[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 33 (Tuesday, March 22, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D]
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--COMMERCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 1995 for the Department of Commerce, receiving testimony from 
Ronald H. Brown, Secretary of Commerce.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 23.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
1995 for energy and water development programs, receiving testimony 
from Senator Bumpers; and numerous public witnesses.
  Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN AID
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for foreign 
assistance programs, focusing on the United States role in the 
multilateral development banks, receiving testimony from Lloyd Bentsen, 
Secretary of the Treasury.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 12.
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 1995 for the Department of Education, 
receiving testimony from Richard W. Riley, Secretary, Marshall S. 
Smith, Under Secretary, Thomas W. Payzant, Assistant Secretary for 
Elementary and Secondary Education, Augusta S. Kappner, Assistant 
Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education, and David A. Longanecker, 
Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education, all of the Department 
of Education.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 24.
SOMALIA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing on Somalia from Senators Levin and Warner.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1231, to provide for simplified collection of employment taxes on 
domestic services; and
  The nominations of Lynn M. Bragg, of Maryland, to be a Member of the 
United States International Trade Commission, William Booth Gardner, of 
Washington, to be Deputy United States Trade Representative, with the 
rank of Ambassador, and Susan G. Esserman, of Maryland, to be Assistant 
Secretary for Import Administration, and Charles F. Meissner, of 
Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary for International Economic Policy, 
both of the Department of Commerce.
  Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Ms. Esserman and Mr. Meissner, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  The ``Protocol of Washington'' adopted on December 14, 1992, by the 
Sixteenth Special Session of the General Assembly of the Organization 
of American States (OAS) and signed by the United States on January 23, 
1993, and the ``Protocol of Managua'' adopted by the Nineteenth Special 
Session of the OAS General Assembly on June 10, 1993, and signed that 
day by the United States (Treaty Doc. 103-22);
  S. Res. 155, commending the Government of Italy for its commitment to 
halting software piracy; and
  The nominations of Sam W. Brown, Jr., of California, for the rank of 
Ambassador during his tenure of service as Head of Delegation to the 
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Josiah Horton Beeman, 
of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to New Zealand, and to 
serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to 
Western Samoa, March Fong Eu, of California, to be Ambassador to the 
Federated States of Micronesia, Charles R. Baquet III, of Maryland, to 
be Deputy Director of the Peace Corps, Jeanette W. Hyde, of North 
Carolina, to be Ambassador to Barbados, and to serve concurrently and 
without compensation as Ambassador to the Commonwealth of Dominica, St. 
Lucia, and to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Donald M. Blinken, of New 
York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Hungary, Richard Dale 
Kauzlarich, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Azerbaijan, Thomas L. Baldini, of Michigan, to be a United States 
Commissioner and Chairman, and Susan Bayh, of Indiana, and Alice 
Chamberlin, of New Hampshire, both to be United States Commissioners, 
all on the International Joint Commission, United States and Canada, 
Barry S. Newman, of Virginia, to be United States Alternate Executive 
Director of the International Monetary Fund, John F. Hicks, Sr., of 
North Carolina, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the African 
Development Foundation, Lewis Manilow, of Illinois, and Harold C. 
Pachios, of Maine, each to be a Member of the United States Advisory 
Commission on Public Diplomacy, and Alexander F. Watson, of 
Massachusetts, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Inter-
American Foundation.
CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held open and closed hearings 
on the Convention on the Prohibition of Development, Production, 
Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, 
opened for signature and signed by the United States at Paris on 
January 13, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 103-21), receiving testimony from Warren 
Christopher, Secretary of State; and John D. Holum, Director, United 
States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
OPERATIONAL TESTING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, 
Post Office, and Civil Service concluded hearings on proposals to 
reform the operational test and evaluation system for the acquisition 
of weapons for U.S. troops, after receiving testimony from Colleen A. 
Preston, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Defense Acquisition 
Reform; Louis J. Rodrigues, Director, Systems Development and 
Production Issues, National Security and International Affairs 
Division, General Accounting Office; and Russell Murray, II, former 
Assistant Secretary of Defense.
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, and a related bill S. 1950, after 
receiving testimony from Representative Fawell; Mayor Charles DeVaney, 
Augusta, Georgia; John B. Lennes, Jr., Minnesota Department of Labor 
and Industry, St. Paul; Eamonn McGeady, Martin G. Imbach, Inc., 
Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of the National Federation of 
Independent Businesses; and James S. Holt, Employment Policy 
Foundation, and Gerald W. McEntee and John J. Sweeney, both of the AFL-
CIO, all of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee approved for reporting the 
nomination of Michael H. Trujillo, of Oregon, to be Director of the 
Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
certain intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee will meet again on Thursday, March 24.