[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 43 (Tuesday, April 19, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D]
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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 the Department of 
Defense, focusing on manpower and personnel issues, 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, USN, Chief of Naval 
Personnel; Lt. Gen. Robert B. Johnston, USMC, Deputy Chief of Marine 
Corps Staff for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; Lt. Gen. Billy J. Boles, 
USAF, Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for Personnel; Specialist First 
Class William H. Dewalt, Jr., United States Army; Senior Chief Brian 
Ottlinger, United States Navy (Boston, Massachusetts); Master Sgt. 
Salvatore Lagudi, United States Air Force (Fayetteville, North 
Carolina); and Sgt. R. D. Barnes, United States Marine Corps 
(Jacksonville, Florida).
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 21.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for foreign 
assistance programs, receiving testimony from John H.F. Shattuck, 
Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs; 
and Holly Burkhalter, Human Rights Watch, and Joseph Eldridge, Lawyer's 
Committee for Human Rights, both of Washington, D.C.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 26.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Regional Defense and 
Contingency Forces resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing 
funds for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of Defense and the future 
years defense plan, focusing on C-17 settlement and strategic mobility 
issues, receiving testimony from John M. Deutch, Deputy Secretary of 
Defense; and Frank C. Conahan, Assistant Comptroller General, National 
Security and International Affairs, General Accounting Office.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
PIPELINE SAFETY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine the effects of the recent failure of a natural gas pipeline 
in New Jersey and current policies regarding pipeline rights of way in 
congested urban areas, after receiving testimony from Senator 
Lautenberg; James E. Hall, Member, National Transportation Safety 
Board; Elizabeth A. Moler, Chair, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; 
George W. Tenley, Jr., Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety, 
Research and Special Programs Administration, Department of 
Transportation; Mayor George Spadoro, and Tobi Glovinski, both of 
Edison, New Jersey; Herbert H. Tate, Jr., New Jersey Board of 
Regulatory Commissioners, Newark; and George L. Mazanec, Panhandle 
Eastern Corporation, Houston, Texas, on behalf of the Texas Eastern 
Transmission Corporation.
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine health care 
reform issues, focusing on long-term care and drug benefits, receiving 
testimony from Senator Cohen; Judith L. Wagner, Senior Associate, 
Health Program, Office of Technology Assessment; Deborah Briceland-
Betts, The Long Term Care Campaign, Stephen McConnell, Alzheimer's 
Association, and John Rother, American Association of Retired Persons, 
all of Washington, D.C.; Richard C. Ladd, Texas Health and Human 
Services Commission, Austin; Stanley Wallack, Brandeis University, 
Waltham, Massachusetts, on behalf of the Coalition on Long-Term Care 
Financing; Seth A. Rudnick, Cytotherapeutics, Inc., Providence, Rhode 
Island; Charles A. Sanders, Glaxo Inc., Research Triangle Park, North 
Carolina; and Stephen Schondelmeyer, University of Minnesota, 
Minneapolis.
  Committee will meet again on Thursday, April 21.
MEXICO
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and 
Peace Corps Affairs met in closed session to receive a briefing on 
current issues relating to Mexico from Arturo Valenzuela, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for Mexican and Regional Affairs, and Robert C. 
Felder, Director, Office of Mexican Affairs, both of the Department of 
State.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL DRUG STRATEGY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded oversight hearings on 
the national drug strategy, focusing on the research and development of 
medicines, called pharmacotherapies, to treat drug addiction, after 
receiving testimony from Laurence E. Earley and Charles O'Brien, both 
of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia; 
Herbert D. Kleber, Columbia University College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, New York, New York; and J. Richard Crout, Boehringer Mannheim 
Pharmaceuticals Corp., Washington, D.C.
FEDERALLY FUNDED RESEARCH PATENTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and 
Trademarks held hearings to examine the implementation of the 
Government Patent Policy Act (Public Law 96-517), which allows 
universities to patent the results of research funded by the Federal 
Government and license their inventions in the marketplace, receiving 
testimony from Senator Dole; former Senator Bayh; Daryl Chamblee, 
Acting Deputy Director for Science, Policy and Technology Transfer, 
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; 
Gary Munsinger, Research Corporation Technology, Tucson, Arizona; 
Charles M. Vest, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; 
Barbara Conta, Regeneron Pharmaceutical Corporation, Tarrytown, New 
York, on behalf of the Biotechnology Industry Organization; and Howard 
Bremer, Association of University Technology Managers, Madison, 
Wisconsin.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
LIBRARY RESOURCES
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts 
and Humanities concluded hearings to examine the role of libraries in 
developing America's new information infrastructure, after receiving 
testimony from James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress; Jeanne H. 
Simon, Chairperson, National Commission on Libraries and Information 
Science; Hardy R. Franklin, District of Columbia Public Library, 
Washington, D.C., and Agnes M. Griffen, Montgomery County Department of 
Public Libraries, Rockville, Maryland, both on behalf of the American 
Library Association; Howard F. McGinn, Emporia Public Library, Emporia, 
Kansas; James Ubel, Shawnee Library System, Carterville, Illinois; 
Grant P. Thompson, Libraries for the Future, New York, New York; Donald 
Pascarella, Harron Communications Corp., Frazer, Pennsylvania; James S. 
Fogarty, Schuylkill Intermediate Unit, Mar Lin, Pennsylvania, on behalf 
of the Pennsylvania Department of Education and Commonwealth Libraries; 
and Beverly Choltco-Devlin, Morrisville Public Library, Morrisville, 
New York.
AGE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor concluded 
hearings on H.R. 2722, to allow State and local governments to impose 
mandatory retirement and maximum hiring ages on their public safety 
officers, after receiving testimony from Robert Devereaux, 
Massachusetts State Police, and James B. Conroy, Donnelly, Conroy & 
Gelhaar, both of Boston, Massachusetts; Sam A. Cabral, International 
Union of Police Associations (AFL-CIO), Alexandria, Virginia; Jim 
Weston, City of Reno Police Department, Reno, Nevada; Frank J. Landy, 
Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Frederick H. Nesbitt, 
International Association of Fire Fighters, Washington, D.C.; Franklin 
A. Wall, Jr., Los Angeles County Fire Department, Los Alamitos, 
California, on behalf of the American Association of Retired Persons; 
and Leon A. Monroe, Baltimore, 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.