[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 34 (Wednesday, March 23, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--JUSTICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and the Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 1995 for the Department of Justice, receiving testimony from Janet 
Reno, Attorney General, Department of Justice. Subcommittee will meet 
again on Tuesday, April 12.
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 Pryor; Representative Laughlin; and numerous public 
witnesses. Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREST SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior held hearings 
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the Forest 
Service, receiving testimony from Jack Ward Thomas, Chief, Forest 
Service, Department of Agriculture.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 13.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995 for the Department 
of Defense, and the future years defense program, focusing on 
Department of Energy national security programs and on safety issues at 
the Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities, receiving 
testimony from Hazel R. O'Leary, Secretary of Energy; and John T. 
Conway, Chairman, A.J. Eggenberger, Vice Chairman, John W. Crawford, 
Jr., Member, Joseph J. DiNunno, Member, and Herbert Kouts, Member, each 
of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION BUDGET
Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing and Urban Affairs concluded hearings to examine the impact of 
the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1995 for the Federal 
transit program, after receiving testimony from Gordon J. Linton, 
Administrator, Federal Transit Administration, Department of 
Transportation; John A. Agro, Jr., Maryland Mass Transit 
Administration, Baltimore; Mel Sundermeyer, Missouri Highway and 
Transportation Department, Jefferson City; Rick Simonetta, Rapid 
Transit Authority, Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the American Public 
Transit Association; and Jim La Sala, Amalgamated Transit Union, 
Rockville, Maryland.
BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPETITIVENESS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space held hearings to examine the state of 
the biotechnology industry and the role public policy plays in 
America's economic competitiveness, and the industry's role in 
advancing agriculture, environment, and health care, receiving 
testimony from M.R.C. Greenwood, Associate Director for Science, Office 
of Science and Technology Policy; Lisa Conte, Shaman Pharmaceuticals, 
Inc., South San Francisco, California; Barry Jacobsen, Montana State 
University, Bozeman; J. Peter Perez, Environmental Remediation, Inc., 
Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Mark Skaletsky, GelTex Pharmaceuticals, 
Inc., Lexington, Massachusetts.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  S. 1341, to establish the Wheeling National Heritage Area in the 
State of West Virginia, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  H.R. 1305, to make boundary adjustments and other miscellaneous 
changes to authorities and programs of the National Park Service, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1586, to establish the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park 
in the State of Louisiana, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute; and
  S. 859, to reduce the restrictions on lands conveyed by deed under 
the Act of June 8, 1926, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.
PUBLIC LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public 
Lands, National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following 
bills:
  S. 1270, to establish the Cache La Poudre River National Water 
Heritage Area in the State of Colorado, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Brown; James Stewart, Assistant Director, Planning, National 
Park Service, Department of the Interior; and Eric Wilkinson, Northern 
Colorado Water Conservation District, Loveland;
  S. 1703, to expand the boundaries of the Piscataway National Park in 
the State of Maryland, after receiving testimony from Senator Sarbanes; 
Robert Stanton, Regional Director, National Capital Region, National 
Park Service, Department of the Interior; and Neil W. Horstman, Mount 
Vernon Ladies' Association, Mount Vernon, Virginia;
  H.R. 194, to withdraw and reserve certain public lands and minerals 
within the State of Colorado for military uses, after receiving 
testimony from Representative Hefley; and Matthew Millenbach, Acting 
Chief of Staff for the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and 
Minerals Management;
  S. 1324, to exchange certain lands of the Columbia Basin Federal 
reclamation project in the State of Washington, after receiving 
testimony from John Keys, Pacific Northwest Regional Director (Boise, 
Idaho), Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; and
  S. 1402, to convey a certain parcel of public land to the county of 
Twin Falls, Idaho, for use as a landfill, after receiving testimony 
from Matthew Millenbach (listed above); and James S. Fraley, Twin Falls 
Board of Commissioners, Twin Falls, Idaho.
URUGUAY ROUND
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine the results 
of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations and what more 
needs to be accomplished before the trade agreements are to be signed 
on April 15, 1994, receiving testimony from Steven R. Appleton, Micron 
Semiconductor, Inc., Boise, Idaho, on behalf of the Semiconductor 
Industry Association; Curtis H. Barnette, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, 
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the United States Member 
Companies of the American Iron and Steel Institute; Donald G. Fisher, 
The Gap, Inc., San Francisco, California, on behalf of the National 
Retail Federation; John H. Jackson, University of Michigan Law School, 
Ann Arbor; and Robert B. Shapiro, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, 
Missouri, on behalf of The Alliance for GATT Now.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
U.S. POLICY TOWARD RUSSIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine 
Russian domestic and foreign policy, and the impact that developments 
in Russia have on United States relations, receiving testimony from 
Strobe Talbott, Deputy Secretary, and James Collins, Coordinator of 
Regional Affairs, and Tom Simons, Coordinator of Assistance, both for 
the New Independent States, all of the Department of State; James H. 
Billington, Librarian of Congress; and Paul A. Goble, Carnegie 
Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  H.R. 3400, to provide a more effective, efficient, and responsive 
Federal government, with amendments;
  An original bill to provide a more effective, efficient, and 
responsive Government. (As approved by the committee, the bill 
incorporates Titles VIII, XIII, XV, and XVI of H.R. 3400, listed 
above.);
  H.R. 1631, to revise title 11, District of Columbia Code, to increase 
the maximum amount in controversy permitted for cases under the 
jurisdiction of the Small Claims and Conciliation Branch of the 
Superior Court of the District of Columbia;
  H.R. 1632, to revise title 11, District of Columbia Code, to remove 
gender-specific references relating to organization and jurisdiction of 
the District of Columbia courts and in the District Charter relating to 
the judiciary; and
  The nomination of Rafael Diaz, to be an Associate Judge of the 
Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Michael J. Davis, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of Minnesota, Franklin D. Burgess, to be United States 
District Judge for the Western District of Washington, Ancer L. 
Haggerty, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Oregon, Kent Barron Alexander, to be United States Attorney for the 
Northern District of Georgia, David D. Freudenthal, to be United States 
Attorney for the District of Wyoming, Herbert Lee Brown, to be United 
States Marshal for the District of Nevada, Lawson Cary Bittick, to be 
United States Marshal for the Middle District of Georgia, Frank James 
Anderson, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of 
Indiana, Nannette Holly Hegerty, to be United States Marshal for the 
Eastern District of Wisconsin, and Raymond Gerard Gagnon, to be United 
States Marshal for the District of New Hampshire.
GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Constitution held hearings 
on S. 1882, to amend title 18, United States Code, to promote the safe 
use of guns and to reduce gun violence, focusing on public health and 
child safety, receiving testimony from M. Joycelyn Elders, Surgeon 
General of the Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human 
Services; Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Defense Fund, Joseph 
Wright, Childrens National Medical Center, on behalf of the American 
Association of Pediatrics, and Richard Aborn, Center To Prevent Handgun 
Violence, all of Washington, D.C.; Arthur Kellerman, Emory University 
School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia; Stephen Teret, Johns Hopkins 
School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland; Tim Wheeler, 
Fontana, California; Edgar Suter, San Ramon, California; and Suzanne 
Gratia, Killeen, Texas.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on 
proposed legislation to authorize funds for programs of the National 
Science Foundation, after receiving testimony from Neal Lane, Director, 
National Science Foundation; Roland W. Schmitt, Rensselaer Polytechnic 
Institute, Clifton Park, New York; John B. Bush, Jr., The Gillette 
Company, Boston, Massachusetts; and Kerry Davidson, Louisiana Board of 
Regents, Baton Rouge.
NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 1021, to 
protect and preserve the rights of Native Americans to express and 
excercise their traditional religious beliefs, receiving testimony from 
Ada E. Deer, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; 
Gerald Torres, Counsel to the Attorney General, Department of Justice; 
Francis Brown, Medicine Wheel Coalition, Wind River, Wyoming; James S. 
Hena, All Indian Pueblo Council, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico; 
Jonathon Earth, Sr., Native American Church, Winnebago, Nebraska; Lenny 
Foster, Navajo Nation Corrections Project, Fort Defiance, Arizona; and 
Patrick Lefthand, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Pablo, 
Montana.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.