[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 16 (Wednesday, February 23, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D]
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, 
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 1995 for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, 
receiving testimony from Lee Patrick Brown, Director, Office of 
National Drug Control Policy.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 2.
WORLD FOOD PRODUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, and Related Agencies held hearings to examine the state of 
world food production, receiving testimony from Edward Knipling, Deputy 
Administrator, National Program Staff, Agricultural Research Service, 
and Robert Robinson, Director, Agricultural Trade Analysis Division, 
Economic Research Service, both of the Department of Agriculture; and 
Lester R. Brown, Worldwatch Institute, and Katy Moran, Healing Forest 
Conservancy, both of Washington, D.C.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 4.
BOSNIA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing on Bosnia and other current military operations from William 
J. Perry, Secretary of Defense; and Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, USA, 
Chairman, Lt. Gen. John J. Sheehan, USMC, Director for Operations (J-
3), and Rear Adm. Michael W. Cramer, USN, Director for Intelligence (J-
2), all of the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
FUTURE OF NATO
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Coalition Defense and 
Reinforcing Forces resumed joint hearings with the Committee on Foreign 
Relations' Subcommittee on European Affairs to examine the future of 
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), receiving testimony from 
Gen. John R. Galvin, USA (Ret.), former Commander of Supreme 
Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe; James R. Schlesinger, former 
Secretary of Defense; and Max M. Kampelman, former United States 
Ambassador to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTERSTATE BANKING AND BRANCHING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original bill to permit bank holding companies to 
acquire existing banks in any State, and to allow bank holding 
companies to consolidate their operations into branches of a single 
bank.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications held hearings on S. 1822, to safeguard and protect the 
public interest while permitting the growth and development of new 
communications technologies, receiving testimony from Ronald H. Brown, 
Secretary of Commerce; Reed E. Hundt, Chairman, Federal Communications 
Commission; Dean J. Miller, Idaho Public Utilities Commission, Boise; 
and William F. Squadron, National Association of Telecommunications 
Officers and Advisors, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nominations of Robert Jay Uram, of California, to be 
Director, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, and 
Gordon P. Eaton, of Ohio, to be Director, United States Geological 
Survey, both of the Department of the Interior, and Frank G. Zarb, of 
New York, Kneeland C. Youngblood, of Texas, William J. Rainer, of 
Connecticut, Margaret Hornbeck Greene, of Kentucky, and Greta Joy 
Dicus, of Arkansas, each to be a Member of the Board of Directors of 
the United States Enrichment Corporation.
DOE BUDGET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1995 for the 
Department of Energy, after receiving testimony from Hazel R. O'Leary, 
Secretary of Energy.
CLEAN WATER
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee began markup of S. 
1114, authorizing funds for programs of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again 
tomorrow.
1995 BUDGET
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the President's 
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1995 for the Federal 
Government, focusing on the impact of the proposed budget on those 
programs which come under the jurisdiction of the committee, the 
progress of last year's Budget Reconciliation Act, and the proposed 
balanced budget amendment, receiving testimony from Leon E. Panetta, 
Director, Office of Management and Budget.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
STATE DEPARTMENT BUDGET/FOREIGN POLICY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1995 for the 
Department of State, and to discuss general foreign policy issues, 
after receiving testimony from Warren Christopher, Secretary of State.
GOVERNMENT REFORM
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on H.R. 
3400, to provide a more effective, efficient, and responsive Federal 
government, focusing on financial, general, and human resource 
management, receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller 
General of the United States, General Accounting Office; and Alice 
Rivlin, Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Rafael Diaz, of the District of Columbia, to be an 
Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 
after the nominee, who was introduced by District of Columbia Delegate 
Eleanor Holmes Norton, testified and answered questions in his own 
behalf.
POPULAR MUSIC AND YOUTH CRIME
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice concluded 
hearings to examine the effects of violent and demeaning imagery in 
popular music on American youth, after receiving testimony from 
Representative Waters; C. Delores Tucker, National Political Congress 
of Black Women, Inc., Robert T.M. Phillips, American Psychiatric 
Association, Hillary Rosen, Recording Industry Association of America, 
Laura Murphy Lee, ACLU, and Keith A. Ridley, IV, Ridley Funeral 
Establishment, Inc., all of Washington, D.C.; Michael Eric Dyson, Brown 
University, Providence, Rhode Island; Ron Stallworth, Utah Department 
of Public Safety, Salt Lake City; Darryl James, Rap Sheet, Santa 
Monica, California; Steve McKeever, Motown Records, Nicholas 
Butterworth, Rock The Vote Action Project, and Dionne Warwick, all of 
Los Angeles, California; Wallace R. Bradley, United In Peace 
Organization, Chicago, Illinois; and David W. Harleston, Rush 
Associated Labels, and Erroll Kenya James, Black Student Leadership 
Network, both of New York, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 1040, to support systemic improvement of education and the 
development of a technologically literate citizenry and internationally 
competitive work force by establishing a comprehensive system through 
which appropriate technology-enhanced curriculum, instruction, and 
administrative support resources and services, that support the 
National Education Goals and any national education standards that may 
be developed, are provided to schools throughout the United States, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1020, to promote economic growth and job creation in the United 
States by facilitating worker involvement in the development and 
implementation of advanced workplace practices and by identifying and 
disseminating information on best workplace practices, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Bernard E. Anderson, of Pennsylvania, to be 
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment Standards, Margaret A. 
Browning, of Pennsylvania, and Charles I. Cohen, of Maryland, each to 
be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board, and Frederick L. 
Feinstein, of Maryland, to be General Counsel of the National Labor 
Relations Board.
HOMELESS VETERANS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the needs of homeless veterans, after receiving testimony from Jesse 
Brown, Secretary of Veterans' Affairs; Andrew M. Cuomo, Assistant 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Community Planning and 
Development; Henrietta Fishman, VA Comprehensive Homeless Center, 
Brooklyn, New York; Robert Rosenheck, VA Northeast Program Evaluation 
Center, West Haven, Connecticut; Maureen Shafer, VA Medical Center, 
Huntington, West Virginia; Ralph Cooper, Veterans Benefits 
Clearinghouse, Inc., Roxbury, Massachusetts; Richard Fitzpatrick, 
National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, and Joseph Randall Barnes and 
Paul S. Egan, both on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans of America, all of 
Washington, D.C.; Wayne A. Thompson, Tooley Hall, Denver, Colorado; 
John Annis, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and John Johnson, Nashville, 
Tennessee.