[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 45 (Thursday, April 21, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D]
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--STATE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and the Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 1995 for the Department of State, receiving testimony from Warren 
Christopher, Secretary of State.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 26.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for 
intelligence programs, receiving testimony from R. James Woolsey, 
Director, Central Intelligence Agency.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 26.
APPROPRIATIONS--FAA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related 
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
1995 for the Federal Aviation Administration, receiving testimony from 
David R. Hinson, Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, 
Department of Transportation.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 27.
APPROPRIATIONS--HUD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
1995 for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, receiving 
testimony from Henry G. Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 28.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Nuclear Deterrence, Arms 
Control and Defense Intelligence held hearings on proposed legislation 
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of Defense, 
and the future years defense plan, focusing on the Department of 
Energy's environmental restoration and waste management programs, 
receiving testimony from Thomas P. Grumbly, Assistant Secretary of 
Energy for Environmental Restoration and Waste Management.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 26.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of Ricardo Martinez, of Louisiana, to be 
Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; T. R. 
Lakshmanan, of New Hampshire, to be Director, Bureau of Transportation 
Statistics, both of the Department of Transportation; Carrye Burley 
Brown, of the District of Columbia, to be Administrator, United States 
Fire Administration of the Federal Emergency Management Agency; and 
William D. Hathaway, of Maine, and Joe Scroggins, Jr., of Florida, each 
to be a Federal Maritime Commissioner, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Martinez was introduced by 
Senator Breaux; Ms. Brown was introduced by Representatives George 
Brown, Hoyer, Weldon, and District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes 
Norton; and Mr. Hathaway was introduced by Senators Mitchell and Cohen 
and Representative Thomas Andrews. Testimony was also received on the 
nomination of Ms. Brown from Nevada State Fire Marshal Raymond Blehm, 
Carson City, on behalf of the National Association of State Fire 
Marshals.
PUBLIC LANDS/HISTORIC BUILDINGS/NATIONAL PARKS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public 
Lands, National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 1509, to 
transfer a parcel of land to the Pueblo de Taos Reservation in New 
Mexico; S. 1897, to expand the boundary of the Santa Fe National Forest 
in New Mexico; S. 1919, to improve water quality within the Rio Puerco 
Watershed and to help restore the ecological health of the Rio Grande; 
S. 1975 and H.R. 2921, bills to establish a grant program to restore 
and preserve historic buildings at historically black colleges and 
universities; and S. 1980, to establish the Cane River Creole National 
Historical Park and the Cane River National Heritage Area in Louisiana, 
after receiving testimony from Senator Moseley-Braun; Representative 
Clement; Jerry Rogers, Associate Director for Cultural Resources, and 
Mary Bradford, Deputy Regional Director, Southwest Region, both of the 
National Park Service, and Mat Millenbach, Acting Chief of Staff for 
the Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management, all of the 
Department of the Interior; William McCleese, Acting Associate Deputy 
Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Paul Bernal and 
Vicente Lujan, both of Taos Pueblo, Taos, New Mexico; Michael Francis, 
Wilderness Society, Washington, D.C.; Henry Ponder, Fisk University, 
Nashville, Tennessee; Dale Ball, Santa Fe Conservation Trust, Santa Fe, 
New Mexico; Denise Fort, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; and 
Tommy Bolack, Bolack Ranch, Farmington, New Mexico.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Joan Logue Kinder, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary 
of the Treasury for Public Affairs.
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on health care reform 
issues, focusing on access to health care in rural and urban 
communities, receiving testimony from Mark D. Smith, Henry J. Kaiser 
Family Foundation, Menlo Park, California; Stanley H. Block, Ambulatory 
Health Care Foundation, Inc., Providence, Rhode Island; Jane L. 
Delgado, National Coalition of Hispanic Health and Human Services 
Organizations, and Heidi I. Hartmann, Institute for Women's Policy 
Research, both of Washington, D.C.; Eugene L. McCabe, North General 
Hospital, New York, New York; Clyde W. Oden, Jr., Watts Health 
Foundation, Inc., Inglewood, California; Walter S. Busch, Roosevelt 
Memorial Medical Center, Culbertson, Montana; Orlo L. Dietrich, Jr., 
CoreSource, Inc., Chicago, Illinois; Bernard Simmons, Southwest Health 
Agency for Rural People, Inc., Tylertown, Mississippi, on behalf of the 
National Rural Health Association; and Edward A. Ullmann, The WellCare 
Management Group, Inc., Kingston, New York.
  Committee will meet again on Tuesday, April 26.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of William J. Crowe, Jr., of Virginia, to be Ambassador to 
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Ralph R. 
Johnson, of Virginia, for the Rank of Ambassador during his tenure of 
service as Coordinator of the Support for East European Democracy 
(SEED) Program, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf. Mr. Crowe was introduced by Senators Warner and 
Nickles.
INTERNATIONAL CRIME
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics 
and International Operations concluded hearings to examine recent 
developments in transnational crime affecting United States law 
enforcement and foreign policy, the Treaty With Panama on Mutual 
Assistance in Criminal Matters (Treaty Doc. 102-15), and the 1994 
international narcotics control strategy report, after receiving 
testimony from Jack Blum, former Investigative Counsel, Committee on 
Foreign Relations; Bill Olsen, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of 
State for Narcotics, and Roy Godson, both of the National Strategy 
Center, Washington, D.C.; Gabriel Taboada, Metropolitan Correctional 
Center, Miami, Florida; Rensslaer Lee, Global Advisory Service, 
Alexandria, Virginia; and Willard H. Myers III, Center for Asian 
Organized Crime and Smuggling, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Carl E. Stewart, of Louisiana, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit; James G. Carr, to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio; Mary M. Lisi, to be 
United States District Judge for the District of Rhode Island; Frank M. 
Hull, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of 
Georgia; W. Louis Sands, to be United States District Judge for the 
Middle District of Georgia; and Clarence Cooper, to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Stewart was 
introduced by Senators Johnston and Breaux and Representatives 
Jefferson and Cleo Fields; Mr. Carr was introduced by Senators Glenn 
and Metzenbaum, Ms. Lisi was introduced by Senators Pell and Chafee; 
and Messrs. Hull, Sands, and Cooper were introduced by Senators Nunn 
and Coverdell and Representative John Lewis.
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, focusing on how 
to better prepare preschool children for elementary school, receiving 
testimony from Tom Schultz, National Association of State Boards of 
Education, Alexandria, Virginia; Barbara Toman, Parent Teacher 
Association of Connecticut, Hamden; Stuart A. Taylor II, Youth 
Guidance, Chicago, Illinois; Gaeton Zorzi, William Cramp Elementary 
School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Mimi Doores, Beall Elementary 
School, and David Wilkins, both of Rockville, Maryland.
  Hearings continue on Tuesday, April 26.