[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 39 (Wednesday, April 13, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D]
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DISASTER ASSISTANCE REFORM
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held 
oversight hearings to examine certain initiatives to reform the Federal 
disaster assistance and crop insurance programs, receiving testimony 
from Ken Ackerman, Manager, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, Grant 
Buntrock, Administrator, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation 
Service, and James R. Ebbitt, Assistant Inspector General, Audit, and 
Charlie Womble, Supervisory Auditor, Southeast Region (Atlanta, 
Georgia), both of the Office of Inspector General, all of the 
Department of Agriculture; and William E. Gahr, Associate Director, 
Food and Agriculture Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic 
Development Division, General Accounting Office.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of 
Energy, focusing on fossil energy research and development and clean 
coal technology, receiving testimony from Jack S. Siegel, Acting 
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 21.
APPROPRIATIONS--COAST GUARD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the 
United States Coast Guard, receiving testimony from Rear Adm. J. 
William Kime, Commandant, United States Coast Guard, Department of 
Transportation.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 21.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Coalition Defense and 
Reinforcing Forces resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing 
funds for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of Defense, and the 
future years defense program, focusing on policy and plans for 
multinational peace operations, receiving testimony from Edward L. 
Warner III, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Resources; 
and Lt. Gen. Wesley K. Clark, USA, Director for Strategic Plans and 
Policy (J-5) of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 18.
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 logistics and 
ammunition programs, receiving testimony from Gen. Leon E. Salomon, 
USA, Commander, and Brig. Gen. William R. Holmes, USA, Deputy Chief of 
Staff for Ammunition, both of the Army Material Command; Vice Adm. 
Stephen F. Loftus, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Logistics); 
Lt. Gen. Robert A. Tiebout, USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff, Installations 
and Logistics, Headquarters Marine Corps; Gen. Ronald W. Yates, USAF, 
Commander, Air Force Material Command; Vice Adm. Edward M. Straw, SC, 
USN, Director, Defense Logistics Agency; and Toby Warson, President, 
and Richard G. Palasohak, Director of Operations, both of the Munitions 
Industrial Base Task Force.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 18.
GSE HOUSING GOALS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the housing goal performance in 1993 of Fannie Mae 
and Freddie Mac, the two major housing government- sponsored 
enterprises (GSEs) regulated by the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development, after receiving testimony from Henry G. Cisneros, 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nomination of Arnold Gregory Holz, of Maryland, to be 
Chief Financial Officer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 
after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
AUTHORIZATION--NSF
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for the National Science Foundation, 
after receiving testimony from Neal F. Lane, Director, National Science 
Foundation; James E. Sawyer, Greiner Engineering, Inc., Tampa, Florida, 
on behalf of the American Association of Engineering Societies; and 
Howard J. Silver, Consortium of Social Science Associations, 
Washington, D.C.
AUTHORIZATION--RAIL SERVICE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Surface Transportation concluded hearings on S. 2002, authorizing funds 
for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), and S. 1942, 
to authorize funds for fiscal years 1995 through 1997 for the local 
rail freight assistance program of the Federal Railroad Administration, 
after receiving testimony from Jolene M. Molitoris, Administrator, and 
Donald M. Itzkoff, Deputy Administrator, both of the Federal Railroad 
Administration, Department of Transportation; Kenneth M. Mead, 
Director, Transportation Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic 
Development Division, General Accounting Office; Thomas Downs, 
President and Chairman, National Railroad Passenger Corporation; Peter 
Gilbertson, Louisville and Indiana Railroad, Chicago, Illinois, 
representing the Regional Railroads of America; and Scott Leonard, 
National Association of Railroad Passengers, Alice C. Saylor, American 
Short Line Railroad Association, and William W. Pickett, Rail Labor 
Executives' Association, all of Washington, D.C.
CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded 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), after receiving testimony from Stephen J. 
Ledogar, United States Representative to the Conference on Disarmament, 
Department of State.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Charles H. Twining, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to 
Cambodia, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own 
behalf.
AUTHORIZATION--KING HOLIDAY COMMISSION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 774, to 
authorize funds for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday 
Commission, after receiving testimony from Senator Wofford; Coretta 
Scott King, Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the Martin Luther King Jr. 
Federal Holiday Commission; Jack Sheinkman, AFL-CIO, New York, New 
York; Jack Kemp, Empower America, Sister Catherine McNamee, National 
Catholic Education Association, and Kasim Reed, Howard University Law 
School, all of Washington, D.C.; Ed Chaney, University of North 
Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Amy Cammack, Bishop McDevit High School, 
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 1995, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1995 for migrant, 
community and homeless health center programs of the Public Health 
Service Act;
  S. 2000, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1995 through 1998 for 
programs of the Head Start Act and the Community Services Block Grant 
Act, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 1036, to provide that the Employee Retirement Income Security 
Act of 1974 does not preempt certain State prevailing wage laws; and
  The nominations of Martha B. Gould, of Nevada, Frank J. Lucchino, of 
Pennsylvania, Bobby L. Roberts, of Arkansas, Gary N. Sudduth, of 
Minnesota, and Robert S. Willard, of Ohio, each to be a Member of the 
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, Larry Brown, 
Jr., of Maryland, to be a Member of the National Council on Disability, 
Mary Lucille Jordan, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Federal Mine 
Safety and Health Review Commission, Shirley Mahaley Malcom, of 
Maryland, to be a Member of the National Science Board, National 
Science Foundation, Rodney A. McCowan, of Oklahoma, to be Assistant 
Secretary of Education for Human Resources and Administration, and 
routine lists in the Public Health Service Corps.
INTERSTATE USE TAX COLLECTION
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the impact and fairness of the mail order industry's exemption from 
sales and use taxes on interstate commerce, and on proposed legislation 
to authorize collection of certain State and local taxes with respect 
to the sale, delivery, and use of tangible personal property, after 
receiving testimony from Mayor Charles Scholz, Quincy, Illinois; Dallas 
County Commissioner Jim Jackson, Dallas, Texas; Bob Boyd, Boyd Music 
Center, Little Rock, Arkansas; Jerry Hux, Beverly Hall Furniture 
Galleries, Atlanta, Georgia; Jerry Engle, Computer Products and 
Resources, Inc., Grand Rapids, Michigan; Janice Mee, Florida School 
Boards Association, Sarasota; Rudolph Regez, Swiss Colony Company, 
Monroe, Wisconsin; and Robert Edmund, Edmund Scientific Company, 
Barrington, New Jersey.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  S. 720, to clean up open dumps on Indian lands, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 734, to provide for the extension of certain Federal benefits, 
services, and assistance to the Pascua Yaqui Indians of Arizona, with 
an amendment;
  S. 1066, to restore Federal services to the Pokagon Band of 
Potawatomi Indians; and
  S. 1357, to reaffirm and clarify the Federal relationships of the 
Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and the Little River Band of 
Ottawa Indians of Michigan as distinct federally recognized Indian 
tribes.
BIA BUDGET
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1995 for the Bureau 
of Indian Affairs, after receiving testimony from Ada E. Deer, 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs.