[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 7 (Wednesday, February 2, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FRAUD IN FEDERAL NUTRITION PROGRAMS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held 
hearings to examine instances of fraud in the Federal Food Stamp 
Program and the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, 
and Children (WIC), and the proposed use of an electronic benefits 
transfer system as a means for reducing fraud in the administration of 
Federal nutrition assistance programs, receiving testimony from 
Illinois Attorney General Roland W. Burris, Chicago; Ellen W. Haas, 
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Food and Consumer Services; 
Emilio Gonzalez, Analyst, Telecommunications and Computing Technologies 
Program, Office of Technology Assessment; Robert H. Rasor, Special 
Agent, Financial Crimes Division, United States Secret Service, 
Department of the Treasury; and Ricky D. Dodd, Group Manager, External/
Internal Crimes and Prevention, Postal Inspection Service, United 
States Postal Service.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of William J. Perry, of California, to be Secretary of 
Defense, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own 
behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  S. 208, to reform the concessions policies of the National Park 
Service, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 455, to increase Federal payments to units of general local 
government for entitlement land, with amendments;
  S. 313, to revise the San Juan Basin Wilderness Protection Act of 
1984 to designate additional lands as wilderness and to establish the 
Fossil Forest Research Natural Area, with amendments;
  H.R. 1134, to provide for the transfer of certain public lands 
located in Clear Creek County, Colorado, to the United States Forest 
Service, the State of Colorado, and certain local governments in the 
State of Colorado, with amendments; and
  H.R. 3617, to revise the Everglades National Park Protection and 
Expansion Act of 1989 to authorize funds to assist the State of Florida 
in the acquisition of certain lands adjacent to the park.
CLEAN WATER
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Water, 
Fisheries and Wildlife approved for full committee consideration S. 
1114, authorizing funds for programs of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act.
PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Constitution concluded 
hearings on constitutional issues relating to the death of a President-
designate between the general election and the inauguration, after 
receiving testimony from former Senator Birch Bayh; Walter Dellinger, 
Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of 
Justice; Trevor Potter, Chairman, Federal Election Commission; Akhil 
Reed Amar, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; and Walter Berns, 
American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 1597, to authorize funds for 1994 and fiscal years 1995 and 1996 
for organ transplant and procurement programs of the Department of 
Health and Human Services, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute; and
  The nominations of James A. Joseph, of Virginia, to be a Member of 
the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community 
Service, J. Davitt McAteer, of West Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary 
of Labor for Mine Safety and Health, Shirley Sachi Sagawa, of Virginia, 
to be a Managing Director of the Corporation for National and Community 
Service, James A. Scheibel, of Minnesota, to be Director of the ACTION 
Agency, and Stuart E. Weisberg, of Maryland, to be a Member of the 
Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed hearings on 
the Administration's proposed Health Security Act, to establish 
comprehensive health care for every American, focusing on the role of 
the States in health care reform, receiving testimony from Utah 
Governor Michael Leavitt, Salt Lake City, and Hawaii Governor John 
Waihee, Honolulu, both on behalf of the National Governors Association; 
Massachusetts Representative Carmen Buell, Greenfield, on behalf of the 
National Conference of State Legislatures; Kenneth Thorpe, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Planning and 
Evaluation; Robert Waller, Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota; Steve 
Wetzell, Business Health Care Action Group, Minneapolis, Minnesota; 
Richard E. Curtis, Institute for Health Policy Solutions, Washington, 
D.C.; and Glenn Pearson, Health Care Campaign of Minnesota, St. Paul.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.