[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 35 (Thursday, March 24, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for National Guard and 
Reserve programs, focusing on manpower and equipment requirements and 
the restructuring of brigades, receiving testimony from Deborah R. Lee, 
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Reserve Affairs); Maj. Gen. Raymond F. 
Rees, Acting Chief, National Guard Bureau; Maj. Gen. John R. D'Araujo, 
USA, Director, Army National Guard; Maj. Gen. Max Baratz, USA, Acting 
Chief, Army Reserve; Rear Admiral T.F. Hall, USN, Director, Navy 
Reserve; Maj. Gen. Donald W. Shepperd, USAF, Director, Air National 
Guard; Maj. Gen. John J. Closner, USAF, Chief, Air Reserve; and Brig. 
Gen. Stephen R. Berkheiser, USMC, Director, Reserve Affairs.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 14.
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 numerous public witnesses.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 12.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR
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 
Labor, receiving testimony from Robert B. Reich, Secretary, Douglas 
Ross, Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training Administration, 
Bernard E. Anderson, Assistant Secretary for Employment Standards 
Administration, Davitt McAteer, Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and 
Health Administration, and Joseph A. Dear, Assistant Secretary for 
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, all of the Department of 
Labor.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 11.
APPROPRIATIONS--AMTRAK/FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995, receiving 
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from 
Thomas M. Downs, Chairman and President, National Railroad Passenger 
Corporation (Amtrak); and Jolene M. Molitoris, Administrator, Federal 
Railroad Administration, Department of Transportation.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 13.
APPROPRIATIONS--FEMA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
1995 for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, receiving testimony 
from James Lee Witt, Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 21.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of William T. Coleman III, of Michigan, to be General 
Counsel of the Department of the Army, Rudy deLeon, of California, to 
be Under Secretary of the Air Force, Clark G. Fiester, of California, 
to be Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Joshua 
Gotbaum, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Economic 
Security, Sara E. Lister, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant 
Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, and Gilbert F. 
Decker, of California, to be Assistant Secretary of the Army for 
Research, Development and Acquisition, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Readiness and 
Defense Infrastructure resumed hearings on proposed legislation 
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of Defense, 
and the future years defense program, focusing on the operation and 
maintenance accounts and on the defense business operations fund, 
receiving testimony from John Flinn, Director of Operations, Office of 
the Comptroller, Department of Defense; Brig. Gen. William A. West, 
USA, Director for Operations and Support, Office of the Assistant 
Secretary of the Army for Financial Management; Rear Adm. James F. 
Amerault, USN, Director, Operations Division, Office of Budget and 
Reports, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; Brig. Gen. George M. 
Karamarkovich, USMC, Assistant Deputy Chief of Marine Corps Staff for 
Installations and Logistics (Plans); and Brig. Gen. George T. Stringer, 
USAF, Director of Budget Operations, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
of the Air Force, Financial Management and Comptroller.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of William Alan Reinsch, of 
Maryland, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration; 
Raymond E. Vickery Jr., of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Commerce; Maria Luisa Mabilangan Haley, of Arkansas, to be a Member of 
the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States; 
and Elaine A. McReynolds, of Tennessee, to be Federal Insurance 
Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
CHARITABLE SOLICITATION FRAUD
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer 
Subcommittee held hearings to examine the nature and extent of 
fraudulent or misleading practices in the solicitation of charitable 
contributions, receiving testimony from Christian S. White, Acting 
Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission; 
Steven J. Cole, Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc., Arlington, 
Virginia; and Frank B. Dowd, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SUPERFUND REAUTHORIZATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine the impact of the Administration's Superfund reauthorization 
proposals on the Department of Energy's Environmental Restoration and 
Waste Management Program, after receiving testimony from Thomas P. 
Grumbly, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management; 
and Elliott P. Laws, Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste and 
Emergency Response, Environmental Protection Agency.
SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT AMENDMENTS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported an original bill authorizing funds for fiscal years 1994-2000 
for programs of the Safe Drinking Water Act, in lieu of S. 1547.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 1814, to 
revise the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that a taxpayer may 
elect to include in income crop insurance proceeds and disaster 
payments in the year of the disaster or in the following year.
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine health care 
reform issues, focusing on the Medicaid Program, receiving testimony 
from Mark Merlis, Specialist in Social Legislation, Education and 
Public Welfare Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of 
Congress; Raymond C. Scheppach, National Governors' Association, and 
Stan Dorn, National Health Law Program, both of Washington, D.C.; and 
Karen Wintringham, Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York, New York, 
New York.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PEACE, PROSPERITY, AND DEMOCRACY ACT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs 
concluded hearings on S. 1856, to promote international cooperation and 
assistance programs and activities, focusing on implications for Sub-
Saharan Africa, after receiving testimony from George E. Moose, 
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; John F. Hicks, Sr., 
Assistant Administrator for Africa, Agency for International 
Development; Gregory Robeson Smith, African Development Foundation, 
Nicole Ball, Overseas Development Council, Janet Fleischman, Human 
Rights Watch, Douglas Hellinger, The Development GAP, and Percy Wilson, 
Corporate Council on Africa, all of Washington, D.C.; Edward P. 
Bullard, TechnoServe, Norwalk, Connecticut; James Cason, MacArthur 
Foundation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; James Kunder, Save the Children 
Federation, Westport, Connecticut; and Nancy Barry, Women's World 
Banking, New York, New York.
EAST ASIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs held hearings to review United States policy toward East Asia, 
receiving testimony from Winston Lord, Assistant Secretary of State for 
East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
POSTAL SERVICE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, 
Post Office, and Civil Service concluded hearings to review the annual 
report of the Postmaster General, focusing on the current restructuring 
of the Postal Service, after receiving testimony from Marvin Runyon, 
Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer, Michael S. Coughlin, 
Deputy Postmaster General, Joseph R. Caraveo, Chief Operating Officer 
and Executive Vice President, Mary S. Elcano, General Counsel and Vice 
President, and Michael J. Riley, Chief Financial Officer, all of the 
United States Postal Service.
SATELLITE CARRIER COMPULSORY LICENSE EXTENSION ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and 
Trademarks approved for full committee consideration, with a committee 
amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 1485, to extend certain 
satellite carrier compulsory licenses.
EDUCATION REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts 
and Humanities held hearings on S. 1513, authorizing funds for programs 
of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, focusing on 
Title II, relating to professional development for teachers and 
administrators, receiving testimony from North Carolina Governor James 
B. Hunt, Jr., Raleigh, on behalf of the National Board of Professional 
Teaching Standards; Charles W. Case, University of Connecticut, Storrs; 
Argie K. Johnson, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, Illinois; Pam 
Schmidt, Dunkerton Community Schools, Dunkerton, Iowa; Benjamin O. 
Canada, Jackson Public Schools, Jackson, Mississippi; Mary Lindquist, 
Columbus College, Columbus, Georgia, on behalf of the National Council 
of Teachers of Mathematics; and Elaine H. Hairston, State Higher 
Education Executive Officers, Columbus, Ohio.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
VETERANS' ADJUDICATION PROCESS/COMPENSATION COLA/HOME LOAN PROGRAM/
PENSION PROGRAM
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1927, 
to increase the rates of compensation for veterans with service-
connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity 
compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans; S. 677, to 
authorize the establishment on the grounds of the Edward Hines, Jr., VA 
Hospital, Hines, Illinois, a facility to provide temporary 
accommodations for family members of certain severely ill children; S. 
789, to provide that future increases in the monthly amount paid by the 
State of New York to blind disabled veterans shall be excluded from the 
determination of annual income for purposes of payment of pension by 
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; S. 792, to change the date for the 
beginning of the Vietnam era for the purpose of veterans' benefits from 
August 5, 1964, to December 22, 1961; S. 1626, to revise the veterans' 
home loan program, S. 1904, to improve the organization and procedures 
of the Board of Veterans' Appeals; S. 1905, to improve the processing 
of benefits claims by VA; S. 1906, to provide that service connection 
for disabilities arising from exposure to ionizing radiation or dioxin 
may be established by direct evidence; S. 1907, to require that VA 
adjudicate and resolve certain claims relating to medical malpractice 
in the health-care services provided by VA; and S. 1908, to provide for 
a study of VA's processes and procedures for the disposition of claims 
for veterans' benefits, after receiving testimony from R. John Vogel, 
Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Benefits; Carroll Williams, 
American Legion, Joseph A. Violante, Disabled American Veterans, 
Russell W. Mank, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Bob Manhan, Veterans of 
Foreign Wars of the United States, and Richard B. Frank, Board of 
Veterans' Appeals Professional Association, Inc., all of Washington, 
D.C.; and Michael F. Brinck, AMVETS, Lanham, Maryland.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.