to be United
States Marshal for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Wesley Joe Wood, to be
United States Marshal for the Western District of Tennessee, Cleveland Vaughn,
to be United States Marshal for the District of Nebraska, James Douglas Jr.,
to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Michigan, Donald R.
Moreland, to be United States Marshal for the Middle District of Florida,
Richard Rand Rock II, to be United States Marshal for the District of Kansas,
Patrick J. Wilkerson, to be United States Marshal for the Western District of
Oklahoma, James Howard Benham, to be United States Marshal for the District of
Idaho, Rosa Maria Melendez, to be United States Marshal for the Western
District of Washington, Stephen Simpson Gregg, to be United States Marshal for
the Southern District of California, William Stephen Strizich, to be United
States Marshal for the District of Montana, Terrence Edward Delaney, to be
United States Marshal for the Southern District of Illinois, and Daniel J.
Horgan, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of Florida. 

YOUTH VIOLENCE 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice concluded
hearings to examine how the Federal Government can establish effective
programs to deter youth violence in America, after receiving testimony from
Senators Hatch, Dodd, and Campbell; James C. Frier, Deputy Assistant Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Michael Nichols, St.
Louis Metropolitan Police Department, St. Louis, Missouri; Sam Ferraniola,
Glen Mills Schools, Concordville, Pennsylvania; Jim Brown, Amer-I-Can Program,
Inc., and James J. Galipeau, Los Angeles County Probation Department, both of
Los Angeles, California; Gary E. Graika, Social Development Commission's Youth
Diversion Program, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Irving A. Spergel, University of
Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. 

                               [Page: D106]

OSHA REFORM 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
575, to improve the employee safety and health programs of the Occupational
Safety and Health Act, after receiving testimony from Robert B. Reich,
Secretary of Labor. 

VA HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine certain
restrictions against VA facilities from participating fully in statewide
health care reform efforts, after receiving testimony from Elwood Headley,
Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Health and Director, VA National Health Care
Reform Program Office, Department of Veterans Affairs; Robert A. Petzel, Chief
of Staff, VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Joseph M. Manley,
Director, VA Medical Center, Seattle, Washington; Howard H. Green, Chief of
Staff, VA Medical and Regional Office Center, White River Junction, Vermont;
Malcom Randall, VA Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida; Larry E. Deters,
Director, VA Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee; Thomas L. Garthwaite, Chief
of Staff, VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on behalf of the National
Association of VA Chiefs of Staff; and John Bollinger, Paralyzed Veterans of
America, Washington, D.C. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/02/10
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 10, 1994;  pages D114 - D124

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: On Wednesday, February 9,
Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of Frederick G. Slabach,
of Mississippi, to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Congressional
Relations. 

FEDERAL MEAT INSPECTION PROGRAM 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Research, Conservation, Forestry and General Legislation held
hearings to examine the status of the Federal meat inspection program,
focusing on the Department of Agriculture's response to the outbreak of the E.
coli infection last year, receiving testimony from Patricia Jensen, Acting
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Inspection Services;
Carol Tucker Foreman, Foreman and Heidepriem, Inc., Washington, D.C., on
behalf of the Safe Food Coalition; J. Patrick Boyle, American Meat Institute,
Arlington, Virginia; J. Glenn Morris, Jr., University of Maryland School of
Medicine, Baltimore; and Ed Johnson, Parma, Idaho, on behalf of the National
Cattlemen's Association. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

KOREAN PENINSULA 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the situation on the Korean peninsula from Robert L. Gallucci,
Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs; Stanley O. Roth,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Rear
Adm. Charles S. Abbot, Deputy Director for Current Operations, Joint Chiefs of
Staff; and Joseph Nye, Chairman, Dale W. Walter, Deputy National Intelligence
Officer for Strategic Programs, Charles E. Allen, National Intelligence
Officer for Warning, and Robert L. Suettinger, Deputy National Intelligence
Officer for East Asia, all of the National Intelligence Council. 

                               [Page: D118]

Committee recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items: 

S. 1527, to provide for fair trade in financial services, with an amendment in
the nature of a substitute; and 

The nominations of Ricki Rhodarmer Tigert, of Tennessee, to be a Member and
Chairperson, Andrew C. Hove Jr., of Nebraska, to be a Member and Vice
Chairperson, and Anne L. Hall, of Ohio, to be a Member, all of the Board of
Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 

1995 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1995 budget for
the Federal Government, receiving testimony from Laura D'Andrea Tyson, Chair,
Council of Economic Advisers. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Greg Farmer, of Florida, to be Under Secretary
for Travel and Tourism, Ginger Ehn Lew, of California, to be General Counsel,
Graham R. Mitchell, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secretary for Technology
Policy, Lauri Fitz Pegado, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary and Director
General of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service, and Thomas R.
Bloom, of Michigan, to be an Assistant Secretary and Chief Financial Officer,
all of the Department of Commerce, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Testimony was also received on the nomination
of Ms. Fitz-Pegado from John R. MacArthur, Harpers Magazine, New York, New
York; and Toby Moffett, Strategic Policy Inc., Washington, D.C. Mr. Farmer was
introduced by Senators Graham and Mack, and Ms. Lew was introduced by
Representative Mineta. 

MEMORIALS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills: 

S. 1552 and H.R. 2947, bills to extend for an additional 2 years the
authorization of the Black Revolutionary War Patriots Foundation to establish
a memorial, after receiving testimony from Maj. Gen. Jerry Ralph Curry, Black
Revolutionary War Patriots Foundation, Washington, D.C.; 

S. 1612, to extend the authority of the Women in Military Service for America
Foundation to establish a memorial in the District of Columbia, after
receiving testimony from Brig. Gen. Wilma L. Vaught, USAF (Ret.), Women In
Military Service For America Foundation, Inc., Washington, D.C.; and 

S. 1790, to extend the authority of the National Peace Garden, after receiving
testimony from Elizabeth Ratcliffe, National Peace Garden, Washington, D.C. 

Testimony was also received on all aforementioned bills from Robert Stanton,
Regional Director, National Capitol Region, National Park Service, Department
of the Interior. 

SUPERFUND 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund,
Recycling, and Solid Waste Management held hearings on S. 1834, to improve and
to authorize funds for fiscal years 1995 through 1999 for programs of the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
(Superfund), receiving testimony from Carol M. Browner, Administrator,
Environmental Protection Agency. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on health care reform issues,
focusing on health care coverage for the uninsured, receiving testimony from
Barbara Lyons, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Anne Marie O'Keefe,
Washington Business Group on Health, Raymond Scalettar, American Medical
Association, Gerry Shea, AFL-CIO, and Phyllis Torda, Families USA, all of
Washington, D.C.; and Gail A. Jensen, Wayne State University, Detroit,
Michigan. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

ARMED FORCES AFTER COLD WAR 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the role of
United States Armed Forces in the post-cold-war world, receiving testimony
from Senator Byrd; and Jane E. Stromseth and Anthony Clark Arend, both of
Georgetown University, and Michael R. Beschloss, all of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

RUSSIA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the situation in Russia from Thomas R. Pickering, Ambassador to
the Russian Federation, Department of State. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

                               [Page: D119]

NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to review strategies for
controlling national drug problems, receiving testimony from Lee Patrick
Brown, Director, National Drug Control Policy.

Committee recessed subject to call. 

GOVERNMENT REFORM 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings on certain
provisions relating to the Government Printing Office as contained in Title
XIV of H.R. 3400, to provide a more effective, efficient, and responsive
Government, Title XIV of the National Performance Review, and S. 1824, to
improve the operations of the legislative branch of the Federal Government,
receiving testimony from Senator Sarbanes; George Lord, Chairman, Joint
Bargaining Council, Government Printing Office; Katherine F. Mawdsley,
University of California, Davis; Steve Metalitz, Information Industry
Association, and Bill Boarman, Communications Workers of America, both of
Washington, D.C.; William Gindlesperger, ABC Advisors, Inc., Chambersburg,
Pennsylvania; Benjamin Cooper, Printing Industries of America, Alexandria,
Virginia; and Norman Horne, Harrington Business Forms, Inc., Rocky Mount,
North Carolina. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Raymond John Vogel, of West Virginia, to be Under Secretary of
Veterans Affairs for Benefits. 

MICHIGAN INDIAN TRIBES 

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 1066, to restore
Federal services to the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians of Michigan, and S.
1357, to reaffirm and clarify the Federal relationships of the Little Traverse
Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians of
Michigan as distinct federally recognized Indian tribes, receiving testimony
from Senators Riegle and Levin; Representatives Kildee and Upton; Debra
Maddox, Acting Director, Branch of Tribal Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Department of the Interior; Joseph R. Winchester, Rachel Daugherty, and
Richard Daugherty, all of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Dowagiac,
Michigan; William Brooks, Michigan Indian Legal Services, Traverse City; Frank
Ettawageshik and Shirley Oldman, both of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of
Odawa Indians, Petoskey, Michigan; Daniel Bailey and Katherine Glocheski, both
of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, Manistee, Michigan; and James
McClurken, East Lansing, Michigan. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meetings 

AUTHORIZATION--HEAD START

Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources' Subcommittee on
Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism concluded joint hearings with the House
Committee on Education and Labor's Subcommittee on Human Resources on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for the Head Start Program, after receiving
testimony from Mary Jo Bane, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services
for the Administration of Children and Families; Sandra Kessler Hamburg,
Committee for Economic Development, New York, New York; Valora Washington,
W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, Michigan; Donna Hogle, South Central
Community Action Program, Bloomington, Iowa; Michael Hunter, New Haven,
Connecticut; Jill Ryan, Worchester, Massachusetts; and Jeannie Kendall, Paris,
Kentucky.  



1994/02/11
Daily Digest - Friday, February 11, 1994;  pages D125 - D128

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

                               [Page: D126]

Joint Meetings 

EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS 

Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 3759, making emergency supplemental
appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1994. 



1994/02/22
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 22, 1994;  pages D130 - D138

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: On February 15, 16, 17, and 18, Committee held
hearings on a proposed constitutional amendment to balance the Federal budget,
receiving testimony from Senator Simon; former Senator Eagleton; Leon E.
Panetta, Director, Office of Management and Budget; Janet Reno, Attorney
General, and Walter Dellinger, Assistant Attorney General, both of the
Department of Justice; Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human
Services; Jesse Brown, Secretary of Veterans Affairs; William J. Perry,
Secretary of Defense; Louis Fisher, Senior Specialist, American National
Government, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; James R.
Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense; Nicholas Katzenbach, former United
States Attorney General; Robert Ball, former Commissioner, and Robert J.
Myers, former Deputy Commissioner and Chief Actuary, both of the Social
Security Administration; Charles Fried and Archibald Cox, both of Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Kathleen Sullivan, Stanford University,
Stanford, California; Burke Marshall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut;
and Henry Aaron, Brookings Institution, Max B. Sawicky, Economic Policy
Institute, Herbert Stein and Norman Ornstein, both of the American Enterprise
Institute, Stanley E. Collender, Price Waterhouse, Edward Regan, Jerome Levy
Economics Institute, Paul R. Huard, National Association of Manufacturers,
James D. Davidson, National Taxpayers Union, and Martha H. Phillips, Concord
Coalition, all of Washington, DC. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

1995 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1995 budget for
the Federal Government, focusing on the Department of Labor initiatives to
employ America's workforce, receiving testimony from Robert B. Reich,
Secretary of Labor. 

Committee will meet again on Wednesday, March 9. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Gordon P. Eaton, of Ohio, to be Director of the United States
Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senator Grassley, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Josiah Horton Beeman, of the District of Columbia, to be
Ambassador to New Zealand, and to serve concurrently and without additional
compensation as Ambassador to Western Samoa, and March Fong Eu, of California,
to be Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Beeman was
introduced by Representative Berman. 

FOREIGN AID REFORM 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy,
Trade, Oceans and Environment resumed hearings on proposed legislation to
reorganize United States foreign assistance programs, and S. 1096, authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1994 and 1995 to establish and strengthen policies and
programs for the early stabilization of world population through the global
expansion of reproductive choice, receiving testimony from Senators Bingaman
and Simpson; former Representative Donald M. Fraser, on behalf of the
Washington Coalition of Human Rights; Joel Barkan, University of Iowa, Iowa
City; William B. Inglee, Executive Director, House of Representatives
Wednesday Group; Frank C. Conahan, Assistant Comptroller General, National
Security and International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; Judith
Bruce, Population Council, New York, New York; and Carol Capps, Church World
Service/Lutheran World Relief, on behalf of InterAction, John W. Sewell and
Richard E. Bissell, both on behalf of the Overseas Development Council, Andrew
Natsios, World Vision, Barbara J. Bramble, National Wildlife Federation, and
Caleb S. Rossiter, Project on Demilitarization and Democracy, all of
Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT 

Committee on the Judiciary: On February 15, 16, and 17, Subcommittee on the
Constitution held hearings on proposals to amend the Constitution of the
United States to require a balanced Federal budget, receiving testimony from
Senator Thurmond; Representative Penny; former Senator Tsongas, on behalf of
the Concord Coalition; Griffin Bell, former United States Attorney General;
Delaware Governor Thomas Carper, Dover; Colorado Governor Richard Lamm,
Denver; Paul Volcker, former Chairman, Federal Reserve Board; Robert J. Myers,
former Deputy Commissioner and Chief Actuary, Social Security Administration;
C. Fred Bergsten, Institute for International Economics, Martin A. Regalia,
United States Chamber of Commerce, David Stanley, National Taxpayers Union,
John Snow, Business Roundtable, Paul R. Huard, National Association of
Manufacturers, Jim Irvine, National Association of Home Builders of the United
States, Daniel J. Murphy, Citizens for a Sound Economy, Max Richtman, National
Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, and John Armor, all of
Washington, D.C.; William Sprague, Sturgis, Kentucky, on behalf of the
American Farm Bureau Federation; Stewart Sterk, Benjamin Cardozo School of
Law, Brooklyn, New York; James N. Clark, Cincinnati, Ohio, on behalf of the
Financial Executives Institute; and Jake Hansen, Seniors Coalition, Fairfax,
Virginia. 

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Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed hearings on the
Administration's proposed Health Security Act, to establish comprehensive
health care for every American, focusing on the needs of Americans with
disabilities, receiving testimony from Judith Feder, Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation;
Gina McDonald, Kansas Association of Centers for Independent Living, Topeka,
on behalf of the National Council on Independent Living; Linda M. Long,
Massachusetts Ad Hoc Committee on Health Care Reform and Disability, Boston;
Janet O'Keeffe, American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., on
behalf of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities; Julianne Beckett,
Family Voices, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Harry Johnson, Jr., Baltimore, Maryland;
Sandra Sulfaro, Marlboro, Massachusetts; and Marilyn Hogan Weisner, Aurora,
Illinois. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

SBA BUDGET 

Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1995 for the Small Business
Administration, after receiving testimony from Erskine Bowles, Administrator,
Small Business Administration. 

INTELLIGENCE 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community. 

Committee will meet again on Thursday, February 24. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/02/23
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 23, 1994;  pages D139 - D148

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, General
Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for
the Office of National Drug Control Policy, receiving testimony from Lee
Patrick Brown, Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 2. 

WORLD FOOD PRODUCTION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings to examine the state of world food
production, receiving testimony from Edward Knipling, Deputy Administrator,
National Program Staff, Agricultural Research Service, and Robert Robinson,
Director, Agricultural Trade Analysis Division, Economic Research Service,
both of the Department of Agriculture; and Lester R. Brown, Worldwatch
Institute, and Katy Moran, Healing Forest Conservancy, both of Washington,
D.C. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 4. 

BOSNIA

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on Bosnia and other current military operations from William J.
Perry, Secretary of Defense; and Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, USA, Chairman,
Lt. Gen. John J. Sheehan, USMC, Director for Operations (J-3), and Rear Adm.
Michael W. Cramer, USN, Director for Intelligence (J-2), all of the Office of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

                               [Page: D140]

Committee recessed subject to call. 

FUTURE OF NATO

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Coalition Defense and Reinforcing
Forces resumed joint hearings with the Committee on Foreign Relations'
Subcommittee on European Affairs to examine the future of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO), receiving testimony from Gen. John R. Galvin, USA
(Ret.), former Commander of Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe; James
R. Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense; and Max M. Kampelman, former
United States Ambassador to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in
Europe. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INTERSTATE BANKING AND BRANCHING

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original bill to permit bank holding companies to acquire existing
banks in any State, and to allow bank holding companies to consolidate their
operations into branches of a single bank. 

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications held hearings on S. 1822, to safeguard and protect the public
interest while permitting the growth and development of new communications
technologies, receiving testimony from Ronald H. Brown, Secretary of Commerce;
Reed E. Hundt, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission; Dean J. Miller,
Idaho Public Utilities Commission, Boise; and William F. Squadron, National
Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of Robert Jay Uram, of California, to be Director,
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, and Gordon P. Eaton, of
Ohio, to be Director, United States Geological Survey, both of the Department
of the Interior, and Frank G. Zarb, of New York, Kneeland C. Youngblood, of
Texas, William J. Rainer, of Connecticut, Margaret Hornbeck Greene, of
Kentucky, and Greta Joy Dicus, of Arkansas, each to be a Member of the Board
of Directors of the United States Enrichment Corporation. 

DOE BUDGET

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of
Energy, after receiving testimony from Hazel R. O'Leary, Secretary of Energy. 

CLEAN WATER

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee began markup of S. 1114,
authorizing funds for programs of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, but
did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

1995 BUDGET

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the President's proposed
budget request for fiscal year 1995 for the Federal Government, focusing on
the impact of the proposed budget on those programs which come under the
jurisdiction of the committee, the progress of last year's Budget
Reconciliation Act, and the proposed balanced budget amendment, receiving
testimony from Leon E. Panetta, Director, Office of Management and Budget. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

STATE DEPARTMENT BUDGET/FOREIGN POLICY

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of
State, and to discuss general foreign policy issues, after receiving testimony
from Warren Christopher, Secretary of State. 

GOVERNMENT REFORM

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on H.R. 3400, to
provide a more effective, efficient, and responsive Federal government,
focusing on financial, general, and human resource management, receiving
testimony from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States,
General Accounting Office; and Alice Rivlin, Deputy Director, Office of
Management and Budget. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Rafael Diaz, of the District of Columbia, to be an Associate
Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, after the nominee,
who was introduced by District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

                               [Page: D141]

POPULAR MUSIC AND YOUTH CRIME

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice concluded
hearings to examine the effects of violent and demeaning imagery in popular
music on American youth, after receiving testimony from Representative Waters;
C. Delores Tucker, National Political Congress of Black Women, Inc., Robert
T.M. Phillips, American Psychiatric Association, Hillary Rosen, Recording
Industry Association of America, Laura Murphy Lee, ACLU, and Keith A. Ridley,
IV, Ridley Funeral Establishment, Inc., all of Washington, D.C.; Michael Eric
Dyson, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; Ron Stallworth, Utah
Department of Public Safety, Salt Lake City; Darryl James, Rap Sheet, Santa
Monica, California; Steve McKeever, Motown Records, Nicholas Butterworth, Rock
The Vote Action Project, and Dionne Warwick, all of Los Angeles, California;
Wallace R. Bradley, United In Peace Organization, Chicago, Illinois; and David
W. Harleston, Rush Associated Labels, and Erroll Kenya James, Black Student
Leadership Network, both of New York, New York. 

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items: 

S. 1040, to support systemic improvement of education and the development of a
technologically literate citizenry and internationally competitive work force
by establishing a comprehensive system through which appropriate
technology-enhanced curriculum, instruction, and administrative support
resources and services, that support the National Education Goals and any
national education standards that may be developed, are provided to schools
throughout the United States, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

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 practices and by identifying and disseminating information
on best workplace practices, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
and 

The nominations of Bernard E. Anderson, of Pennsylvania, to be Assistant
Secretary of Labor for Employment Standards, Margaret A. Browning, of
Pennsylvania, and Charles I. Cohen, of Maryland, each to be a Member of the
National Labor Relations Board, and Frederick L. Feinstein, of Maryland, to be
General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. 

HOMELESS VETERANS

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
needs of homeless veterans, after receiving testimony from Jesse Brown,
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs; Andrew M. Cuomo, Assistant Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development for Community Planning and Development;
Henrietta Fishman, VA Comprehensive Homeless Center, Brooklyn, New York;
Robert Rosenheck, VA Northeast Program Evaluation Center, West Haven,
Connecticut; Maureen Shafer, VA Medical Center, Huntington, West Virginia;
Ralph Cooper, Veterans Benefits Clearinghouse, Inc., Roxbury, Massachusetts;
Richard Fitzpatrick, National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, and Joseph
Randall Barnes and Paul S. Egan, both on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans of
America, all of Washington, D.C.; Wayne A. Thompson, Tooley Hall, Denver,
Colorado; John Annis, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and John Johnson, Nashville,
Tennessee. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/02/24
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 24, 1994;  pages D149 - D156

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of
Transportation, receiving testimony from Federico PenAE6a, Secretary of
Transportation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 10. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Armed Services: Committee approved for reporting the nomination
of Maj. Gen. Marc A. Cisneros, United States Army, to be Lieutenant General. 

Also, Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Edwin Dorn, of Texas,
to be Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, Stephen C.
Joseph, of Minnesota, to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs,
Helen T. McCoy, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of the Army for
Financial Management, Deborah P. Christie, of Virginia, to be Assistant
Secretary of the Navy for Financial Management, Robert F. Hale, of Virginia,
to be Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management and
Comptroller, Robert M. Walker, of West Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of
the Army for Installations, Logistics, and Environment, Robert B. Pirie, Jr.,
of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Installations and
Environment, and Rodney A. Coleman, of Michigan, to be Assistant Secretary of
the Air Force for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installations, and Environment,
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr.
Hale was introduced by Senator Warner, Mr. Walker was introduced by Senator
Sasser, and Mr. Coleman was introduced by Senators Riegle and Levin. 

RTC ANNUAL REPORT

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the semi-annual report of the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC), after
receiving testimony from Lloyd Bentsen, Secretary of the Treasury, Alan
Greenspan, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System,
Roger C. Altman, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Jonathan Fiechter, Acting
Director, Office of Thrift Supervision, Andrew C. Hove, Acting Chairman,
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Dietra Ford, Executive Director,
Resolution Trust Corporation, all on behalf of the RTC Thrift Depositor
Protection Oversight Board. 

AUTHORIZATION--EXPORT ADMINISTRATION

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Export Administration Act,
receiving testimony from Barry E. Carter, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce
for Export Administration; Lynn E. Davis, Under Secretary of State for
International Security Affairs; Frank G. Wisner, Under Secretary of Defense
for Policy; Norman A. Wulf, Acting Assistant Director, Bureau of
Nonproliferation and Regional Arms Control, United States Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency; and John G. Keliher, Director, Office of Nonproliferation
and National Security, Department of Energy. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported the nominations of Ginger Ehn Lew, of California, to be
General Counsel, Greg Farmer, of Florida, to be Under Secretary for Travel and
Tourism, Graham R. Mitchell, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secretary for
Technology Policy, and Thomas R. Bloom, of Michigan, to be Assistant Secretary
and Chief Financial Officer, all of the Department of Commerce; Ann Brown, of
Florida, to be Chairman and Member of the Consumer Product Safety Commission;
Linda Joan Morgan, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Interstate Commerce
Commission; Rear Admiral Robert E. Kramek, USCG, to be Chief of Staff, United
States Coast Guard with the grade of Vice Admiral while so serving, and
routine Coast Guard nominations. 

Prior to this action, committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Ms.
Morgan, after the nominee testified and answered questions in her own behalf. 

INTERIOR BUDGET

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of
the Interior, after receiving testimony from Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the
Interior; and Jack Ward Thomas, Chief, Forest Service, Department of
Agriculture. 

CLEAN WATER

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee continued markup of S.
1114, authorizing funds for programs of the Federal Water Pollution Control
Act, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

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HEALTH CARE ALLIANCES

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on proposed health care
reform issues, focusing on the role of health care alliances and the
implications of geographic boundaries for proposed alliances, receiving
testimony from Sarah F. Jaggar, Director, Health Financing and Policy Issues,
Health, Education, and Human Services Division, General Accounting Office;
Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Rossello, San Juan; Richard E. Curtis, Institute
for Health Policy Solutions, and Cathy L. Hurwit, Citizen Action, both of
Washington, D.C.; Lisa M. Carroll, Small Business Service Bureau, Inc.,
Worcester, Massachusetts; Lesley Cummings, California Managed Risk Medical
Insurance Board, Sacramento; and Kevin P. Flatley, American Express Company,
New York, New York, on behalf of the Association of Private Pension and
Welfare Plans. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

ACQUISITION REFORM

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held joint hearings with the
Committee on Armed Services on S. 1587, to revise and streamline the
acquisition laws of the Federal Government, receiving testimony from John M.
Deutch, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology; Roger W.
Johnson, Administrator, General Services Administration; and Steven J. Kelman,
Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and
Budget. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Samuel Frederick Biery, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the
Western District of Texas, William Royal Furgeson, Jr., to be United States
District Judge for the Western District of Texas, Orlando Luis Garcia, to be
United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas, John Henry
Hannah, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of
Texas, and Janis Ann Graham Jack, to be United States District Judge for the
Southern District of Texas, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Biery was introduced by Representatives
Brooks and Tejeda, Mr. Furgeson was introduced by Senator Hutchison and
Representatives Brooks and Coleman, Mr. Garcia was introduced by
Representatives Brooks and Tejeda, Mr. Hannah was introduced by Senator
Hutchison and Representatives Brooks and Bryant, and Ms. Jack was introduced
by Senator Hutchison and Representative Brooks. 

WELFARE REFORM/CHILD CARE

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs and Alcoholism held hearings on welfare reform issues, focusing on child
care for working families, receiving testimony from Richard B. Stolley, Time,
Inc., New York, New York, on behalf of the Child Care Action Campaign; Helen
Blank, Children's Defense Fund, Washington, D.C.; Bruce Liggett, Arizona
Department of Economic Security, Phoenix; Jerlean Daniel, University of
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Patty Siegel, National Association
of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, San Francisco, California. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

LEGISLATIVE REORGANIZATION ACT

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings on S. 1824, to
improve the operations of the legislative branch of the Federal Government,
receiving testimony from Senators Boren, Domenici, McCain, and Grassley. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, March 10. 

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 1. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/02/25
Daily Digest - Friday, February 25, 1994;  pages D158 - D164

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

MUTUAL-TO-STOCK CONVERSIONS

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings on
S. 1801, to apply certain minimum standards to the conversions of savings
associations and savings banks from the mutual form to the stock form,
receiving testimony from Jonathan L. Fiechter, Acting Director, Office of
Thrift Supervision, Department of the Treasury; Andrew C. Hove, Acting
Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; New York State Superintendent
of Banks Derick Cephas, New York; Ohio State Superintendent for Savings & Loan
Associations and Savings Banks William J. Drumm, Columbus; David E.A. Carson,
People's Bank, Bridgeport, Connecticut, on behalf of the Savings and Community
Bankers of America; and Chris Lewis, Consumer Federation of America,
Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

CLEAN WATER

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 1114,
authorizing funds for programs of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. 

WELFARE REFORM

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy
resumed hearings on welfare reform issues, focusing on State and local
perspectives, receiving testimony from Delaware Governor Thomas R. Carper,
Dover, on behalf of the National Governors' Association; New York State
Senator James J. Lack, Albany, and Tennessee State Representative Bill
Purcell, Nashville, both on behalf of the National Conference of State
Legislatures; Mayor Emanuel Cleaver II, Kansas City, Missouri, on behalf of
the United States Conference of Mayors; Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, Indianapolis,
Indiana, on behalf of the National League of Cities; and Audrey Rowe,
Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Social Services, Hartford, on behalf
of the American Public Welfare Association. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

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NOMINATIONS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Thomas L. Baldini, of Michigan, to be United States
Commissioner on the International Joint Commission, United States and Canada,
Charles R. Baquet III, of Maryland, to be Deputy Director of the Peace Corps,
and Jeanette W. Hyde, of North Carolina, to be Ambassador to Barbados, and to
serve concurrently and without compensation as Ambassador to the Commonwealth
of Dominica, St. Lucia, and to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Baldini was
introduced by Senator Levin, Mr. Baquet was introduced by Senator Wofford, and
Ms. Hyde was introduced by Senators Helms and Faircloth and Representative
Price. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/02/28
Daily Digest -  Monday, February 28, 1994;  pages D165 - D168

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the nominations of Maria Luisa Mabilangan Haley, of Arkansas, to be a
Member of the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United
States; Elaine A. McReynolds, of Tennessee, to be Federal Insurance
Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency; William Alan Reinsch, of
Maryland, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration; and
Raymond E. Vickery, Jr., of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of
Commerce, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Ms. Haley was introduced by Senators Bumpers and Pryor; Ms. McReynolds
was introduced by Senator Mathews; Mr. Reinsch was introduced by Senator
Rockefeller; and Mr. Vickery was introduced by Senator Robb. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/03/01
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 1, 1994;  pages D170 - D178

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

CHILD NUTRITION

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings on
S. 1614, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1998 for programs of the Child
Nutrition Act and the National School Lunch Act, receiving testimony from
Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua and Patrick Temple-West, both on behalf of the
Archdiocese of Philadelphia Nutritional Development Services, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; Shirley Grant, Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore,
Maryland; Joseph F. Hagan, Jr., South Burlington, Vermont, on behalf of the
American Academy of Pediatrics; Dorothy Caldwell, Little Rock, Arkansas,
Marshall Matz, Washington, D.C., Jo Busha, Montpelier, Vermont, and Charles
Hughes, New York, New York, all on behalf of the American School Food Service
Association; and Edward M. Cooney, on behalf of the Food Research and Action
Center and the Campaign to End Childhood Hunger, and Angela Holland, both of
Washington, D.C. 

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Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995
for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and
related agencies, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS--TRADE REPRESENTATIVE/SBA

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Michael Kantor, United States Trade Representative; and Erskine B. Bowles,
Administrator, Small Business Administration. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 3. 

APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of Defense resource
requirements, receiving testimony from William J. Perry, Secretary of Defense. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 8. 

BANK REGULATORY CONSOLIDATION

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings on
proposed legislation to consolidate certain Federal agencies which regulate
and supervise depository institutions insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation, receiving testimony from Lloyd Bentsen, Secretary of the
Treasury. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Peter S. Knight, of the District of Columbia, to
be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Communications Satellite
Corporation, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Mathews,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFORMATION
ADMINISTRATION

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal years 1994 and 1995 for the National Telecommunications Information
Administration, Department of Commerce, after receiving testimony from
Clarence L. Irving, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and
Information. 

NUCLEAR WASTE PROGRAM

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1995 for the nuclear waste
program of the Department of Energy, after receiving testimony from Daniel A.
Dreyfus, Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Department
of Energy. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on health care reform issues,
focusing on quality assurance within health care delivery systems, receiving
testimony from Paul M. Ellwood, Jackson Hole Group, Teton Village, Wyoming;
Thomas O. Pyle, MetLife Healthcare Management Corporation, Westport,
Connecticut; Gordon M. Sprenger, HealthSpan Health Systems Corporation,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, on behalf of the American Hospital Association;
Christy W. Bell, Fallon Community Health Plan, West Boylston, Massachusetts,
on behalf of the Group Health Association of America; Brent C. James,
Intermountain Health Care Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, Salt
Lake City, Utah; and Allan W. Tull, Madison, Connecticut, on behalf of the
American Association of Retired Persons. 

Committee will meet again on Thursday, March 3. 

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, March 3. 

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Joint Meetings

VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS

Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint hearings
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to examine the legislative
recommendations of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, after receiving testimony
from George R. Cramer, Woodridge, Illinois, on behalf of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars. 



1994/03/02
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 2, 1994;  pages D179 - D188

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN AID

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for foreign assistance
programs, receiving testimony from Warren Christopher, Secretary of State. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 8. 

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 1995 for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and related agencies, receiving testimony from numerous public
witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1995, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Ronald K. Noble, Assistant Secretary for Enforcement, John W. Magaw,
Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and George J. Weise,
Commissioner, United States Customs Service, all of the Department of the
Treasury. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 11. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of
Defense, and the future years defense plan, focusing on military strategy and
operational requirements of the unified commands, receiving testimony from
Adm. Charles R. Larson, USN, Commander in Chief, United States Pacific
Command; Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, USA, Commander in Chief, United States
Southern Command; Gen. Gary E. Luck, USA, Commander, United States Forces,
Korea; and Rear Adm. Irve C. LeMoyne, USN, Deputy Commander in Chief, United
States Special Operations Command. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

UNIFORMED SERVICES

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Force Requirements and Personnel
concluded hearings on activities of the Uniformed Services University of the
Health Sciences of the Department of Defense, after receiving testimony from
Senators Inouye and Sarbanes; Rear Adm. James A. Zimble, USN (Ret.),
President, and Edward Alvarez, Jr., Chairman, Board of Regents, both of the
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; William J. Lynn,
Director, Program Analysis and Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense;
Lt. Gen. Alcide M. LaNoue, USA, Surgeon General, United States Army; Vice Adm.
Donald F. Hagen, USN, Surgeon General, United States Navy; Lt. Gen. Alexander
M. Sloan, USAF, Surgeon General, United States Air Force; W. Douglas Skelton,
Mercer University, Macon, Georgia; and Arthur M. Smith, Medical College of
Georgia, Augusta. 

                               [Page: D181]

BANK REGULATORY CONSOLIDATION

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued hearings
on proposed legislation to consolidate certain Federal agencies which regulate
and supervise depository institutions insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation, receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Eugene A. Ludwig, Comptroller of the
Currency, and Jonathan L. Fiechter, Acting Director, Office of Thrift
Supervision, both of the Department of the Treasury; and Andrew C. Hove, Jr.,
Acting Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings on
S. 1822, to safeguard and protect the public interest while permitting the
growth and development of new communications technologies, focusing on the
regulation of alarm services, electronic publishing, and other information
services by the Regional Bell Operating Companies, receiving testimony from
James G. Cullen, Bell Atlantic Corporation, and John B. Lynn, EDS Corporation,
both of Washington, D.C.; Frank Bennack, Jr., Hearst Corporation, New York,
New York; David Carter, Central Station Alarm Association, Raleigh, North
Carolina; Sandra Weis, Prodigy Services Company, White Plains, New York; and
R. Jack Fishman, Lakeway Publishers, Inc., Morristown, Tennessee. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NASA BUDGET

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on the President's proposed budget
request for fiscal year 1995 and proposed legislation authorizing funds for
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), after receiving
testimony from Daniel S. Goldin, Administrator, France Cordova, Chief
Scientist, Mal Peterson, Acting Deputy Comptroller, and Harry Holloway,
Associate Administrator for Life and Microgravity Sciences, all of NASA. 

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills: 

H.R. 2144, to provide for the transfer of excess land to the Government of
Guam; and 

S. 318, to provide for the energy security of the Nation through encouraging
the production of domestic oil and gas resources in deep water on the Outer
Continental Shelf in the Gulf of Mexico, with amendments. 

SUPERFUND REFORM

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund,
Recycling, and Solid Waste Management resumed hearings on S. 1834, to improve
and to authorize funds for fiscal years 1995 through 1999 for programs of the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
(Superfund), focusing on State and community participation, receiving
testimony from Michael A. Pierle, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri;
Michael S. Parr, DuPont Company, Wilmington, Delaware, on behalf of the
Chemical Manufacturers Association; Linda Greer, National Resource Defense
Council, Blake Early, Sierra Club, and Philip S. Angell, Browning-Ferris
Industries, all of Washington, D.C.; Robert W. Varney, New Hampshire
Department of Environmental Services, Concord, on behalf of the National
Governors' Association; J. Winston Porter, Waste Policy Center, Sterling,
Virginia; and Helen Cusic, Grand Calumet Task Force, Whiting, Indiana. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Donald M. Blinken, of New York, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Hungary, Richard Dale Kauzlarich, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to
the Republic of Azerbaijan, and Derek Shearer, of California, to be Ambassador
to the Republic of Finland, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Blinken was introduced by Senator Moynihan. 

NOMINATION

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Thomas A. Constantine, of New York, to be Administrator of Drug Enforcement,
Department of Justice, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators
Moynihan and D'Amato and Representatives McNulty and Quinn, testified and
answered questions in his own behalf. 

EDUCATION REFORM

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 1513, to
revise and authorize funds for programs of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965, receiving testimony from Richard W. Riley, Secretary of
Education. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed hearings on the
Administration's proposed Health Security Act, to establish comprehensive
health care for every American, receiving testimony from Joseph Perkins,
Danvers, Massachusetts, on behalf of the American Association of Retired
Persons; William H. Bywater, International Union of Electronic, Electrical,
Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers, AFL-CIO, Mel Bass, American
Automobile Manufacturers Association, and Sylvester J. Schieber, Wyatt
Company, all of Washington, D.C.; Anna M. Rappaport, William M. Mercer, Inc.,
Chicago, Illinois; Georgia Fitzwilliams, Germantown, Wisconsin; Gerald E.
Pickering, Warrington, Pennsylvania; and Elizabeth de Vries, Manchester, New
Hampshire. 

                               [Page: D182]

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

SBA ASSISTANCE LOAN PROGRAMS

Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the
Small Business Administration's implementation and current state of the 7(a)
Guaranteed Business Loan Program and the Disaster Loan Program, after
receiving testimony from Cassandra Pulley, Deputy Administrator, Bernard
Kulik, Assistant Administrator for Disaster Assistance, and John Cox,
Assistant Administrator for Financial Assistance, all of the Small Business
Administration; and Anthony R. Wilkinson, National Association of Government
Guaranteed Lenders, Inc., Stillwater, Oklahoma. 

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 Richard E. Marbes, Green Bay, Wisconsin, on behalf of the Disabled
American Veterans. 



1994/03/03
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 3, 1994;  pages D189 - D200

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 1995 for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and related agencies on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1995 for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education, and related agencies, receiving testimony from Louis W. Sullivan,
former Secretary of Health and Human Services; and numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS--SUPREME COURT/JUDICIARY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Anthony M. Kennedy and David Hackett Souter, each an Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States; Richard S. Arnold, Chief Judge, and John
M. Walker, Jr., Circuit Judge, both of the United States Courts of Appeals;
and L. Ralph Mecham, Director, Administrative Office of the United States
Courts. 

                               [Page: D190]

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 15. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of
Defense, and the 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;
Gen. George A. Joulwan, USA, Commander in Chief, United States European
Command; and Adm. Paul D. Miller, USN, Commander in Chief, United States
Atlantic Command. 

Committee will meet again on Tuesday, March 8. 

BANK REGULATORY CONSOLIDATION 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued hearings
on proposed legislation to consolidate certain Federal agencies which regulate
and supervise depository institutions insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation, receiving testimony from Howard L. McMillan, Jr., Deposit
Guaranty National Bank, Jackson, Mississippi, on behalf of the American
Bankers Association; Richard L. Thomas, First Chicago Corporation, Chicago,
Illinois, on behalf of the Banker's Roundtable; James E. Gilleran, California
Superintendent of Banks, San Francisco, on behalf of the Conference of State
Bank Supervision; John Shivers, Southwest Bank, Fort Worth, Texas, on behalf
of the Independent Bankers Association of America; and Alfred Pollard,
Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Savings and Community Bankers of America. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

1995 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1995 budget for
the Federal Government, focusing on defense contractor abuses, receiving
testimony from Charles W. Thompson, Assistant Director, National Security and
International Affairs, General Accounting Office; and Michael J. Thibault,
Assistant Director, Policy and Plans, Defense Contract Audit Agency,
Department of Defense. 

Committee will meet again tomorrow. 

PUBLIC LANDS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 218, to convey certain
lands in the State of Arizona, S. 859, to reduce the restrictions on certain
land conveyances, S. 1233, to resolve the status of certain lands in Arizona
that are subject to a claim as a grant of public lands for railroad purposes,
S. 1586, to establish the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park in the
State of Louisiana, and H.R. 1183, to validate conveyances of certain lands in
the State of California that form part of the right-of-way granted by the
United States to the Central Pacific Railway Company, after receiving
testimony from Representative Doolittle; Robert Anderson, Acting Assistant
Director, Energy and Mineral Resources, Bureau of Land Management, and Roger
Kennedy, Director, National Park Service, both of the Department of the
Interior; and Bill McCleese, Acting Associate Deputy Chief, Forest Service,
Department of Agriculture. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine health care reform
issues, focusing on health care benefits packages, receiving testimony from
Judith Feder, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and Human
Services for Planning and Evaluation; Roger C. Herdman, Director, Office of
Technology Assessment; Susan Gleeson, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association,
Chicago, Illinois; Rhoda H. Karpatkin, Consumers Union of the United States,
Inc., Yonkers, New York; Frank B. McArdle, Hewitt Associates, Washington,
D.C.; Paige R. Sipes-Metzler, Oregon Department of Human Resources, Portland;
and William H. Straub, Jackson Hole Group, Westport, Connecticut. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NORTH KOREA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
held hearings to examine United States policy toward North Korea, receiving
testimony from Lynn E. Davis, Under Secretary of State for International
Security Affairs. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

GLOBAL ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy,
Trade, Oceans and Environment held hearings to examine global economic and
environmental policy, receiving testimony from Senators Boren and Lieberman;
Joan E. Spero, Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs;
Lawrence H. Summers, Under Secretary of the Treasury for International
Affairs; Margee Ensign, Institute for International Research, Arlington,
Virginia; Phillip Fishman, AFL-CIO, John Hardy, Jr., Coalition for Employment
Through Exports, Inc., Bruce Rich, Environmental Defense Fund, and David Reed,
WWF International, all of Washington, D.C.; Richard O'Leary, United States
Chamber of Commerce, Naples, Florida; and Thomas C. Dawson, Merrill Lynch, New
York, New York. 

                               [Page: D191]

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Franklin D. Burgess, to be United States District Judge for the Western
District of Washington, Ancer L. Haggerty, to be United States District Judge
for the District of Oregon, Michael J. Davis, to be United States District
Judge for the District of Minnesota, Cameron M. Currie, to be United States
District Judge for the District of South Carolina, and Daniel T.K. Hurley, to
be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, after
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Burgess
was introduced by Senator Murray, Mr. Haggerty was introduced by Senator
Hatfield and Representative Wyden, Mr. Davis was introduced by Senator
Wellstone, Ms. Currie was introduced by Senators Thurmond and Hollings, and
Mr. Hurley was introduced by Senator Graham and Representative Johnston. 

STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings to examine
emerging and current state-of-the-art technology which may have an impact on
the future operations of the Senate, receiving testimony from Martha S. Pope,
Sergeant at Arms, Michael E. Bartell, Director, Computer Center, and Jim
Grahne, Director, Recording Studio, all of the United States Senate; James H.
Billington, Librarian of Congress, Cheryl Graunke, Specialist in Automated
Information Resources, Congressional Research Service, John Jackson, National
Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, and Nat Gadson, Don
Hiller, and Fred Pickering, all Members of the Technology Assessment Staff,
all of the Library of Congress; Chris Mortenson, Gallaudet University,
Washington, D.C.; Tom Graviss, Star Network, Lexington, Kentucky; Robert
Pratt, Monticello High School, Monticello, Kentucky; Brooks Wells, Bath County
High School, Owingsville, Kentucky; and Ben Wilson, Carroll County High
School, Carrollton, Kentucky. 

INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE BUDGET 

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1995 for the Indian Health Service,
after receiving testimony from Phillip Lee, Assistant Secretary for Health,
and Michel E. Lincoln, Acting Director, Indian Health Service, both of the
Department of Health and Human Services. 

SECURITY SYSTEMS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held hearings to examine certain
recommendations relating to the current security system policies and
procedures of the defense and intelligence community, receiving testimony from
Jeffrey Smith, Chairman, Joint Security Commission. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/03/07
Daily Digest - Monday, March 7, 1994;  pages D202 - D206

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, March 4, Subcommittee on Agriculture,
Rural Development, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving
testimony from Mike Espy, Secretary; Richard E. Rominger, Deputy Secretary;
and Stephen B. Dewhurst, Director, Office of Budget and Program Analysis, all
of the Department of Agriculture. 

                               [Page: D203]

Committee will meet again on Wednesday, March 16. 

APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, March 4, Subcommittee on Labor, Health
and Human Services, and Education held hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1995 for 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, March 16. 

APPROPRIATIONS--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 

Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, March 4, Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and
Independent Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1995, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Gen. P.X. Kelley, USMC (Ret.), Chairman, American Battle
Monuments Commission; Steven Dola, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for
Management and Budget (on behalf of Army cemeterial expenses); Norman E.
D'Amours, Chairman, National Credit Union Administration; John J. Adair,
Inspector General, Resolution Trust Corporation; Andrew C. Hove, Jr., Acting
Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Jacqueline Jones-Smith,
Chairman, Consumer Product Safety Commission; Teresa Nasif, Director, Consumer
Information Center; Polly Baca, Special Assistant to the President, and
Director, United States Office of Consumer Affairs; George Knight, Executive
Director, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation; and Frank Q. Nebeker, Chief
Judge, United States Court of Veterans Appeals. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 17. 

BANK REGULATORY CONSOLIDATION 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Friday, March 4,
Committee continued hearings on proposed legislation to consolidate certain
Federal agencies which regulate and supervise depository institutions insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, receiving testimony from Charles
A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting
Office; District of Columbia Councilwoman Charlene Drew Jarvis; Thomas Schatz,
Citizens Against Government Waste; and Wolfgang Reinicke, Brookings
Institution, all of Washington, D.C.; James R. Barth, Auburn University,
Auburn, Alabama; and R. Dan Brumbaugh, San Francisco, California. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 9. 

1995 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: On Friday, March 4, Committee continued hearings in
preparation for reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year
1995 budget for the Federal Government, focusing on 21st Century goals for
American schools, receiving testimony from Senator Jeffords; Marshall S.
Smith, Under Secretary of Education; Jacqueline Hess, National Demonstration
Laboratory for Interactive Information Technologies; Michael Casserly, Council
for Great City Schools; Robert McIntyre, Citizens for Tax Justice; Emily
Feistritzer, National Center for Education Information; and Lewis Perelman,
Discovery Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; and Mary Fulton, Education
Commission of the States; and John Myers, New Directions in Education Policy,
both of Denver, Colorado. 

Committee will meet again on Wednesday, March 9. 

VIDEO GAME RATING SYSTEM 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: On Friday, March 4, Subcommittee on
Regulation and Government Information concluded joint hearings with the
Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice to examine the
system of rating video games, focusing on the effects of violence in video
games, after receiving testimony from Representative Lantos; Jack Heistand,
Electronic Arts, San Mateo, California; Howard C. Lincoln, Nintendo of
America, Inc., Redmond, Washington; Edward A. Volkwein, SEGA of America, Inc.,
Redwood City, California; Chuck Kerby, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville,
Arkansas; John Sullivan, Toys "R" Us, Inc., Paramus, New Jersey; Mary P.
Evans, Babbage's, Inc., Dallas, Texas; R.A. Green III, Myrtle Beach, South
Carolina, on behalf of the Amusement and Music Operators Association; and
Steve Koenigsberg, Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of the American Amusement
Machine Association. 

                               [Page: D204]

Joint Meetings 

EMPLOYMENT SITUATION 

Joint Economic Committee: On Friday, March 4, Committee held hearings to
examine the national employment-unemployment statistics from February,
receiving testimony from Katharine G. Abraham, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor
Statistics, Department of Labor. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 



1994/03/08
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 8, 1994;  pages D208 - D216

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 1995 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on manpower and equipment requirements, Guard and Reserve total force
structure, and the restructuring of the Guard, receiving testimony from Gen.
John M. Shalikashvili, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 10. 

APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN AID

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for foreign assistance and
global development, receiving testimony from Timothy E. Wirth, Counselor,
Department of State. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 15. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of
Defense and the future years defense program, receiving testimony from Togo D.
West, Jr., Secretary of the Army; John H. Dalton, Secretary of the Navy; and
Sheila E. Widnall, Secretary of the Air Force. 

Committee will meet again tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Technology, Acquisition,
and Industrial Base held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of Defense and the future years
defense program, focusing on military services technology base programs,
receiving testimony from Anita K. Jones, Director of Defense Research and
Engineering, and V. Larry Lynn, Deputy Under Secretary for Advanced
Technology, both of the Department of Defense; Victor H. Reis, Assistant
Secretary of Energy for Defense Programs; George T. Singley III, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology; Rear Adm. Marc
Y.E. Pelaez, USN, Chief of Naval Research; and James J. Mattice, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research and Engineering. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

DOE BUDGET

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of
Energy, focusing on renewable energy research, development, and
commercialization programs, after receiving testimony from William H. White,
Deputy Secretary, and Christine A. Ervin, Assistant Secretary for Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy, both of the Department of Energy; Robert
Lynette, Advanced Wind Turbines, Inc., Redmond, Washington; Dave Goeser,
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; John Triebe,
Amoco Technology Company, Naperville, Illinois; George T. Preston, Electric
Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, California; and Darcel L. Hulse, Unocal
Corporation, Los Angeles, California.  

OCEAN'S ROLE IN GLOBAL CHANGE

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings to examine
a National Academy of Sciences report on the importance of the oceans in
understanding and predicting changes in the global environment, receiving
testimony from Robert M. White, President, National Academy of Engineering,
and Vice Chairman, National Research Council; James D. Watkins, Joint
Oceanographic Institutions, Inc., Washington, D.C.; Robert S. Carney,
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; C. Barry Raleigh, University of
Hawaii, Honolulu; Richard A. Anthes, University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research, Boulder, Colorado; Richard C.J. Somerville, University of
California, San Diego; John Delaney, University of Washington, Seattle; and
Richard A. Lutz, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 

                               [Page: D210]

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

EPA BUDGET

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1995 for the Environmental
Protection Agency, after receiving testimony from Carol M. Browner,
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine health care reform
issues, focusing on graduate medical education and the supply of various types
of health professionals, receiving testimony from Peter P. Budetti, The George
Washington University, Washington, D.C.; Jack M. Colwill, University of
Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, on behalf of the Council on Graduate
Medical Education; Clayton E. Jensen, The University of North Dakota School of
Medicine, Grand Forks; and Debra J. Folkerts, Manhattan, Kansas, on behalf of
the American Nurses Association. 

Committee will meet again on Thursday, March 10. 

HAITI

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace
Corps Affairs concluded hearings to examine the current political and human
rights situation in Haiti and current international efforts to bring about a
return of democracy to Haiti, after receiving testimony from Senator Harkin;
Representatives Rangel, Kennedy, and Meek; Lawrence Pezzullo, Special Adviser
to the Secretary of State on Haiti; Mark L. Schneider, Assistant Administrator
for Latin America and the Caribbean, Agency for International Development;
Walter Slocombe, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; John
C. Hammock, Oxfam America, Boston, Massachusetts; David Rogers, CARE, Atlanta,
Georgia; Rev. Richard Ryscavage, United States Catholic Conference's Office of
Migration and Refugee Services, Michael D. Barnes, Hogan & Hartson, on behalf
of the Government of the Republic of Haiti, and Holly J. Burkhalter, Human
Rights Watch, all of Washington, D.C.; and Harold Hongju Koh, Yale University,
New Haven, Connecticut. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed hearings on the
Administration's proposed Health Security Act, to establish comprehensive
health care for every American, focusing on mental health and substance abuse
issues, receiving testimony from former Senator Harold E. Hughes, Des Moines,
Iowa, on behalf of the Society of Americans for Recovery; former First Lady
Betty Ford, Rancho Mirage, California, on behalf of the Betty Ford Center;
former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the Carter
Center Mental Health Task Force; Ronald Geraty, Massachusetts Medco Behavioral
Care, Inc., Burlington; Cynthia Turnure, Minnesota Department of Human
Services, St. Paul; Henrick J. Harwood, Lewin-VHI, Inc., Fairfax, Virginia;
Lenore Behar, North Carolina Department of Human Resources, Raleigh; and Edwin
C. Hustead, Hay/Huggins Company, Inc., Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INTELLIGENCE

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community. 

Committee will meet again on Thursday, March 10. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/03/09
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 9, 1994;  pages D218 - D228

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to
reorganize the Department of Agriculture. 

APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of Energy,
focusing on energy conservation programs, receiving testimony from Christine
Ervin, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Efficiency and Renewable Energy. 

                               [Page: D220]

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 11. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE/NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings, in closed session,
on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995 for the
Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on force
structure levels in the Bottom Up Review, receiving testimony from Edward L.
Warner III, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Resources; and
Rear Adm. Francis W. Lacroix, USN, Deputy Director for Force Structure and
Resources (J-8), Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

Also, committee ordered favorably reported 12 routine military nominations in
the Navy and Marine Corps. 

Committee will meet again on Tuesday, March 15. 

BANK REGULATORY CONSOLIDATION 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed hearings
on proposed legislation to consolidate certain Federal agencies which regulate
and supervise depository institutions insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation, receiving testimony from John R. Petty, Washington, D.C., former
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs; Bevis
Longstreth, Debevoise and Plimpton, New York, New York, former Commissioner of
the Securities and Exchange Commission; John Sandner, Chicago Mercantile
Exchange, Chicago, Illinois; Lawrence Connell, Washington, D.C., and Edward J.
Kane, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, both on behalf of the
Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee; and Donald S. Howard, Atlantic
Highlands, New Jersey. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

1995 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1995 budget for
the Federal Government, focusing on the Department of Defense, after receiving
testimony from William J. Perry, Secretary of Defense; Robert D. Reischauer,
Director, Congressional Budget Office; and Andrew F. Krepinevich, Defense
Budget Project, John D. Steinbruner, Brookings Institution, and Don M. Snider,
Center for Strategic and International Studies, all of Washington, D.C. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported, with amendments, H.R. 2947, to extend the authorization of the Black
Revolutionary War Patriots Memorial, the Women in Military Service for America
Memorial, and the National Peace Garden under the Commemorative Works Act. 

Also, committee completed its review of certain spending reductions and
revenue increases to meet reconciliation expenditures, and agreed on
recommendations which it will make thereon to theCommit tee on the Budget. 

NRC USER FEES 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air and
Nuclear Regulation held hearings to examine the equity of the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission's user fee policy, receiving testimony from Ivan Selin,
Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission; William B. Ellis, Northeast
Utilities, Hartford, Connecticut, on behalf of the American Nuclear Energy
Council; Conrad E. Nagle, William Beaumont Hospital, Troy, Michigan, on behalf
of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and the American College of Nuclear
Physicians; and Dale L. Alberts, Rio Algon Mining,Glenrock, Wyoming, on behalf
of the Wyoming Mining Association. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

URUGUAY ROUND 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine the results of the
Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations and what more needs to be
accomplished before the trade agreements are to be signed on April 15, 1994,
focusing on the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, receiving
testimony from Senator Bingaman; Rufus H. Yerxa, Deputy United States Trade
Representative; Mary Lowe Good, Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology;
Thomas J. Usher, United States Steel Group of the USX Corporation, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, on behalf of the U.S. Member Companies of the American Iron and
Steel Institute; Lawrence W. Clarkson, The Boeing Company, Seattle,
Washington; and Erich Bloch, Council on Competitiveness, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 16. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items: 

The nominations of Thomas A. Constantine, of New York, to be Administrator of
Drug Enforcement, Department of Justice; Judith W. Rogers, to be United States
Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, Helen G. Berrigan, to be
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Samuel
Frederick Biery, Jr., W. Royal Furgeson, Jr., and Orlando L. Garcia, each to
be a United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas, John H.
Hannah, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of
Texas, Janis Graham Jack, to be United States District Judge for the Southern
District of Texas, Daniel T.K. Hurley, to be United States District Judge for
the Southern District of Florida, Cameron M. Currie, to be United States
District Judge for the District of South Carolina, Walter Clinton Holton, Jr.,
to be United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina, Lezin
Joseph Hymel, Jr., to be United States Attorney for the Middle District of
Louisiana, Kristine Olson Rogers, to be United States Attorney for the
District of Oregon, John Marshall Roberts, to be United States Attorney for
the Middle District of Tennessee, Alfred E. Madrid, to be United States
Marshal for the District of Arizona, Charles Lester Zacharias, to be United
States Marshal for the District of Minnesota, Raimon L. Patton, to be United
States Marshal for the Middle District of Tennessee, Timothy Patrick Mullaney,
Sr., to be United States Marshal for the District of Delaware, Israel Brooks,
Jr., to be United States Marshal for the District of South Carolina, Laurent
F. Gilbert, to be United States Marshal for the District of Maine, John James
Leyden, to be United States Marshal for the District of Rhode Island, and Jack
O. Dean, to be United States Marshal for the Western District of Texas; 

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S.J. Res. 150, designating the week of May 2 through 8, 1994, as "Public
Service Recognition Week"; 

S.J. Res. 151, designating the week of April 10 through 16, 1994, as "Primary
Immune Deficiency Awareness Week"; 

S.J. Res. 162, designating March 25, 1994, as "Greek Independence Day: A
National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy"; and 

S.J. Res. 163, to proclaim March 20, 1994, as "National Agricultural Day." 

PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 


Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
held oversight hearings to review activities of the Patent and Trademark
Office of the Department of Commerce, S. 1854, to provide for patent
simplification, and on proposed authorizations for the Patent and Trademark
Office, receiving testimony from Bruce A. Lehman, Assistant Secretary of
Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks; Harold C. Wegner, George
Washington University, and Gary L. Griswold, Intellectual Property Owners,
both of Washington, D.C.; Gary L. Newtson, American Intellectual Property Law
Association, Arlington, Virginia; and Richard M. Berman, General Mills, Inc.,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, on behalf of the International Trademark Association. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Aging held hearings on
the Administration's proposed Health Security Act, to establish comprehensive
health care for every American, and related measures, focusing on women's
health care issues, receiving testimony from Philip Lee, Assistant Secretary
for Health, Susan Blumenthal, Deputy Assistant of Women's Health, and Samuel
Broder, Director, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health,
all of the Department of Health and Human Services; Luella Klein, Emory
University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the American
College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; Janet E. Freedman, on behalf of
the American Medical Women's Association, and Jeannie I. Rosoff, The Alan
Guttmacher Institute, both of New York, New York; Susan Wysocki, on behalf of
the American Nurses Association, Betty Dooley, Women's Research and Education
Institute, Scott Daniels, Family Research Council, Inc., all of Washington,
D.C.; Janet Kurland, Jewish Family Services, Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of
the National Association of Social Workers; and Susan Troyan, Beth Israel
Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INDIAN PROGRAMS 

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1995 for certain Indian programs of
the Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Education, and Labor, and
the Administration for Native Americans, after receiving testimony from Joseph
Shuldiner, Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, and Dom Nessi,
Director, Office of Native American Programs, both of the Department of
Housing and Urban Development; Thomas W. Payzant, Assistant Secretary, Jon C.
Wade, Acting Director, Office of Indian Education, and Chuck Hansen, Director,
Impact Aid Program, all of the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education,
and Thomas M. Corwin, Director, Division of Elementary, Secondary, and
Vocational Analysis, Office of the Under Secretary, all of the Department of
Education; and Mary Jo Bane, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services
for Children and Families. 

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No Joint hearings noted.



1994/03/10
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 10, 1994;  pages D230 - D238

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 1995 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from John H.
Dalton, Secretary of the Navy; Adm. Frank B. Kelso II, USN, Chief of Naval
Operations; and Gen. Carl E. Mundy, Jr., USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 15. 

APPROPRIATIONS--FHA

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation (and Related
Agencies) held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for
the Federal Highway Administration, receiving testimony from Rodney E. Slater,
Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 17. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of John M. Deutch, of Massachusetts, to be Deputy Secretary of
Defense, Edwin Dorn, of Texas, to be Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel
and Readiness, Stephen C. Joseph, of Minnesota, to be Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Health Affairs, Helen Thomas McCoy, of Maryland, to be Assistant
Secretary of the Army for Financial Management, Robert M. Walker, of West
Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Logistics,
and Environment, Deborah P. Christie, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary
of the Navy for Financial Management, Robert B. Pirie Jr., of Maryland, to be
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Installations and Environment, Rodney A.
Coleman, of Michigan, to be Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower,
Reserve Affairs, Installations, Environment, and Robert F. Hale, of Virginia,
to be Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management and
Comptroller. 

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Mr. Deutch (listed above), after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator
Kennedy, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine health care reform
issues, focusing on health care cost containment, receiving testimony from
Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Columbia University, New York, New York, former
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; John C. Goodman, National Center
for Policy Analysis, Dallas, Texas; and Robert J. Shapiro, Progressive Policy
Institute, and Stephen Zuckerman, Urban Institute, both of Washington, D.C. 

Committee will meet again on Tuesday, March 15. 

1972 ABM TREATY

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held open and closed hearings on the
Administration's proposal to seek modification of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic
Missile Treaty (Exec. L, 92d Congress, 2d Session), receiving testimony from
John D. Holum, Director, United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency;
and Lt. Gen. Malcolm R. O'Neill, USA, Director, Ballistic Missile Defense
Organization, Department of Defense. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

ACQUISITION REFORM

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held joint hearings with the
Committee on Armed Services on S. 1587, to revise and streamline the
acquisition laws of the Federal Government, receiving testimony from Robert P.
Murphy, Acting General Counsel, David Cooper, Director, Acquisition Policy,
Technology and Competitiveness, and William Woods, Assistant General Counsel,
National Security and International Affairs Division, all of the General
Accounting Office; Derek J. Vander Schaaf, Deputy Inspector General,
Department of Defense; Donald J. Kinlin, American Bar Association, Dayton,
Ohio; and Erik R. Pages, Business Executives for National Security,
Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 16. 

NOMINATION

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Deval L. Patrick, of Massachusetts, to be an Assistant Attorney General,
Department of Justice, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators
Kennedy, Kerry, and Simon and Representative Coppersmith, testified and
answered questions in his own behalf. 

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EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 1580 and
H.R. 1036, bills to provide that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
of 1974 does not preempt certain State prevailing wage laws, receiving
testimony from Senator Specter; Joe Dart, Massachusetts Building Trades
Council, AFL-CIO, Boston; Frank Lalley, North Penn Electric, Inc., North
Wales, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the National Electrical Contractors
Association; Howard E. Benjamin, Riteway Electric Company, Inc., Bellingham,
Washington; John F. Hudacs, New York State Department of Labor, Albany, on
behalf of the National Association of Governmental Labor Officials; Jim Ray,
Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C.; Mark
R. Thierman, Thierman Law Partnership, San Francisco, California, on behalf of
the Associated Builders and Contractors; and Leo Garcia, Associated General
Contractors, San Diego, California. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT TRAINING SYSTEM

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity held hearings to examine proposals to create a national
employment system by consolidating various current Federal job training
programs, receiving testimony from Robert B. Reich, Secretary, and Lawrence F.
Katz, Chief Economist, both of the Department of Labor; Linda G. Morra,
Director, Education and Employment Issue Area, Human Resources Division,
General Accounting Office; Mayor Patrick McManus, Lynn, Massachusetts, on
behalf of the United States Conference of Mayors; William Christopher, Indiana
Department of Workforce Development, Indianapolis, on behalf of the National
Governors' Association; James J. Heckman, University of Chicago, Chicago,
Illinois; and Richard P. Nathan, National Research Council, Albany, New York. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

LEGISLATIVE REORGANIZATION ACT

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee resumed hearings on S. 1824,
to improve the operations of the legislative branch of the Federal Government,
focusing on Title I, relating to the Standing Rules of the Senate, receiving
testimony from Senators Wallop, Reid, and Bennett. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, March 17. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM

Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
impact of health care reform on the small business sector, after receiving
testimony from Robert B. Reich, Secretary of Labor; and Erskine B. Bowles,
Administrator, Small Business Administration. 

VETERANS PROGRAMS

Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1995 for veterans programs, after
receiving testimony from Jesse Brown, Secretary of Veterans Affairs; Preston
M. Taylor, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment and
Training; Michael F. Brinck, AMVETS, Lanham, Maryland; and John Hanson,
American Legion, Joseph A. Violante, Disabled American Veterans, Russell W.
Mank, Paralyzed Veterans of America, and James N. Magill, Veterans of Foreign
Wars of the United States, all of Washington, D.C. 

INTELLIGENCE

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meetings

BOSNIA

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission):
Commission held hearings to discuss Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo,
receiving testimony from Zlata Filipovic, Sarajevo, Bosnia. 

Commission recessed subject to call. 



1994/03/11
Daily Digest - Friday, March 11, 1994;  pages D239 - D248

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior (and Related Agencies)
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 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 Tuesday, March 15. 

APPROPRIATIONS--SECRET SERVICE/GSA/LAW ENFORCEMENT

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, General
Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Eljay B. Bowron, Director, United States Secret Service; Ronald K. Noble,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement; Charles F. Rinkevich, Director, Federal
Law Enforcement Training Center; and Julius C. McGruder, Acting Director,
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, all of the Department of the Treasury;
and Roger W. Johnson, Administrator, General Services Administration. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 16. 

NONINDIGENOUS PLANTS AND ANIMALS

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine Federal
policies governing the introduction of nonindigenous plants and animal
species, receiving testimony from Dewey M. Caron, University of Delaware,
Newark; James T. Carlton, Williams College--Mystic Seaport, Mystic,
Connecticut; Don C. Schmitz, Florida Department of Environmental Protection,
Tallahassee; Howard M. Singletary, Jr., North Carolina Department of
Agriculture, Raleigh; Faith Thompson Campbell, Natural Resources Defense
Council, Washington, D.C.; and Deborah B. Jensen, the Nature Conservancy,
Arlington, Virginia. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 15. 

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No Joint hearings noted.



1994/03/15
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 15, 1994;  pages D249 - D258

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 1995 for the Department of the Army,
receiving testimony from Togo D. West, Jr., Secretary of the Army; and Gen.
Gordon R. Sullivan, Chief of Staff, United States Army. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 17. 

APPROPRIATIONS--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the Bureau
of Land Management, receiving testimony from Robert Armstrong, Assistant
Secretary for Land and Minerals Management, and Michael P. Dombeck, Acting
Director, Bureau of Land Management, both of the Department of the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 23. 

APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN AID 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for foreign assistance
programs, focusing on sustainable development, receiving testimony from J.
Brian Atwood, Administrator, Agency for International Development. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 22. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of
Defense and the future years defense program, receiving testimony from Adm.
Frank B. Kelso II, USN, Chief of Naval Operations; Gen. Merrill A. McPeak,
USAF, Chief of Staff of the Air Force; Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, USA, Chief of
Staff of the Army; and Gen. Carl E. Mundy, Jr., USMC, Commandant of the Marine
Corps. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Readiness and Defense
Infrastructure held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1995 for the Department of Defense and the future years defense
program, focusing on military readiness, receiving testimony from Gen. Dennis
J. Reimer, USA, Commander in Chief, U.S. Forces Command; Rear Adm. James G.
Prout, III, USN, Deputy Chief of Staff for Resources, Warfare Requirements,
Assessments and Logistics, U.S. Pacific Fleet; Col. William Schopfel, USMC,
Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations (G-3), II Marine Expeditionary Force;
and Lt. Gen. Thad A. Wolfe, USAF, Vice Commander, U.S. Air Combat Command. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

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ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING ACT 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on S. 1664, to streamline the currency transaction report (CTR) requirements
for financial institutions, increase the ability of law enforcement agencies
to make use of CTR's in criminal investigations, and eliminate the filing of
reports having little or no law enforcement value, after receiving testimony
from Ronald K. Noble, Assistant Secretary for Enforcement, Timothy D. Wagner,
Director, Financial Investigations Division, United States Customs Services,
and Edward L. Federico, Jr., Criminal Investigator, all of the Department of
the Treasury; Henry R. Wray, Director, Administration of Justice Issues,
General Government Division, General Accounting Office; John J. Byrne,
American Bankers Association, Washington, D.C.; and Steve Greathouse, Nevada
Resort Association, Las Vegas. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine health care reform
issues, focusing on health care premiums and subsidies, receiving testimony
from Stuart M. Butler, Heritage Foundation, and John Holahan, Urban Institute,
both of Washington, D.C.; Alain C. Enthoven, Stanford University, Stanford,
California; and Michael J. Graetz, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, March 17. 

OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION 

Committee on Finance: On Monday, March 14, Subcommittee on Taxation held
hearings to examine the state of the domestic oil and natural gas industry and
the effectiveness of certain tax proposals to increase domestic oil and gas
exploration and production, receiving testimony from William H. White, Deputy
Secretary of Energy; Cody L. Graves, Oklahoma Corporation Commission, Oklahoma
City; James E. Nugent, Railroad Commission of Texas, Austin; George A. Alcorn,
Alcorn Exploration, Inc., on behalf of the Independent Petroleum Association
of America, and Victor G. Beghini, Marathon Oil Company, on behalf of the
American Petroleum Institute, both of Houston, Texas; Mike Cantrell, Oklahoma
Basic Economy Corporation, Ada; Charles J. Mankin, Oklahoma Geological Survey,
Norman; David Murfin, Murfin Drilling Co., Wichita, Kansas, on behalf of the
Liaison Committee of Cooperating Oil and Gas Associations; Harold Glenn Hamm,
Continental Resources, Inc., Enid, Oklahoma; and Robert H. Campbell, Sun
Company, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Independent
Refiners Coalition. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

U.S. PEACEKEEPING POLICY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the Administration's peacekeeping policy from Douglas J. Bennet,
Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs;
Richard Clarke, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for
Global Affairs, National Security Council; Karl R. Inderfurth, Alternate
Representative for Special Political Affairs, United States Mission to the
United Nations; Adm. Frank Bowman, USN, Deputy Director for Politico-Military
Affairs, Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Sarah Sewall, Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Peacekeeping/Peace Enforcement Policy, Department of Defense. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

NON-INDIGENOUS PLANTS AND ANIMALS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed hearings to examine
Federal policies governing the introduction of nonindigenous plants and animal
species in the United States, receiving testimony from Phyllis N. Windle,
Senior Associate, Office of Technology Assessment; Robert Davison, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks; Katharine W.
Kimball, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere; and
B. Glen Lee, Deputy Administrator for Plant Protection and Quarantine, Animal
and Plant Health Inspection Service, and William McCleese, Acting Associate
Deputy Chief, Forest Service, both of the Department of Agriculture. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

PRODUCT LIABILITY 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 687, to
regulate interstate commerce by providing for a uniform product liability law,
after receiving testimony from Representative Mink; Chief Justice Stanley G.
Feldman, Supreme Court of the State of Arizona, Phoenix, on behalf of the
Conference of Chief Justices; Suzelle M. Smith, Howarth & Smith, Los Angeles,
California; Richard M. Cooper, Williams & Connolly, on behalf of the
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, Victor E. Schwartz, Crowell &
Moring, and Ralph Nader, all of Washington, D.C.; Lucinda M. Finley, State
University of New York, Buffalo; Harold J. Winch, Minster Machine Company,
Minster, Ohio, on behalf of the Association for Manufacturing Technology; and
Dianne Weaver, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. 

BLACK LUNG BENEFITS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 1781, to
improve and strengthen certain provisions of the Black Lung Benefits Act (P.L.
101-509), receiving testimony from Allen B. Hess, National Black Lung
Association, Richlands, Virginia; Richard L. Trumka, United Mine Workers of
America, and Bruce Watzman, National Coal Association, both of Washington,
D.C.; Jackie Fraley, Lebanon, Virginia; Calvin Dunford, Bandy, Virginia; Jean
Varney, Shelbiana, Kentucky; and Lawrence Zornes, Knox, Indiana. 

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Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs and Alcoholism concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for the low-income home energy assistance program and the community
services block grant, after receiving testimony from Mary Jo Bane, Assistant
Secretary of Health and Human Services for Children and Families; Audrey Rowe,
Connecticut State Department of Social Services, Hartford; Carey Woodlon,
Baltimore City Fire Department, Baltimore, Maryland; Deborah A. Frank, Boston
City Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; James H. Gatling, New Opportunities for
Waterbury, Inc., Waterbury, Connecticut, on behalf of the Connecticut
Association for Community Action; Robert Justis, Northern Community Investment
Corporation, St. Johnsbury, Vermont; Letitia Fletcher, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; Catherine Riley, Andover, Minnesota; and Jamie Enochs, Atchison,
Kansas. 

Joint Meetings 

FEDERAL WORKFORCE RESTRUCTURING ACT 

Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 3345, to amend title 5, United
States Code, to eliminate certain restrictions on employee training, and to
provide temporary authority to agencies relating to voluntary separation
incentive payments. 

GOALS 2000: EDUCATE AMERICA ACT 

Conferees continued in evening session to resolve the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 1804, to improve learning and
teaching by providing a national framework for education reform, to promote
the research, consensus building, and systemic changes needed to ensure
equitable educational opportunities and high levels of educational achievement
for all American students, to provide a framework for reauthorization of all
Federal education programs, and to promote the development and adoption of a
voluntary national system of skill standards and certifications. 



1994/03/16
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 16, 1994;  pages D260 - D270

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

DAIRY SELF-HELP PROGRAM

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings to examine the effect of the proposed dairy self-help program on the
dairy trade industry, after receiving testimony from Senator Jeffords; Thomas
A. Magnant, Franklin, Vermont, on behalf of the St. Albans Cooperative
Creamery and the Council of Northeast Farmer Cooperatives; Everett Herness,
Whitehall, Wisconsin, on behalf of Land O'Lakes; James C. Barr, National Milk
Producers Federation, Arlington, Virginia; James E. Tillison, Alliance of
Western Milk Producers, Sacramento, California; E. Linwood Tipton,
International Dairy Foods Association, Washington, D.C.; and Stewart Huber,
Clintonville, Wisconsin, on behalf of the National Farmers Union. 

APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1995, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Bob J. Nash, Under Secretary for Small Community and Rural
Development, Michael V. Dunn, Administrator, Farmers Home Administration,
Wilbur T. Peer, Acting Administrator, Rural Development Administration, Wally
B. Beyer, Administrator, Rural Electrification Administration, and Stephen B.
Dewhurst, Director, Office of Budget and Program Analysis, all of the
Department of Agriculture. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 11. 

APPROPRIATIONS--HHS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995
for the Department of Health and Human Services, receiving testimony from
Donna E. Shalala, Secretary, Philip Lee, Assistant Secretary, Public Health
Service, Ciro V. Sumaya, Administrator, Health Resources and Services
Administration, David Satcher, Director, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, Elaine M. Johnson, Acting Administrator, Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration, and Bruce Viadeck, Administrator,
Health Care Financing Administration, all of the Department of Health and
Human Services. 

                               [Page: D262]

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS--IRS/OPM/EXECUTIVE RESIDENCE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1995, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Margaret Milner Richardson, Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service,
Department of the Treasury; James B. King, Director, Office of Personnel
Management; and Robert Stanton, National Capital Region Director, National
Park Service, Department of the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 25. 

EXPORT BAN ON ALASKAN OIL

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy concluded hearings to examine the
impact of the ban on the export of Alaskan crude oil, and the prospects for
lifting the ban, after receiving testimony from Senators Murkowski and
Stevens; Representative Bill Thomas; Alaska Commissioner of Revenue Darrel
Rexwinkel, Juneau; Philip Ryall, Stockdale Oil and Gas, Inc., Bakersfield,
California, on behalf of the California Independent Petroleum Association; Ran
Hettena, OSG Bulk Ships, Inc., New York, New York, on behalf of the Coalition
to Keep Alaska Oil; and Peter A. Sutton, Tosco Refining Company, Concord,
California. 

BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee began markup of a proposed concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1995 budget for the Federal Government, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again on tomorrow. 

ENERGY DEVELOPMENTS IN CHINA

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held oversight hearings
to examine the domestic and international implications of economic and energy
developments in China and other developing countries in the Asia Pacific
region, receiving testimony from William H. White, Deputy Secretary of Energy;
Mary D. Nichols, Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, Environmental
Protection Agency; Marc Brody, China Environmental Fund, Mount Horeb,
Wisconsin; John B. Wing, The Wing Group, Aspen, Colorado; and William U.
Chandler, Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

GEOTHERMAL DEVELOPMENT MORATORIUM

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Mineral Resources
Development and Production concluded joint hearings with the Subcommittee on
Public Lands, National Parks and Forests on H.R. 1137, to prohibit any
development of new geothermal wells, expansion of existing wells, or
construction or expansion of facilities related to geothermal production with
the Yellowstone Protection Area, after receiving testimony from Senator
Baucus; Representative Williams; Dennis Fenn, Acting Associate Director,
Natural Resources, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Montana
Chief Deputy Attorney General Chris Tweeten, Helena, on behalf of the Montana
Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission; Jeanne-Marie Souvigney, Greater
Yellowstone Coalition, Bozeman; Edward L. Francis, Church Universal and
Triumphant, Inc., Corwin Springs, Montana; Elizabeth Fayad, National Parks and
Conservation Association, Washington, D.C.; and Constance E. Brooks, Denver,
Colorado. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Finance: Committee began consideration of the nominations of
William Booth Gardner, of Washington, to be Deputy United States Trade
Representative, with the rank of Ambassador, and Lynn M. Bragg, of Maryland,
to be a Member of the United States International Trade Commission, but did
not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call. 

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the aforementioned
nominations, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Gardner was introduced by Senators Gorton and Murray, and Ms.
Bragg was introduced by Senator Wallop. 

URUGUAY ROUND NEGOTIATIONS

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine the results of the
Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations and what more needs to be
accomplished before the trade agreements are to be signed on April 15, 1994,
receiving testimony from James K. Baker, Arvin Industries, Columbus, Indiana,
on behalf of the United States Chamber of Commerce; Gordon L. Jones, Stone
Container International Corporation, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the
American Forest and Paper Association; Judy Olson, Garfield, Washington, on
behalf of the National Association of Wheat Growers; Jack Sheinkman,
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, AFL-CIO, Bronx, New York; and
Ralph Nader, Washington, D.C. 

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Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

ACQUISITION REFORM

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed joint hearings with the
Committee on Armed Services on S. 1587, to revise and streamline the
acquisition laws of the Federal Government, receiving testimony from Philip A.
Odeen, BDM International, Inc., McLean, Virginia; Nick Reynolds, Independent
Defense Contractors Association, Alexandria, Virginia; Sam F. Iacobellis,
Rockwell International Corporation, Todd Ramsey, Information Technology
Association of America, Merritt Marquardt, Integrated Dual-Use Commercial
Companies, and Alan L. Chvotkin, Sundstrand Corporation, all of Arlington,
Virginia; and Verle Hammond, Innovative Logistics Techniques, John Satagaj,
Small Business Legislative Council, Parren J. Mitchell, Minority Business
Enterprise Legal Defense and Education Fund, Allan J. Arlow, Computer and
Communications Industry Association, and Rhett Dawson, Computer and Business
Equipment Manufacturers Association, all of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Jamie S. Gorelick, of Maryland, to be Deputy Attorney General, Department of
Justice, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Sarbanes and
Mikulski and Representative Morella, testified and answered questions in her
own behalf. 

EDUCATION REFORM

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed hearings on S. 1513,
authorizing funds for programs of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
of 1965, focusing on education programs for disadvantaged children and youth,
receiving testimony from Marshall S. Smith, Under Secretary of Education;
Linda G. Morra, Director, Education and Employment Issues, Health, Education,
and Human Services Division, General Accounting Office; Kentucky Commissioner
of Education Thomas C. Boysen, Frankfort, on behalf of the Council of Chief
State School Officers; Wendy D. Puriefoy, Public Education Fund Network, and
Kati Haycock, American Association for Higher Education, both of Washington,
D.C.; Ramon C. Cortines, New York City Board of Education, New York, New York;
Dan French, Massachusetts Department of Education, Boston; and Andrea Mattia,
E.W. Flynn Model Elementary School, Providence, Rhode Island. 

Hearings continue on Friday, March 18. 

REEMPLOYMENT ACT

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor held hearings on
proposed legislation to consolidate job training programs into one program to
provide incentives for States to train workers, receiving testimony from
Robert B. Reich, Secretary of Labor. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meetings

GOALS 2000: EDUCATE AMERICA ACT

Conferees continued in evening session to resolve the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 1804, to improve learning and
teaching by providing a national framework for education reform, to promote
the research, consensus building, and systemic changes needed to ensure
equitable educational opportunities and high levels of educational achievement
for all American students, to provide a framework for reauthorization of all
Federal education programs, and to promote the development and adoption of a
voluntary national system of skill standards and certifications. 



1994/03/17
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 17, 1994;  pages D271 - D286

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--AIR FORCE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of the Air Force,
receiving testimony from Sheila E. Widnall, Secretary of the Air Force; and
Gen. Merrill A. McPeak, Chief of Staff, United States Air Force. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 22. 

APPROPRIATIONS--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 1995 for the National Institutes of Health, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Harold
Varmus, Director, National Institutes of Health, Samuel Broder, Director,
National Cancer Institute, Claude Lenfant, Director, National Heart, Lung and
Blood Institute, Harold Loe, Director, National Institute of Dental Research,
Phillip Gorden, Director, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and
Kidney Diseases, Patricia A. Grady, Director, National Institute of
Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Marvin Cassman, Acting Director,
National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Duane F. Alexander, Director,
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Carl Kupfer,
Director, National Eye Institute, Kenneth Olden, Director, National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences, Richard J. Hodes, Director, National
Institute on Aging, Lawrence E. Shulman, Director, National Institute of
Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, James R. Snow, Jr., Director,
National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Rex W.
Cowdry, Acting Director, National Institute on Mental Health, Alan I. Leshner,
Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Enoch Gordis, Director, National
Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Ada Sue Hinshaw, Director, National
Institute for Nursing Research, Judith Vaitukaitis, Director, National Center
for Research Resources, Francis Collins, Director, National Center for Human
Genome Research, Phillip Schambra, Director, John E. Fogarty International
Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences, Donald Lindberg, Director,
National Library of Medicine, and Dennis P. Williams, Deputy Assistant
Secretary, Budget, all of the Department of Health and Human Services. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 22. 

APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION/ICC 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Mary Schiavo, Inspector General, Department of Transportation; and Gail
McDonald, Chairman, Interstate Commerce Commission. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 24. 

APPROPRIATIONS--NSF/SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Neal F.
Lane, Director, and James J. Duderstadt, Chairman, National Science Board,
both of the National Science Foundation; and John H. Gibbons, Director, Office
of Science and Technology Policy. 

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Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 24. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 7,082
military nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. 

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Vice Adm. Leighton W. Smith, Jr., USN, for appointment to the grade of Admiral
and to be Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe/Commander in
Chief, United States Naval Forces Europe, Maj. Gen. Wesley K. Clark, USA, for
appointment to the grade of Lieutenant General and to be Director for
Strategic Plans and Policy of The Joint Staff, and Rear Adm. John B. LaPlante,
USN, for appointment to the grade of Vice Admiral and to be Director for
Logistics of The Joint Staff, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. 

BUDGET RESOLUTION 

Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United
States Government for fiscal years 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999. 

TELECOMMUNICATIONS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee resumed hearings
on S. 1822, to safeguard and protect the public interest while permitting the
growth and development of new communications technologies, focusing on the
manufacturing and broadcasting provisions, receiving testimony from Richard D.
McCormick, U.S. WEST, Inc., Thomas A. Stroup, Personal Communications Industry
Association, and Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Media Access Project, all of
Washington, D.C.; Jack McKinnon, AT&T, North Andover, Massachusetts; Salim
A.L. Bhatia, BroadBand Technologies, Inc., Triangle Park, North Carolina; John
Major, Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, Illinois; Ron Loewen, WIS-TV, Columbia,
South Carolina; John Siegel, Chris-Craft/United Television, San Francisco,
California; and Robert M. Rast, General Instrument Corporation, San Diego,
California. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine health care reform
issues, focusing on health care premiums and subsidies, receiving testimony
from Ann Blakeley, Earth Resources Corporation, Orlando, Florida, on behalf of
the National Federation of Independent Business; Bernard F. Brennan,
Montgomery Ward and Company, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the National
Retail Federation; Christopher W. O'Flinn, Mobil Corporation, Fairfax,
Virginia, on behalf of the ERISA Industry Committee; and Ron Pollack, Families
USA, and John J. Sweeney, Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO, both
of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

DOE MANAGEMENT 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine
Department of Energy efforts to monitor its management and operating
contractors' acquisition of supplies and services from affiliates, receiving
testimony from Victor S. Rezendes, Director, Energy and Science Issues,
Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, General Accounting
Office; and William H. White, Deputy Secretary, and John C. Layton, Inspector
General, both of the Department of Energy. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Jamie S. Gorelick, of Maryland, to be Deputy Attorney General,
Deval L. Patrick, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant Attorney General for Civil
Rights, and Rosemary Barkett, of Florida, to be United States Circuit Judge
for the Eleventh Circuit. 

LEGISLATIVE REORGANIZATION ACT 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee resumed hearings on S. 1824,
to improve the operations of the legislative branch of the Federal Government,
focusing on Title I, relating to the Standing Rules of the Senate, receiving
testimony from Senator Mitchell; and Thomas E. Mann, The Brookings
Institution, Norman J. Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute for Public
Policy Research, David Mason, The Heritage Foundation, and H. Guyford Stever,
Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government, all of Washington,
D.C. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, April 19. 

SBA MICROLOAN DEMONSTRATION/BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT 

Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
status of the Small Business Administration's pilot microloan demonstration
program and business development programs, after receiving testimony from
Cassandra Pulley, Deputy Administrator, John Cox, Assistant Administrator for
Financial Assistance, Johnnie Albertson, Associate Administrator for Small
Business Development Centers, and Monika Harrison, Associate Administrator for
Business Initiatives, Education and Training, all of the Small Business
Administration; Connie Evans, Women's Self-Employment Project, Chicago,
Illinois; Ellen Golden, Coastal Enterprises, Inc., Wiscasset, Maine; Phillip
Singerman and Beverly Harper, both of the Ben Franklin Technology Center,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Kay Gudmestad, Women Venture, St. Paul, Minnesota;
Robert Kemp, Small Business Institutes Directors' Association, Des Moines,
Iowa; Don Bradley, Small Business Advancement National Center, Conway,
Arkansas; Gregory Higgins, Jr., Association of Small Business Development
Centers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and W. Kenneth Yancey, Service Corps of
Retired Executives, Washington, D.C. 

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Joint Meetings 

VETERANS PROGRAMS 

Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint hearings
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to examine the legislative
recommendations of certain veteran's organizations, after receiving testimony
from Richard F. Johnson, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Carl E. Foley, Blinded
Veterans Association, and Edward D. Blatt, Jewish War Veterans, all of
Washington, D.C.; and Charles R. Jackson, Non-Commissioned Officers
Association, Alexandria, Virginia. 

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GOALS 2000: EDUCATE AMERICA ACT 

Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 1804, to improve learning and
teaching by providing a national framework for education reform, to promote
the research, consensus building, and systemic changes needed to ensure
equitable educational opportunities and high levels of educational achievement
for all American students, to provide a framework for reauthorization of all
Federal education programs, and to promote the development and adoption of a
voluntary national system of skill standards and certifications. 



1994/03/18
Daily Digest - Friday, March 18, 1994;  pages D288 - D290

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 1995 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the Department
of Defense and Department of Commerce manufacturing technology programs,
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; Barry N.
Corona, Production Products Inc., and James M. Sinnett, McDonnell Douglas
Aerospace, both of St. Louis, Missouri; Larry J. Rhoades, Extrude Hone
Corporation, Irwin, Pennsylvania; and Joseph A. Saloom, Bexford,
Massachusetts. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

EDUCATION REFORM 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities held hearings on S. 1513, authorizing funds for programs of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, focusing on education programs
for disadvantaged children and youth, receiving testimony from Representative
Hoyer; Michael Feuer, Director, Board of Testing and Assessment, National
Research Council; David Hornbeck, on behalf of the Commission on Chapter
1, and Phyllis McClure, on behalf of the Independent Review Panel, both of
Washington, D.C.; Iris C. Rotberg, RAND Corporation Institute on Education and
Training, Santa Monica, California; Ed Jackson, Williams Magnet School, Little
Rock, Arkansas; and Gary Hocevar, Van Buren Middle School, Albuquerque, New
Mexico. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, March 24. 

Joint Meetings 

TELECOMMUNICATIONS 

Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Technology
and the Law concluded joint hearings with the House Committee on the
Judiciary's Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights to examine digital
telephony and law enforcement access to advanced telecommunications
technologies and services, after receiving testimony from Louis J. Freeh,
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; William C.
O'Malley, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, on behalf of the National District
Attorneys Association; and Roy Neel, United States Telephone Association, and
Jerry Berman, Electronic Frontier Foundation, on behalf of the Digital Privacy
and Security Working Group, both of Washington, D.C. 



1994/03/21
Daily Digest - Monday, March 21, 1994;  pages D292 - D298

Committee Meetings 

No committee hearings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/03/22
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 22, 1994;  pages D300 - D310

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--COMMERCE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for
the Department of Commerce, receiving testimony from Ronald H. Brown,
Secretary of Commerce. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 23. 

APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony from Senator Bumpers; and
numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN AID 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for foreign assistance
programs, focusing on the United States role in the multilateral development
banks, receiving testimony from Lloyd Bentsen, Secretary of the Treasury. 

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Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 12. 

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 1995 for the Department of Education, receiving testimony from
Richard W. Riley, Secretary, Marshall S. Smith, Under Secretary, Thomas W.
Payzant, Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, Augusta
S. Kappner, Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education, and David
A. Longanecker, Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education, all of the
Department of Education. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 24. 

SOMALIA 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on Somalia from Senators Levin and Warner. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items: 

S. 1231, to provide for simplified collection of employment taxes on domestic
services; and 

The nominations of Lynn M. Bragg, of Maryland, to be a Member of the United
States International Trade Commission, William Booth Gardner, of Washington,
to be Deputy United States Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador,
and Susan G. Esserman, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary for Import
Administration, and Charles F. Meissner, of Maryland, to be Assistant
Secretary for International Economic Policy, both of the Department of
Commerce. 

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Ms. Esserman and Mr. Meissner, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items: 

The "Protocol of Washington" adopted on December 14, 1992, by the Sixteenth
Special Session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States
(OAS) and signed by the United States on January 23, 1993, and the "Protocol
of Managua" adopted by the Nineteenth Special Session of the OAS General
Assembly on June 10, 1993, and signed that day by the United States (Treaty
Doc. 103-22); 

S. Res. 155, commending the Government of Italy for its commitment to halting
software piracy; and

The nominations of Sam W. Brown, Jr., of California, for the rank of
Ambassador during his tenure of service as Head of Delegation to the
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Josiah Horton Beeman, of the
District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to New Zealand, and to serve
concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to Western
Samoa, March Fong Eu, of California, to be Ambassador to the Federated States
of Micronesia, Charles R. Baquet III, of Maryland, to be Deputy Director of
the Peace Corps, Jeanette W. Hyde, of North Carolina, to be Ambassador to
Barbados, and to serve concurrently and without compensation as Ambassador to
the Commonwealth of Dominica, St. Lucia, and to St. Vincent and the
Grenadines, Donald M. Blinken, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic
of Hungary, Richard Dale Kauzlarich, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Azerbaijan, Thomas L. Baldini, of Michigan, to be a United States
Commissioner and Chairman, and Susan Bayh, of Indiana, and Alice Chamberlin,
of New Hampshire, both to be United States Commissioners, all on the
International Joint Commission, United States and Canada, Barry S. Newman, of
Virginia, to be United States Alternate Executive Director of the
International Monetary Fund, John F. Hicks, Sr., of North Carolina, to be a
Member of the Board of Directors of the African Development Foundation, Lewis
Manilow, of Illinois, and Harold C. Pachios, of Maine, each to be a Member of
the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, and Alexander F.
Watson, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the
Inter-American Foundation. 

CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held open and closed hearings on the
Convention on the Prohibition of Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use
of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, opened for signature and signed
by the United States at Paris on January 13, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 103-21),
receiving testimony from Warren Christopher, Secretary of State; and John D.
Holum, Director, United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

OPERATIONAL TESTING 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post
Office, and Civil Service concluded hearings on proposals to reform the
operational test and evaluation system for the acquisition of weapons for U.S.
troops, after receiving testimony from Colleen A. Preston, Deputy Under
Secretary of Defense for Defense Acquisition Reform; Louis J. Rodrigues,
Director, Systems Development and Production Issues, National Security and
International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; and Russell Murray,
II, former Assistant Secretary of Defense. 

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OSHA REFORM 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
575, to improve the employee safety and health programs of the Occupational
Safety and Health Act, and a related bill S. 1950, after receiving testimony
from Representative Fawell; Mayor Charles DeVaney, Augusta, Georgia; John B.
Lennes, Jr., Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry, St. Paul; Eamonn
McGeady, Martin G. Imbach, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of the
National Federation of Independent Businesses; and James S. Holt, Employment
Policy Foundation, and Gerald W. McEntee and John J. Sweeney, both of the
AFL-CIO, all of Washington, D.C. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee approved for reporting the nomination
of Michael H. Trujillo, of Oregon, to be Director of the Indian Health
Service, Department of Health and Human Services. 

INTELLIGENCE 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on certain
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community. 

Committee will meet again on Thursday, March 24. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/03/23
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 23, 1994;  pages D312 - D322

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--JUSTICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for
the Department of Justice, receivingtest imony from Janet Reno, Attorney
General, Department of Justice. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 12. 

APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony from Senator Pryor;
Representative Laughlin; and numerous public witnesses.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS--FOREST SERVICE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the Forest Service,
receiving testimony from Jack Ward Thomas, Chief, Forest Service, Department
of Agriculture. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 13. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of
Defense, and the future years defense program, focusing on Department of
Energy national security programs and on safety issues at the Department of
Energy defense nuclear facilities, receiving testimony from Hazel R. O'Leary,
Secretary of Energy; and John T. Conway, Chairman, A.J. Eggenberger, Vice
Chairman, John W. Crawford, Jr., Member, Joseph J. DiNunno, Member, and
Herbert Kouts, Member, each of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION BUDGET 

Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs concluded hearings to examine the impact of the President's
proposed budget for fiscal year 1995 for the Federal transit program, after
receiving testimony from Gordon J. Linton, Administrator, Federal Transit
Administration, Department of Transportation; John A. Agro, Jr., Maryland Mass
Transit Administration, Baltimore; Mel Sundermeyer, Missouri Highway and
Transportation Department, Jefferson City; Rick Simonetta, Rapid Transit
Authority, Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the American Public Transit
Association; and Jim La Sala, Amalgamated Transit Union, Rockville, Maryland. 

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BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPETITIVENESS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held hearings to examine the state of the biotechnology
industry and the role public policy plays in America's economic
competitiveness, and the industry's role in advancing agriculture,
environment, and health care, receiving testimony from M.R.C. Greenwood,
Associate Director for Science, Office of Science and Technology Policy; Lisa
Conte, Shaman Pharmaceuticals, Inc., South San Francisco, California; Barry
Jacobsen, Montana State University, Bozeman; J. Peter Perez, Environmental
Remediation, Inc., Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Mark Skaletsky, GelTex
Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Lexington, Massachusetts. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills: 

S. 1341, to establish the Wheeling National Heritage Area in the State of West
Virginia, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

H.R. 1305, to make boundary adjustments and other miscellaneous changes to
authorities and programs of the National Park Service, with an amendment in
the nature of a substitute; 

S. 1586, to establish the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park in the
State of Louisiana, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and 

S. 859, to reduce the restrictions on lands conveyed by deed under the Act of
June 8, 1926, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. 

PUBLIC LANDS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills: 

S. 1270, to establish the Cache La Poudre River National Water Heritage Area
in the State of Colorado, after receiving testimony from Senator Brown; James
Stewart, Assistant Director, Planning, National Park Service, Department of
the Interior; and Eric Wilkinson, Northern Colorado Water Conservation
District, Loveland; 

S. 1703, to expand the boundaries of the Piscataway National Park in the State
of Maryland, after receiving testimony from Senator Sarbanes; Robert Stanton,
Regional Director, National Capital Region, National Park Service, Department
of the Interior; and Neil W. Horstman, Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, Mount
Vernon, Virginia; 

H.R. 194, to withdraw and reserve certain public lands and minerals within the
State of Colorado for military uses, after receiving testimony from
Representative Hefley; and Matthew Millenbach, Acting Chief of Staff for the
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and Minerals Management; 

S. 1324, to exchange certain lands of the Columbia Basin Federal reclamation
project in the State of Washington, after receiving testimony from John Keys,
Pacific Northwest Regional Director (Boise, Idaho), Bureau of Reclamation,
Department of the Interior; and 

S. 1402, to convey a certain parcel of public land to the county of Twin
Falls, Idaho, for use as a landfill, after receiving testimony from Matthew
Millenbach (listed above); and James S. Fraley, Twin Falls Board of
Commissioners, Twin Falls, Idaho. 

URUGUAY ROUND 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine the results of the
Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations and what more needs to be
accomplished before the trade agreements are to be signed on April 15, 1994,
receiving testimony from Steven R. Appleton, Micron Semiconductor, Inc.,
Boise, Idaho, on behalf of the Semiconductor Industry Association; Curtis H.
Barnette, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on behalf of
the United States Member Companies of the American Iron and Steel Institute;
Donald G. Fisher, The Gap, Inc., San Francisco, California, on behalf of the
National Retail Federation; John H. Jackson, University of Michigan Law
School, Ann Arbor; and Robert B. Shapiro, Monsanto Company, St. Louis,
Missouri, on behalf of The Alliance for GATT Now. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

U.S. POLICY TOWARD RUSSIA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine Russian
domestic and foreign policy, and the impact that developments in Russia have
on United States relations, receiving testimony from Strobe Talbott, Deputy
Secretary, and James Collins, Coordinator of Regional Affairs, and Tom Simons,
Coordinator of Assistance, both for the New Independent States, all of the
Department of State; James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress; and Paul A.
Goble, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

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BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items: 

H.R. 3400, to provide a more effective, efficient, and responsive Federal
government, with amendments; 

An original bill to provide a more effective, efficient, and responsive
Government. (As approved by the committee, the bill incorporates Titles VIII,
XIII, XV, and XVI of H.R. 3400, listed above.); 

H.R. 1631, to revise title 11, District of Columbia Code, to increase the
maximum amount in controversy permitted for cases under the jurisdiction of
the Small Claims and Conciliation Branch of the Superior Court of the District
of Columbia; 

H.R. 1632, to revise title 11, District of Columbia Code, to remove
gender-specific references relating to organization and jurisdiction of the
District of Columbia courts and in the District Charter relating to the
judiciary; and 

The nomination of Rafael Diaz, to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court
of the District of Columbia. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Michael J. Davis, to be United States District Judge for the
District of Minnesota, Franklin D. Burgess, to be United States District Judge
for the Western District of Washington, Ancer L. Haggerty, to be United States
District Judge for the District of Oregon, Kent Barron Alexander, to be United
States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, David D. Freudenthal, to
be United States Attorney for the District of Wyoming, Herbert Lee Brown, to
be United States Marshal for the District of Nevada, Lawson Cary Bittick, to
be United States Marshal for the Middle District of Georgia, Frank James
Anderson, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of Indiana,
Nannette Holly Hegerty, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District
of Wisconsin, and Raymond Gerard Gagnon, to be United States Marshal for the
District of New Hampshire. 

GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACT 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Constitution held hearings on S.
1882, to amend title 18, United States Code, to promote the safe use of guns
and to reduce gun violence, focusing on public health and child safety,
receiving testimony from M. Joycelyn Elders, Surgeon General of the Public
Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services; Marian Wright
Edelman, Children's Defense Fund, Joseph Wright, Childrens National Medical
Center, on behalf of the American Association of Pediatrics, and Richard
Aborn, Center To Prevent Handgun Violence, all of Washington, D.C.; Arthur
Kellerman, Emory University School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia; Stephen
Teret, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland;
Tim Wheeler, Fontana, California; Edgar Suter, San Ramon, California; and
Suzanne Gratia, Killeen, Texas. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation to authorize funds for programs of the National Science
Foundation, after receiving testimony from Neal Lane, Director, National
Science Foundation; Roland W. Schmitt, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Clifton Park, New York; John B. Bush, Jr., The Gillette Company, Boston,
Massachusetts; and Kerry Davidson, Louisiana Board of Regents, Baton Rouge. 

NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM 

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 1021, to protect
and preserve the rights of Native Americans to express and excercise their
traditional religious beliefs, receiving testimony from Ada E. Deer, Assistant
Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; Gerald Torres, Counsel to the
Attorney General, Department of Justice; Francis Brown, Medicine Wheel
Coalition, Wind River, Wyoming; James S. Hena, All Indian Pueblo Council,
Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico; Jonathon Earth, Sr., Native American Church,
Winnebago, Nebraska; Lenny Foster, Navajo Nation Corrections Project, Fort
Defiance, Arizona; and Patrick Lefthand, Confederated Salish and Kootenai
Tribes, Pablo, Montana. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

                               [Page: D316]

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/03/24
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 24, 1994;  pages D323 - D334

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 1995 for National Guard and Reserve programs,
focusing on manpower and equipment requirements and the restructuring of
brigades, receiving testimony from Deborah R. Lee, Assistant Secretary of
Defense (Reserve Affairs); Maj. Gen. Raymond F. Rees, Acting Chief, National
Guard Bureau; Maj. Gen. John R. D'Araujo, USA, Director, Army National Guard;
Maj. Gen. Max Baratz, USA, Acting Chief, Army Reserve; Rear Admiral T.F. Hall,
USN, Director, Navy Reserve; Maj. Gen. Donald W. Shepperd, USAF, Director, Air
National Guard; Maj. Gen. John J. Closner, USAF, Chief, Air Reserve; and Brig.
Gen. Stephen R. Berkheiser, USMC, Director, Reserve Affairs. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 14. 

APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for energy and
water development programs,rece iving testimony from numerous public
witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 12. 

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 1995 for the Department of Labor, receiving
testimony from Robert B. Reich, Secretary, Douglas Ross, Assistant Secretary
for Employment and Training Administration, Bernard E. Anderson, Assistant
Secretary for Employment Standards Administration, Davitt McAteer, Assistant
Secretary for Mine Safety and Health Administration, and Joseph A. Dear,
Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health Administration, all of
the Department of Labor. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 11. 

APPROPRIATIONS--AMTRAK/FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995, receiving testimony in behalf
of funds for their respective activities from Thomas M. Downs, Chairman and
President, National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak); and Jolene M.
Molitoris, Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration, Department of
Transportation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 13. 

APPROPRIATIONS--FEMA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the
Federal Emergency Management Agency, receiving testimony from James Lee Witt,
Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 21. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations
of William T. Coleman III, of Michigan, to be General Counsel of the
Department of the Army, Rudy deLeon, of California, to be Under Secretary of
the Air Force, Clark G. Fiester, of California, to be Assistant Secretary of
the Air Force for Acquisition, Joshua Gotbaum, of New York, to be Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Economic Security, Sara E. Lister, of the District of
Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve
Affairs, and Gilbert F. Decker, of California, to be Assistant Secretary of
the Army for Research, Development and Acquisition, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. 

                               [Page: D327]

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Readiness and Defense
Infrastructure resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1995 for the Department of Defense, and the future years defense
program, focusing on the operation and maintenance accounts and on the defense
business operations fund, receiving testimony from John Flinn, Director of
Operations, Office of the Comptroller, Department of Defense; Brig. Gen.
William A. West, USA, Director for Operations and Support, Office of the
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management; Rear Adm. James F.
Amerault, USN, Director, Operations Division, Office of Budget and Reports,
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; Brig. Gen. George M. Karamarkovich,
USMC, Assistant Deputy Chief of Marine Corps Staff for Installations and
Logistics (Plans); and Brig. Gen. George T. Stringer, USAF, Director of Budget
Operations, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, Financial
Management and Comptroller. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of William Alan Reinsch, of Maryland, to be Under
Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration; Raymond E. Vickery Jr., of
Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce; Maria Luisa Mabilangan
Haley, of Arkansas, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the
Export-Import Bank of the United States; and Elaine A. McReynolds, of
Tennessee, to be Federal Insurance Administrator, Federal Emergency Management
Agency. 

CHARITABLE SOLICITATION FRAUD 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee held
hearings to examine the nature and extent of fraudulent or misleading
practices in the solicitation of charitable contributions, receiving testimony
from Christian S. White, Acting Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection,
Federal Trade Commission; Steven J. Cole, Council of Better Business Bureaus,
Inc., Arlington, Virginia; and Frank B. Dowd, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

SUPERFUND REAUTHORIZATION 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the impact of the Administration's Superfund reauthorization proposals
on the Department of Energy's Environmental Restoration and Waste Management
Program, after receiving testimony from Thomas P. Grumbly, Assistant Secretary
of Energy for Environmental Management; and Elliott P.Laws,  Assistant
Administrator, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Environmental
Protection Agency. 

SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT AMENDMENTS 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original bill authorizing funds for fiscal years 1994-2000 for
programs of the Safe Drinking Water Act, in lieu of S. 1547. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 1814, to revise
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that a taxpayer may elect to
include in income crop insurance proceeds and disaster payments in the year of
the disaster or in the following year. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine health care reform
issues, focusing on the Medicaid Program, receiving testimony from Mark
Merlis, Specialist in Social Legislation, Education and Public Welfare
Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; Raymond C.
Scheppach, National Governors' Association, and Stan Dorn, National Health Law
Program, both of Washington, D.C.; and Karen Wintringham, Health Insurance
Plan of Greater New York, New York, New York. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

PEACE, PROSPERITY, AND DEMOCRACY ACT 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs concluded
hearings on S. 1856, to promote international cooperation and assistance
programs and activities, focusing on implications for Sub-Saharan Africa,
after receiving testimony from George E. Moose, Assistant Secretary of State
for African Affairs; John F. Hicks, Sr., Assistant Administrator for Africa,
Agency for International Development; Gregory Robeson Smith, African
Development Foundation, Nicole Ball, Overseas Development Council, Janet
Fleischman, Human Rights Watch, Douglas Hellinger, The Development GAP, and
Percy Wilson, Corporate Council on Africa, all of Washington, D.C.; Edward P.
Bullard, TechnoServe, Norwalk, Connecticut; James Cason, MacArthur Foundation,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; James Kunder, Save the Children Federation,
Westport, Connecticut; and Nancy Barry, Women's World Banking, New York, New
York. 

                               [Page: D328]

EAST ASIA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
held hearings to review United States policy toward East Asia, receiving
testimony from Winston Lord, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and
Pacific Affairs. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

POSTAL SERVICE 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post
Office, and Civil Service concluded hearings to review the annual report of
the Postmaster General, focusing on the current restructuring of the Postal
Service, after receiving testimony from Marvin Runyon, Postmaster General and
Chief Executive Officer, Michael S. Coughlin, Deputy Postmaster General,
Joseph R. Caraveo, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, Mary
S. Elcano, General Counsel and Vice President, and Michael J. Riley, Chief
Financial Officer, all of the United States Postal Service. 

SATELLITE CARRIER COMPULSORY LICENSE EXTENSION ACT 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
approved for full committee consideration, with a committee amendment in the
nature of a substitute, S. 1485, to extend certain satellite carrier
compulsory licenses. 

EDUCATION REFORM 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities held hearings on S. 1513, authorizing funds for programs of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, focusing on Title II, relating
to professional development for teachers and administrators, receiving
testimony from North Carolina Governor James B. Hunt, Jr., Raleigh, on behalf
of the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards; Charles W. Case,
University of Connecticut, Storrs; Argie K. Johnson, Chicago Public Schools,
Chicago, Illinois; Pam Schmidt, Dunkerton Community Schools, Dunkerton, Iowa;
Benjamin O. Canada, Jackson Public Schools, Jackson, Mississippi; Mary
Lindquist, Columbus College, Columbus, Georgia, on behalf of the National
Council of Teachers of Mathematics; and Elaine H. Hairston, State Higher
Education Executive Officers, Columbus, Ohio. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

VETERANS' ADJUDICATION PROCESS/COMPENSATION COLA/HOME LOAN
PROGRAM/PENSION
PROGRAM 

Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1927, 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; S. 677, to authorize the establishment
on the grounds of the Edward Hines, Jr., VA Hospital, Hines, Illinois, a
facility to provide temporary accommodations for family members of certain
severely ill children; S. 789, to provide that future increases in the monthly
amount paid by the State of New York to blind disabled veterans shall be
excluded from the determination of annual income for purposes of payment of
pension by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; S. 792, to change the date for
the beginning of the Vietnam era for the purpose of veterans' benefits from
August 5, 1964, to December 22, 1961; S. 1626, to revise the veterans' home
loan program, S. 1904, to improve the organization and procedures of the Board
of Veterans' Appeals; S. 1905, to improve the processing of benefits claims by
VA; S. 1906, to provide that service connection for disabilities arising from
exposure to ionizing radiation or dioxin may be established by direct
evidence; S. 1907, to require that VA adjudicate and resolve certain claims
relating to medical malpractice in the health-care services provided by VA;
and S. 1908, to provide for a study of VA's processes and procedures for the
disposition of claims for veterans' benefits, after receiving testimony from
R. John Vogel, Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Benefits; Carroll
Williams, American Legion, Joseph A. Violante, Disabled American Veterans,
Russell W. Mank, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Bob Manhan, Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the United States, and Richard B. Frank, Board of Veterans'
Appeals Professional Association, Inc., all of Washington, D.C.; and Michael
F. Brinck, AMVETS, Lanham, Maryland. 

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. 

                               [Page: D329]

Joint Meetings 

VETERANS PROGRAMS 

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 Donald M. Hearon, AMVETS, Lanham, Maryland; William E. Bearisto, American
Ex-Prisoners of War, Michael D. Tomsey, Military Order of the Purple Heart,
and James L. Brazee, Jr., Vietnam Veterans of America, all of Washington,
D.C.; Lt. Commander Virginia M. Torsch, MSC, USNR, Retired Officers
Association, Alexandria, Virginia; and Col. Erik G. Johnson, USA (Ret.),
Association of the United States Army, Arlington, Virginia. 

                               [Page: D333]

Board Meeting 

Office of Technology Assessment: The Board met and approved the following new
project proposals: 

1. Global Communications Policy: Issues and Technology. 

2. Telecommunications Technology and Native Americans: Opportunities and
Challenges. 



1994/03/25
Daily Digest - Friday, March 25, 1994;  pages D336 - D342

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--OMB/OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1995, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Leon E. Panetta, Director, Office of Management and Budget; and Patsy L.
Thomasson, Director, Office of Administration. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 20. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Fortunato P. Benavides, of Texas, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
Fifth Circuit, Ruben Castillo, to be United States District Judge for the
Northern District of Illinois, and Audrey B. Collins, to be United States
District Judge for the Central District of California, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Benavides was
introduced by Senator Hutchison and Representative Brooks, Mr. Castillo was
introduced by Senators Simon and Moseley-Braun, and Ms. Collins was introduced
by Senator Feinstein. 

                               [Page: D340]

HEAD START ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded joint hearings
with the Committee on Indian Affairs on S. 1852, to strengthen and to
authorize funds for fiscal year 1995 for the Head Start program, focusing on
the needs of Indian Head Start programs, after receiving testimony from Helen
Taylor, Associate Commissioner of the Head Start Bureau, Administrator for
Children, Youth, and Families, Department of Health and Human Services; Linda
Kills Crow, Pawhuska, Oklahoma, on behalf of the National Indian Head Start
Directors Association; Sarah M. Greene, National Head Start Association,
Alexandria, Virginia; Marge Anderson, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, Onamia,
Minnesota; Carl N. Concha, Taos Pueblo Tribe of New Mexico, Taos; Phillip
Martin, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Philadelphia; Loretta V. Metoxen,
Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin, Oneida; Marshall Plummer, The Navajo
Nation, Window Rock, Arizona; Caroline Yellow Robe, Fort Belknap Reservation
Head Start, Harlem, Montana; Julie Lessard, Grand Portage Band of Chippewa
Indians of Minnesota, Grand Portage; Sarah Kuenzli, Tanana Chiefs Conference,
Inc., Fairbanks, Alaska; Marian Holstein, Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska Head
Start, Winnebago; Lindy Trueblood, Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota,
Porcupine; and Winona Sample, Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Santa Clara,
California. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/04/11
Daily Digest - Monday, April 11, 1994;  pages D 343 - D 350

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, receiving testimony from Patricia
Jensen, Acting Assistant Secretary for Marketing and Inspection Services,
Lonnie J. King, Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Inspection Service, Lon
Hatamiya, Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service, Terry Medley, Acting
Administrator, Food Safety and Inspection Service, and Stephen B. Dewhurst,
Director, Budget and Program Analysis, all of the Department of Agriculture. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 18. 

WELFARE REFORM 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and Related Agencies concluded hearings on the need to reform
the American welfare system, focusing on administrative costs, after receiving
testimony from Mary Jo Bane, Assistant Secretary for Children and Families,
and George Grob, Deputy Inspector General for Evaluation and Inspections, both
of the Department of Health and Human Services; Janet A. Hansen, Utah
Department of Human Services, Salt Lake City; Carmen Schulze, Missouri
Division of Family Services, Jefferson City; and Marilyn Rowe, Altoona, Iowa,
and Monica Crumb, Des Moines, Iowa, both on behalf of the Iowa Family
Investment Program. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Aging held hearings to
examine long term health care reform issues, receiving testimony from Fernando
Torres-Gil, Assistant Secretary for Aging, and Robyn Stone, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Disability, Aging, and Long Term Care Policy, both of the
Department of Health and Human Services; Paul McCarty, Alzheimer's
Association, Methuen, Massachusetts; and Anthony Young, American
Rehabilitation Association, and Joan Kuriansky, Older Women's League, both of
Washington, D.C. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 14. 

                               [Page: D345]

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/04/12
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 12, 1994;  pages D352 - D364

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 1995,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from D.
James Baker, Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, Mary Lowe Good, Under
Secretary for Technology, and Arati Prabhakar, Director, National Institute of
Standards and Technology, all of the Department of Commerce. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 14. 

APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony from Senators Hatch, Bennett,
Conrad, and Dorgan; Arizona Governor Samuel Goddard, Phoenix; and numerous
public witnesses. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for foreign assistance
programs, focusing on national security interests, receiving testimony from
Lynn Davis, Under Secretary of State for International Security Affairs. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 19. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Adm. Frank B. Kelso II, USN, to retire in grade, after the nominee testified
and answered questions in his own behalf. Testimony was also received on the
nominee from William J. Perry, Secretary of Defense; John H. Dalton, Secretary
of the Navy; and Gen. John M. Shalikashvill, USA, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of
Staff. 

                               [Page: D355]

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Regional Defense and Contingency
Forces held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year
1995 for the Department of Defense, and the future years defense program,
focusing on Marine Corps investment, receiving testimony from Gen. Carl E.
Mundy, Jr., USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 19. 

NEWLANDS PROJECT IN NEVADA 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power
concluded oversight hearings to examine Federal agency roles in addressing the
contemporary needs and management of the Newlands Project in Nevada, after
receiving testimony from Elizabeth A. Rieke, Assistant Secretary of the
Interior for Water and Science; Paul W. Johnson, Chief, Soil Conservation
Service, Department of Agriculture; Alexis Strauss, Deputy Director, Water
Management Division (San Francisco, California), Environmental Protection
Agency; Morgan R. Rees, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning Policy and
Legislation, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works;
Myles E. Flint, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural
Resources Division, Department of Justice; and Capt. J.P. Sciabarra,
Commanding Officer, Fallon Naval Air Station, Fallon, Nevada. 

SUPERFUND LIABILITY 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund,
Recycling, and Solid Waste Management concluded hearings on S. 1834, to
authorize funds for fiscal years 1995 through 1999 for programs of the
Comprehensive Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund), focusing
on liability issues, after receiving testimony from Senator Stevens; New
Mexico Attorney General Tom Udall, Santa Fe, on behalf of the National
Association of Attorneys General; Kevin Gover, Gover, Stetson, and Williams,
Albuquerque, New Mexico; Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., NAACP, Baltimore, Maryland,
on behalf of the Alliance for a Superfund Action Partnership; Florence T.
Robinson, North Baton Rouge Environmental Association, Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
and Patricia G. Kenworthy, Monsanto Company, Washington, D.C., both on behalf
of the Keystone Commission; Michael Roush, National Federation of Independent
Businesses, and Patricia Williams, National Wildlife Federation, both of
Washington, D.C.; Ed Pollak, Olin Corporation, Stanford, Connecticut, on
behalf of the Coalition on Superfund; Mary Morningstar, Lockheed Corporation,
Bedford, Massachusetts; and Kevin L. McKnight, Aluminum Company of America,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

HEALTH CARE REFORM/MEDICARE 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine health care reform
issues, focusing on the future of the Medicaid program, receiving testimony
from Martin Corry, American Association of Retired Persons, Richard J.
Davidson, American Hospital Association, and Charles P. Duvall, Georgetown
University, on behalf of the American Medical Association, all of Washington,
D.C.; and George C. Halvorson, HealthPartners, Minneapolis, Minnesota, on
behalf of the Group Health Association of America. 

Committee will meet again on Thursday, April 14. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Edward William Gnehm, Jr., of Georgia, to be the Deputy
Representative of the United States to the United Nations, with the rank and
status of Ambassador, David Elias Birenbaum, of the District of Columbia, to
be Representative of the United States to the United Nations for U.N.
Management and Reform, with the rank of Ambassador, Arvonne S. Fraser, of
Minnesota, for the rank of Ambassador during her tenure of service as the
Representative of the United States on the Commission on the Status of Women
of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, and Henry Howard
Jr., of Virginia, to be Associate Director for Management, and John P.
Loiello, of the District of Columbia, to be Associate Director for Educational
and Cultural Affairs, both of the United States Information Agency, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Gnehm was
introduced by Senator Hollings, and Ms. Fraser was introduced by Senator
Wellstone. 

CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the Convention
on Biological Diversity with Annexes, done at Rio de Janeiro June 5, 1992, and
signed by the United States in New York on June 4, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 103-20),
after receiving testimony from Senators Baucus and Chafee; Timothy E. Wirth,
Counselor, Department of State; Georg Albers-Schonberg, Merck & Co., Inc.,
Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, on behalf of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
Association; Lisa A. Conte, Shaman Pharmaceuticals, South San Francisco,
California, on behalf of the Biotechnology Industry Organization; and Walter
V. Reid, World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C. 

                               [Page: D356]

DOD FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine
Department of Defense efforts to improve its financial management practices
and systems, receiving testimony from Senator Grassley; Charles A. Bowsher,
Comptroller General of the United States; and Derek J. Vander Schaaf, Deputy
Inspector General, and John J. Hamre, Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer,
both of the Department of Defense. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATION--ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities resumed hearings on S. 1513, authorizing funds for programs of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and S. 266, to authorize funds
for elementary and secondary school library media resources, technology
enhancement, training and improvement, focusing on school libraries and family
literacy, receiving testimony from Senator Sarbanes; Representative Reed;
Andrew Hartman, National Institute for Literacy, Washington, D.C.; Jeanie
McNamara, University of South Carolina, Columbia; Jim Wulfson, Edward R.
Devotion School, Brookline, Massachusetts; Bonnie Lash Freeman, Yulanda
Ritchie, and Heather Redmond, all of Louisville, Kentucky, all on behalf of
the National Center for Family Literacy; David Macaulay, Warren, Rhode Island;
and Carolyn Markuson, Sudbury, Massachusetts. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Jere Walton Glover, of Maryland, to be Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Small
Business Administration, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators
Sarbanes and Sasser, and Erskine Bowles, Administrator, Small Business
Administration, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

INTELLIGENCE 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community. 

Committee will meet again on Thursday, April 14. 

LONG-TERM CARE REFORM 

Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings to examine the importance
of addressing the long-term care needs of the elderly and disabled in
comprehensive health care reform, receiving testimony from Fernando M.
Torres-Gil, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Aging; Jane
L. Ross, Associate Director, Income Security Issues, Health, Education, and
Human Services Division, General Accounting Office; Diane Rowland, Kaiser
Commission on the Future of Medicaid, Gail Shearer, Consumers Union, James P.
Firman, United Seniors Health Cooperative, and Shirley Reed, all of
Washington, D.C.; Mark R. Meiners, Partnership for Long-Term Care Insurance,
College Park, Maryland; and Hazel Chapman and Angela Chapman, both of Virginia
Beach, Virginia. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/04/13
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 13, 1994;  pages D366 - D374

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

DISASTER ASSISTANCE REFORM 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held oversight
hearings to examine certain initiatives to reform the Federal disaster
assistance and crop insurance programs, receiving testimony from Ken Ackerman,
Manager, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, Grant Buntrock, Administrator,
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, and James R. Ebbitt,
Assistant Inspector General, Audit, and Charlie Womble, Supervisory Auditor,
Southeast Region (Atlanta, Georgia), both of the Office of Inspector General,
all of the Department of Agriculture; and William E. Gahr, Associate Director,
Food and Agriculture Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development
Division, General Accounting Office. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of Energy,
focusing on fossil energy research and development and clean coal technology,
receiving testimony from Jack S. Siegel, Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy
for Fossil Energy. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 21. 

APPROPRIATIONS--COAST GUARD 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the United States Coast
Guard, receiving testimony from Rear Adm. J. William Kime, Commandant, United
States Coast Guard, Department of Transportation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 21. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Coalition Defense and Reinforcing
Forces resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1995 for the Department of Defense, and the future years defense program,
focusing on policy and plans for multinational peace operations, receiving
testimony from Edward L. Warner III, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Strategy and Resources; and Lt. Gen. Wesley K. Clark, USA, Director for
Strategic Plans and Policy (J-5) of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 18. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Readiness and Defense
Infrastructure resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1995 for the Department of Defense, and the future years defense
program, focusing on logistics and ammunition programs, receiving testimony
from Gen. Leon E. Salomon, USA, Commander, and Brig. Gen. William R. Holmes,
USA, Deputy Chief of Staff for Ammunition, both of the Army Material Command;
Vice Adm. Stephen F. Loftus, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
(Logistics); Lt. Gen. Robert A. Tiebout, USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff,
Installations and Logistics, Headquarters Marine Corps; Gen. Ronald W. Yates,
USAF, Commander, Air Force Material Command; Vice Adm. Edward M. Straw, SC,
USN, Director, Defense Logistics Agency; and Toby Warson, President, and
Richard G. Palasohak, Director of Operations, both of the Munitions Industrial
Base Task Force. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 18. 

GSE HOUSING GOALS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
to examine the housing goal performance in 1993 of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,
the two major housing government- sponsored enterprises (GSEs) regulated by
the Department of Housing and Urban Development, after receiving testimony
from Henry G. Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Arnold Gregory Holz, of Maryland, to be Chief
Financial Officer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, after the
nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

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AUTHORIZATION--NSF 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for the National Science Foundation, after receiving testimony from Neal
F. Lane, Director, National Science Foundation; James E. Sawyer, Greiner
Engineering, Inc., Tampa, Florida, on behalf of the American Association of
Engineering Societies; and Howard J. Silver, Consortium of Social Science
Associations, Washington, D.C. 

AUTHORIZATION--RAIL SERVICE 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation concluded hearings on S. 2002, authorizing funds for the
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), and S. 1942, to authorize
funds for fiscal years 1995 through 1997 for the local rail freight assistance
program of the Federal Railroad Administration, after receiving testimony from
Jolene M. Molitoris, Administrator, and Donald M. Itzkoff, Deputy
Administrator, both of the Federal Railroad Administration, Department of
Transportation; Kenneth M. Mead, Director, Transportation Issues, Resources,
Community, and Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office;
Thomas Downs, President and Chairman, National Railroad Passenger Corporation;
Peter Gilbertson, Louisville and Indiana Railroad, Chicago, Illinois,
representing the Regional Railroads of America; and Scott Leonard, National
Association of Railroad Passengers, Alice C. Saylor, American Short Line
Railroad Association, and William W. Pickett, Rail Labor Executives'
Association, all of Washington, D.C. 

CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the Convention
on the Prohibition of Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical
Weapons and on Their Destruction, opened for signature and signed by the
United States at Paris on January 13, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 103-21), after
receiving testimony from Stephen J. Ledogar, United States Representative to
the Conference on Disarmament, Department of State. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Charles H. Twining, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to Cambodia, after the
nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

AUTHORIZATION--KING HOLIDAY COMMISSION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 774, to
authorize funds for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday Commission,
after receiving testimony from Senator Wofford; Coretta Scott King, Atlanta,
Georgia, on behalf of the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday Commission;
Jack Sheinkman, AFL-CIO, New York, New York; Jack Kemp, Empower America,
Sister Catherine McNamee, National Catholic Education Association, and Kasim
Reed, Howard University Law School, all of Washington, D.C.; Ed Chaney,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Amy Cammack, Bishop McDevit
High School, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items: 

S. 1995, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1995 for migrant, community and
homeless health center programs of the Public Health Service Act; 

S. 2000, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1995 through 1998 for programs of
the Head Start Act and the Community Services Block Grant Act, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute;  

H.R. 1036, to provide that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
does not preempt certain State prevailing wage laws; and 

The nominations of Martha B. Gould, of Nevada, Frank J. Lucchino, of
Pennsylvania, Bobby L. Roberts, of Arkansas, Gary N. Sudduth, of Minnesota,
and Robert S. Willard, of Ohio, each to be a Member of the National Commission
on Libraries and Information Science, Larry Brown, Jr., of Maryland, to be a
Member of the National Council on Disability, Mary Lucille Jordan, of
Maryland, to be a Member of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review
Commission, Shirley Mahaley Malcom, of Maryland, to be a Member of the
National Science Board, National Science Foundation, Rodney A. McCowan, of
Oklahoma, to be Assistant Secretary of Education for Human Resources and
Administration, and routine lists in the Public Health Service Corps. 

INTERSTATE USE TAX COLLECTION 

Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
impact and fairness of the mail order industry's exemption from sales and use
taxes on interstate commerce, and on proposed legislation to authorize
collection of certain State and local taxes with respect to the sale,
delivery, and use of tangible personal property, after receiving testimony
from Mayor Charles Scholz, Quincy, Illinois; Dallas County Commissioner Jim
Jackson, Dallas, Texas; Bob Boyd, Boyd Music Center, Little Rock, Arkansas;
Jerry Hux, Beverly Hall Furniture Galleries, Atlanta, Georgia; Jerry Engle,
Computer Products and Resources, Inc., Grand Rapids, Michigan; Janice Mee,
Florida School Boards Association, Sarasota; Rudolph Regez, Swiss Colony
Company, Monroe, Wisconsin; and Robert Edmund, Edmund Scientific Company,
Barrington, New Jersey. 

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BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills: 

S. 720, to clean up open dumps on Indian lands, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute; 

H.R. 734, to provide for the extension of certain Federal benefits, services,
and assistance to the Pascua Yaqui Indians of Arizona, with an amendment; 

S. 1066, to restore Federal services to the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi
Indians; and 

S. 1357, to reaffirm and clarify the Federal relationships of the Little
Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and the Little River Band of Ottawa
Indians of Michigan as distinct federally recognized Indian tribes. 

BIA BUDGET 

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1995 for the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
after receiving testimony from Ada E. Deer, Assistant Secretary of the
Interior for Indian Affairs. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/04/14
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 14, 1994;  pages D375 - D388

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Research, Conservation, Forestry and General Legislation held
hearings to examine the effectiveness of Federal ecosystem management and
related issues, receiving testimony from Adela Backiel, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture for National Resources; Hubert Hinote, Southern
Appalachian Man and Biosphere Cooperative, Gatlinburg, Tennessee; Gregory H.
Aplet, Wilderness Society, Washington, D.C.; Kevin Boling, Potlatch
Corporation, Lewiston, Idaho; and John Sheehan, Plumas Corporation, Quincy,
California. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS--FBI/DEA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Louis J. Freeh, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Thomas A.
Constantine, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration, both of the
Department of Justice. 

Subcommittee will meet on Thursday, April 21. 

APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE HEALTH SERVICES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for Department of Defense health
services and infrastructure, receiving testimony from Senators Thurmond and
Sarbanes; Representative Morella; Stephen C. Joseph, Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Health Affairs; Lt. Gen. Alcide M. LaNoue, USA, Surgeon General of
the Army; Vice Adm. Donald F. Hagen, USN, Surgeon General of the Navy; Lt.
Gen. Alexander M. Sloan, USAF, Surgeon General of the Air Force; Brig. Gen.
Nancy Adams, USA, Chief, Army Nurse Corps; Capt. Joan Engel, USN, Deputy
Director, Navy Nurse Corps; Brig. Gen. Sue E. Turner, USAF, Director, Nursing
Services; and James A. Zimble, President, Nancy E. Gary, Dean, Lt. Col.
Charles Beadling, Professor, and Rhonda Cornum and Terry Walters, both
graduates, all of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences,
Department of Defense. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 19. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Gilbert F. Decker, of California, and Sara E. Lister, of the
District of Columbia, each to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army, Rudy
Deleon, of California, to be Under Secretary of the Air Force, and Adm. Frank
B. Kelso II, USN, to retire in grade. 

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Also, Committee concluded open and closed hearings on the nomination of Adm.
Jeremy M. Boorda, USN, to be Chief of Naval Operations, after the nominee
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

IRAQ

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the shoot down in Iraq from Lt. Gen. John Sheehan, USMC, Director
of Operations, and Col. Mel Copeland, USAF, Branch Chief (J-33), both of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Force Requirements and Personnel
held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995
for the Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing
on manpower, personnel, and compensation, receiving testimony from Edwin Dorn,
Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness; Lt. Gen. Thomas P.
Carney, USA, Deputy Chief of Army Staff for Personnel; Vice Adm. Ronald J.
Zlatoper, Chief of Navy Personnel; Lt. Gen. Billy J. Boles, USAF, Deputy Chief
of Air Force Staff for Personnel; Lt. Gen. Robert B. Johnston, USMC, Deputy
Chief of Marine Corps Staff for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; and Col. Paul W.
Arcari, USAF (Ret.), Retired Officers Association, Sgt. Maj. Michael F.
Ouellette, Non Commissioned Officers Association, and Sydney Tally Hickey,
National Military Family Association, all of Alexandria, Virginia. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight
hearings to examine issues affecting existing and prospective domestic oil and
gas development and production, after receiving testimony from Senator Burns;
Bill White, Deputy Secretary of Energy; Robert Armstrong, Assistant Secretary
of the Interior for Land and Minerals Management; Gray Reynolds, Deputy Chief,
Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Christine Hansen, Interstate Oil
and Gas Compact Commission, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Tom Neel, CNG Producing
Company, New Orleans, Louisiana; George A. Alcorn, Alcorn Exploration,
Houston, Texas, on behalf of the Independent Petroleum Association of America;
and Terry M. Belton, Texaco Exploration and Production Inc., Denver, Colorado,
on behalf of the Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Association. 

CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION PLAN 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air and
Nuclear Regulation held hearings to examine the Environmental Protection
Agency's implementation of the climate change action plan and issues
associated with adapting to changing circumstances which may result from
potential climate change, receiving testimony from Robert Sussman, Deputy
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Susan F. Tierney, Assistant
Secretary for Policy, Planning and Program Evaluation, and Christine A. Ervin,
Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, both of the
Department of Energy; Michael D. Bowes, Senior Analyst, Environment Program,
Office of Technology Assessment; Margaret A. Davidson, South Carolina Sea
Grant Consortium, Charleston, South Carolina; Stephen P. Leatherman,
University of Maryland, College Park; and Franklin W. Nutter, Reinsurance
Association of America, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Joan
Logue-Kinder, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for
Public Affairs and Public Liaison, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Representative Flake, testified and answered questions in her own behalf. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine health care reform
issues, focusing on the effect on academic health centers, receiving testimony
from Stuart H. Altman, Prospective Payment Assessment Commission, Waltham,
Massachusetts; Spencer Foreman, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, on
behalf of the Association of American Medical Colleges; Paul A. Marks,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York; Daniel K. Onion,
Dartmouth Medical School, Augusta, Maine; and Raymond G. Schultze, University
of California-Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

LONG TERM CARE REFORM 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Aging concluded
hearings to examine certain home and community based long-term care programs
in relation to health care reform issues, after receiving testimony from
Robert Wardwell, Acting Deputy Director, Office of Medicaid Policy, Health
Care Financing Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Joseph
F. Delfico, Director, Income Security Issues, Health, Education, and Human
Services Division, and Kwai-Cheung Chan, Issue Area Director, Program
Evaluation and Methodology Division, both of the General Accounting Office;
Christine Gianopoulos, Maine Department of Human Services, Augusta; Donna
McDowell, Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services, Madison; Rosalie
A. Kane, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Ruthanne Nerlich, Visiting
Nurse Association of Venango County, Oil City, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the
Visiting Nurse Associations of America; Emily Amerman, Philadelphia
Corporation for Aging, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Lisa Brakebill, Maryland
Caregiver's Assistance, Respite and Education Project, Baltimore, on behalf of
the Alzheimer's Association; and Jennie Chin Hansen, On Lok, Inc., San
Francisco, California. 

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AUTHORIZATION--ESEA/IMMIGRANT EDUCATION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities resumed hearings on S. 1513, authorizing funds for programs of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, focusing on immigrant
education reform issues, receiving testimony from Linda G. Morra, Director,
Education and Employment Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services
Division, General Accounting Office; Boyd W. Boehlje, Pella, Iowa, on behalf
of the National School Boards Association; Judy M. Thorne, Research Triangle
Institute, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; Winfred C. Cottman,
Baltimore Public Schools, Baltimore, Maryland; Shirl E. Gilbert II,
Indianapolis Public Schools, Indianapolis, Indiana; Kenji Hakuta, Stanford
University, Stanford, California; and Jane Hunt, Arizona Department of
Education, Phoenix. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 21. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills: 

S. 1974, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct pilot
programs in order to evaluate the feasibility of the participation of the
Department of Veterans Affairs health care system in the health care systems
of States that have enacted health care reform, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute; 

S. 1626, to revise the veterans' home loan program, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute. (As approved by the committee, the substitute
amendment incorporates provisions of S. 1626, S. 677, S. 792, and S. 1958.); 

S. 1904, to improve the organization and procedures of the Board of Veterans'
Appeals, with amendments; 

S. 1908, to provide for a study of the processes and procedures of the
Department of Veterans Affairs for the disposition of claims for veterans
benefits, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As approved by the
committee, the substitute amendment incorporates provisions of S. 1908, S.
1905, S. 1906, S. 1907.); and 

S. 1927, 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. 

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, April 19. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/04/15
Daily Digest - Friday, April 15, 1994;  pages D389 - D390

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/04/18
Daily Digest - Monday, April 18, 1994;  pages D392 - D396

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 1995 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, 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, Leodrey Williams, Acting Administrator, Extension
Service, Ralph W.F. Hardy, Member, Board of Directors, Alternative
Agricultural Research and Commercialization, and Stephen B. Dewhurst,
Director, Office of Budget and Program Analysis, all of the Department of
Agriculture. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 25. 

PERSIAN GULF 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Readiness and Defense
Infrastructure concluded joint hearings with the Subcommittee on Coalition
Defense and Reinforcing Forces to review the implementation in the Department
of Defense of the lessons learned from the Persian Gulf conflict, after
receiving testimony from Edward L. Warner, III, Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Strategy and Resources; Lt. Gen. John H. Tilelli, Jr., Deputy Chief of
Army Staff for Operations and Plans; Lt. Gen. Norman E. Ehlert, USMC, Deputy
Chief of Marine Corps Staff for Plans, Policies, and Operations; Rear Adm.
John Scott Redd, USN, Acting Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for
Plans, Policy, and Operations; and Maj. General Larry L. Henry, USAF, Acting
Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for Plans and Operations. 

Joint Meetings 

SCHOOL-TO-WORK OPPORTUNITIES ACT 

Conferees on Thursday, April 14, agreed to file a conference report on the
differences between the Senate and House-passed versions of H.R. 2884, to
establish a national framework for the development of school-to-work
opportunities systems in all States. 



1994/04/19
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 19, 1994;  pages D397 - D406

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 1995 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on manpower and personnel issues, receiving testimony from Edwin Dorn, Under
Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness; 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. Robert B. Johnston, 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; Specialist First
Class William H. Dewalt, Jr., United States Army; Senior Chief Brian
Ottlinger, United States Navy (Boston, Massachusetts); Master Sgt. Salvatore
Lagudi, United States Air Force (Fayetteville, North Carolina); and Sgt. R. D.
Barnes, United States Marine Corps (Jacksonville, Florida). 

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Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 21. 

APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for foreign assistance
programs, receiving testimony from John H.F. Shattuck, Assistant Secretary of
State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs; and Holly Burkhalter, Human
Rights Watch, and Joseph Eldridge, Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights, both
of Washington, D.C. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 26. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Regional Defense and Contingency
Forces resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1995 for the Department of Defense and the future years defense plan,
focusing on C-17 settlement and strategic mobility issues, receiving testimony
from John M. Deutch, Deputy Secretary of Defense; and Frank C. Conahan,
Assistant Comptroller General, National Security and International Affairs,
General Accounting Office. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

PIPELINE SAFETY 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the effects of the recent failure of a natural gas pipeline in New
Jersey and current policies regarding pipeline rights of way in congested
urban areas, after receiving testimony from Senator Lautenberg; James E. Hall,
Member, National Transportation Safety Board; Elizabeth A. Moler, Chair,
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; George W. Tenley, Jr., Associate
Administrator for Pipeline Safety, Research and Special Programs
Administration, Department of Transportation; Mayor George Spadoro, and Tobi
Glovinski, both of Edison, New Jersey; Herbert H. Tate, Jr., New Jersey Board
of Regulatory Commissioners, Newark; and George L. Mazanec, Panhandle Eastern
Corporation, Houston, Texas, on behalf of the Texas Eastern Transmission
Corporation. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine health care reform
issues, focusing on long-term care and drug benefits, receiving testimony from
Senator Cohen; Judith L. Wagner, Senior Associate, Health Program, Office of
Technology Assessment; Deborah Briceland-Betts, The Long Term Care Campaign,
Stephen McConnell, Alzheimer's Association, and John Rother, American
Association of Retired Persons, all of Washington, D.C.; Richard C. Ladd,
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Austin; Stanley Wallack, Brandeis
University, Waltham, Massachusetts, on behalf of the Coalition on Long-Term
Care Financing; Seth A. Rudnick, Cytotherapeutics, Inc., Providence, Rhode
Island; Charles A. Sanders, Glaxo Inc., Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina; and Stephen Schondelmeyer, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. 

Committee will meet again on Thursday, April 21. 

MEXICO 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace
Corps Affairs met in closed session to receive a briefing on current issues
relating to Mexico from Arturo Valenzuela, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Mexican and Regional Affairs, and Robert C. Felder, Director, Office of
Mexican Affairs, both of the Department of State. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

NATIONAL DRUG STRATEGY 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the
national drug strategy, focusing on the research and development of medicines,
called pharmacotherapies, to treat drug addiction, after receiving testimony
from Laurence E. Earley and Charles O'Brien, both of the University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia; Herbert D. Kleber, Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York; and J.
Richard Crout, Boehringer Mannheim Pharmaceuticals Corp., Washington, D.C. 

FEDERALLY FUNDED RESEARCH PATENTS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
held hearings to examine the implementation of the Government Patent Policy
Act (Public Law 96-517), which allows universities to patent the results of
research funded by the Federal Government and license their inventions in the
marketplace, receiving testimony from Senator Dole; former Senator Bayh; Daryl
Chamblee, Acting Deputy Director for Science, Policy and Technology Transfer,
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; Gary
Munsinger, Research Corporation Technology, Tucson, Arizona; Charles M. Vest,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Barbara Conta, Regeneron
Pharmaceutical Corporation, Tarrytown, New York, on behalf of the
Biotechnology Industry Organization; and Howard Bremer, Association of
University Technology Managers, Madison, Wisconsin. 

                               [Page: D400]

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

LIBRARY RESOURCES 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities concluded hearings to examine the role of libraries in developing
America's new information infrastructure, after receiving testimony from James
H. Billington, Librarian of Congress; Jeanne H. Simon, Chairperson, National
Commission on Libraries and Information Science; Hardy R. Franklin, District
of Columbia Public Library, Washington, D.C., and Agnes M. Griffen, Montgomery
County Department of Public Libraries, Rockville, Maryland, both on behalf of
the American Library Association; Howard F. McGinn, Emporia Public Library,
Emporia, Kansas; James Ubel, Shawnee Library System, Carterville, Illinois;
Grant P. Thompson, Libraries for the Future, New York, New York; Donald
Pascarella, Harron Communications Corp., Frazer, Pennsylvania; James S.
Fogarty, Schuylkill Intermediate Unit, Mar Lin, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the
Pennsylvania Department of Education and Commonwealth Libraries; and Beverly
Choltco-Devlin, Morrisville Public Library, Morrisville, New York. 

AGE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor concluded
hearings on H.R. 2722, to allow State and local governments to impose
mandatory retirement and maximum hiring ages on their public safety officers,
after receiving testimony from Robert Devereaux, Massachusetts State Police,
and James B. Conroy, Donnelly, Conroy & Gelhaar, both of Boston,
Massachusetts; Sam A. Cabral, International Union of Police Associations
(AFL-CIO), Alexandria, Virginia; Jim Weston, City of Reno Police Department,
Reno, Nevada; Frank J. Landy, Pennsylvania State University, University Park;
Frederick H. Nesbitt, International Association of Fire Fighters, Washington,
D.C.; Franklin A. Wall, Jr., Los Angeles County Fire Department, Los Alamitos,
California, on behalf of the American Association of Retired Persons; and Leon
A. Monroe, Baltimore, Maryland. 

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 

AUTHORIZATION--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 

Conferees continue in evening session to resolve the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 2333, to authorize funds for the
Department of State, the United States Information Agency, and related
agencies, and to authorize funds for foreign assistance programs. 



1994/04/20
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 20, 1994;  pages D407 - D416

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

URUGUAY ROUND AGREEMENT 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings to
examine the Uruguay Round trade agreement negotiated under the auspices of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the agreement's impact on
American agriculture, receiving testimony from Mike Espy, Secretary of
Agriculture; and Michael Kantor, United States Trade Representative. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS--POSTAL SERVICE/TREASURY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, General
Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Marvin T. Runyon, Postmaster General, United States Postal Service; and Lloyd
Bentsen, Secretary of the Treasury. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of
Defense, and the future years defense plan, focusing on the military strategy
and operational requirements of the unified commands, receiving testimony from
Adm. Henry G. Chiles, Jr., USN, Commander in Chief, United States Strategic
Command; and Gen. Charles A. Horner, USAF, Commander in Chief, United States
Space Command. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

RANGELAND REFORM 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings to examine
the Department of the Interior's proposed rule to amend their regulations
concerning livestock grazing, S. 1326, to establish a forage fee formula on
lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture and the
Department of the Interior, and S. 896, to promote ecologically healthy and
biologically diverse ecosystems on rangelands used for domestic livestock
grazing, receiving testimony from Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INTERNATIONAL CRIME 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations held hearings to examine recent developments in
transnational crime affecting United States law enforcement and foreign
policy, the Treaty With Panama on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters
(Treaty Doc. 102-15), and the 1994 international narcotics control strategy
report, receiving testimony from R. James Woolsey, Director, and Joseph Nye,
Chairman, National Intelligence Council, both of the Central Intelligence
Agency; Robert Gelbard, Assistant Secretary of State for International
Narcotics Matters; and Jo Ann Harris, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal
Division, John J. Coleman, Assistant Administrator for Operations, Drug
Enforcement Administration, and James Frier, Deputy Assistant Director,
Criminal Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, all of the Department of
Justice. 

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Hearings continue tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATION--OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management concluded hearings on S. 1413, authorizing funds for fiscal years
1995 through 2002 for the Office of Government Ethics, after receiving
testimony from Stephen D. Potts, Director; Gary Davis, Chief Counsel; and Jane
Ley, Deputy Counsel; all of the Office of Government Ethics. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

COURT SECRECY AND PUBLIC SAFETY/SUNSHINE IN LITIGATION ACT 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
concluded hearings to examine the effects of the use of secrecy agreements in
litigation to shield critical information about health and safety from the
public, and on S. 1404, to revise Rule 26(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure to require a court to enter an order restricting the disclosure of
information obtained through discovery or restricting access to court records
in a civil case only after making particularized findings of fact that such
order would not restrict the disclosure of information which is relevant to
the protection of public health or safety, after receiving testimony from
Chief Judge Abner J. Mikva, United States Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit; Judge Patrick E. Higginbotham, United States Court of
Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; Jack H. Friedenthal, George Washington
University School of Law, Washington, D.C.; Charles D. Clausen, Marquette
University Law School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Elizabeth Du Fresne, Steel,
Hector & Davis, Miami, Florida; Sybil Niden Goldrich, Beverly Hills,
California; Arleen and Leonard Schmidt, Madison, Wisconsin; and Gerry Spence,
Jackson, Wyoming. 

INDIAN GAMING 

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine Federal and
State government regulation of Indian gaming activities, receiving testimony
from Kevin Di Gregory, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division,
Department of Justice; John W. Raley, Jr., United States Attorney for the
Eastern District of Oklahoma, on behalf of the United States Attorney
General's Advisory Committee on Gaming; Wisconsin Attorney General James E.
Doyle, Madison, on behalf of the National Association of Attorneys General;
Tony Hope, National Indian Gaming Commission, Washington, D.C.; Bill Curran,
Nevada Gaming Commission, and William A. Bible, Nevada Gaming Control Board,
both of Carson City; and Steven P. Perskie, New Jersey Casino Control
Commission, Atlantic City. 

Hearings will continue on Tuesday, April 26. 

Joint Meetings 

BUDGET 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H. Con. Res. 218, setting forth the congressional budget for the
United States Government for fiscal years 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999,
but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATION--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 

Conferees on Tuesday, April 19, agreed to file a conference report on the
differences between the Senate-and House-passed versions of H.R. 2333, to
authorize funds for the Department of State, the United States Information
Agency, and related agencies, and to authorize funds for foreign assistance
programs. 



1994/04/21
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 21, 1994;  pages D418 - D432

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--STATE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for
the Department of State, receiving testimony from Warren Christopher,
Secretary of State. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 26. 

APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for intelligence programs,
receiving testimony from R. James Woolsey, Director, Central Intelligence
Agency. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 26. 

APPROPRIATIONS--FAA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for
the Federal Aviation Administration, receiving testimony from David R. Hinson,
Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 27. 

APPROPRIATIONS--HUD 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 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, April 28. 

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 1995 for the Department of Defense, and the future years
defense plan, focusing on the Department of Energy's environmental restoration
and waste management programs, receiving testimony from Thomas P. Grumbly,
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Restoration and Waste
Management. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 26. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Ricardo Martinez, of Louisiana, to be
Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; T. R.
Lakshmanan, of New Hampshire, to be Director, Bureau of Transportation
Statistics, both of the Department of Transportation; Carrye Burley Brown, of
the District of Columbia, to be Administrator, United States Fire
Administration of the Federal Emergency Management Agency; and William D.
Hathaway, of Maine, and Joe Scroggins, Jr., of Florida, each to be a Federal
Maritime Commissioner, after the nominees testified and answered questions in
their own behalf. Mr. Martinez was introduced by Senator Breaux; Ms. Brown was
introduced by Representatives George Brown, Hoyer, Weldon, and District of
Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton; and Mr. Hathaway was introduced by
Senators Mitchell and Cohen and Representative Thomas Andrews. Testimony was
also received on the nomination of Ms. Brown from Nevada State Fire Marshal
Raymond Blehm, Carson City, on behalf of the National Association of State
Fire Marshals. 

PUBLIC LANDS/HISTORIC BUILDINGS/NATIONAL PARKS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 1509, to transfer a parcel
of land to the Pueblo de Taos Reservation in New Mexico; S. 1897, to expand
the boundary of the Santa Fe National Forest in New Mexico; S. 1919, to
improve water quality within the Rio Puerco Watershed and to help restore the
ecological health of the Rio Grande; S. 1975 and H.R. 2921, bills to establish
a grant program to restore and preserve historic buildings at historically
black colleges and universities; and S. 1980, to establish the Cane River
Creole National Historical Park and the Cane River National Heritage Area in
Louisiana, after receiving testimony from Senator Moseley-Braun;
Representative Clement; Jerry Rogers, Associate Director for Cultural
Resources, and Mary Bradford, Deputy Regional Director, Southwest Region, both
of the National Park Service, and Mat Millenbach, Acting Chief of Staff for
the Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management, all of the
Department of the Interior; William McCleese, Acting Associate Deputy Chief,
Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Paul Bernal and Vicente Lujan, both
of Taos Pueblo, Taos, New Mexico; Michael Francis, Wilderness Society,
Washington, D.C.; Henry Ponder, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee; Dale
Ball, Santa Fe Conservation Trust, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Denise Fort,
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; and Tommy Bolack, Bolack Ranch,
Farmington, New Mexico. 

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BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of
Joan Logue Kinder, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for
Public Affairs. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on health care reform issues,
focusing on access to health care in rural and urban communities, receiving
testimony from Mark D. Smith, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Menlo Park,
California; Stanley H. Block, Ambulatory Health Care Foundation, Inc.,
Providence, Rhode Island; Jane L. Delgado, National Coalition of Hispanic
Health and Human Services Organizations, and Heidi I. Hartmann, Institute for
Women's Policy Research, both of Washington, D.C.; Eugene L. McCabe, North
General Hospital, New York, New York; Clyde W. Oden, Jr., Watts Health
Foundation, Inc., Inglewood, California; Walter S. Busch, Roosevelt Memorial
Medical Center, Culbertson, Montana; Orlo L. Dietrich, Jr., CoreSource, Inc.,
Chicago, Illinois; Bernard Simmons, Southwest Health Agency for Rural People,
Inc., Tylertown, Mississippi, on behalf of the National Rural Health
Association; and Edward A. Ullmann, The WellCare Management Group, Inc.,
Kingston, New York. 

Committee will meet again on Tuesday, April 26. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of William J. Crowe, Jr., of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Ralph R. Johnson, of
Virginia, for the Rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as
Coordinator of the Support for East European Democracy (SEED) Program, after
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Crowe
was introduced by Senators Warner and Nickles. 

INTERNATIONAL CRIME 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Operations concluded hearings to examine recent developments in
transnational crime affecting United States law enforcement and foreign
policy, the Treaty With Panama on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters
(Treaty Doc. 102-15), and the 1994 international narcotics control strategy
report, after receiving testimony from Jack Blum, former Investigative
Counsel, Committee on Foreign Relations; Bill Olsen, former Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for Narcotics, and Roy Godson, both of the National
Strategy Center, Washington, D.C.; Gabriel Taboada, Metropolitan Correctional
Center, Miami, Florida; Rensslaer Lee, Global Advisory Service, Alexandria,
Virginia; and Willard H. Myers III, Center for Asian Organized Crime and
Smuggling, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Carl E. Stewart, of Louisiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth
Circuit; James G. Carr, to be United States District Judge for the Northern
District of Ohio; Mary M. Lisi, to be United States District Judge for the
District of Rhode Island; Frank M. Hull, to be United States District Judge
for the Northern District of Georgia; W. Louis Sands, to be United States
District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia; and Clarence Cooper, to be
United States District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Stewart was
introduced by Senators Johnston and Breaux and Representatives Jefferson and
Cleo Fields; Mr. Carr was introduced by Senators Glenn and Metzenbaum, Ms.
Lisi was introduced by Senators Pell and Chafee; and Messrs. Hull, Sands, and
Cooper were introduced by Senators Nunn and Coverdell and Representative John
Lewis. 

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AUTHORIZATION--ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities resumed hearings on S. 1513, authorizing funds for programs of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act, focusing on how to better prepare
preschool children for elementary school, receiving testimony from Tom
Schultz, National Association of State Boards of Education, Alexandria,
Virginia; Barbara Toman, Parent Teacher Association of Connecticut, Hamden;
Stuart A. Taylor II, Youth Guidance, Chicago, Illinois; Gaeton Zorzi, William
Cramp Elementary School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Mimi Doores, Beall
Elementary School, and David Wilkins, both of Rockville, Maryland. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, April 26. 

Joint Meetings 

ECONOMICS OF HEALTH CARE 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee met to discuss the economics of health
care, receiving testimony from Henry Aaron, Brookings Institution, Washington,
D.C. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

MIGRANT LABOR AND IMMIGRATION 

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE): Commission met to
receive a briefing on the results of the CSCE migrant workers seminar held in
Warsaw, Poland, from March 21-25, 1994, which was organized to examine the
situation of migrant workers, their rights and roles in host societies, and
forms of relevant international cooperation from Sam Wise, Staff Director,
CSCE; Maria Echaveste, Administrator, Wage and Hour Division, Department of
Labor; and D. Michael Hancock, Farmworker Justice Fund, and Lynda D. Mull,
Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs, both of Washington, D.C. 

Commission recessed subject to call. 



1994/04/25
Daily Digest - Monday, April 25, 1994;  pages D433- D438

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 1995 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Eugene Moos, Under Secretary for
International Affairs and Commodity Programs; James R. Lyons, Assistant
Secretary for National Resources and Environment; Grant B. Buntrock,
Administrator, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service; Richard B.
Schroeter, Acting Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service; Christopher
Goldthwait, General Sales Manager; Paul S. Johnson, Chief, Soil Conservation
Service; Kenneth D. Ackerman, Manager, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation; and
Stephen B. Dewhurst, Director, Office of Budget and Program Analysis, all of
the Department of Agriculture. 

                               [Page: D434]

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 3. 

HEALTH CARE FRAUD 

Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, April 22, Subcommittee on Labor,
Health and Human Services, and Education (and Related Agencies) held hearings
to examine waste, fraud, and abuse in the health care industry, receiving
testimony from Gerald M. Stern, Special Counsel, Financial Institution Fraud,
and Special Counsel, Health Care Fraud, Department of Justice; June Gibbs
Brown, Inspector General, and Bruce C. Vladeck, Administrator, Health Care
Financing Administration, both of the Department of Health and Human Services;
Charles Sekerak, Acting Inspector General, Railroad Retirement Board; Daniel
R. Anderson, on behalf of the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control
Units, and Carolyn McElroy, both of the Maryland State Office of the Attorney
General, Annapolis; William J. Mahon, National Health Care Anti-Fraud
Association, Washington, D.C.; and James Quinn, Arvada, Colorado. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, May 13. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: On Friday, April 22, Subcommittee on Defense
Technology, Acquisition, and Industrial Base resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on research, development, test and evaluation
infrastructure, receiving testimony from Anita K. Jones, Director of Defense
Research and Engineering, Department of Defense; George T. Singley, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology; Rear Adm. Marc
Y.E. Pelaez, USN, Chief of Naval Research; James J. Mattice, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition; John A. Burt, Director of Test and
Evaluation, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and
Technology; Walter W. Hollis, Deputy Under Secretary of the Army (Operations
Research); Rear Adm. William P. Houley, USN, Director of Navy Test and
Evaluation and Technology Requirements; and Lt. Gen. Howard W. Leaf, USAF
(Ret.), Director of Air Force Test and Evaluation. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATION--MARITIME ADMINISTRATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings on
S. 1945, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1995 for certain maritime programs
of the Department of Transportation, receiving testimony from Federico
PenAE6a, Secretary, and Albert J. Herberger, Administrator, Maritime
Administration, both of the Department of Transportation. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, May 4. 

CLEAN AIR ACT RULE 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: On Friday, April 22, Committee
concluded hearings to examine the Administration's compromise with Venezuela
regarding changing the final reformulated gasoline rule, after receiving
testimony from Mary D. Nichols, Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and
Radiation, Environmental Protection Agency; Edward A. Casey, Deputy Assistant
Secretary, Inter-American Affairs, Department of State; Ira Shapiro, General
Counsel, Office of the United States Trade Representative; and John A. Riggs,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Planning, and Program
Evaluation, Department of Energy. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: On Friday, April 22, Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Ryan Clark Crocker, of Washington, to be
Ambassador to the State of Kuwait, and Edward S. Walker, Jr., of Maryland, to
be Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: On Friday, April 22, Committee concluded hearings
on the nomination of Michael R. Bromwich, of the District of Columbia, to be
Inspector General, Department of Justice, after the nominee, who was
introduced by District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, testified
and answered questions in his own behalf. 

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No Joint hearings noted.



1994/04/26
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 26, 1994;  pages D440 - D450

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--JUSTICE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for
the Department of Justice, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Deputy Assistant
Attorney General for Justice Programs, and Doris Meissner, Commissioner,
Immigration and Naturalization Service, both of the Department of Justice. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 28. 

APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for defense intelligence
related programs, receiving testimony from Leo Hazelwood, Executive Director,
Central Intelligence Agency; and Adm. John M. McConnell, USN, Director,
National Security Agency; Gen. James R. Clapper, Jr., USAF, Director, Defense
Intelligence Agency; Jimmy Hill, Executive Director, National Reconnaissance
Office; and Keith Hall, Director, Tactical Intelligence and Related
Activities, all of the Department of Defense. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

SALMON RECOVERY

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings to examine efforts to recover threatened and endangered salmon
species in the Columbia River Basin, focusing on the final recommendations by
the Snake River Recovery Team, receiving testimony from Senators Baucus,
Craig, and Murray; Douglas K. Hall, Assistant Secretary for Oceans and
Atmosphere, and Rolland A. Schmitten, Assistant Administrator for Fisheries,
National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, both of the Department of Commerce; R. Ted Bottiger, Tacoma,
Washington, and Jay Webb, Boise, Idaho, both on behalf of the Northwest Power
Planning Council; and Donald E. Bevan and James A. Crutchfield, both of the
University of Washington, Seattle, and Peter C. Klingeman, Oregon State
University, Corvallis, all on behalf of the Snake River Salmon Recovery Team. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for foreign assistance
programs, focusing on United States assistance to the former Soviet Union,
receiving testimony from James Collins, Senior Coordinator for the New
Independent States, Department of State. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, May 13. 

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:

S. 1587, to revise and streamline the acquisition laws of the Federal
Government; and 

The nominations of Roger Hilsman, of New York, Robert N. Shamansky, of Ohio,
and Stanley K. Sheinbaum, of California, each to be a Member of the National
Security Education Board, Department of Defense. 

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 1995 and the future years defense plan, focusing on the
chemical demilitarization program, receiving testimony from Robert M. Walker,
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Logistics, and Environment;
David R. Warren, Associate Director, National Security and International
Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; Carl R. Peterson, Chairman,
Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal
Program, National Research Council; and Brig. Gen. Walter L. Busbee, USA,
Commander and Director, Chemical Materiel Destruction Agency, United States
Army. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 28. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Regional Defense and Contingency
Forces resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1995 for the Department of Defense, focusing on C-17 settlement and
strategic mobility issues, receiving testimony from John M. Deutch, Deputy
Secretary of Defense. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 3. 

PUBLIC BUILDINGS PROGRAM

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, Public Buildings, and Economic Development concluded hearings
on S. 1760, to improve the General Services Administration (GSA) process of
constructing, altering, purchasing, and acquiring public buildings, and to
review GSA's fiscal year 1995 public buildings program, after receiving
testimony from Julia Stasch, Deputy Administrator, General Services
Administration; P. Gerald Thacker, Assistant Director, Facilities, Security
and Administrative Services, Administrative Office of the United States
Courts; and former Representative Elliott H. Levitas, Washington, D.C., on
behalf of the Public Properties Policy Association. 

                               [Page: D443]

HEALTH CARE REFORM

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on health care reform issues,
focusing on the tax treatment of employer-based health insurance, receiving
testimony from Rosemary D. Marcuss, Assistant Director for Tax Analysis,
Congressional Budget Office; Alan J. Auerbach, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia; Peggy Connerton, AFL-CIO, and Carr Ferguson, American Bar
Association, both of Washington, D.C.; and J. Patrick Rooney, Golden Rule
Insurance Company, Lawrenceville, Illinois. 

Committee will meet again on Thursday, April 28. 

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills: 

S. 1587, to revise and streamline the acquisition laws of the Federal
Government, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 1935, to prohibit lobbyists and their clients from providing to Legislative
Branch officials certain gifts, meals, entertainment, reimbursements, or loans
and to place limits on and require disclosure by lobbyists of certain
expenditures, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and 

S. 622, to authorize funds for the United States Office of Special Counsel,
and the Merit Systems Protection Board, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute. 

CRIME PREVENTION

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine certain Federal
and local crime prevention strategies for children who are at a greater risk
of being abused, receiving testimony from Senators Dodd, Domenici, Stevens,
and Danforth; Janet Reno, Attorney General, Department of Justice; Geoffrey
Canada, Patricia Miller, and Kevin Pringle, all of the Rheedlen Centers for
Children and Families, New York, New York; Leticia Medina, Neighborhood
Housing Services, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah; Juan Sanchez and Victor Lara,
both of the Southwest Key Program, Houston, Texas; Skip Robinson, Club in
Hillside Public Housing Project, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Kelly Zimmerman,
Ohio Boys and Girls Club, Orrville. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATION--ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities resumed hearings on S. 1513, authorizing funds for programs of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act, focusing on foreign education in
elementary schools, receiving testimony from Jeffrey Munks, AT&T Language
Line, Monterey, California; Myriam Met, American Council on the Teaching of
Foreign Languages, New York, New York; Rashid Khalidi, University of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois; Noel Kreicker, International Orientation Resources,
Northbrook, Illinois; Donna Christian, National Center for Research on
Cultural Diversity, Washington, D.C.; Martha Abbott, Fairfax County Public
Schools, Fairfax, Virginia; and Christine Brown, Glastonbury Public Schools,
Glastonbury, Connecticut. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, April 28. 

INDIAN FISH AND WILDLIFE RESOURCES

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 1526, authorizing funds to protect
and enhance Indian fish and wildlife resources. 

INDIAN GAMING

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee resumed hearings to examine Federal and
State government regulation of Indian gaming activities, receiving testimony
from Gaiashkibos, National Congress of American Indians, and Rick Hill,
National Indian Gaming Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Myron Ellis,
Minnesota Indian Gaming Association, Minneapolis; Alvino Lucero, Isleta
Pueblo, Isleta, New Mexico; Ken Meshiguad, Hannahville Indian Community
Council, Wilson, Michigan; Henry Cagey, Lummi Nation, Bellingham, Washington;
Debra Doxator, Oneida Tribal Council, Oneida, Wisconsin; Jo Ann Jones,
Wisconsin Winnebago Business Committee, Black River Falls; Dan Tucker, Sycuan
Business Committee, El Cajon, California; Steve Montoya, Sandia Pueblo,
Bernalillo, New Mexico; and Jacob Viarrial, Pojoaque Pueblo, Pojoaque, New
Mexico. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INTELLIGENCE

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported an
original bill authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995 for intelligence
programs. 

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Joint Meetings

FREEDOM OF ACCESS TO CLINICS

Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of S. 636, to permit individuals to have
freedom of access to certain medical clinics and facilities. 



1994/04/28
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 28, 1994;  pages D452 - D462

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--USIA/FCC/BIB 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Joseph D. Duffey, Director, United States Information Agency; Reed E. Hundt,
Chairman, Federal Communications Commission; and Daniel A. Mica, Chairman,
Board for International Broadcasting. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 5. 

APPROPRIATIONS--INDIAN PROGRAMS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior (and Related Agencies)
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Ada E. Deer,
Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, and Oscar Mueller, Acting Director,
Office of Construction Management, both of the Department of the Interior; and
Anthony J. Hope, National Indian Gaming Commission, Washington, D.C. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 11. 

APPROPRIATIONS--EPA/CEQ 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Carol M.
Browner, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; and Ray Clark, Acting
Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 12. 

APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSIT PROGRAMS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation (and Related
Agencies) held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Gordon J. Linton, Administrator, Federal Transit Administration, Department of
Transportation; and Lawrence Reuter, General Manager, Washington Metropolitan
Area Transit Authority. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 5. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Readiness and Defense
Infrastructure resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1995 for the Department of Defense, and the future years defense
plan, focusing on the Defense Business Operations fund and the military
construction program, receiving testimony from Sherri Wasserman Goodman,
Deputy Under Secretary for Environmental Security, John B. Rosamond, Deputy
Secretary for Reserve Affairs (Materiel and Facilities), John J. Hamre,
Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer, and Bill Coonce, Director, Revolving
Funds, Office of the Comptroller, all of the Department of Defense; David O.
Nellemann, Director, Information Resources Management, Accounting and
Information Management Division, General Accounting Office; Paul W. Johnson,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Housing; Rear
Adm. Jack E. Buffington, USN, Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command;
Lt. Gen. Robert A. Tiebout, USMC, Deputy Chief of Marine Corps Staff,
Installations and Logistics; and James F. Boatright, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force for Installations. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 4. 

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 1995 for the Department of Defense, and the future years
defense plan, focusing on the counter proliferation initiative, chemical and
biological defense programs, arms control compliance, and cooperative threat
reduction, receiving testimony from Ashton B. Carter, Assistant Secretary for
International Security Policy, and Harold P. Smith, Jr., Assistant to the
Secretary for Atomic Energy, both of the Department of Defense. 

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Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 3. 

COMMUNITY INVESTMENT 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings on
S. 2049, to reduce homelessness, reform public housing, expand and preserve
affordable housing and home ownership, ensure fair housing for all, and
empower communities, receiving testimony from Henry G. Cisneros, Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on health care reform issues,
focusing on excise taxes on tobacco products, firearms, and ammunition, and on
the tax treatment of organizations providing health care services, receiving
testimony from Msgr. Charles J. Fahey, Fordham University, on behalf of the
Catholic Health Association of the United States, and John G. Martinez, New
York State Medical Care Facilities Finance Agency, on behalf of the National
Council of Health Facilities Finance Authorities, both of New York, New York;
David Hyman, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, Illinois; Mary Nell Lehnhard, Blue
Cross and Blue Shield Association, Jerry J. Phelan, Kaiser Foundation Health
Plan, Inc., and Michael K. Beard, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, all of
Washington, D.C.; Richard J. Feldman, American Shooting Sports Council, Inc.,
Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the National Police Athletic Leagues of
America; Robert D. Tollison, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, on
behalf of the Tobacco Institute; and Kenneth E. Warner, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, on behalf of the American Cancer Society, the American
Heart Association, and the American Lung Association. 

Committee will meet again tomorrow. 

FEDERAL MANDATE REFORM 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed hearings to examine the
impact of unfunded Federal mandates on how State and local governments provide
programs, services, and activities, and on related measures, including S. 563,
S. 648, S. 993, and S. 1604, receiving testimony from Robert D. Reischauer,
Director, Congressional Budget Office; Sally Katzen, Administrator, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs; Nebraska Governor E. Benjamin Nelson,
Lincoln; Ohio State Representative Patrick Sweeney and Mayor Greg Lashutka,
both of Columbus, Ohio; Mayor Richard Daley, Chicago, Illinois; Fulton County
Commissioner Michael Hightower, Fulton County, Georgia; Rockville City Manager
Bruce Romer, Rockville, Maryland; Justin Dart, on behalf of the President's
Committee on Employment of People With Disabilities, John Kincaid, Advisory
Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Bob Adler, Natural Resources
Defense Council, Max Sawicky, Economic Policy Institute, and Chuck Loveless,
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, all of
Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

LEGISLATIVE REORGANIZATION ACT 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee resumed hearings on S. 1824,
to improve the operations of the legislative branch of the Federal Government,
focusing on biennial budgeting and other budget process changes as contained
in Title III of the bill, receiving testimony from Senator Sasser; Leon E.
Panetta, Director, Office of Management and Budget; and James L. Blum, Deputy
Director, Congressional Budget Office. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, May 5. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/04/29
Daily Digest - Friday, April 29, 1994;  pages D464 - D466

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

HEALTH CARE REFORM

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health for Families and the Uninsured
concluded hearings to examine health care reform issues, focusing on consumer
protection and quality assurance, after receiving testimony from Beverly
McConnell, Michigan Department of Public Health, Trenton; John P. Tooker,
Maine Medical Center, and American College of Physicians, Portland, Maine;
Alfred J. Chiplin, Jr., National Senior Citizens Law Center, on behalf of the
Coalition for Consumer Protection and Quality in Health Care Reform; Kathleen
N. Lohr, National Academy of Sciences; and Margaret E. O'Kane, National
Committee for Quality Assurance, all of Washington, D.C.; Jennifer L. Howse,
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, White Plains, New York; and Barry P.
Chaiken, Medical Intelligence, Inc./GMIS, Brookline, Massachusetts. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Peter R. Chaveas, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Malawi; Edmund T. DeJarnette, Jr., of Virginia, to be Ambassador
to the Republic of Angola; Irvin Hicks, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to
Ethiopia; Robert Krueger, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Burundi; and Johnny Young, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic
of Togo, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Robert H. Henry, of Oklahoma, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth
Circuit; Deborah A. Batts, to be United States District Judge for the Southern
District of New York; Raymond L. Finch, to be a Judge for the District Court
of the Virgin Islands; and Solomon Oliver, Jr., to be United States District
Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Henry was introduced by Senator
Boren; Ms. Batts was introduced by Senator Moynihan; Mr. Finch was introduced
by Virgin Islands Delegate Ron de Lugo, Virgin Islands Lt. Governor Derek M.
Hodge, and Verne Hodge, Virgin Islands Territorial Court, all of St. Croix;
and Mr. Oliver was introduced by Senator Glenn. 

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No Joint hearings noted.



1994/05/02
Daily Digest - Monday, May 2, 1994;  pages D467 - D472

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AFRICA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs met to receive
a briefing on the status of United Nations peacekeeping operations in Africa
from Kofi A. Annan, Under Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations,
United Nations. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/05/03
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 3, 1994;  pages D473 - D480

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 1995 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Ellen W. Haas, Assistant Secretary
for Food and Consumer Services, Bill Ludwig, Administrator, Food and Nutrition
Service, and Lawrence Wachs, Associate Director, Budget and Program Analysis,
all of the Department of Agriculture. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 10. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Coalition Defense and Reinforcing
Forces resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for
the Department of Defense, and the future years defense program, focusing on
the Army investment strategy, receiving testimony from Gen. Gordon R.
Sullivan, USA, Chief of Staff, George T. Singley, III, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Research and Technology, Maj. Gen. Jay M. Garner, USA, Assistant
Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans for Force Development, and Maj.
Gen. Ronald V. Hite, USA, Deputy for System Management, Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Research, Development and Acquisition, all of the
Department of the Army; Sgt. Bret Richardson, D Co. 2/29 Infantry Regiment,
Fort Benning, Georgia; and Specialist Paula Drake, ACE 124 Military
Intelligence Battalion, 24th Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Georgia. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 5. 

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 1995 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the
Department of Energy's weapons and materials support and other defense
programs, receiving testimony from Charles B. Curtis, Under Secretary, Victor
H. Reis, Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs, John G. Keliher, Director,
Office of Intelligence and National Security, Siegfried S. Hecker, Director,
Los Alamos National Laboratory, C. Bruce Tarter, Acting Director, Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, and C. Paul Robinson, Vice President of
Laboratory Development, Sandia National Laboratory, all of the Department of
Energy. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 5. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Regional Defense and Contingency
Forces resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1995 for the Department of Defense and the future years defense program,
focusing on the Navy investment strategy, receiving testimony from John H.
Dalton, Secretary of the Navy; Andrew F. Krepinevich, Director, Defense Budget
Project, Department of Defense; and Rear Adm. Phillip A. Dur, USN, Director,
Naval Strategy and Policy. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

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COMMUNITY INVESTMENT 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs concluded hearings on S. 2049, to reduce homelessness, reform
public housing, expand and preserve affordable housing and home ownership,
ensure fair housing for all, and empower communities, after receiving
testimony from Albert Eisenberg, Arlington Virginia County Board, Arlington,
Virginia, on behalf of the National Conference of Mayors, the National League
of Cities, and the National Association of Counties; Richard G. Grose,
Missouri Housing Development Commission, Kansas City, Missouri, on behalf of
the National Council of State Housing Agencies; Marina Carrott, Chicago
Department of Housing, Chicago, Illinois; Ricardo Diaz, Milwaukee Public
Housing Authority, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on behalf of the Council of Large
Public Housing Authorities; F. Barton Harvey, III, The Enterprise Foundation,
Columbia, Maryland; Cushing N. Dolbeare; National Low Income Housing
Coalition, Washington, D.C.; and Sandy Beddor, Family Tree Inc., Wheat Ridge,
Colorado. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Rear Adm. Robert E. Kramek, USCG, to be
Commandant, and Rear Adm. Arthur E. Henn, USCG, to be Vice Commandant, both of
the United States Coast Guard, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Kramek was introduced by Senator Stevens. 

AUTHORIZATION--COAST GUARD 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the United States Coast
Guard, after receiving testimony from Adm. J. William Kime, Commandant, United
States Coast Guard, Department of Transportation. 

BORON--NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the progress of the Department of Energy's program to develop
boron-neutron capture therapy (BNCT) as an effective treatment of brain
cancer, after receiving testimony from Martha A. Krebs, Director, Office of
Energy Research, Department of Energy; Murray M. Lumpkin, Acting Director,
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration,
Department of Health and Human Services; Richard J. Wiersema, National Center
for BNCT Measurement and Development, and Francis F. Paul, Idaho Brain Tumor
Center, both of Idaho Falls, Idaho; Arthur A. Nelson, Jr., Idaho State
University, Pocatello, on behalf of the Boron Neutron Cancer Therapy
University Consortium, Inc.; Hywel Madoc-Jones, Tufts University School of
Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; Darrel D. Joel, Brookhaven National
Laboratory, Upton, New York; Ron J. Twilegar, Neutron Technology Incorporated,
Boise, Idaho; and Michael H. Werner, Rock Springs, Wyoming. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine health care reform
issues, focusing on the classification of workers as employees or independent
contractors, and the self-employment tax treatment of partners and corporation
shareholders, receiving testimony from Leslie B. Samuels, Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Patricia A. Bellows, H.D. Vest Financial
Services, Irving, Texas, on behalf of the Independent Contractor Association
of America, Inc.; Robert A. Georgine, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C.; Myron Hulen,
Colorado State University, Fort Collins; Robert J. Miranda, R.J. Miranda and
Company, Santa Ana, California, on behalf of the Hispanic Business CEO
Roundtable; and David E. Scherb, PepsiCo, Inc., Purchase, New York. 

Committee will meet again on Thursday, May 5. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Melvyn Levitsky, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the
Federative Republic of Brazil, Myles Robert Rene Frechette, of Maryland, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Colombia, and Donna Jean Hrinak, of Virginia, to
be Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. 

ABM TREATY MODIFICATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings to examine the
Administration's proposal to seek modification of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic
Missile Treaty (Exec. L, 92d Congress, 2d Session), receiving testimony from
Brad Hathaway, Associate Director for Systems Development and Production
Issues, National Security and International Affairs, General Accounting
Office; Steven A. Hildreth, Specialist in National Defense, Foreign Affairs,
and National Defense Division, Congressional Research Service; Spurgeon M.
Keeny, Jr., Arms Control Association, former Deputy Director, United States
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and John B. Rhinelander, Shaw, Pittman,
Potts and Trowbridge, both of Washington, D.C.; Sidney N. Graybeal, Science
Applications International Corporation, McLean, Virginia; and George N. Lewis,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. 

                               [Page: D476]

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

HAITI 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on United States policy toward Haiti from Strobe Talbott, Deputy
Secretary of State; and Samuel Berger, Deputy Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

FEDERAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the
future of telecommunications in the Federal Government, receiving testimony
from Jack L. Brock, Director, Information Resources Management/Policies Issues
Group, and Deborah A. Davis, Senior Evaluator, both of the Accounting and
Information Management Division, and Frank Deffer, Assistant Director,
National Security and International Affairs Division, all of the General
Accounting Office; Gen. Emmett Paige, Jr. (Ret), Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (C31), and Lt.
Gen. Alonzo E. Short, Jr., USA, Director, Defense Information Systems Agency,
both of the Department of Defense; and Robert J. Woods, Associate
Administrator, Office of FTS-2000, General Services Administration. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

CLIPPER CHIP KEY ESCROW ENCRYPTION PROGRAM 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology and the Law concluded
open and closed hearings to examine telecommunications privacy and security
issues as related to the implementation of the Administration's key escrow
encryption program, which would enable the Government to decode any telephone,
fax or computer communication that is encrypted with a "Clipper Chip" computer
chip, after receiving testimony from Jo Ann Harris, Assistant Attorney
General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; Raymond G. Kammer, Deputy
Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of
Commerce; Vice Adm. John M. McConnell, USN, Director, National Security
Agency, Department of Defense; Whitfield Diffie, Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
Mountain View, California, on behalf of the Digital Privacy and Security
Working Group; and Stephen T. Walker, Trusted Information Systems, Inc.,
Glenwood, Maryland.  

COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY ENHANCEMENTS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held hearings on S. 1866, S. 1869,
S. 1890, and S. 1948, bills to improve the counterintelligence and security
posture of the United States intelligence community and to enhance the
investigative authority of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in
counterintelligence matters, receiving testimony from Senators Boren and
Cohen; Jamie S. Gorelick, Deputy Attorney General, and Louis J. Freeh,
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, both of the Department of Justice;
R. James Woolsey, Director, Central Intelligence Agency; Robert J. Kohler,
TRW, Inc., Redondo Beach, California; and Kate Martin, ACLU, and David D.
Whipple, Association of Former Intelligence Officers, both of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/05/04
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 4, 1994;  pages D482 - D490

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Readiness and Defense
Infrastructure resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1995 for the Department of Defense and the future years defense
program, focusing on DOD environmental programs and the implementation of the
Base Closure Acts, receiving testimony from Neil M. Singer, Acting Assistant
Director, and Gary Wayne Glass, Principal Analyst, both of the National
Security Division, Congressional Budget Office; Sherri Wasserman Goodman,
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Environmental Security); Jan B. Reitman,
Staff Director, Environment and Safety, Defense Logistics Agency, Department
of Defense; Cheryl A. Kandaras, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the
Navy (Installations and Environment); Lewis D. Walker, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Army (Environment, Safety and Occupational Health); Alan P.
Babbitt, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Environment, Safety and
Occupational Health); Robert E. Bayer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Economic Reinvestment and BRAC); Rear Adm. Patrick W. Drennon, Director,
Shore Activities Division, Chief of Naval Operations; Paul W. Johnson, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installations and Housing); and Alan K.
Olsen, Director, Air Force Base Conversion Agency. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

HOMEBUILDING INDUSTRY 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs held hearings to examine the effect of rising interest rates on
the homebuilding industry, receiving testimony from Thomas N. Thompson,
Owensboro, Kentucky, and Kent W. Colton, Washington, D.C., both on behalf of
the National Association of Home Builders; and John S. Satagaj, Small Business
Legislative Council, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

TELECOMMUNICATIONS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee resumed hearings
on S. 1822, to safeguard and protect the public interest while permitting the
growth and development of new communications technologies, focusing on those
provisions which permit telephone companies to provide cable service,
receiving testimony from Richard D. McCormick, U. S. WEST, Inc., Englewood,
Colorado; Decker Anstrom, National Cable Television Association, Edward O.
Fritts, National Association of Broadcasters, and Jeffrey Chester, Center for
Media Education, all of Washington, D.C.; Richard D'Antonio, Bentleyville
Telephone Company, Bentleyville, Pennsylvania; and Donna Halstead, Dallas City
Council, Dallas, Texas. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, May 12. 

AUTHORIZATION--MARITIME ADMINISTRATION

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Merchant
Marine held hearings on S. 1945, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995 for
certain maritime programs of the Department of Transportation, focusing on
title II, to establish a maritime security program to provide assistance to
United States flag vessels operating in foreign trade, receiving testimony
from John W. Snow, CSX Corporation, Richmond, Virginia; John Lillie, American
President Companies, LTD., Talmage E. Simpkins, AFL-CIO Maritime Committee,
Joel Bem, District 1-MEBA, John T. Estes, International Council of Cruise
Lines, and Moya Phelleps, Coal Exporters Association, all of Washington, D.C.;
William P. Verdon, Crowley Maritime Corporation, Oakland, California; Erik F.
Johnsen, Central Gulf Lines, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana; Philip J. Shapiro,
Liberty Maritime Corporation, Lake Success, New York; Richard F. Gronda,
Farrell Lines, Inc., New York, New York; Michael Sacco, Seafarers
International Union of North America, Camp Springs, Maryland; Capt. Timothy A.
Brown, International Organization of Masters, Mates, and Pilots, Linthicum
Heights, Maryland; Michael McKay, American Maritime Officers, Dania, Florida;
and John Stocker, Shipbuilders Council of America, Arlington, Virginia. 

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Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine health care reform
issues, focusing on S. 1579, to contain health care costs and improve access
to health care through accountable health plans and managed competition,
receiving testimony from Robert D. Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget
Office. 

Committee will meet again tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Sam W. Brown, Jr., of California, for the rank of Ambassador
during his tenure of service as Head of Delegation to the Conference on
Security and Cooperation in Europe, Derek Shearer, of California, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Finland, William J. Crowe, Jr., of Virginia, to
be Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
Ralph R. Johnson, of Virginia, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of
service as Coordinator of the Support for East European Democracy (SEED)
Program, Edward W. Gnehm, Jr., of Georgia, to be the United States Deputy
Representative to the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, Arvonne S.
Fraser, of Minnesota, for the rank of Ambassador during her tenure of service
as the United States Representative on the Commission on the Status of Women
of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, John P. Loiello, of
the District of Columbia, to be an Associate Director for Educational and
Cultural Affairs, and Henry Howard, Jr., of Virginia, to be an Associate
Director for Management, both of the United States Information Agency, Charles
H. Twining, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to Cambodia, Ryan Clark Crocker, of
Washington, to be Ambassador to the State of Kuwait, Edward S. Walker, Jr., of
Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt, Peter R. Chaveas, of
Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Malawi, Edmund T.
DeJarnette, Jr., of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Angola,
Irvin Hicks, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to Ethiopia, Robert Krueger, of
Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi, Johnny Young, of
Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Togo, Melvyn Levitsky, of
Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Federative Republic of Brazil, Myles Robert
Rene
Frechette, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Colombia, Donna
Jean Hrinak, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Marion
M. Dawson, of Connecticut, and Willie Grace Campbell, of California, both to
be Members of the Board of Directors of the African Development Foundation,
Charles H. Dolan, Jr., of Virginia, to be a Member of the United States
Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, Mark L. Schneider, of California, to
be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Foundation, Simon
Ferro, of Florida, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas
Private Investment Corporation, and Foreign Service Officers' promotion lists
dated March 16, 1994 and March 25, 1994. 

CHINA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
held hearings to examine United States policy toward China, receiving
testimony from Winston Lord, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and
Pacific Affairs; Gerrit W. Gong, Center for Strategic and International
Studies, and Mike Jendrzejczyk, Human Rights Watch/Asia, both of Washington,
D.C.; Jeffrey Hopkins, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; and Robert
Kapp, United States-China Business Council, Chevy Chase, Maryland. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

FEDERAL COURTHOUSE CONSTRUCTION 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the
status of the Judiciary's response to General Accounting Office
recommendations for improving the Judiciary's long-range space planning
process, focusing on the Judiciary's courthouse construction program,
receiving testimony from Scott O. Wright, Senior United States District Judge
for the Western District of Missouri; Charles I. Patton, Associate Director,
and Frances P. Clark, Assistant Director, both of Federal Management Issues,
General Government Division, General Accounting Office; Julia Stasch, Deputy
Administrator, General Services Administration; P. Gerald Thacker, Assistant
Director for Facilities, Security, and Administrative Services, Administrative
Office of the United States Courts; Thomas G. Pinkerton, Hellmuth, Obata &
Kassabaum, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri; and Norman G. Delbridge, Jr., J.A. Jones
Construction Company, Washington, D.C. 

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Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INDIAN EDUCATION 

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the Indian
education provisions of S. 1513 and H.R. 6, bills authorizing funds for
programs of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, after
receiving testimony from John Tippeconnic, Director, Office of Indian
Education Programs, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior;
Thomas W. Payzant, Assistant Secretary of Education for Elementary and
Secondary Education; Eugene Garcia, Director, Office of Bilingual Education
and Minority Language Affairs, Department of Education; Phil Baird, National
Indian Education Association, and Robert K. Chiago, National Advisory Council
on Indian Education, both of Washington, D.C.; Carmen Cornelius Taylor,
National Indian School Board Association, Poulson, Montana; Lorena Zah Bahe,
Association of Navajo Community Controlled School Boards, and Leonard N.
Begaye, Navajo Area School Board Association, both of Window Rock, Arizona;
and Roger Bordeaux, Association of Community Tribal Schools Inc., Agency
Village, South Dakota. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/05/05
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 5, 1994;  pages D491 - D500

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION/SEC 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Douglas S. Eakeley, Chairman, Board of Directors, and Maria Luisa Mercado,
Chair, Committee on Audit and Appropriations, both of the Legal Services
Corporation; and Arthur Levitt, Jr., Chairman, Securities and Exchange
Commission. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on classified acquisition programs, receiving testimony from Brig.
Gen. Ralph H. Graham, USAF, Director, Special Programs, Office of the Under
Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Technology); and Lt. Gen. Richard E.
Hawley, USAF, Principal Deputy, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
(Acquisition). 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 12. 

APPROPRIATIONS--SENATE/CBO 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Martha S.
Pope, Secretary of the Senate; Robert L. Benoit, Senate Sergeant at Arms; and
Robert D. Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget Office. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Federico PenAE6a, Secretary of Transportation, Chris Hart, Acting
Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and Ana Sol
Gutierrez, Acting Administrator, Research and Special Programs Administration,
all of the Department of Transportation; and Carl W. Vogt, Chairman, National
Transportation Safety Board. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 12. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Jeffrey K. Harris, of New Jersey, to be Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
for Space, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own
behalf. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Coalition Defense and Reinforcing
Forces resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1995 for the Department of Defense and the future years defense programs,
focusing on tactical aviation modernization programs, receiving testimony from
Maj. Gen. George K. Muellner, USAF, Program Executive Officer, Joint Advanced
Strike Technology Program, Office of the Secretary of the Navy; Rear Adm.
Brent M. Bennitt, USN, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, Air Warfare,
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; Maj. Gen. Larry L. Henry, USAF,
Acting Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff, Plans and Operations; Maj. Gen. Harold
W. Blot, USMC, Assistant Deputy Chief of Marine Corps Staff for Aviation; and
Louis J. Rodrigues, Director, Robert D. Murphy, Assistant Director, and
Richard Strittmatter, Evaluator in Charge, all of Systems Development and
Production Issues, National Security and International Affairs Division, all
of the General Accounting Office. 

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 1995 for the Department of Defense and the future years
defense program, focusing on long-range bomber programs and requirements,
receiving testimony from Gen. John M. Loh, USAF, Commander, Air Force Air
Combat Command; and George F. Donohue, Glenn C. Buchan, and David R.
Frelinger, all of the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California. 

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Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

HUD MANAGEMENT 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs held hearings to examine the impact of management problems at
the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and what actions HUD has
taken to remedy management deficiencies and improve program performance,
receiving testimony from Nicolas P. Retsinas, Assistant Secretary for
Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner, Andrew Cuomo, Assistant Secretary for
Community Planning and Development, Joseph Shuldiner, Assistant Secretary for
Public and Indian Housing, and Roberta Achtenberg, Assistant Secretary for
Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, all of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development; Marvin Siflinger, Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, Boston,
on behalf of the National Council of State Housing Agencies; Richard C.
Gentry, Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority, Richmond, Virginia, on
behalf of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials;
Diane Voneida, Rockford, Illinois, on behalf of the National Community
Development Association; and Austin Fitts, Hamilton Securities Group,
Washington, D.C. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

NATIONAL PARKS AND FORESTS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills: 

S. 528, to provide for the transfer of certain Forest Service lands to Lincoln
County in the State of Montana, after receiving testimony from Senators Baucus
and Burns; William McCleese, Acting Associate Deputy Chief, Forest Service,
Department of Agriculture; and Lawrence A. Dolezal, Lincoln County, Montana;
and 

S. 471, to establish a new area study process for proposed additions to the
National Park System, after receiving testimony from Denis P. Galvin,
Associate Director for Planning and Development, National Park Service,
Department of the Interior; and J.W. Wade, Association of National Park
Rangers, Luray, Virginia. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings on health care reform
issues, focusing on the appropriateness of aggressive treatments for dying
patients and the implementation of advance directives such as living wills,
receiving testimony from Christine K. Cassel, University of Chicago, Chicago,
Illinois; Eric J. Cassell, Cornell University Medical College, Ithaca, New
York; Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Harvard University Medical School, Boston,
Massachusetts; Melvin Konner, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; and Joanne
Lynn, Dartmouth University Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire. 

Committee will meet again on Tuesday, May 10. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items: The nominations of Michael K. Kirk, of Florida, to be Deputy
Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, Philip G. Hampton, II, of the District
of Columbia, and Lawrence J. Goffney, Jr., of Michigan, both to be Assistant
Commissioners of Patents and Trademarks, all of the Department of Commerce,
Michael R. Bromwich, of the District of Columbia, to be Inspector General,
Department of Justice, Fortunato P. Benavides, of Texas, and Carl E. Stewart,
of Louisiana, both to be United States Circuit Court Judges for the Fifth
Circuit, Robert H. Henry, of Oklahoma, to be United States Circuit Court Judge
for the Tenth Circuit, Ruben Castillo, to be United States District Judge for
the Northern District of Illinois, Audrey B. Collins, to be United States
District Judge for the Central District of California, James G. Carr, to be
United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, Clarence
Cooper, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of
Georgia, Frank M. Hull, to be United States District Judge for the Northern
District of Georgia, Mary M. Lisi, to be United States District Judge for the
District of Rhode Island, W. Louis Sands, to be United States District Judge
for the Middle District of Georgia, Deborah A. Batts, to be United States
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, Raymond L. Finch, to be
United States District Judge for the District of the Virgin Islands, Solomon
Oliver, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of
Ohio, Saul A. Green, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of
Michigan, Sheldon Whitehouse, to be United States Attorney for the District of
Rhode Island, Gregory Moneta Sleet, to be United States Attorney for the
District of Delaware, Faith S. Hochberg, to be United States Attorney for the
District of New Jersey, Joseph Clyde Fowler, Jr., to be United States Marshal
for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Ernestine Rowe, to be United States
Marshall for the District of Colorado, Leonard Trupo, to be United States
Marshal for the Northern District of West Virginia, Barbara C. Jurkas, to be
United States Marshal for the Western District of Michigan, James W. Lockley,
to be United States Marshal for the Northern District of Florida, and John W.
Marshall, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Virginia; 

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S. 116, for the relief of Fanie Phili Mateo Angeles; 

S. 1485, to extend certain satellite carrier compulsory licenses, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

H.R. 1758, to revise, codify, and enact without substantive change certain
general and permanent laws relating to transportation as contained in Title
49, United State Code, and to make other technical improvements in the Code;
and 

H.R. 1933, to authorize funds for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday
Commission. 

AUTHORIZATION--ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities concluded hearings on S. 1513 and H.R. 6, bills authorizing funds
for programs of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and S.
2034, to improve the quality of public elementary and secondary school
libraries, media centers, and facilities, after receiving testimony from
Senator Moseley-Braun; Representative Engel; Jackie DeFazio, Glenbard East
High School, Lombard, Illinois, on behalf of the American Association of
University Women; Thomas K. Seligman, Stanford University Museum of Art,
Stanford, California; Joseph S. Renzulli, University of Connecticut, Storrs;
Charles N. Quigley, Center for Civic Education, Calabasas, California; Ruth
Graves, Reading is Fundamental, Inc., Washington, D.C.; Stephen A. Janger,
Close Up Foundation, Alexandria, Virginia; and John J. Erickson, Osseo Senior
High School, Osseo, Minnesota. 

LEGISLATIVE REORGANIZATION ACT 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on S.
1824, to improve the operations of the legislative branch of the Federal
Government, focusing on provisions of Title III, relating to the abolishing of
Congressional Joint Committees and for the authorization of appropriations for
certain Congressional support agencies, after receiving testimony from
Senators Sarbanes, Moynihan, and Pell; Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General
of the United States, General Accounting Office; James H. Billington,
Librarian of Congress, and Daniel P. Mulhollan, Director, Congressional
Research Service, both of the Library of Congress; and Roger C. Herdman,
Director, Office of Technology Assessment. 

VA HEALTH CARE 

Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
financial and policy implications of the veterans' health care provisions
contained in the Administration's proposed Health Security Act, after
receiving testimony from David P. Baine, Director, and Jim Linz, Assistant
Director, both of the Federal Health Care Delivery Issues, Health, Education,
and Human Services Division, General Accounting Office; Mark Catlett,
Assistant Secretary for Finance and Information Resources Management, Walter
J. Besecker, Director, Medical Care Cost Recovery Program, and C. Wayne
Hawkins, Deputy Chief Medical Director for Administration and Operations, all
of the Department of Veterans Affairs; Elwood J. Headley, VA Medical Center,
Boston, Massachusetts, former Acting Under Secretary for Health and Director
of the Health Care Reform Program Office of the Department of Veterans
Affairs; Uwe E. Reinhardt, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; and
James J. Mongan, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Kansas City. 

INTELLIGENCE 

Select Committee on Intelligence: On Wednesday, May 4, Committee held closed
hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the
intelligence community. 

Committee will meet again on Tuesday, May 10. 

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Joint Meetings 

1995 BUDGET 

Conferees on Wednesday, May 4, agreed to file a conference report on the
differences between the Senate- and House-passed versions of H. Con. Res. 218,
setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for
fiscal years 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999. 

SERBIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES 

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission):
Commission held hearings to examine the human rights situations in
Serbian-controlled Kosovo, Sandzak and Vojvodina, receiving testimony from
Tibor Varady, Budapest College of the Central European University, Budapest,
Hungary; Alush Gashi, Council for the Defense of Human rights and Freedoms,
Pristina, Kosovo; and Tore Bogh, Oslo, Norway. 

Commission recessed subject to call. 



1994/05/06
Daily Digest - Friday, May 6, 1994;  pages D501 - D508

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--OTA/LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA)
from Senator Kennedy; and Roger C. Herdman, Director, OTA; and in behalf of
funds for the Library of Congress from James H. Billington, Librarian of
Congress. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 10. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the nominations of Alan S. Blinder, of New Jersey, to be a Member of the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Steven M. Wallman, of
Virginia, to be a Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission; and Philip
N. Diehl, of Texas, to be Director of the Mint, Department of the Treasury,
after the nominees testified answered questions in their own behalf. Mr.
Blinder was introduced by Senators Bradley and Lautenberg; and Mr. Diehl was
introduced by Representative Pickle. 

HEALTH CARE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the
Health Care Financing Administration's efforts to develop the recently enacted
Medicare and Medicaid data bank, which would contain information on all
workers, spouses, and dependents that are covered by employer-provided health
insurance, receiving testimony from Sally Katzen, Administrator, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; Nan
Hunter, Deputy General Counsel, Department of Health and Human Services;
Leslie G. Aronovitz, Associate Director, Health Financing Issues, Health,
Education, and Human Services Division, General Accounting Office; Joel E.
Gimpel, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the Workgroup on Electronic Data
Interchange; Lois Gargotto, Humana Inc., Louisville, Kentucky; Carolyn Kelley,
American Payroll Association, New York, New York; Donald T. Lewers, Easton,
Maryland, on behalf of the American Medical Association; and Janlori Goldman,
American Civil Liberties Union, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

VETERANS HEALTH 

Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine how to
protect the interests and welfare of military personnel who serve as test
subjects in war-related research, and VA efforts to assist veterans who were
exposed to hazardous substances while in the military, after receiving
testimony from Edward Martin, Acting Principal Assistant Secretary for Health
Affairs, and Jeanne B. Fites, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense,
Personnel and Readiness, both of the Department of Defense; Raymond J. Vogel,
Under Secretary for Benefits, and Susan H. Mather, Assistant Chief Medical
Director for Environmental Medicine and Public Health, both of the Department
of Veterans Affairs; Robert J. Temple, Director, Office of Drug Evaluation,
and Russell G. Katz, Deputy Director, Division of Neuropharmacological Drug
Products, both of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Karen L.
Goldenthal, Director, Division of Vaccines and Related Product Applications,
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, and Catherine C. Lorraine,
General Counsel, all of the Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health
and Human Services; James Moss, Researcher, Agricultural Research Service,
Department of Agriculture; Leonard A. Cole, Rutgers University, Ridgewood, New
Jersey; Arthur L. Caplan, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Thomas J.
Callender, Lafayette, Louisiana; Rudolph R. Mills, Fredericksburg, Virginia;
Earl P. Davenport, Tooele, Utah; Neil R. Tetzlaff, Reed City, Michigan; and
Barry M. Walker, East Palestine, Ohio. 

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Joint Meetings 

EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine the
employment-unemployment statistics for April 1994, receiving testimony from
Katharine G. Abraham, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of
Labor. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 



1994/05/09
Daily Digest - Monday, May 9, 1994;  pages D509 - D512

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/05/10
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 10, 1994;  pages D513 - D520

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--FDA/CFTC/FCAB 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1995, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from David A. Kessler, Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration,
Department of Health and Human Services; Barbara Pedersen Holum, Acting
Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and Billy Ross Brown, Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer, and Gary C. Byrne, Member, both of the Farm
Credit Administration Board. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS--ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the Army Corps
of Engineers, receiving testimony from John H. Zirschky, Acting Assistant
Secretary (Civil Works); Lt. Gen. Arthur E. Williams, USA, Chief, Corps of
Engineers; Maj. Gen. Stanley G. Genega, USA, Director of Civil Works; and Don
B. Cluff, Chief, Programs Division, Directorate of Civil Works, all of the
Department of the Army. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS--GPO/GAO 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Michael F.
DiMario, Public Printer, Government Printing Office; and Charles A. Bowsher,
Comptroller General of the United States. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 12. 

AUTHORIZATION-DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Force Requirements and Personnel
resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the
Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on
Reserve component manpower, personnel, and compensation issues, receiving
testimony from Deborah R. Lee, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve
Affairs; Maj. Gen. Raymond F. Rees, USA, Acting Chief, National Guard Bureau;
Maj. Gen. John R. D'Araujo, Jr., USA, Director, Army National Guard; Brig.
Gen. Select Paul Weaver, USAF, Deputy Director, Air National Guard; Rear Adm.
Thomas F. Hall, USN, Director, Naval Reserve; Maj. Gen. Max Baratz, USA,
Acting Chief, Army Reserve; Brig. Gen. Stephen R. Berkheiser, USMC, Assistant
Deputy Chief of Staff, Manpower and Reserve Affairs, United States Marine
Corps; Brig. Gen. John Bradley, USAF, Deputy Chief, Air Force Reserve; Rear
Adm. Gregory A. Penington, USCG, Chief, Office for Personnel and Readiness,
United States Coast Guard; and Col. Bradley MacDonald, USMCR, Marine Corps
Reserve Officers Association, Rear Adm. Phillip W. Smith, USN (Ret.) and Rear
Adm. James E. Forrest, USN (Ret.), both of the Naval Reserve Association, and
Master Chief Petty Officer Larry Rhea, USNR, (Ret.), Non Commissioned Officers
Association, all of Alexandria, Virginia; and Maj. Gen. James Guest, USA
(Ret.), Army Reserve Association, Maj. Gen. Roger W. Sandler, USA (Ret.),
Reserve Officers Association, Maj. Gen. Ansel Stroud, USA (Ret.), Adjutants
General Association, and Maj. Gen. Robert Enselin, USA (Ret.), National Guard
Association, all of Washington, D.C. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Susan Ness, of Maryland, and Rachelle B. Chong,
of California, each to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission,
and Alan Sagner, of New Jersey, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Ms. Chong was introduced by
Representatives Mineta and Matsui, Ms. Ness was introduced by Senator
Mikulski, and Mr. Sagner was introduced by Senator Lautenberg. 

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GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the implementation of the Administration's climate change action plan
for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and related provisions contained in the
Energy Policy Act of 1992, after receiving testimony from Hazel R. O'Leary,
Secretary of Energy; Robert Sussman, Deputy Administrator, Environmental
Protection Agency; Rafe Pomerance, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
environment and Development; Larry L. Bean, Iowa Department of Energy, Des
Moines, on behalf of the National Association of State Energy Officials; Dale
E. Heydlauff, American Electric Power Service Corporation, Columbus, Ohio, on
behalf of the Edison Electric Institute; and Daniel A. Lashof, Natural
Resources Defense Council, on behalf of the American Council for an
Energy-Efficient Economy; and Jerry Jasinowski, National Association of
Manufacturers, on behalf of the Global Climate Coalition, both of Washington,
D.C. 

TEXAS COLONIAS WATER SUPPLY NEEDS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power
concluded oversight hearings to examine the potential role of Federal
reclamation projects in meeting the water supply and wastewater treatment
needs of certain rural, unincorporated subdivisions located along the United
States/Mexico international boundary, known as the Colonias, in Texas, after
receiving testimony from Senator Hutchison; Representative Coleman; Charles
Calhoun, Acting Regional Director, Upper Colorado Region, Bureau of
Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Michael B. Cook, Director, Office of
Wastewater Enforcement and Compliance, Environmental Protection Agency; Andrea
Abel, Austin, Texas, on behalf of the Governor of Texas; Elaine M. Barron,
Texas Water Development Board, Sister Maribeth Larkin, El Paso Interreligious
Sponsoring Organization, Edmund G. Archuleta, El Paso Water Utilities Public
Service Board, and Darcy Alan Frownfelter, El Paso County Lower Valley Water
District Authority, all of El Paso, Texas; and Teodora Trujillo, Socorro,
Texas. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine health care reform
issues, focusing on mental illness, deinstitutionalization and medications,
receiving testimony from Senators Domenici and Wellstone; Richard C. Surles,
New York Commission of Mental Health, Albany; E. Fuller Torrey, St. Elizabeths
Hospital, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the National Institute of Mental
Health Neuroscience Center; Charles P. O'Brien, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, on behalf of the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical
Center; and David F. Musto, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven,
Connecticut. 

Committee will meet again on Thursday, May 12. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM AND FEHBP 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the
impact of national health care reform on the Federal Employees Health Benefits
Program (FEHBP), receiving testimony from Senator Kennedy; James B. King,
Director, and Curtis J. Smith, Associate Director for Retirement and Insurance
Group, both of the Office of Personnel Management; and Brian DeWyngaert,
American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO; Robert Tobias, National
Treasury Employees Union; William Burrus, American Postal Workers Union;
Robert Vincenzi, National Association of Letter Carriers; Al James Golato,
National Association of Retired Federal Employees; Harry Cain, Blue Cross and
Blue Shield Association; Alphonso O'Neil-White, Group Health Association of
America, and Richard G. Miles, Government Employees Hospital Association, all
of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

CHILD SAFETY 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs and Alcoholism concluded hearings to examine State and local efforts to
identify and prevent the leading causes of injuries to children, after
receiving testimony from C. Everett Koop, former Surgeon General of the Public
Health Service, on behalf of the National Safe Kids Campaign; Mark Rosenberg,
Director, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services; Helen
Halpin Schauffler, University of California School of Public Health, Berkeley;
Ted R. Miller, National Public Services Research Institute, Landover,
Maryland; Tonia Ortiz, Latin American Youth Center, Washington, D.C.; Heather
Giambo, Greenwich, Connecticut; Marcus Young, Kansas City, Missouri; Jena
Grosser, Elkhart, Indiana; and Zachary Nuse, Johnston, Vermont. 

CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Disability Policy
concluded hearings on proposed legislation to provide competitive grants to
States to develop or enhance statewide systems of family support for families
of children with disabilities, after receiving testimony from Allan Bergman,
United Cerebral Palsy Associations, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the
Children's and Families' Task Force of the Consortium for Citizens with
Disabilities; Don Shumway, New Hampshire Division of Mental Health and
Developmental Disabilities, Concord; David Novak, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Sue
Swenson, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Cathy Ficker-Terrill, Elmhurst, Illinois. 

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INTELLIGENCE 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community. 

Committee will meet again on Thursday, May 12. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/05/11
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 11, 1994;  pages D522 - D530

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

CROP INSURANCE REFORM 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings on
S. 2095, to reform the Federal crop insurance program, receiving testimony
from Kenneth D. Ackerman, Manager, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, and
Dallas R. Smith, Deputy Under Secretary for International Affairs and
Commodity Programs, both of the Department of Agriculture. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS--PARK SERVICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the National Park Service,
Department of the Interior, receiving testimony from George T. Frampton, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, and Roger G. Kennedy,
Director, National Park Service, both of the Department of the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 25. 

APPROPRIATIONS--GSA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, General
Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for
the General Services Administration, focusing on the Federal Buildings
Program, receiving testimony from Roger W. Johnson, Administrator, General
Services Administration. 

Subcommittee 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 1995 for the Department of Defense and the future years
defense program, focusing on the Technology Reinvestment Program, receiving
testimony from John M. Deutch, Deputy Secretary of Defense. 

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 1995 for the Department of Defense and the future years
defense program, focusing on the ballistic missile defense program, receiving
testimony from Lt. Gen. Malcolm R. O'Neill, USA, Director, Ballistic Missile
Defense Organization; Brooks E. Shelton, Deputy Director, Non-Nuclear Arms
Control Policy; and Rear Adm. J. Tim Hood, USN, Program Executive Officer for
Theater Air Defense, all of the Department of Defense. 

                               [Page: D524]

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

HOMEOWNERS INSURANCE DISCRIMINATION 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings to
examine the extent of discrimination in the homeowners insurance industry, and
Federal efforts to ensure fair housing enforcement, receiving testimony from
Representatives Kennedy and Cardiss Collins; Deval L. Patrick, Assistant
Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice; Roberta
Achtenberg, Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Fair
Housing and Equal Opportunity; Texas State Insurance Commissioner Robert
Hunter, Austin; William Tisdale, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on behalf of the
National Fair Housing Alliance; and Lynn M. Schubert, American Insurance
Association, and Charles Kamasaki, National Council of La Raza, both of
Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

TELECOMMUNICATIONS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee resumed hearings
on S. 1822, to safeguard and protect the public interest while permitting the
growth and development of new communications technologies, focusing on
provisions that permit the electric, gas, water and steam utilities to provide
telecommunications services, receiving testimony from Lawrence M. Gressette,
Jr., SCANA Corporation, Columbia, South Carolina; William Ray, Glasgow
Electric Plant Board, Glasgow, Kentucky; Paul DeNicola, Southern Company
Services, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia; and Martha Hogerty, Missouri Office of
Public Counsel, Jefferson City, on behalf of the National Association of State
Utilities Consumer Advocates. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items: 

S. 150, to provide technical and financial assistance for the protection,
preservation, and interpretation of Taliesin in Wisconsin, the home and
workshop of the late architect Frank Lloyd Wright, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute; 

S. 761, to revise certain provisions of the Federal Payment in Lieu of Taxes
Act of 1976 to include unorganized boroughs in Alaska within the definition of
"unit of general local government,"with an amendment; 

H.R. 1183, to validate conveyance of certain lands in the State of California
that form part of the right-of-way granted by the United States to the Central
Pacific Railway Company; 

H.R. 2815, to designate a portion of the Farmington River in Connecticut as a
component of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System, with amendments; 

S. 316, to expand the boundaries of the Saguaro National Monument in Arizona,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 472, to improve the administration and management of public lands, National
Forests, units of the National Park System, and related areas by improving the
availability of affordable, quality housing for certain agency employees, with
amendments; 

S. 1703, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire land to expand
the boundaries of the Piscataway National Park in Maryland, with an amendment
in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 1170, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to lease Naval oil shale
reserve lands in Garfield County, Colorado, for oil and gas exploration,
development, and production, with amendments; and 

H.R. 2921, to authorize funds for the preservation and restoration of historic
buildings at historically black colleges and universities, with amendments. 

EFFECTS OF SECOND-HAND SMOKE 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air and
Nuclear Regulation concluded hearings to examine the possible health effects
from the exposure to environmental tobacco smoke to non-smokers, and a related
measure S. 1680, proposed Smoke Free Environment Act, after receiving
testimony from Carl M. Browner, Administrator, Environmental Protection
Agency; M. Joycelyn Elders, Surgeon General, Public Health Service; and
William Blott, Chief, Bio Statistics Branch, Division of Cancer Etiology,
National Cancer Institute, both of the Department of Health and Human
Services; Jane Gravelle, Senior Specialist in Economic Policy, and Dennis
Zimmerman, Specialist in Public Finance, both of the Congressional Research
Service, Library of Congress; Christopher Coggins, R.J. Reynolds, Winston
Salem, North Carolina; and Aubrey Taylor, University of Southern Alabama
School of Medicine, Mobile, on behalf of the American Lung Association. 

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INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF RACIAL
DISCRIMINATION 


Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination signed on behalf of the United States on September 28, 1966
(Ex. C. 95th Congress, 2nd Session), after receiving testimony from John
Shattuck, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, and
Conrad K. Harper, Legal Adviser, both of the Department of State; Deval L.
Patrick, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Department of
Justice; Robert F. Drinan, Georgetown University Law Center, on behalf of the
American Bar Association; William T. Lake, Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, on
behalf of the International Human Rights Law Group; and Wade Henderson,
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, all of Washington,
D.C.; and Robert C. Henderson, Wilmette, Illinois, on behalf of the National
Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States. 

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items: 

S. 1981, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1995, 1996, and 1997 for programs
of the Orphan Drug Act; 

S. 784, to strengthen Federal standards with respect to dietary supplements,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and 

The nominations of Marca Bristo, of Illinois, and Kate Pew Wolters, of
Michigan, each to be a Member of the National Council on Disability, and
Patricia Ann Brown, of New York, Ira Ronald Feldman, of New York, Barbara
Wallace Grossman, of Massachusetts, and Leo J. O'Donovan, of the District of
Columbia, each to be a Member of the National Council on the Arts, and Fred W.
Garcia, of Colorado, to be Deputy Director for Demand Reduction, Office of
National Drug Control Policy. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/05/12
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 12, 1994;  pages D531 - D540

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 1995 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on the C-17 Program, receiving testimony from John M. Deutch, Deputy Secretary
of Defense. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 17. 

APPROPRIATIONS--ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL/CAPITOL POLICE BOARD

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from George M. White,
Architect of the Capitol; and Robert L. Benoit, Senate Sergeant at Arms,
Werner W. Brandt, House Sergeant at Arms, Gary L. Abrecht, Chief, U.S. Capitol
Police, and Mr. White (listed above), all on behalf of the U.S. Capitol Police
Board. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL CORPORATION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation concluded hearings
to review the proposed plan to establish the air traffic control services of
the Federal Aviation Administration as an independent agency known as the Air
Traffic Control Corporation, after receiving testimony from Federico Pena,
Secretary, and David R. Hinson, Administrator, Federal Aviation
Administration, both of the Department of Transportation; Allen Li, Associate
Director, Transportation Issues, Resources, Community and Economic
Development, General Accounting Office; Tom Chapman, Aircraft Owners and
Pilots Association, Frederick, Maryland; Neil Goldschmidt, Neil Goldschmidt,
Inc., Portland, Oregon, former Secretary of Transportation; and James H.
Burnley IV, Winston & Strawn, former Secretary of Transportation, Barry
Krasner, National Air Traffic Controllers Association, Howard E. Johannssen,
Professional Airways Systems Specialists, and John Olcott, National Business
Aircraft Association, all of Washington, D.C. 

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:

S. 1587, to revise and streamline the acquisition laws of the Federal
Government, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and 

The nominations of Joshua Gotbaum, of New York, to be an Assistant Secretary
of Defense; Jeffrey K. Harris, of New Jersey, to be an Assistant Secretary of
the Air Force; and Eamon M. Kelly, of Louisiana, and Manuel Trinidad Pacheco,
of Arizona, both to be Members of the National Security Education Board,
Department of Defense. 

SOMALIA

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held open and closed hearings to
examine United States military operations in Somalia during United Nations
Operations in Somalia II (UNOSOM II), receiving testimony from Maj. Gen.
William F. Garrison, USA, Commander, Joint Special Operations Command; Maj.
Gen. Thomas M. Montgomery, USA, former Deputy Commander, United Nations
Operations in Somalia; Col. Larry E. Joyce, USA (Ret.); and Capt. James H.
Smith, AUS (Ret.). 

                               [Page: D534]

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

U.N. PEACE OPERATIONS

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Coalition Defense and Reinforcing
Forces held hearings to examine United Nations' peacekeeping operations,
receiving testimony from Madeleine K. Albright, United States Permanent
Representative to the United Nations; Richard N. Perle, American Enterprise
Institute, and Barry M. Blechman, Henry L. Stimson Center, both of Washington,
D.C. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

SECURITIES LITIGATION

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
concluded hearings to examine the impact on private rights of action of the
United States Supreme Court decision in Central Bank of Denver, N.A. v. First
Interstate Bank of Denver, N.A. , after receiving testimony from Senator
Metzenbaum; Arthur Levitt, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission;
Donald C. Langevoort, Vanderbilt University School of Law, Nashville,
Tennessee; Mark J. Griffin, Utah Department of Commerce, Salt Lake City, on
behalf of the North American Securities Administrators Association; Stuart J.
Kaswell, Securities Industry Association, and Eugene Goldman, McDermott, Will
& Emery, both of Washington, D.C.; David S. Ruder, Northwestern University
School of Law, Evanston, Illinois; and Harvey J. Goldschmid, Columbia
University School of Law, New York, New York. 

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee continued
hearings on S. 1822, to safeguard and protect the public interest while
permitting the growth and development of new communications technologies,
focusing on long-distance services, receiving testimony from Robert E. Allen,
AT&T; James G. Cullen, Bell Atlantic Corporation; Bert Roberts, Jr., MCI
Communications Corporation; and Roy Neel, United States Telephone Association,
all of Washington, D.C.; William T. Esrey, Sprint Corporation, Westwood,
Kansas; Bernard J. Ebbers, LDDS Metromedia Communications, Jackson,
Mississippi, on behalf of the Competitive Telecommunications Association
(CompTel); and John Kane, WCT Communications, Inc., Santa Barbara, California,
on behalf of the America's Carriers Telecommunications Association. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, May 18. 

EPA REFORMULATED GASOLINE PROGRAM

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to propose a renewable
oxygenate standard as part of their reformulated gasoline program, after
receiving testimony from Senators Daschle, Harkin, Durenberger, and Exon; Mary
Nichols, Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, Environmental
Protection Agency; John A. Riggs, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Energy for Policy, Planning and Program Evaluation; Linda G. Stuntz,
Oxygenated Fuels Association, representing the American Methanol Institute,
Natural Gas Council, and the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers
Association, Eric Vaughn, Renewable Fuels Association, and A. Blakeman Early,
Sierra Club, all of Washington, D.C.; Steven R. Berlin, CITGO Petroleum
Corporation, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Robert J. McCool, Mobil Oil Corporation,
Fairfax, Virginia, representing the American Petroleum Institute; Michael J.
Bradley, Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management, Boston,
Massachusetts; and David Morris, Institute for Local Self-Reliance,
Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

CALIFORNIA RECREATION AREAS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 1549, to establish the
Golden Gate National Recreation Area to provide for the management of the
Presidio by the Secretary of the Interior, and S. 1639, authorizing funds for
the management of portions of the Presidio under the jurisdiction of the
Secretary of the Interior, receiving testimony from Senators Feinstein and
Boxer; Roger Kennedy, Director, National Park Service, Department of the
Interior; Paul Johnson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for
Installations and Housing; and Mayor Frank M. Jordan, William Reilly, Presidio
Council, Jay Mancini, Mancini, Mills, Inc., and Joel Ventresca, Preserve the
Presidio Campaign, all of San Francisco, California. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on health care reform
proposals, focusing on medical malpractice and antitrust issues, after
receiving testimony from Senators Harkin, Hatfield, and Metzenbaum; Mary Lou
Steptoe, Acting Director, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission;
Jacqueline A. Corrigan, Senior Analyst, Health Program, Office of Technology
Assessment; Troyen A. Brennan, Harvard University School of Public Health,
Boston, Massachusetts; Clifton R. Cleaveland, Chattanooga, Tennessee, on
behalf of the American College of Physicians; John H. Niles, Columbia Hospital
for Women, on behalf of the Health Care Liability Alliance, and Alphonso
O'Neil-White, Group Health Association of America, both of Washington, D.C.;
Philip H. Corboy, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the American Bar
Association; and Richard F. Corlin, Santa Monica, California, on behalf of the
American Medical Association. 

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NOMINATIONS

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Theodore A. McKee, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
Third Circuit; Billy Michael Burrage, to be United States District Judge for
the Northern, Eastern and Western Districts of Oklahoma; Vanessa D. Gilmore,
to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas; Terry
C. Kern, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of
Oklahoma; Gladys Kessler, to be United States District Judge for the District
of Columbia; and Emmet G. Sullivan, to be United States District Judge for the
District of Columbia, after the nominees testified and answered questions in
their own behalf. Mr. McKee was introduced by Senators Wofford and Specter;
Messrs. Burrage and Kern were introduced by Senators Boren and Nickles; Ms.
Gilmore was introduced by Senator Hutchison and Representatives Brooks and
Michael Andrews; and Ms. Kessler and Mr. Sullivan were introduced by District
of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton.

REEMPLOYMENT AND RETRAINING ACT

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on
provisions of S. 1964, authorizing funds to States for worker reemployment and
retraining programs (pending on Senate Calendar), after receiving testimony
from New York State Commissioner of Labor John F. Hudacs, Albany, on behalf of
the National Governors' Association; Albert Hoser, Siemens Corporation, New
York, New York; John H. Zimmerman, MCI Communications Corporation, and William
H. Kolberg, National Alliance of Business, both of Washington, D.C.; Jeanine
Brannon, Society for Human Resource Management, Alexandria, Virginia; Pamela
Anderson, Louisville, Kentucky, on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Mayors
Employment and Training Council; Andrew N. Richardson, West Virginia Bureau of
Employment Programs, Charleston, on behalf of the Interstate Conference of
Employment Security Agencies; and Gerald Brown, Vermont Heating and
Ventilating Company, Colchester, on behalf of the National Association of
Private Industry Councils.

AUTHORIZATION--FEC

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995 for the Federal
Election Commission, after receiving testimony from Trevor Potter, Chairman,
Danny Lee McDonald, Vice Chairman, and Lee Ann Elliott, Commissioner, all of
the Federal Election Commission. 

EXPORT ASSISTANCE FOR SMALL BUSINESS

Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Export Expansion and Agricultural
Development concluded hearings to examine Federal export assistance efforts
for small business, after receiving testimony from Jan Wolfe, Deputy Associate
Deputy Administrator for Economic Development, and Irene Fisher, Assistant
Administrator for International Trade, both of the Small Business
Administration; Maria Luisa M. Haley, Director, Export-Import Bank of the
United States; Christopher Goldthwait, General Sales Manager, Foreign
Agricultural Service, Department of Agriculture; and Raymond E. Vickery, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Development. 

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, May 17. 

Joint Meetings

GPO

Joint Committee on Printing: Committee held hearings to examine the financial
position of the Government Printing Office, focusing on cost-cutting and
revenue-generating measures, receiving testimony from Michael F. DiMario,
Public Printer, Government Printing Office. 

Also, committee met to consider pending committee business, and recessed
subject to call. 

BOARD MEETING

Office of Technology Assessment: The Board met and approved the following
project proposals: 

1. Impacts of Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria. 

2. International Collaboration in Large Science and Technology Projects. 

3. Reducing Earthquake Damage: Research, Development, and Application. 



1994/05/13
Daily Digest - Friday, May 13, 1994;  pages D541 - D546

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

GLOBAL LANDMINE CRISIS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations concluded
hearings to examine the global threat of landmine proliferation, focusing on
certain demining initiatives and United States policy on landmine problems,
after receiving testimony from Representative Evans; Thomas McNamara,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Political and Military
Affairs; Frederick Downs, Director, Division of Prosthetics and Sensory Aids,
Department of Veterans Affairs; Sadako Ogata, United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees, Patrick Blagden, United Nations Demining Program, and James
Grant, United Nations Children's Fund, all of New York, New York; and Kenneth
Rutherford, International Rescue Committee, Robert Muller, Vietnam Veterans of
America Foundation, and Kenneth Anderson, Human Rights Watch Arms Project, all
of Washington, D.C. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 17, 1994. 

APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education [and Related Agencies] concluded hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1995 for certain programs of the Departments of
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, focusing on waste, fraud, and
abuse issues, after receiving testimony from Charles C. Masten, Acting
Inspector General, Department of Labor; James B. Thomas, Jr., Inspector
General, Department of Education; and Michael F. Mangano, Deputy Inspector
General, and Shirley S. Chater, Commissioner, Social Security Administration,
both of the Department of Health and Human Services. 

CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on the Convention
on the Prohibition of Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical
Weapons and on Their Destruction, opened for signature and signed by the
United States at Paris on January 13, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 103-21), receiving
testimony from Walter B. Slocombe, Deputy Under Secretary for Policy, and
Harold P. Smith, Jr., Assistant to the Secretary for Atomic Energy, both of
the Department of Defense; and Maj. Gen. David W. McIlvoy, USAF, Deputy
Director for International Negotiations, Directorate for Strategic Plans and
Policy (J-5), Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

                               [Page: D542]

Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 17. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/05/16
Daily Digest - Monday, May 16, 1994;  pages D548 - D552

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

CHILD NUTRITION 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
on S. 1614, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1998 for programs of the
Child Nutrition Act and the National School Lunch Act, receiving testimony
from Drew Davis, National Soft Drink Association, and Ronald Kleinman, on
behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics, both of Washington, D.C.;
Rachael Johnson, University of Vermont, on behalf of the American Dietetic
Association, and Lisa Hodgson, Vermont Department of Health, both of
Burlington; Marilyn Hurt, La Crosse, Wisconsin, on behalf of the American
School Food Service Association; Jodi Boyce, Dysart, Iowa, on behalf of the
Center for Science in the Public Interest; Carolyn Meiki, Chicago Public
Schools, Chicago, Illinois; James R. Elliot, Thompson High School, Alabaster,
Alabama; and Chip Baldwin, Hartland Elementary School, Hartland, Vermont. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Joseph R. Paolino, Jr., of Rhode Island, to be Ambassador to the Republic
of Malta, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Chafee, testified
and answered questions in his own behalf. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/05/17
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 17, 1994;  pages D553 - D564

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 1995 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on environmental programs, receiving testimony from Sherri Wasserman Goodman,
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Environmental Security. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 24. 

APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for foreign assistance
programs, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 24. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported the nominations of Carrye Burley Brown, of the District of
Columbia, to be Administrator of the United States Fire Administration,
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Lauri Fitz Pegado, of Maryland, to be
Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Director General of the United States and
Foreign Commercial Service, Rachelle B. Chong, of California, and Susan Ness,
of Maryland, each to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission,
William D. Hathaway, of Maine, and Joe Scroggins, Jr., of Florida, each to be
a Member of the Federal Maritime Commission, Arnold Gregory Holz, of Maryland,
to be Chief Financial Officer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
T. R. Lakshmanan, of New Hampshire, to be Director of the Bureau of
Transportation Statistics, Department of Transportation, Vice Adm. Robert E.
Kramek, to be Commandant, Rear Adm. Arthur E. Henn, to be Vice Commandant,
Rear Adm. James M. Loy, to be Commander, Atlantic Area, and Rear Adm. Richard
D. Herr, to be Commander, Pacific Area, all of the United States Coast Guard,
Rear Adm. John C. Albright, to be Director, Pacific Marine Center, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce, a routine list
in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a routine list in the
United States Coast Guard, and a list of officers of the United States Coast
Guard for appointment to the grade of rear admiral. 

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AUTHORIZATION--EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS REDUCTION

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, after receiving
testimony from Richard Moore, Associate Director for Mitigation, Federal
Emergency Management Agency; Gordon Eaton, Director, and Robert L. Wesson,
Chief, Office of Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Engineering, both of the United
States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior; Joseph Bordogna,
Assistant Director for Engineering, National Science Foundation; and Richard
Wright, Director, Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institute of
Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce. 

NATIONAL PARKS AND HISTORIC SITES

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills: 

S. 1683, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide funds to the
Palisades Interstate Park Commission for acquisition of land in the Sterling
Forest area of the New York/New Jersey Highlands Region, after receiving
testimony from Senator Lautenberg; Representatives Roukema, Klein, and
Torricelli; Jim Hall, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and
Energy, Trenton; Barnabas McHenry, Hudson River Valley Greenway Communities
Council, New York, New York, and Malcolm A. Borg, Macromedia Incorporated,
Hackensack, New Jersey, both on behalf of the Palisades Interstate Park
Commission; Robert E. Thomson, Sterling Forest Corporation, Tuxedo, New York;
Dean C. Noll, North Jersey District Water Supply Commission, Wanaque, New
Jersey; JoAnn Dolan, New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, and James T.B.
Tripp, Environmental Defense Fund, both of New York, New York; Wilma E. Frey,
New Jersey Conservation Foundation, Morristown; Edward Morley, Sierra Club,
Princeton, New Jersey; and Samuel F. Pryor, III, Appalachian Mountain Club,
Boston, Massachusetts; 

S. 1660 and H.R. 3498, bills to establish the Great Falls Historic District in
Paterson, New Jersey, after receiving testimony from Senator Lautenberg;
Representative Klein; Katherine Stevenson, Associate Regional Director for
Planning and Preservation, Mid-Atlantic Region, National Park Service,
Department of the Interior; and Mayor William J. Pascrell, Jr., Paterson, New
Jersey; 

S. 1999, to establish the Lower East Side Tenement Museum National Historic
Site in New York City, after receiving testimony from Senator Moynihan; Ruth
Abram, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, New York; and 

S. 112, to establish the Hudson River Artists National Historical Park in the
State of New York, after receiving testimony from Joan K. Davidson, New York
State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Albany. 

Testimony was also received on S. 112, S. 1683, and S. 1999 (listed above)
from Marie Rust, North Atlantic Regional Director, National Park Service,
Department of the Interior. 

AUTHORIZATION--TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Toxic Substances,
Research and Development concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for programs of the Toxic Substances Control Act, after
receiving testimony from Representative Synar; Lynn R. Goldman, Assistant
Administrator, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances,
Environmental Protection Agency; Peter F. Guerrero, Director, Environmental
Protection Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division,
General Accounting Office; Ellen K. Silbergeld, Environmental Defense Fund,
and Ron Condray, Monsanto Company, on behalf of the Chemical Manufacturers
Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Warren R. Muir, INFORM, Alexandria,
Virginia; and Braden R. Allenby, AT&T, Princeton, New Jersey. 

CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION TREATY

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings in open and
closed sessions on the Convention on the Prohibition of Development,
Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction,
opened for signature and signed by the United States at Paris on January 13,
1993 (Treaty Doc. 103-21), after receiving testimony from Donald Mahley,
Acting Assistant Director, Bureau of Multilateral Affairs, United States Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency; Maj. Gen. John Landry, USA, National
Intelligence Officer for General Purpose Forces, National Intelligence
Council; and John Lauder, Chief of Arms Control, Office of the Director of
Central Intelligence. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Frank G. Wisner, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to India,
after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Pressler and Brown,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

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NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine United
States export licensing procedures for dual-use nuclear items (equipment,
materials, and technical data that have civilian uses but can also be used to
develop nuclear explosives or special nuclear material), and a related measure
S. 1055, to improve the organization and management of United States nuclear
export controls, receiving testimony from Joseph E. Kelley,
Director-in-Charge, International Affairs Issues, National Security and
International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; Robert J. Einhorn,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Nonproliferation; Mitchel B.
Wallerstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counterproliferation
Policy; Iain S. Baird, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export
Administration; Michael E. Rosenthal, Chief, International Nuclear Affairs
Division, Nonproliferation and Regional Arms Control Bureau, United States
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Trisha Dedik, Director, Export Control
Operations Division, Office of Nonproliferation and National Security,
Department of Energy; and Carlton R. Stoiber, Director, Office of
International Programs, Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

YOUTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs and Alcoholism concluded hearings to examine certain provisions
establishing programs to prevent youth violence as contained in the proposed
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, after receiving testimony from
Senators Bradley and Domenici; Janet Reno, Attorney General, Department of
Justice; Angela Blackwell, Urban Strategies Council, Oakland, California;
Robert Lewis, Boston Housing Authority Community Initiatives Department,
Boston, Massachusetts; Maryellen Chambers De Jong, Waterbury Girls' Club,
Waterbury, Connecticut, on behalf of Girls Incorporated and the National
Collaboration for Youth; Chris Campbell, Fayetteville, New York, on behalf of
the United States Olympic Committee; Donald L. Cahill, Fraternal Order of
Police, Washington, D.C.; Yahaira Juan and Darnell Dalton, both of Bridgeport,
Connecticut, Jenna Thomas, Hardeeville, South Carolina, all on behalf of
Serious Teens Acting Responsibly (STAR); Nehme Abouzeid, Weymouth,
Massachusetts, on behalf of the Weymouth Youth and Family Services; and Otis
Ware and Terrill Turner, both on behalf of the Black Male Youth Health
Enhancement Project, Washington, D.C. 

AUTHORIZATION--ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities approved for full committee consideration, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute, S. 1513, authorizing funds for programs of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. 

MINORITIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities concluded hearings to examine certain issues relating to minority
participation in higher education, focusing on student aid programs, after
receiving testimony from Cornelia M. Blanchette, Associate Director, Education
and Employment Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division, General
Accounting Office; Robert Atwell, American Council on Education, and Arnold L.
Mitchem, National Council of Educational Opportunity Associations, both of
Washington, D.C.; Isaura Santiago Santiago, Hostos Community College, Bronx,
New York; Thelma Thomas, Nebraska Indian Community College, Winnebago;
Harrison B. Wilson, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia; and Earl S.
Richardson, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland. 

SBA LOAN PROGRAM

Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2061 and S.
737, bills to permit prepayment of debentures issued by State and local
development companies, after receiving testimony from Senator Hatfield; Mary
Jean Ryan, Associate Deputy Administrator, and Allen Mandel, Director, Office
of Rural Affairs and Economic Development, both of the Small Business
Administration; Doris M. Johnson, Vancouver Bolt and Supply Inc., Vancouver,
Washington; Roger Troutman, Catawba Animal Clinic, Rock Hill, South Carolina;
and Kenneth Lueckenotte, Rural Missouri, Inc., Jefferson City, Missouri, on
behalf of the National Association of Development Companies. 

INDIAN GAMING

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee resumed hearings to examine Federal and
State government regulation of Indian gaming activities, receiving testimony
from Senators Pell and Chafee; Representative Torricelli; Ada E. Deer,
Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, John J. Duffy, Counsel to the
Secretary, and Hilda Manuel, Director of Indian Gaming Staff, all of the
Department of the Interior; Kevin V. Di Gregory, Deputy Assistant Attorney
General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; Wyoming Governor Mike
Sullivan, Cheyenne; Rhode Island Governor Bruce Sundlun, Providence; Wayne S.
Moss, Maine Assistant Attorney General, Augusta; Nelson Kempsky, Conference of
Western Attorneys General, Sacramento, California; Anthony J. Hope, Jana
McKeag, Michael Cox, and Fred Stuckwisch, each of the National Indian Gaming
Commission, Mary Ann Antone, National Congress of American Indians, and Rick
Hill, Paul Alexander, Sharon House, and Frank Ducheneaux, each of the National
Indian Gaming Association, all of Washington, D.C.; Phillip Martin,
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Philadelphia, Charles Hobbs, Hobbs,
Straus, Dean and Walker, Washington, D.C., and James Sappier, Nashville,
Tennessee, all on behalf of the United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc.; and Tom
Tureen, Portland, Maine. 

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Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INTELLIGENCE

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community. 

Committee will meet again on Tuesday, May 24. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/05/18
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 18, 1994;  pages D565 - D572

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

CHILDHOOD IMMUNIZATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and Related Agencies concluded hearings on the status and
future goals of the Administration's Childhood Immunization Initiative to
improve the quality and quantity of vaccination delivery services, focusing on
immunization coverage rates and disease incidence, after receiving testimony
from David Satcher, Director, and Walter A. Orenstein, Director, National
Immunization Program, both of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Department of Health and Human Services; F.E. Thompson, Jr., Mississippi State
Department of Health, Jackson; David L. Wood, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los
Angeles, California; Allan M. Arbeter, Albert Einstein Medical Center,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Daryl C. Plevy, Maryland Department of Human
Resources, Baltimore; and Paul Stehr-Green, Auburn, Washington. 

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee resumed hearings
on S. 1822, to safeguard and protect the public interest while permitting the
growth and development of new communications technologies, focusing on
provisions relating to competition for local telephone service and universal
service, receiving testimony from Lisa Rosenblum, New York State Public
Service Commission, Albany; Steven Hamlen, United Utilities, Inc., and Dana
Tindall, General Communications, Inc., both of Anchorage, Alaska; Richard C.
Green, Jr., UTILICORP United, Kansas City, Missouri; Brian L. Roberts, Comcast
Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Frank Hilsabeck, Lincoln Telephone,
Lincoln, Nebraska; Eli Noam, Columbia University Business School, New York,
New York; Gary E. Lasher, Eastern TeleLogic, Inc., King of Prussia,
Pennsylvania; and Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of America, Roy Neel,
United States Telephone Association, James G. Cullen, Bell Atlantic
Corporation, Margot Smiley-Humphrey, Koteen and Naftalin, on behalf of the
National Rural Telecom Association, and Thomas E. Wheeler, Cellular
Telecommunications Industry Association, all of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 24. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported thefollowing bills: 

S. 1033, to establish the Shenandoah Valley National Battlefields and
Commission in the Commonwealth of Virginia, with an amendment in the nature of
a substitute; 

S. 1233, to resolve the status of certain lands in Arizona that are subject to
a claim as a grant of public lands for railroad purposes, with amendments; and 

S. 1980, to establish the Cane River Creole National Historical Park and the
Cane River National Heritage Area in Louisiana, with amendments. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Jan Piercy, of Illinois, to be United States Executive Director
of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Sally A.
Shelton, of Texas, to be an Assistant Administrator of the Agency for
International Development, and Timothy A. Chorba, of the District of Columbia,
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore, after the nominees testified
and answered questions in their own behalf. Ms. Piercy and Ms. Shelton were
introduced by Senator Simon. 

HEALTH REFORM 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee began markup of proposed
legislation to ensure individual and family security through health care
coverage for all Americans in a manner that contains the rate of growth in
health care costs and promotes responsible health insurance practices, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/05/19
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 19, 1994;  pages D573 - D580

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

CROP INSURANCE REFORM 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Production and Stabilization of Prices concluded hearings on S.
2095, to reform the Federal crop insurance program, after receiving testimony
from Richard C. Gibson, American Association of Crop Insurers, Council Bluffs,
Iowa; Michael Connealy, Rural Community Insurance Services, Anoka, Minnesota;
Hyde Murray, American Farm Bureau Federation, Washington, D.C.; Allan Bergman,
North Dakota Farmers Union, Jud; and Robert McGinnis, Marianna, Arkansas. 

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. 218, setting forth the congressional budget for the
United States Government for fiscal years 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999,
and agreed to report to the Senate under the provisions of 602(b) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 

APPROPRIATIONS--VA/SELECTIVE SERVICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Jesse Brown,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs; and G. Huntington Banister, Acting
Director/Executive Director, Selective Service System. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Clark G. Fiester, of California, to be an Assistant Secretary of
the Air Force, and 3,098 military nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps,
and Air Force. 

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FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings to
examine the risks and Federal regulation of financial derivatives (financial
products whose values are based on the value of an underlying asset, reference
rate, or index), and their impact on domestic and global financial markets,
receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United
States, General Accounting Office. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

HISTORIC SITES/NATIONAL PARKS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills: 

H.R. 4034, to authorize grants for the expansion of recreation opportunities
for at risk youth in urban areas with a high prevalence of crime, after
receiving testimony from Representative George Miller; Gil Walker, National
Association of Midnight Basketball Leagues, Chicago, Illinois; and Michael J.
Millay, Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation, New Orleans, Louisiana; 

H.R. 3252, to provide for the conservation, management, or study of certain
rivers, parks, trails, and historic sites, and related measures, including S.
796, S. 1278, S. 1652, and S.J. Res. 152, after receiving testimony from Lyle
Laverty, Acting Associate Deputy Chief, Forest Service, Department of
Agriculture; and 

S. 2089, to reform the operation, maintenance, and development of Steamtown
National Historic Site in Scranton, Pennsylvania, after receiving testimony
from John Latcher, Steamtown National Historic Site Committee, Scranton,
Pennsylvania. 

Testimony was also received on H.R. 4034, H.R. 3252, and S. 2089 (listed
above), and S. 523, to expand the boundaries of Fort Necessity National
Battlefield in Pennsylvania from James W. Stewart, Assistant Director for
Planning, National Park Service, Department of the Interior. 

AUTHORIZATION--SUPERFUND 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund,
Recycling, and Solid Waste Management met to consider issues relating to the
markup of S. 1834, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1995 through 1999 for
programs of the Comprehensive Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
(Superfund). 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1980 and to strengthen the management of information resources, receiving
testimony from Gene L. Dodaro, Assistant Comptroller General, Accounting and
Information Management Division, General Accounting Office; Sally Katzen,
Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget; and C. Boyden Gray, Citizens for a Sound Economy,
Robert E. Coakley, Council on Regulatory and Information Management, and
Lorraine Lavet, United States Chamber of Commerce, both on behalf of the
Paperwork Reduction Act Coalition, David C. Vladeck, Public Citizen Litigation
Group, and Gary D. Bass, OMB Watch, all of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee continued markup of proposed
legislation to ensure individual and family security through health care
coverage for all Americans in a manner that contains the rate of growth in
health care costs and promotes responsible health insurance practices,
focusing on long-term care, public health, and quality and consumer protection
provisions, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

                               [Page: D577]

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/05/20
Daily Digest - Friday, May 20, 1994;  pages D581 - D588

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 1995 for programs
of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development and
independent agencies, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 26. 

MEDICAL DEVICE MATERIALS LIABILITY 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Regulation and Government
Information concluded hearings to examine the impact of supplier liability on
the manufacture and development of life-saving medical devices, diagnostic
products, and health care information systems, after receiving testimony from
Paul Citron, Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota; Eleanor Gackstatter,
Meadox Medicals, Inc., Oakland, New Jersey; Katherine F. Knox, Dupont Company,
Wilmington, Delaware; James S. Benson, Health Industry Manufacturers
Association, and M. Kristen Rand, on behalf of Consumers Union, Consumer
Federation of America, and Public Citizen's Congress Watch, both of
Washington, D.C.; J. Donald Hill, California Pacific Medical Center, San
Francisco, and Bernard N. Stulberg, Cleveland Center for Joint Reconstruction,
Cleveland, Ohio, both on behalf of the Biomaterials Availability Coalition;
Pierre M. Galletti, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, on behalf of
the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering; Mark Reily,
Houston, Texas; and Peggy A. Phillips, Falls Church, Virginia. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/05/23
Daily Digest - Monday, May 23, 1994;  pages D589 - D596

Committee Meetings

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/05/24
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 24, 1994;  pages D597 - D606

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

USDA MEAT INSPECTION POLICY 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Research, Conservation, Forestry and General Legislation held
hearings to examine Department of Agriculture activities to improve the meat
and poultry inspection system, focusing on the impact of the E. coli outbreak,
receiving testimony from Patricia Jensen, Acting Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture for Marketing and Inspection Services; John W. Harman, Director,
Food and Agriculture Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development
Division, General Accounting Office; J. Patrick Boyle, American Meat
Institute, Arlington, Virginia; and Carol Tucker Foreman, Foreman and
Heiderpriem, Inc., on behalf of the Safe Food Coalition, and Gary Wilson,
National Cattlemen's Association, both of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on strategic programs, receiving testimony from Adm. Henry G. Chiles, Jr.,
USN, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Strategic Command; and Lt. Gen. Malcolm O'Neill,
USA, Director, Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, Department of Defense. 

                               [Page: D599]

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for foreign
assistance programs, focusing on export promotion, after receiving testimony
from Ruth R. Harkin, President, Overseas Private Investment Corporation,
Terrence J. Brown, Officer in Charge for Guatemala/Guatemala City, Agency for
International Development, and J. Joseph Grandmaison, Director, Trade and
Development Agency, all of the United States International Development
Cooperation Agency; and Kenneth D. Brody, President, Export-Import Bank of the
United States. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met to discuss procedural issues
relating to the markup of proposed legislation authorizing funds for certain
national defense programs. 

Committee will meet again on Thursday, May 26. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items: 

An original bill to improve the administration of export controls; 

S. 1952, to authorize the minting of coins to commemorate the 175th
anniversary of the founding of the United States Botanic Garden, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and 

The nominations of Alan S. Blinder, of New Jersey, to be a Member and Vice
Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Steven Mark
Hart Wallman, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Securities and Exchange
Commission; and Philip N. Diehl, of Texas, to be Director of the Mint,
Department of the Treasury. 

TELECOMMUNICATIONS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee resumed hearings
on S. 1822, to safeguard and protect the public interest while permitting the
growth and development of new communications technologies, focusing on public
interest considerations, receiving testimony from Paul W. Schroeder, American
Council of the Blind, Mark Goldfarb, Gallaudet University, Robert Peck,
American Civil Liberties Union, Anthony L. Pharr, United Church of Christ, and
James L. Winston, National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters, all of
Washington, D.C.; Margaret R. Pfanstiehl, Metropolitan Washington Ear, Silver
Spring, Maryland; and Susan Hadden, Alliance for Public Technology, Austin,
Texas. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the role of greenhouse gases in global warming and the implementation
of the Administration's climate change action plan for reducing greenhouse gas
emissions, after receiving testimony from Robert T. Watson, Associate Director
for Environment, 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;
Judith Lean, Research Physicist, E.O. Hulburt Center for Space Research, Naval
Research Laboratory; Richard S. Lindzen, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and Sallie Baliunas, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
both of Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Stephen E. Schwartz, Brookhaven National
Laboratory, Upton, New York. 

ENERGY SUPPLY SECURITY 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
2032, to ensure that insular areas of the United States have guaranteed access
to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve during an oil supply disruption, and
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1995-1999 for programs
of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, receiving testimony from John A.
Riggs, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for Policy Planning and
Program Evaluation; Mufi Hannemann and Tak Yoshihara, both of the Hawaii
Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, and Harwood D.
Williamson, Hawaiian Electric Company, all of Honolulu. 

SOCIAL SECURITY RETIREMENT EARNINGS TEST 

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine how the current
Social Security retirement earnings test is working and its impact on
beneficiaries, focusing on whether to eliminate or modify the test, receiving
testimony from Senator McCain; Representative Hastert; Shirley S. Chater,
Commissioner of Social Security, Department of Health and Human Services;
Robert M. Ball, former Commissioner of Social Security, Max Richtman, National
Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, and C. Eugene Steuerle,
The Urban Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; and Joseph S. Perkins, American
Association of Retired Persons, Danvers, Massachusetts. 

                               [Page: D600]

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Frank G. Wisner, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of India, after the nominee testified and answered further questions
in his own behalf. 

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE REFORM 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
concluded hearings to examine reforms to the medical malpractice system as
contained in the proposed Health Security Act, after receiving testimony from
Cynthia C. Lebow, Senior Counsel for Policy, Civil Division, Department of
Justice; Philip H. Corboy, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the American Bar
Association; Paul B. Ginsburg, Physician Payment Review Commission, and John
H. Niles, Columbia Hospital For Women, on behalf of the Health Care Liability
Alliance, and Victor E. Schwartz, Crowell & Moring, all of Washington, D.C.;
and Laura Wittkin, Center for Patients' Rights, New York, New York. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed markup of proposed
legislation to ensure individual and family security through health care
coverage for all Americans in a manner that contains the rate of growth in
health care costs and promotes responsible health insurance practices, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATION--INDIAN CHILD PROTECTION AND FAMILY VIOLENCE
PREVENTION 

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2075, to
authorize funds for and strengthen programs of the Indian Child Protection and
Family Violence Prevention Act, and provisions of S. 2074, to increase the
special assessment for felonies and improve the enforcement of sentences
imposing criminal fines, after receiving testimony from Michael H. Trujillo,
Director, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services;
Walter R. Mills, Acting Deputy Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Department of
the Interior; Howard B. Apple, Unit Chief, Interstate Theft/Government
Reservation Crimes Unit, Violent Crimes and Major Offenders Section, Criminal
Investigative Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of
Justice; Ferrell Secakuku, Hopi Tribe, Kykotsmovi, Arizona; Cecil Antone, Gila
River Indian Community, Sacaton, Arizona; Pamela Iron, Cherokee Nation of
Oklahoma, Tahlequah; and Genevieve Jackson, Navajo Nation Council, Window
Rock, Arizona. 

COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY ENHANCEMENTS ACT 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported, with
amendments, S. 2056, to revise the National Security Act of 1947 to improve
the counterintelligence and security posture of the United States. 

Joint Meetings 

RUSSIA AND THE FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS 

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission):
Commission concluded hearings to examine Russian foreign policy toward other
former republics of the Soviet Union and the implications for United States
policy, after receiving testimony from James Collins, Senior Coordinator,
Office of the Ambassador at Large for the New Independent States, Department
of State; Paul Goble, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington,
D.C.; and Ronald Suny, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 



1994/05/25
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 25, 1994;  pages D608 - D618

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 1995 for the government
of the District of Columbia, receiving testimony from District of Columbia
Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly; and David A. Clarke, Chairman, Council of the
District of Columbia. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the
Department of the Interior, receiving testimony from Bruce Babbitt, Secretary
of the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 7. 

TEENAGE PREGNANCY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings to examine the causes and
effects of the increase in teenage pregnancy, receiving testimony from M.
Joycelyn Elders, Surgeon General, Public Health Service, Department of Health
and Human Services; Marion Howard, Grady Memorial Hospital, and Karlethia
Jones, Douglass High School, both of Atlanta, Georgia; Darrell Green,
Washington, D.C., on behalf of Athletes for Abstinence; Lakita Garth, Green
Youth Foundation, Los Angeles, California; and Carol Machael, Women's Health
Services, Angela Renee McCoy, and Colleen Morgan, all of Clinton, Iowa. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, June 8. 

APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for military
construction programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Robert M. Walker, Assistant Secretary of the Army
(Installations, Logistics and Environment), Brig. Gen. Robert L. Herndon,
Director of Facilities and Housing, and Col. William T. Harvey, Chief, Base
Realignment and Closure Office, both of the Office of the Assistant Chief of
Army Staff for Installation Management; Brig. Gen. William C. Bilo, Deputy
Director, Army National Guard; Brig. Gen. Paul C. Bergson, Deputy Chief, Army
Reserve; Maj. Gen. James C. McCombs, USSOCOM/J-8, Director of Resources, U.S.
Special Operations Command; Patricia Watson, Principal Director, Office of the
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Services Operations); Brig. Gen.
Robert P. McFarlin, USA, Executive Director of Distribution, Defense Logistics
Agency; and Robert G. Kugler, Deputy Chief, Facilities Management, National
Security Agency. 

                               [Page: D611]

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

UNITED STATES CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE-RELATED EXPORTS TO
IRAQ 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings to
examine how materials contributing to Iraq's chemical and biological warfare
program were exported to Iraq from the United States and its possible
connection to Persian Gulf veterans who have developed certain health
problems, receiving testimony from Edwin Dorn, Under Secretary of Defense for
Personnel and Readiness; Theodore Prociv, Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of
Defense for Chemical/Biological Matters (Atomic Energy); John Kriese, Chief
Officer for ground Forces, Defense Intelligence Agency; Mitchell Wallerstein,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counterproliferation; and Gordon
Oehler, Director, Nonproliferation Center, Central Intelligence Agency. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

TELECOMMUNICATIONS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on S. 1822, to safeguard and protect the public interest while
permitting the growth and development of new communications technologies,
focusing on education and telecommunications infrastructure, after receiving
testimony from Senator Kerrey; Richard W. Riley, Secretary, and Linda Roberts,
Technology Advisor to the Secretary, both of the Department of Education;
Kenneth F. Melley, National Education Association, and Elaine Albright,
American Library Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Carla Lane, U.S.
Distance Learning Association, San Roman, California; Ervin S. Duggan and Mary
Harley Kruter, both of the Public Broadcasting Service, Alexandria, Virginia;
Cheryl Vedoe, Apple Computer, Campbell, California; Katherine Piller and Clay
Ehlers, both of Lincoln High School, Lincoln, Nebraska; and Lee Bollman,
Chapin Middle School, Chapin, South Carolina. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items: 

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination (Ex. C. 95th Cong. 2d Sess.), with three reservations, one
understanding, one declaration, and one proviso; 

S. Res. 148, expressing the sense of the Senate that the United Nations should
be encouraged to permit representatives of Taiwan to participate fully in its
activities; and 

The nominations of Joseph R. Paolino, Jr., of Rhode Island, to be Ambassador
to the Republic of Malta, Frank G. Wisner, of the District of Columbia, to be
Ambassador to India, Timothy A. Chorba, of the District of Columbia, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore, Jan Piercy, of Illinois, to be United
States Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development, Sally A. Shelton, of Texas, to be Assistant Administrator for
Global Programs, Field Support and Research, Agency for International
Development, Carol Jones Carmody, of Louisiana, for the rank of Minister
during her tenure of service as United States Representative on the Council of
the International Civil Aviation Organization, David E. Birenbaum, of the
District of Columbia, to be the United States Representative to the United
Nations for U.N. Management and Reform, with the rank of Ambassador, Maria
Elena Torano, of Florida, to be a Member of the United States Advisory
Commission on Public Diplomacy, and Harriet C. Babbitt, of Arizona, to be a
Member of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Foundation. 

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
held hearings to examine the nature and scope of the threat to the United
States and international security posed by the growth of organized crime
groups in the countries of the former Soviet Union, receiving testimony from
Louis J. Freeh, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of
Justice; Mikhail Yegorov, Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Moscow; and
Hans-Ludwig Zachert, German Federal Criminal Police, Bonn. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Theodore A. McKee, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Third Circuit, Billy Michael Burrage, to be United States
District Judge for the Northern, Eastern and Western Districts of Oklahoma,
Vanessa D. Gilmore, to be United States District Judge for the Southern
District of Texas, Terry C. Kern, to be United States District Judge for the
Northern District of Oklahoma, Florence M. Cauthen, to be U.S. Marshal for the
Middle District of Alabama, Joseph G. DiLeonardi, to be U.S. Marshal for the
Northern District of Illinois, Robert B. Robertson, to be U.S. Marshal for the
Eastern District of Oklahoma, John R. O'Connor, to be U.S. Marshall for the
District of Connecticut, Michael A. Pizzi, to be United States Marshal for the
Eastern District of New York, and Dallas S. Neville, to be United States
Marshal for the Western District of Wisconsin. 

                               [Page: D612]

HEALTH CARE FRAUD 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine Federal,
State, and local efforts to combat fraud and abuse in the health care industry
and related provisions of the proposed Health Security Act, after receiving
testimony from Gerald M. Stern, Special Counsel, Health Care Fraud, and
Special Counsel, Financial Institution Fraud, Department of Justice; Michael
Mangano, Principal Deputy Inspector General, Department of Health and Human
Services; Indiana Attorney General Pamela Fanning Carter, Indianapolis, on
behalf of the National Association of Attorneys General Health Care Task
Force; David W. Waterbury, Washington State Medicaid Fraud Control Unit,
Olympia, on behalf of the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control
Units; Kevin M. Mattessich, Morrison, Mahoney and Miller, New York, New York;
William J. Mahon, National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, Washington,
D.C.; and Kirk B. Johnson, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the American
Medical Association. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Diana Gribbon Motz, of Maryland, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
Fourth Circuit, Robert M. Parker, of Texas, to be United States Circuit Judge
for the Fifth Circuit, William F. Downes, to be United States District Judge
for the District of Wyoming, Paul L. Friedman, to be United States District
Judge for the District of Columbia, Denise Page Hood, to be United States
District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, Richard A. Paez, to be
United States District Judge for the Central District of California, and
Ricardo M. Urbina, to be United States District Judge for the District of
Columbia, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Ms. Motz was introduced by Senators Sarbanes and Mikulski, Mr. Parker
was introduced by Senator Hutchison and Representative Brooks, Mr. Downes was
introduced by Senator Simpson and Representative Wise, Messrs. Friedman and
Urbina were introduced by District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton,
Ms. Hood was introduced by Senator Levin and Representatives Collins and
Conyers, and Mr. Paez was introduced by Senator Boxer. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee continued markup of proposed
legislation to ensure individual and family security through health care
coverage for all Americans in a manner that contains the rate of growth in
health care costs and promotes responsible health insurance practices, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/05/26
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 26, 1994;  pages D619 - D624

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NATURAL DISASTER PROTECTION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on S. 1350, to provide for an expanded Federal program of hazards
mitigation and insurance against the risk of catastrophic natural disasters,
such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions, after receiving
testimony from Elaine A. McReynolds, Federal Emergency Management Agency;
Florida State Representative John Cosgrove, Tallahassee; Jerry Ulhmann,
Missouri Emergency Management Agency, Jefferson City; Rebecca Quin, Maryland
Department of Natural Resources, Water Resources and Administration,
Annapolis; Robert Hunter, Texas Department of Insurance, Austin; Peggy Bowker,
Flood Insurance Services, Inc., Reno, Nevada; Frank Nutter, Reinsurance
Association of America, and Courtney Wood, Independent Insurance Agents of
America, both of Washington, D.C.; Harold Covey, State Farm Insurance Company,
Bloomington, Illinois; and Robin K. Campaniano, AIG Hawaii Insurance Company,
Honolulu. 

INSURANCE POLICY TRANSFER ACT 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on S. 1989, to prohibit the transfer and novation of an insurance
policy without the prior informed written consent of the policyholder, and on
issues relating to insurance redlining, after receiving testimony from
Senators Metzenbaum and Feingold; Representatives Cardiss Collins and Kennedy;
Mary Griffin, Consumers Union, Dan Mica and Richard Minck, both of the
American Council of Life Insurance, Lynn M. Schubert, American Insurance
Association, Gerald Bell, National Association of Independent Insurers, and
Deepak Bhargava, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, all of
Washington, D.C.; Steven T. Foster, Kansas City, Missouri, on behalf of the
National Association of Insurance Commissioners, and Robert Hunter, Texas
Department of Insurance, Austin. 

PLUTONIUM DISPOSITION 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings to examine
policy options for the disposition of excess weapons plutonium, receiving
testimony from Charles B. Curtis, Under Secretary of Energy; Richard J.K.
Stratford, Director, Office of Nuclear Energy Affairs, Bureau of
Political-Military Affairs, Department of State; Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky,
Stanford University, Stanford, California, on behalf of the National Academy
of Sciences; and Richard Wilson, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS CIVIL WORKS PROGRAM 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings to
examine how the Army Corps of Engineers civil works program is operating,
focusing on the repair of Federal levees after the Midwest floods and the
assistance to communities seeking water-based recreation, after receiving
testimony from Senators Simon and Bond; John H. Zirschky, Acting Assistant
Secretary, and James Bates, Deputy Director, both of the Office of Civil
Works, Darrell E. Lewis, Chief, Natural Resources Management Branch, Donald
Dunwoody, Chief, Natural Resources Division (Missouri River Division), and
Scott Jackson, Research Biologist, all of the United States Army Corps of
Engineers, Department of Defense; Rhode Island State Senator Dennis L.
Algiere, Providence; John Lamb, Walleyes Unlimited of Montana, Glasgow; Scott
Faber, American Rivers, Washington, D.C.; and Tom Grasso, Chesapeake Bay
Foundation, Annapolis, Maryland. 

REEMPLOYMENT ACT 

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on provisions of S. 1951, to
establish a comprehensive system of reemployment services, training and income
support for permanently laid off workers, to facilitate the establishment of
one-stop career centers to serve as a common point of access to employment,
education and training information and services, and to develop an effective
national labor market information system (pending on Senate Calendar),
receiving testimony from Robert B. Reich, Secretary of Labor. 

                               [Page: D620]

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee continued markup of proposed
legislation to ensure individual and family security through health care
coverage for all Americans in a manner that contains the rate of growth in
health care costs and promotes responsible health insurance practices, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Tuesday, June 7. 

CHILDHOOD DISEASE RESEARCH 

Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
extent and potential of research by entrepreneurs on childhood diseases, after
receiving testimony from Robert J. Beall, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation,
Bethesda, Maryland; James M. Wilson, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia;
Harry Penner, Neurogen Corporation, Branford, Connecticut; Brian Dovey, Domain
Associates, Princeton, New Jersey; Robert Goldberg, Gordon Public Policy
Center, Springfield, New Jersey; and Boomer Esiason, Covington, Kentucky. 

Joint Meetings 

DEFICIT REDUCTION 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine deficit
reduction and how it affects the economy, after receiving testimony from
Lawrence Chimerine, Economic Strategy Institute, and Norman Ture, Institute
for Research on the Economics of Taxation, both of Washington, D.C.; and James
K. Galbraith, University of Texas, Austin.  



1994/06/07
Daily Digest - Tuesday, June 7, 1994;  pages D626 - D632

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 1995 for the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service, receiving testimony from Mollie H. Beattie,
Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS--NASA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), receiving testimony from
Daniel S. Goldin, Administrator, NASA. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, June 13. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Regional Defense and Contingency
Forces met in closed session and approved for full committee consideration
those provisions which fall within the subcommittee's jurisdiction of proposed
legislation authorizing funds for national defense programs. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Maria Otero, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the Board of
Directors of the Inter-American Foundation, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senator Harkin, testified and answered questions in her own
behalf. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed markup of proposed
legislation to ensure individual and family security through health care
coverage for all Americans in a manner that contains the rate of growth in
health care costs and promotes responsible health insurance practices, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

Joint Meetings 

PLUTONIUM PROLIFERATION 

Joint Economic Committee: On Monday, June 6, committee concluded hearings to
examine the proliferation, economic, and environmental risks associated with
the emerging international commerce in plutonium, after receiving testimony
from Richard J.K. Stratford, Director, Office of Nuclear Energy Affairs,
Bureau of Political Military Affairs, Department of State; Edward Fei, Acting
Director, Office of Nonproliferation Policy, Department of Energy; Brian G.
Chow, RAND Corp., Santa Monica, California; and Paul Leventhal, Nuclear
Control Institute, and David Albright, Institute for Science and International
Security, both of Washington, D.C. 



1994/06/08
Daily Digest - Wednesday, June 8, 1994;  pages D634 - D642

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--DOE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the
Department of Energy, after receiving testimony from Hazel R. O'Leary,
Secretary of Energy. 

TEENAGE PREGNANCY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education (and Related Agencies) concluded hearings to examine the causes
and effects of the increase in teenage pregnancy, after receiving testimony
from Ester R. Sylvester, Administrative Law Judge of Family Court Division,
Court of Common Pleas, and Rotan Lee and Markita Morris, both of the
Philadelphia Board of Education, all of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Colleen
Kelly Mast, Sex Respect, Inc., Bradley, Illinois; and Rosetta Stith, Paquin
School for Expectant Teenage Mothers, Baltimore, Maryland. 

APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995, after receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for Air Force military construction programs from
James F. Boatright, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
(Installations); Maj. Gen. James E. McCarthy, Air Force Civil Engineer; Brig.
Gen. John A. Bradley, Deputy Chief of Air Force Reserve; Brig. Gen. Paul A.
Weaver, Jr., Deputy Director, Air National Guard; and Maj. Gen. Richard C.
Bethruem, Director for Plans, Office of the Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff
for Plans and Operations; and in behalf of funds for Navy and Marine Corps
military construction programs from Rear Adm. Jack E. Buffington, CEC, USN,
Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command; Rear Adm. John T. Natter,
USNR, Deputy Director of Naval Reserve; and Brig. Gen. Thomas A. Braaten,
USMC, Director, Facilities and Service Division, Office of the Deputy Chief of
Staff for Installations and Logistics. 

                               [Page: D637]

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Coalition Defense and Reinforcing
Forces met in closed session and approved for full committee consideration
those provisions which fall within the subcommittee's jurisdiction of proposed
legislation authorizing funds for national defense programs. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Technology, Acquisition,
and Industrial Base met in closed session and approved for full committee
consideration those provisions which fall within the subcommittee's
jurisdiction of proposed legislation authorizing funds for national defense
programs. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Force Requirements and Personnel
met in closed session and approved for full committee consideration those
provisions which fall within the subcommittee's jurisdiction of proposed
legislation authorizing funds for national defense programs. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Readiness and
Infrastructure met in closed session and approved for full committee
consideration those provisions which fall within the subcommittee's
jurisdiction of proposed legislation authorizing funds for national defense
programs. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Nuclear Deterrence, Arms Control,
and Defense Intelligence met in closed session and approved for full committee
consideration those provisions which fall within the subcommittee's
jurisdiction of proposed legislation authorizing funds for national defense
programs. 

LOWER COLORADO RIVER 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power
held hearings to examine water quality and quantity problems and opportunities
facing the lower Colorado River area, receiving testimony from Senators Reid,
Bryan, DeConcini, and McCain; Elizabeth Rieke, Assistant Secretary of the
Interior for Water and Science; C. Laurence Linser, Arizona Department of
Water Resources, and William L. Chase, Jr., both of Phoenix, Arizona; Gerald
Zimmerman, Colorado River Board of California, Glendale; Janet Rogers,
Colorado River Commission, and Patricia Mulroy, Las Vegas Valley Water
District, both of Las Vegas, Nevada; John R. Wodraska, Metropolitan Water
District of Southern California, Los Angeles; Thomas Jensen, Grand Canyon
Trust, Flagstaff, Arizona; Dale Pontius, American Rivers, Washington, D.C.;
and David Yardas, Environmental Defense Fund, Oakland, California. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee continued markup of proposed
legislation to ensure individual and family security through health care
coverage for all Americans in a manner that contains the rate of growth in
health care costs and promotes responsible health insurance practices, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

INDIAN NATURAL RESOURCES/INDIAN HEALTH 

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the following
bills: 

S. 1936, authorizing funds to establish a program to assist Indian tribes to
develop and implement integrated natural resource management plans, after
receiving testimony from Frank Keel, Acting Director, Office of Trust
Responsibilities, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; Duane
Sherman, Hoopa Valley Tribal Council, Hoopa, California; Gene Joseph, Colville
Business Council, Nespelem, Washington; Bill Northover, Inter-Tribal
Geographic Information Systems Council, Pendleton, Oregon; and Debra Prybyla,
World Wildlife Fund, Washington, D.C.; and 

S. 2067, to establish the position of Assistant Secretary of Health and Human
Services for Indian Health, and to provide for the organizational independence
of the Indian Health Service within the Department of Health and Human
Services, after receiving testimony from Jo Ivey Bufford, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Health and Human Services for Health; Emory Johnson, former
Assistant Surgeon General of the Public Health Service; Julia Davis, National
Indian Health Board, Denver, Colorado; and Michael Begaye, Washington, D.C.,
on behalf of the Navajo Nation. 

                               [Page: D638]

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/06/09
Daily Digest - Thursday, June 9, 1994;  pages D643 - D650

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

RURAL HEALTH CARE REFORM 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings to
examine the status of health care services in rural America, receiving
testimony from Representative Long; Jeffrey Human, Director, Office of Rural
Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, and Robert Van
Hook, Executive Officer, Health Care Reform, Office of the Secretary, both of
the Department of Health and Human Services; David A.V. Reynolds, Northern
Counties Health Care, Inc., St. Johnsbury, Vermont; Gale N. Walker, St.
Benedict Health Center, Parkston, South Dakota; Sam Cordes, University of
Missouri, Columbia; Lynn H. Clothier, Indiana Health Centers, Inc.,
Indianapolis; and Robert E. Boyer, Wichita, Kansas. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to mark up
proposed legislation authorizing funds for national defense programs, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

LOWER COLORADO RIVER 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power
concluded hearings to examine water quality and quantity problems and
opportunities facing the Lower Colorado River area, after receiving testimony
from Stewart Udall, Santa Fe, New Mexico, former Secretary of the Interior;
Thomas C. Clark, Central Arizona Water Conservation District, and David
Iwanski, Agribusiness Council of Arizona, both of Phoenix; Charles L. Shreves,
Imperial Irrigation District, Imperial, California; Rodney J. Clark, Los
Angeles Department of Water and Power, Los Angeles, California; George Arthur,
Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Arizona, on behalf of the Colorado River Basin
Tribes Partnership; Dana Norris, Gila River Indian Community, Sacaton,
Arizona; Daniel Eddy, Jr., Colorado River Indian Tribes, Parker, Arizona;
David H. Getches, University of Colorado School of Law, Boulder; Gary D.
Weatherford, Payne, Thompson, Walker & Taaffe, San Francisco, California; and
Don Christiansen, Western Urban Water Coalition, Orem, Utah. 

CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on the Convention
on the Prohibition of Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical
Weapons and on Their Destruction, opened for signature and signed by the
United States at Paris on January 13, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 103-21), receiving
testimony from Amoretta M. Hoeber, Arlington, Virginia, former Deputy Under
Secretary of the United States Army; Ronald F. Lehman, former Director, U.S.
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and Kathleen C. Bailey, former Assistant
Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, both of the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; Will D. Carpenter,
Agridyne, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah, on behalf of the Chemical Manufacturers
Association; Matthew Meselson, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts;
Michael L. Moodie, Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute, Alexandria,
Virginia; and Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., Center for Security Policy, and Amy E.
Smithson, Henry L. Stimson Center, both of Washington, D.C. 

                               [Page: D645]

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

RELIGION IN THE WORKPLACE 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
concluded hearings to examine the effect of the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission's proposed guidelines on harassment based on race, color, religion,
gender, national origin, age or disability, and the effect of these guidelines
on the expression of religion in the workplace, after receiving testimony from
Representative McKeon; Douglas A. Gallegos, Executive Director, Elizabeth M.
Thornton, Acting Legal Counsel, Dianna B. Johnston, Associate Legal Counsel,
all of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Dudley C.
Rochelle, Spanos & Rochelle, and Dan T. Cathy, Chick-fil-A, Inc., both of
Atlanta, Georgia; Douglas Laycock, University of Texas School of Law, Austin;
and Robert S. Peck, American Civil Liberties Union, Michael K. Whitehead,
Southern Baptist Convention, Marc D. Stern, American Jewish Congress, and
Louis P. Sheldon, Traditional Values Coalition, all of Washington, D.C. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
an original bill to ensure individual and family security through health care
coverage for all Americans in a manner that contains the rate of growth in
health care costs and promotes responsible health insurance practices. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following bills:

S. 1824, to improve the operations of the legislative branch of the Federal
Government, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

H.R. 877, to authorize the establishment of the National African American
Museum within the Smithsonian Institution, with an amendment; 

An original bill to authorize funds for fiscal year 1995 for the Federal
Election Commission; 

An original resolution to exempt Members whose election is uncontested from
the 60-day moratorium on the use of the Senate Recording Studio and the frank
for mass mail; 

S. Res. 196, to authorize the printing of additional copies of a Senate Report
entitled, "Developments in Aging: 1993"; 

An original resolution to authorize the purchase of 104,000 1995 United States
Capitol Historical Society wall calendars for the use of the Senate; and 

H. Con. Res. 222, to authorize the placement of a bust of Raoul Wallenberg in
the United States Capitol. 

AUTHORIZATION--VA MEDICAL FACILITY CONSTRUCTION/GI BILL OF
RIGHTS-50TH
ANNIVERSARY

Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills: 

An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995 for major medical
facility construction projects of the Department of Veterans Affairs; and 

An original joint resolution commemorating June 22, 1994, as the 50th
anniversary of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/06/10
Daily Digest - Friday, June 10, 1994;  pages D651 - D658

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

CHILD NUTRITION

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Nutrition
and Investigations held hearings on S. 1614, authorizing funds through fiscal
year 1998 for programs of the Child Nutrition Act and the National School
Lunch Act, receiving testimony from Senator Gorton; Carl Sagan, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York; T. Berry Brazelton, Harvard University Medical
School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Susan Kalish, American Running and Fitness
Association, Bethesda, Maryland; Linda Locke, Community Coordinated Child
Care, Louisville, Kentucky; Dan Cooper, Iowa Department of Agriculture, Des
Moines; Alice Lenihan, Nutrition Services Section, Raleigh, North Carolina;
Minda Lazrov, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Nashville, Tennessee;
Harriet Holt Cloud, University of Alabama-Birmingham; Carol Porter and Hurt
Porter, both of Kid Care, Inc., Houston, Texas; and Doris Derelian, Fallbrook,
California. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills: 

An original bill entitled "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
1995"; 

An original bill entitled "Omnibus National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 1995"; 

An original bill entitled "Department of Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 1995"; 

An original bill entitled "Military Construction Act for Fiscal Year 1995"; 

An original bill entitled "Department of Energy National Security Act for
Fiscal Year 1995"; 

An original bill entitled "Federal Acquisition Streamlining Reform Act of
1994." 

RETIREES' HEALTH CARE

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health for Families and the Uninsured
held hearings to examine health care services for early retirees, receiving
testimony from Perry Amsden, Brewer, Maine, on behalf of the American
Association of Retired Persons; and William Custer, Employee Benefit Research
Institute, Gerald E. McEntee, American Federation of State, County, and
Municipal Employees, and Susan Tanaka, Committee For A Responsible Federal
Budget, all of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

OFF-RESERVATION BOARDING SCHOOLS

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to review
activities of off-reservation boarding schools, after receiving testimony from
John Tippeconnic, Director, Office of Indian Education Programs, Bureau of
Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; Scott Nelson, New Mexico
Department of Health and Social Services, Albuquerque; Gerald Gray, Chemawa
Indian School, Salem, Oregon; Shirley Gross, Pierre Indian Learning Center,
Pierre, South Dakota; Jack Belkham, Flandreau Indian School, Flandreau, South
Dakota; Ken Taylor, Sherman Indian School, Riverside, California; Joseph
Abeyta, Santa Fe Indian School, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Patrick Melendy, Chemawa
Indian School, Chemawa, Oregon; Richard La Framboise and Robert Hall, both of
the Wahpeton Indian Boarding School Board, Wahpeton, North Dakota; Tammy Lowe,
Anderson, Missouri, on behalf of the Sequoyah Indian High School; Sheldon
Holder, Gracemont, Oklahoma, on behalf of the Riverside Indian High School;
and Cynthia Kipp, Browning, Montana, on behalf of the Flandreau Indian School
Board. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/06/13
Daily Digest - Monday, June 13, 1994;  pages D659 - D662

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the
Corporation for National and Community Service, receiving testimony from Eli
Segal, President/CEO, Corporation for National and Community Service. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/06/14
Daily Digest - Tuesday, June 14, 1994;  pages D663 - D670

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported, with
amendments, H.R. 4454, making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Dharmendra K. Sharma, of California, to be
Administrator of the Research and Special Programs Administration, Department
of Transportation, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Akaka and
Representative Mineta, testified and answered questions in her own behalf. 

WEATHER SATELLITE CONVERGENCE

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings to examine the Administration's recent decision to converge, into a
single national system, the polar-orbiting weather satellites of the
Departments of Commerce and Defense, focusing on Federal funding, national
security needs, weather forecasting requirements, and European cooperation,
after receiving testimony from D. James Baker, Under Secretary of Commerce for
Oceans and Atmosphere; William Townsend, Deputy Associate Administrator,
Mission to Planet Earth, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Robert
T. Watson, Associate Director for Environment, Office of Science and
Technology Policy; and George R. Schneiter, Director, Strategic and Space
Systems, Department of Defense. 

AUTHORIZATION--RAIL SAFETY PROGRAMS

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation concluded hearings on S. 2132, authorizing funds for programs
of the Federal Railroad Safety Act, focusing on initiatives to maximize the
safety of rail passenger and freight travel, after receiving testimony from
Jolene M. Molitoris, Administrator, Donald Itzkoff, Deputy Administrator,
Grady Cothen, Jr., Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety, and Mark
Lindsey, Chief Counsel, all of the Federal Railroad Administration, Department
of Transportation; Carl W. Vogt, Chairman, and Robert Lauby, Chief, Railroad
Division, both of the National Transportation Safety Board; and Edwin L.
Harper, Association of American Railroads, and Ronald P. McLaughlin and
Lawrence M. Mann, both of the Rail Labor Executives' Association, all of
Washington, D.C. 

                               [Page: D665]

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Patricia Fry Godley, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary for
Fossil Energy, and Joseph F. Vivona, to be Chief Financial Officer, both of
the Department of Energy, after the nominees testified and answered questions
in their own behalf. 

AUTHORIZATION-SUPERFUND

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund,
Recycling, and Solid Waste Management approved for full committee
consideration, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 1834,
authorizing funds for programs of the Comprehensive Response, Compensation,
and Liability Act (Superfund). 

WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION AND U.S. SOVEREIGNTY

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the impact
of the Uruguay Round agreement and its creation of the World Trade
Organization on United States sovereignty, receiving testimony from Rufus
Yerxa, Deputy United States Trade Representative; Julius Katz, Hills and
Company, and Ralph Nader, Center for Responsive Law, both of Washington, D.C.;
John H. Jackson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and Bruce Fein, Bruce Fein
and Associates, Great Falls, Virginia. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATION--FEMA EMERGENCY FOOD AND SHELTER PROGRAM

Committee on Governmental Affairs:  Committee held hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995 for the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) emergency food and shelter national board program,
receiving testimony from Augusta Hamel, Second Harvest, Chicago, Illinois;
Dennis P. Culhane, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Jacquie M.
Lawing, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for
Economic Development; Brother Joseph Berg, Catholic Charities, USA,
Alexandria, Virginia, on behalf of the Emergency Food and Shelter National
Board; Gene Brady, Commission on Economic Opportunity, Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania; Barry Durman, Atlantic City Rescue Mission, Atlantic City, New
Jersey; Gail Gregory, Community Shelter Board, Columbus, Ohio; and Anne E.
Kohler, Neighbors Together Corporation, Brooklyn, New York.  [This entry added
by hand.]

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Diana G. Motz, of Maryland, to be United States Circuit Judge
for the Fourth Circuit; Robert M. Parker, of Texas, to be United States
Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit; William F. Downes, to be United States
District Judge for the District of Wyoming; Denise P. Hood, to be United
States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan; Richard A. Paez,
to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California; and
Paul L. Friedman, Gladys Kessler, Emmet G. Sullivan, and Ricardo M. Urbina,
each to be a United States District Judge for the District of Columbia. 

SMALL BUSINESS DEFENSE CONVERSION

Committee on Small Business: Committee ordered favorably reported, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 1830, to expand the Small Business
Administration's loan guarantee program and to target loans to businesses and
individuals adversely impacted by base closure and defense downsizing. 

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 16. 

                               [Page: D666]

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/06/15
Daily Digest - Wednesday, June 15, 1994;  pages D672 - D680

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--D.C. COURTS AND BOARD OF EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the
government of the District of Columbia, after receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Annice Wagner, Chief Judge, Court
of Appeals, Eugene N. Hamilton, Chief Judge, Superior Court, and Ulysses
Hammond, Executive Director, Courts, and Linda Moody, President, and Franklin
L. Smith, Superintendent of Schools, both of the Board of Education, all of
the District of Columbia. 

                               [Page: D674]

NOMINATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Adm. Charles R. Larson, USN, to retire in grade. 

FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK SYSTEM 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings to
examine the future direction of the Federal Home Loan Bank System and
proposals to modernize its functions, focusing on a recent study by the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, receiving testimony from Frank N.
Newman, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance; Nicolas P.
Retsinas, Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing;
Michael T. Crowley, Jr., Mutual Savings Bank, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on behalf
of the Federal Home Loan Banks Stockholder Study Committee; Mary Lee Widener,
Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California; and Alfred
A. Dellibovi, Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, New York, New York. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATION--NOAA 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce, after receiving
testimony from D. James Baker, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and
Atmosphere; Jan Dill, Oceanic Institute, Honolulu, Hawaii; Rob Garrison,
Nantucket Research and Education Foundation, Nantucket, Massachusetts; Paul A.
Sandifer, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Charleston; and Eric
Hallerman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills: 

H.R. 1348, to establish the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National
Heritage Corridor in the State of Connecticut, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute; 

S. 1897, to expand the boundary of the Santa Fe National Forest in New Mexico,
with anamendment in the nature of a substitute; and 

S. 1919, to improve water quality within the Rio Puerco watershed and to help
restore the ecological health of the Rio Grande through the cooperative
identification and implementation of best management practices which are
consistent with the ecological, geological, cultural, sociological, and
economic conditions in the region, with amendments. 

AUTHORIZATION--ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Water,
Fisheries and Wildlife held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for programs of the Endangered Species Act, focusing on the science and
history of endangered species conservation, receiving testimony from former
Senator McClure, on behalf of the National Endangered Species Act Reform
Coalition; Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior; Douglas K. Hall,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere; Edward O. Wilson,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Michael J. Bean,
Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the nomination of Valerie
Lau, of California, to be Inspector General, Department of the Treasury, where
the nominee testified and answered questions in her own behalf. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

RETIREMENT PROTECTION ACT 

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on S. 1780, to improve and
strengthen certain provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
(ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code relating to pension plan funding,
compliance, premiums, and participant protection and services, receiving
testimony from Senator Jeffords; Robert B. Reich, Secretary of Labor; Leslie
B. Samuels, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Martin Slate,
Executive Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; Curtis H. Barnette,
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Pension
Issues Coalition; David G. Hirschland, United Automobile, Aerospace and
Agricultural Implement Workers of America, Detroit, Michigan; Chester S.
Labedz, Jr., Textron Inc., Wilmington, Massachusetts, on behalf of the ERISA
Industry Committee; Robert M. Spira, Leaseway Transportation Corporation,
Beachwood, Ohio, on behalf of the Multiemployer Pension Plan Solvency
Coalition; and Paula A. Calimafde, Small Business Council of America,
Bethesda, Maryland. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NORTH KOREA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the current status of nuclear activities in North Korea from
Robert L. Gallucci, Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military
Affairs; Adm. (Select) Charles W. Moore, Deputy Director for Current
Operations, Joint Staff; and Doug MacEachin, Deputy Director for Intelligence,
Central Intelligence Agency. 

                               [Page: D675]

Committee recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATION--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy,
Trade, Oceans and Environment approved for full committee consideration an
original bill authorizing funds for fiscal years 1995 and 1996 to establish
more effective foreign assistance programs, and to adapt the programs to the
needs of the post-Cold War era. 

ARMS EXPORT LICENSING 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post
Office, and Civil Service held hearings to examine the effectiveness of the
arms export licensing screening and compliance procedures at the Departments
of State and Commerce, receiving testimony from James F. Wiggins, Associate
Director, Acquisition Policy, Technology, and Competitiveness Issues, National
Security and International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office;
William A. Reinsch, Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration; and
Thomas E. McNamara, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Political-Military Affairs, Department of State. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

IMMIGRATION REFORM 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on proposals to reform
United States immigration policy, receiving testimony from Senators Reid,
Bryan, Roth, and Hutchison; Janet Reno, Attorney General, and Doris Meissner,
Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, both of the Department of
Justice; and David Hobbs, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Consular
Affairs. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

LINE ITEM VETO 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded
hearings to examine whether the President of the United States' role in the
legislative process includes the authority to veto individual parts or items
of a measure, including individual line items in an appropriation measure, and
a related measure, S. Res. 195, after receiving testimony from Senators
Specter and Thurmond; Walter Dellinger, Assistant Attorney General, Office of
Legal Counsel, Department of Justice; Charles J. Cooper, Shaw, Pittman, Potts
& Trowbridge, Washington, D.C.; Ronald D. Rotunda, University of Illinois
College of Law, Champaign; Robert J. Spitzer, State University of New York,
Cortland; and J. Gregory Sidak, American Enterprise Institute for Public
Policy Research, Washington, D.C. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items: 

S. 1513, authorizing funds for programs of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

H.R. 6, authorizing funds for programs of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965; and 

The nomination of Bonnie O'Day, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of the
National Council on Disability. 

INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION CONTRACT REFORM ACT 

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2036, to
specify the terms of contracts entered into by the United States and Indian
tribal organizations under the Indian Self-Determination and Education
Assistance Act (P.L. 93-638), after receiving testimony from Ada E. Deer,
Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, Hilda Manuel, Acting Director, Office
of Tribal Services, and James Thomas, Chief, Division of Self-Determination
Services, all of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior;
Michel Lincoln, Deputy Director, and Douglas Black, Associate Director, Office
of Tribal Activities, both of the Indian Health Service, Department of Health
and Human Services; Phillip Martin, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians,
Philadelphia; Edward K. Thomas, Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida
Indian Tribes of Alaska, Juneau; Britt E. Clapham, II, Navajo Nation
Department of Justice, Navajo Nation, Arizona; Carol Evans, Spokane Tribe of
Indians, Wellpinit, Washington; Lloyd Benton Miller, Sonosky, Chambers,
Sachse, Miller, Munson & Clocksin, Anchorage, Alaska; and Barbara Karshmer,
Alexander & Karshmer, Washington, D.C. 

                               [Page: D676]

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/06/16
Daily Digest - Thursday, June 16, 1994;  pages D682 - D690

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN OPERATIONS/TREASURY 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills: 

H.R. 4426, making appropriations for fiscal year 1995 for foreign operations,
export financing, and related programs, with amendments; and 

H.R. 4539, making appropriations for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of
the Treasury, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the
President, and certain independent agencies, with amendments. 

APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN OPERATIONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations approved for
full committee consideration, with amendments, H.R. 4426, making
appropriations for fiscal year 1995 for foreign operations, export financing,
and related programs. 

APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government approved for full committee consideration, with amendments,
H.R. 4539, making appropriations for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of
the Treasury, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the
President, and certain independent agencies. 

                               [Page: D685]

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations
of Gen. J. H. Binford Peay III, USA, for reappointment to the grade of general
and to be Commander in Chief, United States Central Command; Vice Adm. William
J. Flanagan, Jr., USN, for appointment to the grade of admiral and to be
Commander in Chief, United States Atlantic Fleet; Maj. Gen. Anthony C. Zinni,
USMC, for appointment to the grade of lieutenant general and to be Commanding
General, I Marine Expeditionary Force; and Maj. Gen. Paul E. Stein, USAF, for
appointment to the grade of lieutenant general and to be Superintendent,
United States Air Force Academy, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. 

URUGUAY ROUND 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings to examine the impact of the Uruguay Round agreement on United States
commerce, after receiving testimony from Michael Kantor, United States Trade
Representative. 

HAWAIIAN HOMES RECOVERY ACT 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
2174, to establish a process to restore or replace Hawaiian Homelands taken by
the Federal Government during Hawaii's territorial period, and to provide
compensation for lost use of such lands, after receiving testimony from I.
Michael Heyman, Counsellor to Secretary of the Interior and Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Interior for Policy; Norma Wong, Office of the Governor of
Hawaii, Hoaliku L. Drake, Hawaiian Homes Commission, and Carl C. Christensen,
Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, all of Honolulu; Kamaki A. Kanahele III,
State Council of Hawaiian Homestead Associations, Wai'anae; Henry Kauhi, Hui
Kako'o, Kahului, Hawaii; and Mahealani Cypher, The Gibson Foundation, Hilo,
Hawaii. 

CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed closed hearings on the
Convention on the Prohibition of Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use
of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, opened for signature and signed
by the United States at Paris on January 13, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 103-21),
receiving testimony from Doug MacEachin, Deputy Director for Intelligence,
Central Intelligence Agency. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills: 

S. 993, to end the practice of imposing unfunded Federal mandates on States
and local governments and to ensure that the Federal Government pays the costs
incurred by those governments in complying with certain requirements under
Federal statutes and regulations, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute. (As approved by the committee, the amendment incorporates
provisions of S. 1604.); and 

S. 1413, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1995 through 2002 for the Office
of Government Ethics, with amendments. 

AUTHORIZATION--COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for activities of the
United States Commission on Civil Rights, after receiving testimony from Mary
Frances Berry, Chairperson, and Carl A. Anderson, Commissioner, both of the
United States Commission on Civil Rights. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following bills:

An original resolution (S. Res. 227) to improve the operations of the United
States Senate; and 

An original resolution (S. Res. 228) to improve United States Senate floor
procedures. 

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 21. 

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Joint Meetings 

VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT ACT 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 3355, to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
of 1968 to allow grants to increase police presence, to expand and improve
cooperative efforts between law enforcement agencies and members of the
community to address crime and disorder problems, and otherwise to enhance
public safety, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on
Tuesday, June 21. 



1994/06/17
Daily Digest - Friday, June 17, 1994;  pages D692 - D698

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

CHILD NUTRITION

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Nutrition
and Investigations resumed hearings on S. 1614, authorizing funds through
fiscal year 1998 for programs of the Child Nutrition Act and the National
School Lunch Act, receiving testimony from Ellen W. Haas, Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture for Food and Consumer Services; Elizabeth Hanna, West Des
Moines Community School District, West Des Moines, Iowa; M. Dorothy Wood,
Anamosa Community Schools, Anamosa, Iowa; and Elizabeth Johnson, National
Cattlemen's Association, representing the Commodity Distribution Coalition,
Allen Rosenfeld, Public Voice for Food and Health Policy, Nancy Chapman,
American Heart Association, and Michael Jacobson, Center for Science in the
Public Interest, all of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

KOREAN PENINSULA

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the situation in the Korean peninsula from William J. Perry,
Secretary of Defense; General John M. Shalikashvili, Chair, Joint Chiefs of
Staff; and Edward. L. Warner, Assistant Secretary of Defense Strategy and
Requirements. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

DOE ALTERNATIVE FUEL PROGRAMS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight
hearings on the implementation of the Department of Energy's alternative fuel
vehicle and fleet programs, after receiving testimony from Christine A. Ervin,
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; Mary
Lowe Good, Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology; Karl Hausker, Deputy
Assistant Administrator, Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation,
Environmental Protection Agency; Allen Beres, Assistant Commissioner, Office
of Transportation and Property Management, General Services Administration;
Theresa Donahue, Office of the Mayor of Denver, Colorado; and Frank Murray,
New York State Energy Office, Albany. 

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Deficits, Debt Management, and Long-Term
Economic Growth held hearings to examine the United States savings crisis and
its implications for long-term economic growth, receiving testimony from
Robert D. Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget Office; Alan Auerbach,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; and Dallas Salisbury, Employee
Benefit Research Institute, and C. Eugene Steuerle, Urban Institute, both of
Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Raymond Edwin Mabus, Jr., of Mississippi, to be Ambassador to
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Mary Ann Casey, of Colorado, to be Ambassador to
the Republic of Tunisia; Ronald E. Neumann, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to
the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria; and David M. Ransom, of the
District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the State of Bahrain, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Mabus was
introduced by Senators Cochran and Lott. 

                               [Page: D693]

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/06/20
Daily Digest - Monday, June 20, 1994;  pages D700 - D704

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Mary L. Schapiro, of the District of Columbia,
to be Chairman, and Sheila C. Bair, of Kansas, to be Commissioner, both of the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Doyle Cook, of Washington, to be a
Member of the Farm Credit Administration Board; and Marilyn Fae Peters, of
South Dakota, and Clyde Arlie Wheeler, Jr., of Oklahoma, each to be a Member
of the Board of Directors of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation,
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr.
Cook was introduced by Senator Baucus. 

GSP PROGRAM

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade held hearings to
examine the Administration's proposal to renew the Generalized System of
Preferences (GSP) program, designed to assist developing countries with their
long-term development plans through export expansion and to promote greater
market access and intellectual property protection for the United States
abroad, receiving testimony from Rufus Yerxa, Deputy United States Trade
Representative; Allan I. Mendelowitz, Managing Director, International Trade,
Finance, and Competitiveness, General Government Division, General Accounting
Office; and Lawrence E. Levinson, Viacom Inc., Lynn A. Greenwalt, National
Wildlife Federation, and Mark A. Anderson, AFL-CIO, all of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

                               [Page: D702]

No Joint hearings noted.



1994/06/21
Daily Digest - Tuesday, June 21, 1994;  pages D705 - D712

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of Mary L. Schapiro, of the District of Columbia, to
be Chairman, and Sheila C. Bair, of Kansas, to be a Commissioner, both of the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Doyle Cook, of Washington, to be a
Member of the Farm Credit Administration; Marilyn Fae Peters, of South Dakota,
to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage
Corporation; and Clyde Arlie Wheeler, Jr., of Oklahoma, to be a Member of the
Board of Directors of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported, with an amendment, S. 2049, to reduce homelessness, reform public
housing, expand and preserve affordable housing and home ownership, ensure
fair housing for all, and empower communities. 

                               [Page: D707]

DISNEY'S AMERICA PROJECT 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings to examine the potential impact
of the proposed location of the Disney's America project on Manassas National
Battlefield Park and other significant historic resources in northern
Virginia, after receiving testimony from George T. Frampton, Jr., Assistant
Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks; Jane F. Garvey,
Deputy Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, Department of
Transportation; Virginia Governor George F. Allen, Richmond; Kathleen K.
Seefeldt, Prince William Board of County Supervisors, Prince William,
Virginia; David McCullough, West Tisbury, Massachusetts, James M. McPherson,
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, and Richard Moe, National Trust
for Historic Preservation, Washington, D.C., all on behalf of Protect Historic
America; Peter Rummel, Disney Design and Development Corporation, Burbank,
California; and Mark Pacala and Dana Nottingham, both of Disney's America,
Gainesville, Virginia. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Paul D. Borman, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of
Michigan; Denise Cote, to be United States District Judge for the Southern
District of New York; John G. Koeltl, to be United States District Judge for
the Southern District of New York; Rosemary S. Pooler, to be United States
District Judge for the Northern District of New York; and Lewis A. Kaplan, to
be United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, after
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Borman
was introduced by Senator Levin, and Ms. Cote, Ms. Pooler, and Mr. Kaplan were
introduced by Senator Moynihan, and Mr. Koeltl was introduced by Senator
Moynihan and Representative Lowey. 

FOREIGN SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY ACT 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
concluded hearings on S. 825, to permit a foreign state to be subject to the
jurisdiction of Federal or State courts in any case involving an act of
international terrorism, after receiving testimony from Senator Specter;
Representative Mazzoli; Stuart Schiffer, Deputy Assistant Attorney General,
Civil Division, Department of Justice; Jamison S. Borek, Deputy Legal Advisor,
Department of State; Abraham D. Sofaer, Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, Washington,
D.C.; Chad Hall, Webster, Texas; Joseph Cicippio, Norristown, Pennsylvania;
David P. Jacobsen, Tehachati, California; and Hugo Princz, Highland Park, New
Jersey. 

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 23. 

Joint Meetings 

NUCLEAR REGULATION 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held joint hearings with the
House Committee on Government Operations' Subcommittee on Environment, Energy,
and Natural Resources to examine the extent of radioactive contamination at
sewage treatment plants, and actions taken by the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission to limit and monitor the radioactive material discharged into
municipal sewer systems, receiving testimony from Jim Wells, Associate
Director, Energy and Science Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic
Development Division, General Accounting Office; Ivan Selin, Chairman, Nuclear
Regulatory Commission; Michael B. Cook, Director, Office of Wastewater
Management, Environmental Protection Agency; James O. Payne, Jr., on behalf of
the Ohio Attorney General, Jane A. Harf, on behalf of the Ohio Environmental
Protection Agency and the Ohio Department of Health, both of Columbus; and
Erwin J. Odeal, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, Cleveland. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 



1994/06/22
Daily Digest - Wednesday, June 22, 1994;  pages D714 - D722

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills: 

S. 2095, to reform the Federal crop insurance program, with an amendment in
the nature of a substitute; and 

S. 1614, to authorize funds through fiscal year 1998 for programs of the Child
Nutrition Act and the National School Lunch Act, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute. (As approved by the committee, the amendment
incorporates provisions of S. 88 and S. 1269). 

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

Committee on Appropriations: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
impact of increasing costs and other problems associated with the number of
illegal immigrants in America, after receiving testimony from Doris Meissner,
Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice;
J. Gregory Robinson, Chief, Population Analysis and Evaluation Staff,
Population Division, Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce; Florida
Governor Lawton Chiles, Tallahassee; Arizona Fife Symington, Phoenix; and
California Governor Pete Wilson, Sacramento. 

APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies approved for full committee consideration, with
amendments, H.R. 4554, making appropriations for fiscal year 1995 for the
Department of Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, rural development and
related agencies programs. 

PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings on S. 2195, to ensure that capacity is
reserved on telecommunications networks for noncommercial and civic uses,
after receiving testimony from Hawaii State Senator Carol Fukunaga, Honolulu,
on behalf of the National Conference of State Legislatures; Henry J. Cauthen,
South Carolina Educational Television Network, Columbia; George P. Connick,
University of Maine, Augusta; Anthony T. Riddle, Minneapolis
Telecommunications Network, Minneapolis, Minnesota, on behalf of the Alliance
for Community Media; Andrew Blau, Benton Foundation, Washington, D.C.; and
Monroe E. Price, Yeshiva University, New York, New York. 

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the
Department of Defense processes for planning the construction of certain
military facilities, focusing on the impact of budget cuts, changing force
structure and weaponry, and the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process on
military infrastructure, receiving testimony from Derek J. Vander Schaaf,
Deputy Inspector General, Robert J. Lieberman, Assistant Inspector General for
Auditing, Robert E. Bayer, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic
Reinvestment and Base Realignment and Closure, Rear Adm. Patrick W. Drennon,
USN, Director of Shore Activities, Chief of Naval Operations, Paul W. Johnson,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installations and Housing), and James
F. Boatright, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, (Installations),
all of the Department of Defense; and Donna M. Heivilin, Director for Defense
Management and NASA Issues, National Security and International Affairs
Division, Robert L. Meyer, Assistant Director, Logistics Issues, both of the
General Accounting Office; and Thomas A. Oleksac, Associate Regional Auditor
General (Southeastern Region), United States Army Audit Agency. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

                               [Page: D717]

Joint Meetings

PENSION FUND INVESTMENT

Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine how federal
policy can facilitate the growth of pension fund investments in areas of
affordable housing, small business expansion, infrastructure, and other
economic development projects, after receiving testimony from Robert B. Reich,
Secretary, and Olena Berg, Assistant Secretary for Pensions and Welfare
Benefits, both of the Department of Labor; Henry G. Cisneros, Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development; Stephen Coyle, AFL-CIO, and William A.
Niskanen, Cato Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; William Dale Crist,
California State University, Stanislaus, on behalf of the California Public
Employees Retirement System (CalPERS); and Lee Smith, Excelsior Capital
Corporation, New York, New York. 



1994/06/23
Daily Digest - Thursday, June 23, 1994;  pages D723 - D730

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER/AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills: 

H.R. 4506, making appropriations for energy and water development for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, with amendments; and 

H.R. 4554, making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and
Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 1995, with amendments. 

APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
approved for full committee consideration, with amendments, H.R. 4506, making
appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 1995. 

ARMS EMBARGO/BOSNIA

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
impact of lifting the United Nations Security Council arms embargo on the
Government of Bosnia Herzegovina, after receiving testimony from Anders
Troldborg, Deputy Minister of Defense, Denmark; Jean Claude Mallet, Director
of Strategic Policy, Ministry of Defense, France; Gen. Martinez Esparza,
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Gen. Luis Feliu, former Deputy
Commander of Forces in Bosnia Herzegovina, both of the Ministry of Defense,
Spain; and Maj. Gen. Rupert Smith, Director of Strategic Policy, Ministry of
Defense, United Kingdom. 

Also, committee concluded hearings to examine the impact of a unilateral
United States lifting of the arms embargo on the Government of Bosnia
Herzegovina, after receiving testimony from Strobe Talbott, Deputy Secretary
of State; John M. Deutch, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Lt. Gen. Michael Ryan,
Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Max M.
Kampelman, former United States Ambassador to the START II Negotiations;
Richard Perle, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International
Security Policy; Hodding Carter, former Assistant Secretary of State for
Public Affairs and former Spokesman for the Department of State. 

WATER PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power
concluded oversight hearings on the Federal and State implementation of the
Central Valley Project Improvement Act of 1992, focusing on the water supply
needs in the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Bay-Delta), after
receiving testimony from Senator Feinstein; Representatives Fazio, Lehman, and
Dooley; Elizabeth Anne Moler, Chair, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission;
Elizabeth Ann Reike, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and
Science; Douglas P. Wheeler, The Resources Agency of California, and Stuart L.
Somach, De Cuir & Somach, both of Sacramento; Thomas J. Graff, Environmental
Defense Fund, and Barry Nelson, Share the Water, both of Oakland, California;
Jean P. Sagouspe, Central Valley Project Water Association, Los Banos,
California; John R. Wodraska, Metropolitan Water District of Southern
California, Los Angeles; Anson B. Moran, San Francisco Public Utilities
Commission, San Francisco, California; and Roger A. Fontes, Northern
California Power Agency, Roseville. 

                               [Page: D725]

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills: 

An original bill to give States the authority to regulate shipments of garbage
between States; 

S. 823, authorizing funds to improve the management of the National Wildlife
Refuge System, with amendments; 

S. 1162, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1994 and 1995 for the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 1165, to provide judicial review of petitions submitted to the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission requesting that the NRC take enforcement action against
NRC licensees regarding safety problems or regulatory violations, with
amendments; 

H.R. 3567, to transfer operating responsibilities to the Board of Trustees of
the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute; 

S. 1857, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1995 through 2000 for programs of
the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, with amendments; 

S. 617, authorizing funds for research into the desalinization of water and
water reuse and a program for States, cities, or any qualifying agency which
desires to own and operate a desalinization of water reuse facility to develop
such facilities; 

H.R. 2457, authorizing funds for the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a
winter run Chinook salmon captive broodstock program in the Sacramento River; 

S. 2185, to require the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer to the
Administrator of General Services the Old United States Mint in San Francisco; 

S. 1555, to clarify the treatment of the Federal participation agreement for
the Centennial Bridge, Rock Island, Illinois; 

H.R. 1346, to redesignate the Federal building located on St. Croix, Virgin
Islands, as the "Almeric L. Christian Federal Building"; 

H.R. 3770, to designate the United States courthouse located at 940 Front
Street in San Diego, California, and the Federal building attached to the
courthouse as the "Edward J. Schwartz Courthouse and Federal Building"; 

H.R. 3840, to designate the Federal building and United States courthouse
located at 100 East Houston Street in Marshall, Texas, as the "Sam B. Hall,
Jr. Federal Building and United States Courthouse"; 

H.R. 2532, to designate the Federal building and United States courthouse in
Lubbock, Texas, as the "George H. Mahon Federal Building and United States
Courthouse"; and 

S. 1674, to limit the authority of the Secretary of the Army to acquire land
adjacent to Abiquiu Dam in New Mexico. 

CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION TREATY

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on the Convention
on the Prohibition of Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical
Weapons and on Their Destruction, opened for signature and signed by the
United States at Paris on January 13, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 103-21), receiving
testimony from Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, USA, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of
Staff; R. James Woolsey, Director of Central Intelligence; and John D. Holum,
Director, United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Jeffrey Rush Jr., of Virginia, to be Inspector General, Agency for
International Development, after the nominee testified and answered questions
in his own behalf. 

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items: 

The nomination of Jerry J. Enomoto, to be United States Marshal for the
Eastern District of California; 

S.J. Res. 153, to designate the week of November 21 through 27, 1993, and the
week of November 20 through 26, 1994, as "National Family Caregivers Week"; 

S.J. Res. 172, to designate May 30, 1994 through June 6, 1994, as a "Time for
the National Observance of the Fiftieth Anniversary of World War II"; 

S.J. Res. 178, to proclaim the week of October 16 through 22, 1994, as
"National Character Counts Week"; 

                               [Page: D726]

S.J. Res. 187, to designate July 16 through July 24, 1994, as "National Apollo
Anniversary Observance"; 

H.R. 572, for the relief of Melissa Johnson; and 

S. 2069, to grant consent of Congress to the Northeast Interstate Dairy
Compact, with an amendment. 

Also, committee failed to approve for reporting S. 500, to provide that
professional baseball teams and leagues composed of such teams shall be
subject to antitrust laws. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Lee Ann Elliott, of Virginia, and Danny Lee McDonald, of
Oklahoma, each to be a Member of the Federal Election Commission, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Testimony was
also received from Elizabeth Hedlund, Center for Responsive Politics,
Washington, D.C. 

OFFICE OF THE ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded oversight hearings
on the operations of the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, after
receiving testimony from Senator Mikulski; and George M. White, Architect of
the Capitol. 

Joint Meetings

BOARD MEETING

Office of Technology Assessment: The Board met to consider the following new
project proposals:

1. Cities, Technology, and Infrastructure. 

2. Work-Based Learning. 

3. Arctic and Other Regional Impacts from Soviet Nuclear Contamination. 

The Board recessed subject to call. 



1994/06/24
Daily Digest - Friday, June 24, 1994;  pages D731 - D740

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

SPECIAL 301 TRADE REMEDY

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the implementation of the
Special 301 trade remedy law (section 182 of the Trade Act of 1974), focusing
on the prospects for the law after the creation of the World Trade
Organization by the Uruguay Round Agreement, receiving testimony from Harvey
E. Bale, Jr., Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Jason S.
Berman, Recording Industry Association of America, Inc., and Robert W.
Holleyman II, Business Software Alliance, all of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Thomas W. Graham, Jr., of Maryland, and James Sweeney, of New
Mexico, each to be a Special Representative of the President for Arms Control,
Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Matters, with the rank of Ambassador;
Michael Nacht, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Director for Strategic and
Eurasian Affairs; Amy Sands, of California, to be an Assistant Director for
Intelligence, Verification and Information Support; and Lawrence Scheinman, of
New York, to be an Assistant Director for Nonproliferation Policy and Regional
Arms Control, all of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency;
Elizabeth Frawley Bagley, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Portugal; Clay Constantinou, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to
Luxembourg; and Joseph Edward Lake, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic
of Albania, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Nacht was introduced by Senator Sarbanes; Ms. Bagley was
introduced by Senators Kennedy, Helms, and Wofford; and Mr. Constantinou was
introduced by Senators Bradley and Lautenberg. 

                               [Page: D733]

NOMINATION 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Phyllis Nichamoff Segal, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of the
Federal Labor Relations Authority, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senator Kerry and Representative Don Edwards, testified and answered questions
in her own behalf. 

Joint Meetings 

TECHNICAL INNOVATION IN HEALTH CARE 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine competitiveness
and regulatory issues facing the biotechnology and medical device industries
and their potential for growth in overseas and domestic markets, focusing on
how the Federal Government can assist the private sector in order to fund
research opportunities, provide advanced training to expert scientists, and
support technological progress, receiving testimony from M.R.C. Greenwood,
Associate Director for Science, Office of Science and Technology Policy; Roger
C. Herdman, Director, Office of Technology Assessment; Daryl A. Chamblee,
Acting Deputy Director for Science Policy and Technology Transfer, National
Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; L. Scott Cram,
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico; Richard M. Levy,
Varian Associates, Inc., Palo Alto, California; M. James Barrett, Genetic
Therapy, Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, on behalf of the Biotechnology Industry
Organization; Ben Holmes, Hewlett-Packard Company, Andover, Massachusetts;
Rachel Scherer, Dain Bosworth, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota; Alan H. Magazine,
Health Industry Manufacturers Association, Washington, D.C.; and Robert C.
DeHaven, American Electronics Association, Arlington, Virginia. 

Also, committee approved the election of Representative Mfume to be Chairman
until January, 1995. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 



1994/06/27
Daily Digest - Monday, June 27, 1994;  pages D741 - D746

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Lt. Gen. Buster C. Glosson, USAF, to retire in grade, after receiving
testimony from John M. Deutch, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Sheila E. Widnall,
Secretary of the Air Force; and Gen. Merrill A. McPeak, USAF, Chief of Staff
of the Air Force. 

CHINA/TAIWAN/VIETNAM 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on United States policy toward China, Taiwan, and Vietnam from
Winston Lord, Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and
Peter Tomsen, Principle Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific
Affairs, both of the Department of State. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

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No Joint hearings noted.



1994/06/28
Daily Digest - Tuesday, June 28, 1994;  pages D748 - D756

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported, with
amendments, H.R. 4602, making appropriations for the Department of the
Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995. 

APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior approved for full
committee consideration, with amendments, H.R. 4602, making appropriations for
the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 1995. 

DOE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development held hearings on S. 2104, authorizing funds to establish the
National Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program within the
National Laboratories of the Department of Energy, receiving testimony from
Terry Cornwell Rumsey, Director, Office of Science Education and Technical
Information, and James A. Tegnelia, Executive Vice President and Deputy
Director, Sandia National Laboratories, both of the Department of Energy; and
John M. Fowler, Triangle Coalition for Science and Technology Education,
College Park, Maryland. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

WATER AND POWER PROJECTS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power
concluded hearings on S. 1786, to authorize funds for the Belle Fourche
Irrigation Project in South Dakota; S. 1988, to authorize the transfer of a
certain loan contract to the Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District in
Colorado for the Stagecoach Reservoir Project; S. 2066, to expand the Mni
Wiconi Rural Water Supply Project in South Dakota; S. 2068, to authorize the
construction of the Lewis and Clark Rural Water System in South Dakota; S.
2124, to provide for private development of power at the Mancos Water Project
in Colorado; and S. 2213, to assist the Central Utah Water Conservancy
District in implementing its water conservation programs, after receiving
testimony from Senators Daschle and Pressler; Daniel P. Beard, Commissioner,
Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Duane Odle, Belle Fourche
Irrigation District, Newell, South Dakota; John R. Fetcher, Upper Yampa Water
Conservancy District, Steamboat Springs, Colorado; Paul Little, Oglala Sioux
Rural Water Supply System, Pine Ridge, South Dakota; Gary Hanson, Lewis and
Clark Rural Water System, Inc., Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Gary Kennedy,
Mancos Water Conservancy District, Mancos, Colorado. 

SUPERFUND REFORM 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings on S. 1834,
authorizing funds for programs of the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund), receiving testimony from Lloyd
Bentsen, Secretary of the Treasury; Carol M. Browner, Administrator,
Environmental Protection Agency; Minnesota Assistant Attorney General Alan C.
Williams, St. Paul; Richard A. Barth, Ciba-Geigy Corporation, Ardsley, New
York; William Roberts, Environmental Defense Fund, and Velma Smith, Friends of
the Earth, both of Washington, D.C.; Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Baltimore,
Maryland, on behalf of the Alliance for a Superfund Action Partnership;
Stephen Ramsey, General Electric Corporation, Fairfield, Connecticut; and
Florence T. Robinson, North Baton Rouge Environmental Association, Baton
Rouge, Louisiana. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

FISHING VESSELS TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the Agreement
to Promote Compliance with International Conservation and Management Measures
by Fishing Vessels on the High Seas, which was adopted at Rome by consensus by
the Conference of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization on
November 24, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 103-24), after receiving testimony from David
A. Colson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans. 

HAITI 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace
Corps Affairs concluded hearings to examine the human rights situation in
Haiti and its implications for the international community and for United
States policy, after receiving testimony from Senator Graham; William H. Gray
III, Special Adviser to the President and Secretary of State on Haiti; John
Shattuck, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, and
Brunson McKinley, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees,
and Migration, both of the Department of State; Frederick C. Smith, Principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; R.
Richard Newcomb, Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department of the
Treasury; Mark L. Schneider, Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the
Caribbean, Agency for International Development; Donald E. Schulz, Associate
Professor of National Security Affairs, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army
National War College (Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania); Michael D. Barnes,
Hogan and Hartson, on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Haiti, and
Ian Martin, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, both of Washington,
D.C.; and Bill O'Neill, National Coalition for Haitian Refugees, New York, New
York. 

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DELINQUENT CRIMINAL DEBT 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine Federal
criminal debt collection efforts, focusing on the amount of outstanding
criminal debt, the status of the National Fine Center, and the nature and
operation of criminal and civil forfeiture laws, receiving testimony from
Henry R. Wray, Director, Administration of Justice Issues, and Steven C.
Martin, Senior Evaluator, both of the General Government Division, and Jan B.
Montgomery, Assistant General Counsel, all of the General Accounting Office;
Richard A. Ames, Assistant Director, Office for Finance and Budget and Chief
Financial Officer, Administrative Office of the United States Courts; Gerald
M. Stern, Special Counsel for Financial Institution Fraud, Office of the
Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice; and David Beatty, National
Victim Center, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

HATE CRIME STATISTICS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded
oversight hearings on the implementation and progress of the Hate Crime
Statistics Act (P.L. 101-275), focusing on law enforcement participation in
the national hate crime data collection project, a component of the FBI's
Uniform Crime Reporting Program, after receiving testimony from Stephen L.
Pomerantz, Assistant Director for Criminal Justice Information Services
Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Mayor DeeDee
Corradini, Salt Lake City, Utah, on behalf of the United States Conference of
Mayors; North Carolina Deputy Attorney General Phillip J. Lyons, Raleigh; Sara
Bullard, Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, Alabama; Vivian Gussin
Paley, University of Chicago Laboratory School, Chicago, Illinois; Robert
Machleder, Anti-Defamation League, New York, New York; and Steven Spielberg,
Los Angeles, California. 

INTELLIGENCE 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community. 

Committee will meet again on Thursday, June 30. 

Joint Meetings 

APPROPRIATIONS--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH 

Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 4454, making appropriations for the
Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995. 

BOARD MEETING 

Office of Technology Assessment: On Monday, June 27, the Board approved the
following new project proposals: 

1. Cities, Technology, and Infrastructure. 

2. Work-Based Learning. 

3. Arctic and Other Regional Impacts from Soviet Nuclear Contamination. 



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Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

PESTICIDE REFORM 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings on
S. 985, S. 1478, and S. 2050, bills to improve existing legislative authority
regulating the use of pesticides and to insure public health and environmental
benefits, receiving testimony from Carol M. Browner, Administrator, Lynn
Goldman, Assistant Administrator, Office of Prevention, Pesticide, and Toxic
Substances, both of the Environmental Protection Agency; Richard Rominger,
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture; and David A. Kessler, Commissioner, and
Michael R. Taylor, Deputy Commissioner for Policy, both of the Food and Drug
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATION--PUBLIC BROADCASTING 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings on S. 2120, authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1997 through 1999 for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, after
receiving testimony from Richard W. Carlson, President and Chief Executive
Officer, Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Ervin S. Duggan, Public
Broadcasting Service, Alexandria, Virginia; Delano E. Lewis, National Public
Radio, David J. Brugger, Association of America's Public Television Stations,
and Laurence Jarvik, Center for the Study of Popular Culture, all of
Washington, D.C.; Hugo Morales, Radio Bilingue, Fresno, California; David
Ochoa, Independent Television Service, St. Paul, Minnesota; Kimberly Haas,
Pennsylvania Public Radio Associates, Eagle; Deann Borshay, National Asian
American Telecommunications Association, San Francisco, California; Edgar
Blatchford, Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs, Juneau; and
Janine Jackson, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, New York, New York. 

HEALTH CARE REFORM/NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Finance: Committee began markup of proposed legislation to
provide national comprehensive health care, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

Also, committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Valerie Lau, of
California, to be Inspector General, and Ronald K. Noble, of New York, to be
Under Secretary for Enforcement, both of the Department of the Treasury. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items: 

S. Res. 234, expressing the sense of the Senate concerning the fifth year of
imprisonment of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi by Burma's military dictatorship; 

S.J. Res. 204, recognizing the American Academy in Rome, an American overseas
center for independent study and advanced research, on the occasion of the
100th anniversary of its founding; 

An original resolution relating to the Convention on Biological Diversity
(Treaty Doc. 103-20); 

The Convention on Biological Diversity with Annexes, done at Rio de Janeiro
June 5, 1992, and signed by the United States in New York on June 4, 1993
(Treaty Doc. 103-20), with 7 understandings; and 

The nominations of Maria Otero, of the District of C