[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 12 (Wednesday, February 9, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
RUSSIA AND UKRAINE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held 
closed hearings to examine current conditions in Russia and Ukraine, 
receiving testimony from Strobe Talbott, Ambassador at Large and 
Special Adviser to the Secretary of State on the New Independent 
States; and Thomas R. Pickering, Ambassador to the Russian Federation.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Lt. Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, USA, to be Commander in 
Chief, United States Southern Command, Vice Adm. William A. Owens, USN, 
to be Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Vice Adm. Henry 
G. Chiles, Jr., USN, to be Commander in Chief, United States Strategic 
Command, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.
  Also, committee ordered favorably reported 9,185 military nominations 
in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
1995 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation 
for reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1995 
budget for the Federal Government, receiving testimony from Lloyd 
Bentsen, Secretary of the Treasury; and Alice M. Rivlin, Deputy 
Director, Office of Management and Budget.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nomination of Ann Winkelman Brown, of Florida, to be 
Commissioner and Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, 
after the nominee, who was introduced by Representative Matsui and 
District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, testified and 
answered questions in her own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nominations of William W. Ginsberg, of Connecticut, to be 
an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Richard Thomas Moore, of 
Massachusetts, to be Associate Director of the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency, Jesse L. White, Jr., of North Carolina, to be 
Federal Co-Chairman of the Appalachian Regional Commission, and Brig. 
Gen. Eugene S. Witherspoon, USA, to be a Member and President of the 
Mississippi River Commission.
CBO ANALYSIS OF HEALTH SECURITY ACT
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to review the 
Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) analysis of the Administration's 
health care reform proposal, after receiving testimony from Robert D. 
Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget Office.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Mary Ellen Withrow, of Ohio, to be Treasurer of the 
United States, Department of the Treasury.
  Prior to this action, committee concluded hearings on the nomination 
of Ms. Withrow, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Glenn 
and Metzenbaum, testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. Res. 94, expressing the sense of the Senate with respect to the 
tragic humanitarian crisis in Sudan; and
  The nominations of Strobe Talbott, of Ohio, to be Deputy Secretary of 
State, Jill B. Buckley, of Washington, to be Assistant Administrator 
for Legislative and Public Affairs, and Thomas A. Dine, of Ohio, to be 
Assistant Administrator for Europe and the New Independent States, both 
of the Agency for International Development, Alice M. Dear, of New 
York, to be United States Director of the African Development Bank, 
Wesley W. Egan, Jr., of North Carolina, to be Ambassador to the 
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, David N. Merrill, of Maryland, to be 
Ambassador to the People's Republic of Bangladesh, Robert H. 
Pelletreau, Jr., of Connecticut, to be Assistant Secretary of State for 
Near Eastern Affairs, Esther Peterson, of the District of Columbia, to 
be United States Representative to the Forty-eighth Session of the 
General Assembly of the United Nations, James H. Scheuer, of New York, 
to be United States Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction 
and Development, Sandra L. Vogelgesang, of Ohio, to be Ambassador to 
the Kingdom of Nepal, and Foreign Service Officers' promotion lists, 
received by the Senate on January 26, 1994, with an exception.
U.S.-VIETNAM RELATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs held hearings to examine certain implications for the United 
States from the lifting of the trade embargo against North Vietnam, 
receiving testimony from Winston Lord, Assistant Secretary of State for 
East Asian and Pacific Affairs; R. Richard Newcomb, Director, Office of 
Foreign Assets Control, Department of the Treasury; and Edward W. Ross, 
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW/MIA Affairs.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FOREIGN AID REFORM
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic 
Policy, Trade, Oceans and Environment held hearings on proposed 
legislation to reorganize United States foreign assistance programs, 
receiving testimony from J. Brian Atwood, Administrator, Agency for 
International Development; and Richard M. Moose, Under Secretary of 
State for Management.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Michael A. Ponsor, to be United States District Judge 
for the District of Massachusetts, Lesley Brooks Wells, to be United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, Marjorie O. 
Rendell, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, Thomas I. Vanaskie, to be United States District Judge 
for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Tucker L. Melancon, to be 
United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, 
Rebecca Aline Betts, to be United States Attorney for the Southern 
District of West Virginia, Robert Charles Bundy, to be United States 
Attorney for the District of Alaska, Mark Timothy Calloway, to be 
United States Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, 
Janice McKenzie Cole, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern 
District of North Carolina, Larry Herbert Colleton, to be United States 
Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, Michael Hayes Dettmer, to 
be United States Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, Stephen 
Lawrence Hill, to be United States Attorney for the Western District of 
Missouri, David Lee Lillehaug, to be United States Attorney for the 
District of Minnesota, Don Carlos Nickerson, to be United States 
Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, Stephen John Rapp, to be 
United States Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa, Michael David 
Skinner, to be United States Attorney for the Western District of 
Louisiana, James Lamar Wiggins, to be United States Attorney for the 
Middle District of Georgia, Harry Donival Dixon Jr., to be United 
States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, Charles M. 
Adkins, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of West 
Virginia, Brian C. Berg, to be United States Marshal for the District 
of North Dakota, Hugh Dinsmore Black Jr., to be United States Marshal 
for the Western District of Arkansas, G. Ronald Dashiell, to be United 
States Marshal for the Eastern District of Washington, Phylliss 
Jeanette Henry, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District 
of Iowa, Alan D. Lewis, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern 
District of Pennsylvania, Charles William Logsdon, to be United States 
Marshal for the Western District of Kentucky, John Patrick McCaffrey, 
to be United States Marshal for the Western District of New York, James 
J. Molinari, to be United States Marshal for the Northern District of 
California, Robert James Moore, to be United States Marshal for the 
Southern District of Alabama, Joe Russell Mullins, to be United States 
Marshal for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Nancy J. McGillivray 
Shaffer, to be United States Marshal for the District of Massachusetts, 
James Robert Oakes, to be United States Marshal for the Western 
District of Louisiana, Conrad S. Patillo, to be United States Marshal 
for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Floyd A. Kimbrough, to be United 
States Marshal for the Eastern District of Missouri, James Marion 
Hughes Jr., to be United States Marshal for the Northern District of 
Oklahoma, John Steven Sanchez, to be United States Marshal for the 
District of New Mexico, James V. Serio Jr., to be United States Marshal 
for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Wesley Joe Wood, to be United 
States Marshal for the Western District of Tennessee, Cleveland Vaughn, 
to be United States Marshal for the District of Nebraska, James Douglas 
Jr., to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Michigan, 
Donald R. Moreland, to be United States Marshal for the Middle District 
of Florida, Richard Rand Rock II, to be United States Marshal for the 
District of Kansas, Patrick J. Wilkerson, to be United States Marshal 
for the Western District of Oklahoma, James Howard Benham, to be United 
States Marshal for the District of Idaho, Rosa Maria Melendez, to be 
United States Marshal for the Western District of Washington, Stephen 
Simpson Gregg, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of 
California, William Stephen Strizich, to be United States Marshal for 
the District of Montana, Terrence Edward Delaney, to be United States 
Marshal for the Southern District of Illinois, and Daniel J. Horgan, to 
be United States Marshal for the Southern District of Florida.
YOUTH VIOLENCE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice concluded 
hearings to examine how the Federal Government can establish effective 
programs to deter youth violence in America, after receiving testimony 
from Senators Hatch, Dodd, and Campbell; James C. Frier, Deputy 
Assistant Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of 
Justice; Michael Nichols, St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, St. 
Louis, Missouri; Sam Ferraniola, Glen Mills Schools, Concordville, 
Pennsylvania; Jim Brown, Amer-I-Can Program, Inc., and James J. 
Galipeau, Los Angeles County Probation Department, both of Los Angeles, 
California; Gary E. Graika, Social Development Commission's Youth 
Diversion Program, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Irving A. Spergel, 
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
OSHA REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on 
S. 575, to improve the employee safety and health programs of the 
Occupational Safety and Health Act, after receiving testimony from 
Robert B. Reich, Secretary of Labor.
VA HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
certain restrictions against VA facilities from participating fully in 
statewide health care reform efforts, after receiving testimony from 
Elwood Headley, Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Health and Director, 
VA National Health Care Reform Program Office, Department of Veterans 
Affairs; Robert A. Petzel, Chief of Staff, VA Medical Center, 
Minneapolis, Minnesota; Joseph M. Manley, Director, VA Medical Center, 
Seattle, Washington; Howard H. Green, Chief of Staff, VA Medical and 
Regional Office Center, White River Junction, Vermont; Malcom Randall, 
VA Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida; Larry E. Deters, Director, VA 
Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee; Thomas L. Garthwaite, Chief of 
Staff, VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on behalf of the 
National Association of VA Chiefs of Staff; and John Bollinger, 
Paralyzed Veterans of America, Washington, D.C.