104th Congress (1995 - 1996)

January 4, 1995 - January 3, 1996

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

1995/01/04
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 4, 1995;  pages D1 - D8

Committee Meetings

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1995/01/05
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 5, 1995;  pages D9 - D14

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

SECURITIES MARKETS

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings to
examine issues involving municipal, corporate and individual investors in
derivative products and the use of highly leveraged investment strategies,
receiving testimony from Frank N. Newman, Acting Secretary of the Treasury;
Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System;
Arthur Levitt, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission; and Mary L.
Schapiro, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

UNFUNDED FEDERAL MANDATES

Committee on the Budget/Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committees
concluded joint hearings on S. 1, to curb the practice of imposing unfunded
Federal mandates on States and local governments, to strengthen the
partnership between the Federal Government and State, local and tribal
governments, to end the imposition, in the absence of full consideration by
Congress, of Federal mandates on State, local, and tribal governments without
adequate funding, in a manner that may displace other essential governmental
priorities, and to ensure that the Federal Government pays the costs incurred
by those governments in complying with certain requirements under Federal
statutes and regulations, after receiving testimony from Senator Kempthorne;
Representative Portman; Sally Katzen, Administrator, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; Justin Dart, former
Chairman, President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities;
Ohio Governor George V. Voinovich, on behalf of the National Governors'
Association, and Ohio State Representative Jane Campbell, on behalf of the
National Conference of State Legislatures, both of Columbus; Mayor Edward
Rendell, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Commissioner Randall Franke, Marion
County, Oregon, on behalf of the National Association of Counties; Carolyn
Long-Banks, Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the National League of Cities; Boyd
W. Boehlje, Des Moines, Iowa, on behalf of the National School Board
Association; and Nancy A. Donaldson, Service Employees International Union,
Washington, D.C. 

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BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT
 
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S.J. Res. 1,
proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require a
balanced budget, after receiving testimony from Senators Thurmond, Simon,
Craig, Cohen, Kyl, Snowe, Heflin, and Feinstein; former Senator Tsongas; Alice
M. Rivlin, Director, Office of Management and Budget; Walter Dellinger,
Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice;
Griffin B. Bell and William P. Barr, both former United States Attorney
Generals; Robert J. Myers, former Chief Actuary, Social Security
Administration; former Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker, Hartford; Utah
Governor Michael O. Leavitt, Salt Lake City; David A. Strauss, University of
Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois; Edward V. Regan, Jerome Levy Economics
Institute, New York, New York; Kenneth Ashby, Utah Farm Bureau Federation,
Delta, on behalf of the American Farm Bureau Federation; and Herbert Stein,
American Enterprise Institute, C. Fred Bergsten, Institute for International
Economics, James D. Davidson, National Taxpayers Union, Martin A. Regalia,
United States Chamber of Commerce, and Alan B. Morrison, Public Citizen, all
of Washington, D.C. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1995/01/06
Daily Digest - Friday, January 6, 1995;  pages D16 - D20

Committee Meetings
 
(Committees not listed did not meet) 

SECURITIES MARKETS
 
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
to examine issues involving municipal, corporate and individual investors in
derivative products and the use of highly leveraged investment strategies,
after receiving testimony from Robert D. McKnew, Bank of America, San
Francisco, California, on behalf of the Public Securities Association; Marc E.
Lackritz, Securities Industry Association, Washington, D.C.; Bonnie Ridley
Kraft, Gresham, Oregon, on behalf of the Government Finance Officers
Association; Richard B. Roberts, Wachovia Corporation, Winston-Salem, North
Carolina, on behalf of the American Bankers Association; and Nevada State
Treasurer Robert Seale, Carson City, on behalf of the National Association of
State Treasurers. 

Joint Meetings
 
EMPLOYMENT SITUATION
 
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine the
employment-unemployment situation for December, receiving testimony from
Katharine G. Abraham, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of
Labor. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 



1995/01/09
Daily Digest - Monday, January 9, 1995;  pages D21 - D24

Committee Meetings 
 
(Committees not listed did not meet) 

UNFUNDED FEDERAL MANDATES 
 
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported, with
amendments, S. 1, to curb the practice of imposing unfunded Federal mandates
on States and local governments, to strengthen the partnership between the
Federal Government and State, local and tribal governments, to end the
imposition, in the absence of full consideration by Congress, of D22Federal
mandates on State, local, and tribal governments without adequate funding, in
a manner that may displace other essential governmental priorities, and to
ensure that the Federal Government pays the costs incurred by those
governments in complying with certain requirements under Federal statutes and
regulations. 

                                [Page: D22]

Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 104th Congress. 

TELECOMMUNICATION REFORM 
 
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings to
examine telecommunication reform issues, receiving testimony from Senator
Dole; and Representatives Bliley and Jack Fields. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

UNFUNDED FEDERAL MANDATES 
 
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported, with
amendments, S. 1, to curb the practice of imposing unfunded Federal mandates
on States and local governments, to strengthen the partnership between the
Federal Government and State, local and tribal governments, to end the
imposition, in the absence of full consideration by Congress, of Federal
mandates on State, local, and tribal governments without adequate funding, in
a manner that may displace other essential governmental priorities, and to
ensure that the Federal Government pays the costs incurred by those
governments in complying with certain requirements under Federal statutes and
regulations.

No Joint hearings noted.



1995/01/10
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 10, 1995;  pages D26 - D30

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met and approved its rules of procedure
for the 104th Congress. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING/NOMINATION

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

The nomination of Robert E. Rubin, of New York, to be Secretary of the
Treasury; and 

An original resolution (S. Res. 36), requesting $3,248,413 for operating
expenses for the period from March 1, 1995, through February 28, 1996, and
$3,333,157 for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1996, through
February 29, 1997, without recommendation. 

Committee also adopted its rules of procedure for the 104th Congress, and
announced the following Senators as members of the Joint Committee on
Taxation: Senators Packwood (Chairman), Dole, Roth, Moynihan, and Baucus. 

Also, committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Mr. Rubin, after the
nominee, who was introduced by Senators Moynihan, D'Amato, and Graham,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee began markup of S.J. Res. 1, proposing
an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require a balanced
budget, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call. 

FEDERAL JOB TRAINING PROGRAMS

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to examine the
effectiveness of the D28Federal employment training system in helping reduce
long-term welfare dependence, receiving testimony from Clarence C. Crawford,
Associate Director, Education and Employment Issues, and Jane L. Ross,
Director, Income Security Issues, both of the Health, Education, and Human
Services Division, General Accounting Office; Janet Schrader, City of
Alexandria Office of Employment Training, Alexandria, Virginia; Carol D'Amico,
Hudson Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana; Marion Pines, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland; Tony Young, American Rehabilitation
Association, Washington, D.C.; Leonard Dean, Jersey City, New Jersey; and
Ernestine Dunn, Seattle, Washington. 

                                [Page: D28]

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

WORLD THREAT ASSESSMENT/ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held hearings to examine current
and projected worldwide threats to United States' security and interests,
receiving testimony from R. James Woolsey, Director of Central Intelligence;
Toby T. Gati, Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research; and
Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper, Jr., USAF, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency. 
 
Prior to this action, committee met in closed session to discuss pending
organizational business, but made no announcements and recessed subject to
call.  

Joint Meetings

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET

Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on the Budget concluded joint hearings with
the House Committee on the Budget to review congressional budget cost
estimating issues, after receiving testimony from Robert D. Reischauer,
Director, Congressional Budget Office; Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Federal
Reserve Board of Governors; Kenneth J. Kies, Chief of Staff, Joint Committee
on Taxation; Rudy Penner, KPMG Peat Marwick, Henry Aaron, Brookings
Institution, and Norman B. Ture, Institute for Research on the Economics of
Taxation (IRET), all of Washington, D29D.C.; Paul A. Volcker, James D.
Wolfensohn, Inc., New York, New York; Michael J. Boskin, Stanford University,
Stanford, California; and Martin Feldstein, National Bureau of Economic
Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



1995/01/11
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 11, 1995;  pages D31 - D36

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING

Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
resolution (S. Res. 38) requesting $4,823,586 for operating expenses for the
period from March 1, 1995, through February 28, 1996, and $4,931,401 for
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1996, through February 29,
1997. 

Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 104th Congress, and
announced the following subcommittee assignments: 

Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies: Senators
Cochran (Chairman), Specter, Bond, Gorton, McConnell, Burns, Bumpers, Harkin,
Kerrey, Johnston, and Kohl. 
Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary: Senators Gramm
(Chairman), Stevens, Hatfield, Domenici, McConnell, Gregg, Hollings, Inouye,
Bumpers, Lautenberg, and Kerrey. 
Subcommittee on Defense: Senators Stevens (Chairman), Cochran, Specter,
Domenici, Gramm, Bond, McConnell, Mack, Shelby, Inouye, Hollings, Johnston,
Byrd, Leahy, Bumpers, Lautenberg, and Harkin. 
Subcommittee on the District of Columbia: Senators Jeffords (Chairman),
Bennett, and Kohl. 
Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development: Senators Domenici (Chairman),
Hatfield, Cochran, Gorton, McConnell, Bennett, Burns, Johnston, Byrd,
Hollings, Reid, Kerrey, and Murray. 
Subcommittee on Foreign Operations: Senators McConnell (Chairman), Specter,
Mack, Gramm, Jeffords, Gregg, Shelby, Leahy, Inouye, Lautenberg, Harkin,
Mikulski, and Murray. 
Subcommittee on the Interior: Senators Gorton (Chairman), Stevens, Cochran,
Domenici, Hatfield, Burns, Bennett, Mack, Byrd, Johnston, Leahy, Bumpers,
Hollings, Reid, and Murray. 
Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education: Senators Specter
(Chairman), Hatfield, Cochran, Gorton, Mack, Bond, Jeffords, Gregg, Harkin,
Byrd, Hollings, Inouye, Bumpers, Reid, and Kohl. 
Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch: Senators Mack (Chairman), Bennett,
Jeffords, Murray, and Mikulski. 
Subcommittee on Military Construction: Senators Burns (Chairman), Stevens,
Shelby, Gregg, Reid, Inouye, and Kohl. 
Subcommittee on Transportation: Senators Hatfield (Chairman), Domenici,
Specter, Gramm, Gorton, Bond, Lautenberg, Byrd, Harkin, Mikulski, and Reid. 
Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, General Government: Senators
Shelby (Chairman), Jeffords, Gregg, Kerrey, and Mikulski. 
Subcommittee on VA--HUD--Independent Agencies: Senators Bond (Chairman),
Gramm, Burns, Stevens, Shelby, Bennett, Mikulski, Leahy, Johnston, Lautenberg,
and Kerrey. 

ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original resolution (S. Res. 39), requesting $2,678,348 for
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1995, through February 28,
1996, and $2,739,487 for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1996,
through February 29, 1997. 

Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 104th Congress. 

ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported an
original resolution (S. Res. 41) requesting $2,719,280 for operating expenses
for the period from March 1, 1995, through February 28, 1996, and $2,782,054
for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1996, through February 29,
1997. 

Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 104th Congress. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee approved for reporting an
original resolution (S. Res. 45) requesting $4,515,333 for operating expenses
for the period from March 1, 1995, through February 28, 1996, and $4,618,593
for operating expenses for D33the period from March 1, 1996, through February
29, 1997. 

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FEDERAL JOB TRAINING PROGRAMS

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee continued hearings to
examine the effectiveness of the Federal employment training system in helping
reduce long-term welfare dependence, receiving testimony from Ray O. Worden,
New Hampshire Job Training Council, Concord; Debra R. Bowland, Ohio Bureau of
Employment Services, Columbus; Rodo Sofranac, Arizona Job Training
Coordinating Council, Phoenix, on behalf of the National Association of State
Work Force Investment Policy Council; Jerry R. Junkins, Texas Instruments
Incorporated, Dallas; Thomas Joyce, Landoll Corporation, Marysville, Kansas;
and Robert McGlotten, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING

Committee on Small Business: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
resolution requesting $1,118,742 for operating expenses for the period from
March 1, 1995, through February 28, 1996, and $1,144,004 for operating
expenses for the period from March 1, 1996, through February 29, 1997. 

Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 104th Congress. 

ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
resolution (S. Res. 40), requesting $1,056,916 for operating expenses for the
period from March 1, 1995, through February 28, 1996, and $1,079,534 for
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1996, through February 29,
1997. 

Also, committee approved Senator McCain as Chairman and Senator Inouye as Vice
Chairman, and adopted its rules of procedure for the 104th Congress. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported an
original resolution (S. Res. 43) requesting $2,228,666 for operating expenses
for the period from March 1, 1995, through February 28, 1996, and $2,280,704
for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1996, through February 29,
1997. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1995/01/12
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 12, 1995;  pages D37 - D42

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet)

ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original resolution requesting $1,708,179 for operating expenses
for the period from March 1, 1995 through February 29, 1996, and $1,746,459
for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1996 through February 28,
1997. 

Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 104th Congress, and
announced the following subcommittee assignments: 

Subcommittee on Production and Price Competitiveness: Senators Cochran
(Chairman), Warner, Helms, Coverdell, Dole, Pryor, Daschle, Baucus, and
Kerrey. 
Subcommittee on Marketing, Inspection, and Product Promotion: Senators Helms
(Chairman), Dole, Cochran, McConnell, Santorum, Conrad, Pryor, Baucus, and
Kerrey. 
Subcommittee on Forestry, Conservation, and Rural Revitalization: Senators
Craig (Chairman), Coverdell, Warner, Helms, Heflin, Harkin, and Conrad. 
Subcommittee on Research, Nutrition, and General Legislation: Senators
McConnell (Chairman), Dole, Santorum, Craig, Harkin, Heflin, and Daschle. 

U.S. OPERATIONS ABROAD

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on current operations abroad, focusing on the situation in Bosnia,
North Korea, Haiti, and Somalia from Walter B. Slocombe, Under Secretary of
Defense for Policy; Peter Tarnoff, Under Secretary of State for Political
Affairs; and Lt. Gen. Wesley K. Clark, USA, Director for Strategic Plans and
Policy (J-5), Lt. Gen. Howell M. Estes III, USAF, Director of Operations
(J-3), and Maj. Gen. Patrick M. Hughes, USA, Director for Current Intelligence
(J-2), all of the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Wednesday, January 11,
committee ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 52),
requesting $3,738,802 for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1995
through February 29, 1996, and $2,851,936 for operating expenses for the
period from March 1, 1996 through February 28, 1997. 

Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 104th Congress. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on the Budget: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution (S. Res. 50), requesting $3,032,295 for operating expenses for the
period from March 1, 1995 through February 29, 1996, and $3,103,181 for
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1996 through February 28,
1997. 

ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported an original resolution requesting $3,369,312 for operating
expenses for the period from March 1, 1995 through February 29, 1996, and
$3,445,845 for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1996 through
February 28, 1997. 

Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 104th Congress, and
announced the establishment of the following subcommittees: 

Subcommittee on Aviation: Senator McCain (Chairman). 
Subcommittee on Communications: Senator Packwood (Chairman). 
Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce and Tourism: Senator Gorton
(Chairman). 
Subcommittee on Oceans and Fisheries: Senator Stevens (Chairman). 
Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine: Senator Lott
(Chairman). 
Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space: Senator Burns (Chairman). 

                                [Page: D39]

AVIATION SAFETY

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held oversight
hearings to review Federal aviation safety measures, receiving testimony from
Kenneth M. Mead, Director, Transportation Issues, Resources, Community, and
Economic Development Division, Matthew Hampton, Management Analyst, Timothy
Hannegan, Senior Evaluator, and Steven Calvo, Evaluator, all of the General
Accounting Office; David R. Hinson, Administrator, Federal Aviation
Administration, Department of Transportation; James E. Hall, Chairman,
National Transportation Safety Board; and J. Roger Fleming, Air Transport
Association of America, Walter S. Coleman, Regional Airline Association, and
J. Randolph Babbitt, Air Line Pilots Association International, all of
Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: on Wednesday, January 11, committee
announced the establishment of the following subcommittees: 

Subcommittee on Energy Production and Regulation: Senators Nickles (Chairman),
and Jeffords (Vice Chairman). 
Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development: Senators Domenici (Chairman),
and Burns (Vice Chairman). 
Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management: Senators Craig (Chairman),
and Kyl (Vice Chairman). 
Subcommittee on Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation: Senators Thomas
(Chairman), and Grams (Vice Chairman). 

ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original resolution (S. Res. 48), requesting $2,351,491 for
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1995 through February 29,
1996, and $2,404,115 for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1996
through February 28, 1997. 

Also, committee approved its rules of procedure for the 104th Congress, and
announced the establishment of the following subcommittees: 

Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Senator Warner (Chairman). 
Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Control, and Risk Assessment: Senator Smith
(Chairman). 
Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property and Nuclear Safety:
Senator Faircloth (Chairman). 
Subcommittee on Drinking Water, Fisheries and Wildlife: Senator Kempthorne
(Chairman). 

SERBIAN SANCTIONS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs met in closed
session to receive a briefing on Serbian sanctions from Peter Tarnoff, Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs; Walter B. Slocombe, Under Secretary
of Defense for Policy; and Lt. Gen. Wesley K. Clark, USA, Director for
Strategic Plans and Policy (J-5), Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
resolution requesting $4,343,438 for operating expenses for the period from
March 1, 1995 through February 29, 1996, and $4,444,627 for operating expenses
for the period from March 1, 1996 through February 28, 1997. 

Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 104th Congress, and
announced the following subcommittee assignments: 

Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and Competition: Senators Thurmond
(Chairman), Hatch, Specter, Simpson, Leahy, Heflin, and Feingold. 
Subcommittee on Immigration: Senators Simpson (Chairman), Grassley, Kyl,
Specter, Kennedy, Simon, and Feinstein. 
Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts: Senators Grassley
(Chairman), Thurmond, Brown, DeWine, Heflin, Kohl, and Feingold. 
Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Government Information: Senators
Specter (Chairman), Thompson, Abraham, Thurmond, Kohl, Leahy, and Feinstein. 
Subcommittee on Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights: Senators Brown
(Chairman), Hatch, Kyl, DeWine, Abraham, Simon, Kennedy, and Feingold. 
Subcommittee on Youth Violence: Senators Thompson (Chairman), Hatch, Simpson,
Biden, and Kohl. 

FEDERAL JOB TRAINING PROGRAMS

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the effectiveness of the Federal employment training system in helping
reduce long-term welfare dependence, after receiving testimony from Senator
Breaux; Robert B. Reich, Secretary of Labor; Alice M. Rivlin, Director, Office
of Management and Budget; Wisconsin Governor Tommy G. Thompson, Madison;
Father William T. Cunningham, Focus: HOPE, Detroit, Michigan; James J.
Heckman, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; and Robert L. Woodson,
National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, and Anthony P. Carnevale,
National Commission for Employment Policy, both of Washington, D.C. 

                                [Page: D40]

ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following measures: 

An original resolution (S. Res. 49), requesting $1,309,439 for operating
expenses for the period from March 1, 1995 through February 29, 1996, and
$1,340,234 for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1996 through
February 28, 1997; 

An original resolution designating the following members on the part of the
Senate to the Joint Committee on Printing: Senators Stevens (Vice Chairman),
Hatfield, Cochran, Ford, and Inouye; and to the Joint Committee on the Library
of Congress: Senators Hatfield (Chairman), Stevens, Cochran, Pell, and
Moynihan; and 

An original resolution authorizing the printing as a Senate document of a
compilation of the rules of procedure and other related materials of all
Senate committees. 

Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 104th Congress. 

ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING

Committee on Small Business: On Wednesday, January 11, committee ordered
favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 51), requesting $1,000,980
for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1995 through February 29,
1996, and $1,023,582 for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1996
through February 28, 1997. 

Joint Meetings

LINE ITEM VETO

Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs concluded joint
hearings with the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight on H.R.
2, to give the President of the United States line item veto authority over
appropriation acts and targeted tax benefits in revenue acts, after receiving
testimony from Senators McCain and Coats; Representatives Quinn, Neumann, and
Castle; Alice M. Rivlin, Director, Office of Management and Budget; Robert D.
Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget Office; Gilbert S. Merritt, Chief
Judge, Sixth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals (Nashville,
Tennessee), on behalf of the Judicial Conference of the United States;
Massachusetts Governor William Weld, Boston; and John Winkelmann, Citizens
Against Government Waste, David L. Keating, National Taxpayers Union, and
Norman J. Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research,
all of Washington, D.C. 



1995/01/13
Daily Digest - Friday, January 13, 1995;  pages D43 - D46

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1995/01/17
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 17, 1995;  pages D47 - D50

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

WORLD THREAT TO U.S. ASSESSMENT 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in open and closed sessions to
receive a briefing on current D48and projected worldwide threats to United
States' security and interests from Adm. William O. Studeman, USN, Acting
Director of Central Intelligence; Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper, Jr., USAF,
Director, Defense Intelligence Agency; Douglas J. MacEachin, Deputy Director
for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency; and Christine Williams,
Chairman, National Intelligence Council. 

                                [Page: D48]

Committee recessed subject to call. 

BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed markup of S.J. Res. 1, proposing
an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require a balanced
budget, but did not complete action thereon, and will continue tomorrow. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1995/01/18
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 18, 1995;  pages D51 - D56

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

LINE-ITEM VETO 

Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings on S. 4, to grant the
power to the President to reduce budget authority, and S. 14, to provide for
the expedited consideration of certain proposed cancellations of budget items,
after receiving testimony from Senators McCain, Coats, and Bradley; and Alice
M. Rivlin, Director, Office of Management and Budget. 

BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported S.J. Res. 1,
proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require a
balanced budget. 

ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
an original resolution (S. Res. 62), requesting $4,018,405 for operating
expenses for the period from March 1, 1995 through February 29, 1996, and
$4,111,256 for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1996 through
February 28, 1997. 

Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 104th Congress, and
announced the following subcommittee assignments: 

Subcommittee on Aging: Senators Gregg (Chairman), Kassebaum, Coats, Ashcroft,
Mikulski, Simon, Wellstone, and Kennedy (ex officio). 
Subcommittee on Children and Families: Senators Coats (Chairman), Jeffords,
DeWine, Ashcroft, Abraham, Kassebaum (ex officio), Dodd, Pell, Harkin,
Wellstone, and Kennedy (ex officio). 
Subcommittee on Disability Policy: Senators Frist (Chairman), Jeffords,
DeWine, Gorton, Kassebaum (ex officio), Harkin, Kennedy, and Simon. 
Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities: Senators Jeffords (Chairman),
Kassebaum, Coats, Gregg, Frist, DeWine, Ashcroft, Abraham, Gorton, Pell,
Kennedy, Dodd, Simon, Harkin, Mikulski, and Wellstone. 

JOB CORPS PROGRAM 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held oversight hearings to
examine performance, accountability, and the incidence of violence at Job
Corps sites, receiving testimony from Gerald W. Peterson, Millersville,
Maryland, former Assistant Inspector General for Audit, Department of Labor;
Ron Stallworth, Utah Department of Public Safety, Salt Lake City; Fred
Freeman, Jr., Carlisle, Pennsylvania; Rhonda Wheeler, Ventura, California;
Randall B. Godinet, San Diego, California; Shirley D. Sakos, Piscataway, New
Jersey; Karen Anderson, St. Paul, Minnesota; and Luis Melendez, New York, New
York. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET REQUESTS 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings to receive
testimony from Senators, as indicated, in support of resolutions requesting
funds for operating expenses of their respective committees for periods from
March 1, 1995, through February 29, 1996, and from March 1, 1996, through
February 28, 1997, as follows: 

Committee on the Budget: (S. Res. 50), Senators Domenici and Exon; 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: (S. Res. 39), Senators Murkowski
and Johnston; 
Committee on Finance: (S. Res. 36), Senators Packwood and Moynihan; 
Special Committee on Aging: (S. Res. 55), Senators Cohen and Pryor; 
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: (S. Res. 53), Senators
Lugar and Leahy; 
Committee on the Judiciary: (S. Res. 54), Senators Hatch and Biden; 
Committee on Foreign Relations: (S. Res. 41), Senators Helms and Pell; and 
Committee on Small Business: (S. Res. 51), Senators Bond and Bumpers. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution (S. Res. 64), requesting $1,036,481 for operating expenses for the
period from March 1, 1995 through February 29, 1996, and $1,060,341 for
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1996 through February 28,
1997. 

INTELLIGENCE 

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

Committee will meet again on Wednesday, January 25. 

                                [Page: D53]

No Joint hearings noted.



1995/01/19
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 19, 1995;  pages D57 - D62

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

EDUCATION REFORM/CHARTER SCHOOLS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education concluded hearings on issues relating to the restructuring and
improving public education in America, focusing on the Federal charter school
program, after receiving testimony from Linda G. Morra, Director of Education
and Employment Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division, General
Accounting Office; Louann A. Bierlein, Arizona State University, Tempe; and
Linda Powell, Minnesota Commissioner of Education, and Milo J. Cutter, City
Academy, both of St. Paul. 

FUTURE OF HUD

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
concluded hearings to examine the management and budgetary situation at the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, after receiving testimony from
Henry G. Cisneros, Secretary, and Susan Gaffney, Inspector General, both of
the Department of Housing and Urban Development; Judy A. England-Joseph,
Director, Housing and Community Development Issues, Resources, Community, and
Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office; and R. Scott Fosler
and Feather O'Connor Houstoun, both of the National Academy of Public
Administration, Washington, D.C.  

ARMED FORCES

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to examine the condition
of the United States Armed Forces and its future trends, receiving testimony
from Maj. Gen. Douglas D. Buchholz, USA, Commanding General, U.S. Army Signal
Center and Fort Gordon; Commander James G. Stavridis, USN, Commanding Officer,
USS John Barry (DDG 52); Col. Jennings B. Beavers II, USMC, Commanding
Officer, 8th Marine Infantry Regiment, 2nd Marine Division; Lt. Col. Mark G.
Beesley, USAF, Commanding Officer, 494th Fighter Squadron, United States Air
Force Europe; Edwin Dorn, Under Secretary (Personnel and Readiness), and John
J. Hamre, Comptroller, both of the Department of Defense; and Adm. William A.
Owens, USN, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Robert Pitofsky, of Maryland, to be a Federal
Trade Commissioner, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Sarbanes,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

NUCLEAR SAFETY: U.S.-NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR ACCORD

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the impact of the agreement between the United States and the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea regarding the North Korea nuclear
program on the Department of Energy and U.S. energy policy, after receiving
testimony from Senator McCain; Charles B. Curtis, Under Secretary of Energy;
Ashton B. Carter, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security
Policy; Gary Samore, Deputy to the Ambassador at Large, Department of State;
Ivan Selin, Chairman, D59Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Morris Rosen,
Assistant Secretary General and Director of Nuclear Safety, International
Atomic Energy Agency (United Nations); Caspar W. Weinberger, former Secretary
of Defense; Gary Milhollin, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, on
behalf of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control; and Nicholas N.
Eberstadt, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C. 

                                [Page: D59]

JOB CORPS PROGRAM

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine performance, accountability, and the incidence of violence at Job
Corps sites, after receiving testimony from Doug Ross, Assistant Secretary for
Employment and Training Administration, and Peter E. Rell, Director, and John
Deering, Admissions Counselor (Region Five), both of the Job Corps, all of the
Department of Labor; Larry King, Pine Knot, Kentucky, on behalf of the
National Federation of Federal Employees/Forest Service Council; Mary S.
Young, David L. Carrasco Job Corps Center, El Paso, Texas; Jamison Gorby, Red
Rock Job Corps Center, Lopez, Pennsylvania; Curtis Gadsden, Mahwah, New
Jersey; Robert Belfon, Piscataway, New Jersey; and John C. McCay, Irving,
Texas. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET REQUESTS

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings after
receiving testimony from Senators, as indicated, in support of resolutions
requesting funds for operating expenses of their respective committees for
periods from March 1, 1995, through February 29, 1996, and from March 1, 1996,
through February 28, 1997, as follows: 
Select Committee on Intelligence: (S. Res. 43), Senators Specter and Kerrey; 
Committee on Appropriations: (S. Res. 38), Senator Hatfield; 
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: (S. Res. 62), Senators Kassebaum and
Kennedy; 
Committee on Indian Affairs: (S. Res. 40), Senators McCain and Inouye; 
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: (S. Res. 56), Senators
Pressler and Hollings; 
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: (S. Res. 52), Senators
D'Amato and Sarbanes; 
Committee on Governmental Affairs: (S. Res. 45), Senators Roth and Glenn; 
Committee on Veterans Affairs: (S. Res. 64), Senators Simpson and Rockefeller; 
Committee on Armed Services: (S. Res. ), Senators Thurmond and Nunn; and 
Committee on Environment and Public Works: (S. Res. 48), Senators Chafee and
Baucus. 

Committee will begin consideration of the committee budget requests on
Wednesday, January 25. 

Joint Meetings

CHECHNYA

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission):
Commission held hearings on the Russian assault on the Chechen Republic,
focusing on its impact on Russian domestic policy and implications for
international relations in the post-Cold-War period, receiving testimony from
Elena Bonner, Moscow, Russia; Mohammed Shashani, Chechen-Ingush Society of
America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Paul Goble, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, Charles Fairbanks, Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy
Institute, and Maryam Elahi, Amnesty International, all of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 



1995/01/20
Daily Digest - Friday, January 20, 1995;  pages D63 - D68

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

COMMITTEE BUDGET REQUEST 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution (S. Res. 65) requesting $2,948,079 for operating expenses for the
period from March 1, 1995 through February 29, 1996, and $3,015,532 for the
period from March 1, 1996 through February 28, 1997. 

Joint Meetings 

BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine the proposed
Balanced Budget Amendment, focusing on the inclusion of a tax limitation,
receiving testimony from Senator Kyl; Representatives Barton and McDermott;
Virginia Governor George Allen, Richmond; New Hampshire Governor Stephen
Merrill, Concord; William A. Niskanen, Cato Institute, and Lawrence Chimerine,
Economic Strategy Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Lewis K. D65Uhler,
National Tax Limitation Committee, Alexandria, Virginia; and Milton Friedman,
Hoover Institution, Palo Alto, California. 

                                [Page: D65]

Hearings will continue on Monday, January 23. 



1995/01/23
Daily Digest - Monday, January 23, 1995;  pages D69 - D74

Committee Meetings

No committee meetings were held. 

Joint Meetings

BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT

Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine the proposed
Balanced Budget Amendment, focusing on the inclusion of a tax limitation,
after receiving testimony from Representatives Mica, Sabo, Souder, and Roth;
Walter E. Dellinger, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel,
Department of Justice; Charles J. Cooper, Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge,
former Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, and Fred Wertheimer,
Common Cause, both of Washington, D.C.; Pat Cooksey, True Blue Patriots,
Cincinnati, Ohio; Gary W. Stewart, Speak Out America, Highland, Michigan;
Olivia Eudaly, Camelot Properties, Ft. Worth, Texas; and Jake Hansen, Seniors
Coalition, Fairfax, Virginia. 



1995/01/24
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 24, 1995;  pages D75 - D82

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSES 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to examine the
requirements for ballistic missile defenses, receiving testimony from Keith
Payne, National Institute for Public Policy, Fairfax, Virginia; Kathleen
Bailey, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; and Ted
Gold, Hicks & Associates, McLean, Virginia. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

GOVERNING IN THE 21ST CENTURY 

Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings to examine the role of the
Federal Government in the twenty-first century, receiving testimony from
William J. Bennett, Empower America, Robert L. Woodson, National Center for
Neighborhood Enterprise, Stephen Moore, Cato Institute, and Robert Greenstein,
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, all of Washington, D.C. 

Committee will meet again tomorrow. 

FEDERAL REVENUE ESTIMATES 

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the Federal revenue
estimating process used to determine the effects of proposed tax legislation
on fiscal year budget receipts, receiving testimony from Alan J. Auerbach,
University of California, Berkeley; R. Glenn Hubbard, Columbia University, New
York, New York; and J.D. Foster, Tax Foundation, Inc., and William A.
Niskanen, Cato Institute, both of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR AGREEMENT 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the impact
of the agreement between the United States and the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea regarding the North Korean nuclear program on overall
efforts to reduce the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, receiving
testimony from Warren M. Christopher, Secretary of State; William J. Perry,
Secretary of Defense; and Robert L. Gallucci, U.S. Ambassador at Large. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

LINE-ITEM VETO 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism and
Property Rights concluded hearings on S.J. Res. 2 and S.J. Res. 16, measures
proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to grant the
President line-item veto authority, after receiving testimony from Senators
Thurmond and Biden; Walter Dellinger, Assistant Attorney General, Office of
Legal Counsel, Department of Justice; Louis Fisher, Senior Specialist,
American National Government, Congressional Research Service, Library of
Congress; Timothy Flanigan, former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal
Counsel, Department of Justice; South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell,
Columbia; and Stephen Moore, Cato Institute, Robert Barr, Chamber of Commerce
of the United States, David L. Keating, National Taxpayers Union, and J.
Gregory Sidak, American Enterprise Institute, all of Washington, D.C. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1995/01/25
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 25, 1995;  pages D83 - D90

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

CBO ANNUAL REPORT 

Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings to examine the state of the
United States economy and the budget outlook for fiscal years 1996-2000,
receiving testimony from Robert D. Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget
Office. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee announced the
following subcommittee membership: 

Subcommittee on Aviation: Senators McCain (Chairman), Pressler, Stevens,
Gorton, Burns, Lott, Hutchison, Ashcroft, Ford, Exon, Inouye, Bryan,
Rockefeller, Breaux, and Dorgan. 
Subcommittee on Communications: Senators Packwood (Chairman), Pressler,
Stevens, McCain, Burns, Gorton, Lott, Ashcroft, Hollings, Inouye, Ford, Exon,
Kerry, Breaux, and Rockefeller.  
Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce and Tourism: Senators
Gorton (Chairman), Pressler, McCain, Snowe, Ashcroft, Exon, Ford, Bryan, and
Rockefeller. 
Subcommittee on Oceans and Fisheries: Senators Stevens (Chairman), Packwood,
Gorton, Snowe, Kerry, Inouye, and Breaux. 
Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine: Senators Lott
(Chairman), Hutchison, Packwood, Stevens, Burns, Snowe, Inouye, Exon, Breaux,
Dorgan, and Bryan. 
Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space: Senators Burns (Chairman),
Pressler, Hutchison, Stevens, Lott, Rockefeller, Kerry, Bryan, and Dorgan. 

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee announced the following
subcommittee assignments: 

Subcommittee on Energy Production and Regulation: Senators Nickles (Chairman),
Jeffords (Vice Chairman), Hatfield, Thomas, Domenici, Bingaman, Ford, Akaka,
and Wellstone. 
Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development: Senators Domenici (Chairman),
Burns (Vice Chairman), Craig, Kyl, Grams, Ford, Bradley, and Wellstone. 
Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management: Senators Craig (Chairman),
Kyl (Vice Chairman), Hatfield, Domenici, Burns, Thomas, Bradley, Bumpers,
Bingaman, and Campbell. 

                                [Page: D86]

Subcommittee on Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation: Senators Thomas
(Chairman), Grams (Vice Chairman), Nickles, Jeffords, Bumpers, Akaka, and
Campbell. 

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK 

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the current condition
and future outlook of the United States economy, receiving testimony from Alan
Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. 

Committee will meet again tomorrow. 

NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR AGREEMENT 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
effects of the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
regarding the North Korean nuclear program on overall efforts to reduce the
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, after receiving testimony from
James R. Lilley, American Enterprise Institute, Paul Wolfowitz, Johns Hopkins
University, Richard V. Allen, Richard V. Allen Company, and Leonard S.
Spector, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, all of Washington, D.C.;
and Victor Gilinsky, Glen Echo, Maryland, former Commissioner of the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission. 

WELFARE REFORM 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on proposals to
reform the national welfare system, receiving testimony from Jane L. Ross,
Director, Income Security Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services
Division, General Accounting Office; Mary Jo Bane, Assistant Secretary of
Health and Human Services for Children and Families; William Ludwig,
Administrator of the Food and Consumer Service, Department of Agriculture;
Michael A. Stegman, Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for
Policy Development and Research; South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell,
Columbia; Ohio State Representative Jane Campbell, Columbus, on behalf of the
National Conference of State Legislatures; Robert Rector, Heritage Foundation,
and Mark Greenberg, Center for Law and Social Policy, both of Washington,
D.C.; Lawrence M. Mead, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; and
Judith M. Gueron, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, New York, New
York. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

CONGRESSIONAL TERM LIMITS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism and
Property Rights concluded hearings on S.J. Res. 19 and S.J. Res. 21, measures
proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to
limiting congressional terms, after receiving testimony from Senators Grams,
Ashcroft, Thompson, and McConnell; Representatives McCollum, Inglis, Fowler,
and Deal; Lamar Alexander, former Governor of Tennessee and former Secretary
of Education, Nashville; Patrick Buchanan, The American Cause, McLean,
Virginia; Lloyd N. Cutler, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Edward H. Crane, Cato
Institute, David M. Mason, Heritage Foundation, Thomas E. Mann, Brookings
Institution, Norman J. Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute for Public
Policy Research, Paul Jacob, U.S. Term Limits, Becky Cain, League of Women
Voters of the United States, Cleta D. Mitchell, Term Limits Legal Institute,
and Fred Wertheimer, Common Cause, all of Washington, D.C.; Ron Rotunda,
University of Illinois, Urbana; Mark Petracca, University of California,
Irvine; Sherry Bockwinkel, LIMIT, Tacoma, Washington; and Ed McMullen,
Columbia, South Carolina. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported an
original resolution (S. Res. 73) authorizing biennial expenditures by
committees of the Senate, in lieu of S. Res. 36, S. Res. 38, S. Res. 39, S.
Res. 40, S. Res. 41, S. Res. 43, S. Res. 45, S. Res. 48, S. Res. 49, S. Res.
50, S. Res. 51, S. Res. 52, S. Res. 53, S. Res. 54, S. Res. 55, S. Res. 56, S.
Res. 62, S. Res. 64, and S. Res. 65. 

INTELLIGENCE 

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

Committee will meet again on Wednesday, February 1. 

                                [Page: D87]

No Joint hearings noted.



1995/01/26
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 26, 1995;  pages D92 - D98

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on S. 178, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1995-2000 for the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, after receiving testimony from Mary L.
Schapiro, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission; John F. Sandner and
William Brodsky, both of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Patrick H. Arbor,
Chicago Board of Trade, and Robert K. Wilmouth, National Futures Association,
all of Chicago, Illinois; and Daniel Rappaport, New York Mercantile Exchange,
Bennett J. Corn, Coffee, Sugar, and Cocoa Exchange, Inc., Peter F. Karpen,
Futures Industry Association, and John R. Frawley, Jr., Managed Futures
Association, all of New York, New York. 

HUD MANAGEMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
concluded hearings to examine the management and budgetary situation at the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, after receiving testimony from
Nancy M. Gordon, Assistant Director for Health and Human Resources,
Congressional Budget Office; and Michael A. Stegman, Assistant Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development for Policy Development and Research. 

NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR AGREEMENT 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
security implications of the United States Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreement
with North Korea, after receiving testimony from William J. Perry, Secretary
of Defense; Ashton B. Carter, Under Secretary of Defense for International
Security Policy; Gen. Gary E. Luck, USA, Commander-in-Chief, United National
Command, Republic of Korea and the United States Forces, Korea; Gary
Milhollin, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, on behalf of the
Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control; and Leonard S. Spector, Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, and Richard V. Allen, Richard V. Allen
Company, both of Washington, D.C. 

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK 

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings to examine the state of
the United States economy and the budget outlook for fiscal years 1996-2000,
receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System; Allan Meltzer, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; Mickey D. Levy, NationsBanc Capital Markets, Inc., New York, New
York; and David Wyss, DRI/McGraw-Hill, Lexington, Massachusetts. 

Committee will meet again tomorrow. 

AMTRAK 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held oversight
hearings on activities of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation
(Amtrak), receiving testimony from Senators Jeffords and Cochran; Jolene M.
Molitoris, Administrator, Federal D95Railroad 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
(Amtrak); former New Jersey Governor James Florio, Trenton, on behalf of the
Safe Transit and Rail Transportation (START); Mayor John Robert Smith,
Meridian, Mississippi; Jack Hynes, Missouri Highway and Transportation
Department, Jefferson City; and Ross Capon, National Association of Railroad
Passengers, Washington, D.C. 

                                [Page: D95]

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

FEDERAL BUDGET OUTLOOK 

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the current budget
situation for the Federal Government, focusing on the impact of a
constitutional balanced budget amendment on those programs which fall under
the committee's jurisdiction, receiving testimony from Robert D. Reischauer,
Director, Congressional Budget Office. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

MEXICO ECONOMY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
economic situation in Mexico and United States efforts to stabilize the peso,
after receiving testimony from Senator Hollings; Warren M. Christopher,
Secretary of State; Robert E. Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury; Alan
Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Malcolm
S. Forbes, Jr., Forbes Inc., and Lawrence Kudlow, National Review Magazine,
both of New York, New York; and L. William Seidman, Commercial Mortgage Asset
Corp., and Sidney Weintraub, Center for Strategic and International Studies,
both of Washington, D.C.  

CONGRESSIONAL TERM LIMITS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee considered S.J. Res. 19 and S.J. Res.
21, measures proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States
relative to limiting congressional terms, but did not take action thereon, and
recessed subject to call. 

NEA 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded oversight hearings
on activities of the National Endowment for the Arts, after receiving
testimony from Jane Alexander, Chairperson, National Endowment for the Arts. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1995/01/27
Daily Digest - Friday, January 27, 1995;  pages D100 - D106

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

GOVERNMENT REFORM

Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine Federal
Government restructuring proposals, after receiving testimony from former
Representative Roger Zion and James L. Martin, both on behalf of 60 Plus
Association, and R. Scott Fosler, National Academy of Public Administration,
all of Washington, D.C.; and Martin Gross, Greenwich, Connecticut. 

Joint Meetings

UNITED STATES-RUSSIA RELATIONS

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission):
Commission concluded hearings to examine the Administration's position on
Russia's military intervention in Chechnya, and its implications for United
States-Russian relations, after receiving testimony from James Collins, Senior
Coordinator, Office of the Ambassador-at-Large for the New Independent States,
Department of State. 



1995/01/30
Daily Digest - Monday, January 30, 1995;  pages D108 - D112

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1995/01/31
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 31, 1995;  pages D113 - D120

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Eleanor Hill, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, Department of Defense,
after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Roth, testified and answered
questions in her own behalf. 

NATIONAL SECURITY 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the smuggling of nuclear material and the role of international
crime organizations, and on the proliferation of cruise and ballistic missiles
from Gordon Oehler, Director, Non-Proliferation Center, Robert Hachey, Liaison
Officer, Office of Congressional Affairs, and Steve Kappas, Chief of
Proliferation Group, Central Eurasia Division, all of the Central Intelligence
Agency; and Dee Bumbers, Senior Intelligence Officer, Non- Proliferation/Arms
Control Division, George Stevens, Senior Intelligence Officer,
Non-Proliferation Branch, and Daniel Spohn, Defense Intelligence Officer,
Strategic Programs, Research and Development and Proliferation, all of the
Defense Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

MEXICO ECONOMY 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
to examine the economic situation in Mexico and United States efforts to
stabilize the peso, after receiving testimony from Senator Brown; Alan
Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Jeffrey
R. Shafer, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs; L.
William Seidman, Commercial Mortgage Asset Corp., Washington, D.C.; Guillermo
A. Calvo, University of Maryland, College Park; David C. Mulford, CS First
Boston Inc., London, England; Rudi Dornbusch, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge; and Ross Perot, Dallas, Texas.

                               [Page: D114]

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held oversight hearings on the implementation of the
Department of Commerce science and technology programs, receiving testimony
from Ronald H. Brown, Secretary of Commerce, Mary Lowe Good, Under Secretary
for Technology Policy, D. James Baker, Under Secretary for Oceans and
Atmosphere, and Arati Prabhakar, Director, National Institute of Standards and
Technology, all of the Department of Commerce. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

U.S. SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT 

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the factors that
affect savings in the United States economy and the importance of savings on
economic growth and productivity, receiving testimony from Gail Makinen,
Specialist in Economic Policy, Congressional Research Service, Library of
Congress; Robert Risner, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; and Dale
Jorgenson, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

Committee will meet again on Thursday, February 2. 

START II TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the Treaty
Between the United States and the Russian Federation on Further Reduction and
Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (the START II Treaty) signed at Moscow
on January 3, 1993, including the following documents, which are integral
parts thereof: the Elimination and Conversion Protocol, the Exhibitions and
Inspections Protocol, and the Memorandum of Attribution (Treaty Doc. 103-1),
after receiving testimony from Warren Christopher, Secretary of State; Linton
F. Brooks, Chief Negotiator for the United States to the START II
Negotiations; and John D. Holum, Director, United States Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency. 

BANKING LAW REFORM: D'OENCH DUHME DOCTRINE 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management and the District of Columbia held oversight hearings to examine the
use by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Resolution Trust
Corporation of the D'Oench Duhme doctrine to prevent citizens from seeking
redress for legitimate claims against failed banks, receiving testimony from
William M. Dudley, Vice President (Atlanta, Georgia), and Mark Hileman,
Counsel, both of the Resolution Trust Corporation; John F. Bovenzi, Director,
Division of Depositor and Asset Services, Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation; Michael P. Malloy, Fordham University School of Law, Bronx, New
York; J. Michael Echevarria, Southwestern University School of Law, Los
Angeles, California; David S. Hess, Citizens and Business for D'Oench Duhme
Reform, Arlington, Virginia; Michael C. McLaughlin, Lane & Altman, Boston,
Massachusetts; and Rhetta B. Sweeney, Hamilton, Massachusetts. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meetings 

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission):
Commission held hearings to examine the current situation in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, focusing on policy options available to the international
community, including a lifting of the arms embargo, withdrawing U.N.
Protection Force troops, amending current sanctions regime imposed on Serbia,
and maintaining last year's Contact Group plan for a negotiated peace,
receiving testimony from Haris Silajdzic, Prime Minister of Bosnia and
Herzegovina. 

Commission recessed subject to call. 



1995/02/01
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 1, 1995;  pages D122 - D128

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AUTHORIZATION--CFTC 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported S. 178, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1995 through 2000 for the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission. 

FEDERAL ENTITLEMENTS 

Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings to examine issues relative to
restructuring the Federal budget process, focusing on baseline projections for
Federal entitlements, including health and farm programs, receiving testimony
from Paul Van de Water, Assistant Director for Budget Affairs, Congressional
Budget Office; Kevin B. Piper, Wisconsin Bureau of Health Care Financing,
Madison; Bruce Gardner, University of Maryland, College Park; and Marilyn
Moon, Urban Institute, Washington, DC. 

Committee will meet again tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported, with
an amendment, S. 244, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1996-2000 for the
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of the Office of Management and
Budget to strengthen the goals of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 by
having Federal agencies become more responsible and accountable for reducing
the burden of Federal paperwork on the public. 

Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 104th Congress, and
announced the following subcommittee assignments: 

Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: Senators Roth (Chairman), Stevens,
Cohen, Thompson, Cochran, Grassley, McCain, Smith, Nunn, Glenn, Levin, Pryor,
Lieberman, Akaka, and Dorgan. 
Subcommittee on Post Office and Civil Service: Senators Stevens (Chairman),
Cochran, McCain, Smith, Pryor, Akaka, and Dorgan. 
Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management and the District of
Columbia: Senators Cohen (Chairman), Thompson, Cochran, Grassley, McCain,
Levin, Pryor, Lieberman, and Akaka. 

                               [Page: D123]

CONGRESSIONAL TERM LIMITS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Constitution, Federalism and
Property Rights approved for full committee consideration, with amendments,
S.J. Res. 21, proposing a constitutional amendment to limit congressional
terms. 

ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING 

Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee met and adopted its rules of
procedure for the 104th Congress. 

INTELLIGENCE 

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

Committee will meet again on Wednesday, February 8. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1995/02/02
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 2, 1995;  pages D129 - D134

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

HUD MANAGEMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
resumed hearings to examine the management and budgetary situation at the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, receiving testimony from Nicholas
P. Retsinas, Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Federal
Housing Commissioner; Mayor Steve Bartlett, Dallas, Texas, on behalf of the
Conference of Mayors; Richard G. Grose, Missouri Housing Development
Commission, on behalf of the National Council of State Housing Agencies, and
Kenneth Bacchus, on behalf of the National League of Cities, both of Kansas
City, Missouri; Gregory Byrne, Dade County Department of Housing and Urban
Development, Miami, Florida, on behalf of the Council of Large Public Housing
Authorities; Richard C. Gentry, Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority,
Richmond, Virginia, on behalf of the National Association of Housing and
Redevelopment Officials; Johrita Solari and David Smith, both on behalf of the
National Assisted Housing Management Association, Alexandria, Virginia; and
Charles S. Wilkens, Jr., National Housing Partnership, and Michael Bodaken,
National Housing Trust, both of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Eleanor Hill, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, Department
of Defense, and 10,759 military nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps,
and Air Force. 

NATIONAL STRATEGY 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
foundations of United States national strategy, after receiving testimony from
Henry A. Kissinger, former Secretary of State. 

                               [Page: D130]

BLOCK GRANTS 

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings to examine issues
relative to restructuring the Federal budget process, focusing on the Federal,
State, and local block grant system, receiving testimony from Michigan
Governor John Engler, Lansing; Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, Indianapolis, Indiana;
and Clint Bolick, Institute for Justice, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

U.S. SAVINGS 

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the potential for
targeted incentives to increase domestic savings, receiving testimony from
William G. Gale, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.; and Laurence J.
Kotlikoff, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, Jonathan Skinner,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and David A. Wise, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, all on behalf of the National Bureau of
Economic Research. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Martin S. Indyk, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to Israel,
after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Lieberman and Moynihan,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

GOVERNMENT REFORM: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine how the
performance of new information technology by Federal agencies can reduce costs
and improve the quality of Government services, receiving testimony from
Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States; Cynthia Kendall,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Information Management; Gary
Kavanagh, Deputy Director, Bureau of Program Operations, Health Care Financing
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; and George Newstrom,
EDS Corporation, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

EDUCATION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities concluded hearings to examine education's impact on economic
competitiveness, after receiving testimony from Robert Kominski, Assistant
Division Chief for Social and Demographic Statistics, Bureau of the Census,
Department of Commerce; former New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean, Drew
University, Madison, New Jersey; Joseph T. Gorman, TRW Inc., Cleveland, Ohio;
Alan L. Wurtzel, Circuit City Stores Inc., Washington, D.C.; Joseph L. Dionne,
McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, New York; Morton Owen Schapiro, University of
Southern California, Los Angeles; John H. Bishop, Cornell University, Ithaca;
and Kent Lloyd, Knowledge Network for All Americans, Arlington, Virginia. 

Joint Meetings 

LEGISLATIVE SUPPORT AGENCIES 

Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Appropriations' Subcommittee on Legislative
Branch concluded joint hearings with the House Committee on Appropriations'
Subcommittee on Legislative to examine issues relative to the downsizing of
Legislative Branch support agencies, after receiving testimony from L. Walter
Freeman, Director for Real Estate and Facilities, Washington Headquarters
Services, Department of Defense; Joseph R. Wright, Jr., New York, New York,
former Director, Office of Management and Budget; Danford L. Sawyer, Jr. and
John J. Boyle, D133both former Public Printers, Government Printing Office;
Chris Hill, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia; Norman J. Ornstein,
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Thomas A. Schatz,
Citizens Against Government Waste, David M. Mason, Heritage Foundation, Tim
Sprehe, and Richard Haase, all of Washington, D.C. 



1995/02/03
Daily Digest - Friday, February 3, 1995;  pages D136 - D142

Committee Meetings

No committee meetings were held. 

                               [Page: D137]

Joint Meetings

EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS

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

Committee recessed subject to call. 



1995/02/06
Daily Digest - Monday, February 6, 1995;  pages D144 - D148

Committee Meetings

No committee meetings were held. 

                               [Page: D145]

No Joint hearings noted.



1995/02/07
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 7, 1995;  pages D150 - D156

Committee Meetings

( Committees not listed did not meet ) 

TAX POLICY REFORMS FOR AGRICULTURE

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings to
examine what tax policy reforms will help strengthen American agriculture and
agribusiness, receiving testimony from Senators Burns, Pressler, Kohl, and
Dorgan; Keith Collins, Acting Chief Economist, Department of Agriculture; Andy
Biebl, Biebl, Ranweiler, and Company Charter, New Ulm, Minnesota; Alan
Reynolds, Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C.; William Sprague, Kentucky Farm
Bureau, Sturgis, on behalf of the American Farm Bureau Federation; Phyllis
Gardner, Max, Nebraska, on behalf of the National Cattlemen's Association;
Pierce Miller, San Angelo, Texas, on behalf of the American Sheep Industry
Association; Roger Hadley, Indiana Soybean Association, Woodburn, on behalf of
the American Soybean Association; and John Dean, Glenwood State Bank,
Glenwood, Iowa, on behalf of the Independent Bankers Association of America. 

Committee will meet again on Tuesday, February 14. 

                               [Page: D151]

NATIONAL SECURITY

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to examine United States
national security strategy issues, receiving testimony from Hans Dinnendijk,
Director, Institute for National Security Studies, National Defense
University, Department of Defense; Dov Zakheim, SPC International, Arlington,
Virginia; and Paul Wolfowitz, Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of
Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

PRESIDENT'S ECONOMIC PLAN

Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings to examine the current
national economic situation and the President's proposed budget request for
fiscal year 1996, receiving testimony from Robert E. Rubin, Secretary of the
Treasury; and Laura D'Andrea Tyson, Chair, Council of Economic Advisers. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee made the following
subcommittee assignments: 

Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Senators Warner (Chairman),
Smith, Kempthorne, Bond, Faircloth, Baucus, Moynihan, Reid, and Graham. 
Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Control, and Risk Assessment: Senators Smith
(Chairman), Warner, Inhofe, McConnell, Lautenberg, Moynihan, and Boxer. 
Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety:
Senators Faircloth (Chairman), Inhofe, Thomas, McConnell, Graham, Lieberman,
and Boxer. 
Subcommittee on Drinking Water, Fisheries, and Wildlife: Senators Kempthorne
(Chairman), Faircloth, Thomas, Bond, Warner, Reid, Lautenberg, Lieberman, and
Boxer. 

SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee announced the following subcommittee
assignments: 

Subcommittee on European Affairs: Senators Lugar (Chair), Kassebaum, Brown,
Snowe, Thompson, Biden, Pell, Sarbanes, and Feingold. 
Subcommittee on African Affairs: Senators Kassebaum (Chair), Snowe, Ashcroft,
Feingold, and Feinstein. 
Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs: Senators Brown (Chair),
Snowe, Thompson, Thomas, Grams, Feinstein, Sarbanes, Kerry, and Robb. 
Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace Corps Affairs: Senators Coverdell
(Chair), Helms, Lugar, Thompson, Dodd, Pell, and Robb. 
Subcommittee on International Operations: Senators Snowe (Chair), Helms,
Brown, Coverdell, Ashcroft, Kerry, Pell, Biden, and Feingold. 
Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion:
Senators Thompson (Chair), Thomas, Grams, Ashcroft, Sarbanes, Pell, and Biden. 
Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs: Senators Thomas (Chair),
Lugar, Kassebaum, Coverdell, Grams, Robb, Biden, Kerry, and Feinstein. 

REGULATORY REFORM

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on proposed
legislation to reform the regulatory process, to make Government more
efficient and effective, receiving testimony from Senators Dole, Nickles,
Hutchison, Shelby, and Bond. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1995/02/08
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 8, 1995;  pages D158 - D164

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

PRESIDENT'S FY 1996 BUDGET

Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings to examine the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1996 for the Federal Government,
receiving testimony from Alice M. Rivlin, Director, Office of Management and
Budget. 

Committee will meet again on Friday, February 10. 

SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP

Committee on Finance: Committee announced the following subcommittee
assignments: 

Subcommittee on Long-Term Growth, Debt and Deficit Reduction: Senators
Pressler (Chairman), Simpson, D'Amato, Murkowski, Pryor, and Bradley. 
Subcommittee on International Trade: Senators Grassley (Chairman), Packwood,
Roth, Hatch, Pressler, D'Amato, Murkowski, Moynihan, Baucus, Bradley,
Rockefeller, Breaux, Conrad, and Graham. 
Subcommittee on Medicaid and Health Care for Low-Income Families: Senators
Chafee (Chairman), Roth, Nickles, Graham, Rockefeller, and Moseley-Braun. 
Subcommittee on Medicare, Long-Term Care and Health Insurance: Senators Dole
(Chairman), Packwood, Chafee, Grassley, Hatch, Simpson, Rockefeller, Baucus,
Pryor, Conrad, Graham, and Moseley-Braun. 
Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy: Senators Simpson
(Chairman), Dole, Chafee, Nickles, Breaux, Moynihan, Baucus, and
Moseley-Braun. 
Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight: Senators Hatch (Chairman),
Packwood, Roth, Dole, Grassley, Pressler, D'Amato, Murkowski, Nickles,
Bradley, Moynihan, Pryor, Breaux, and Conrad. 

BUDGET TAX CUTS

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine certain tax cuts
contained in the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1996 and
as contained in the proposed Contract With America and their potential effect
on the deficit, receiving testimony from Robert E. Rubin, Secretary of the
Treasury. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

REGULATORY REFORM

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee continued hearings on proposed
legislation to reform the Federal regulatory process, to make government more
efficient and effective, receiving testimony from Senator Murkowski; former
Senator George McGovern; John A. Georges, International Paper Company,
Purchase, New York, on behalf of the Business Roundtable; Michael O. Roush,
National Federation of Independent Business, Richard L. Lesher, Chamber of
Commerce of the United States, Robert W. Hahn, American Enterprise Institute,
and Paul R. Portney, Resources for the Future, all of Washington, D.C.; Thomas
D. Hopkins, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York; and Carl
Pope, Sierra Club, San Francisco, California. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Sandra L. Lynch, of Massachusetts, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
First Circuit; Lacy H. Thornburg, to be United States District Judge for the
Western District of North Carolina; Sidney H. Stein, to be United States
District Judge for the Southern District of New York; and Thadd Heartfield and
David Folsom, each to be a United States District Judge for the Eastern
District of Texas, after the nominees testified and answered questions in
their own behalf. Ms. Lynch was introduced by Senators Kennedy and Kerry, Mr.
Thornburg was introduced by Senators Helms and Faircloth, Mr. Stein was
introduced by Senators D'Amato and Moynihan, and Messrs. Heartfield and Folsom
were introduced by Senator Hutchison. 

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: D160]

No Joint hearings noted.



1995/02/09
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 9, 1995;  pages D166 - D172

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for foreign assistance
programs, focusing on political and economic reform in the New Independent
States of the former Soviet Union, receiving testimony from Strobe Talbott,
Deputy Secretary of State. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, February 16. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal D167year 1996 for the Department of Defense and
the future years defense program, receiving testimony from William J. Perry,
Secretary of Defense; Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, USA, Chairman, Joint Chiefs
of Staff; and John J. Hamre, Comptroller, Department of Defense. 

                               [Page: D167]

Committee will meet again on Tuesday, February 14. 

ENERGY BUDGET

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of
Energy and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, after receiving testimony
from Hazel R. O'Leary, Secretary of Energy; and Elizabeth A. Moler, Chair,
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. 

RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLANS

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on S. 287, to expand individual
retirement accounts (IRA's) for spouses, and on proposals to expand IRA's,
401(k) plans, and other savings arrangements, receiving testimony from Senator
Hutchison; and Paul Yakoboski, Employee Benefit Research Institute, Daniel
Halperin, Georgetown University Law Center, Matthew P. Fink, Investment
Company Institute, and John J. Motley III, National Federation of Independent
Business, all of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

CONGRESSIONAL TERM LIMITS

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported, with
amendments, S.J. Res. 21, proposing a constitutional amendment to limit
congressional terms.  

EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT PROGRAMS: (TEAM) ACT

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
295, to permit workers to meet with supervisors to address issues of mutual
concern, including quality and productivity issues, after receiving testimony
from Don Skiba, Julie Smith, Johnny Albertson, and Angie Cowan, all of the TRW
Plant, Cookeville, Tennessee; Lori Garrett and Kevin King, both of the Eastman
Chemical Company, Kingsport, Tennessee; Chester McCammon, Universal Dynamics
Inc., Woodbridge, Virginia; Harold P. Coxson, Coleman, Coxson, Penello,
Fogleman & Cowen, and David M. Silberman, AFL-CIO, both of Washington, D.C.;
and Berna Price, Electromation Inc., Elkhart, Indiana. 

AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to examine
the challenges that American Indian youth face in today's society, after
receiving testimony from Letha Mae Lamb, Akimel O'Odham/Pee-Posh Youth
Council, Gila River Indian Community, Arizona; Sleepy Eye LaFromboise, Akron,
New York, on behalf of the National Indian Education Association; Justin
Deegan, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, Parshall, North Dakota; Michael
Killer, Cherokee Nation Tribal Youth Council, Tahlequah, Oklahoma; Wilpita L.
Bia, Native American Youth Leadership Council, Chinle, Arizona; J.R. Cook,
United National Indian Tribal Youth, Inc., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Billy
Mills, Sacramento, California, on behalf of Running Strong For American Indian
Youth; Valora Washington, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, Michigan;
Barbara D. Finberg, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Carnegie Corporation of
New York; Joseph A. Myers, National Indian Justice Center, Petaluma,
California; Walter Ahhaitty, Hacienda Heights, California; Michael N. Martin,
Buffalo, New York; and Shauna Smith, Nixon, Nevada. 

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 various veteran organizations, after receiving testimony
from Richard Grant, Paralyzed Veterans of America, and David H. Hymes, Jewish
War Veterans of the USA, both of Washington, D.C.; Charles R. Jackson,
Non-Commissioned Officers Association of the U.S.A., and Lt. Commander
Virginia Torsch, MSC, USNR, Retired Officers Association, both of Alexandria,
Virginia; and John Molino, Association of the United States Army, Arlington,
Virginia. 



1995/02/10
Daily Digest - Friday, February 10, 1995;  pages D173 - D180

Committee Meetings

( Committees not listed did not meet ) 

SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP

Committee on Armed Services: Committee announced the following subcommittee
assignments:  

Subcommittee on Seapower: Senators Cohen (Chairman), Warner, McCain, Lott,
Smith, Kennedy, Exon, Robb, and Lieberman. 
Subcommittee on Airland Forces: Senators Warner (Chairman), Cohen, Coats,
Kempthorne, Hutchison, Inhofe, Santorum, Levin, Exon, Glenn, Byrd, Lieberman,
and Bryan. 

                               [Page: D174]

Subcommittee on Readiness: Senators McCain (Chairman), Cohen, Coats, Inhofe,
Santorum, Glenn, Bingaman, Robb, and Bryan. 
Subcommittee on Strategic Forces: Senators Lott (Chairman), Warner, Cohen,
Smith, Kempthorne, Hutchison, Exon, Levin, Bingaman, Glenn, and Bryan. 
Subcommittee on Personnel: Senators Coats (Chairman), McCain, Lott, Santorum,
Byrd, Kennedy, and Robb. 
Subcommittee on Acquisition and Technology: Senators Smith (Chairman),
Kempthorne, Hutchison, Inhofe, Bingaman, Levin, and Kennedy. 

DEFENSE BUDGET

Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of Defense,
after receiving testimony from William J. Perry, Secretary of Defense; Gen.
John M. Shalikashvili, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; and John J. Hamre,
Comptroller, Department of Defense. 

NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
President's 1995 national drug control strategy, after receiving testimony
from Representative Rangel; Lee P. Brown, Director, Office of National Drug
Control Policy; William Bennett, former Director, Office of National Drug
Control Policy; Judge Richard S. Gebelein, Superior Court of Delaware; and
John Walters, New Citizenship Project, Washington, D.C. 

FUTURE OF SBA

Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings to examine the programs
administered by the Small Business Administration and its future role,
receiving testimony from Philip Lader, Administrator, Small Business
Administration, who was accompanied by several of his associates. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, February 16. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1995/02/13
Daily Digest - Monday, February 13, 1995;  pages D182 - D186

Committee Meetings


(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Wilma A. Lewis, of the District of Columbia, to be Inspector
General, Department of the Interior, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Virgin Islands Delegate Victor O. Frazer, testified and answered questions in
her own behalf. 

                               [Page: D183]

No Joint hearings noted.



1995/02/14
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 14, 1995;  pages D188 - D194

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AGRICULTURE REFORM 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings on
proposed regulatory reforms to strengthen agriculture and agribusiness,
receiving testimony from Senator Grams; Representative McIntosh; Lynn Goldman,
Assistant Administrator, Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic
Substances, Environmental Protection Agency; Bruce L. Gardner, University of
Maryland, College Park; Keith W. Eckel, Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, Scranton,
representing the American Farm Bureau Federation; Ross Hansen, National
Association of Wheat Growers, Genoa, Colorado; Richard W. Kirchhoff, National
Association of State Departments of Agriculture, and Juanita Duggan, National
Food Processors Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Philip F. French,
Countrymark Cooperative, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, representing the
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives; Alec Poitevint, Southeastern Minerals
Inc., Bainbridge, Georgia, representing the American Feed Industry
Association; Kevin Dettler, Doland, South Dakota, representing the U.S. Custom
Harvesters, Inc.; Terry L. Anderson, Political Economy Research Center,
Bozeman, Montana; G. Waddy Garrett, Alliance Agronomics, Inc., Mechanicsville,
Virginia, representing the Agricultural Retailers Association; Dale E.
Aupperle, Decatur, Illinois, representing the American Society of Farm
Managers and Rural Appraisers, Inc.; and Robert Carlson, North Dakota Farmers
Union, Jamestown, representing the National Farmers Union. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of
Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on the military
strategies and operational requirements of the unified commands, receiving
testimony from Gen. George A. Joulwan, USA, Commander in Chief, United States
European Command; Gen. J.H. Binford Peay III, USA, Commander in Chief, United
States Central Command; and Gen. John J. Sheehan, USMC, Commander in Chief,
United States Atlantic Command. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, February 16. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered reported, without recommendation,
the following bills: 

S. 14, to provide for the expedited consideration of certain proposed
cancellations of budget items, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute; and 

S. 4, to grant the power to the President to reduce budget authority, with
amendments. 

Also, committee failed to order reported proposed legislation to create a
legislative item veto by requiring separate enrollment of items in
appropriations bills and targeted tax benefits in revenue bills. 

AUTHORIZATION--WATER RESOURCES 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Transportation and
Infrastructure concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for programs of the Water Resources Development Act and to examine the
President's budget request for fiscal year 1996 for the United States Army
Corps of Engineers, after receiving testimony from John H. Zirschky, Acting
Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works); Maj. Gen. Stanley Genega,
Director of Civil Works, United States Army; Brig. Gen. Gerald E. Galloway,
Jr., USA, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York; Larry King,
Acting Director, District of Columbia Department of Public Works; Mayor
Jeffrey Tarbert, and Robert R. Perry, Falls Church City Council, both of Falls
Church, Virginia; Mary Margaret Whipple, Arlington County Board of
Supervisors, Arlington, Virginia; Doug Plasencia, Association of State
Floodplain Managers Inc., Richmond, Virginia; and Christopher J. Brescia,
Midwest Area River Coalition 2000, St. Louis, Missouri. 

STATE DEPARTMENT BUDGET/FOREIGN POLICY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of
State, and to review foreign policy issues, after receiving testimony from
Warren M. Christopher, Secretary of State. 

CRIME CONTROL REFORM 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 3 and S. 38,
measures to revise certain provisions of the Violent Crime Control and Law
Enforcement Act (P.L. 103-322), focusing on the role of Federal law
enforcement in addressing the nation's drug and violent crime problems, after
receiving testimony from Louis J. Freeh, Director, Federal Bureau of
Investigation, and Thomas A. Constantine, Administrator, Drug Enforcement
Administration, both of the Department of Justice; James Q. Wilson, University
of California, Los Angeles; John J. DiIulio, Jr., Princeton University,
Princeton, New D190Jersey; Patrick F. Fagan, Heritage Foundation, Stephen
Moore, Cato Institute, and Donald L. Cahill, Fraternal Order of Police, all of
Washington, D.C.; and Thomas C. Frazier, Baltimore Police Department,
Baltimore, Maryland. 

                               [Page: D190]

INDIAN PROGRAMS 

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1996 for Indian programs,
receiving testimony from Henry G. Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development; Ada Deer, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs;
and Michael H. Trujillo, Director, Indian Health Service, Department of Health
and Human Services. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1995/02/15
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 15, 1995;  pages D196 - D202

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

PACIFIC MILITARY COMMAND 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings to examine
U.S. military activities in the Asia-Pacific region, receiving testimony from
Adm. Richard C. Macke, USN, Commander-in-Chief, United States Pacific Command. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations
of Alton W. Cornelia, of South Dakota, Rebecca G. Cox, of California, Gen.
James B. Davis, USAF (Ret.), of Florida, S. Lee Kling, of Maryland, Benjamin
F. Montoya, of New Mexico, and Wendi Louise Steele, of Texas, each to be a
Member of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Cornelia
was introduced by Senators Daschle and Pressler, Ms. Cox was introduced by
Stevens and D197Feinstein, Gen. Davis was introduced by Senator Graham, Mr.
Kling was introduced by Senator Bond and Representative Gephardt, and Ms.
Steele was introduced by Senators Nickles and Inouye. 

                               [Page: D197]

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings to examine the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1996 for international affairs, after
receiving testimony from Warren Christopher, Secretary of State. 

Committee will meet again tomorrow. 

FOREST SERVICE BUDGET 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1996 for the
Forest Service, after receiving testimony from Jack Ward Thomas, Chief, Forest
Service, Department of Agriculture. 

EPA BUDGET 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the President's proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the
Environmental Protection Agency, after receiving testimony from Carol M.
Browner, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency. 

CAPITAL GAINS TAXATION 

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the tax treatment of
capital gains and losses, focusing on the economic and tax implications of a
capital gains tax cut, receiving testimony from Jane G. Gravelle, Senior
Specialist in Economic Policy, Congressional Research Service, Library of
Congress; Henry J. Aaron, Brookings Institution, Mark A. Bloomfield, American
Council for Capital Formation, and Ronald A. Pearlman, Covington & Burling,
all of Washington, D.C.; and Jude Wanniski, Polyconomics, Inc., Morristown,
New Jersey. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

REGULATORY REFORM 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation to reform the Federal regulatory process, to make government more
efficient and effective, receiving testimony from Robert W. Crandall,
Brookings Institution, Jerry J. Jasinowski, National Association of
Manufacturers, on behalf of the Alliance for Reasonable Regulation, Linda E.
Greer, Natural Resources Defense Council, and E. Donald Elliott, Fried, Frank,
Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, all of Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; W. Kip
Viscusi, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; and John D. Graham, Harvard
University School of Public Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 1. 

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL ANTITRUST EXEMPTION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and
Competition concluded hearings to examine the court imposed major league
baseball antitrust exemption, including related measures S. 415, to provide
for a limited repeal of professional baseball's antitrust immunity, and S.
416, to repeal the antitrust exemption which shields major league baseball
from the antitrust laws that apply to all other sports, after receiving
testimony from Senators Hatch, Moynihan, Kassebaum, and Graham; Allan H.
Selig, Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on behalf of the
Major League Baseball Executive Council; Kevin J. Arquit, Rogers & Wells, and
Donald M. Fehr, both of New York, New York, David Cone, Kansas City Royals,
Kansas City, Missouri, and Eddie Murray, Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles,
California, all on behalf of the Major League Baseball Players Association;
John L. Harrington, Boston Red Sox, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of the
Major League Negotiating Committee; and James F. Rill, Collier, Shannon, Rill
& Scott, Washington, D.C. 

DAVIS-BACON REPEAL ACT 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
141, to repeal the Davis-Bacon Act (an Act which requires that the locally
prevailing wage rate be paid to various classes of laborers and mechanics
working under federally-financed or federally-assisted contracts for
construction, alteration, and repair of public buildings or public works),
after receiving testimony from Senator Chafee; Bernard Anderson, Assistant
Secretary of Labor for Employment Standards Administration; Mayor Clarke
Becker, Woodland Park, Colorado, on behalf of the National League of Cities;
Boyd W. Boehlje, Pella, Iowa, on behalf of the National School Boards
Association; Gary Hess, Hess Mechanical Corporation, Upper Marlboro, Maryland;
Mill Butler, Handon Diving Inc., Maurice Baskin, Venable, Baetjer, Howard &
Civiletti, on behalf of the Coalition to Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act, and
Robert A. Georgine, Building and Construction Trades Department (AFL-CIO), all
of Washington, D.C.; and Armand J. Thieblot, Baltimore, Maryland. 

                               [Page: D198]

No Joint hearings noted.



1995/02/16
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 16, 1995;  pages D203 - D212

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations resumed
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for foreign
assistance programs, focusing on political and economic reform in the New
Independent States of the former Soviet Union, receiving testimony from
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Center for Strategic and International Studies,
Washington, D.C. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, February 22. 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings in open and closed
sessions on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for
the Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on
the military strategies and operational requirements of the unified commands,
receiving testimony from Adm. Richard C. Macke, USN, Commander-in-Chief,
United States Pacific Command; Gen. Gary E. Luck, USA, Commander, United
States Forces, Korea; and Gen. Barry H. McCaffrey, USA, Commander-in-Chief,
United States Southern Command. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, February 23. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 2,336
nominations in the Army, Navy, and Air Force. 

AGRICULTURE BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings to examine the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of
Agriculture, focusing on farm income support programs and export subsidies,
receiving testimony from Senators Lugar and Conrad; and Richard E. Rominger,
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 

Committee will meet again on Wednesday, February 22. 

INTERIOR BUDGET 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1996 for the
Department of the Interior, after receiving testimony from Bruce Babbitt,
Secretary of the Interior. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Dan M. Berkovitz, of the District of Columbia, and Shirley Ann
Jackson, of New Jersey, each to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Berkovitz was introduced by Senator Graham, and Ms. Jackson was
introduced by Senators Lautenberg and Bradley. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Shirley S. Chater, of Texas, to be Commissioner, Social Security
Administration, and Maurice B. Foley, of California, and Juan F. Vasquez, of
Texas, each to be a Judge of the United States Tax Court, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Ms. Chater was
introduced by Senator Hutchison and Representative Jacobs, and Mr. Vasquez was
introduced by Senator Hutchison and Representative Tejeda. 

CAPITAL GAINS TAXATION 

Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings to examine the tax
treatment of capital gains and losses, focusing on indexing assets to
eliminate tax on gains caused by inflation, receiving testimony from Edwin S.
Cohen, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville; Christopher H.
Dent, Price Waterhouse, and Michael L. Schler, on behalf of the New York State
Bar Association, both of New York, New York; Alan Reynolds, Hudson Institute,
Washington, D.C.; Shirley S. Chater, Houston, Texas; Maurice B. Foley,
Berkeley, California; and Juan F. Vasquez, San Antonio, Texas. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Johnnie Carson, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the Republic
of Zimbabwe, and Bismarck Myrick, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom
of Lesotho, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Carson was introduced by Senator Simon, and Mr. Myrick was
introduced by Senator Robb. 

U.S.-AFRICA TRADE AND INVESTMENT 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs concluded
hearings to examine United States and African trade and investment activities,
after receiving testimony from George E. Moose, Assistant Secretary of State
for African Affairs; John Walker, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for
International Economic Policy, Africa, and the Near East; Ruth R. Harkin,
President and Chief Executive Officer, Overseas Private Investment
Corporation; J. D205Joseph GrandMaison, Director, Trade and Development
Agency; Martin A. Kamarck, First Vice President and Vice Chairman,
Export-Import Bank of the United States; Frank Kennedy, Equator Bank,
Hartford, Connecticut; and Joseph Parker, General Motors Overseas Distribution
Corp., Washington, D.C. 

                               [Page: D205]

CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children and Families
concluded hearings to examine the effectiveness of the Federal child care and
development block grant program, after receiving testimony from Mary Jo Bane,
Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Children and Families;
Mayor Cardell Cooper, East Orange, New Jersey, on behalf of the United States
Conference of Mayors; Judi Schlicting, South Shore Day Care Services, East
Weymouth, Massachusetts; Mary Moran, Seeds of Love Daycare Home, Indianapolis,
Indiana; Douglas J. Besharov, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
Research, and William J. Tobin, Child Care Institute of America, and Early
Childhood Development Center Coalition, both of Washington, D.C.; and Susan
Muenchow, Florida Children's Forum, Tallahassee. 
 
FUTURE OF SBA 

Committee on Small Business: Committee resumed hearings to examine the
programs administered by the Small Business Administration and its future
role, receiving testimony from Bob Giaimo, Silver Diner Development, Inc.,
Rockville, Maryland; James B. Graham, FaxLand Corporation, Falls Church,
Virginia; Giovanni Coratolo, Port of Italy, Inc., Springfield, Virginia;
Robert Varney, RobSan Corporation, Reston, Virginia; Gary F. Petty, National
Moving and Storage Association, Fairfax, Virginia, on behalf of the Small
Business Legislative Council; Lew Shattuck, Barre Granite Association, Barre,
Vermont, on behalf of the National Small Business United; and Virginia
Littlejohn, STAR Group and Global Strategies, Chevy Chase, Maryland. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INDIAN PROGRAMS BUDGET 

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1996 for Indian programs,
after receiving testimony from Terry Williams, Director, Indian Affairs
Office, Environmental Protection Agency; Gary Niles Kimble, Commissioner,
Dominic Mastrapasqua, Deputy Commissioner, Vilma Guinn, Special Assistant to
the Commissioner, and Sharon McCully, Acting Director East and West Division,
all of the Administration for Native Americans, Department of Health and Human
Services; Gaiashkibos, Lac Courte Oreilles Tribe, Wisconsin, on behalf of the
National Congress of American Indians; Julia Davis, National Indian Health
Board, and A. David Lester, Council of Energy Resource Tribes, both of Denver,
Colorado; Jacqueline L. Johnson, Tlingit-Haida Indian Housing Authority,
Juneau, Alaska, on behalf of the National American Indian Housing Council;
Lorraine P. Edmo, National Indian Education Association, Alexandria, Virginia;
and Jerry Pardilla, National Tribal Environmental Council, Albuquerque, New
Mexico. 

Joint Meetings 

BALANCED BUDGET ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine enforcement
mechanisms for the proposed Balanced Budget Amendment, and proposals to
establish a Spending Reduction Commission that would develop a priority list
of cuts in the Federal budget each year, after receiving testimony from
Senators Gramm and Kyl; Representatives Dan Miller and Minge; and Joe Cobb,
Heritage Foundation, Marlo Lewis, Jr., Competitiveness Enterprise Institute,
Grover G. Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform, Martin A. Regalia, United States
Chamber of Commerce, and Thomas A. Schatz, Citizens Against Government Waste,
all of Washington, D.C. 



1995/02/21
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 21, 1995;  pages D214 - D218

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1995/02/22
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 22, 1995;  pages D220 - D228

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations resumed
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for foreign
assistance, focusing on political and economic reform in the New Independent
States of the former Soviet Union, receiving testimony from James F. Collins,
Office of Special Advisor to the Secretary for the New Independent States, and
Thomas W. Simons, Jr., Coordinator of U.S. Assistance to the New Independent
States, both of the Department of State; and Thomas A. Dine, Assistant
Administrator for Europe and the New Independent States, Agency for
International Development. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Rebecca G. Cox, of California; Alton W. Cornelia, of South
Dakota; Gen. James B. Davis, USAF (Ret.), of Florida; S. Lee Kling, of
Maryland; Benjamin F. Montoya, of New Mexico; and Wendi L. Steele, of Texas,
each to be a Member of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission. 

SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee announced the
following subcommittee assignments: 

Subcommittee on Securities: Senators Gramm (Chairman), Bennett, Shelby,
Faircloth, Grams, Dodd, Murray, Boxer, and Bryan. 
Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Regulatory Relief: Senators Shelby
(Chairman), Grams, Frist, Gramm, Bennett, Bond, Mack, Bryan, Moseley-Braun,
Dodd, Kerry, and Boxer. 
Subcommittee on International Finance: Senators Bond (Chairman), Mack,
Faircloth, Bennett, Frist, Boxer, Moseley-Braun, Kerry, and Murray. 
Subcommittee on Housing Opportunity and Community Development: Senators Mack
(Chairman), Bond, Frist, Shelby, Kerry, Dodd, and Bryan. 
Subcommittee on HUD Oversight and Structure: Senators Faircloth (Chairman),
Gramm, Grams, Moseley-Braun, and Murray. 

MONETARY POLICY 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings to
examine the Federal Reserve's conduct of monetary policy and the economic
outlook for 1995, receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings to examine certain proposals
to reform the United States income tax system, receiving testimony from
Senator Nunn; Representative Armey; Eric Toder, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury (Tax Analysis); and Harry L. Gutman, King & Spalding, Washington,
D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

REGULATORY REFORM 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 219, to
establish a moratorium on Federal regulatory rulemaking actions, after
receiving testimony from Sally Katzen, Administrator, D222Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; Stephen
H. Kaplan, General Counsel, Department of Transportation; William B. Schultz,
Deputy Commissioner for Policy, Food and Drug Administration, Department of
Health and Human Services; C. Boyden Gray, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, on
behalf of Citizens for a Sound Economy, Thomas J. Donohue, American Trucking
Associations, Inc., David G. Hawkins, Natural Resources Defense Council, and
C. Dean McGrath, Jr., American Automobile Manufacturers Association, all of
Washington, D.C.; Sal Risalvato, Riverdale Texaco, Riverdale, New Jersey, on
behalf of the National Federation of Independent Business; and Rainer Mueller,
Safe Tables Our Priority, Oceanside, California. 

                               [Page: D222]

REGULATORY REFORM 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the
Courts held hearings on S. 343, to reform the Federal regulatory process,
receiving testimony from Thomasina V. Rogers, Chair, Administrative Conference
of the United States; Rick Keith, West Bend Elevator Company, Mallard, Iowa;
Sal Risalvato, Riverdale Texaco, Riverdale, New Jersey, on behalf of the
National Federation of Independent Business; and Marshall J. Breger, Heritage
Foundation, Peter J. Ferrara, National Center for Policy Analysis, and Tom
O'Conner, National Grain and Feed Association, all of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue on Friday, February 24. 

AUTHORIZATION--RYAN WHITE CARE ACT 

Committee on Labor and Human Services: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Ryan White CARE Act
of 1990, after receiving testimony from Senator Hatch; Philip R. Lee,
Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Health; William J.
Scanlon, Associate Director, Health Financing and Policy Issues, Health,
Education, and Human Services Division, General Accounting Office; Mayor
Wellington Webb, Denver, Colorado; David W. Curtis, Burlington, Vermont, on
behalf of the Vermont Coalition for AIDS Research, Education and Services;
Donna E. Sweet, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita; Douglas
Nelson, Campaign for Fairness, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; June E. Osborn,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Alexander Robinson, National Organizations
Responding to AIDS, Washington, D.C.; Erle Blake, Columbiana, Ohio; and Anna
Wyman, Miami, Florida. 

INTELLIGENCE 

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

Joint Meetings 

MINIMUM WAGE 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
Administration proposal to raise the minimum wage, after receiving testimony
from Representatives Longley and Owens; Robert B. Reich, Secretary, and Alan
Krueger, Economist, both of the Department of Labor; Lowell Taylor,
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Peter Brandon,
University of Wisconsin, Madison; Finis Welch, Texas A&M University, College
Station; Bill Rogers, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia;
Herman Cain, Godfather's Pizza, Omaha, Nebraska; Grant Maloy, Gabrielle
Growers, Oviedo, Florida; Charles Fuller, Off Campus Bookstore, Athens,
Georgia; and Audrey Haynes, Frankfort, Kentucky. 



1995/02/23
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 23, 1995;  pages D229 - D236

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of
Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on the military
strategies and operational requirements of the unified commands, receiving
testimony from Gen. Joseph W. Ashy, USAF, Commander in Chief, United States
Space Command; Adm. Henry G. Chiles, Jr., USN, Commander in Chief, United
States Strategic Command; Gen. Robert L. Rutherford, USAF, Commander in Chief,
United States Transportation Command; and Gen. Wayne A. Downing, USA,
Commander in Chief, United States Special Operations Command. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

HHS BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of Health and
Human Services, after receiving testimony from Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of
Health and Human Services. 

NATIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Transportation and
Infrastructure concluded hearings on S. 440, to provide for the designation of
the National Highway System, and to examine the President's proposed budget
request for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of Transportation's
Federal-aid highway program, after receiving testimony from Mortimer L.
Downey, Deputy Secretary, Rodney E. Slater, Administrator, Federal Highway
Administration; Ricardo Martinez, Administrator, National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration; and Gordon J. Linton, Administrator, Federal Transit
Administration, all of the Department of Transportation; Harry W. Blunt, Jr.,
Concord Coach Lines, Inc., Concord, New Hampshire; Hank Dittmar, Surface
Transportation Policy Project, Washington, D.C.; and Robert E. Martinez,
Virginia Department of Transportation, Richmond, and Francis B. Francois,
Washington, D.C., both on behalf of the American Association of State Highway
and Transportation Officials. 

LINE-ITEM VETO 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 4, to
grant the power to the President to reduce budget authority, and S. 14, to
amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to provide
for the expedited consideration of certain proposed cancellations of budget
items, after receiving testimony from Senator Bradley; Representative Blute;
Louis Fisher, Senior Specialist in Separation of Powers, Congressional
Research Service, Library of Congress; and Allen Schick, George Mason
University, Fairfax, Virginia. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Sandra L. Lynch, of Massachusetts, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the First Circuit; Lacy H. Thornburg, to be United States District
Judge for the Western District of North Carolina; Sidney H. Stein, to be
United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York; and Thadd
Heartfield and David Folsom, each to be a United States District Judge for the
Eastern District of Texas. 

ARTS AND HUMANITIES 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
programs of the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965,
focusing on the National Endowment for the Arts, receiving testimony from
Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr., Charleston, South Carolina; Christopher Reeve,
Creative Coalition, Bedford, New York; George White, Eugene O'Neill Theatre
Center, New York, New York; John D. Ong, BF Goodrich Company, Cleveland, Ohio;
Harold M. Williams, J. Paul Getty Trust, Santa Monica, California; Richard S.
Gurin, Binney and Smith Inc., Easton, Pennsylvania; Dean Amhaus, Wisconsin
Arts Board, Madison; Leonard Garment, Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander and Ferdon,
on behalf of the Independent Commission on the Arts, and Laurence Jarvik,
Center for the Study of Popular Culture, both of Washington, D.C.; and Charles
T. Clotfelter, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. 

Hearings will continue on Thursday, March 2. 

                               [Page: D231]

No Joint hearings noted.



1995/02/24
Daily Digest - Friday, February 24, 1995;  pages D237 - D246

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Gen. Fred F.
Woerner, Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission; John H. Zirschky,
Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works (on behalf of Army
cemeterial expenses); Teresa Nasif, Director, Consumer Information Center; Ann
Brown, Chairman, Consumer Product Safety Commission; Bernice Friedlander,
Acting Director, Office of Consumer Affairs; and Frank Q. Nebeker, Chief
Judge, United States Court of Veterans Appeals. 
 
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 3. 

REGULATORY REFORM 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the
Courts concluded hearings on S. 343, to reform the Federal regulatory process,
after receiving testimony from Sally Katzen, Administrator, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; C. Boyden
Gray, Wilmer, Cutler, and Pickering, Turner T. Smith, Jr., Hunton and
Williams, David Vladeck, Public Citizen, and Robert Cynkar, Shaw, Pittman,
Potts, and Trowbridge, all of Washington, D.C.; Peter Strauss, Columbia
University Law School, New York, New York; and George Freeman, Hunton and
Williams, Richmond, Virginia, on behalf of the American Bar Association. 

                               [Page: D239]

No Joint hearings noted.



1995/02/27
Daily Digest - Monday, February 27, 1995;  pages D247 - D252

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Karen Nelson Moore, of Ohio, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth
Circuit, Janet Bond Arterton, to be United States District Judge for the
District of Connecticut, Willis B. Hunt, Jr., to be United States District
Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, and Charles B. Kornmann, to be
United States District Judge for the District of South Dakota, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Ms. Moore was
introduced by Senators DeWine and Glenn, Ms. Arterton was introduced by
Senator Dodd, Mr. Hunt was introduced by Senator Coverdell, and Mr. Kornmann
was introduced by Senators Pressler and Daschle. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1995/02/28
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 28, 1995;  pages D254 - D262

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL LABORATORIES

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
concluded joint hearings with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources'
Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development to review the findings of the
Task Force on Alternative Futures for the Department of Energy National
Laboratories, focusing on its recommendation to reform the system of
governance imposed upon the laboratories by the Department of Energy and
Congress, after receiving testimony from Hazel R. O'Leary, Secretary of
Energy; and Robert W. Galvin, Motorola Inc., Washington, D.C., on behalf of
the Task Force on Alternative Futures for the Department of Energy National
Laboratories. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations
of Sheila Cheston, of the District of Columbia, to be General Counsel of the
Department of the Air Force, and Josue Robles, Jr., of Texas, to be a Member
of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. 

CORPORATE CREDIT UNION SYSTEM

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held oversight
hearings on the status of the corporate credit union system, receiving
testimony from Norman E. D'Amours, Chairman, National Credit Union
Administration; Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States,
General Accounting Office; James R. Bell, President, U.S. Central Credit
Union; Harold A. Black, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Edward J. Fox,
President and Chief Executive Officer, Mid-Atlantic Corporate Federal Credit
Union; and Richard M. Johnson, President and Chief Executive Officer, WesCorp
Federal Credit Union. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 8. 

MEDICARE SYSTEM

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine how the Medicare
program has operated after its establishment in 1965, and how the Medicare
system can control expenditures while continuing to provide health care to the
elderly, receiving testimony from Bruce C. Vladeck, Administrator, Health Care
Financing Administration, Department of D256Health and Human Services; Karen
Davis, The Commonwealth Fund, New York, New York; and Gail R. Wilensky,
Project HOPE, Bethesda, Maryland. 

                               [Page: D256]

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Johnnie Carson, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the Republic
of Zimbabwe; Herman E. Gallegos of California, Lee C. Howley of Ohio, and
Isabelle Leeds of New York, each to be an Alternate United States
Representative to the 49th Session of the General Assembly of the United
Nations; Jeanette W. Hyde, of North Carolina, to serve concurrently as
Ambassador to Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Grenada; Bismarck
Myrick, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Lesotho; Robert E.
Rubin, of New York, to be U.S. Governor of the International Monetary Fund,
U.S. Governor of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development,
U.S. Governor of the Inter-American Development Bank, U.S. Governor of the
African Development Bank, U.S. Governor of the Asian Development Bank, U.S.
Governor of the African Development Fund, and U.S. Governor of the European
Bank for Reconstruction and Development; and Frank G. Wisner, of the District
of Columbia, for the rank of Career Ambassador in recognition of especially
distinguished service over a sustained period. 

START II TREATY

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held open and closed hearings on the
Treaty Between the United States and the Russian Federation on Further
Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (the START II Treaty)
signed at Moscow on January 3, 1993, including the following documents, which
are integral parts thereof: the Elimination and Conversion Protocol; the
Exhibitions and Inspections Protocol; and the Memorandum of Attribution
(Treaty Doc. 103-1), receiving testimony from Douglas MacEachan, Deputy
Director of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency; and other officials of
the intelligence community. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

WELFARE REFORM

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to examine
proposals to reform the welfare system, focusing on programs for children and
their families, receiving testimony from William Waldman, New Jersey
Department of Human Services, Trenton; Lawrence E. Townsend, Jr., Riverside
County Department of