[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 40 (Thursday, April 14, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D]
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on 
Agricultural Research, Conservation, Forestry and General Legislation 
held hearings to examine the effectiveness of Federal ecosystem 
management and related issues, receiving testimony from Adela Backiel, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for National Resources; 
Hubert Hinote, Southern Appalachian Man and Biosphere Cooperative, 
Gatlinburg, Tennessee; Gregory H. Aplet, Wilderness Society, 
Washington, D.C.; Kevin Boling, Potlatch Corporation, Lewiston, Idaho; 
and John Sheehan, Plumas Corporation, Quincy, California.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--FBI/DEA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 1995, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective 
activities from Louis J. Freeh, Director, Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, and Thomas A. Constantine, Administrator, Drug 
Enforcement Administration, both of the Department of Justice.
  Subcommittee will meet on Thursday, April 21.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE HEALTH SERVICES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for Department of 
Defense health services and infrastructure, receiving testimony from 
Senators Thurmond and Sarbanes; Representative Morella; Stephen C. 
Joseph, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs; Lt. Gen. 
Alcide M. LaNoue, USA, Surgeon General of the Army; Vice Adm. Donald F. 
Hagen, USN, Surgeon General of the Navy; Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Sloan, 
USAF, Surgeon General of the Air Force; Brig. Gen. Nancy Adams, USA, 
Chief, Army Nurse Corps; Capt. Joan Engel, USN, Deputy Director, Navy 
Nurse Corps; Brig. Gen. Sue E. Turner, USAF, Director, Nursing 
Services; and James A. Zimble, President, Nancy E. Gary, Dean, Lt. Col. 
Charles Beadling, Professor, and Rhonda Cornum and Terry Walters, both 
graduates, all of the Uniformed Services University of the Health 
Sciences, Department of Defense.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 19.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Gilbert F. Decker, of California, and Sara E. Lister, of 
the District of Columbia, each to be an Assistant Secretary of the 
Army, Rudy Deleon, of California, to be Under Secretary of the Air 
Force, and Adm. Frank B. Kelso II, USN, to retire in grade.
  Also, Committee concluded open and closed hearings on the nomination 
of Adm. Jeremy M. Boorda, USN, to be Chief of Naval Operations, after 
the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
IRAQ
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing on the shoot down in Iraq from Lt. Gen. John Sheehan, USMC, 
Director of Operations, and Col. Mel Copeland, USAF, Branch Chief (J-
33), both of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Force Requirements and 
Personnel held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for 
fiscal year 1995 for the Department of Defense and the future years 
defense program, focusing on manpower, personnel, and compensation, 
receiving testimony from Edwin Dorn, Under Secretary of Defense for 
Personnel and Readiness; Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Carney, USA, Deputy Chief 
of Army Staff for Personnel; Vice Adm. Ronald J. Zlatoper, Chief of 
Navy Personnel; Lt. Gen. Billy J. Boles, USAF, Deputy Chief of Air 
Force Staff for Personnel; Lt. Gen. Robert B. Johnston, USMC, Deputy 
Chief of Marine Corps Staff for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; and Col. 
Paul W. Arcari, USAF (Ret.), Retired Officers Association, Sgt. Maj. 
Michael F. Ouellette, Non Commissioned Officers Association, and Sydney 
Tally Hickey, National Military Family Association, all of Alexandria, 
Virginia.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to examine issues affecting existing and prospective 
domestic oil and gas development and production, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Burns; Bill White, Deputy Secretary of Energy; 
Robert Armstrong, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and 
Minerals Management; Gray Reynolds, Deputy Chief, Forest Service, 
Department of Agriculture; Christine Hansen, Interstate Oil and Gas 
Compact Commission, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Tom Neel, CNG Producing 
Company, New Orleans, Louisiana; George A. Alcorn, Alcorn Exploration, 
Houston, Texas, on behalf of the Independent Petroleum Association of 
America; and Terry M. Belton, Texaco Exploration and Production Inc., 
Denver, Colorado, on behalf of the Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas 
Association.
CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION PLAN
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air 
and Nuclear Regulation held hearings to examine the Environmental 
Protection Agency's implementation of the climate change action plan 
and issues associated with adapting to changing circumstances which may 
result from potential climate change, receiving testimony from Robert 
Sussman, Deputy Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Susan 
F. Tierney, Assistant Secretary for Policy, Planning and Program 
Evaluation, and Christine A. Ervin, Assistant Secretary for Energy 
Efficiency and Renewable Energy, both of the Department of Energy; 
Michael D. Bowes, Senior Analyst, Environment Program, Office of 
Technology Assessment; Margaret A. Davidson, South Carolina Sea Grant 
Consortium, Charleston, South Carolina; Stephen P. Leatherman, 
University of Maryland, College Park; and Franklin W. Nutter, 
Reinsurance Association of America, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of 
Joan Logue-Kinder, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury for Public Affairs and Public Liaison, after the nominee, who 
was introduced by Representative Flake, testified and answered 
questions in her own behalf.
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine health care 
reform issues, focusing on the effect on academic health centers, 
receiving testimony from Stuart H. Altman, Prospective Payment 
Assessment Commission, Waltham, Massachusetts; Spencer Foreman, 
Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, on behalf of the 
Association of American Medical Colleges; Paul A. Marks, Memorial 
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York; Daniel K. Onion, 
Dartmouth Medical School, Augusta, Maine; and Raymond G. Schultze, 
University of California-Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
LONG TERM CARE REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Aging concluded 
hearings to examine certain home and community based long-term care 
programs in relation to health care reform issues, after receiving 
testimony from Robert Wardwell, Acting Deputy Director, Office of 
Medicaid Policy, Health Care Financing Administration, Department of 
Health and Human Services; Joseph F. Delfico, Director, Income Security 
Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division, and Kwai-Cheung 
Chan, Issue Area Director, Program Evaluation and Methodology Division, 
both of the General Accounting Office; Christine Gianopoulos, Maine 
Department of Human Services, Augusta; Donna McDowell, Wisconsin 
Department of Health and Social Services, Madison; Rosalie A. Kane, 
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Ruthanne Nerlich, Visiting Nurse 
Association of Venango County, Oil City, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the 
Visiting Nurse Associations of America; Emily Amerman, Philadelphia 
Corporation for Aging, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Lisa Brakebill, 
Maryland Caregiver's Assistance, Respite and Education Project, 
Baltimore, on behalf of the Alzheimer's Association; and Jennie Chin 
Hansen, On Lok, Inc., San Francisco, California.
AUTHORIZATION--ESEA/IMMIGRANT 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, 
focusing on immigrant education reform issues, receiving testimony from 
Linda G. Morra, Director, Education and Employment Issues, Health, 
Education, and Human Services Division, General Accounting Office; Boyd 
W. Boehlje, Pella, Iowa, on behalf of the National School Boards 
Association; Judy M. Thorne, Research Triangle Institute, Research 
Triangle Park, North Carolina; Winfred C. Cottman, Baltimore Public 
Schools, Baltimore, Maryland; Shirl E. Gilbert II, Indianapolis Public 
Schools, Indianapolis, Indiana; Kenji Hakuta, Stanford University, 
Stanford, California; and Jane Hunt, Arizona Department of Education, 
Phoenix.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 21.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  S. 1974, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct 
pilot programs in order to evaluate the feasibility of the 
participation of the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system 
in the health care systems of States that have enacted health care 
reform, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1626, to revise the veterans' home loan program, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute. (As approved by the committee, the 
substitute amendment incorporates provisions of S. 1626, S. 677, S. 
792, and S. 1958.);
  S. 1904, to improve the organization and procedures of the Board of 
Veterans' Appeals, with amendments;
  S. 1908, to provide for a study of the processes and procedures of 
the Department of Veterans Affairs for the disposition of claims for 
veterans benefits, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As 
approved by the committee, the substitute amendment incorporates 
provisions of S. 1908, S. 1905, S. 1906, S. 1907.); and
  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.
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 Tuesday, April 19.