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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 Public Social Services, Riverside, California; Sara
McLanahan, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; Judith M. Gueron,
Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, New York, New York; Sarah
Cardwell Shuptrine, Sarah Shuptrine and Associates, Columbia, South Carolina,
on behalf of the Southern Institute on Children and Families; Janet
Schalansky, Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitative Services, and
Gladys Marisette, both of Topeka, Kansas; and Kevin Phillips, Bethesda,
Maryland.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/03/01
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 1, 1995; pages D263 - D272
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--CFTC/FCA/FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1996, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Mary L. Schapiro, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading
Commission; Marsha P. Martin, Chairman, Farm Credit Administration; and David
A. Kessler, Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health
and Human Services.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 8.
APPROPRIATIONS--STATE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1996 for the Department of State, receiving testimony from Warren
Christopher, Secretary of State.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 7.
APPROPRIATIONS--ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for energy and
water development, focusing on Department of Energy atomic energy defense
activities, receiving testimony from Victor H. Reis, Assistant Secretary for
Defense Programs, and Kenneth E. Baker, Acting Director, Office of
Nonproliferation and National Security, both of the Department of Energy; and
Harold Smith, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 14.
APPROPRIATIONS--NEA/NEH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Jane
Alexander, Chairperson, National Endowment for the Arts; and Sheldon Hackney,
Chairperson, National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 8.
AIRLINE COMPETITION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
concluded hearings to review the recommendations of the National Commission to
Ensure a Strong Competitive Airline Industry, after receiving testimony from
Gerald L. Baliles, Hunton and Williams, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the
National Commission to Ensure a Strong Competitive Airline Industry.
AUTHORIZATION--SPACE PROGRAMS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for the space programs of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, Department of Transportation, and the Department of Commerce,
after receiving testimony from Daniel S. Goldin, Administrator, France
Cordova, Chief Scientist, Malcolm Peterson, Deputy Comptroller, Wesley Harris,
Associate Administrator for Aeronautics, and Charles Kennel, Associate
Administrator for Mission to Planet Earth, all of the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration; Keith Calhoun-Senghor, Director, Office of Air and Space
Commercialization, Department of Commerce; and Frank Weaver, Director, Office
of Commercial Space Transportation, Department of Transportation.
ALASKA POWER ADMINISTRATION SALE ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
395, to provide for the sale of Alaska Power Administration assets, and to
allow exports of Alaska North Slope crude oil when carried on United States
flag vessels, after receiving testimony from Senator Stevens; Representative
Thomas; William H. White, Deputy Secretary of Energy; Alaska Lt. Governor Fran
Ulmer, and Howard Marlowe, Coalition to Keep Alaska Oil, both of Juneau;
California Secretary of the Resources Agency Douglas Wheeler, and Jerry
Hoffman, California Independent Petroleum Association, both of Sacramento;
Michael Sacco, Seafarers International Union of North America (AFL-CIO), Camp
Springs, Maryland; George Alcorn, Alcorn Exploration, Houston, Texas, on
behalf of the Independent Petroleum Association of America; Linda L. Adamany,
BP Oil Shipping Company, USA, Cleveland, Ohio; Peter Sutton, Tosco Corp.,
Stamford, Connecticut; David Lohman, Port of Portland, Portland, Oregon; and
Tom Jones, Shipbuilders Council of America, Jacksonville, Florida.
FOREST HEALTH PROTECTION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and Public
Land Management concluded hearings on S. 391, to protect and restore the
health of Federal forest lands, after receiving testimony from James R. Lyons,
Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, and Jack Ward Thomas,
Chief, Forest Service, both of the Department of Agriculture; Maitland Sharpe,
Assistant Director for Resource Assessment and Planning, Bureau of Land
Management, Department of the Interior; Thomas M. Bonnicksen, Texas A&M
University, College Station; James E. Hubbard, Fort Collins, Colorado, on
behalf of the National Association of State Foresters; Arthur D. Partridge,
University of Idaho, Moscow; Dominick A. DellaSala, World Wildlife Fund, R.
Neil Sampson, American Forests, Brock Evans, National Audubon Society, and
Steven P. Quarles, Crowell and Moring, on behalf of the American Forest and
Paper Association, all of Washington, D.C.; Mark Simmons, Western Council of
Industrial Workers/United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America,
Elgin, Oregon; and John Osborn, Inland Empire Public Lands Council, Spokane,
Washington.
SOLID WASTE INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION AND FLOW CONTROL
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste
Control and Risk Assessment concluded hearings on proposals to authorize State
and local governments to enact flow control laws and to regulate the
interstate transportation of solid waste, including S. 398 and S. 465, after
receiving testimony from Senators Coats and Cohen; Representatives Pallone and
Christopher Smith; New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, Trenton; Edward
C. Farrell, New York State Conference of Mayors and Municipal Officials,
Albany; Randy Johnson, Hennepin County, Minnesota, on behalf of the National
Association of Counties; Jonathan H. Adler, Competitive Enterprise Institute,
Micah S. Green, Public Securities Association, and Michael O. Roush, National
Federation of Independent Business, all of Washington, D.C.; Anthony F.
Ciofalo, Allied Waste Industries, Scottsdale, Arizona, on behalf of the
National Solid Wastes Management Association; and Allen Hershkowitz, Natural
Resources Defense Council, New York, New York.
SOCIAL SECURITY
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on proposals to change the
Social Security earnings limit and repeal the tax on 85% of Social Security
benefits, receiving testimony from Senator McCain; Representative Hastert;
Robert J. Myers, former D265Chief Actuary, Social Security Administration;
Department of Health and Human Services; Bruce Bartlett, National Center for
Policy Analysis, Dallas, Texas; Martha McSteen, National Committee to Preserve
Social Security and Medicare, Washington, D.C.; and Deroy Murdock, Third
Millennium, New York, New York.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
START II TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued hearings on the Treaty
Between the United States and the Russian Federation on Further Reduction and
Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START II Treaty) signed at Moscow on
January 3, 1993, 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 William J. Perry, Secretary of Defense; and Gen. John
M. Shalikashvili, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
WELFARE REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on the impact
of welfare reform and work requirements on the child care system, receiving
testimony from Jane L. Ross, Director, Income Security Issues, Health,
Education, and Human Services Division, General Accounting Office; Sandra L.
Hofferth, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Deborah A. Phillips, Director,
Board on Children and Families, National Research Council; Patricia Siegel,
California Child Care Resource and Referral Network, San Francisco; Robert I.
Lerman, American University, Washington, D.C.; Claudia Langguth, Tonn and
Associates, Austin, Texas; Judith Rosen, Fairfax County Office for Children,
Fairfax, Virginia; and Tamara Elser, Fair Haven, Vermont.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again on Wednesday, March 8.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/03/02
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 2, 1995; pages D273 - D280
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported, with
amendments, H.R. 889, making emergency supplemental appropriations and
rescissions to preserve and enhance the military readiness of the Department
of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995.
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for
the Department of Transportation, receiving testimony from Federico PenAE6a,
Secretary of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 9.
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, receiving testimony from Shelia
E. Widnall, Secretary of the Air Force; and Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman, USAF,
Chief of Air Force Staff.
Committee will meet again on Tuesday, March 7.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Sheila Cheston, of the District of Columbia, to be General
Counsel of the Department of the Air Force; Herschelle Challenor, of Georgia,
to be a Member of the National Security Education Board, Department of
Defense; and Josue Robles, Jr., of Texas, to be a Member of the Defense Base
Closure and Realignment Commission.
SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
held hearings on proposals to reform the process of securities litigation,
including S. 240, receiving testimony from Senators Dodd and Domenici; Marc E.
Lackritz, Securities Industry Association, J. Carter Beese, Jr., Center for
Strategic and International Studies, and Nell Minow, LENS Inc., all of
Washington, D.C.; James F. Morgan, Morgan, Holland Ventures Corporation,
Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of the National Venture Capital Association;
George Sollman, Centigram Communications Corporation, San Jose, California, on
behalf of the American Electronics Association; and Christopher J. Murphy III,
1st Source Corporation, South Bend, Indiana, on behalf of the Association of
Publicly Traded Companies.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings to
examine United States telecommunications policy reform issues, receiving
testimony from Anne K. Bingaman, Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust,
Department of Justice; Larry Irving, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for
Communications and Information; Kenneth Gordon, Massachusetts Department of
Public Utilities, and Lee L. Selwyn, Economics and Technology, Inc., both of
Boston, Massachusetts; Peter W. Huber, Manhattan Institute, Bethesda,
Maryland; George Gilder, Discovery Institute, Tyringham, Massachusetts; Clay
T. Whitehead, Clay Whitehead Associates, McLean, Virginia; Henry Geller,
Markle Foundation, Washington, D.C.; and John W. Mayo, University of
Tennessee, Knoxville.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings on
proposals to revise certain provisions of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982
to provide for the safe disposal of high-level nuclear waste, including S.
167, S. 429, S. 443, and S. 473, receiving testimony from Senator Bryan; Hazel
R. O'Leary, Secretary of Energy; Nevada Governor Bob Miller, and Nevada State
Senator Raymond D. Rawson, both of Carson City; Mayor Kevin Phillips,
Caliente, Nevada; Cameron McRae, Nye County Board of Commissioners, Tonopah,
Nevada; Kris Sanda, Minnesota Department of Public Service, St. Paul, on
behalf of the Nuclear Waste Strategy Coalition; Emmit George, Iowa Public
Service Commission, Des Moines, on behalf of the National Association of
Regulatory Utility Commissioners; Samuel K. Skinner, Commonwealth Edison
Company, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the Nuclear Energy Institute; and
Bill Magavern, Public Citizen, Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ENDANGERED SPECIES
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Drinking Water,
Fisheries and Wildlife held oversight hearings on the implementation of
Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act by the Forest Service and the National
Marine Fisheries D275Service, receiving testimony from James R. Lyons, Under
Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, and Jack Ward Thomas, Chief,
Forest Service, both of the Department of Agriculture; and Douglas K. Hall,
Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, and Rolland A. Schmitten,
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, both of the Department of Commerce.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 7.
MIDDLE INCOME TAX CREDIT
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine proposals to reduce
taxes for middle-income Americans, focusing on a $500-per-child tax credit, a
reduction in the marriage penalty, and a deduction for education and job
training expenses, receiving testimony from Gary L. Bauer, Family Research
Council, C. Fred Bergsten, Competitiveness Policy Council, Daniel J. Mitchell,
The Heritage Foundation, and Robert J. Shapiro, Progressive Policy Institute,
all of Washington, D.C.; and Deborah H. Schenk, New York University Law
School, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
IRAN AND IRAQ
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs held hearings to examine United States policy towards Iran and Iraq,
receiving testimony from Senator McCain; Joseph S. Nye, Assistant Secretary of
Defense for International Security Affairs; Robert H. Pelletreau, Assistant
Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Anthony H. Cordesman, Georgetown
University, James Placke, Cambridge Energy Research Associates, and Graham
Fuller, Rand Corporation, all of Washington, D.C.; and Daniel Pipes, Middle
East Quarterly , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 7.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered reported the following
bills:
S. 4, to grant the power to the President to reduce budget authority, without
recommendation; 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, without recommendation, with an amendment.
AUTHORIZATION--ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities concluded 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 Humanities, after receiving
testimony from Sheldon Hackney, Chairman, National Endowment for the
Humanities, National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities; Victor R.
Swenson, Vermont Council on the Humanities, Hyde Park; David A. Berry, Essex
County College, Newark, New Jersey, on behalf of the Community College
Humanities Association; Alberta Arthurs, Rockefeller Foundation, and Barry R.
Gross, National Association of Scholars, both of New York, New York; and
Walter Berns, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.
FEDERAL DISABILITY PROGRAMS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine the growth
in the Supplemental Security Income and Social Security disability programs
and the disincentives toward work and self-sufficiency that exist in the
Federal disability programs, after receiving testimony from Jane L. Ross,
Director, Income Security Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services
Division, General Accounting Office; Mary Jane Owen, National Catholic Office
for Persons with Disabilities, Carolyn Weaver, American Enterprise Institute,
Gerben DeJong, Georgetown University School of Medicine, and Edward Eckenhoff,
National Rehabilitation Hospital, all of Washington, D.C.; Sally Satel, Yale
University, New Haven, Connecticut; Ann DeWitt, Maine Disability Determination
Services, Augusta; and Bob Cote, Denver, Colorado.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1995/03/03
Daily Digest - Friday, March 3, 1995; pages D281 - D290
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--EUROPE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for foreign assistance
programs, focusing on how U.S. assistance and policy are fostering stability
and security in Europe, receiving testimony from Richard C. Holbrooke,
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 8.
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APPROPRIATIONS--NCUA/NRC/FDIC/RTC
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee held hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1996, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for
their respective activities from Norman E. D'Amours, Chairman, National Credit
Union Administration; Ricki Tigert-Helfer, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation; George Knight, Executive Director, Neighborhood Reinvestment
Corporation; and John Adair, Inspector General, Resolution Trust Corporation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 10.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/03/06
Daily Digest - Monday, March 6, 1995; pages D291 - D296
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1996 for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, receiving testimony from
Lee P. Brown, Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 9.
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DOE RISK MANAGEMENT ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
333, to direct the Secretary of Energy to institute certain procedures in the
performance of risk assessments in connection with environmental restoration
activities, after receiving testimony from Sally Katzen, Administrator, Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; Thomas
P. Grumbly, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management;
Bernice Steinhardt, Associate Director, Energy and Science Issues, Resources,
Community, and Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office; Gary
J. Powers, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Steven J.
Milloy, Regulatory Impact Analysis Project, and Earnie Deavenport, Eastman
Chemical Company, both of Washington, DC; and John S. Applegate, University of
Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
Joint Meetings
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Joint Committee on Printing: Committee met and approved Representative Thomas
as Chairman and Senator Stevens as Vice Chairman of the committee and adopted
its rules of procedure for the 104th Congress.
1995/03/07
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 7, 1995; pages D298 - D306
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--COMMERCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1996 for the Department of Commerce, receiving testimony from
Ronald H. Brown, Secretary of Commerce.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 15.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of Labor, receiving testimony from
Robert B. Reich, Secretary of Labor.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 9.
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, receiving testimony from John H.
Dalton, Secretary of the Navy; Adm. Jeremy M. Boorda, USN, Chief of Naval
Operations; and Gen. Carl E. Mundy, Jr., USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps.
Committee will meet again on Thursday, March 9.
PRIVATIZATION
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine the impact
and role of the private sector in providing services to the Federal
Government, focusing on how the budget process has been a barrier to
privatization, after receiving testimony from Jack Kemp, Empower America, and
Richard C. Breeden, Coopers and Lybrand, both of Washington, D.C.; Ralph L.
Stanley, United Infrastructure Company, Chicago, Illinois; Robert W. Poole,
Jr., Reason Foundation, Los Angeles, California; and Donald F. Kettl,
University of Wisconsin, Madison.
ENDANGERED SPECIES MORATORIUM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Drinking Water,
Fisheries and Wildlife concluded hearings on S. 191, S. 503, and other related
proposals to institute a moratorium on certain activities under authority of
the Endangered Species Act, after receiving testimony from Senator Hutchison;
Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior; David Wilcove, on behalf of the
Environmental Defense Fund and the Society for Conservation Biology, and
William J. Snape III, Defenders of Wildlife, both of Washington, D.C.; Robert
E. Gordon, Jr., National Wilderness Institute, Alexandria, Virginia; Rick
Perry, Texas Department of Agriculture, Austin; James A. Kraft, Plum Creek
Timber Company, D300Seattle, Washington; and Kenneth W. Peterson, Kern County,
California.
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TAX CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to examine the application
of Internal Revenue Code section 1071 under the Federal Communication
Commission's (FCC) tax certificate program, after receiving testimony from
William E. Kennard, General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission; Leslie
B. Samuels, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Raul Alarcon,
Jr., Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc., W. Don Cornwell, Granite Broadcasting
Corporation, and Philippe P. Dauman, Viacom Inc., all of New York, New York;
Tyrone Brown, Wiley, Rein and Fielding, Michael J. Horowitz, Hudson Institute,
and Robert L. Johnson, Black Entertainment Television Holdings, Inc., all of
Washington, D.C.; Bruce E. Fein, World Intelligence Review, and former General
Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission, Great Falls, Virginia; Frank
Washington, Mitgo Corporation, Sacramento, California; and Roy M. Huhndorf,
Cook Inlet Region Inc., Anchorage, Alaska.
CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the Convention
on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons,
and two accompanying Protocols on Non-Detectable Fragments (Protocol I) and on
Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other
Devices (Protocol II) (Treaty Doc. 103-25), after receiving testimony from
Michael J. Matheson, Principal Deputy Legal Adviser, Department of State; and
Maj. Gen. Michael J. Byron, USMC, Vice Director for Strategic Plans and
Policy, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
SOUTH ASIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs concluded hearings to examine United States policy towards South Asia,
after receiving testimony from Hazel R. O'Leary, Secretary of Energy; Jeffrey
E. Garten, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade; Robin L.
Raphel, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs; Margaret
Carpenter, Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near East, Agency for
International Development; Clayton A. Williams, Litton Applied Technologies,
San Jose, California; Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia University, New York, New
York; Rebecca P. Mark, Enron Development Corporation, Houston, Texas; and H.
Laird Walker, U.S. West, Denver, Colorado.
REGULATORY TRANSITION ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee began markup of S. 219, to ensure
economy and efficiency of Federal Government operations by establishing a
moratorium on regulatory rulemaking actions, but did not complete action
thereon, and will resume on Thursday, March 9.
EXCLUSIONARY RULE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on proposals to
eliminate the exclusionary rule and to alter the remedy for unreasonable
searches under the Fourth Amendment, and to ensure that voluntary confessions
are brought before juries, including Title V (Federal Criminal Procedure
Reform) of S. 3, Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Improvement Act of
1995, after receiving testimony from Ralph Adam Fine, Circuit Judge, Wisconsin
Court of Appeals, and E. Michael McCann, on behalf of the American Bar
Association, both of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Akhil R. Amar, Yale University Law
School, New Haven, Connecticut; William Gangi, St. John's University, Jamaica,
New York; Paul J. Larkin, Jr., King & Spalding, Washington, D.C.; Joseph D.
Grano, Wayne State University Law School, Detroit, Michigan; Paul G. Cassell,
University of Utah College of Law, Salt Lake City; Carol S. Steiker, Harvard
University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Thomas Y. Davies, University
of Tennessee College of Law, Knoxville.
AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to examine
the challenges that American Indian youth face in today's society, focusing on
the Federal response, after receiving testimony from Ada E. Deer, Assistant
Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; Michael H. Trujillo, Director,
Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services; Josephine
Nieves, Associate Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training;
Herbert Becker, Director, Office of Tribal Justice, Department of Justice; and
Dominic Nessi, Director, Office of Native American Programs, Department of
Housing and Urban Development.
Joint Meetings
NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources' Subcommittee
on Parks, Historic Preservation and Recreation concluded joint hearings with
the House Committee on Resources' Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and
Lands to examine the condition of the National Park System, after receiving
testimony from James Duffus III, Director, Natural Resources Management
Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, and Cliff
Fowler, Assistant Director, Natural Resources Management Issues, both of the
General Accounting Office.
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs concluded joint hearings
with the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to review the legislative
recommendations of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, after
receiving testimony from Allen F. Kent, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United
States, Washington, D.C.
1995/03/08
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 8, 1995; pages D307 - D316
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1996 for rural economic and community development programs of the
Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony from Michael V. Dunn, Acting
Under Secretary of Small Community and Rural Development, Wally Beyer,
Administrator, Rural Utilities Service, Maureen A. Kennedy, Acting
Administrator, Rural Housing and Community Development Service, Dayton J.
Watkins, Acting Administrator, Rural Business and Cooperative Development
Service, and Stephen B. Dewhurst, Director, Office of Budget and Program
Analysis, all of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 15.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for certain international
organizations and programs, receiving testimony from Madeleine K. Albright,
United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the United
States Geological Survey, receiving testimony from Gordon Eaton, Director,
U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 15.
CORPORATE CREDIT UNION SYSTEM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
oversight hearings on the status of the corporate credit union system, after
receiving testimony from Norman E. D'Amours, Chairman, National Credit Union
Administration; James L. Bothwell, Director, Financial Institutions and
Markets Issues, General Government Division, General Accounting Office; James
R. Bell, U.S. Central Credit Union, Overland Park, Kansas; Albert E. DePrince,
Middle Tennessee State University, Nashville; and Edward J. Fox, Mid-Atlantic
Corporate Federal Credit Union, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
DOMESTIC PETROLEUM PRODUCTION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the current situation and outlook for United States oil and gas
production and imports and implications for national security, after receiving
testimony from William H. White, Deputy Secretary of Energy; Charles J.
DiBona, on behalf of the American Petroleum Institute and the Rocky Mountain
Oil and Gas Association, and William L. Randol, Salomon Brothers, Inc., both
of Washington, D.C.; John Elting Treat, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc., Falls
Church, Virginia; and David F. Work, Amoco Corp, Victor G. Beghini, Marathon
Oil Company, and George A. Alcorn, Alcorn Exploration, on behalf of the
Independent Petroleum Association of America, all of Houston, Texas.
FEDERAL FOREST MANAGEMENT/FOREST SERVICE APPEALS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and Public
Land Management held oversight hearings to review Federal forest management
issues, focusing on the implementation of recent changes to the Forest Service
administrative appeals process, receiving testimony from David Unger,
Associate Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Barry Rosenberg,
Inland Empire Public Lands Council, Spokane, Washington; Jack R. D309Tuholske,
Western Ancient Forest Campaign, Missoula, Montana; James Rarick, Black Hills
Forest Resource Association, Rapid City, South Dakota; and Anne E.
Heissenbuttel, American Forest and Paper Association, Washington, D.C.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
WELFARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on proposals to reform the
national welfare system, receiving testimony from Vermont Governor Howard
Dean, Montpelier; and Wisconsin Governor Tommy G. Thompson, Madison.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
UNITED STATES-CHINA INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AGREEMENT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
concluded hearings to examine certain implications involving the agreement
between the United States and China to provide for enforcement of copyrights,
trademarks, patents, trade secrets and other intellectual property rights in
China, after receiving testimony from Charlene Barshefsky, Deputy United
States Trade Representative; Winston Lord, Assistant Secretary of State for
East Asian and Pacific Affairs; and Willard A. Workman, United States Chamber
of Commerce, Jason S. Berman, Recording Industry Association of America, Eric
H. Smith, International Intellectual Property Alliance, and Robert W.
Holleyman II, Business Software Alliance, all of Washington, D.C.
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 Carol M. Browner,
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Sally Katzen, Administrator,
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget;
Gary J. Edles, General Counsel, Administrative Conference of the United
States; Peter L. Strauss, Columbia University Law School, New York, New York;
C. Boyden Gray, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, on behalf of Citizens for a Sound
Economy, Frederick L. Webber, Chemical Manufacturers Association, David C.
Vladeck, Public Citizen Litigation Group, Alan J. Krupnick, Resources for the
Future, Joseph Goffman, Environmental Defense Fund, all of Washington, D.C.;
and Jonathan B. Wiener, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--HEALTH PROFESSIONS PROGRAMS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for the health professions programs of
the Public Health Service Act, focusing on the current status of the health
professions and the Federal role in this area, after receiving testimony from
Senator Hatfield; Philip R. Lee, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human
Services for Health; Gary L. Filerman, Pew Health Professions Commission, and
Jordan J. Cohen, Association of American Medical Colleges, both of Washington,
D.C.; David A. Kindig, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison;
Reed V. Tuckson, University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, California;
Larry R. Anderson, Wellington, Kansas, on behalf of the American Academy of
Family Physicians; Allan Rosenfield, Columbia University, New York, New York,
on behalf of the Association of Schools of Public Health; and Eleanor J.
Sullivan, University of Kansas, Kansas City, on behalf of the American
Association of Colleges of Nursing.
REGULATORY FLEXIBILITY ACT
Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings to examine the
implementation and enforcement of the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 and
its impact on small business, and provisions of the proposed Regulatory
Flexibility Amendments Act to allow judicial review of Federal agency
compliance with the Regulatory Flexibility Act, receiving testimony from Jere
W. Glover, Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Small Business Administration; Johnny
C. Finch, Assistant Comptroller General, General Government Division, General
Accounting Office; Michael O. Roush, National Federation of Independent
Business, David Voight, United States Chamber of Commerce, and John S.
Satagaj, Small Business Legislative Council, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS REORGANIZATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings on proposals to
restructure and streamline the Bureau of Indian Affairs, receiving testimony
from Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior; Ada Deer, Assistant Secretary
of the Interior for Indian Affairs; John Washakie, Ft. Washakie, Wyoming, on
behalf of the Joint Tribal Advisory Task Force on Reorganization of the Bureau
of Indian Affairs; Ivan Makil, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community,
Scottsdale, Arizona; and W. Ron Allen, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, Sequim,
Washington.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again on Wednesday, March 15.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/03/09
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 9, 1995; pages D318 - D326
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1995 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings on
proposed legislation to strengthen and improve United States agricultural
programs, focusing on farm program spending issues, receiving testimony from
Missouri State Representative Jim Howerton, Jefferson City; Dennis T. Avery,
Hudson Institute, and Wayne A. Boutwell, National Council of Farmer
Cooperatives, on behalf of the Alliance for Sound Food and Agricultural
Policy, both of Washington, D.C.; Dean R. Kleckner, American Farm Bureau
Federation, Park Ridge, Illinois; Doran D319Zumbach, Coggon, Iowa, on behalf
of the Iowa Farm Bill Study Team; John C. Miller, Miller Milling Company,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, on behalf of the Coalition for a Competitive Food and
Agricultural System; John R. Whitaker, Iowa Farmers Union, Nevada, on behalf
of the National Farmers Union; and Luther Tweeten, Ohio State University,
Columbus.
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Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 14.
APPROPRIATIONS--HHS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of Health and Human Services,
receiving testimony from Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human
Services.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 16.
APPROPRIATIONS--NTSB
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for
the National Transportation Safety Board, receiving testimony from Jim Hall,
Chairman, Kenneth U. Jordan, Managing Director, and Timothy P. Forte,
Director, Office of Aviation Safety, all of the National Transportation Safety
Board.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 16.
APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1996 for the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Ronald K. Noble, Under Secretary
for Enforcement; Eljay Bowron, Director, United States Secret Service; Charles
F. Rinkevich, Director, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, and Stanley
Morris, Director, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, all of the Department
of the Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 23.
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, receiving testimony from Togo D.
West, Jr., Secretary of the Army; and Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, USA, Chief of
Staff of the Army.
Committee recessed subject to call.
MEXICAN ECONOMY
Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed hearings to
examine the economic situation in Mexico and United States efforts to
stabilize the peso, receiving testimony from Senators Murkowski and Brown;
Representatives Flake, LaFalce, and Istook; Steve H. Hanke, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland; Allan H. Meltzer, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; L. William Seidman, Commercial Mortgage Asset
Corporation, Fred Bergsten, Institute for International Economics, and Ralph
Nader, all of Washington, D.C.; Jeffrey A. Frankel, University of California,
Berkeley; John Mueller, Lehrman Bell Mueller Cannon, Inc., Arlington,
Virginia; and Walker F. Todd, Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, Cleveland,
Ohio.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON AIRPORTS AUTHORITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
held hearings to examine the legal status of the Board of Review of the
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, receiving testimony from Senators
Warner and Mikulski; Representatives Moran and Morella; John Killian, Senior
Specialist, American Constitutional Law, Congressional Research Service,
Library of Congress; Virginia Deputy Secretary of Transportation Shirley J.
Ybarra, Richmond; Robert Tardio and James Wilding, both of the Metropolitan
Washington Airports Authority, Alexandria, Virginia; John Hechinger, Hechinger
Company, Landover, Maryland; Leo Schefer, Washington Airports Task Force, and
John McClain, Greater Washington Board of Trade, both of Washington, D.C.; and
James Hunter, Arlington, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nomination of Wilma A. Lewis, of the District of Columbia, to be
Inspector General, Department of the Interior.
WELFARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings on proposals to reform the
national welfare system, focusing on policy priorities, receiving testimony
from Robert M. Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Robert
Rector, Heritage Foundation, and Michael D. Tanner, Cato Institute, all of
Washington, D.C.; and Lawrence M. Mead, Princeton University, Princeton, New
Jersey.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
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SOUTH ASIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs concluded hearings to examine South Asian proliferation issues, after
receiving testimony from Robin L. Raphel, Assistant Secretary for South Asian
Affairs, and Robert J. Einhorn, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Non-Proliferation, both of the Department of State; Joseph S. Nye, Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; George Percovich,
Charlottesville, Virginia, on behalf of Secure World Foundation and W. Alton
Jones Foundation; Stephen P. Cohen, University of Illinois, Champaign; and
Mitchell Ries, Woodrow Wilson International Center, and Michael Krepon, Henry
L. Stimson Center, both of Washington, D.C.
HAITI
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace
Corps Affairs concluded hearings to examine the implementation and cost of
United States policy in Haiti, after receiving testimony from Strobe Talbott,
Deputy Secretary, and James Dobbins, Special Haiti Coordinator, both of the
Department of State; Mark Schneider, Assistant Administrator for Latin America
and the Caribbean, Agency for International Development; John M. Deutch,
Deputy Secretary of Defense; Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, American Enterprise
Institute, Washington, D.C.; and Andrew Postal, Judy Bond, Inc., New York, New
York, on behalf of the Haiti Task Force of Caribbean/Latin American Action.
REGULATORY TRANSITION ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported, with
an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 219, to ensure economy and
efficiency of Federal Government operations by establishing a moratorium on
regulatory rulemaking actions.
PERFORMANCE RIGHTS IN SOUND RECORDINGS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 227, to
recognize the exclusive right of a copyright owner in a sound recording to
perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital transmission,
after receiving testimony from Bruce A. Lehman, Assistant Secretary of
Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks; Marybeth Peters,
Registrar of Copyrights and Associate Librarian for Copyright Services,
Library of Congress; Jason S. Berman and Hilary Rosen, both of the Recording
Industry Association of America, Washington, D.C.; Mark Tully Massagli, on
behalf of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada
and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Edward P. Murphy,
National Music Publishers' Association, Inc., and Hal David, American Society
of Composers, Authors and Publishers, all of New York, New York; Jerold H.
Rubinstein, International Cablecasting Technologies, Inc., Los Angeles,
California; Steven Randall, Mountain West Audio Inc./MUZAK, Salt Lake City,
Utah; Kurt Bestor, Provo, Utah, on behalf of Broadcast Music, Inc.; and Don
Henley, Aspen, Colorado.
NOMINATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Dennis M. Duffy, of Pennsylvania, to be Assistant Secretary of Veterans
Affairs for Policy and Planning, after the nominee testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
VA BUDGET
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to
examine the Administration's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1996 for
the Department of Veterans Affairs, after receiving testimony from Jesse
Brown, Secretary of Veterans Affairs; Frank Q. Nebeker, Chief Judge, United
States Court of Veterans Appeals; Preston M. Taylor, Jr., Assistant Secretary
of Labor for Veterans' Employment and Training; Robert P. Carbonneau, AMVETS,
Lanham, Maryland; and James N. Magill, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United
States, Russell W. Mank, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Richard F. Schultz,
Disabled American Veterans, and Carroll L. Williams, American Legion, all of
Washington, D.C.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1995/03/10
Daily Digest - Friday, March 10, 1995; pages D328 - D336
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--OSTP/NSF
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 John
Gibbons, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy; Neal Lane,
Director, National Science Foundation; and Mary Ann Fox, Vice Chairman,
National Science Board.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 16.
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MEXICAN ECONOMY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued hearings
to examine the economic situation in Mexico and United States efforts to
stabilize the peso, receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Robert E. Rubin, Secretary, and
Lawrence H. Summers, Under Secretary for International Affairs, both of the
Department of the Treasury; Peter Tarnoff, Under Secretary of State for
Political Affairs; Jack Kemp, Empower America, Washington, D.C.; and Paul A.
Volcker, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SUPERFUND REFORM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste
Control and Risk Assessment held oversight hearings on the implementation of
the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of
1980 (Superfund), receiving testimony from Carol M. Browner, Administrator,
Environmental Protection Agency; J. Winston Porter, Waste Policy Center,
Sterling, Virginia; Edwin H. Clark II, Clean Sites, Inc., Alexandria,
Virginia; Michael Steinberg, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, on behalf of the
Hazardous Waste Cleanup Project, John C. Shanahan, Heritage Foundation, Don R.
Clay, Don Clay Associates, Inc., and Katherine N. Probst, Resources for the
Future, all of Washington, D.C.; and Lloyd S. Dixon, RAND Corp., Santa Monica,
California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
WELFARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings on proposals to reform the
national welfare system, receiving testimony from Donna E. Shalala, Secretary
of Health and Human Services.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 14.
Joint Meetings
EMPLOYMENT SITUATION
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine the
employment-unemployment situation for February, receiving testimony from
Katharine G. Abraham, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of
Labor.
Committee recessed subject to call.
1995/03/13
Daily Digest - Monday, March 13, 1995; pages D337 - D340
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CONSUMER PRICE INDEX
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the use of the
Consumer Price Index as an indicator of inflation and changes in the cost of
living, receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System; Katharine G. Abraham, Commissioner, Bureau of
Labor Statistics, Department of Labor; June E. O'Neill, Director,
Congressional Budget Office; and Robert J. Gordon, Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1995/03/14
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 14, 1995; pages D342 - D350
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1995 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
on proposed legislation to strengthen and improve United States agricultural
programs, focusing on conservation, wetlands, and farm policy, receiving
testimony from Paul W. Johnson, Chief, and Warren Lee, Co-leader, National
Wetlands Team, both of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Department
of Agriculture; Michael Davis, United States Army Corps of Engineers; John
Laurie, Michigan Farm Bureau, Cass City, on behalf of the American Farm Bureau
Federation; William W. Howard, National Wildlife Federation, Washington, D.C.;
J. Wendell Gilliam, North Carolina State University, Raleigh; Otto Doering,
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; Bruce A. Babcock, Iowa State
University, Ames; Donald D. Etler, Iowa Drainage District Association,
Emmetsburg; and Charles Gunn, Jefferson, Iowa.
Hearings continue on Thursday, March 16.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony from William J. Perry, Secretary of Defense.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 28.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY RESEARCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for energy research
programs, receiving testimony from Martha Krebs, Director, Office of Energy
Research, Department of Energy.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
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 trade, democracy, and narcotics matters, receiving
testimony from Winston Lord, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and
Pacific Affairs; and Linda Morse, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Asia,
Agency for International Development.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 28.
DOD TECHNOLOGY BASE PROGRAMS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Acquisition and Technology held
hearings to examine the status of technology base programs of the Department
of Defense, receiving testimony from Paul Kaminski, Under Secretary for
Acquisition and Technology, and Anita Jones, Director of Defense Research and
Engineering, both of the Department of Defense; Gilbert F. Decker, Assistant
Secretary of the Army for Research, Development and Acquisition; Nora Slatkin,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition; and
Clark G. Fiester, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
HUD REORGANIZATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing
Opportunity and Community Development concluded joint hearings with the
Subcommittee on HUD Oversight and Structure to examine the budget and
management activities of the Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD), focusing on policy reform issues, after receiving testimony from Judy
A. England-Joseph, Director, Housing and Community Development Issues,
Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, General Accounting
Office; Susan Gaffney, Inspector General, Department of Housing and Urban
Development; Jacqueline Rogers, University of Maryland, College Park, on
behalf of the National Academy of Public Administration; and John C. Weicher,
Hudson Institute, Anthony Downs, Brookings Institution, and Ronald D. Utt,
Heritage Foundation, all of Washington, D.C.
ENDANGERED SPECIES LISTINGS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Drinking Water,
Fisheries and Wildlife approved for full committee consideration, with
amendments, S. 503, to impose a moratorium on the listing of species as
endangered or threatened and the designation of critical habitat in order to
ensure that constitutionally protected private property rights are not
infringed.
WELFARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on proposals to reform the
national welfare system, focusing on teen parenthood, receiving testimony from
Douglas J. Besharov, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research,
and Kristin A. Moore, Child Trends, Inc., both of Washington, D.C.; Robert C.
Granger, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, New York, New York; and
D344Rebecca A. Maynard, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Jacquelyn L. Williams-Bridgers, of Maryland, to be Inspector
General; Philip C. Wilcox, Jr., of Maryland, for the rank of Ambassador during
his tenure of service as Coordinator for Counter Terrorism; and Ray L.
Caldwell, of Virginia, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service
as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Burdensharing, all of the Department of
State, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Ms. Williams-Bridgers was introduced by Senator Sarbanes.
NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on proposed
legislation to provide for the indefinite and unconditional extension of the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to further the security interests of the
United States and all the countries of the world, receiving testimony from
Thomas Graham, Special Representative of the President for Arms Control,
Nonproliferation and Disarmament; James R. Schlesinger, former Secretary of
Defense and former Secretary of Energy, and Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster, USA
(Ret.), on behalf of the Atlantic Council of the United States, both of
Washington, D.C.; and Kenneth L. Adelman, Institute for Contemporary Studies,
former Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Arlington,
Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
IMMIGRATION CONTROL
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 269 and a related
proposal to reduce illegal immigration and control the cost of immigration to
taxpayers, receiving testimony from Senators Kyl, Feinstein, Hutchison, and
Bryan; Janet Reno, Attorney General; and Doris Meissner, Commissioner,
Immigration and Naturalization Service, both of the Department of Justice;
Shirley S. Chater, Commissioner, Social Security Administration, Department of
Health and Human Services; Susan Martin, Executive Director, U.S. Commission
on Immigration Reform; Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, Tallahassee; Michael
Fix, Urban Institute, Charles B. Keely, Georgetown University, Elizabeth G.
Ferris, InterAction, Elisa C. Massimino, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights,
Gregory T. Nojeim, American Civil Liberties Union, Daniel A. Stein, Negative
Population Growth, Inc., and Cecilia Munoz, National Council of La Raza, all
of Washington, D.C.; Lawrence H. Fuchs, Brandeis University, Waltham,
Massachusetts; David Simcox, Negative Population Growth, Inc., Louisville,
Kentucky; and Mark J. Miller, University of Delaware, Newark.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
REGULATORY REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the
Courts approved for full committee consideration, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute, without recommendation, S. 343, to reform the Federal
regulatory process.
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to examine
health care reform issues in a changing marketplace, receiving testimony from
Leonard D. Schaeffer, Blue Cross of California, Woodland Hills; William S.
Custer, Custer Economic Research, Washington, D.C.; Kathleen Angel, Digital
Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts, on behalf of the Corporate
Health Care Coalition; Cristie Upshaw Travis, Memphis Business Group on
Health, Memphis, Tennessee; Glenn Potter, University of Kansas Medical Center,
Kansas City; and James R. Kimmey, Saint Louis University Health Sciences
Center, Saint Louis, Missouri.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1995/03/15
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 15, 1995; pages D351 - D360
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1996 for farm and foreign agriculture services of the Department of
Agriculture, receiving testimony from Eugene Moos, Under Secretary for Farm
and Foreign Agricultural Services; Grant B. Buntrock, Acting Administrator,
Consolidated Farm Service Agency; and August Schumacher, Administrator,
Foreign Agricultural Service, all of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 22.
APPROPRIATIONS--JUSTICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1996 for the Department of Justice, receiving testimony from Janet
Reno, Attorney General, Department of Justice.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the Bonneville
Power Administration, receiving testimony from Alice M. Rivlin, Director,
Office of Management and Budget; Randy Hardy, Administrator, Bonneville Power
Administration, Department of Energy; Mark Crisson, Tacoma Public Utilities,
Tacoma, Washington; Richard E. Dyer, Portland General Electric Company,
Portland, Oregon; Richard Holder, Reynolds Metals Corp., Washington, D.C.;
K.C. Golden, Northwest Conservation Act Coalition, Seattle, Washington; Ralph
Cavanagh, Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, California; Donald
Sampson, Umatilla Indian Tribe, Oregon; Warren Seyler, Spokane Indian Tribe,
Washington; Jim Baker, Sierra Club, Pullman, Washington; Glenn Vanselow,
Pacific Northwest Waterways Association, Vancouver, Washington; and DeWitt
Moss, North Side Canal Company, Jerome, Idaho.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the
Smithsonian Institution, receiving testimony from I. Michael Heyman,
Secretary, and Constance B. Newman, Under Secretary, both of the Smithsonian
Institution.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 22.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland Forces held hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for the Department
of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on Army force
modernization, receiving testimony from Gilbert F. Decker, Assistant Secretary
of the Army for Research, Development, and Acquisition; Maj. Gen. Ronald V.
Hite, USA, Deputy for System Management and International Cooperation, and Lt.
Gen. Otto J. Guenther, Director of Information Systems for Command, Control,
Communications, and Computers, both of the Office of the Assistant Secretary
for Research, Development, and Acquisition; and Maj. Gen. Edward G. Anderson
III, USA, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, Force
Development.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--COAST GUARD
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Oceans and
Fisheries concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1996 for the United States Coast Guard, after receiving testimony
for Adm. Robert E. Kramek, USCG, Commandant, United States Coast Guard,
Department of Transportation.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committe on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following bills:
S. 395, to provide for the sale of Alaska Power Administration and to lift the
Alaska North Slope crude oil export ban, with an amendment;
H.R. 400, to provide for the exchange of lands within Gates of the Arctic
National Park, with an amendment. (As approved by the committee, the
D353amendment incorporates the text of S. 536 as Title II of the bill);
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H.R. 400, to provide for the conveyance of lands to certain individuals in
Butte County California;
S. 226, to designate additional and as within the Chaco Culture Archaeological
Protection Sites;
S. 444, to provide for the purchase of common stock of Cook Inlet Region;
S. 115, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire and to convey
certain lands or interests in lands to improve the management, protection, and
administration of Colonial National Historical Park in the State of Virginia,
with an amendment;
S. 134, to provide for the acquisition of certain lands formerly occupied by
the Franklin D. Roosevelt family, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute;
S. 188, to establish the Great Falls Historic District in the State of New
Jersey;
S. 127, to improve the administration of the Women's Rights National
Historical Park in the State of New York, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute;
S. 225, to remove the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
to license projects on fresh waters in the State of Hawaii;
S. 359, to provide for the extension of certain hydroelectric projects located
in the State of West Virginia;
S. 421, to extend the deadline under the Federal Power Act applicable to the
construction of a hydroelectric project in Kentucky;
S. 461, to authorize extension of the time limitation for a Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission issued hydroelectric license;
S. 223, to provide funds to the Palisades Interstate Park Commission for
acquisition of land in the Sterling Forest area of the New York/New Jersey
Highlands Region;
S. 522, to provide for a limited exemption to the hydroelectric licensing
provisions of part I of the Federal Power Act for certain transmission
facilities associated with the El Vado Hydroelectric Project in New Mexico;
S. 538, to reinstate the permit for, and extend the deadline under the Federal
Power Act applicable to the construction of, a hydroelectric project in
Oregon;
S. 549, To extend the deadline under the Federal Power Act applicable to the
construction of three hydroelectric projects in the State of Arkansas;
An original bill to provide for the exchange of lands within Gates of the
Arctic National Park, to provide for the conveyance of lands within Butte
County, California, to designate the Chaco Culture Archaeological Protection
Sites, to provide for the purchase of common stock of Cook Inlet Region, to
provide for the conveyance of land in Colonial National Historical Park in
Virginia, to provide for the acquisition of lands formerly occupied by the
Franklin D. Roosevelt family, to establish the Great Falls Historic District
in New Jersey, to improve the administration of the Women's Rights National
Historical Park in New York, and to provide for the acquisition of land in the
Sterling Forest area of the New York/New Jersey Highlands Region. (As approved
by the committee, the bill incorporates the text of H.R. 440, S. 226, S. 444,
S. 115, S. 134, S. 188, S. 127, and S. 223); and
An original bill to remove the jurisdiction of the FERC to license projects on
fresh waters in Hawaii, to provide for the extension of certain hydroelectric
projects located in West Virginia, to extend the deadline under the Federal
Power Act applicable to the construction of a hydroelectric project in
Kentucky, to extend the time limitation for a FERC-issued hydroelectric
licenses, to provide for an exemption to the hydroelectric licensing
provisions of part I of the Federal Power Act for certain transmission
facilities associated with the El Vado Hydroelectric Project in New Mexico, to
reinstate the permit for, and extend the deadline of a hydroelectric project
in Oregon, to extend the deadline applicable to the construction of three
hydroelectric projects in Arkansas, and to exempt hydro projects of less than
5 megawatts in Alaska from jurisdiction. (As approved by the committee, the
bill incorporates the text of S. 225, S. 359, S. 421, S. 461, S. 522, S. 538,
S. 549, and a related committee amendment.)
INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste
Control, and Risk Assessment approved for full committee consideration, with
amendments, S. 534, to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to provide authority
for States to limit the interstate transportation of municipal solid waste.
HEALTH INSURANCE DEDUCTION EXTENSION
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported, with an amendment
in the nature of a substitute, H.R. 831, to permanently extend the deduction
for the health insurance costs of self-employed individuals, to repeal the
provision permitting nonrecognition of gain on sales and exchanges
effectuating policies of the Federal Communications Commission.
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HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed hearings to examine
health care reform issues in a changing marketplace, receiving testimony from
Minnesota State Representative Lee Greenfield, Minneapolis, on behalf of The
Reforming States Group; Paul M. Ellwood, The Jackson Hole Group, Teton
Village, Wyoming; Diane Rowland, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Frank
Cummings, Lebouf, Lamb, Greene and MaCrae, Richard E. Curtis, Institute for
Health Policy Solutions, and Richard I. Smith, Association of Private Pension
and Welfare Plans, all of Washington, D.C.; and Josephine Musser, National
Association of Insurance Commissions, Madison, Wisconsin.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NAVAJO-HOPI RELOCATION PROGRAM
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 349, to
authorize funds through fiscal year 1997 for the Navajo-Hopi Relocation
Housing Program, after receiving testimony from Albert A. Hale, Navajo Nation,
Window Rock, Arizona; Ferrell Secakuku, Hop Tribal Council, Kykotsmovi,
Arizona; and Christopher J. Bavasi, Office of Navajo-Hopi Indian Relocation,
Flagstaff, Arizona.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters,
receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
Committee recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
IFES/FREE TRADE UNIONS--FORMER SOVIET UNION
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Commission met to receive a
briefing on activities of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems
(IFES) from Juliana Geran Pilon, Gwenn Hofmann, Linda Edgeworth, Hank
Valentino, Daniel Blessington, and Catherine Barnes, all on behalf of the
International Foundation for Electoral Systems, Washington, D.C.
Also, Commission met to receive a briefing on free trade unions with regard to
the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union from Semyon Karikov,
Association of Free Trade Unions of Ukrainian Railway Workers; and Gennady
Nikitin, Association of Independent Trade Unions of Kentau, Kazakhstan.
Commission recessed subject to call.
1995/03/16
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 16, 1995; pages D362 - D370
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1995 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
on proposed legislation to strengthen and improve United States agricultural
programs, focusing on taxpayers' stake in Federal farm policy, receiving
testimony from Senators Domenici and Dorgan; Representative Dooley; Eileen M.
Manfredi, Principal Analyst, Budget Analysis Division, Congressional Budget
Office; John W. Harman, Director, Food and Agriculture Issues, Resources,
Community, and Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office;
Kenneth A. Cook, Environmental Working Group, Martha H. Phillips, Concord
Coalition, and Donald Spickler, Washington County Conservation District, on
behalf of the National Association of Conservation Districts, all of
Washington, D.C.; and Vance Ehmke, Kansas Association of Wheat Growers, Healy.
Hearings continue on Friday, March 31.
APPROPRIATIONS--FBI/DEA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1996 for the Department of Justice, receiving testimony in behalf
of funds for their respective activities from Louis J. Freeh, Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Thomas S. Constantine, Administrator,
Drug Enforcement Administration, both of the Department of Justice.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 29.
APPROPRIATIONS--EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of D364Education, receiving testimony
from Richard W. Riley, Secretary of Education.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 28.
APPROPRIATIONS--FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for
the Federal Highway Administration, receiving testimony from Rodney E. Slater,
Administrator, and Jane Garvey, Deputy Administrator, both of the Federal
Highway Administration, Department of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 23.
APPROPRIATIONS--FEMA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the
Federal Emergency Management Agency, receiving testimony from James Lee Witt,
Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency; Judy A. England-Joseph,
Director, Housing and Community Development Issues, Resources, Community, and
Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office; Keith Bea,
Specialist in American National Government, Congressional Research Service,
Library of Congress; and James L. Blum, Deputy Director, Congressional Budget
Office.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 24.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of Defense
and the future years defense program, focusing on manpower, personnel, and
compensation programs, receiving testimony from Senator Boxer; Frederick F.Y.
Pang, Assistant Secretary of Defense; Lt. Gen. Theodore G. Stroup, Jr., USA,
Deputy Chief of Army Staff for Personnel; Lt. Gen. George R. Christmas, USMC,
Deputy Chief of Marine Corps Staff for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; Lt. Gen.
Billy J. Bowles, USAF, Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for Personnel; Vice
Adm. Frank L. Bowman, USN, Chief of Naval Personnel; and Cindy Williams,
Assistant Director, National Security Division, and Dick Fernandez, Analyst,
both of the Congressional Budget Office.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 23.
TRADE SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on S. 277, to impose comprehensive economic sanctions against Iran, after
receiving testimony from Peter Tarnoff, Under Secretary of State for Political
Affairs; Patrick L. Clawson, Senior Fellow, Institute for National Strategic
Studies, National Defense University, Department of Defense; Kenneth R.
Timmerman, Middle East Data Project, Inc., Kensington, Maryland; John H.
Lichtblau, Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, Inc., New York, New York;
and J. Michael Stinson, Conoco Inc., Houston, Texas.
NORTH KOREA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
met in closed session to receive a briefing on recent developments on the
implementation of the Agreed Framework with North Korea from Robert L.
Gallucci, Ambassador at Large; and officials of the intelligence community.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
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; Charles B. Kornmann, to
be United States District Judge for the District of South Dakota; J. Don
Foster, to be United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama; and
Martin James Burke, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of
New York;
S. 464, to make the reporting deadlines for studies conducted in Federal court
demonstration districts consistent with the deadlines for pilot districts;
S. 532, to clarify the rules governing venue; and
S. 533, to clarify the rules governing removal of cases to Federal court.
Also, committee reconsidered their action of February 9, when the committee
ordered favorably reported, with amendments, S.J. Res. 21, proposing a
constitutional amendment to limit congressional terms, and agreed to report
the resolution instead with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
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ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded oversight hearings
to examine activities of the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, focusing
on its funding authority for new projects, after receiving testimony from
William L. Ensign, Assistant Architect of the Capitol; J. Raymond Carroll,
Director of Engineering; and Emanuele Crupi, Budget Officer, all of the Office
of the Architect of the Capitol.
Joint Meetings
HUMPHREY HAWKINS ACT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine certain
provisions of the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978 (Humphrey
Hawkins Act) applicable to the accountability and responsibility in the
conduct of monetary policy, after receiving testimony from Arthur Laffer, V.A.
Canto & Associates, La Jolla, California; Lawrence Kudlow, National Review,
Manhattan, New York; John Rutledge, Rutledge and Company, Greenwich,
Connecticut; Wayne D. Angell, Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc., New York, New York;
Jerry J. Jasinowski, National Association of Manufacturers, Washington, D.C.;
Thomas Havrilesky, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; David I.
Meiselman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg;
and Robert Eisner, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
1995/03/17
Daily Digest - Friday, March 17, 1995; pages D371 - D376
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ENDANGERED SPECIES
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings to
examine Department of the Interior and Department of Defense consultations
regarding endangered species at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and the Back Bay
National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia, and a related amendment to S. 503,
proposed Endangered Species Listing Moratorium Act, after receiving testimony
from George Frampton, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife
and Parks, and Robert Shallenberger, Chief, Division of Refuges, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, both of the Department of the Interior; Lewis D. Walker,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Environment, Safety, and
Occupational Health; Gen. Carl W. Stiner, USA (Ret.), LaFollette, Tennessee,
former Commander in Chief of the U.S. Special Operations Command; Joseph
Elton, Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Richmond; and Molly
P. Brown, Citizens for Solutions, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
REGULATORY REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 343, to reform the
Federal regulatory process, receiving testimony from Representative McIntosh;
Sally Katzen, Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget; Kelvin R. Herstad, United Truck Body Company,
Inc., Duluth, Minnesota; Robert Morris, Medical College of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee; George Clemon Freeman, Jr., American Bar Association, and
Christopher DeMuth, American Enterprise Institute, both of Washington, D.C.;
Cass R. Sunstein, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois; and
Philip K. Howard, New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1995/03/20
Daily Digest - Monday, March 20, 1995; pages D377 - D380
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
WELFARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on welfare reform issues,
focusing on programs that encourage people to move from welfare dependency to
self-reliance in the work force, receiving testimony from Judith M. Gueron,
Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, New York, New York; Stephen D.
Minnich, Oregon Department of Human Resources, Salem; Lawrence E. Townsend,
Jr., Riverside County Department of Public Social Services, Riverside,
California; Robert E. Friedman, Corporation for Enterprise Development, San
Francisco, California; and Jeffrey H. Joseph, United States Chamber of
Commerce, William Marshall III, Progressive Policy Institute, and Gerald M.
Shea, AFL-CIO, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INDIAN PROGRAM FUNDING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to examine
the projected impact of proposed rescissions for fiscal year 1995 and of
proposals to consolidate or block grant Federal funds to the States upon
programs serving American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians, after
receiving testimony from I. Michael Heyman, Secretary, Smithsonian
Institution; Ada Deer, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs;
James Kohlmoos, Acting Director of Indian Education Programs, Office of Indian
Education, Department of Education; Dominic Nessi, Director, Office of Native
American Programs, Public and Indian Housing, Department of Housing and Urban
Development; and Josephine Nieves, Associate Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Employment and Training.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1995/03/21
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 21, 1995; pages D381 - D388
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Daniel Robert Glickman, of Kansas, to be
Secretary of Agriculture, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators
Dole and Kassebaum, and Representative Roberts, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
MILITARY READINESS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness held hearings to
examine a report on military capabilities and readiness, receiving testimony
from Gen. Alfred M. Gray, USMC (Ret.); Adm. Carlisle A.H. Trost, USN (Ret.);
and Gen. Robert W. RisCassi, USA (Ret.).
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN COMMERCIAL SERVICE
Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on International
Finance concluded oversight hearings on the operation of the United States and
Foreign Commercial Service, focusing on proposals to reorganize and to
transfer the United States and Foreign Commercial Service from the Department
of Commerce to the Department of State, after receiving testimony from former
Representative Bill Frenzel; Jeffrey E. Garten, Under Secretary of Commerce
for International Trade; Paul T. Walters, Regional Director, United States and
Foreign Commercial Service (King of Prussia, Pennsylvania), Department of
Commerce; J. Michael Farren, Xerox Corporation, former Under Secretary of
Commerce for International Trade, John V.E. Hardy, Jr., Brown & Root, Inc., on
behalf of the National Association of Manufacturers, and William Bodde, Jr.,
Pacific Basin Economic Council, all of Washington, D.C.; Lawrence J. MacBean,
Century Furniture Industries, Hickory, North Carolina, on behalf of the North
Carolina District Export Council; and Thomas J. McNabb, Aquatics Unlimited,
Martinez, California.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY REFORM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings to examine telecommunications policy reform issues, focusing on cable
rate deregulation, broadcast ownership, and foreign ownership, after receiving
testimony from Scott Harris, International Bureau Chief, Federal
Communications Commission; Decker Anstrom, National Cable Television
Association, Roy Neel, United States Telephone Association, Bradley C.
Stillman, Consumer Federation of America, Edward O. Fritts, National
Association of Broadcasters, Preston R. Padden, Fox Broadcasting Company, all
of Washington, D.C.; Richard A. Cutler, Satellite Cable Services, Sioux Falls,
South Dakota; Gerald L. Hassell, The Bank of New York, and Eli Noam, Columbia
University, both of New York, New York; U. Bertram Ellis, Jr., Ellis
Communications, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia; and Jim Waterbury, KWWL-TV, Waterloo,
Iowa, on behalf of the NBC Affiliates Association.
BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Production
and Regulation concluded hearings on S. 92, to provide for the reconstitution
of outstanding repayment obligations of the Administrator of the Bonneville
Power Administration for the appropriated capital investments in the Federal
Columbia River Power System, after receiving testimony from Jack Robertson,
Deputy Administrator, Bonneville Power Administration, Department of Energy;
and Angus Duncan, Northwest Power Planning Council, and Geoff Carr, Public
Power Council, both of Portland, Oregon.
TAX TREATMENT OF EXPATRIATE AMERICANS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight held hearings
on proposals to impose income tax on unrealized gains of United States
citizens who relinquish their United States citizenship, receiving testimony
from Jamison S. Borek, Deputy Legal Adviser, Department of State; Leslie B.
Samuels, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Ellen K.
Harrison, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, and H. David Rosenbloom, Caplin & Drysdale,
Chartered, both of Washington, D.C.; Marshall J. Langer, Shutts & Bowen,
London, England; and Robert F. Turner, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode
Island.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PEACE POWERS ACT/NATIONAL SECURITY REVITALIZATION ACT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on S. 5, to
clarify the war powers of Congress and the President in the post-cold-war
period, and H.R. 7, to revitalize the national security of the United States,
after receiving testimony from Senator Dole; former Senator Howard Baker;
Madeleine K. Albright, Permanent Representative of the United States to the
United Nations; Lt. Col. Robin L. Higgins, USMC, Head, Media Branch, Public
Affairs D383Division, Headquarters, United States Marine Corps; Jeane J.
Kirkpatrick, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., former United
States Representative to the United Nations; and Charles W. Maynes, Foreign
Policy, Washington, D.C.
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AUTHORIZATION--SENIOR NUTRITION PROGRAMS/OLDER AMERICANS ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Aging concluded
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Older Americans
Act, focusing on senior nutrition programs under Title III, after receiving
testimony from Herbert W. Stupp, New York City Department for the Aging, New
York, New York; Toby Felcher, CARE, Baltimore, Maryland; Debra Perou-Hermans,
Rockingham Nutrition and Meals on Wheels Program, Brentwood, New Hampshire;
Margot Clark, Northwest Indiana Meals on Wheels, Crown Point; and Barbara J.
Harris, Senior Citizen Services of Greater Tarrant County, Inc., Fort Worth,
Texas.
HEALTH CARE FRAUD
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine the scope
of health care fraud and Federal and State efforts to combat this abuse, after
receiving testimony from Louis J. Freeh, Director, Federal Bureau of
Investigation, Department of Justice; June Gibbs Brown, Inspector General,
Department of Health and Human Services; Charles C. Masten, Inspector General,
Department of Labor; Thomas A. Temmerman, California Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud,
Sacramento, on behalf of the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control
Units; Bill Gradison, Health Insurance Association of America, and William J.
Mahon, National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, both of Washington, D.C.;
and certain unidentified witnesses.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/03/22
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 22, 1995; pages D390 - D398
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1996 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from James R. Lyons, Under Secretary for
Natural Resources and Environment, and Paul W. Johnson, Chief, Natural
Resources Conservation Service, both of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 29.
SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
concluded hearings on proposals to reform the process of securities
litigation, including related provisions of S. 240 and H.R. 1058, after
receiving testimony from Mark J. Griffin, Utah Department of Commerce, Salt
Lake City, on behalf of the North American Securities Administrators
Association, Inc.; Sheldon H. Elsen, Association of the Bar of the City of New
York, New York; David Guin, Ritchie and Rediker, Birmingham, Alabama, on
behalf of the National Association of Securities and Commercial Law Attorneys;
Bartlett Naylor, International Brotherhood of Teamsters (AFL-CIO), Washington,
D.C.; and Joan R. Gallo, San Jose, California.
NUCLEAR WASTE CLEANUP
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings to examine
the Department of Energy environmental management programs, focusing on waste
management and cleanup activities at the Hanford nuclear reservation site in
the State of Washington, receiving testimony from Senators Gorton and Murray;
Thomas P. Grumbly, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management;
and Steven M. Blush and Thomas H. Heitman, both of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
REGULATORY REFORM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings to examine
the impact of regulatory reform proposals on environmental law, receiving
testimony from Steven Kaplan, General Counsel, Department of Transportation;
Carol M. Browner, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; John R.
Schmidt, Associate Attorney General, Department of Justice; Sally Katzen,
Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget; Tom Looby, Colorado Department of Public Health and
Environment, Denver, on behalf of the Environmental Council of the States;
Thomas O. McGarity, University of Texas School of Law, Austin; Cass R.
Sunstein, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois; John D. Graham,
Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, Boston,
Massachusetts; and Michael E. Baroody, National Association of Manufacturers,
on behalf of the Alliance for Reasonable Regulation, and George C. Freeman,
Jr. and D392Philip J. Harter, both of the American Bar Association, all of
Washington, D.C.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL DISABILITY PROGRAMS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy held
hearings to examine the growth and escalating costs of the Social Security
Disability Insurance and the Supplemental Security Income disability programs,
receiving testimony from Senators Cohen and Santorum; Shirley S. Chater,
Commissioner, Social Security Administration, Department of Health and Human
Services; David Koitz, Specialist in Retirement and Social Policy,
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; and James Slattery,
National Commission on Childhood Disability, Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
The nominations of Jacquelyn L. Williams-Bridgers, of Maryland, to be
Inspector General; Philip C. Wilcox, Jr., of Maryland, for the rank of
Ambassador during his tenure of service as Coordinator for Counter Terrorism;
and Ray L. Caldwell, of Virginia, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure
of service as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Burdensharing, all of
the Department of State; Gloria Rose Ott, of California, Harvey Sigelbaum, of
New York, George J. Kourpias, of Maryland, and John Chrystal, of Iowa, each to
be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment
Corporation, United States International Development Cooperation Agency, and
routine lists in the Foreign Service;
S. 384, to direct the President to submit reports to certain congressional
committees concerning United States support for Mexico during its debt crisis,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. Con. Res. 3, relative to Taiwan and the United Nations;
S.J. Res. 29, expressing the sense of Congress with respect to dialogue on the
North-South Korean Peninsula and the United States-North Korea Agreed
Framework;
S. Con. Res. 9, expressing the sense of the Congress regarding a private visit
by President Lee Teng-hui of the Republic of China on Taiwan to the United
States; and
The Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain
Conventional Weapons Which May Be Excessively Injurious or To Have
Indiscriminate Effects and Two Accompanying Protocols on Non-Detectable
Fragments (Protocol I) and on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of
Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices (Protocol II) (Treaty Doc. 103-25), with
certain conditions.
Also, committee began consideration of S. Con. Res. 6, to express the sense of
the Senate that the Secretary of the Treasury should submit monthly reports to
the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the
Committee on Banking and Financial Services of the House of Representatives
concerning compliance by the Government of Mexico regarding certain loans,
loan guarantees, and other assistance made by the United States to the
Government of Mexico, but did not take final action thereon, and recessed
subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--INDIAN PROGRAMS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the following
bills:
S. 510, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1999 for the Native American
Social and Economic Development Strategies Grant Program administered by the
Administration for Native Americans, Department of Health and Human Services,
after receiving testimony from Gary Niles Kimble, Commissioner, Administration
for Native Americans, Administration for Children and Families, Department of
Health and Human Services; and A. David Lester, Council of Energy Resource
Tribes, Denver, Colorado; and
S. 441, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1997 for programs of the Indian
Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Act, after receiving testimony
from W. Craig Vanderwagen, Director, Division of Clinical and Preventive
Services, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services; Ada
E. Deer, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; Herbert
Becker, Director, Office of Tribal Justice, Department of Justice; Anita
Schacht, Hopi Child Sexual Abuse Project, Kykotsmovi, Arizona; and Laurel
Keenan, Bay Mills Indian Community, Brimley, Michigan.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1995/03/23
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 23, 1995; pages D400 - D408
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for
the Federal Railroad Administration, and the National Passenger Railroad
Corporation (Amtrak), receiving testimony from Jolene M. Molitoris,
Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration, Department of Transportation;
Thomas M. Downs, President and Chairman of the Board, National Railroad
Passenger Corporation (Amtrak); and Kenneth M. Mead, Director, Transportation
Issues, Resources, Community and Economic Development Division, General
Accounting Office.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 30.
APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, General
Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for
the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for
their respective activities from Ronald K. Noble, Under Secretary for
Enforcement, John Magaw, Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms,
and George J. Weise, Commissioner, United States Customs Service, all of the
Department of the Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 27.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel 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 Department of
Defense medical program and related health care issues, receiving testimony
from Stephen C. Joseph, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs; Lt.
Gen. Alcide M. LaNoue, Surgeon General, Department of the Army; Lt. Gen. Edgar
R. Anderson, Jr., Surgeon General, Department of the Air Force; and Vice Adm.
Donald F. Hagen, Surgeon General, Department of the Navy.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 30.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported the following business items:
The nomination of Robert Pitofsky, of Maryland, to be a Federal Trade
Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission, and routine lists of United States
Coast Guard nominations;
S. 267, to establish a system of licensing, reporting, and regulation for
vessels of the United States fishing on the high seas;
S. 84, to issue a certificate of documentation and coastwise trade endorsement
for the vessel Bagger;
S. 172, to issue a certificate of documentation for the vessel L. R. Beattie;
S. 212, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement
for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel Shamrock V;
S. 213, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement
for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel Endeavour;
S. 278, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessel Serenity;
S. 279, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessel Why Knot;
S. 475, to authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessel Lade Hawk;
S. 480, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement
for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel Gleam;
S. 482, to issue a certificate of documentation and coastwise trade
endorsement for the vessel Emerald Ayes;
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S. 492, to issue a certificate of documentation for the vessel Intrepid;
S. 493, to issue a certificate of documentation for the vessel Consortium;
S. 527, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement
for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel Empress;
S. 528, to issue a certificate of documentation and coastwise trade
endorsement for the following three vessels: Idun Viking, Liv Viking, and
Freja Viking;
S. 535, to issue certificates of documentation with appropriate endorsement
for employment in coastwise trade for each of two vessels named Gallant Lady ,
subject to certain conditions;
S. 561, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement
for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel Isabelle; and
An original bill entitled Telecommunications Competition and Deregulation Act
of 1995.
OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
575, to provide Outer Continental Shelf impact assistance to State and local
governments, and S. 158, to encourage the production of domestic oil and gas
resources in deep water on the Outer Continental Shelf in the Gulf of Mexico,
after receiving testimony from Robert L. Armstrong, Assistant Secretary of the
Interior for Land and Minerals Management; Kodiak Island Borough Mayor Jerome
Selby, Kodiak, Alaska; W. Dennis Heagney, Sonat Offshore Drilling Inc., on
behalf of the International Association of Drilling Contractors and the
National Ocean Industries Association, and Richard Chamberlain, Chevron U.S.A.
Production Company, both of Houston, Texas; H. Leighton Steward, Louisiana
Land and Exploration Company, New Orleans; and Ernest A. Burguieres III,
Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, Baton Rouge.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills:
S. 534, to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to provide authority for States
to limit the interstate transportation of municipal solid waste, with
amendments; and
S. 268, to authorize the collection of fees for expenses for triploid grass
carp certification inspections.
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION AIR QUALITY REQUIREMENTS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Transportation and
Infrastructure resumed hearings on S. 440, to provide for the designation of
the National Highway System, focusing on the effects of the transportation
conformity requirements of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, and the air
quality programs of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of
1991, receiving testimony from Jane F. Garvey, Deputy Administrator, Federal
Highway Administration, Department of Transportation; Mary D. Nichols,
Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, Environmental Protection
Agency; Virginia Governor George Allen, Richmond; Kirk Brown, Illinois
Department of Transportation, Springfield; William J. Roberts, Environmental
Defense Fund, Washington, D.C.; and Brian R. Holmes, Connecticut Road Builders
Association, Wethersfield, on behalf of the American Road and Transportation
Builders Association.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 30.
MEDICAID WAIVERS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Medicaid and Health Care for Low-Income
Families held hearings to examine the status of certain Statewide Medicaid
waivers authorized by section 1115 of the Social Security Act and on the
effect these waivers have on access to and quality of care for Medicaid
patients and providers, receiving testimony from Sally K. Richardson,
Director, Medicaid Bureau (Baltimore, Maryland), Health Care Financing
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; William J. Scanlon,
Associate Director, Health Financing and Policy Issues, Health, Education, and
Human Services Division, General Accounting Office; Mabel Chen, Arizona Health
Care Cost Containment System, Phoenix; and Manuel Martins, Tennessee
Department of Finance and Administration, Nashville.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS REORGANIZATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the
reorganization and revitalization of American foreign affairs institutions,
receiving testimony from Lawrence S. Eagleburger, Baker, Donelson, Bearman,
and Caldwell; Brent Scowcroft, Forum for International Policy; McGeorge Bundy,
Carnegie Corporation; Fred C. Ikle, Center for Strategic and International
Studies; Julia V. Taft, American Council for Voluntary International Action;
and Lannon Walker, Senior Foreign Service Association, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills:
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S. 291, to reform the regulatory process, to make Government more efficient
and effective, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
S. 343, to reform the regulatory process, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
CIRCUIT JUDGE SERVICE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported, with an
amendment, S. 531, to authorize a circuit judge who has taken part in an en
banc hearing of a case to continue to participate in that case after taking
senior status.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/03/24
Daily Digest - Friday, March 24, 1995; pages D409 - D418
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: On Thursday, March 23,
committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of Daniel Robert Glickman,
of Kansas, to be Secretary of Agriculture.
SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
bill (S. 617) making additional supplemental appropriations and rescissions
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995.
CONFERENCE OF THE STATES
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism, and
Property Rights concluded hearings to examine the proposed Conference of the
States process which will allow and encourage State leaders to discuss and
address issues of balance within the Federal-State relationship, after
receiving testimony from Nebraska Governor E. Benjamin Nelson, Lincoln;
Arizona Governor Fife Symington, Phoenix; Colorado State Senator Jeffrey M.
Wells, Colorado Springs; Alabama State Representative Michael Box, Montgomery,
on behalf of the National Conference of State Legislatures; Stewart Baker,
Steptoe & Johnson, and Charles Cooper, Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, both
of Washington, DC; Erwin Chemerinsky, University of Southern California Law
Center, Los Angeles; Robert F. Nagel, University of Colorado, Boulder; and
Edward Rubin, University of California, Berkeley.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/03/27
Daily Digest - Monday, March 27, 1995; pages D419 - D422
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--EXECUTIVE OFFICE/GSA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, General
Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Patsy Thomasson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration, Executive
Office of the President; and Roger Johnson, Administrator, General Services
Administration.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 3.
SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the accelerating
growth of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program, focusing on the
drastic increase in those eligible to receive SSI benefits, receiving
testimony from Jane L. Ross, Director, Income Security Issues, Health,
Education, and Human Services Division, General Accounting Office; Susan
Martin, Executive Director, U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform; Herbert D.
Kleber, Columbia University, New York, New York; Daniel A. Stein, Federation
for American Immigration Reform, and Carolyn L. Weaver, American Enterprise
Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; and Jerry L. Mashaw, Yale University, New
Haven, Connecticut, on behalf of the National Academy of Social Insurance.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FOREIGN OIL DEPENDENCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
status of United States dependence on foreign oil, after receiving testimony
from William A. Reinsch, Under Secretary of Commerce for Export
Administration; Joshua Gotbaum, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Economic
Security; Susan S. Tierney, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Policy; Donald
Hodel, Summit Group International, Ltd., Silverthorne, Colorado; T. Boone
Pickens, MESA, Inc., Dallas, Texas; John H. Lichtblau, Petroleum Industry
Research Foundation, Inc., New York, New York; and Denise A. Bode, Independent
Petroleum Association of America, Washington, D.C.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1995/03/28
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 28, 1995; pages D423 - D432
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--ARMY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of the Army,
receiving testimony from Togo D. West, Jr., Secretary of the Army; and Gen.
Gordon R. Sullivan, Chief of Army Staff.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 4.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE/AFRICA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for foreign assistance
programs, focusing on Africa humanitarian and refugee issues, receiving
testimony from George E. Moose, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, and
Phyllis E. Oakley, Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees and Migration,
both of the Department of State; and John S. Hicks, Assistant Administrator,
Bureau for Africa, Agency for International Development.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Acquisition and Technology held
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for
the Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on
the defense technology and industrial base policy, receiving testimony from
Joshua Gotbaum, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Economic Security; Thomas
W. Rabaut, United Defense, Arlington, Virginia; Don Fuqua, Aerospace
Industries Association, Washington, D.C.; and Jacques Gansler, Analytic
Sciences Corporation, Alexandria, Virginia.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 30.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces held hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for the Department
of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on United States
ballistic missile defense requirements and programs, receiving testimony from
Vice Adm. T.J. Lopez, USN, Deputy CNO, Resources, Warfare Requirements and
Assessments; Rear Adm. J.T. Hood, USN, Program Executive Officer, Theater Air
Defense; Lt. Gen. Jay M. Garner, USA, Commanding General, U.S. Army Space and
Strategic Defense Command; and A.Q. Oldacre, Deputy Program Executive Officer
for Missile Defense, Department of the Army.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--TIED AID/EXPORT-IMPORT BANK
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for the Export-Import Bank of the United States' Tied Aid Credit
Program, focusing on United States efforts to counter competitors' tied aid
practices, after receiving testimony from Kenneth D. Brody, President and
Chairman, Export-Import Bank of the United States; William E. Barreda, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Trade and Investment Policy; JayEtta
Z. Hecker, Director, International Trade, Finance, and Competitiveness,
General Government Division, General Accounting Office; Peggy A. Houlihan,
Coalition for Employment Through Exports, Washington, D.C.; and Peter A. Bowe,
Ellicott Machine Corporation International, Baltimore, Maryland.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported the following business items:
The nomination of Thomas Hill Moore, of Florida, to be a Commissioner of the
Consumer Product Safety Commission;
S. 288, to abolish the Board of Review of the Metropolitan Washington Airports
Authority, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
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S. 625, to amend the Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992.
AGRICULTURE SECRETARY-DESIGNATE/FUTURE OF THE FOREST SERVICE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
discuss the future of the Forest Service with regard to the nomination of
Daniel R. Glickman, of Kansas, to be Secretary of Agriculture, after receiving
testimony from the nominee.
CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine proposals to improve
the effectiveness and efficiency of child support enforcement programs,
receiving testimony from Margaret Campbell Haynes, American Bar Association,
Washington, D.C., on behalf of the U.S. Commission on Interstate Child
Support; Leslie L. Frye, California Department of Social Services, Sacramento;
Bill L. Harrington, Kelleher Law Offices, Seattle, Washington, on behalf of
the American Fathers Coalition; Michael R. Henry, Virginia Department of
Social Services, Richmond; Geraldine Jensen, Association for Children for
Enforcement of Support, Inc., Toledo, Ohio; and Marilyn Ray Smith,
Massachusetts Department of Revenue, Cambridge.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ASSISTANCE TO EUROPE AND NEW INDEPENDENT STATES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs concluded
hearings to examine the status of United States assistance to Europe and the
New Independent States of the former Soviet Union, after receiving testimony
from Thomas A. Dine, Assistant Administrator for Europe and the New
Independent States, United States Agency for International Development; and
Thomas W. Simons, Jr., Coordinator for U.S. Assistance to the New Independent
States, and Ralph R. Johnson, Coordinator for East European Assistance,
European and Canadian Affair Bureau, both of the Department of State.
PENTAGON TRAVEL PROCESSING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management and the District of Columbia held oversight hearings to examine
initiatives to reduce the cost of Pentagon travel processing, receiving
testimony from Jack L. Brock, Jr., Director, Information Resources
Management/National Security and International Affairs Group, Accounting and
Information Management Division, and Carol Langelier, Evaluator, both of the
General Accounting Office; John J. Hamre, Under Secretary of Defense
(Comptroller); James J. Devine, Deputy Director for Support Services, National
Security Agency; George Scarfo, American Express Travel Management Services,
Phoenix, Arizona; and Matthew W. Appel, Tenneco, Inc., Houston, Texas.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Maxine M. Chesney, to be United States District Judge for the Northern
District of California; Curtis L. Collier, to be United States District Judge
for the Eastern District of Tennessee; Eldon E. Fallon, to be United States
District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Joseph Robert Goodwin,
to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia;
and Susan Y. Illston, to be United States District Judge for the Northern
District of California, after the nominees testified and answered questions in
their own behalf. Ms. Chesney was introduced by Senator Feinstein, Mr. Collier
was introduced by Senators Frist and Thompson and Representative Wamp, Mr.
Fallon was introduced by Senator Breaux, Mr. Goodwin was introduced by
Senators Byrd and Rockefeller, and Ms. Illston was introduced by Senator
Boxer.
HABEAS CORPUS REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation to reform Federal habeas corpus procedures, focusing on
eliminating prisoners' abuse of the judicial process, including related
provisions of S. 623 and S. 3, after receiving testimony from Nicholas deB.
Katzenbach, former Attorney General of the United States; California Attorney
General Daniel E. Lungren, Sacramento; Texas Attorney General Dan Morales,
Austin; Colorado Attorney General Gale A. Norton, Denver; Nebraska Attorney
General Don Stenberg, Lincoln; Lee Chancellor, Citizens for Law and Order,
Inc., Oakland, California; and Douglas G. Robinson, Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom, Washington, D.C.
HEALTH CARE LIABILITY
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 454, to
reform the health care liability system and improve health care quality
through the establishment of quality assurance programs, receiving testimony
from Senators McConnell and Lieberman; Nancy W. Dickey, Fort Bend Family
Health Center, Richmond, Texas, on behalf of the American Medical Association;
Thomas Scully, Federation of American Health Systems, Washington, D.C., on
behalf of the Health Care Liability Alliance; Laura Wittkin, National Center
for Patients' Rights, New York, New York; and Lynne Lindenthal and Luke
Lindenthal, both of Mercer County, New Jersey.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1995/03/29
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 29, 1995; pages D434 - D444
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1996 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Michael R. Taylor, Acting Under
Secretary for Food Safety; Patricia Jensen, Acting Assistant Secretary for
Marketing and Regulatory Programs; Lonnie J. King, Acting Administrator,
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; Lon Hatamiya, Administrator,
Agricultural Marketing Service; and James R. Baker, Administrator, Grain
Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, all of the Department of
Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 5.
APPROPRIATIONS--JUDICIARY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and
Judiciary (and Related Agencies) held hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1996 for the Judiciary, the Administrative Office of the
Courts, and the Judicial Conference of the United States, receiving testimony
from Judge Richard S. Arnold, Chairman, Budget Committee, Judicial Conference
of the United States.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 5.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 1,361
routine military nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the Air
Force.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland Forces resumed hearings
on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for the
Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on
tactical aviation issues, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. Harold W. Blot,
USMC, Deputy Chief of Marine Corps Staff for Aviation; Maj. Gen. George K.
Mueliner, USAF, Director, Joint Advanced Strike Technology Program; Rear Adm.
Brent M. Bennitt, USN, Director, Air Warfare Division, Office of the Chief of
Naval Operations; and Brig. Gen. David J. McCloud, USAF, Director of
Operational Requirements, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and
Operations.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
HUD REORGANIZATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing
Opportunity and Community Development and the Subcommittee on HUD Oversight
and Structure concluded joint hearings on proposals to reorganize the
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), focusing on policy reform
issues, including national policies to assist cities and communities, after
receiving testimony from Henry G. Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development; Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, Indianapolis, Indiana; Mayor Bret
Schundler, Jersey City, New Jersey; and Mayor Dennis W. Archer, Detroit,
Michigan.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills:
S. 333, to direct the Secretary of Energy to institute certain procedures in
the performance of risk assessments in connection with environmental
restoration activities, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 523, to authorize additional funds to carry out the salinity control
program of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act, with an amendment in
the nature of a substitute;
H.R. 101, to transfer a parcel of land to the Taos Pueblo Indians of New
Mexico;
S. 197, to establish the Carl Garner Federal Lands Cleanup Day, with an
amendment;
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S. 357, to establish the Friends of Kaloko-Honokohau, an advisory commission
for the Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park in Hawaii;
S. 363, to improve water quality within the Rio Puerco watershed and to
restore the ecological health of the Rio Grande through the cooperative
identification and implementation of best management practices which are
consistent with the ecological, geological, cultural, sociological, and
economic conditions in the region;
S. 378, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to exchange certain lands
of the Columbia Basin Federal reclamation project in the State of Washington;
S. 392, to amend the Dayton Aviation Heritage Preservation Act of 1992 with
regard to the appointment of members of the Dayton Aviation Heritage
Commission;
S. 551, to revise the boundaries of the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument
and the Craters of the Moon National Monument;
S. 587, to designate the Old Spanish Trail and the Northern Branch of the Old
Spanish Trail for potential inclusion into the National Trails System;
S. 610, to provide for an interpretive center at the Civil War Battlefield of
Corinth, Mississippi;
S. 601, to revise the boundaries of the Blackstone River Valley National
Heritage Corridor in Massachusetts and Rhode Island;
H.R. 536, to prohibit the use of Highway 209 within the Delaware Water Gap
National Recreation Area by certain commercial vehicles;
H.R. 694, to make minor boundary adjustments to units of the National Park
System and other miscellaneous changes involving programs and functions of the
National Park Service, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
H.J. Res. 50, to designate the visitors center at the Channel Islands National
Park, California, as the "Robert J. Lagomarsino Visitors Center".
Also, committee approved their fiscal year 1996 budgetary views and estimates
on programs which fall under the jurisdiction of the committee which they will
make to the Committee on the Budget.
SUPERFUND REFORM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste
Control, and Risk Assessment resumed oversight hearings on the implementation
of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
(P.L. 102-426), focusing on Superfund program provisions, receiving testimony
from Barry L. Johnson, Assistant Administrator, Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry (Atlanta, Georgia), Public Health Service, Department of
Health and Human Services; Martin Yee, White Spur Dry Cleaners, El Paso,
Texas, on behalf of the Small Business Fabric Care Superfund Coalition;
Timothy C. Duffy, Rhode Island Association of School Committees, Warwick;
Richard L. Bunn, UGI Utilities, Inc., Reading, Pennsylvania; James A.
Goodrich, San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority, Covina, California; John
F. Spisak, Industrial Compliance, Inc., Lakewood, Colorado; Ronald W. Cattany,
Colorado Department of Natural Resources, Denver; Pat Murphy, Concerned
Citizens of Triumph, Hailey, Idaho; and Rose Augustine, Tucson, Arizona, on
behalf of the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice, and
the Washington Office on Environmental Justice.
Hearings will continue on Wednesday, April 5.
WELFARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on proposals to reform the
national welfare system, after receiving testimony from Robert B. Carleson,
Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, San Diego, California; Kate
Michelman, National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, Penny L.
Young, Concerned Women for America, John L. Carr, United States Catholic
Bishops Conference, Peter J. Ferrara, National Center for Policy Analysis, and
David S. Liederman, Child Welfare League of America, Inc., all of Washington,
D.C.; Sister Mary Rose McGeady, Covenant House, and Audrey Rowe, National
Urban League, Inc., both of New York, New York; Rev. Donald L. Roberts,
Goodwill Industries-Manasota, Inc., Sarasota, Florida; Merrill J. Bateman,
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah; Terry L.
Cross, National Indian Child Welfare Association, Portland, Oregon; and Gwen
Daye Richardson, Minority Mainstream, Houston, Texas.
START II TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on the Treaty
Between the United States and the Russian Federation on Further Reduction and
Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START II Treaty) signed at Moscow on
January 3, 1993, 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 Sven Kraemer, Global 2000, Stephen J. Hadley, Shea &
Gardner, Michael Krepon, Henry L. Stimson Center, and Jack Mendelsohn, Arms
Control Association, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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NEW ZEALAND ECONOMY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
concluded hearings to examine recent developments in the economic situation in
New Zealand, focusing on the effects of United States and foreign investment
in New Zealand, after receiving testimony from Sandra O'Leary, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs; Alexander
Good, Bell Atlantic International, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Paul Cushman
III, Riggs National Bank, and Paul M. Cleveland, United States-New Zealand
Council, both of Washington, D.C.; and Donald G. Jones, Cyberstar, Fond du
Lac, Wisconsin.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items:
S. 141, to repeal the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 to provide new job
opportunities, effect significant cost savings on Federal construction
contracts, promote small business participation in Federal contracting, and
reduce unnecessary paperwork and reporting requirements, with an amendment;
S. 555, to consolidate and authorize funds for health professions and minority
and disadvantaged health education programs, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute;
S. 641, authorizing funds for programs of the Ryan White Care Act;
S. 184, to establish an Office for Rare Disease Research within the National
Institutes of Health of the Department of Health and Human Services; and
The nominations of Kenneth Byron Hipp, of Hawaii, to be a Member of the
National Mediation Board; Yerker Andersson of Maryland, John A. Gannon of
Ohio, Audrey L. McCrimon of Illinois, Lilliam Rangel Pollo of Florida, Debra
Robinson of Pennsylvania, Rae E. Unzicker of North Dakota, and Ela Yazzie-King
of Arizona, each to be a Member of the National Council on Disability; Robert
G. Breunig of Arizona, Kinshasha Holman Conwill of New York, Charles Hummel of
Delaware, Ayse Manyas Kenmore of Florida, Nancy Marsiglia of Louisiana, Arthur
Rosenblatt of New York, Ruth Y. Tamura of Hawaii, Townsend Wolfe of Arkansas,
Phillip Frost of Florida, and John L. Bryant, Jr. of the District of Columbia,
each to be a Member of the National Museum Services Board of the National
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities; E. Gordon Gee of Ohio, Joseph E.
Stevens, Jr. of Missouri, and Steven L. Zinter of South Dakota, each to be a
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation;
Peggy Goldwater Clay of California, Lt. Gen. William W. Quinn, USA (Ret.),
Lynda Hare Scribante of Nebraska, and Niranjan Shamalbhai Shah of Illinois,
each to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Barry Goldwater
Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation; Sanford D. Greenberg of
the District of Columbia, Eve L. Menger of New York, Claudia Mitchell-Kernan
of California, Diana S. Natalicio of Texas, Robert M. Solow of Massachusetts,
Warren M. Washington of Colorado, and John A. White, Jr. of Georgia, each to
be a Member of the National Science Board of the National Science Foundation;
Jerome F. Kever of Illinois and Virgil M. Speakman of Ohio, each to be a
Member of the Railroad Retirement Board; Marciene S. Mattleman of
Pennsylvania, to be a Member of the National Institute for Literacy Advisory
Board; and Joan Challinor of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills:
S. 325, to make certain technical corrections in laws relative to Native
Americans;
S. 441, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1997 for programs of the Indian
Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Act;
S. 349, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1997 for the Navajo-Hopi
Relocation Housing Program;
S. 510, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1999 for the Native American
Social and Economic Development Strategies Grant Program administered by the
Administration for Native Americans, Department of Health and Human Services,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
Also, committee approved their fiscal year 1996 budgetary views and estimates
on programs which fall under the jurisdiction of the committee which they will
make to the Committee on the Budget.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee recessed subject to call.
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Joint Meetings
SELF-EMPLOYED HEALTH INSURANCE TAX CREDIT
Conferees on Tuesday, March 28, agreed to file a conference report on the
differences between the Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 831, to
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the deduction
for the health insurance costs of self-employed individuals, and to repeal the
provisions permitting nonrecognition of gain on sales and exchanges
effectuating policies of the Federal Communications Commission.
EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 889, making emergency supplemental appropriations and
rescissions to preserve and enhance the military readiness of the Department
of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, but did not complete
action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
1995/03/30
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 30, 1995; pages D445 - D452
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel resumed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for the Department
of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on Reserve component
programs, receiving testimony from Deborah R. Lee, Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Regional Affairs; Maj. Gen. Donald W. Shepperd, USAF, Director,
Air National Guard; Maj. Gen. Max Baratz, USA, Chief, Army Reserve; Maj. Gen.
John R. D'Araujo, USA, Director, Army National Guard; Lt. Gen. Edward D. Baca,
USA, Chief, National Guard Bureau; Rear Adm. Thomas F. Hall, USN, Chief, Naval
Reserve; Rear Adm. Richard M. Larrabeo, USCG, Chief, Office of Readiness and
Reserve, Coast Guard; Maj. Gen. Robert A. McIntosh, USAF, Chief, United States
Air Force Reserve; Brig. Gen. Ronald G. Richard, USMC, Assistant Deputy Chief
of Marine Corps Staff for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; Maj. Gen. Roger W.
Sandler, USA (Ret.), Reserve Officers Association of the United States, Maj.
Gen. Robert F. Ensslin, USA (Ret.), National Guard Association of the United
States, and Maj. Gen. Ansell M. Stroud, Jr., ARNGR, Adjutants General
Association of the United States, all of Washington, D.C.; Col. Bradley T.
MacDonald, USMC, Marine Corps Reserve Officers Association, and Rear Adm.
Philip W. Smith, USNR (Ret.), Naval Reserve Association, both of Alexandria,
Virginia; and Master Sgt. Michael P. Cline, USA (Ret.), Enlisted Association
of the National Guard of the United States, Subcommittee will meet again on
Wednesday, April 5.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Acquisition and Technology
resumed open and closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1996 for the Department of Defense and the future years defense
program, focusing on the Counterproliferation Support Program, receiving
testimony from William B. Shuler, Deputy Assistant D447Secretary for
Counterproliferation, Office of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for
Atomic Energy; G. William Heiser, Director, Military Assistance and Response,
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Capt. Ronald D. Gumbert,
USN, Assistant Deputy Director for Strategy and Policy, Office of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff; and Gordon Oehler, Director, Non-Proliferation Center,
Central Intelligence Agency.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 6.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded oversight hearings on activities of the Office
of Science and Technology Policy and the proposed fiscal year 1996 budget for
the National Science Foundation, after receiving testimony from John H.
Gibbons, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy; Neal F. Lane,
Director, National Science Foundation; Robert Swenson, Montana State
University, Bozeman; Royce Engstrom, University of South Dakota, Vermillion;
John Saunby, Union Carbide Technical Center, Salem, South Carolina; and Joseph
Danek, EPSCOR Foundation, Washington, D.C.
MINING LAW REFORM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and Public
Land Management held hearings on S. 504, to modify the requirements applicable
to locatable minerals on public domain lands, consistent with the principles
of self-initiation of mining claims, and S. 506, to provide a reasonable
royalty from mineral activities on Federal lands, to specify reclamation
requirements for mineral activities on Federal lands, and to create a State
program for the reclamation of abandoned hard rock mining sites on Federal
lands, receiving testimony from John D. Leshy, Solicitor, Department of the
Interior; Jim Carter, Utah Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining, Salt Lake City;
Dino DiCianno, Nevada Department of Taxation, Carson City; Douglas C. Yearley,
Phelps Dodge Corporation, Phoenix, Arizona, on behalf of the Mineral Resources
Alliance and the National Mining Association; Steven C. Borell, Alaska Miners
Association, Anchorage; Lois VanHoover, Alliance of Independent Miners, Boise,
Idaho; Lynne Stone, Boulder-White Clouds Council, Ketchum, Idaho; Ed Whitelaw,
University of Oregon, Eugene; and Philip M. Hocker, Mineral Policy Center,
Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Transportation and
Infrastructure resumed hearings on S. 440, to provide for the designation of
the National Highway System, focusing on the use of crumb rubber in asphalt
pavement and the diversion of funds to State safety programs for States
without motorcycle helmet and safety belt use laws, receiving testimony from
Senators Lautenberg, Campbell, Nickles, and Snowe; Mark L. Rosenberg,
Director, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, Georgia), Department of Health and
Human Services; Rhode Island State Senator William Enos, Tiverton; New
Hampshire State Representative Sherman Packard, Londonderry; Illinois State
Senator John Cullerton, Chicago; Marshall Moore, North Dakota Department of
Transportation, Bismarck; Frank Carlile, Florida Department of Transportation,
Tallahassee; Gary Sauer, Maple Grove, Minnesota, on behalf of the National
Asphalt Pavement Association; and Jed Billings, FNF Construction, Inc., Tempe,
Arizona.
Hearings continue on Thursday, April 6.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS REORGANIZATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on proposals to
reorganize and revitalize American foreign affairs institutions, focusing on
alternatives to the Agency for International Development, receiving testimony
from Linda F. Powers, ENRON Development Corporation, Houston, Texas; John D.
Kasarda, Kenan Institute for Private Enterprise, Chapel Hill, North Carolina;
and John W. Sewell, Overseas Development Council, Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS REORGANIZATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Operations held
hearings on proposals to reorganize and revitalize American foreign affairs
institutions, receiving testimony from Richard M. Moose, Under Secretary of
State for Management; John D. Holum, Director, United States Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency; Joseph D. Duffey, Director, United States Information
Agency; J. Brian Atwood, Administrator, Agency for International Development;
Jeffrey E. Garten, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade; Robert
M. Kimmitt, Lehman Brothers, and John Rhinelander, Shaw, Pittman, Potts and
Trowbridge, both of Washington, D.C.; and William Schneider, Jr.,
International Planning Services, Inc., Arlington, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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GAO
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings on the
roles, mission, and operation of the General Accounting Office and its future
direction, receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of
the United States, and James F. Hinchman, Special Assistant to the Comptroller
General, both of the General Accounting Office; and R. Scott Fosler, Alan K.
Campbell, and Annmarie Walsh, all of the National Academy of Public
Administration, Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
STUDENT LOAN PROGRAM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities concluded oversight hearings on the implementation and
administration of the Federal Direct Student Loan Program, focusing on the
loan disbursement process, including collection and servicing issues, after
receiving testimony from Madeleine Kunin, Deputy Secretary, Steven A.
McNamara, Assistant Inspector General for Audit, and Leo Kornfeld, Senior
Advisor to the Secretary, all of the Department of Education; Cornelia M.
Blanchette, Associate Director, Education and Employment Issues, Health,
Education, and Human Services Division, General Accounting Office; Lynn M.
Fawthrop, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island, on behalf of the
Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance; Rudolph G. Penner, KPMG
Peat Marwick, Washington, D.C.; Larry M. Tait, Florida A&M University,
Tallahassee; James A. Belvin, Jr., Duke University, Durham, North Carolina;
Joseph A. Russo, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana; Donald M.
Honeman, University of Vermont, Burlington; and Earl E. Dowling, Iowa State
University, Ames.
SENATE FLOOR PRESS BRIEFINGS
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. Res. 24, providing for the
broadcasting of press briefings on the floor prior to the Senate's daily
convening.
Joint Meetings
VETERANS PROGRAMS
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint hearings
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs on the legislative
recommendations of certain veterans programs, after receiving testimony from
Ray H. Fuller, Veterans of World War I; Carl E. Foley, Blinded Veterans of
America; Charles S. Prigmore, American Ex-Prisoners of War; James L. Brazee,
Jr., Vietnam Veterans of America; and John C. Loberg, Military Order of the
Purple Heart, all of Washington, D.C.; and Arthur W. Klingel, Jr., AMVETS,
Lanham, Maryland.
1995/03/31
Daily Digest - Friday, March 31, 1995; pages D454 - D460
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1995 FARM BILL--AGRICULTURAL CREDIT
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
on proposed legislation to strengthen and improve United States agricultural
D455programs, focusing on current and future credit concerns of rural America
and the Farmers Home Administration's management of its direct and guaranteed
farm loan programs and of farm properties obtained as a result of defaults on
Federal loans, receiving testimony from Eugene Moos, Under Secretary for Farm
and Foreign Agricultural Services; Maureen Kennedy, Administrator, Rural
Housing and Community Development Division; Grant B. Buntrock, Acting
Administrator, Consolidated Farm Services Agency; and Lou Anne Kling, Deputy
Administrator for Farm Credit, all of the Department of Agriculture; John W.
Harman, Director, Food and Agriculture Issues, Resources, Community, and
Economic Development Division, and Andrew Finkel and Robert Robertson, both
Evaluators, all of the General Accounting Office; Jerold L. Harris, Farm
Credit Bank of Wichita, Wichita, Kansas; Darcy L. Myers, Norwest Bank, Denver,
Colorado, on behalf of the American Bankers Association; Mark Drabenstott,
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri; John R. Price,
Chemical Bank, New York, New York; Eric P. Thor, Arizona State University,
Tempe; and Nancy L. Thompson, Center for Rural Affairs, Walthill, Nebraska.
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Committee will meet again on Tuesday, April 4.
APPROPRIATIONS--VA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the
Department of Veterans Affairs, receiving testimony from Jesse Brown,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs; and Russell Mank, Paralyzed Veterans of
America, Rick Surratt, Disabled American Veterans, James Magill, Veterans of
Foreign Wars, and Carroll Williams, American Legion, all of Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 5.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/04/03
Daily Digest - Monday, April 3, 1995; pages D462 - D468
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--IRS/OPM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1996, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Margaret Richardson, Commissioner, and Larry Westfall, Director, Office
of Tax Systems Modernization, both of the Internal Revenue Service; and James
King, Director, Office of Personnel Management.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 4.
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on the nuclear weapons implications of the Administration's proposal
to close Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, receiving testimony from Vic
Reis, Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs, and Al Narath and Bruce
Twining, both of Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, New Mexico), all
of the Department of Energy; and Maj. Gen. Kenneth L. Hagemann, USAF,
Director, Defense Nuclear Agency, Department of Defense.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
PRODUCT LIABILITY FAIRNESS ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Consumer
Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and Tourism held hearings on S. 565, to regulate
interstate commerce by providing for a uniform product liability law,
receiving testimony from Senators Lieberman and Boxer; Illinois State Senator
Kirk Dillard, Springfield, on behalf of the American Legislative Exchange
Council; Rhode Island State Representative Jeffrey Teitz, Providence, on
behalf of the National Conference of State Legislators; Stanley G. Feldman,
Chief justice, Arizona State Supreme Court, Phoenix, on behalf of the
Conference of Chief Justices; and James L. Martin, National Governors
Association, William Fry, HALT, Robert Hunter, Consumer Federation of America,
Victor E. Scwartz, Crowell and Moring, on behalf of the Product Liability
Coordinating Committee, and Larry Stewart, Association of the Trial Lawyers of
America, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings continue tomorrow.D464
RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION TAX CREDIT
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Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight held hearings
to examine whether the research and experimentation tax credit (enacted in
1981) should be made a permanent part of the Tax Code, restructured, or
allowed to expire after the current June 30, 1995, expiration date, receiving
testimony from Natwar M. Gandhi, Associate Director, Tax Polity and
Administration Issues, General Government Division, General Accounting Office;
Linden C. Smith, KPMG Peat Marwick LLP, Martin A. Sullivan, American
Enterprise Institute, and Donald C. Alexander, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and
Feld, on behalf of the Pharmaceutical Research Manufacturers Association, all
of Washington, D.C.; Paul Cherecwich, Jr., Thiokol Corporation, Ogden, Utah,
on behalf of the Aerospace Industries Association; Marty Glick, Genentech,
Inc., San Francisco, California, on behalf of the R&D/Section 861 Coalition;
Robert S. Gregg, Sequent Computer Systems, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon, on behalf
of the American Electronics Association; and Cliff Simpson, Novell, Inc., Salt
Lake City, Utah, on behalf of the Working Group on Research and Development.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
Commission on Security and Cooperation on Europe: Commission met in closed
session to receive a briefing on recent developments in Croatia, and Bosnia
and Herzegovina.
Commission will meet again tomorrow.
1995/04/04
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 4, 1995; pages D470 - D478
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1995 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
on proposed legislation to strengthen and improve United States agricultural
programs, focusing on the market effects of Federal farm policy, receiving
testimony from Senators Feingold and Kohl; Bob Bergland, Roseau, Minnesota,
former Secretary of Agriculture; Mark Feight, Smith Barney, Inc., Southfield,
Michigan; David C. Lyons, Louis Dreyfus Corporation, Washington, D.C.; Martin
E. Abel, Abel, Daft, Earley & Ward International, Alexandria, Virginia; Robert
D. Wellington, Agri-Mark, Inc., Lawrence, Massachusetts; Robert Amstrup,
Northwood, North Dakota; and Blake Hurst, Westboro, Missouri.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on Air Force programs, receiving testimony from Sheila E. Widnall, Secretary
of the Air Force; and Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman, Chief of Air Force Staff.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 6.
EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education (and Related Agencies) held hearings to examine the role of
technology in the American school system, receiving testimony from Madeleine
Kunin, Deputy Secretary, Sharon P. Robinson, Assistant Secretary for
Educational Research and Improvement, and Linda Roberts, Special Advisor for
Education Technology, all of the Department of Education; Linda Morra,
Director, Education and Employment Issues, General Accounting Office; Kathleen
Fulton, Project Director, Office of Technology Assessment; Mississippi State
Superintendent of Education Tom Burnham, Jackson; Jeanne Hayes, Quality
Education Data, Denver, Colorado; Ann Miller, Eastman Kodak, Rochester, New
York; Margaret G. Kelly, International Society for Technology in Education,
San Marcos, California; Joan Miller, West Sylvan Middle School, Portland,
Oregon; Beryl Jackson, PBS Mathline, Alexandria, Virginia; Gary Vance,
Satellite Education Resources Consortium, Columbia, South Carolina; Walt
Hindenlang and Ben Casados, both of the Hughes Electronics Galaxy Institute
for Education, El Segundo, California; Carolyn Reid-Wallace, Corporation for
Public Broadcasting, Washington, D.C.; and Joy Rouse, Parkway School District,
St. Louis County, Missouri.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, April 28.
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 Department of Energy
national security issues, receiving testimony from Hazel R. O'Leary, Secretary
of Energy.
Committee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower held hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for the Department
of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on surface
shipbuilding programs and the Department of the Navy's plans for modernization
and recapitalization, receiving testimony from Nora Slatkin, Assistant
Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition; and Vice Adm.
T.J. Lopez, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Resources, Warfare
Requirements and Assessments.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
PRODUCT LIABILITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Consumer
Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and Tourism concluded hearings on S. 565, to
regulate interstate commerce by providing for a uniform product liability law,
after receiving testimony from Representatives Mink and Bilbray; Alabama State
Representative Steve Flowers, Troy; Phyllis Greenberger, Society for the
Advancement of Women Health Research, Helen Kirsch, Reed, Smith, Shaw &
McClay, representing the Coalition for Uniform Product Liability Law, Theodore
B. Olsen, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, David Weiner, American Bar Association, and
Jonathan Massey, all of Washington, D.C.; Lucinda Finley, University of
Buffalo School of Law, Buffalo, New York; Gail Armstrong, National Breast
Implant Coalition, Dallas, Texas; M. Stuart Madden, Pace University School of
Law, White Plains, New York; Art Kroetch, Scotchman Industries, Inc., Phillip,
South Dakota, representing the Association for Manufacturing Technology; Pete
Van DePutte, Jr., Dixie Flag Company, San Antonio, Texas; Stephen Daniels,
American Bar Foundation, Chicago, Illinois; and Peggy Phillips, Falls Church,
Virginia.
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NOMINATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nomination of Shirley Ann Jackson, of New Jersey, to be a Member
of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
TRADE POLICY AGENDA
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to review the Administration's
1995 trade agenda and the 1994 Annual Report of the President of the United
States on the Trade Agreements Program, receiving testimony from Michael
Kantor, United States Trade Representative.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
WESTERN HEMISPHERE DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace
Corps Affairs held hearings to examine Western Hemisphere drug control
strategy issues, receiving testimony from Robert S. Gelbard, Assistant
Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs;
Stephen H. Greene, Deputy Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration,
Department of Justice; Brian E. Sheridan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Drug Enforcement Policy and Support; and John P. Walters, New
Citizenship Project, and William J. Olson, National Strategy Information
Center, both of Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine tax
refund fraud, focusing on the earned income tax credit and the Internal
Revenue Service's efforts to detect and prevent erroneous claims, receiving
testimony from Margaret Milner Richardson, Commissioner, Internal Revenue
Service, Department of the Treasury; Lynda D. Willis, Associate Director, Tax
Policy and Administration Issues, General Government Division, General
Accounting Office; Finn M.W. Caspersen, Beneficial Corporation, Peapack, New
Jersey; Daniel B. Grunberg, Jackson Hewitt Tax Service, Virginia Beach,
Virginia; Daniel A. Stein, Federation for American Immigration Reform,
Washington, D.C.; and Richard M. Hersch, West Palm Beach, Florida.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
CIVIL JUSTICE REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 671, to provide
a fair and balanced resolution to the problem of multiple imposition of
punitive damages, after receiving testimony from George L. Priest, Yale
University Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; Theodore B. Olson, Gibson, Dunn
& Crutcher, on behalf of the American Civil Justice Reform Group, and Victor
E. Schwartz, Crowell & Moring, on behalf of the American Tort Reform
Association, both of Washington, D.C.; and Stephen Daniels, American Bar
Foundation, and Robert Creamer, Citizen Action, both of Chicago, Illinois.
SBA'S 8(A) PROGRAM
Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings to examine Federal
policies governing small, disadvantaged businesses and the success and
problems associated with the Small Business Administration's 8(a) Minority
Business Development Program, receiving testimony from Philip Lader,
Administrator, Small Business Administration; Judy England-Joseph, Director,
Housing and Community Development Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic
Development Division, General Accounting Office; R. Noel Longuemare, Principal
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisitions and Technology; Steven
Sims, National Minority Suppliers Development Council, and Arnold J.
O'Donnell, O'Donnell Construction Company, on behalf of the Association of
General Contractors; James B. Graham, FaxLand Corporation, Falls Church,
Virginia; Santos F. Garza, Counter Technology, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland; Peter
Homer, Jr., Systems Integration and Research, Inc., Arlington, Virginia, on
behalf of the National Indian Business Association; Nancy E. Archuleta,
Mevatec Corporation, Huntsville, Alabama, on behalf of the Latin American
Management Association and the Council on Minority and Women-Owned Businesses;
and Joshua I. Smith, MAXIMA Corporation, Lanham, Maryland.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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Joint Meetings
EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Conferees continued to resolve the differences between the Senate-and
House-passed versions of H.R. 889, making emergency supplemental
appropriations and rescissions to preserve and enhance the military readiness
of the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995,
but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
GENOCIDE IN BOSNIA
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission):
Commission held hearings to examine the extent to which ethnic cleansing,
destruction of cultural sites, and associated war crimes in Bosnia and
Herzegovina and other parts of the former Yugoslavia constitute genocide,
receiving testimony from M. Cherif Bassiouni, DePaul University, Chicago,
Illinois; Andras J. Riedlmayer, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts;
Roy Gutman, Newsday, Alexandria, Virginia; and David Rieff, New York, New
York.
Commission will meet again on Thursday, April 6.
1995/04/05
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 5, 1995; pages D480 - D488
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--NASA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, D481receiving testimony from
Daniel S. Goldin, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 3.
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1996 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Floyd P. Horn, Acting Under
Secretary, Research, Education, and Economics; R. D. Plowman, Administrator,
Agricultural Research Service; William Carlson, Acting Administrator,
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, John C. Dunmore,
Acting Administrator, Economic Research Service; Donald Bay, Administrator,
National Agricultural Statistics Service; and Michael L. Young, Director,
Budget Control and Analysis Division, all of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 26.
APPROPRIATIONS--INS/BUREAU OF PRISONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary held hearing on proposed budget estimates for the Department of
Justice, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Doris Meissner, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization
Service, and Kathleen Hawk, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, both of the
Department of Justice.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--FAA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the Federal Aviation
Administration, receiving testimony from David Russell Hinson, Administrator,
Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 27.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel 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 Department of
Defense Quality of Life Programs, receiving testimony from Frederick F.Y.
Pang, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management Policy; Gen. John H.
Tilelli, Jr., USA, Vice Chief of Army Staff; Adm. Stanley R. Arthur, USN, Vice
Chief of Naval Operations; Lt. Gen. Billy J. Boles, USAF, Vice Commander, Air
Education and Training Command, U.S. Air Force; Gen. Richard D. Hearney, USMC,
Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps; and Col. Paul W. Aracari, USAF
(Ret.), and Lt. Commander Virginia M. Torsch, USNR, both of The Retired
Officers Association, Sgt. Maj. Michael F. Quellette, USA (Ret.), The
Non-Commissioned Officers Association, and Sydney T. Hickey, National Military
Family Association, all of Alexandria, Virginia.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NATO
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland Forces held hearings on
the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), receiving
testimony from Walter B. Slocombe, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Lt.
Gen. Wesley K. Clark, USA, Director for Strategic Plans and Policy (J-5),
Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Richard Holbrooke, Assistant
Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL FOREST MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forest and Public
Land Management resumed oversight hearings to review Federal forest management
issues, focusing on the status of national forest plan revisions and the
Administration's development of ecoregion-based biological assessments,
receiving testimony from Jack Ward Thomas, Chief, Gray Reynolds, Deputy Chief,
National Forest System; Jim Perry, Office of General Counsel; Chris Risbrudt,
Acting Director, Ecosystem Management; Jeff Blackwood and Steven Mealey,
Directors, Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project; Forrest
Carpenter, Director, Southern Appalachian Assessment; and James Space,
Director, Sierra Nevada Assessment, all of the Forest Service, Department of
Agriculture; Mark Rasmussen, Timber Data Company, Eugene, Oregon; Michael
Anderson, Seattle, Washington, and Louis Blumberg, San Francisco, California,
both of The Wilderness Society; Jeff Kessler, Biodiversity Associates,
Laramie, Wyoming; James C. Geisinger, Northwest Forestry Association, and Rick
Brown, National Wildlife Federation, both of Portland, Oregon; Bill Snyder,
Fibreboard Corporation, Standard, California; Dave Van De Graaff, Boise
Cascade Corporation, Emmett, Idaho; Jack Swanner, T & S Hardwoods, Sylva,
North Carolina; and James E. Loesel, Southern Appalachia Forest Coalition,
Roanoke, Virginia.
Hearings will continue on Wednesday, April 26.
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SUPERFUND REFORM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste
Control, and Risk Assessment resumed oversight hearings on the implementation
of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
(P.L. 102-426), focusing on Superfund cleanup standards, receiving testimony
from Elliott P. Laws, Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste and
Emergency Response, Environmental Protection Agency; Curtis C. Travis, Oak
Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Steven J. Milloy, National
Environmental Policy Institute, and Linda E. Greer, Natural Resources Defense
Council, both of Washington, D.C.; Philip J. O'Brien, New Hampshire Department
of Environmental Services, Concord; Milton Russell, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville; Michael S. Parr, DuPont Company, Wilmington, Delaware, on behalf of
the Chemical Manufacturers Association; Richard A. Brown, Groundwater
Technology, Inc., Trenton, New Jersey, on behalf of the Biotechnology Industry
Organization and Groundwater Technology, Inc.; Robert W. Frantz, General
Electric Company, Fairfield, Connecticut; Paul A. Miskimin, Jacobs Engineering
Group Inc., Pasadena, California; and Marcia E. Williams, Williams and Vanino,
Inc., Los Angeles, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
TAX REFORM: FLAT TAX
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to discuss issues relating to
flat tax rate proposals, receiving testimony from Senators Mack and Shelby;
Alan J. Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley; Bruce Bartlett, National
Center for Policy Analysis, Alexandria, Virginia; and Joel B. Slemrod,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee continued hearings to examine tax
refund fraud, focusing on the earned income tax credit and the Internal
Revenue Service's efforts to detect and prevent erroneous claims, receiving
testimony from Senator Nickles; Leslie B. Samuels, Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Tax Policy; Ismael Gonzalez, New York, New York, former Special
Assistant United States Attorney; Deborah Walker, American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants, Marvin H. Kosters, American Enterprise
Institute, and Robert Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, all
of Washington, D.C.; George K. Yin, University of Virginia School of Law,
Charlottesville; John Karl Scholz, University of Wisconsin, Madison; and
Donald R. Huston, Dover, Delaware.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Maxine M. Chesney, to be United States District Judge for the
Northern District of California; Curtis L. Collier, to be United States
District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee; Eldon E. Fallon, to be
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Joseph
Robert Goodwin, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District
of West Virginia; and Joe Bradley Pigott, to be United States Attorney for the
Southern District of Mississippi.
Also, committee began markup of S. 343, to reform the Federal regulatory
process, but did not complete action thereon, and will continue tomorrow.
BASEBALL ANTITRUST REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and
Competition approved for full committee consideration S. 627, to require the
general application of the antitrust laws to major league baseball.
FDA
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to examine
activities of the Food and Drug Administration, focusing on the challenges and
opportunities facing the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and food
industries, and FDA's regulation of these industries, receiving testimony from
Charles C. Edwards, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, former
Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration; Mark Novitch, George Washington
University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., former Acting Commissioner, Food
and Drug Administration; Edward M. Scolnick, Merck and Company, Inc., West
Point, Pennsylvania; George B. Rathmann, ICOS Corporation, Bothell,
Washington; David M. Steinhaus, Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City,
Missouri; and Michael W. Pariza, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
INDIAN WELFARE
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to discuss
Federal funding to Indian tribal governments for welfare and social service
programs, after receiving testimony from Mary Jo Bane, Assistant Secretary for
Children and Families, and George F. Grob, Deputy Inspector General for
Evaluation and Inspections, both of the Department of Health and Human
Services; New Mexico State Representative Nick Salazar, Santa Fe; Bobby
Whitefeather, Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, D483Red Lake, Minnesota;
Beltrami County Commissioner Richard P. Florhaug, Bemidji, Minnesota; Harry D.
Early, All Indian Pueblo Council, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico; Mark Mercier,
Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, Grand Ronde, Oregon; Joan Rebar, Sac
and Fox Nation of Missouri, Reserve, Kansas, on behalf of the United Tribes of
Kansas and Southeast Nebraska and the Native American Family Services; Thomas
E. Atcitty, Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Arizona; and Merle Boyd, Sac and Fox
Nation, Stroud, Oklahoma.
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GUATEMALA
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held hearings to examine United
States policy in Guatemala, focusing on allegations of United States
involvement in the murders of two individuals in Guatemala, receiving
testimony from Alexander F. Watson, Assistant Secretary of State for
Inter-American Affairs; Adm. William O. Studeman, Acting Director of Central
Intelligence; Col. Allen C. Cornell, USA (Ret.), former United States Defense
Attache in Guatemala; and Carole DeVine and Jennifer Harbury, widows of slain
individuals.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/04/06
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 6, 1995; pages D490 - D500
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--NOAA/NIST
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary (and Related Agencies) held hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1996 for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, receiving testimony
from D. James Baker, Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, Mary Lowe
Good, Under Secretary for Technology, and Arati Prabhakar, Director, National
Institute of Standards and Technology, all of the Department of Commerce.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 26.
APPROPRIATIONS--NAVY/MARINE CORPS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for Navy and Marine Corps programs,
receiving testimony from John H. Dalton, Secretary of the Navy; Adm. Jeremy M.
Boorda, Chief of Naval Operations; and Gen. Carl E. Mundy, Jr., USMC,
Commandant.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 2.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Acquisition and Technology
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 implementation of acquisition management reform, receiving
testimony from Colleen Preston, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for
Acquisition Reform; Robert Murphy, General Counsel, General Accounting Office;
and Peter DeMayo, Lockheed-Martin Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
resumed hearings on proposals to reform the process of securities litigation,
including related provisions of S. 240 and H.R. 1058, receiving testimony from
Senator Mikulski; Arthur Levitt, Jr., Chairman, Richard C. Breeden, former
Chairman, and Charles Cox, former Commissioner and former Acting Chairman, all
of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported the following business items:
S. 565, to regulate interstate commerce by providing for a uniform product
liability law, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nomination of Charles Taylor Manatt, of the District of Columbia, to be a
Member of the Board of Directors of the Communications Satellite Corporation.
NATIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Transportation and
Infrastructure concluded hearings on S. 440, to providing for the designation
of the National Highway System, focusing on issues related to the Woodrow
Wilson Memorial Bridge and the innovative financing of transportation
facilities, after receiving testimony from Jane F. Garvey, Deputy
Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation;
Jack F. Herrity, Interstate Transportation Study Commission, Fairfax,
Virginia; Ann C. Stern, Financial Guaranty Insurance Corporation, New York,
New York; Ralph L. Stanley, United Infrastructure Company, Chicago, Illinois;
and Daniel V. Flanagan, Jr., Infrastructure Investment Commission, Arlington,
Virginia.
CONSUMER PRICE INDEX
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine the use of the
Consumer Price Index as an indicator of inflation and changes in the cost of
living, receiving testimony from Walter Erwin Diewert, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Dale W. Jorgenson, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; Ariel Pakes, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; and Joel
Popkin, Joel Popkin and Company, Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
REGULATORY REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee continued in evening session to mark up
S. 343, to reform the Federal regulatory process.
PROPERTY RIGHTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 605, to establish a
uniform and more efficient Federal process for protecting property owners'
rights guaranteed by the fifth amendment, receiving testimony from Senator
Gramm; John R. Schmidt, Associate Attorney General, Department of Justice;
Loren A. Smith, Chief Judge, United States Court of Federal Claims; Raymond B.
Ludwiszewski, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, former General Counsel, Environmental
Protection Agency, Nancie G. Marzulla, Defenders of Property Rights, and Roger
Marzulla, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, all of Washington, D.C.; Carol M.
Rose, Yale University Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; Nellie Edwards,
Provo, Utah; and John J. Chaconas, St. Amant, Louisiana.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee began markup of S. 454, to
reform the health care liability system and improve health care quality
through the establishment of quality assurance programs, but did not complete
action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
FDA
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee continued hearings to
examine activities of the Food and Drug Administration, focusing on the
challenges and opportunities facing the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical
device, and food industries, and FDA's regulation of these industries,
receiving testimony from David A. Kessler, Commissioner, Food and Drug
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Dennis M. Duffy, of Pennsylvania, to be an Assistant Secretary
of Veterans Affairs for Policy and Planning.
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Joint Meetings
FAMILY TAX RELIEF
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine the economic
effects of a $500-per-child expanded family tax credit as contained in the
proposed Family, Investment, Retirement Savings and Tax Fairness Act, after
receiving testimony from Senator Coats; Representative Hutchinson; Gary L.
Bauer, Family Research Council, Scott A. Hodge, Heritage Foundation, David S.
Liederman, Child Welfare League of America, Peter J. Ferrara, National Center
for Policy Analysis, and Marshall Wittmann, Christian Coalition, all of
Washington, D.C.; and Steve Kean, Woodbridge, Virginia.
FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission):
Commission concluded hearings to examine international presence in the former
Yugoslavia, focusing on the development of a new mandate for United Nations
peacekeepers in Croatia and efforts to restore peace and stability in Bosnia
and Herzegovina, after receiving testimony from Richard Holbrooke, Assistant
Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs; John R. Lampe, Woodrow
Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.; and Stephen Walker, Arlington, Virginia, on
behalf of the Action Council for Peace in the Balkans and the American
Committee to Save Bosnia.
1995/04/07
Daily Digest - Friday, April 7, 1995; pages D501 - D504
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SOCIAL SECURITY AND DISABILITY TRUST FUNDS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy held
hearings to examine the 1995 Board of Trustees Annual Report of the Social
Security and Disability Trust Funds, receiving testimony from Senator Kerrey;
Shirley S. Chater, Commissioner, and Harry Ballantyne, Chief Actuary, both of
the Social Security Administration, Department of Health and Human Services;
and Stanford Ross, Washington, D.C., and David Walker, Atlanta, Georgia, both
Public Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
MARCH EMPLOYMENT SITUATION
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings on the
employment-unemployment situation for March, receiving testimony from
Katharine G. Abraham, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of
Labor.
Committee will meet again on Friday, May 5.
FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission):
Commission met in closed session to receive a briefing on certain United
Nations activities and concerns in the former Yugoslavia and in several of the
New Independent States of the former Soviet Union from Sergio Vieria de Mello,
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Commission recessed subject to call.
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1995/04/24
Daily Digest - Monday, April 24, 1995; pages D506 - D510
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1995/04/25
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 25, 1995; pages D512 - D514
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces 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
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board and the Department of Energy's
environmental management program, receiving testimony from Thomas P. Grumbly,
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management; John T. Conway,
Chairman, and Jack Crawford, Member, D513both of the Defense Nuclear
Facilities Safety Board; and Robert W. Galvin and Henry W. Kendall, both on
behalf of the "Galvin" Task Force on Alternative Futures for the Department of
Energy National Laboratories, Secretary of Energy Advisory Board.
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Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items:
S. 454, to reform the health care liability system and improve health care
quality through the establishment of quality assurance programs, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nomination of Harriet M. Zimmerman, of Florida, to be a Member of the
Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Peace.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/04/26
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 26, 1995; pages D515 - D518
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of Energy,
focusing on energy conservation programs, receiving testimony from Christine
A. Irvin, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
FEDERAL FOREST MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and Public
Land Management resumed oversight hearings to review Federal forest management
issues, focusing on the coordination of and conflicts between Federal forest
management and general environmental statutes, receiving testimony D516from
Jack Ward Thomas, Chief, and Gray Reynolds, Deputy Chief, both of the Forest
Service, Department of Agriculture; George T. Frampton, Jr., Assistant
Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife, and Parks; Rolland Schmitten,
Director, National Marine Fisheries Service; Dinah Bear, General Counsel,
Council on Environmental Quality; Robert H. Wayland, III, Director, Office of
Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds, Environmental Protection Agency; William R.
Murray, American Forest and Paper Association, and Mike Pieti, United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, both of Washington, D.C.;
Tom Geary, Idaho Farm Bureau Federation, Burley, on behalf of the American
Farm Bureau Federation; Nathaniel Lawrence, Natural Resources Defense Council,
San Francisco, California; Douglas L. Honnold, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund,
Inc., Bozeman, Montana; Glen Spain, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's
Associations, Eugene, Oregon; Olivia Falconer James, The River Company, Sun
Valley, Idaho; Sue Kupillas, Jackson County, Oregon; and Jerry Rust, Lane
County, Oregon.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the implementation of the
Child Welfare and Adoption Assistance Act (P.L. 96-272), and related
provisions of H.R. 4, Personal Responsibility Act of 1995, receiving testimony
from Peter M. DiBari, Child and Family Services of Newport County, Newport,
Rhode Island; Peter Digre, Los Angeles County Department of Children and
Family Services, Los Angeles, California; Wade F. Horn, National Fatherhood
Initiative, Gaithersburg, Maryland; and Ernestine Moore, Wayne State
University, Detroit, Michigan.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded hearings, in open and
closed session, on the nomination of John M. Deutch, of Massachusetts, to be
Director of Central Intelligence, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senators Domenici, Kerry, and Kennedy, testified and answered questions in his
own behalf.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1995/04/27
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 27, 1995; pages D520 - D526
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--FOSSIL ENERGY/CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGY/SPR/NPR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior (and Related Agencies)
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for fossil
energy and clean coal technology programs, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve,
and the Naval Petroleum Reserve, receiving testimony from Patricia Fry Godley,
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 2.
ARMED SERVICES READINESS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness held hearings to
examine the near- and long-term readiness of the Armed Forces as it relates to
the future years defense plan, receiving testimony from Gen. Gordon R.
Sullivan, USA, Chief of Staff, United States Army; Adm. Jeremy M. Boorda, USN,
Chief of Naval Operations, United States Navy; Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman, USAF,
Chief of Staff, United States Air Force; and Gen. Carl E. Mundy, Jr., USMC,
Commandant of the Marine Corps, United States Marine Corps.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
HUD REORGANIZATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing
Opportunity and Community Development resumed hearings on proposals to
reorganize the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), focusing on
housing and community development policy, receiving testimony from Mayor Steve
Bartlett, Dallas, Texas; Richard C. Gentry, Richmond Redevelopment and Housing
Authority, Richmond, Virginia; Audley Evans, Tampa Housing Authority, Tampa,
Florida; Willie F. Carter, Hunter's View Resident Management Corporation, San
Francisco, California; Shirley Dykshoorn, North Dakota Office of
Intergovernmental Assistance, Bismarck, on behalf of the Council of State
Community Development Agencies; James L. Logue III, Michigan State Housing
Development Authority, Lansing, on behalf of the National Council of State
Housing Agencies; William R. Frey, Enterprise Foundation, New York, New York;
and Danette Jones, Madison Park Community Development Corporation, Boston,
Massachusetts, on behalf of the National Congress for Community Economic
Development.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee met and approved the
following new subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Energy Production and Regulation: Senators Nickles (Chairman),
Jeffords (Vice Chairman), Hatfield, Burns, Bingaman, Ford, and Akaka.
Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development: Senators Domenici (Chairman),
Craig (Vice Chairman), Kyl, Grams, Ford, Wellstone, and Heflin.
Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management: Senators Craig (Chairman),
Kyl (Vice Chairman), Hatfield, Domenici, Campbell, Thomas, Bradley, Bumpers,
Bingaman, and Dorgan.
Subcommittee on Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation: Senators
Campbell (Chairman), Grams (Vice Chairman), Nickles, Thomas, Jeffords,
Bumpers, Bradley, Wellstone, and Heflin.
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations: Senators Thomas (Chairman),
Burns (Vice Chairman), Domenici, Craig, Campbell, and Akaka.
ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT ACT AMENDMENTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
537 and H.R. 402, bills to D522make certain technical corrections to the
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and the Alaska National Interest Lands
Conservation Act to provide for the conveyance of certain lands within Alaska
and to resolve certain other issues, after receiving testimony from Deborah
Williams, Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Interior for Alaska; and
Nelson Angapak, Alaska Federation of Natives, Anchorage.
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SUPERFUND REFORM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste
Control, and Risk Assessment resumed oversight hearings on the implementation
of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
(P.L. 102-426), receiving testimony from Lois J. Schiffer, Assistant Attorney
General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice;
Jan Paul Acton, Assistant Director, Natural Resources and Commerce Division,
Congressional Budget Office; New Jersey Deputy Attorney General R. Brian
McLaughlin, Trenton, on behalf of the National Association of Attorneys
General; Robert N. Burt, FMC Corporation, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the
Business Roundtable; Richard D. Smith, Chubb Corporation, Warren, New Jersey;
Kelvin Herstad, United Truck Body, Inc., Duluth, Minnesota, on behalf of the
National Federation of Independent Businesses; Barbara Price, Phillips
Petroleum, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, on behalf of the American Petroleum
Institute; Mary P. Morningstar, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bedford,
Massachusetts, on behalf of the Electronics Industry Association; Richard F.
Leavitt, Chelsea Clock Company, Chelsea, Massachusetts, on behalf of Superfund
Reform '95; Boyd Condie, Alhambra, California, on behalf of the American
Communities for Cleanup Equity; Peter B. Prestley, Simpson, Thatcher &
Bartlett, New York, New York, on behalf of the American Bar Association; Anne
Pendegrass Hill, First Interstate Bank, Portland, Oregon, on behalf of the
American Bankers Association; and Joe J. Palacioz, Hutchinson, Kansas.
Hearings continue on Thursday, May 4.
WELFARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on proposals to reform the
national welfare system, including S. 599, S. 707 and H.R. 4, after receiving
testimony from Senators Brown, Conrad, Faircloth, Harkin, Kassebaum, and
Santorum; Charles A. Murray, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
Research, Washington, D.C.; and Richard P. Nathan, State University of New
York, Albany.
NATO'S FUTURE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs held hearings
to examine the future of NATO, focusing on United States interests in Europe
and potential threats to those interests, receiving testimony from Robert B.
Zoellick, Executive Vice President of General Counsel, Federal National
Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae); Fred C. Ikle, Center for Strategic and
International Studies, and Lt. Gen. William Odom, USA (Ret.), Hudson
Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; and Arnold Horelick, RAND Corporation,
Santa Monica, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
REGULATORY REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: On Wednesday, April 26, committee ordered
favorably reported S. 343, to reform the Federal regulatory process, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute.
TERRORISM IN THE UNITED STATES
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine the nature and
extent of the threat of terrorism in the United States, and proposed
legislation to enhance and extend the penalties for terrorist acts, add the
crime of conspiracy to certain terrorism offenses, increase the ability of the
Federal Government to deport suspected terrorists, and add new restrictions on
providing material support to terrorists, receiving testimony from Senators
Dole, Nickles and Inhofe; Louis J. Freeh, Director, Federal Bureau of
Investigation, and Jamie S. Gorelick, Deputy Attorney General, both of the
Department of Justice; Ronald K. Noble, Under Secretary of the Treasury for
Enforcement; Morris S. Dees, Jr., Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery,
Alabama; Brian Jenkins, Kroll Associates, Los Angeles, California; Robert
Kupperman, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Steven Emerson,
both of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
programs of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act of 1990,
focusing on the Federal and State role in the vocational education process,
after receiving testimony from Augusta Kappner, Assistant Secretary for
Vocational and Adult Education, and David Boesel, Director, National
Assessment of Vocational Education, and Acting Director, National Institute on
Postsecondary Education, Libraries, and Lifelong Learning, Office for
Educational Research and Improvement, both of D523the Department of Education;
Rhode Island Commissioner of Education Peter McWalters, Providence, on behalf
of the Council of Chief State School Officers; Phyllis Hudecki, National
Center for Research in Vocational Education, Berkeley, California; Marcia
Baker, Burlington Technical Center, Burlington, Vermont; Susan Brown, Southern
Maine Technical College, South Portland, on behalf of the Maine Youth
Apprenticeship Program; David Mertes, California Community Colleges,
Sacramento; and Roy Peters, Jr., Oklahoma Department of Vocational and
Technical Education, Stillwater.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1995/05/01
Daily Digest - Monday, May 1, 1995; pages D528 - D532
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service,
General Government held hearings on certain issues relating to the Oklahoma
City bombing incident, focusing on Federal building safety measures, receiving
testimony from Ronald K. Noble, Under Secretary for Enforcement, Charles
Thompson, Associate Director for Law Enforcement, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
and Firearms, and Eljay Bowron, Director, United States Secret Service, all of
the Department of the Treasury; and Roger W. Johnson, Administrator, General
Services Administration.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
CHECHNYA
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission):
Commission resumed hearings on the current crisis in Chechnya, receiving
testimony from Ariel Cohen, Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.; and Sergei
Adamovich Kovalev and Yevgeniya Albats, both of Russia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1995/05/02
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 2, 1995; pages D533 - D540
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for
energy and water development programs, after receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from John H. Zirschky, Acting Assistant
Secretary of the Army for Civil Works; Lt. Gen. Arthur E. Williams, Chief,
United States Army Corps of Engineers; and Daniel P. Beard, Commissioner,
Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREST SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the Forest
Service, receiving testimony from James R. Lyons, Under Secretary for Natural
Resources and Environment, and Jack Ward Thomas, Chief, Forest Service, both
of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 11.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations
of Gen. Dennis J. Reimer, USA, to be Chief of Staff of the Army, and for
reappointment to the grade of general, and Lt. Gen. Charles C. Krulak, USMC,
to be Commandant of the Marine Corps, and for appointment to the grade of
general, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Reimer was introduced by Senator Nickles, and Mr. Krulak was
introduced by Senator Inouye.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces resumed hearings
on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for military
D535activities of the Department of Defense and the future years defense
program, focusing on space programs and the Space Management Initiative,
receiving testimony from Maj. Gen. Robert S. Dickman, USAF, Director, Space
Programs (SAF/AQS); Rear Adm. Philip S. Anselmo, USN, Deputy Director, Space
and Electronic Warfare (N6B); Brig. Gen. Peter C. Franklin, USA, Assistant
Deputy for Systems Management and International Cooperation; Stephen A.
Cambone, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.; and
Scott Pace, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California.
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Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGULATORY PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Financial
Institutions and Regulatory Relief held hearings on S. 650, to increase the
amount of credit available to fuel local, regional, and national economic
growth by reducing the regulatory burden imposed upon financial institutions,
receiving testimony from Richard S. Carnell, Assistant Secretary for Financial
Institutions, Eugene A. Ludwig, Comptroller of the Currency, and Jonathan L.
Fiechter, Acting Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, all of the
Department of the Treasury; Susan M. Phillips, Member, Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System; and Ricki Tigert Helfer, Chairman, Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
The nomination of Lawrence Harrington, of Tennessee, to be United States
Alternate Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank;
The Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Panama on Mutual
Assistance in Criminal Matters, with Annex and Appendices, signed at Panama on
April 11, 1991 (Treaty Doc. 102-15), with two provisos; and
The Extradition Treaty Between the Government of the United States and the
Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, signed at Washington on March
28, 1995 (Treaty Doc. 104-3).
NAVY SHIP PROCUREMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
held hearings to examine waste and mismanagement in the United States Navy
ship procurement system, focusing on a 1985 contract known as the Navy T-AO
Kaiser Class Oiler Contract, in which the Navy never received two ships,
receiving testimony from Derek J. Vander Schaaf, Deputy Inspector General,
Timothy J. Staehling, Program Manager, and David P. Cole, Auditor, all of the
Department of Defense; Capt. C.J. (Pete) Schrodt, USN (Ret.), Pocatello,
Idaho, former Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Brooklyn, New York; and Capt. Karl
M. Klein, USN (Ret.), Atlantic Beach, Florida, former Supervisor of
Shipbuilding, Jacksonville, Florida.
Hearings continue on Thursday, May 4.
LEGAL SYSTEM COSTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the
Courts concluded hearings to examine proposals to reform the legal system in
an effort to reduce costs to consumers, after receiving testimony from Senator
Abraham; Gerald E. Thomson, American College of Physicians, Washington, D.C.;
Neil Vidmar, Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina; Timothy R.
McCormick, Park Ridge Health System, Rochester, New York, on behalf of the
National Council of Community Hospitals; Glenn Bailey, Keene Corporation, New
York, New York; David Johnson, Shive-Hattery Engineers and Architects, Inc.,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on behalf of the American Consulting Engineers Council; J.
Robert Hunter, Consumer Federation of America, Arlington, Virginia; Jeffrey
O'Connell, University of Virginia Law School, Charlottesville; and Herbert M.
Kritzer, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison.
NOMINATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on the
nomination of Henry W. Foster, Jr., of Tennessee, to be Medical Director in
the Regular Corps, and Surgeon General of the Public Health Service,
Department of Health and Human Services, after the nominee, who was introduced
by Senator Murray and Representatives Ford and Clement, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf. Testimony was also received from Representatives
Stokes, Coburn, and Lowey.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
INDIAN SELF-GOVERNANCE
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings on how the
Indian Health Service is implementing the Tribal Self-Governance Project,
after receiving testimony from Michel Lincoln, Deputy Director, Indian Health
Service, Department of Health and Human Services; Dale Risling, Hoopa Valley
Indian Tribe, Hoopa, California; Marge Anderson, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe,
Onamia, Minnesota; Lindsey Manning, Duck Valley Shoshone-Paiute Tribe, Owyhee,
Nevada; and Pamela Iron, Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1995/05/03
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 3, 1995; pages D542 - D548
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1996 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony from Daniel
R. Glickman, Secretary, Richard E. Rominger, Deputy Secretary, and Stephen B.
Dewhurst, Budget Officer, all of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 10.
PEACE OPERATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland Forces held hearings to
examine peace operations, receiving testimony from Edward L. Warner, III,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Requirements; Lt. Gen. Wesley
K. Clark, USA, Director for Strategic Plans and Policy (J-5), Office of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff; Lt. Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, USMC, Commanding General,
1st Marine Expeditionary Force; Gen. Joseph P. Hoar, USMC (Ret.), Delmar,
California; and Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, American Enterprise Institute, Jonathan
Dean, Union of Concerned Scientists, and John R. Bolton, National Policy
Forum, all of Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGULATORY PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Financial
Institutions and Regulatory Relief concluded hearings on S. 650, to increase
the amount of credit available to fuel local, regional, and national economic
growth by reducing the regulatory burden imposed upon financial institutions,
after receiving testimony from Henry G. Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development; James M. Culberson, Jr., First National Bank and Trust
Company, Ashboro, North Carolina, on behalf of the American Bankers
Association; Richard L. Mount, Saratoga National Bank, Saratoga, California,
on behalf of the Independent Bankers Association of America; Billy Don
Anderson, Valley Federal Savings Bank, Sheffield, Alabama, on behalf of the
America's Community Bankers; Ralph Rohner, Catholic University School of Law,
on behalf of the Consumer Bankers Association, Michelle Meier, Consumers
Union, on behalf of the Consumer Federation of America and the U.S. Public
Interest Group, Frances B. Smith, Consumer Alert, Irvin Henderson, National
Community Reinvestment Coalition, Allen D544J. Fishbein, Center for Community
Change, Catherine P. Bessant, NationsBank, and Benson F. Roberts, Local
Initiatives Support Corporation, all of Washington, D.C.; Warren R. Lyons,
Textron, Inc., Irvine, California, on behalf of the American Financial
Services Association; Gale Cincotta, National Training and Information Center
and National People's Action, and John P. Davey, Draper and Kramer, Inc., on
behalf of the Mortgage Bankers Associations, both of Chicago, Illinois; Tess
Canja, American Association of Retired Persons, Port Charlotte, Florida; and
George Butts, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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MEDICARE SOLVENCY
Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings to examine solvency in the
Medicare program, focusing on proposals to reform the Medicare system in an
effort to ensure future health care benefits for the elderly, receiving
testimony from David M. Walker and Stanford G. Ross, each a Public Trustee,
Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees, Baltimore, Maryland; Roland E.
(Guy) King, Ernst and Young, and William L. Roper, The Prudential Insurance
Company of America, Inc., both a former Chief Actuary, Health Care Financing
Administration, and Deborah Steelman, Law Offices of Deborah Steelman, former
Associate Director for Human Resources, Office of Management and Budget, all
of Washington, D.C.; and Karen Davis, The Commonwealth Fund, New York, New
York.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
NATIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM DESIGNATION ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Transportation and
Infrastructure approved for full committee consideration, with an amendment in
the nature of a substitute, S. 440, to provide for the designation of the
National Highway System.
ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the effectiveness of
the alternative minimum tax within the current Federal income tax system,
receiving testimony from Leslie B. Samuels, Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Tax Policy; Andrew B. Lyon, Brookings Institution, and Robert S.
McIntyre, Citizens for Tax Justice, both of Washington, D.C.; George A.
Plesko, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts; and Thomas J. Usher,
USX Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the National
Association of Manufacturers.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATO ENLARGEMENT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs concluded
hearings to examine proposals to expand the membership of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO), focusing on security to current members and how an
enlarged NATO would be perceived by allies and Russia, after receiving
testimony from Ronald Asmus, The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California;
Paula J. Dobriansky, Hunton and Williams, Richard R. Burt, International
Equity Partners, and Dimitri K. Simes, Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom, all
of Washington, D.C.; and Jack F. Matlock, Jr., Columbia University, New York,
New York.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS ANTITRUST
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and
Competition concluded hearings to examine antitrust issues as contained in
proposals to reform the telecommunications industry, focusing on provisions of
S. 652, to provide for a pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy
framework designed to accelerate rapidly private sector deployment of advanced
telecommunications and information technologies and services to all Americans
by opening all telecommunications markets to competition, and S. 664, to
ensure the competitive availability of consumer electronics devices affording
access to telecommunications system services, after receiving testimony from
Senator Cohen; Anne K. Bingaman, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust
Division, Department of Justice; Larry Irving, Assistant Secretary of Commerce
for Communications and Information; Howard H. Baker, Baker, Donelson, Bearman
and Caldwell, on behalf of the Competitive Long Distance Coalition, Decker
Anstrom, National Cable Television Association, and Peter W. Huber, Kellogg,
Huber and Hansen, all of Washington, D.C.; Lawrence A. Sullivan, Southwestern
University School of Law, Los Angeles, California; Royce J. Holland, MFS
Communications Company, Inc., Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois; James R. Young, Bell
Atlantic Corporation, Arlington, Virginia; and Richard Cowart, Vermont Public
Service Board, Montpelier, on behalf of the National Association of Regulatory
Utility Commissioners.
NOMINATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Henry W. Foster, Jr., of Tennessee, to be Medical Director in
the Regular Corps, and Surgeon General of the Public Health Service,
Department of Health and Human Services, after the nominee further testified
and answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of John M. Deutch, of Massachusetts, to be Director of Central
Intelligence.
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Joint Meetings
EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 1158, making emergency supplemental appropriations for
additional disaster assistance and making rescissions for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 1995, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed
subject to call.
1995/05/04
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 4, 1995; pages D550 - D554
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 multilateral development banks, receiving testimony from
Robert E. Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 11.
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APPROPRIATIONS--COAST GUARD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the United States Coast
Guard, receiving testimony from Adm. Robert E. Kramek, Commandant, United
States Coast Guard, Department of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 11.
APPROPRIATIONS--POSTAL SERVICE/OMB
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1996, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Alice M. Rivlin, Director, Office of Management and Budget; and Marvin T.
Runyon, Postmaster General, United States Postal Service.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 18.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held open and closed hearings on S.
727, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for military activities of the
Department of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, focusing on the
Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen.
Malcolm R. O'Neill, USA, Director, and Adm. John T. Hood, both of the
Ballistic Missile Defense Organization; and Sidney Graybeal, Science
Applications International Corporation, and William R. Graham, both of McLean,
Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing
Opportunity and Community Development concluded hearings to examine the
mission of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), focusing on the
Department of Housing and Urban Development's proposal to reform the
structure, programs, and accountability of the FHA, after receiving testimony
from Nicolas P. Retsinas, Assistant Secretary for Housing--Federal Housing
Commissioner, Department of Housing and Urban Development; and Stephen Moore,
CATO Institute, and G. Richard Dunnells, Holland and Knight, both of
Washington, D.C.
MEDICARE SOLVENCY
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine solvency in
the Medicare Program, focusing on proposals to reform the Medicare system in
an effort to ensure future health care benefits for the elderly, after
receiving testimony from Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human
Services; June E. O'Neill, Director, Congressional Budget Office; and Henry J.
Aaron, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held oversight hearings on the Office of Science and
Technology Policy's High-Performance Computing and Communications Program,
focusing on the World Wide Web interactive computer technology, receiving
testimony from John Toole, Director, National Coordination Office, High
Performance Computing and Communications, Office of Science and Technology
Policy (Bethesda, Maryland); Richard Gowen, South Dakota School of Mines and
Technology, Rapid City; Steven Running, University of Montana, Missoula; and
Bill Burrall, Moundsville Junior High, Moundsville, West Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SUPERFUND REFORM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste
Control, and Risk Assessment resumed oversight hearings on the implementation
of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
(P.L. 102-426), receiving testimony from Robert W. Varney, New Hampshire
Department of Environmental Services, Concord, on behalf of the National
Governor's Association; James C. Colman, Massachusetts Department of
Environmental Protection, Boston, on behalf of the Association of State and
Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials; Russell J. Harding, Michigan
Department of Natural Resources, Detroit; Jonathan B. Howes, North Carolina
Department of Environment, Health and Natural Resources, on behalf of the
National Academy of Public Administrators; David R. Tripp, Stinson, Mag and
Fizzell, Wichita, Kansas; Karen Florini, Environmental Defense Fund, and Kent
Jeffreys, National Center for Policy Analysis, both of Washington, D.C.; and
Velma Dunn, Phoenix, Arizona.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 9.
VACCINES FOR CHILDREN
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
implementation and progress of the Vaccine For Children (VFC) Entitlement
Program, focusing on barriers to immunization and the impact of the VFC on
immunization rates, after receiving testimony from Kwai-Cheung Chan, Director
for Program Evaluation in Physical Systems Areas, General Accounting Office;
David Satcher, Director, D552Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Department of Health and Human Services (Atlanta, Georgia); Lloyd F. Novick,
New York State Department of Health, Albany; Irwin E. Redlener, Children's
Health Fund, New York, New York; F. E. Thompson, Mississippi State Department
of Health, Jackson; and David L. Wood, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los
Angeles, California.
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ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION IN CHINA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine
China's use of executed prisoners' body organs for transplantation, after
receiving testimony from Harry Wu, Laogai Research Foundation, Milipitas,
California; David J. Rothman, Columbia University, and Bill Schulz, Amnesty
International USA, both of New York, New York; Mike Jendrzejczyk, Human Rights
Watch/Asia, Washington, D.C.; and Pei Qi Gao, London, England.
NAVY SHIP PROCUREMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
resumed hearings to examine waste and mismanagement in the United States Navy
ship procurement system, focusing on a 1985 contract known as the Navy T-AO
Kaiser Class Oiler Contract, in which the Navy never received two ships,
receiving testimony from Steven S. Honigman, General Counsel, Ronald Kiss,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and Harold V. Hanson, Contracting
Officer, Naval Sea Systems Command, all of the Department of the Navy; William
R. Boyles, Jr., Tampa Shipyards, Inc., Tampa, Florida; and Thomas C. Weller,
Jr. and Ronald J. Stevens, both of Mobile, Alabama.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Mary Beck Briscoe, of Kansas, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth
Circuit; Peter C. Economus, to be United States District Judge for the
Northern District of Ohio; John Garvan Murtha, to be United States District
Judge for the District of Vermont; and George A. O'Toole, to be United States
District Judge for the District of Massachusetts, after the nominees testified
and answered questions in their own behalf. Ms. Briscoe was introduced by
Senators Dole and Kassebaum, Mr. Economus was introduced by Senator Glenn, Mr.
Murtha was introduced by Senators Jeffords and Leahy, and Mr. O'Toole was
introduced by Senators Kennedy and Kerry.
COUNTER-TERRORISM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and
Government Information concluded hearings on S. 390, to improve the ability of
the United States to respond to the international terrorism threat, and S.
735, to prevent and punish acts of terrorism, after receiving testimony from
Senator Smith; Philip C. Wilcox, Jr., Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism,
Department of State; Paul W. Virtue, Deputy General Counsel, Immigration and
Naturalization Service, and Teresa Wynn Roseborough, Deputy Assistant Attorney
General, Office of Legal Counsel, both of the Department of Justice; and
Khalil E. Jahshan, National Association of Arab Americans, Sean Mc Manus,
Irish National Caucus, David Cole, Georgetown University Law Center, Gregory
T. Nojeim, American Civil Liberties Union, and Robert S. Rifkind, American
Jewish Committee, all of Washington, D.C.
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SERVICES
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation to authorize funds for the Public Health Service's
Community and Migrant Health Center programs, the Health Care for the Homeless
Program, and the Health Services for Residents of Public Housing Program,
focusing on the Administration's proposal to consolidate the programs in an
effort to provide more efficient and effective health care for the
underprivileged, after receiving testimony from Ciro V. Sumaya, Administrator,
and Marilyn H. Gaston, Director, both of the Health Resources and Services
Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services
(Rockville, Maryland); Mark V. Nadel, Associate Director, Health Financing and
Policy Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division, General
Accounting Office; John M. Silva, Family Health Care Centers, St. Louis,
Missouri; Richard J. Morrissey, Kansas Department of Health and the
Environment, Topeka; and Debra Singletary, Delmarva Rural Ministries, Dover,
Delaware.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1995/05/05
Daily Digest - Friday, May 5, 1995; pages D555- D560
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MEDICARE PROGRAM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education held hearings to examine waste, fraud, and abuse in the Medicare
Program, receiving testimony from Frank Reilly, Director, Accounting and
Information Management Division, IRM-HEHS Group, General Accounting Office;
Steve Pelovitz, Associate Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration,
Department of Health and Human Services; Nancy Boyer, Equifax Analytical
Services, Inc., Fairport, New York; John T. Kelly, GMIS Incorporated, Malvern,
Pennsylvania; and Leroy Henrich, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Oregon, Portland.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 11.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Acquisition and Technology held
hearings on S. 727, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1996 for
military activities of the Department of Defense and to prescribe military
personnel strengths for fiscal year 1996, focusing on the implications of the
revolution in military affairs, receiving testimony from Adm. William A.
Owens, USN, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Andrew W. Marshall,
Director, Net Assessment, Department of Defense; and Andrew Krepinevich,
Defense Budget Project, and Daniel Goure, Center for Strategic and
International Studies, both of Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 17.
Joint Meetings
EMPLOYMENT SITUATION
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine the
employment-unemployment situation for April, receiving testimony from
Katherine G. Abraham, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of
Labor.
Committee recessed subject to call.
1995/05/08
Daily Digest - Monday, May 8, 1995; pages D561 - D564
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1996 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee began markup of a proposed concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1996 budget for the Federal Government, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
RAMSPECK ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Post Office and Civil
Service concluded hearings to review the implementation of the Ramspeck Act of
1940, which allows the Federal Government to retain the services of certain
former congressional employees, and S. 177, to repeal the Ramspeck Act, after
receiving testimony from Senator McCain; James B. King, Director, Office of
Personnel Management; Nancy R. Kingsbury, Director, Federal Human Resource
Management Issues, General Government Division, General Accounting Office; and
Mark R. Levin, Landmark Legal Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/05/09
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 9, 1995; pages D565 - D572
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the National Guard and Reserve
programs, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. Edward D. Baca, USA, Chief,
National Guard Bureau; Maj. Gen. John R. D'Araujo, Jr., Director, Army
National Guard; Maj. Gen. Donald W. Shepperd, USAF, Director, Air National
Guard; Maj. Gen. Max Baratz, USA, Chief of Army Reserve; Rear Adm. Thomas F.
Hall, USN, Director of Naval Reserve; Maj. Gen. James Livingston, USMC,
Commanding General of Marine Forces Reserve; and Maj. Gen. Robert A. McIntosh,
USAF, Chief of Air Force Reserve.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 17.
APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for military
construction programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from Robert B. Pirie, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and Environment); and Jimmy G.
Dishner, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Installations).
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 25.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower concluded hearings on S.
727, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for military activities of the
Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on the
Department of the Navy's implementation of its strategy for Littoral Warfare,
after receiving testimony from Nora Slatkin, Assistant Secretary of the Navy
for Research, Development and Acquisition; Vice Adm. T. Joseph Lopez, USN,
Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Warfare Requirements and Assessment; and Lt.
Gen. Charles E. Wilhelm, USMC, Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat
Development Command.
1996 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued markup of a proposed concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1996 budget for the Federal Government, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
SUPERFUND REFORM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste
Control, and Risk Assessment resumed oversight hearings on the implementation
of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act,
focusing on the impact of Superfund on Federal facility cleanup programs,
receiving testimony from Thomas P. Grumbly, Assistant Secretary of Energy for
Environmental Management; Sherri W. Goodman, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
for Environmental Security; Christopher Jones, Ohio Attorney General's Office,
Columbus; Frank L. Parker, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; Mary
P. Morningstar, Lockheed-Martin Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts; Barry P.
Steinberg, Rosslyn, Virginia, on behalf of the National Association of
Installation Developers; Lenny Siegel, San Francisco State University, San
Francisco, California; and Andrew Paterson, RIMTech, Pasadena, California, on
behalf of Environmental Business Partners.
Hearings continue on Thursday, May 11.
MEDICARE TRUST FUNDS
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the fiscal solvency
of Medicare and the status of the program's delivery of health care services,
focusing on the 1995 Annual Reports of the Board of Trustees of the Federal
Hospital Insurance and Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds, receiving
testimony from Donna E. Shalala, Secretary, and Shirley S. Chater,
Commissioner of Social Security, both of the Department of Health and Human
Services; and Stanford G. Ross, Washington, D.C., and D567David M. Walker,
Atlanta, Georgia, both on behalf of the Social Security and Medicare Boards of
Trustees.
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Hearings continue on Thursday, May 11.
Joint Meetings
INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES EDUCATION ACT
Joint Hearing: Committee on Labor and Human Resources' Subcommittee on
Disability Policy concluded joint hearings with the House Committee on
Economic and Education Opportunity Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and
Families on the 20th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act, focusing on its implementation and recommendations for
improvement, after receiving testimony from Senators Jeffords and Simon;
Patricia Wald, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals, District of
Columbia Circuit; Thomas A. Masterson, Morgan, Lewis and Bochius, Thomas K.
Gilhool, Public Interest Law Center, and Dennis Haggerty, all of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; Julian Tepper, Levin and Tepper, Bethesda, Maryland; Jack
Duncan, Duncan and Associates, and Lisa Walker, Educational Writers
Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Frederick J. Weintraub, Council for
Exceptional Children, Reston, Virginia; Michael A. Resnick, National School
Boards Association, Alexandria, Virginia; Martha Ziegler, Federation for
Children with Special Needs, Boston, Massachusetts; and Marca Bristo, National
Council on Disability, Chicago, Illinois.
1995/05/10
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 10, 1995; pages D574 - D582
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1996 for the Department of Agriculture, after receiving testimony
in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Ellen W. Haas, Under
Secretary, Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services, William Ludwig,
Administrator, Food and Consumer Service, and Dennis Kaplan, Budget Officer,
all of the Department of Agriculture.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland Forces held hearings on
S. 727, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for military functions of the
Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on
tactical intelligence and related activities in the Army and Air Force,
receiving testimony from Maj. Gen. Edward G. Anderson, III, USA, Assistant
Deputy Chief of Army Staff for Operations and Plans, Force Development; and
Brig. Gen. Frank B. Campbell, USAF, Director of Forces, Office of the Deputy
Chief of Air Force Staff for Plans and Operations.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
1996 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued markup on a proposed concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1996 budget for the Federal Government, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: On Tuesday, May 9,
committee approved for reporting the nomination of Rear Adm. William L.
Stubblefield, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), for
appointment to the grade of Rear Admiral while serving in a position of
importance and responsibility as Director, Office of NOAA Corps Operations.
NOMINATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of James John Hoecker, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Federal
Emergency Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy, after the nominee
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
FERC ELECTRIC UTILITY RESTRUCTURE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held oversight hearings
to examine the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's proposal to restructure
the electric utility industry and increase competition in the wholesale
electric power market, receiving testimony from Elizabeth A. Moler, Chair,
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 440, to provide
for the designation of the National Highway System.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of
Jeffrey M. Lang, of Maryland, to be Deputy United States Trade Representative,
with the rank of Ambassador.
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Mr. Lang, after the D576nominee testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.
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WTO DISPUTE SETTLEMENT REVIEW COMMISSION ACT
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on S. 16, to establish a
commission to review the dispute settlement reports of the World Trade
Organization, after receiving testimony from Stanley S. Harris, United States
District Judge for the District of Columbia, on behalf of the Judicial
Conference of the United States; Curtis H. Barnette, Bethlehem Steel
Corporation, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the U.S. Member Companies
of the American Iron and Steel Institute; Alan F. Holmer, Sidley & Austin, and
Alan Wm. Wolff, Dewey Ballantine, both former Deputy United States Trade
Representatives, both of Washington, D.C.; Jerry R. Junkins, Texas Instruments
Incorporated, Dallas, on behalf of the Alliance for GATT NOW and the Business
Roundtable; and George A. Scalise, National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa
Clara, California, on behalf of the Semiconductor Industry Association Public
Policy Committee.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Larry C. Napper, of Texas, to be Ambassador to Latvia, Peter
Tomsen, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia, R. Grant
Smith, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Tajikistan, Lawrence
Palmer Taylor, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Estonia,
Jenonne R. Walker, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Czech
Republic, and James Alan Williams, of Virginia, for the rank of Ambassador
during his tenure of service as the Special Coordinator for Cyprus, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
COMBATTING TERRORISM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine the role of the
United States military in combatting terrorism, including certain provisions
of S. 735, to prevent and punish acts of terrorism, and certain provisions of
S. 761, to improve the ability of the United States to respond to the
international terrorist threat, receiving testimony from Kent Markus, Acting
Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legislative Affairs, Department of
Justice; John H. McNeill, Senior Deputy General Counsel for International
Affairs and Intelligence, Department of Defense; and Casper W. Weinberger,
former Secretary of Defense.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded hearings on
issues relating to verification of applicant identity for purposes of
employment and public assistance, focusing on certain measures to reduce
illegal immigration, after receiving testimony from Representative Horn; Mary
A. Ryan, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs; James A. Puleo,
Executive Associate Commissioner for Programs, Immigration and Naturalization
Service, and Steven L. Pomerantz, Assistant Director, Criminal Justice
Information Services Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, both of the
Department of Justice; Gilbert C. Fisher, Assistant Deputy Commissioner,
Social Security Administration (Baltimore, Maryland), Department of Health and
Human Services; Robert Rasor, Special Agent in Charge, Financial Crimes
Division, United States Secret Service, Department of the Treasury; Jack
Scheidegger, California Department of Justice, on behalf of SEARCH, the
National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, and Frank
Ricchiazi, California State Department of Motor Vehicles, both of Sacramento;
Richard E. Jackson, Jr., New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, Albany;
and W. Marshall Rickert, Maryland State Motor Vehicle Administration, Glen
Burnie, on behalf of the American Association of Motor Vehicle
Administrators.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again on Wednesday, May 17.
Joint Meetings
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Joint Committee on the Library: Committee met and approved Senator Hatfield as
Chairman and Representative Thomas as Vice Chairman of the committee and
adopted its rules of procedure for the 104th Congress.
EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Conferees continued to resolve the differences between the Senate- and
House-passed versions of H.R. 1158, making emergency supplemental
appropriations for additional disaster assistance and making rescissions for
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, but did not complete action thereon
and will meet again tomorrow.
1995/05/11
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 11, 1995; pages D583 - D592
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SUPPLEMENTAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed legislation making
supplemental appropriations for disaster assistance for the Oklahoma City
bombing for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, receiving testimony
from Janet Reno, Attorney General, and Louis J. Freeh, Director, Federal
Bureau of Investigation, both of the Department of Justice.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 17.
APPROPRIATIONS--AID
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for foreign assistance
programs, focusing on the Agency for International Development, receiving
testimony from J. Brian Atwood, Administrator, Agency for International
Development.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 18.
APPROPRIATIONS--BIA/IHS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Ada E. Deer,
Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, Hilda A. Manuel, Deputy Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, and Harold A. Monteau, Chairman, National Indian Gaming
Commission, all of the Department of the Interior; and Michael H. Trujillo,
Director, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 17.
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VIOLENCE AT WOMEN'S HEALTH CLINICS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education and Related Agencies concluded hearings to examine the incidence
of violence at women's health clinics in the United States, after receiving
testimony from Jamie S. Gorelick, Deputy Attorney General, Department of
Justice; Daniel R. Black, Deputy Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms, Department of the Treasury; Valerie Kosceinik, Consumer Information
and Referral Agency, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Jill June, Planned parenthood
of Greater Iowa, Des Moines; Bernie Smith, Milwaukee Women's Medical Services,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Judith M. DeSarno, National Family Planning and
Reproductive Health Association, Kate Michelman, National Abortion and
Reproductive Rights Action League, Pamela Maraldo, Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, Inc., all of Washington, D.C.; Katherine Splarr,
Feminist Majority, Los Angeles, California; and Christine Kohl, Lancaster,
Pennsylvania.
APPROPRIATIONS--FTA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996
for the Federal Transit Administration, after receiving testimony from Gordon
J. Linton, Administrator, Federal Transit Administration, Department of
Transportation.
NATIONAL SECURITY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to examine the national
security implications of lowered export controls on dual-use technologies and
United States defense capabilities, receiving testimony from Mitchel B.
Wallerstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterproliferation Policy, Al
Volkman, Director, Armaments Cooperation, and Craig Wilson, Director,
Intelligence Policy, Office of the Secretary, all of the Department of
Defense; David Cooper, Director, Acquisition Policy Technology and
Competitiveness Group, General Accounting Office; and Zachary Davis, Analyst,
International Nuclear Policy, Congressional Research Service, Library of
Congress.
Committee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION-DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness resumed hearings on S.
727, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for military activities of the
Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on
environmental, military construction and BRAC programs, receiving testimony
from Sherri W. Goodman, Deputy Under Secretary for Environmental Security,
John Harrison, Executive Director, Strategic Environmental Research and
Development Program, Jan B. Reitman, Staff Director, Environmental and Safety
Policy Office, Defense Logistics Agency, and Robert E. Bayer, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Economic Reinvestment and Brac, all of the Department of
Defense; Thomas W. L. McCall, Jr., Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the
Air Force for Environmental, Safety, and Occupational Health; Alma B. Moore,
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Environment, Safety, and Occupational
Health; Cheryl A. Kandaras, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy
for Installations and Environment; Robert B. Pirie, Jr., Assistant Secretary
of the Navy for Installations and Environment; Paul W. Johnson, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Logistics, and Environment;
and Jimmy G. Dishner, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for
Installations.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, May 15.
1996 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United
States Government.
SUPERFUND REFORM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste
Control, and Risk Assessment concluded oversight hearings on the
implementation of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act, after receiving testimony from Keith O. Fultz, Assistant
Comptroller General, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division,
General Accounting Office; Douglas K. Hall, Assistant Secretary of Commerce
for Oceans and Atmosphere; Montana Chief Deputy Attorney General Chris D.
Tweeten, Helena; New Mexico Assistant Attorney General for Natural Resources
Charlie DeSaillan, Santa Fe; C. Keith Meiser, CSX Transportation, Inc.,
Jacksonville, Florida; Kevin L. McKnight, Aluminum Company of America,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Kenneth D. Jenkins, California State University,
Long Beach; and Jerry A. Hausman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge.
MEDICARE
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine the financial
status of the Medicare program, receiving testimony from June E. O'Neill,
Director, Congressional Budget Office; and Arthur S. Flemming, Save Our
Security Coalition, and C. Eugene Steuerle, Urban Institute, both of
Washington, D.C.
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Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 16.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS REORGANIZATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Operations held
hearings on proposals to reorganize and revitalize American foreign affairs
institutions, receiving testimony from Senator McConnell; Richard M. Moose,
Under Secretary of State for Management; Michael Nacht, Assistant Director,
Strategic and Eurasian Affairs Bureau, United States Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency; Joseph Duffey, Director, United States Information Agency;
and J. Brian Atwood, Administrator, Agency for International Development.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MIDDLE EAST ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1996 for foreign assistance programs in the Middle East, receiving
testimony from Robert Pelletreau, Assistant Secretary of State for Near
Eastern Affairs; Margaret Carpenter, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Asia
and the Near East, Agency for International Development; Molly K. Williamson,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East and African Affairs;
Richard L. Armitage, Armitage Associates, former Assistant Secretary of
Defense, Arlington, Virginia; Richard W. Murphy, Council on Foreign Relations,
former Assistant Secretary of State, New York, New York; and Neal M. Sher,
American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and James J. Zogby, Arab American
Institute, both of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded oversight
hearings on activities of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, after
receiving testimony from Doris Meissner, Commissioner, Immigration and
Naturalization Service, Department of Justice.
AVAILABILITY OF BOMB MAKING INFORMATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and
Government Information concluded hearings to examine the implications of the
availability of bomb making information on the Internet, after receiving
testimony from Robert S. Litt, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal
Division, Department of Justice; Rabbi Marvin Hier, Simon Wiesenthal Center,
Los Angeles, California; William W. Burrington, America Online, Inc., Vienna,
Virginia, on behalf of the Interactive Services Association; Jerry Berman,
Center for Democracy and Technology, Washington, D.C.; and Frank Tuerkheimer,
University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison.
INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES EDUCATION ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Disability Policy held
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, receiving testimony from Joseph
Fisher, Tennessee Department of Education, and Herb Reith, Vanderbilt
University, both of Nashville, Tennessee; Donald Deshler, University of
Kansas, Lawrence; Nancy Diehl, Project STEP, Greeneville, Tennessee; Mitchell
Levitz, Peekskill, New York; Will McCarthy, Chattanooga, Tennessee; Jaimi
Lard, Boston, Massachusetts; Taylor Betz, Columbus, Ohio; Stacy Campbell,
Westerville, Ohio; Monica Eberle, Knoxville, Tennessee; Danette Crawford, Des
Moines, Iowa; Harvey Kimble, Urbandale, Iowa; Joanne Evans and Michael Miller,
both of Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Debbie Delp and Phyllis Gorman, both of Mason,
Ohio; Sharon Gonder and Ingrid Caldwell, both of Fulton, Missouri; and
Christine Hoyo and Matty Rodriguez-Walling, both of Miami, Florida.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 16.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings to examine
future management guidelines for the Smithsonian Institution, receiving
testimony from Col. Charles D. Cooper, USAF (Ret.), Retired Officers
Association, Alexandria, Virginia; Herman G. Harrington, American Legion, and
Bob Manhan, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, both of Washington,
D.C.; R. E. Smith, Air Force Association, Arlington, Virginia; and Maj. Gen.
Charles W. Sweeney, USAF (Ret.).
Hearings continue on Thursday, May 18.
VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the
reorganization of the Veterans Health Administration and the impact of section
510 of Title 38, United States Code which requires VA to provide 90 days
notice to the Congress before an administrative reorganization may take
effect, after receiving testimony from Kenneth W. Kizer, Under Secretary of
Veterans Affairs for Health.
LONG-TERM CARE FINANCING
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine future
directions in private financing of long-term care, after receiving testimony
D587from Ellen Friedman, Ameritech, Chicago, Illinois; Stanley Wallack,
Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, on behalf of the Coalition for
Long Term Care Financing; Marilyn Moon, Urban Institute, Paul Willging,
American Health Care Association, Val J. Halamandaris, National Association
for Home Care, and Stephen McConnell, Alzheimer's Association, on behalf of
the Long Term Care Campaign, all of Washington, D.C.; Mark E. Battista, UNUM
Life Insurance Company of America, Portland, Maine; Gail Holubinka, New York
State Partnership for Long Term Care, Albany; John Spear, Champaign, Illinois;
and Jean Heintz, Portland, Oregon.
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Joint Meetings
EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Conferees continued to resolve the differences between the Senate- and
House-passed versions of H.R. 1158, making emergency supplemental
appropriations for additional disaster assistance and making rescissions for
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, but D591did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
1995/05/12
Daily Digest - Friday, May 12, 1995; pages D594 - D602
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NEW SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee announced the
following new 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
Heflin.
Subcommittee on Forestry, Conservation, and Rural Revitalization: Senators
Craig (Chairman), Coverdell, Warner, Helms, Campbell, Heflin, Harkin, Conrad,
and Kerrey.
Subcommittee on Research, Nutrition, and General Legislation: Senators
McConnell (Chairman), Dole, Santorum, Craig, Campbell, Harkin, Heflin,
Daschle, and Pryor.
APPROPRIATIONS--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from Sheila Burke, Secretary
of the Senate; Howard Greene, Senate Sergeant at Arms; Michael Davidson,
Senate Legal Counsel; and Harriet Jenkins, Director, Senate Office of Fair
Employment Practices.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, May 15.
APPROPRIATIONS--EPA/CEQ/AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE
REGISTRY
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 Carol
Browner, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Kathleen McGinty,
Chair, Council on Environmental Quality; and David Satcher, Administrator,
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 17.
Joint Meetings
EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Conferees continued to resolve the differences between the Senate-and
House-passed versions of H.R. 1158, making emergency supplemental
appropriations for additional disaster assistance and making rescissions for
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again on Monday, May 15.
1995/05/15
Daily Digest - Monday, May 15, 1995; pages D604 - D608
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--LOC/CBO/CAPITOL POLICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from James H. Billington,
Librarian of Congress; June E. O'Neill, Director, and James L. Blum, Deputy
Director, both of the Congressional Budget Office; and Gary L. Abrecht, Chief,
United States Capitol Police.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, May 22.
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Subcommittee on
Personnel concluded joint hearings on S. 727, authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1996 for military activities of the Department of Defense and the future
years defense program, focusing on military family housing issues, after
receiving testimony from Joshua Gotbaum, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Economic Security; Paul Johnson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for
Installations and Housing; Robert B. Pirie, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the
Navy for Installations and Environment; and Rodney A. Coleman, Assistant
Secretary D605of the Air Force for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installation and
Environment.
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CARIBBEAN BASIN INITIATIVE
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade held hearings on S.
529, to provide, temporarily, tariff and quota treatment equivalent to that
accorded to members of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to
Caribbean Basin beneficiary countries, receiving testimony from Charlene
Barshefsky, Deputy United States Trade Representative; Alexander F. Watson,
Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs; Noel Beasley,
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Chicago, Illinois; Fred O.
Braswell, III, Russell Corporation, Alexander City, Alabama, on behalf of the
American Textile Manufacturers Institute; Jeffrey J. Schott, Institute for
International Economics, Washington, D.C.; and William Woltz, Jr., Perry
Manufacturing Company, Mt. Airy, North Carolina, on behalf of the American
Apparel Manufacturers Association.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CONGRESSIONAL PENSION REFORM
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Post Office and Civil
Service held hearings on S. 228, to amend certain provisions of title 5,
United States Code, relating to the treatment of Members of Congress and
Congressional employees for retirement purposes, focusing on a comparison of
congressional and Federal retirement benefit programs, receiving testimony
from Senator Bryan; Representative Moran; William E. Flynn, III, Associate
Director, Retirement and Insurance Service, Office of Personnel Management;
and Johnny C. Finch, Assistant Comptroller General for General Government
Division, General Accounting Office.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, May 22.
Joint Meetings
EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Conferees continued to resolve the differences between the Senate- and
House-passed versions of H.R. 1158, making emergency supplemental
appropriations for additional disaster assistance and making rescissions for
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
1995/05/16
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 16, 1995; pages D609 - D618
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Karl N. Stauber, of Minnesota, to be Under
Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics, and Eugene
Branstool, of Ohio, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Federal
Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Stauber was introduced by Senator
Wellstone.
1995 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
on proposed legislation to strengthen and improve United States agricultural
programs, focusing on rural development and farm credit programs, including S.
805, to improve Federal rural electrification and rural development programs
administered by the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony from
Senator Simpson; Daniel R. Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture; Bill McQuillan,
City National Bank, Greeley, Nebraska, on behalf of the Independent Bankers
Association of America; C.T. Fredrickson, AgriBank, FCB, St. Paul, Minnesota;
David Freshwater, University of Kentucky, Lexington; Enrique Irizarry, Jr.,
GAM Service Corporation, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Bill Christison, Missouri
Rural Crisis Center, Chillicothe, on behalf of the National Family Farm
Coalition; Michael H. Core, Indiana Statewide Association of Rural Electric
Cooperatives, Inc., Indianapolis; Joe Palmer, Georgia Rural Water Association,
Albany, on behalf of the National Rural Water Association; Aaron J. Harp,
University of Idaho, Moscow; Dwight L. Casey, National Alliance for Fair
Competition, Alexandria, D611Virginia; L. Roger Johnson, North Dakota
Agricultural Mediation Service, Bismarck; and Ron Phillips, Coastal
Enterprises, Inc., Wiscasset, Maine.
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Committee will meet again on Tuesday, May 23.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness resumed hearings on S.
727, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for military activities of the
Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on
Department of Defense financial management, receiving testimony from Charles
A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States, David M. Connor,
Director for Defense Audit Issues, Accounting and Information Management
Division, Jack L. Brock, Jr., Director for IRM-NSIAD Issues, Accounting and
Information Management Division, and David E. Cooper, Director for Acquisition
Policy, Technology and Competitiveness Issues, National Security and
International Affairs Division, all of the General Accounting Office; and John
J. Hamre, Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer, and Richard F. Kervey,
Director, Defense Finance and Accounting Service, both of the Department of
Defense.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower resumed hearings on S.
727, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for military activities of the
Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on the
requirements for continued production of nuclear submarines, submarine
industrial base issues, procurement strategy, and associated funding,
receiving testimony from Nora Slatkin, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for
Research, Development and Acquisition; Vice Adm. T. Joseph Lopez, Deputy Chief
of Naval Operations, Warfare Requirements and Assessments; Adm. Bruce DeMars,
Director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion; Richard Davis, Director, National Security
Analysis, National Security and International Affairs Division, General
Accounting Office; Ronald O'Rourke, Specialist in National Defense,
Congressional Research Service; Cindy Williams, Assistant Director, National
Security Division, Congressional Budget Office; William Fricks, Newport News
Shipbuilding and Drydock, Newport News, Virginia; and James E. Turner, Jr.,
General Dynamics Corporation, Groton, Connecticut.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 18.
NASA SPACE SHUTTLE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine the status of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration's space shuttle and reusable launch
vehicle programs, after receiving testimony from Representative Rohrabacher;
J. Wayne Littles, Associate Administrator for Office of Space Flight, John
Mansfield, Associate Administrator for Space Access and Technology, and Paul
Johnstone, Deputy Chairman, Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, all of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and Jerry Grey, American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and John Logsdon, George Washington
University, both of Washington, D.C.
NRC LICENSING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
review Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing activities with regard to the
Department of Energy's civilian nuclear waste disposal program and other
related matters within the jurisdiction of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
after receiving testimony from Ivan Selin, Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
MEDICARE
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on the fiscal solvency of
Medicare and the status of the program's delivery of health care services,
focusing on methods to preserve and improve the Medicare program, receiving
testimony from Stuart M. Butler, Heritage Foundation, Roland King, Ernst &
Young, and Robert D. Reischauer, Brookings Institution, all of Washington,
D.C.; and John W. Rowe, Mount Sinai Hospital School of Medicine, New York, New
York.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES EDUCATION ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Disability Policy
resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, receiving testimony from G. Reid
Lyon, Director, Human Learning and Behavior Branch, Center for Research for
Mothers and Children, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and
Human Services; Stevan A. Kukic, Utah State Office of Education, Salt Lake
City; Hal Hayden, Kentucky Department of Education, Frankfort; James E.
Ysseldyke, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Charlene Green, Chicago
Public Schools, Chicago, Illinois; Brian A. McNulty, Colorado Department of
Education, Denver; Laurie Collins, Winston Salem, North Carolina, on behalf of
the Interagency Coordinating Council in North Carolina; and Gen Nochta,
Lexington, Kentucky.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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Joint Meetings
EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 1158, making emergency supplemental
appropriations for additional disaster assistance and making rescissions for
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995.
1995/05/17
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 17, 1995; pages D620 - D626
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1996 for the Legal Services Corporation, receiving testimony from
Alex Forger, President, Doug Eakeley, Board Chairman, and John Broderick,
Board Member, all of the Legal Services Corporation; Melville Miller, New
Jersey Legal Services, Trenton; Nathan Bowles, West Virginia Legal Services,
Charleston; John Robb, New Mexico Ad Hoc Committee on Legal Services, Santa
Fe; Chip Mellor, Institute for Justice, and David Keene, American Conservative
Union, both of Washington, D.C.; and other public witnesses.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the
National Park Service, receiving testimony from George T. Frampton, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, Mary Ann Lawler,
Director, Office of Budget, and Roger G. Kennedy, Director, John J. Reynolds,
Deputy Director, C. Bruce D621Sheaffer, Comptroller, and Denis P. Galvin,
Associate Director, Planning and Development, all of the National Park
Service, all of the Department of the Interior.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 24.
NAPA REPORT ON EPA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings to examine the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA)
report on the effectiveness of the Environmental Protection Agency, receiving
testimony from Peter Guerrero, Director, Environmental Protection Issues,
General Accounting Office; former Representative Don Ritter, on behalf of the
National Environmental Policy Institute; Mayor Gregory Lashutka, Columbus,
Ohio; Jonathan Howes, North Carolina Department of the Environment, Health and
Natural Resources, Raleigh, on behalf of the NAPA Project Panel; David
Sonstegard, 3M Corporation, St. Paul, Minnesota; Mary Gade, Illinois State
Environmental Protection Agency, Springfield, on behalf of the Environmental
Council of States; and William Roberts, Environmental Defense Fund,
Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, May 19.
START II TREATY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to examine the national
security implications of United States ratification of the Strategic Arms
Reduction Treaty (START II) (Treaty Doc. 103-1), receiving testimony from
Walter B. Slocombe, Under Secretary for Policy, Lt. Gen. Wesley K. Clark, USA,
Director for Strategic Plans and Policy, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Col. Max
Harshman, Chief, START INS Division, On-Site Inspection Agency, all of the
Department of Defense.
Committee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Acquisition and Technology
resumed hearings on S. 727, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for
military activities of the Department of Defense, and the future years defense
program, focusing on dual-use technology programs, receiving testimony from
Paul G. Kaminski, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology;
David Cooper, Director, Acquisition Policy, Technology and Competitiveness
Issues, General Accounting Office; and Robert J. Hermann, United Technologies
Corporation, Hartford, Connecticut.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: On Tuesday, May 16, Subcommittee on Strategic
Forces resumed open and closed hearings on S. 727, authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1996 for military activities of the Department of Defense and the
future years defense program, focusing on the Department of Energy weapons
activities, non-proliferation and national security programs, receiving
testimony from Charles B. Curtis, Under Secretary, Victor H. Reis, Assistant
Secretary for Defense Programs, Kenneth E. Baker, Director, Office of
Nonproliferation and National Security, Siegfried S. Hecker, Director, Los
Alamos National Laboratory, C. Bruce Tarter, Director, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory, and Roger Hagengruber, Vice President for Defense
Programs, Sandia National Laboratories, all of the Department of Energy; and
Harold P. Smith, Jr., Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 18.
MEDICARE
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the fiscal solvency of
Medicare and the status of the program's delivery of health care services,
focusing on methods to preserve and improve the Medicare program, after
receiving testimony from former Senator Rudman, on behalf of the Concord
Coalition, Richard J. Davidson, American Hospital Association, and Eugene I.
Lehrmann, American Association of Retired Persons, all of Washington, D.C.;
and Nancy W. Dickey, Richmond, Texas, on behalf of the American Medical
Association.
AUTHORIZATION--STATE DEPARTMENT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported an
original bill to authorize funds for fiscal years 1996 through 1999 and to
reorganize certain functions of the Department of State.
EXECUTIVE BRANCH REORGANIZATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine
proposals to reorganize the Executive Branch of the Federal Government,
receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United
States, General Accounting Office; Alice M. Rivlin, Director, and John
Koskinen, Deputy Director for Management, both of the Office of Management and
Budget; R. Scott Fosler and Alan L. Dean, both of the National Academy of
Public Administration, Washington, D.C.; Andrew Foster, The Audit Commission,
United Kingdom; Paul C. Light, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; and
Robert S. Gilmour, University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
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INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again on Wednesday, May 24.
Joint Meetings
FLAT TAX
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine the effects of a
proposed flat rate tax on the current tax system and on economic growth,
receiving testimony from Senator Specter; Representative Armey; Jack F. Kemp,
Empower America, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Richard W.
Rahn, Business Leadership Council, and Robert S. McIntyre, Citizens for Tax
Justice, all of Washington, D.C.; Alvin Rabushka, Stanford University,
Stanford, California; and Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Boston University, Boston,
Massachusetts.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1995/05/18
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 18, 1995; pages D627 - D634
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 of the Department of State, receiving testimony from Warren
Christopher, Secretary of State.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--NIH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education and Related Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the National Institutes of Health [NIH],
after receiving testimony from Harold Varmus, Director, National Institutes of
Health, Department of Health and Human Services.
APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY/FEC
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1996, after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Robert E. Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury; and Danny L.
McDonald, Chairman, and Lee Ann Elliot and John W. McGarry, both
Commissioners, all of the Federal Election Commission.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower resumed hearings on S.
727, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for military activities of the
Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on the
Marine Corps modernization programs and current operations, receiving
testimony from Gen. Carl E. Mundy, Jr., USMC, Commandant, United States Marine
Corps.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces resumed hearings
on S. 727, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for military activities of
the Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on
bomber force issues, receiving testimony from Paul G. Kaminski, Under
Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology; and Gen. John M. Loh,
USAF, Commander, Air Combat Command.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight
hearings to review management issues with regard to the Tongass National
Forest in Alaska and the implementation of the Tongass Timber Reform Act (P.L.
101-626), after receiving testimony from Senator Stevens; James R. Lyons,
Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and the Environment;
Alaska State Representative W.K. Williams, Mayor Alaire Stanton, Ralph D.
Lewis, Ketchikan Pulp Company, Cliff Skillings, on behalf of the Alaska
Lumbermen's Association, and Ernesta Ballard, on behalf of the Alaska Forest
Association, all of Ketchikan, Alaska; John C. Wisenbaugh, Tenakee Springs
City Council, Tenakee Springs, Alaska; Gary L. Paxton, City and Borough of
Sitka, Florian Sever, and Franklin C. Roppel, Alaska Pulp Corporation, all of
Sitka, Alaska; James S. Calvin, McDowell Group, Inc., and Bart Koehler,
Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, both of Juneau, Alaska; Julie Fox
Gorte, Wilderness Society, Washington, D.C.; Victor M. Sher, Sierra Club Legal
Defense Fund, San Francisco, California; George Leonard, Vienna, Virginia;
James Mackovjak, Gustavus, Alaska; and Bill Byford, Wrangell, Alaska.
HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT EXTENSIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Production
and Regulation concluded hearings on S. 283, S. 468, S. 543, S. 547, S. 549
(pending on Senate Calendar), S. 552, S. 595, S. 611, and S. 801, bills to
extend the deadlines applicable to certain hydroelectric projects under the
Federal Power Act, after receiving testimony from Elizabeth A. Moler, Chair,
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy.
Testimony was also received on S. 552 (listed above) from Arthur K. Neill,
Montana Power Company, Butte; and Theodore Antionoli, Missoula, Montana.
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TAX REFORM: FLAT TAX
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on proposals to replace
current income tax procedures with a flat rate tax, including S. 488, to
impose a flat tax only on the earned income of individuals and the business
taxable income of corporations, receiving testimony from Senator Specter;
Representative Armey; Michael J. Graetz, Yale University, New Haven,
Connecticut; Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts;
Sheldon D. Pollack, University of Delaware, Newark; and Alvin Rabushka,
Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EXECUTIVE BRANCH REORGANIZATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee continued hearings to examine
proposals to reorganize the Executive Branch of the Federal Government,
receiving testimony from Senators Faircloth and Abraham; Representatives
Walker, Gunderson, Klug, and Brownback; Donald F. Kettl, University of
Wisconsin, Madison; and Murray Comarow, on behalf of former President Nixon's
Advisory Council on Executive Organization (Ash Council), Jeffrey A. Eisenach,
Progress and Freedom Foundation, and Scott A. Hodge, Heritage Foundation, all
of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
S. 419, to grant the consent of Congress to the Texas Low-Level Radioactive
Waste Disposal Compact;
S. 677, to repeal a redundant venue provision of the Federal judicial code;
and
The nominations of Mary Beck Briscoe, of Kansas, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Tenth Circuit, Susan Y. Illston, to be United States District
Judge for the Northern District of California, John Garvan Murtha, to be
United States District Judge for the District of Vermont, George A. O'Toole,
Jr., to be United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts,
Patrick M. Ryan, to be United States Attorney for the Western District of
Oklahoma, George K. McKinney, to be United States Marshal for the District of
Maryland, and Rose Ochi, of California, to be an Associate Director for
National Drug Control Policy.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings to examine
management guidelines for the future of the Smithsonian Institution, after
receiving testimony from Representative Sam Johnson, on behalf of the Board of
Regents, Smithsonian Institution; Ira Michael Heyman, Secretary, and Tom
Crouch, Chairman, Aeronautics Department of the National Air and Space Museum,
both of the Smithsonian Institution; Edward T. Linenthal, University of
Wisconsin, Oshkosh; and Maxine F. Singer, Carnegie Institute of Washington,
Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Commission on the Future of the Smithsonian
Institution.
SBA BUSINESS LOAN PROGRAM
Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings to examine Small Business
Administration's implementation of their 7(a) Guaranty Business Loan Program,
receiving testimony from Philip Lader, Administrator, Small Business
Administration; John J. Canning, Morristown, New Jersey, on behalf of AT&T
Capital Corporation and AT&T Small Business Lending Corporation; Gary V.
Hoyer, Princeton Capital Finance Company, Princeton, New Jersey; Michael
Gallagher, Wells Fargo Bank, San Jose, California; Anthony R. Wilkinson,
National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders, Inc., Stillwater,
Oklahoma; Joe W. Scallorns, Farmers and Traders Bank, California, Missouri;
and Lyle Frederickson, Bank One, Phoenix, Arizona.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS REORGANIZATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings to review
certain recommendations on the reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
receiving testimony from Stanley Speaks, Area Director (Portland, Oregon),
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; Kenneth Smith,
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Reservation, Warm Springs, Oregon, former
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; Eddie F. Brown, Tohono
O'odham Nation, Sells, Arizona, former Assistant Secretary of the Interior for
Indian Affairs, and Wendell Chino, Mescalero Apache Tribe, Mescalero, New
Mexico, both on behalf of the Joint Tribal/Bureau of Indian Affairs/Department
of the Interior Task Force; Phillip Martin, Mississippi Band of Choctaw
Indians, Philadelphia, Mississippi; A. Brian Wallace, Washoe Tribe of Nevada,
Gardnerville; and Edward Thomas, Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian
Tribes of Alaska, Juneau.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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Joint Meetings
ECONOMICALLY TARGETED INVESTMENTS
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine issues
relating to the funding of certain social and political projects known as
economically targeted investments, after receiving testimony from Olena Berg,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Pension and Welfare Benefits; former
Representative Beau Boulter, on behalf of the United Seniors Association; John
Langbein, Yale University Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; Charles Rounds,
Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts; Ian Lanoff, Bredhoff &
Kaiser, and Daniel J. Schulder, National Council of Senior Citizens, both of
Washington, D.C.; Wayne Marr, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina;
Edward Zelinsky, Yeshiva University Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, Manhattan,
New York; James Z. Pugash, Hearthstone Advisors, San Francisco, California;
and Kimberly Schuld, Seniors Coalition, Fairfax, Virginia.
1995/05/19
Daily Digest - Friday, May 19, 1995; pages D635 - D640
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--HUD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, receiving testimony from Henry G.
Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, June 7.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 2,860
military nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
BOSNIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on an operational plan for the extraction of United Nations
peacekeepers from Bosnia and the role of the United States and NATO in Bosnia
from Lt. Gen. Wesley K. Clark, Director for Strategic Plans and Policy (J-5),
and Col. Walter E. Buchanan, Branch Chief, Joint Operations Division, both of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Joseph J. Kruzel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense for European and NATO Policy; and John C. Kornblum, Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs.
Committee recessed subject to call.
ADULT EDUCATION AND FAMILY LITERACY REFORM ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities concluded hearings on S. 797, authorizing funds for fiscal years
1996 through 2005 to improve and reform literacy services for adults and
families, after receiving testimony from Augusta S. Kappner, Assistant
Secretary of Education for Vocational and Adult Education; Andrew Hartman,
Director, National Institute for Literacy; Grant East, Dallas Can! Academy,
Dallas, Texas; Greg Hart, Pima County Adult Education, Tucson, Arizona; Fran
Tracy-Mumford, Delaware Department of Public Instruction, Dover; and John W.
Stuck, Executive West Hotels, Louisville, Kentucky.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/05/22
Daily Digest - Monday, May 22, 1995; pages D642 - D646
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AOC/GPO
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996, receiving testimony in
behalf of their respective activities from George M. White, Architect of the
Capitol; and Michael F. DiMario, Public Printer, Government Printing Office.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, May 26.
CUBAN LIBERTY AND DEMOCRATIC SOLIDARITY ACT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace
Corps Affairs held hearings on S. 381, to strengthen international sanctions
against the Castro government in Cuba, and to develop a plan to support a
transition government leading to a democratically elected government in Cuba,
receiving testimony from Senator Simon; Representatives Torricelli and
Menendez; Peter Tarnoff, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; and
R. Richard Newcomb, Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department of
the Treasury.
Hearings resume on Wednesday, June 7.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Inez Smith Reid, to be an Associate Judge of the District of
Columbia Court of Appeals, and Ronna Lee Beck, Linda Kay Davis, and Eric Tyson
Washington, each to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the
District of Columbia, after the nominees testified and answered questions in
their own behalf.
FEDERAL PENSION REFORM
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Post Office and Civil
Service held hearings on proposals to reform the Federal pension system,
focusing on how Federal pension plans compare to private sector plans,
receiving testimony from Johnny C. Finch, Assistant Comptroller General, and
Bob Shelton, Assistant Division Director, Federal Human Resource Management
Issues, both of the General Government Division, General Accounting Office;
and Carolyn Merck, Specialist in Social Legislation, Education and Public
Welfare Division, Congressional Research Service.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, June 19.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/05/23
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 23, 1995; pages D647 - D654
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1995 FARM BILL: FOOD ASSISTANCE
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
on proposed legislation to strengthen and improve United States agricultural
programs, focusing on the Department of Agriculture food and nutrition
assistance programs, receiving testimony from Representative Cunningham; Dan
Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture; Ellen W. Haas, Under Secretary of
Agriculture for Food and Consumer Services; Robert A. Robinson, Associate
Director, Food and Agriculture Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic
Development Division, General Accounting Office; Iowa Governor Terry Branstad,
Des Moines; Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, Tallahassee; Gerald H. Miller,
Michigan Department of Social Services, Lansing; J. Jean Rogers, Wisconsin
Department of Health and Social Services, Madison; Robert Greenstein, Center
on Budget and Policy Priorities, Timothy M. Hammonds, Food Marketing
Institute, and Robert J. Fersh, Food Research and Action Center, all of
Washington, D.C.; M. Anne Hill, City University of New York, Flushing; Linda
Locke, Louisville, Kentucky, on behalf of the National Child and Adult Care
Food Program Sponsors Forum; Vivian Pilant, South Carolina Department of
Education, Columbia, on behalf of the American School Food Service
Association; and James Richard, Alabama Department of Public Health,
Montgomery, on behalf of the National Association of WIC Directors.
Committee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for financial management programs of the
Department of Defense, receiving testimony from John J. Hamre, Under Secretary
of Defense (Comptroller); and Charles Bowsher, Comptroller General of the
United States, General Accounting Office.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 6.
APPROPRIATIONS--DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the government
of the District of Columbia, focusing on the District of Columbia public
school system, receiving testimony from Michael Feuer, Director, Board on
Testing and Assessment, National Research Council; Wilma Harvey, President,
District of Columbia Board of Education, and Franklin Smith, Superintendent,
District of Columbia Public Schools, both of the Government of the District of
Columbia; and Daniel Koretz, Urban Institute, Carrie Thornhill, on behalf of
the Committee on Public Education, Delabian Rice-Thurston, Parents United for
the D.C. Public Schools, and Thriftone B. Jones, D.C. Congress of Parents and
Teachers, all of Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
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APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for foreign assistance
programs, receiving testimony from Lynn Davis, Under Secretary for Arms
Control and International Security Affairs, and John Shattuck, Assistant
Secretary for Human Rights, both of the Department of State; Lt. Gen. Thomas
Rhame, Director, Defense Security Assistance Agency, Department of Defense;
and Lawrence J. Korb, Brookings Institution, Holly J. Burkhalter, Human Rights
Watch, William Hartung, World Policy Institute, and Lora Lumpe, Federation of
American Scientists, all of Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 2,020
military nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
NASA SPACE STATION PROGRAM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on the state and performance of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration space station program, after
receiving testimony from J. Wayne Littles, Associate Administrator, Office of
Space Flight, Harry Holloway, Associate Administrator, Office of Life and
Microgravity Sciences and Applications, and Randy Brinkley, Space Station
Program Manager (Houston, Texas), all of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration; Marcia Smith, Space Policy Analyst, Congressional Research
Service, Library of Congress; Lori B. Garver, National Space Society, and
Alexander McPherson, Association of American Universities, both of Washington,
D.C.; and Tom Rogers, Space Transportation Association, Arlington, Virginia.
RECLAMATION FACILITIES TRANSFER ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and Public
Land Management held hearings on S. 620, to direct the Secretary of the
Interior to convey, upon request, certain property in Federal reclamation
projects to beneficiaries of the projects and to set forth a distribution
scheme for revenues from reclamation project lands, receiving testimony from
Daniel P. Beard, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the
Interior; Roger Ling, Ling, Nielsen and Robinson, Rupert, Idaho; Thomas F.
Donnelly, National Water Resources Association, Arlington, Virginia; Tom W.
Davis, Carlsbad Irrigation District, Carlsbad, New Mexico; Gary Esslinger,
Elephant Butte Irrigation District, and Steven L. Hernandez, Hubert &
Hernandez, on behalf of the Elephant Butte Irrigation District and the
Carlsbad Irrigation District, both of Las Cruces, New Mexico; and Kenneth
Nelson, Courtland, Kansas, on behalf of the Irrigation Projects
Reauthorization Council of Kansas and Nebraska.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
WOLVES IN YELLOWSTONE PARK
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Parks, Historic
Preservation and Recreation concluded oversight hearings on the Department of
the Interior's programs, policies and budget implications on the
reintroduction of wolves in and around Yellowstone National Park, after
receiving testimony from George T. Frampton, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Fish
and Wildlife and Parks, and Mollie H. Beattie, Director, United States Fish
and Wildlife Service, both of the Department of the Interior; Robert M.
Ferris, Defenders of Wildlife, John Kostyack, National Wildlife Federation,
William G. Myers, III, Public Lands Council, on behalf of the National
Cattlemen's Association, Philip H. Voorhees, on behalf of the National Parks
and Conservation Association, and Jon Doggett, American Farm Bureau
Federation, all of Washington, D.C.; and Elaine Allestad, Big Timber, Montana,
on behalf of the Montana Wool Growers Association and the American Sheep
Industry Association.
AUTHORIZATION--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee began markup of proposed legislation
to authorize reduced levels of appropriations for foreign assistance programs
for fiscal years 1996 and 1997, but did not complete action thereon, and will
continue tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Robert F. Rider, of Delaware, and S. David Fineman, of
Pennsylvania, each to be a Governor of the United States Postal Service, G.
Edward DeSeve, of Pennsylvania, to be Controller, Office of Federal Financial
Management, Office of Management and Budget, and John W. Carlin, of Kansas, to
be Archivist of the United States, National Archives and Records
Administration, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their
own behalf. Mr. Fineman was introduced by Senator Specter and Representatives
Borski and Fattah, Mr. DeSeve was introduced by Representative Borski, and Mr.
Carlin was introduced by Senator Dole. Testimony was also received on the
nomination of Mr. Carlin from Gaddis Smith, Yale University, New Haven,
Connecticut, on behalf of D650the Organization of American Historians and the
American Historical Association; Susan E. Davis, State Historical Society of
Wisconsin, Madison, on behalf of the Society of American Archivists; Howard P.
Lowell, Delaware State Archives, Dover, on behalf of the National Association
of Government Archives and Records Administrators; and Martha Joynt Kumar,
Towson State University, Towson, Maryland, on behalf of the Presidency
Research Group.
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EEOC
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded oversight hearings
on the state of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, focusing on
EEOC's charge processing system and case backlog, after receiving testimony
from Linda G. Morra, Director, Education and Employment Issues, Health,
Education, and Human Services Division, General Accounting Office; Gilbert F.
Casellas, Chairman, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Donald R.
Livingston, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, and Stephen E. Tallent, Gibson,
Dunn & Crutcher, both of Washington, D.C.; James A. Quirk, Computer Sciences
Raytheon, Cocoa Beach, Florida, on behalf of the Society for Human Resource
Management; and Nancy Kreiter, Women Employed Institute, Chicago, Illinois.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/05/24
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 24, 1995; pages D656 - D664
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1995 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Research,
Nutrition, and General Legislation concluded hearings on proposed legislation
to strengthen and improve United States agricultural programs, focusing on
research and the future of American agriculture, after receiving testimony
from Karl Stauber, Under Secretary Designate of Agriculture for Research,
Education and Economics; Susan E. Offutt, Executive Director of the Board on
Agriculture, National Research Council; John Owens, New Mexico State
University, Las Cruces, on behalf of the National Association of State
Universities and Land-Grant Colleges; Victor L. Lechtenberg, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, Indiana, on behalf of the Research and Education
Working Group of the National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy; Frank
F. Busta, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, on behalf of the Institute of
Food Technologists; William R. Sprague, Kentucky Farm Bureau, Louisville, on
behalf of the American Farm Bureau Federation; Michael Wehler, Plain,
Wisconsin, on behalf of the Animal Agriculture Coalition; Robert F. Barnes,
American Society of Agronomy, Madison, Wisconsin, on behalf of the Crop
Science Society of America and the Soil Science D659Society of America; Alan
Goldhammer, Biotechnology Industry Organization, Washington, D.C.; Larry
Jefferies, New Castle, Kentucky, on behalf of the Campaign for Sustainable
Agriculture; and David Morris, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
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APPROPRIATIONS--FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the Fish
and Wildlife Service, receiving testimony from George T. Frampton, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, Mollie H. Beattie,
Director, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and Mary Ann Lawler,
Director of Budget, all of the Department of the Interior
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 6.
MEXICAN BANKING SYSTEM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
to examine the impact of the peso devaluation and the Administration aid
package on the banking system and economy of Mexico, after receiving testimony
from Jerome I. Levinson, Economic Policy Institute, and Christopher Whalen,
Legal Research International, Inc., both of Washington, D.C.; Bernard L.
Weinstein, University of North Texas, Denton; Alberto Sanchez, Deutsche Bank
Securities Corp., New York, New York; Juan Auping, Iberian American
University, Raymundo Artiz, National Association of Manufacturers, and Javier
Livas, all of Mexico City, Mexico; Sra. Liliana Flores, Monterrey, Mexico; and
Gabriel Hinojosa, Puebla, Mexico.
INTERNATIONAL AVIATION POLICY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
concluded hearings to examine issues relating to international aviation
policy, after receiving testimony from Federico Pena, Secretary, and Stephen
H. Kaplan, General Counsel, both of the Department of Transportation; Kenneth
M. Mead, Director, Transportation Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic
Development Division, General Accounting Office; Ronald Allen, Delta Airlines,
and Thomas H. Weidemeyer, United Parcel Service Airlines, both of Atlanta,
Georgia; Gerald Greenwald, United Airlines, Chicago, Illinois; Jeffrey
Erickson, Trans World Airlines, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri; Robert L. Crandall,
AMR Corporation, Dallas, Texas; and George F. Doughty, Lehigh Northampton
Airport Authority, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
WELFARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee began markup of H.R. 4, to control welfare
spending and reduce welfare dependence by requiring States to encourage job
placement measures, to provide for a job voucher program through the use of
private profit and nonprofit organizations, to eliminate certain Federal
requirements to give States additional flexibility in operating their Job
Opportunities and Basic Skill Training Program (JOBS), and to establish a
temporary family assistance grant under which States can provide assistance to
needy families with minor children, but did not complete action thereon, and
will continue tomorrow.
AVIATION SAFETY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management and the District of Columbia held hearings to examine the safety
implications of unapproved aviation parts used in the rebuilding of aircraft,
receiving testimony from David R. Hinson, Administrator, Federal Aviation
Administration, A. Mary Schiavo, Inspector General, and Harry Schaefer,
Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge, Office of the Inspector General, all of the
Department of Transportation; Thomas T. Kubic, Chief, Financial Crimes
Section, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Chester Paul
Beach, Jr., United Technologies Corporation, East Hartford, Connecticut, on
behalf of the Aerospace Industries Association; Michael F. Rioux, Air
Transport Association of America, Walter S. Coleman, Regional Airline
Association, and Edward J. Glueckler, Airline Suppliers Association, all of
Washington, D.C.; Gabor Kish, New York, New York; and James M. Frisbee, Apple
Valley, Minnesota.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
COUNTER-TERRORISM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on the Administration's
counter-terrorism intelligence gathering proposals, focusing on whether there
is a need for increased wiretap and infiltration authority for Federal law
enforcement, receiving written testimony from Jamie S. Gorelick, Deputy
Attorney General, Department of Justice; James E. Moody, Acting Deputy
Assistant Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation; and James X. Dempsey,
Center for National Security Studies, and Donald M. Haines, American Civil
Liberties Union, both of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee recessed subject to call.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1995/05/25
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 25, 1995; pages D665 - D672
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1995 FARM BILL: FARM EXPORT PROGRAMS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Marketing,
Inspection, and Product Promotion concluded hearings on proposed legislation
to strengthen and improve United States agricultural programs, focusing on
Federal farm export programs, after receiving testimony from Eugene Moos,
Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services;
Daniel Amstutz, North American Export Grain Association, Washington, D.C., on
behalf of the Coalition for a Competitive Food and Agricultural System; Dwayne
Andreas, Archer Daniels Midland Company, Decatur, Illinois, on behalf of the
Coalition to Promote United States Agricultural Exports; Dan Blackshear,
Carolina Turkeys, Mt. Olive, North Carolina, on behalf of the National Turkey
Federation; Rob Paarlberg, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts; Philip
Johnston, CARE, Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the Coalition for Food Aid; and
Brad Fay, North Dakota Grain Growers, Bismarck, on behalf of the United States
Wheat Associates and the United States Feed Grains Council.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of Bruce A. Morrison, of Connecticut, and J. Timothy
O'Neill, of Virginia, each to be a Director of the Federal Housing Finance
Board.
AUTHORIZATION--U.S. TERRITORIES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
638, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1996 through 2001 for project
development programs of United States insular areas, after D669receiving
testimony from Allen P. Stayman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior
for Territorial and International Affairs; American Samoa Governor A.P.
Lutali, and American Samoa Delegate Eni F.H. Faleomavaega, both of Pago Pago;
Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands Resident Representative Juan N.
Babauta; and Wendy L. Doromal, Daytona Beach, Florida, on behalf of the
foreign contract workers of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Timothy Michael Carney, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Sudan, Donald K. Steinberg, of California, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Angola, Mosina H. Jordan, of New York, to be Ambassador to the
Central African Republic, and Lannon Walker, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to
the Republic of Cote D'Ivoire, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Inez Smith Reid, to be an Associate Judge of the District of
Columbia Court of Appeals, Ronna Lee Beck, Linda Kay Davis, and Eric T.
Washington, each to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the
District of Columbia, Robert F. Rider, of Delaware, and S. David Fineman, of
Pennsylvania, each to be a Governor of the United States Postal Service, G.
Edward DeSeve, of Pennsylvania, to be Controller, Office of Federal Financial
Management, Office of Management and Budget, and John W. Carlin, of Kansas, to
be Archivist of the United States, National Archives and Records
Administration.
CHILD PROTECTION REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children and Families
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of
the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, focusing on child protection
reform measures, after receiving testimony from Richard Wexler, Pennsylvania
State University, Beaver, on behalf of the National Coalition for Child
Protection Reform; Betty S. Spivack, Hartford Hospital/University of
Connecticut Health Center, Hartford; Michael W. Weber, St. Paul, Minnesota, on
behalf of the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago;
Carol L. Hopkins, San Diego, California; Thomas D. Morton, Child Welfare
Institute, Atlanta, Georgia; and James B. Wade, Cabool, Missouri.
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and
Humanities concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
programs of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act of 1990,
focusing on the role of business in building a better workforce, after
receiving testimony from Hedrick Smith, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced
International Studies, Washington, D.C.; Carver C. Gayton, The Boeing Company,
Seattle, Washington; Rebecca J. Taylor, Vocational Foundation, Inc., New York,
New York; John Hamill, Fleet Bank of Massachusetts, Boston; Dave Adomyetz,
Rogers Group, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee; and Earl Jaskol, J & J Flock
Products, Easton, Pennsylvania, and Elizabeth Volard, Virginia Council on
Economic Education, Richmond, both on behalf of the National Council on
Economic Education.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/05/26
Daily Digest - Friday, May 26, 1995; pages D674 - D676
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--OTA/GAO
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996, after receiving
testimony in behalf of the Office of Technology Assessment from Senators
Hatch, Grassley, and Kennedy, each a Member of the Board, and Roger C.
Herdman, Director, all of OTA; and in behalf of the General Accounting Office
from Senator Glenn; and Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United
States, GAO.
SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Thursday, May 25,
committee ordered favorably reported, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute, S. 240, to establish a filing deadline and to provide certain
safeguards to ensure that the interest of investors are well protected under
the implied private action provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
WELFARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported, with an amendment
in the nature of a substitute, H.R. 4, to control welfare spending and reduce
welfare dependence by requiring States to encourage job placement measures, to
provide for a job voucher program through the use of private profit and
nonprofit organizations, to eliminate certain Federal requirements to give
States additional flexibility in operating their Job Opportunities and Basic
Skill Training Program (JOBS), and to establish a temporary family assistance
grant under which States can provide assistance to needy families with minor
children.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items:
The nomination of Henry W. Foster Jr., of Tennessee, to be Medical Director in
the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, subject to qualifications
therefor as provided by law and regulations, and to be Surgeon General of the
Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services; and
S. 850, authorizing funds for programs of the Child Care and Development Block
Grant Act.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/06/05
Daily Digest - Monday, June 5, 1995; pages D677 - D682
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/06/06
Daily Digest - Tuesday, June 6, 1995; pages D684 - D690
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1995 FARM BILL: RESOURCE CONSERVATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Forestry,
Conservation, and Rural Revitalization concluded hearings on proposed
legislation to strengthen and improve United States agricultural programs,
focusing on the natural resources conservation provisions, including a related
measure S. 854, after receiving testimony from Richard E. Rominger, Deputy
Secretary of Agriculture; Ross Hansen, Genoa, Colorado, on behalf of the
National Association of Wheat Growers; Bob Drake, Davis, Oklahoma, on behalf
of the National Cattlemen's Association; Howard Schmid, North Dakota Farm
Bureau, Oberon, on behalf of the American Farm Bureau Federation; Dallin
Reese, Burley, Idaho, on behalf of the Northwest Farmers Union and the
National Farmers Union; James R. Moseley, Purdue University, Lafayette,
Indiana, on behalf of the National Association of State Departments of
Agriculture; Gary Mast, Ohio Federation of Soil and Water Conservation
Districts, Millersburg, on behalf of the National Association of Conservation
Districts; Maureen Kuwano Hinkle, National Audubon Society, Washington, D.C.;
Aggie Helle, Dillon, Montana, on behalf of the Grazing Lands Conservation
Initiative Steering Committee; and Buddy Williams, Nashville Department of
Water and Sewerage Services, Nashville, Tennessee, on behalf of the
Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies.
INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense met in closed session to
receive a briefing on intelligence programs from John M. Deutch, Director,
Central Intelligence Agency.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the
Department of the Interior, after receiving testimony from Bruce Babbitt,
Secretary of the Interior.
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ELECTRIC UTILITY PURCHASE MANDATE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Production
and Regulation concluded hearings on S. 708, to repeal section 210 of the
Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 which requires the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission to prescribe rules that require electric
utilities to purchase electric energy from qualifying cogeneration and small
power production facilities at avoided cost rates, after receiving testimony
from Elizabeth A. Moler, Chair, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and
Susan F. Tierney, Assistant Secretary for Policy, both of the Department of
Energy; Robert Anderson, Montana Public Service Commission, Helena, Robert W.
Gee, Texas Public Utilities Commission, Austin, and Cody L. Graves,
Corporation Commission of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, all on behalf of the
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; Irwin A. Popowsky,
Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate, Harrisburg; Albert J. Budney, Jr.,
Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, Syracuse, New York; Joseph P. Kearney, U.S.
Generating Company, Bethesda, Maryland, on behalf of the National Independent
Energy Producers and the Electric Generation Association; W. Henson Moore,
American Forest and Paper Association, Washington, D.C.; Alan J. Noia,
Allegheny Power System, Inc., New York, New York; James R. Niehaus, Oxy,
U.S.A., Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma, on behalf of the Natural Gas Supply
Association; David L. Sokol, California Energy Company, Inc., Omaha, Nebraska,
on behalf of the Geothermal Energy Association; and Edwin A. Guiles, San
Diego, California, on behalf of the San Diego Gas and Electric Company and the
Edison Electric Institute.
CONSUMER PRICE INDEX
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine the use of the
Consumer Price Index as an indicator of inflation and changes in the cost of
living, receiving testimony from Michael J. Boskin, Stanford University,
Stanford, California; Ellen R. Dulberger, IBM Global I/T Services, White
Plains, New York; Zvi Griliches, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts;
Janet L. Norwood, Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.; and Robert A. Pollak,
University of Washington, Seattle.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL INSURANCE TRUST FUNDS
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on the 1995 Annual Reports of
the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Supplementary
Medical Insurance Trust Funds, receiving testimony from Robert E. Rubin,
Secretary of the Treasury; and Robert B. Reich, Secretary of Labor.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HONG KONG
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
concluded hearings to examine United States' interests in the future economic
and political stability of Hong Kong after it reverts to the jurisdiction of
the People's Republic of China on July 1, 1997, after receiving testimony from
Winston Lord, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs;
and Richard Thornburgh, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, former Attorney General of the
United States, James R. Lilley, American Enterprise Institute, former
Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, Gerrit W. Gong, Center for
Strategic and International Studies, and Thomas A. Boasberg, Covington &
Burling, all of Washington, D.C.; Gerald L. Murdock, Asia Power Group, Ltd.,
Hong Kong, on behalf of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong; and
Andrew Au, Gaithersburg, Maryland, on behalf of the Alliance of Hong Kong
Chinese in the United States.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Carlos K. Lucero, of Colorado, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth
Circuit, Nancy Friedman Atlas, to be United States District Judge for the
Southern District of Texas, Wiley Y. Daniel, to be United States District
Judge for the District of Colorado, Donald C. Nugent, to be United States
District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, and Andrew Fois, of New
York, to be Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legislative Affairs,
Department of Justice, after the nominees testified and answered questions in
their own behalf. Messrs. Lucero and Daniel were introduced by Senators Brown
and Campbell, and Representative Skaggs, Ms. Atlas was introduced by Senator
Hutchison, Mr. Nugent was introduced by Senators DeWine and Glenn, and Mr.
Fois was introduced by District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton.
FLAG DESECRATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Constitution, Federalism, and
Property Rights concluded hearings on S.J. Res. 31, proposing an amendment to
the Constitution of the United States to grant Congress and the States the
power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States,
after receiving testimony from Senators Kerrey and Heflin; Walter Dellinger,
Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice;
William Detweiler, American Legion, Indianapolis, D687Indiana; Joseph R.
Pinon, City of Miami Beach, Miami Beach, Florida; Stephen B. Presser,
Northwestern University School of Law, and Cass R. Sunstein, University of
Chicago School of Law, both of Chicago, Illinois; Charles Cooper, Shaw,
Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge, Washington, D.C.; Richard D. Parker, Harvard
University School of Law, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Gene Nichol, University of
Colorado School of Law, Boulder; Rose Lee, Arlington, Virginia, on behalf of
the Gold Star Wives of America, Inc.; and Bruce Fein, Great Falls, Virginia.
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Joint Meetings
GPO
Joint Committee on Printing: Committee concluded oversight hearings to review
activities of the Government Printing Office, focusing on cost savings and new
information services, after receiving testimony from Michael F. DiMario,
Public Printer, Government Printing Office.
1995/06/07
Daily Digest - Wednesday, June 7, 1995; pages D691 - D698
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE/SELECTIVE SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996, after
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Eli J. Segal, Chief Executive Officer, Corporation for National and Community
Service; and Gil Coronado, Director, Selective Service System.
BOSNIA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to examine recent
developments in Bosnia and changes in United States policy toward the conflict
in the region, receiving testimony from William J. Perry, Secretary of
Defense; and Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the nominations of Martin Neil Baily, of Maryland, to be a Member of the
Council of Economic Advisers, John D. Hawke Jr., of New York, to be Under
Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance, Charles L. Marinaccio, of the
District of Columbia, Deborah Dudley Branson, of Texas, Marianne C. Spraggins,
of New York, and Albert J. Dwoskin, of Virginia, each to be a Director of the
Securities Investor Protection Corporation, Steve M. Hays, of Tennessee, to be
a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Building
Sciences, and Sheila Anne Smith, of Illinois, to be a Member of the Board of
Directors of the National Consumer Cooperative Bank, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Baily was introduced
by Senator Sarbanes, Mr. Marinaccio was introduced by Representative LaFalce,
Ms. Branson was introduced by Senators Bumpers and Moseley-Braun, Ms.
Spraggins was introduced by Senator Moseley-Braun, Mr. Hays was introduced by
Senator Frist, and Ms. Smith was introduced by Senators Simon and
Moseley-Braun.
Also, committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Tony Scallon, of
Minnesota, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Consumer
Cooperative Bank.
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NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Oversight and
Investigations concluded hearings to review how the Departments of Energy and
Interior and the U.S. Forest Service are implementing the requirements of the
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (P.L.91-190), focusing on problems
associated with Environmental Impact Statements, after receiving testimony
from Jack Ward Thomas, Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; John
D. Leshy, Solicitor, Department of the Interior; Robert R. Nordhaus, General
Counsel, Department of Energy; David V. Garber, Big Horn Forest Grazing
Permittees Association, Big Horn, Wyoming; Steve Silver, Robertson, Monagle
and Eastaugh, Juneau, Alaska; Robert S. Lynch, Colorado River Energy
Distributors Association, Salt Lake City, Utah; and Robert Dreher, Sierra Club
Legal Defense Fund, Washington, D.C.
SMALL BUSINESS TAX INCENTIVES
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on issues relating to small
business tax incentives, focusing on proposals to modify estate and gift
taxation and expensing of equipment for small businesses under section 179 of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, including H.R. 1215, S. 105, S. 628, S.
867, S. 161, and S. 692, receiving testimony from Cynthia G. Beerbower, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Douglas Holtz-Eakin,
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, on behalf of the National Bureau of
Economic Research; Guy B. Maxfield, New York University Law School, New York;
Edward J. McCaffrey, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; and
Richard W. Rahn, Business Leadership Council, Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported an
original bill to authorize reduced levels of appropriations for foreign
assistance programs for fiscal years 1996 and 1997.
GOVERNMENT PROGRAM STRUCTURING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine
potential duplication, overlap and fragmentation in Federal Government
programs, receiving testimony from Susan J. Irving, Associate Director, and
Michael J. Curro, Assistant Director, both for Budget Issues, Accounting and
Information Management Division, General Accounting Office; William E. Davis
III, Executive Director, Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations;
and Janet L. Norwood and Thomas H. Stanton, both of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
JUVENILE CRIME
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Youth Violence concluded hearings
to examine how welfare dependence and illegitimacy contribute to juvenile
crime and violence, after receiving testimony from J.T. Marlin, Chattanooga
Police Department, Hixson, Tennessee; Patrick F. Fagan, The Heritage
Foundation, James Wootton, Safe Streets Alliance, Michael Tanner, CATO
Institute, and Robert L. Maginnis, Family Research Council, all of Washington,
D.C.; Donald Bersoff, Medical College of Pennsylvania and Villanova
University, Villanova, Pennsylvania; and M. Anne Hill, City University of New
York, New York.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/06/08
Daily Digest - Thursday, June 8, 1995; pages D700 - D708
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for military
construction programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Robert M. Walker, Assistant Secretary of the Army
for Logistics and Environment, Bruce M. Carnes, Deputy Director for Resource
Management, Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Maj. Gen. G.K. Anderson,
USAF, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Services, Operations, and
Readiness; Brig. Gen. Harold E. Burch, USA, Executive Director, Distribution,
Defense Logistics Agency, and Millard Carr, Director, Energy and Engineering,
Office of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Installations, all of the Department
of Defense.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
BOSNIA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings to examine recent
developments in Bosnia and United States policy toward the conflict in the
region, receiving testimony from Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Washington, D.C.,
former Secretary of State.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FINANCIAL SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
oversight hearings to examine the status of the financial services
negotiations under the newly created World Trade Organization and market
access barriers to United States securities firms, after receiving testimony
from Robert E. Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury; Michael Kantor, United States
Trade Representative; James F. Gwaltney, Ford Financial Services Group,
Dearborn, Michigan, on behalf of the Coalition of Service Industries, Inc.;
and Carl A. Modecki, National Association of Insurance Brokers, F. William
Hawley, Citicorp/Citibank, on behalf of the Bankers' Association for Foreign
Trade, Paul Stevens, Investment Company Institute, and Steve Judge, Securities
Industry Association, all of Washington, D.C.
FOREST MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and Public
Land Management resumed oversight hearings on Federal forest management
issues, focusing on the Department of Agriculture's proposal to reorganize the
Forest Service, the Forest Service proposal to revise the regulations
governing the development of national forest plans under the National Forest
Management Act of 1976, and H.R. 529, to authorize the exchange of National
Forest System lands in the Targhee National Forest in Idaho for non-Federal
lands within the forest in Wyoming, receiving testimony from Jack Ward Thomas,
Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; R. Max Peterson, Leesburg,
Virginia, former D702Chief, Forest Service; Mitch Friedman, Northwest
Ecosystem Alliance, Bellingham, Washington; Michael Medberry, Western Ancient
Forest Campaign, and James R. Woehr, Wildlife Management Institute, both of
Washington, D.C.; Dan Tomascheski, Sierra-Pacific Industries, Anderson,
California; Charles H. Burley, Northwest Forestry Association, Bend, Oregon;
and Donald Leal, Political Economy Research Center, Bozeman, Montana.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of
Ira S. Shapiro, of Maryland, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of
service as Senior Counsel and Negotiator in the Office of the United States
Trade Representative, John D. Hawke, Jr., of New York, to be Under Secretary,
and Linda L. Robertson, of Oklahoma, to be a Deputy Under Secretary, both of
the Department of the Treasury, and Stephen G. Kellison, of Texas, and Marilyn
Moon, of Maryland, each to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Federal
Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability
Insurance Trust Fund.
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the aforementioned
nominations, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf.
EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the scope and purpose
of the earned income tax credit, and proposals to modify and improve the EITC,
receiving testimony from Leslie B. Samuels, Assistant Secretary for Tax
Policy, and Margaret Milner Richardson, Commissioner, Internal Revenue
Service, both of the Department of the Treasury; Lynda D. Willis, Associate
Director, Tax Policy and Administration Issues, General Government Division,
General Accounting Office; Robert Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities, Marvin H. Kosters, American Enterprise Institute, both of
Washington, D.C.; and George K. Yin, University of Virginia School of Law,
Charlottesville.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BOSNIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the United
States overall goals and diplomatic strategy in Bosnia, receiving testimony
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,
Director, Plans and Policy (J-5), Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration approved for full
committee consideration S. 457, to update references in the classification of
children for purposes of United States immigration laws.
Also, subcommittee began consideration of S. 269, to increase control over
immigration to the United States by increasing border patrol and investigator
personnel, improving the verification system for employer sanctions,
increasing penalties for alien smuggling and for document fraud, reforming
asylum, exclusion, and deportation law and procedures, instituting a land
border user fee, and to reduce the use of welfare by aliens, but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday, June 14.
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY BLOCK GRANT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
673, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1996 through 1998 to establish a youth
development grant program, after receiving testimony from Philip Coltoff,
Children's Aid Society, and Anthony P. Conza, Blimpie International, Inc.,
representing the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, both of New York, New York;
Michael J. McClelland, Hardware Wholesalers, Inc., Fort Wayne, Indiana,
representing the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America; Michael L. Green,
EverGreen Capital Management, Omaha, Nebraska, representing the Camp Fire Boys
and Girls; Randy Johnson, Minneapolis, Minnesota, representing the National
Association of Counties and the Local Collaboration on Children and Youth;
William F. Wetzel, YMCA of Metropolitan Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee;
John A. Johnson, New York State Division for Youth, Rensselaer; and Beverly
Watts Davis, San Antonio Fighting Back, San Antonio, Texas.
VA REGULATIONS
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine recent
court decisions affecting Department of Veterans Affairs' regulations
regarding veterans' benefits, focusing on Gardner v. Brown, 115 S. Ct. 552
(1994), and Davenport v. Brown, 7 Vet. App. 476 (1995), after receiving
testimony from Mary Lou Keener, General Counsel, Department of Veterans
Affairs, who was accompanied by several of her associates.
NATIVE AMERICAN FINANCIAL SERVICES ORGANIZATION ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 436, to improve the
economic conditions and supply of housing in Native American communities by
creating the Native American Financial Services D703Organization, receiving
testimony from Joseph Shuldiner, Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, Dom Nessi, Director, Office of Native American Programs, and Michael
A. Stegman, Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, all of
the Department of Housing and Urban Development; Michael Mail, Quinault Indian
Nation, Taholah, Washington; John SunChild Sr., Chippewa Cree Tribal Council,
Box Elder, Montana; Jacqueline L. Johnson, Tlingit-Haida Indian Housing
Authority, Juneau, Alaska, on behalf of the National American Indian Housing
Council; Robert Gauthier, Salish-Kootenai Housing Authority, Pablo, Montana,
on behalf of the National Commission on American Indian, Alaska Native and
Native Hawaiian Housing; and Joel R. Thompson, Cherokee Nation Housing
Authority, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: On Wednesday, June 7, committee held closed
hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the
intelligence community.
Committee recessed subject to call.
Joint Meetings
ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine the recent
economic slowdown and its effects on the national economy, receiving testimony
from Wayne Angell, Bear, Stearns and Company, New York, New York; and Daniel
J. Mitchell, Heritage Foundation, Robert Davis, National Association of
Business Economists, and David Wyss, McGraw-Hill, Inc., all of Washington,
D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET
Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H. Con. Res. 67, setting forth the congressional budget for the
United States Government for the fiscal years 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000,
2001, and 2002, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to
call.
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission):
Commission held hearings to examine the recent crisis in the continuing
conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina, receiving testimony from Bosnia-Herzegovina
Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic, Sarajevo.
Commission recessed subject to call.
1995/06/09
Daily Digest - Friday, June 9, 1995; pages D710 - D714
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BOSNIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the situation in Bosnia from Lt. Gen. Wesley K. Clark, Director,
Plans and Policy (J-5), Joint Chiefs of Staff; Joseph Kruzel, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy; and John Kornblum,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian
Affairs.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/06/12
Daily Digest - Monday, June 12, 1995; pages D715 - D718
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
Joint Meetings
21ST CENTURY ECONOMY
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine the role of
American government in utilizing new technologies to create economic
opportunity and prosperity in the future, after receiving testimony from Jerry
J. Jasinowski, National Association of Manufacturers, and Alvin Toffler, both
of Washington, D.C.; Marc I. Holtzman, MeesPierson EuroAmerica, Budapest,
Hungary; and Frederic L. Pryor, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania;
and after receiving testimony via audio/video network from Representative
Walker (from Ephrata, Pennsylvania); Joel Kotkin, Pepperdine University School
of Business, Los Angeles, California; Steve Forbes, Forbes Magazine, New York,
New York; Robert Genetski, Robert Genetski & Associates, Inc., Chicago,
Illinois; Brenda French, French Rags, Los Angeles, California; and Paul
Johnson, London, England.
1995/06/13
Daily Digest - Tuesday, June 13, 1995; pages D719 - D726
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1995 FARM BILL: COMMODITY POLICY
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
on proposed legislation to strengthen and improve United States agricultural
programs, focusing on commodity program policies, receiving testimony from
Daniel R. Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture; Carl Loop, Florida Farm Bureau,
Gainesville, on behalf of the American Farm Bureau Federation; Leland H.
Swenson, National Farmers Union, Denver, Colorado; Becky Doyle, Illinois
Department of Agriculture, Springfield, on behalf of the National Association
of State Departments of Agriculture; Timothy W. Warman, American Farmland
Trust, Washington, D.C.; John Hitchell, The Kroger Company, Cincinnati, Ohio,
on behalf of the International Dairy Foods Association; Carroll Brunthaver,
Sparks Companies, Inc., Memphis, Tennessee, on behalf of the National Grain
and Feed Association and the National Grain Trade Council; Evans J. Plowden,
Jr., Albany, Georgia, on behalf of the American Peanut Shellers Association,
Inc., Virginia-Carolina Peanut Association, and the Southwestern Peanut
Shellers Association; Ben Smith, Tom's Foods, Inc., Columbus, Georgia, on
behalf of the American Peanut Product Manufacturers, Inc.; Carlton Bert,
Larned, Kansas, on behalf of the American Alfalfa Processors Association; and
D721Elmer Hillesland, Grand Forks Chamber of Commerce, Grand Forks, North
Dakota.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on health programs, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. Alcide M. Lanoue, USA,
Surgeon General of the Army; Vice Adm. Donald F. Hagen, USN, Surgeon General
of the Navy; Lt. Gen. Edgar R. Anderson, Jr., USAF, Surgeon General of the Air
Force; Brig Gen. Nancy Adams, Chief of Army Nurse Corps; Capt. Mary Gardner,
USN, Deputy Director, Naval Nurse Corps; and Brig. Gen. (Sel) Linda J.
Stierle, USAF, Director, Air Force Nursing Services.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 20.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
John P. White, of Massachusetts, to be Deputy Secretary of Defense, after the
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Kennedy, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Roberta L. Gross, of the District of Columbia,
to be Inspector General, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, after
the nominee testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
NASA'S MISSION TO PLANET EARTH
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine the status of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mission to Planet Earth program
designed to better understand and predict global climate change, after
receiving testimony from Senator Kyl; Charles Kennel, Associate Administrator,
Mission to Planet Earth Program, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration; Al Watkins, Chief, National Mapping Division, United States
Geological Survey, Department of the Interior; Paul Smith, South Dakota School
of Mines and Technology, Rapid City; Tommy Thompson, Louisiana-Pacific
Corporation, Calpella, California; and Richard Bowers and Wilson Orr, both of
Scottsdale, Arizona.
URANIUM ENRICHMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
755, to provide for the privatization of the United States Enrichment
Corporation which provides domestic uranium enrichment services, after
receiving testimony from Charles B. Curtis, Under Secretary of Energy; William
H. Timbers, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, United States
Enrichment Corporation; James Derryberry, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., New
York, New York; Joe Colvin, Nuclear Energy Institute, Dale L. Alberts, Uranium
Producers of America, and W. Howard Arnold, Louisiana Energy Services, all of
Washington, D.C.; and James K. Phillips, Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers
International Union, Fairfax, Virginia.
AARP FINANCIAL AND BUSINESS PRACTICES
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy held
hearings to examine the financial and business practices of the American
Association of Retired Persons (AARP), receiving testimony from Natwar M.
Gandhi, Associate Director, Tax Policy and Administrative Issues, General
Government Division, General Accounting Division; Paul S. Hewitt, National
Taxpayers Union, and M. Roy Goldberg, Galland, Kharasch, Morse and Garfinkel,
both of Washington, D.C.; and Mancur Olson, Jr., University of Maryland,
College Park.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, June 20.
TAX TREATIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the following
treaties: Tax Convention With Sweden (Treaty Doc. 103-29), Tax Convention With
Ukraine (Treaty Doc. 103-30), Additional Protocol Modifying the Tax Convention
With Mexico (Treaty Doc. 103-31), Tax Convention With the French Republic
(Treaty Doc. 103-32), Tax Convention With the Republic of Kazakhstan (Treaty
Doc. 103-33), Tax Convention With the Portuguese Republic (Treaty Doc.
103-34), and a Revised Protocol Amending the 1980 Tax Convention With Canada
(Treaty Doc. 104-4), after receiving testimony from Senator Dorgan; Leslie B.
Samuels, Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy, and Joseph H. Guttentag,
International Tax Counsel, both of the Department of the Treasury; Daniel M.
Berman, International Tax Specialist, Joint Committee on Taxation, United
States Congress; Robert H. Green, National Foreign Trade Council, Inc.,
Washington, D.C.; and Richard M. Hammer, United States Council for
International Business, New York, New York.
UNITED STATES-JAPAN RELATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
concluded hearings on United States-Japan trade relations, focusing on the
D722effects of U.S. sanctions on overall U.S./Japan relations, the economic
impact on U.S. business and workers, and the future of the World Trade
Organization, after receiving testimony from Senator Levin; Stephen Ecton,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs;
Ira S. Shapiro, Senior Counsel, Office of the United States Trade
Representative; and Joe Cobb, Heritage Foundation, Marcus Noland, Institute
for International Economics, Nathaniel B. Thayer, Nitze School of Advanced
International Studies (Johns Hopkins University), William A. Niskanen, Cato
Institute, Robert E. Cole, Automotive Parts Advisory Committee, Lee Kadrich,
Automotive Parts and Accessories Association, and Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr.,
Economic Strategy Institute, all of Washington, D.C.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1995/06/14
Daily Digest - Wednesday, June 14, 1995; pages D728 - D736
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FOOD STAMP AND CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original bill to provide flexibility to States to administer, and
control the cost of, the food stamp and child nutrition programs, in lieu of
S. 904.
BOSNIA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings to examine United
States policy regarding the conflict in Bosnia, receiving testimony from
former United States President Jimmy Carter; and Gen. John R. Galvin, USA
(Ret.), former Supreme Allied Commander, Europe.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
D'OENCH DUHME REFORM ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on S. 648, to clarify treatment of certain claims and defenses against an
insured depository institution under receivership by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation, after receiving testimony from Senator Cohen; Sharon
Powers Sivertsen, Assistant General Counsel, Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation; Mark P. Hileman, Assistant General Counsel, Resolution Trust
Corporation; David S. Hess, Great Falls, Virginia, on behalf of the Citizens
and Business For D'Oench Duhme Reform; James H. Harvey, Jr., T&J Heating and
Air Conditioning, Inc., Bellingham, Massachusetts; Fred Galves, University of
the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, California; Peter P. Swire,
University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville; and Rhetta B. Sweeney,
Comfed Savings Bank, Lowell, Massachusetts.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items:
S. 92, to provide for the reconstitution of the outstanding repayment
obligations of the administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration for
the appropriated capital investments in the Federal Columbia River Power
System;
S. 468, to extend the deadline under the Federal Power Act applicable to the
construction of a hydroelectric project in Ohio;
S. 543, to extend the deadline under the Federal Power Act applicable to the
construction of a hydroelectric project in Oregon;
S. 547, to extend the deadlines applicable to certain hydroelectric projects
under the Federal Power Act;
S. 552, to allow the refurbishment and continued operation of a small
hydroelectric facility in Central Montana by adjusting the amount of charges
to be paid to the United States under the Federal Power Act;
S. 595, to provide for the extension of a hydroelectric project in West
Virginia;
S. 611, to authorize an extension of time limitation for a Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission-issued hydroelectric license; and
The nomination of James J. Hoecker, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy.
CUBAN LIBERTY AND SOLIDARITY ACT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace
Corps Affairs concluded hearings on S. 381, to strengthen international
sanctions against the Castro government in Cuba, and to develop a plan to
support a transition government leading to a democratically elected government
in Cuba, after receiving testimony from Senators Specter and Gramm;
Representatives Burton, Ros-Lehtinen, Diaz-Balart, and Rangel; Bruce Fein,
Great Falls, Virginia, former Associate Deputy Attorney General, Department of
Justice; Alberto Diaz-Masvidal, Consolidated Development Corporation, Coral
Gables, Florida; Otto Reich, U.S. Cuba Business Council, and Kim R. Holmes,
Heritage Foundation, both of Washington, D.C.; and Francisco J. Hernandez,
Cuban American National Foundation, Alfredo Duran, Cuban Committee for
Democracy, and Ignacio E. Sanchez, Kelley Drye & Warren, all of Miami, Florida
IMMIGRATION CONTROL
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration approved for full
committee consideration, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S.
269, to increase control over immigration to the United States by increasing
border patrol and investigator personnel, improving the verification system
for employer sanctions, increasing penalties for alien D731smuggling and for
document fraud, reforming asylum, exclusion, and deportation law and
procedures, instituting a land border user fee, and reducing the use of
welfare by aliens.
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JOB TRAINING CONSOLIDATION ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee began markup of S. 143, to
consolidate Federal employment training programs and create a new process and
structure for funding the programs, but did not complete action thereon, and
will continue on Wednesday, June 21.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of George J. Tenet, of Maryland, to be Deputy Director of Central
Intelligence, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Sarbanes,
Murkowski, and Nunn, and former Senators Rudman and Boren, testified and
answered questions in his own behalf.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/06/15
Daily Digest - Thursday, June 15, 1995; pages D737 - D744
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1995 FARM BILL: COMMODITY POLICY
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Production
and Price Competitiveness held hearings on proposed legislation to strengthen
and improve United States agricultural programs, focusing on commodity program
policies, receiving testimony from Senator Burns; James H. Sanford,
Prattville, Alabama, on behalf of the National Cotton Council; Tommy Hillman,
Carlisle, Arkansas, on behalf of the USA Rice Federation; John Long, Newberry,
South Carolina, on behalf of the American Soybean Association; Ross Hansen,
Genoa, Colorado, on behalf of the National Association of Wheat Growers; Rod
Gangwish, Shelton, Nebraska, on behalf of the National Corn Growers
Association, James Earl Mobley, Alabama Peanut Producers Association,
Shorterville, on behalf of the National Peanut Growers Group; Craig Anderson,
Longmont, Colorado, on behalf of the American Sugarbeet Growers Association;
James C. Barr, National Milk Producers Federation, Arlington, Virginia; Less
Guthrie, Porterville, California, on behalf of the National Cattlemen's
Association; Cindy Siddoway, Terreton, Idaho, on behalf of the American Sheep
Industry Association; Pat Henderson, American Oat Association, Minneapolis,
Minnesota; Bill Kubecka, National Grain Sorghum Producers, Abernathy, Texas;
Robert P. Dixon, SF Services, Inc., North Little Rock, Arkansas, on behalf of
the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives; and Dale E. Aupperle, American
Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, Inc., Denver, Colorado.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BOSNIA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings to examine United
States policy regarding the conflict in Bosnia, receiving testimony from James
R. Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense and former Secretary of Energy;
Richard L. Armitage, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and former
Director, U.S. Assistance to Newly Independent States; and Col. Harry G.
Summers, Jr., USA (Ret.), Bowie, Maryland.
Committee recessed subject to call.
FHA-INSURED AND ASSISTED MULTIFAMILY HOUSING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing
Opportunity and Community Development concluded hearings on the Department of
Housing and Urban Development's proposal to restructure the Federal Housing
Administration-insured multifamily housing portfolio that receives HUD
project-based Section 8 assistance, after receiving testimony from Susan
Gaffney, Inspector General, Nicholas P. Retsinas, Assistant Secretary for
Housing, Federal Housing Commissioner, and Helen Dunlap, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Multifamily Housing, all of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development; Jim Wells, Associate Director, Housing and Community Development
Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, General
Accounting Office; Larry H. Dale, Fannie Mae, Washington, D.C.; and David A.
Smith, Recapitalization Advisors, Inc., and William E. Haynsworth, Boston
Financial Group, both of Boston, Massachusetts.
U.S. MILITIA MOVEMENT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and
Government Information held D739hearings to examine the scope of militia
organizations in the United States, the nature of their activities, their
reason for existence, and the extent to which they pose a threat to American
citizens, receiving testimony from Senators Baucus and Levin; James L. Brown,
Deputy Associate Director for Criminal Enforcement, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms, Department of the Treasury; Robert M. Bryant, Assistant
Director, National Security Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Department of Justice; Col. Fred M. Mills, Missouri State Highway Patrol,
Jefferson City; Maricopa County Attorney Richard M. Romley, Phoenix, Arizona;
Musselshell County Attorney John Bohlman, Roundup, Montana; John E. Trochmann
and Robert Fletcher, both of Noxon, Montana; Ken Adams, Harbor Springs,
Michigan; James Johnson, Columbus, Ohio; and Norman Olson, Alanson, Michigan.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN EMPLOYMENT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded oversight hearings
to examine affirmative action in employment, focusing on compliance with
Executive Order 11246, which prohibits employers with Federal contracts from
discriminating against job applicants or employees on the basis of race, sex,
national origin or religion, and requires Federal contractors to take
affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity, after receiving testimony from
Shirley J. Wilcher, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Federal Contract
Compliance, Employment Standards Administration, Department of Labor; Arthur
A. Fletcher, Chairman, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Ellen Shong Bergman,
Ellen Shong and Associates, Sea Brook, South Carolina; Susan R. Meisinger,
Society for Human Resource Management, Alexandria, Virginia; Linda Chavez,
Center for Equal Opportunity, Brian W. Jones, Center for New Black Leadership,
and Marsha Greenberger, National Women's Law Center, all of Washington, D.C.;
and John Trygg, Junction City, Kansas.
AUTHORIZATION--FEC
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for the Federal
Election Commission, after receiving testimony from Danny Lee McDonald,
Chairman, and Lee Ann Elliott, Commissioner, both of the Federal Election
Commission; and Brent Thompson, Fair Government Foundation, Washington, D.C.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/06/16
Daily Digest - Friday, June 16, 1995; pages D745 - D750
Committee Meetings
( Committees not listed did not meet )
RAIL ASSISTANCE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation and Merchant Marine concluded hearings on S. 920, authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1996 for rebuilding and improving the rail lines serving
smaller cities and rural areas, and to discuss the future of the National
Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), after receiving testimony from
Mortimer L. Downey, Deputy Secretary of Transportation; Thomas Downs,
President and Chairman, National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak);
South Dakota Deputy Secretary of Transportation Dean Schofield, Pierre; Mayor
John Robert Smith, Meridian, Mississippi, on behalf of the Amtrak Regional
Forum Workshop; and Edwin L. Harper, Association of American Railroads,
William E. Loftus, American Short Line Railroad Association, Peter Gilbertson,
Regional Railroads of America, Craig Lentzsch, Greyhound, Inc., on behalf of
the American Bus Association, and Sonny Hall, Safe Transit and Rail
Transportation (START), on behalf of the Transport Workers Union, all of
Washington, D.C.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/06/19
Daily Digest - Monday, June 19, 1995; pages D752 - D756
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
S CORPORATION REFORM/HOME OFFICE DEDUCTIONS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight held hearings
on S. 758, to amend the Internal Revenue Code to increase from 35 to 50 the
maximum number of shareholders of an S Corporation (electing small business
corporation), to allow members of a family to be treated as one shareholder,
and to allow an S. Corporation to issue qualified preferred stock, S. 327, to
amend the Internal Revenue Code to provide clarification for the deductibility
of expenses incurred by a taxpayer in connection with the business use of the
home, and certain provisions to change the rules for claiming expenses for the
business use of a home of H.R. 1215, Contract With America Tax Relief Act,
receiving testimony from Glen A. Kohl, Tax Legislative Counsel, Department of
the Treasury; Brad Barney, Barney Trucking, Inc., Salina, Utah, on behalf of
the S Corporation Reform Project; Martin D. Ginsburg, Georgetown University
Law Center, Samuel P. Starr, American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants, and Mortimer Caplin, Caplin & Drysdale, all of Washington, D.C.;
Judith Obermayer, Obermayer Associates, West Newton, Massachusetts, on behalf
of the National Association for the Self-Employed, Susan Pace Hamill,
University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa; Wendy C. Gerzog, University
of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland; and Craig Willett, Willett
and Associates, Provo, Utah, on behalf of the National Federation of
Independent Business.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL PENSION REFORM
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Post Office and Civil
Service concluded hearings on proposals to reform the Federal pension system,
after receiving testimony from Louis J. Freeh, Director, Federal Bureau of
Investigation, Stephen H. Greene, Deputy Administrator, Drug Enforcement
Administration, both of the Department of Justice; Robert Mansker, Staff
Member, Joint Committee on Printing; John N. Sturdivant, American Federation
of Government Employees (AFL-CIO), Robert Tobias, National Treasury Employees
Union, Sonya Constantine, National Federation of Federal Employees, Moe
Biller, American Postal Workers Union (AFL-CIO), Vince Palladino, National
Association of Postal Supervisors, Carol A. Bonosaro, Senior Executives
Association, Helene A. Benson, Professional Managers Association, and Charles
R. Jackson, National Association of Retired Federal Employees, all of
Washington, D.C.; Ted Carrico, National Association of Postmasters, Roger W.
Moreland, National Rural Letter Carriers' Association, William P. Brennan,
National League of Postmasters of the United States, and Bruce L. Moyer,
Federal Managers Association, all of Alexandria, Virginia; and Robert S.
Duncan, Columbia, Missouri, on behalf of the Social Security Management
Associations, Inc.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/06/20
Daily Digest - Tuesday, June 20, 1995; pages D757 - D764
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
RTC
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held oversight
hearings to review the activities of the Resolution Trust Corporation,
receiving testimony from Robert E. Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury, Alan
Greenspan, Chairman, Federal Reserve Board, Ricki Helfer, Chairman, Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation, Jonathan Fiechter, Acting Director, Office of
Thrift Supervision, John E. Ryan, Deputy and Acting Chief Executive Office,
Resolution Trust Corporation, and Robert C. Larson, Taubman Realty Group,
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, all on behalf of the Thrift Depositor Protection
Oversight Board; Gaston L. Gianni, Jr., Associate Director, Government
Business Operations Issues, General Government Division, General Accounting
Office; John F. Bovenzi, Director, Division of Deposit and Asset Services, and
Dennis F. Geer, Chief Operating Officer and Deputy to the Chairman, both of
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and Ellen B. Kulka, General
Counsel, and Barry S. Kolatch, Vice President for Planning, Research, and
Statistics, both of the Resolution Trust Corporation.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AARP
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy
resumed hearings to examine the financial and business practices of the
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), receiving testimony from
Senator McCain; Jeffrey H. Zelkowitz, Senior Counsel, Classification and
Customer Service, United States Postal Service; and Horace B. Deets, Margaret
Dixon, and Eugene I. Lehrmann, all of the American Association of Retired
Persons, Washington, D.C.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
S. Res. 97, expressing the sense of the Senate with respect to peace and
stability in the South China Sea, with amendments; and
The nominations of Larry C. Napper, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic
of Latvia, R. Grant Smith, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Tajikistan, Lawrence P. Taylor, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Estonia, Peter Tomsen, of California, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Armenia, Jenonne R. Walker, of the District of Columbia, to be
Ambassador to the Czech Republic, James A. Williams, of Virginia, for the rank
of Ambassador during his tenure of service as the Special Coordinator for
Cyprus, Donald K. Steinberg, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic
of Angola, Lannon Walker, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Cote d'Ivoire, Mosina H. Jordan, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Central
African Republic, Timothy M. Carney, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Sudan, a Foreign Service Officers' Promotion List received in the
Senate March 23, 1995, and a Foreign Service Officers' Promotion List received
in the Senate May 15, 1995.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of David C. Litt, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the United Arab
Emirates, Patrick N. Theros, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to
the State of Qatar, and A. Peter Burleigh, of California, to be Ambassador to
the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and to serve concurrently and
without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of Maldives,
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr.
Theros was introduced by Senator Sarbanes.
SALLIE MAE/CONNIE LEE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities held hearings on proposed legislation to allow for an orderly
transition of the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae) to private
status while protecting the interests of the Federal Government, borrowers and
other participants in the student loan program, the holders of Sallie Mae's
debt, Sallie Mae's shareholders and the American taxpayer, and a proposal to
privatize the College Construction Loan Insurance Association (Connie Lee),
receiving testimony from Lawrence A. Hough, President and Chief Executive
Officer, Student Loan Marketing Association; Oliver R. Sockwell, President and
Chief Executive Officer, College Construction Loan Insurance Association
(Connie Lee); Darcy Bradbury, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for
Federal Finance; Leo Kornfeld, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Education;
Barbara Miles, Specialist in Financial Institutions, Economics Division,
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; and Janet Corcoran,
Financial Guaranty Insurance Company, and David C. Mulford, CS First Boston
Corporation, both of New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/06/21
Daily Digest - Wednesday, June 21, 1995; pages D766 - D772
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: On Tuesday, June 20, Subcommittee on Defense held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the Department
of Defense, focusing on counternarcotics programs, receiving testimony from
Brian Sheridan, D768Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Drug Enforcement
Policy and Support); and Rear Adm. Norman T. Saunders, Chief of Coast Guard
Office of Law Enforcement and Defense Operations.
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Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 27.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Vincent Reed Ryan, Jr., of Texas, to be a Member of the Board of
Directors of the Panama Canal Commission, and 2,906 nominations in the Army,
Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
Also, committee met to discuss procedural issues relating to the markup of the
proposed defense authorization request for fiscal year 1996 and the future
years defense program.
Committee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items:
S. 143, to consolidate Federal employment training programs and create a new
process and structure for funding the programs, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute;
S. 919, to modify and to authorize funds for programs of the Child Abuse
Prevention and Treatment Act; and
The nominations of Edmundo A. Gonzales, of Colorado, to be Chief Financial
Officer, Department of Labor, John D. Kemp, of the District of Columbia, to be
a Member of the National Council on Disability, and Clifford Gregory Stewart,
of New Jersey, to be General Counsel, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
OSHA REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held oversight hearings on
activities of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA),
focusing on proposals to reform OSHA regulations to improve workplace safety,
receiving testimony from Duane Guy, Kansas Department of Human Resources, and
Patrick E. Bush, Western Resources, Inc., both of Topeka, Kansas; James C.
Andrews, Jr., Dow Chemical Company, Freeport, Texas, on behalf of the
Voluntary Protection Programs Participants' Association; Joseph A. Kinney,
Monroe, North Carolina, on behalf of the National Safe Workplace Institute;
Vernon E. Rose, University of Alabama, Birmingham, on behalf of the American
Industrial Hygiene Association; Ray Montaigne, Capitol Heights, Maryland; and
Ron Hayes, Fair Hope, Alabama.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATION/ACTIVITIES OF THE DCI
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of George J. Tenet, of Maryland, to be Deputy Director of Central
Intelligence.
Also, committee concluded hearings to review the authorities and activities
involving the Director of Central Intelligence, after receiving testimony from
John M. Deutch, Director, Central Intelligence Agency.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/06/22
Daily Digest - Thursday, June 22, 1995; pages D773 - D780
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
LIVESTOCK GRAZING ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and Public
Land Management concluded hearings on S. 852, to provide for uniform
management of livestock grazing on Federal land, after receiving testimony
from Mike Dombeck, Acting Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of
the Interior; Jack Ward Thomas, Chief, Forest Service, and Floyd P. Horn,
Deputy Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics, both of the
Department of Agriculture; Truman Julian, Julian Land and Livestock Company,
Kemmerer, Wyoming, on behalf of the Public Lands Council; Joseph M. Feller,
Arizona State University, Tempe; Dexter Perkins, University of North Dakota,
Grand Forks, on behalf of the Sierra Club (Dacotah Chapter); John M. Fowler,
New Mexico State University, and Frank A. Dubois, on behalf of the National
Association of State Departments of Agriculture, both of Las Cruces, New
Mexico; Ken Spann, Englewood, Colorado, on behalf of the National Cattlemen's
Association; Brad Little, Emmett, Idaho, on behalf of the American Sheep
Industry Association; Keith Winter, Cartwright, North Dakota, on behalf of the
Association of National Grasslands; Tim Lowry, Jordan Valley, Oregon, on
behalf of the Owyhee Cattlemen's Association; Bud Eppers, New Mexico Public
Lands Council, Roswell; Jeff Menges, Morenci, Arizona, on behalf of the
Arizona Cattle Grower's Association; Niels Hansen, Rawlins, Wyoming, on behalf
of the Stock Growers Association, the Wyoming Wool Growers Association, and
the Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation; Jack Madsen, Gunnison, Utah, on behalf of
the Utah Farm Bureau and the American Farm Bureau Federation; Walt Collins,
Ft. Peck, Montana, on behalf of the Montana Public Lands Council; Kinn
Kincannon, Ketchum, Idaho, on behalf of the Idaho Conservation League; Elsie
Dupree, Carson City, Nevada, on behalf of the Nevada Wildlife Federation,
Inc.; and Richard Kroger, Bismarck, North Dakota, on behalf of The Wildlife
Society (North Dakota Chapter).
ENDANGERED SALMON
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Drinking Water,
Fisheries, and Wildlife held oversight hearings on the National Marine
Fisheries Service's policy on spills at Columbia River D775hydropower dams,
gas bubble trauma in threatened and endangered salmon, and the scientific
method used under the Endangered Species Act, receiving testimony from William
Stelle Jr., Director, Northwest Region, National Marine Fisheries Service,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; Col.
Bartholomew B. Bohn, USA, Deputy Commander, North Pacific Division, U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers; Edward C. Bowles, Idaho Department of Fish and Game,
Boise; Larry E. Fidler, Aspen Applied Sciences Ltd., Cranbrook, B.C. Canada;
Margaret J. Filardo, Fish Passage Center, Portland, Oregon; Phillip R. Mundy,
Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Lake Oswego, Oregon; James Anderson,
University of Washington, and Wesley J. Ebel, both of Seattle, Washington; and
Gerald R. Bouck, Tualatin, Oregon.
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Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
S.J. Res. 27, to grant the consent of the Congress to certain additional
powers conferred upon the Bi-State Development Agency by the States of
Missouri and Illinois,
S. 457, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to update references in
the classification of children for purposes of United States immigration laws;
and
The nominations of Carlos F. Lucero, of Colorado, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Tenth Circuit, Peter C. Economus and Donald C. Nugent, each to
be a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, Wiley Y.
Daniel, to be United States District Judge for the District of Colorado, Nancy
Friedman Atlas, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District
of Texas, Andrew Fois, of New York, to be an Assistant Attorney General,
Department of Justice, and Terrence B. Adamson, of Washington, D.C., and Janie
L. Shores, of Alabama, each to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the
State Justice Institute.
OSHA REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded oversight hearings
on activities of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA),
focusing on proposals to reform OSHA regulations to improve workplace safety,
including related measures S. 526 and S. 592, after receiving testimony from
Senator Judd Gregg; Joseph A. Dear, Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health; William Steinmetz Jr., Midland Engineering
Company, South Bend, Indiana, on behalf of the National Roofing Contractors
Association; David A. Whiston, Vienna, Virginia, on behalf of the American
Dental Association; and Michael Wright, United Steel Workers of America,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Joint Meetings
PRESIDENT'S BUDGET
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
President's proposed 10-year D779budget plan on the economy, after receiving
testimony from Alice M. Rivlin, Director, Office of Management and Budget; and
June E. O'Neill, Director, Congressional Budget Office.
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INDIAN GAMING REGULATIONS
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Indian Affairs concluded joint hearings
with the House Committee on Resources' Subcommittee on Native American and
Insular Affairs on S. 487, to establish a Federal Indian Gaming Regulatory
Commission to regulate Indian gaming operations and standards, after receiving
testimony from Representatives Solomon and Torricelli; Kevin V. DiGregory,
Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice;
John J. Duffy, Counselor to the Secretary of the Interior; New Mexico Governor
Gary E. Johnson, Santa Fe; Harold A. Monteau and Richard G. Hill, both of the
National Indian Gaming Commission, Washington, D.C.; and gaiashkibos, Lac
Courte Oreilles Band of Ojibwa Indians, Hayward, Wisconsin, on behalf of the
National Congress of American Indians.
MEDICARE SELECT
Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 483, to extend the Medicare Select
demonstration program for three years and expand it to all 50 States.
1995/06/23
Daily Digest - Friday, June 23, 1995; pages D781 - D786
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Legal Services Corporation,
after receiving testimony from former Senator Rudman; Representatives Gekas
and Stenholm; Alexander D. Forger, President, Legal Services Corporation;
Kenneth Boehm, National Legal and Policy Center, Vienna, Virginia; Dean R.
Kleckner, American Farm Bureau Federation, Washington, D.C.; Jack W. Londen,
Morrison and Foerster, San Francisco, California; and Robert DeBruyn, Zeeland,
Michigan.
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No Joint hearings noted.
1995/06/26
Daily Digest - Monday, June 26, 1995; pages D787 - D790
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel met in closed session
and approved those provisions which fall under its jurisdiction of proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for national defense
programs.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/06/27
Daily Digest - Tuesday, June 27, 1995; pages D791 - D798
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on the ballistic missile defense program, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen.
Malcolm R. O'Neill, Director, Ballistic Missile Defense Organization,
Department of Defense.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, July 11.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness met and approved those
provisions which fall within its jurisdiction of proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for national defense programs.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland Forces met in closed
session to mark up those provisions which fall within its jurisdiction of
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for national
defense programs, but did not complete action thereon and will meet again
tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower met in closed session
and approved those provisions which fall within its jurisdiction of proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for national defense
programs.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces met in closed
session and approved those provisions which fall within its jurisdiction of
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for national
defense programs.
PROPERTY RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held oversight hearings
on proposals to supplement the legal framework for private property interests,
focusing on the operation of Federal environmental laws, including related
provisions of S. 605, receiving testimony from John R. Schmidt, Associate
Attorney General, Department of Justice; Joseph L. Sax, Counselor to the
Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Department of the
Interior; New Hampshire State Senator Richard L. Russman, Kingston, on behalf
of the National Conference of State Legislatures; Roger J. Marzulla, Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld, Roger Pilon, CATO Institute, and Edward M.
Thompson, Jr., American Farmland Trust, all of Washington, D.C.; Frank I.
Michelman, Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Jim
Little, Emmett, Idaho, on behalf of the National Cattlemen's Association; and
Don Martin, Albuquerque, New Mexico, on behalf of the National Association of
Home Builders.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUNDS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy held
hearings on proposals to restore the long-term solvency of the Social Security
System, focusing on the Old Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the
Disability Insurance Trust Fund, receiving testimony from Senator Kerrey;
David M. Walker, Arthur Andersen LLP, Atlanta, Georgia, former Public Trustee
of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds, and former Assistant
Secretary of Labor; and Stanford G. Ross, Arnold & Porter, former Commissioner
of Social Security and former Public Trustee of the Social Security and
Medicare Trust Funds, Mark A. Weinberger, Oldaker, Ryan & Leonard, Anne C.
Canfield, McClure, Gerard & Neuenschwander, Inc., Heather Lamm, Third
Millennium, C. Eugene Steuerle, Urban Institute, and Allan Tull, American
Association of Retired Persons, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held oversight hearings on the
activities and responsibilities of the Department of Justice, focusing on the
administration of justice and the enforcement of laws, receiving testimony
from Janet Reno, Attorney General, Department of Justice.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Dianne P. Wood, of Illinois, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh
Circuit, Tena Campbell, to be United States District Judge for the District of
Utah, George H. King, to be United States District Judge for the Central
District of California, and Robert H. Whaley, to be United States District
Judge for the Eastern District of Washington, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Ms. Wood was introduced by Senators
Simon and Moseley-Braun, Ms. Campbell was introduced by Senators Hatch and
Bennett, Mr. King was introduced by Senator Boxer, and Mr. Whaley was
introduced by Senators Gorton and Murray.
BRAIN RESEARCH AND HEALTH CARE COST REDUCTION
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine how
investment in research into the causes and courses of certain diseases can
reduce health care costs, focusing on brain research and the long-term-care
costs of brain-related disorders, and a task force report on how to prioritize
and fund aging-related research, after receiving testimony from Senator
Hatfield; Richard W. Besdine, University of Connecticut Health Center,
Farmington, Connecticut, representing the Alliance for Aging Research; Guy M.
McKhann, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, representing the Dana
Alliance for Brain Initiatives; Jerry Avorn and Dennis J. Selkoe, both of the
Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Ole Isacson, McLean Hospital, all of the
Harvard University Medical School, Arthur D. Ullian, National Campaign to End
Neurological Disorders, and Benjamin Reeve, all of Boston, Massachusetts;
Robert M. Goldberg, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; Allen D.
Roses, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina; Dennis W. Choi,
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; Millicent R.
Kondracke, Washington, D.C.; and Frances Powers, Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/06/28
Daily Digest - Wednesday, June 28, 1995; pages D799 - D806
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to mark up
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for military
activities of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe military personnel
strengths, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Acquisition and Technology met in
closed session and approved for full committee consideration those provisions
which fall within its jurisdiction of proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 1996 for national defense programs.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland Forces met in closed
session and approved for full committee consideration those provisions which
fall within its jurisdiction of proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1996 for national defense programs.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items:
S. 883, to enhance the safety and soundness of federally insured credit
unions, and to protect the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund;
An original bill to extend and authorize funds for the Defense Production Act
of 1950; and
The nominations of Martin Neil Baily, of Maryland, to be a Member of the
Council of Economic Advisers, Charles L. Marinaccio, of the District of
Columbia, Deborah Dudley Branson, of Texas, Marianne C. Spraggins, of New
York, and Albert James Dwoskin, of Virginia, each to be a Director of the
Securities Investor Protection Corporation, Steve M. Hays, of Tennessee, to be
a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Building
Sciences, and Tony Scallon, of Minnesota, and Sheila Anne Smith, of Illinois,
each to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Consumer
Cooperative Bank.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills:
H.R. 402, to make certain technical corrections to the Alaska Native Claims
Settlement Act and the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act to
provide for the conveyance of certain lands within Alaska and to resolve
certain other issues, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, and in
lieu of S. 537, Senate companion measure;
S. 283, to extend the deadlines under the Federal Power Act applicable to the
construction of two hydroelectric projects in Pennsylvania;
S. 801, to extend the deadline under the Federal Power Act applicable to the
construction of two hydroelectric projects in North Carolina; and
S. 638, authorizing funds for project development programs of United States
insular areas, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
MEDICAID
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the overall Medicaid
program, focusing on certain recommendations on how to control the cost of the
Medicaid program, receiving testimony from Florida Governor Lawton Chiles,
Tallahassee; Vermont Governor Howard Dean, Montpelier; Illinois Governor Jim
Edgar, Springfield; and Utah Governor Michael O. Leavitt, Salt Lake City.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
BIA REORGANIZATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 814, to
provide for the reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, after
receiving testimony from Hilda A. Manuel, Deputy Commissioner for Indian
Affairs, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; William Ron
Allen, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe of Indians, Sequim, Washington; Tadd Johnson,
Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Indians, Nett Lake, Minnesota; Chuck Jacobs,
Oglala Sioux Tribal Council, Pine Ridge, South Dakota; and Herman T.J.
Laffoon, Colorado River Indian Tribes, Parker, Arizona.
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Joint Meetings
IMMIGRATION
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Immigration
concluded joint hearings with the House Committee on the Judiciary's
Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims to review recommendations for
immigration reform in the United States, after receiving testimony from
Barbara Jordan, Chair, United States Commission on Immigration Reform.
1995/06/29
Daily Digest - Thursday, June 29, 1995; pages D807 - D814
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued in evening session, in closed
session, to mark up proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year
1996 for military activities of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe
military personnel strengths for fiscal year 1996.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Robert Talcott Francis II, of Massachusetts,
and John Goglia, of Massachusetts, each to be a Member of the National
Transportation Safety Board, and Robert Clarke Brown, of New York, to be a
Member of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Washington Airports
Authority, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Brown was introduced by Representative Sherrod Brown.
KOMI REPUBLIC OIL SPILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources/Committee on Environment and Public
Works: Committees concluded joint oversight hearings to examine the energy and
environmental implications of the crude oil leaks in the Komi Republic of the
former Soviet Union, after receiving testimony from Robert Huggett, Assistant
Administrator for Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency;
Jerry A. Galt, Chief of Modeling and Simulations Studies Branch, Hazardous
Materials Response and Assessment Division, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Department of Commerce; Patricia Fry Godley, Assistant
Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy; Garrett W. Brass, Executive Director,
United States Arctic Research Commission; Jacqueline Michel, Research
Planning, and Cameron Duncan, Greenpeace International, both of Washington,
D.C.; Richard S. Golob, World Information Systems, Cambridge, Massachusetts;
and Thomas C. Royer, University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
PRESIDIO TRUST
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Parks, Historic
Preservation and Recreation held hearings on S. 594, to create a trust to
manage, lease and finance the historical and cultural inventory of the
Presidio of San Francisco, California at minimal cost to the Federal taxpayer,
receiving testimony from Senators Boxer and Feinstein; Representative Pelosi;
Denis P. Galvin, Associate Director, Professional Services, National Park
Service, Department of the Interior; Donald W. Murphy, California Department
of Parks and Recreation, Sacramento; Lawrance Florin, San Francisco
Redevelopment Agency, Mary Murphy, on behalf of the Neighborhood Associations
for Presidio Planning, Eduardo Cohen and Joel Ventresca, both on behalf of the
Preserve the Presidio Campaign, Henry Maggenti, Friends of the Presidio
Association, Al Stetz, Presidio Military Golf Club, Redmond F. Kernan, Fort
Point Presidio Historical Association, James R. Harvey, Transamerica
Corporation, Donald G. Fisher, The Gap, Inc., and Joel Ventresca, all of San
Francisco, California; and Curtis Feeny, Stanford Management Company,
Stanford, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AIR POLLUTION CONTROL
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air,
Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety held oversight hearings on the
implementation of the motor vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance
program of the Environmental Protection Agency, receiving testimony from Mary
D. Nichols, Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, Environmental
Protection Agency; Virginia Secretary of Natural Resources Becky Norton
Dunlop, Richmond; Thomas Getz, Colorado Department of Public Health and
Environment, Denver; Lynn Scarlett, Reason Foundation, Los Angeles,
California, and Douglas R. Lawson, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada,
both on behalf of the California Inspection and Maintenance Review Committee;
and Michael P. Walsh, Arlington, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MEDICAID
Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings to examine the status of
the Medicaid program, focusing on overall Medicaid spending and an historical
perspective, receiving testimony from June E. O'Neill, Director, Congressional
Budget Office; Diane Rowland, Kaiser Commission on the Future of Medicaid,
Washington, D.C.; and Gail R. Wilensky, Project HOPE, Bethesda, Maryland.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of John T. Stewart, of California, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Moldova, Michael W. Cotter, of the District of Columbia, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Turkmenistan, A. Elizabeth Jones, of Maryland,
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Kazakhstan, Victor Jackovich, of Iowa, to
be Ambassador to the Republic of Slovenia, John K. Menzies, of Virginia, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Bosnia and D809Herzegovina, and James E. Goodby,
of the District of Columbia, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of
service as Principal Negotiator and Special Representative of the President
for Nuclear Safety and Dismantlement, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf.
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FRIENDLY FIRE INCIDENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
held hearings to examine an investigation of a United States Army fratricide
incident during the Persian Gulf War, and an assessment of the adequacy of
United States Army investigations following the incident and allegations
certain Army officials hindered those investigations, receiving testimony from
Richard C. Stiener, Director, Office of Special Investigations, General
Accounting Office; Sara E. Lister, Assistant Secretary for Manpower and
Reserve Affairs, Gen. Ronald H. Griffith, Vice Chief of Staff, Maj. Gen.
Michael Nardotti, Judge Advocate General, and Lt. Col. John Daly, all of the
United States Army; Bo Friesen, Fairview, Texas; Kevin Wessels, Burnsville,
Minnesota; and Deborah Shelton and Ronald Fielder, both of Nashville,
Tennessee.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
S. 227, to provide an exclusive right to perform sound recordings publicly by
means of digital transmissions, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute; and
The nominations of Dianne P. Wood, of Illinois, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Seventh Circuit, Tena Campbell, to be United States District
Judge for the District of Utah, George H. King, to be United States District
Judge for the Central District of California, and Robert H. Whaley, to be
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Washington.
AUTHORIZATION--OLDER AMERICANS ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Aging held hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Older Americans
Act, receiving testimony from Julie Govert Walter, North Central-Flint Hills
Area Agency on Aging, Manhattan, Kansas, on behalf of the Kansas Association
of Area Agencies on Aging; Cheryll Schramm, Atlanta Regional Commission,
Atlanta, Georgia; Neetu Dhawan-Gray, Commission on Aging and Retirement
Education, Baltimore, Maryland; J. Douglas Mickle, Reynolds Metals Company,
Richmond, Virginia; and James R. Dunn, Consumers Power Company, Jackson,
Michigan.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1995/06/30
Daily Digest - Friday, June 30, 1995; pages D815 - D820
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: On Thursday, June 29, Committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items:
The nomination of Lt. Gen. Richard E. Hawley, United States Air Force, for
appointment to the grade of general;
An original bill to authorize funds for fiscal year 1996 for military
activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for
defense activities of the Department of Energy; and to prescribe personnel
strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces;
An original bill entitled "Department of Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 1996";
An original bill entitled "Military Construction Act for Fiscal Year 1996";
and
An original bill entitled "Department of Energy National Security Act for
Fiscal Year 1996".
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of David L. Hobbs, of California, to be Ambassador to the
Co-operative Republic of Guyana, and William J. Hughes, of New Jersey, to be
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