[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 38 (Tuesday, April 12, 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 the Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 1995, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective 
activities from D. James Baker, Under Secretary for Oceans and 
Atmosphere, Mary Lowe Good, Under Secretary for Technology, and Arati 
Prabhakar, Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
all of the Department of Commerce.
  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 Senators Hatch, Bennett, Conrad, and Dorgan; Arizona Governor 
Samuel Goddard, Phoenix; and numerous public witnesses.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for foreign 
assistance programs, focusing on national security interests, receiving 
testimony from Lynn Davis, Under Secretary of State for International 
Security Affairs.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 19.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Adm. Frank B. Kelso II, USN, to retire in grade, after 
the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 
Testimony was also received on the nominee from William J. Perry, 
Secretary of Defense; John H. Dalton, Secretary of the Navy; and Gen. 
John M. Shalikashvill, USA, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Regional Defense and 
Contingency Forces held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing 
funds for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of Defense, and the 
future years defense program, focusing on Marine Corps investment, 
receiving testimony from Gen. Carl E. Mundy, Jr., USMC, Commandant of 
the Marine Corps.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 19.
NEWLANDS PROJECT IN NEVADA
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded oversight hearings to examine Federal agency roles in 
addressing the contemporary needs and management of the Newlands 
Project in Nevada, after receiving testimony from Elizabeth A. Rieke, 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science; Paul W. 
Johnson, Chief, Soil Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture; 
Alexis Strauss, Deputy Director, Water Management Division (San 
Francisco, California), Environmental Protection Agency; Morgan R. 
Rees, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning Policy and Legislation, 
Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works; Myles E. 
Flint, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division, Department of Justice; and Capt. J.P. Sciabarra, 
Commanding Officer, Fallon Naval Air Station, Fallon, Nevada.
SUPERFUND LIABILITY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, 
Recycling, and Solid Waste Management concluded hearings on S. 1834, to 
authorize funds for fiscal years 1995 through 1999 for programs of the 
Comprehensive Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund), 
focusing on liability issues, after receiving testimony from Senator 
Stevens; New Mexico Attorney General Tom Udall, Santa Fe, on behalf of 
the National Association of Attorneys General; Kevin Gover, Gover, 
Stetson, and Williams, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Benjamin F. Chavis, 
Jr., NAACP, Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of the Alliance for a 
Superfund Action Partnership; Florence T. Robinson, North Baton Rouge 
Environmental Association, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Patricia G. 
Kenworthy, Monsanto Company, Washington, D.C., both on behalf of the 
Keystone Commission; Michael Roush, National Federation of Independent 
Businesses, and Patricia Williams, National Wildlife Federation, both 
of Washington, D.C.; Ed Pollak, Olin Corporation, Stanford, 
Connecticut, on behalf of the Coalition on Superfund; Mary Morningstar, 
Lockheed Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts; and Kevin L. McKnight, 
Aluminum Company of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
HEALTH CARE REFORM/MEDICARE
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine health care 
reform issues, focusing on the future of the Medicaid program, 
receiving testimony from Martin Corry, American Association of Retired 
Persons, Richard J. Davidson, American Hospital Association, and 
Charles P. Duvall, Georgetown University, on behalf of the American 
Medical Association, all of Washington, D.C.; and George C. Halvorson, 
HealthPartners, Minneapolis, Minnesota, on behalf of the Group Health 
Association of America.
  Committee will meet again on Thursday, April 14.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Edward William Gnehm, Jr., of Georgia, to be the Deputy 
Representative of the United States to the United Nations, with the 
rank and status of Ambassador, David Elias Birenbaum, of the District 
of Columbia, to be Representative of the United States to the United 
Nations for U.N. Management and Reform, with the rank of Ambassador, 
Arvonne S. Fraser, of Minnesota, for the rank of Ambassador during her 
tenure of service as the Representative of the United States on the 
Commission on the Status of Women of the Economic and Social Council of 
the United Nations, and Henry Howard Jr., of Virginia, to be Associate 
Director for Management, and John P. Loiello, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Associate Director for Educational and Cultural 
Affairs, both of the United States Information Agency, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. 
Gnehm was introduced by Senator Hollings, and Ms. Fraser was introduced 
by Senator Wellstone.
CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
Convention on Biological Diversity with Annexes, done at Rio de Janeiro 
June 5, 1992, and signed by the United States in New York on June 4, 
1993 (Treaty Doc. 103-20), after receiving testimony from Senators 
Baucus and Chafee; Timothy E. Wirth, Counselor, Department of State; 
Georg Albers-Schonberg, Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, New 
Jersey, on behalf of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association; Lisa 
A. Conte, Shaman Pharmaceuticals, South San Francisco, California, on 
behalf of the Biotechnology Industry Organization; and Walter V. Reid, 
World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C.
DOD FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine 
Department of Defense efforts to improve its financial management 
practices and systems, receiving testimony from Senator Grassley; 
Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States; and Derek 
J. Vander Schaaf, Deputy Inspector General, and John J. Hamre, 
Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer, both of the Department of 
Defense.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts 
and Humanities resumed hearings on S. 1513, authorizing funds for 
programs of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and S. 
266, to authorize funds for elementary and secondary school library 
media resources, technology enhancement, training and improvement, 
focusing on school libraries and family literacy, receiving testimony 
from Senator Sarbanes; Representative Reed; Andrew Hartman, National 
Institute for Literacy, Washington, D.C.; Jeanie McNamara, University 
of South Carolina, Columbia; Jim Wulfson, Edward R. Devotion School, 
Brookline, Massachusetts; Bonnie Lash Freeman, Yulanda Ritchie, and 
Heather Redmond, all of Louisville, Kentucky, all on behalf of the 
National Center for Family Literacy; David Macaulay, Warren, Rhode 
Island; and Carolyn Markuson, Sudbury, Massachusetts.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Jere Walton Glover, of Maryland, to be Chief Counsel for 
Advocacy, Small Business Administration, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Senators Sarbanes and Sasser, and Erskine Bowles, 
Administrator, Small Business Administration, testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee will meet again on Thursday, April 14.
LONG-TERM CARE REFORM
Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings to examine the 
importance of addressing the long-term care needs of the elderly and 
disabled in comprehensive health care reform, receiving testimony from 
Fernando M. Torres-Gil, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human 
Services for Aging; Jane L. Ross, Associate Director, Income Security 
Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division, General 
Accounting Office; Diane Rowland, Kaiser Commission on the Future of 
Medicaid, Gail Shearer, Consumers Union, James P. Firman, United 
Seniors Health Cooperative, and Shirley Reed, all of Washington, D.C.; 
Mark R. Meiners, Partnership for Long-Term Care Insurance, College 
Park, Maryland; and Hazel Chapman and Angela Chapman, both of Virginia 
Beach, Virginia.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.