[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 46 (Monday, April 25, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of Agriculture, 
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities 
from Eugene Moos, Under Secretary for International Affairs and 
Commodity Programs; James R. Lyons, Assistant Secretary for National 
Resources and Environment; Grant B. Buntrock, Administrator, 
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service; Richard B. 
Schroeter, Acting Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service; 
Christopher Goldthwait, General Sales Manager; Paul S. Johnson, Chief, 
Soil Conservation Service; Kenneth D. Ackerman, Manager, Federal Crop 
Insurance Corporation; and Stephen B. Dewhurst, Director, Office of 
Budget and Program Analysis, all of the Department of Agriculture.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 3.
HEALTH CARE FRAUD
Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, April 22, Subcommittee on 
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (and Related Agencies) 
held hearings to examine waste, fraud, and abuse in the health care 
industry, receiving testimony from Gerald M. Stern, Special Counsel, 
Financial Institution Fraud, and Special Counsel, Health Care Fraud, 
Department of Justice; June Gibbs Brown, Inspector General, and Bruce 
C. Vladeck, Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration, both 
of the Department of Health and Human Services; Charles Sekerak, Acting 
Inspector General, Railroad Retirement Board; Daniel R. Anderson, on 
behalf of the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units, and 
Carolyn McElroy, both of the Maryland State Office of the Attorney 
General, Annapolis; William J. Mahon, National Health Care Anti-Fraud 
Association, Washington, D.C.; and James Quinn, Arvada, Colorado.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, May 13.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: On Friday, April 22, Subcommittee on 
Defense Technology, Acquisition, and Industrial Base resumed hearings 
on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995 for the 
Department of Defense, focusing on research, development, test and 
evaluation infrastructure, receiving testimony from Anita K. Jones, 
Director of Defense Research and Engineering, Department of Defense; 
George T. Singley, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research 
and Technology; Rear Adm. Marc Y.E. Pelaez, USN, Chief of Naval 
Research; James J. Mattice, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force 
for Acquisition; John A. Burt, Director of Test and Evaluation, Office 
of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology; 
Walter W. Hollis, Deputy Under Secretary of the Army (Operations 
Research); Rear Adm. William P. Houley, USN, Director of Navy Test and 
Evaluation and Technology Requirements; and Lt. Gen. Howard W. Leaf, 
USAF (Ret.), Director of Air Force Test and Evaluation.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--MARITIME ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings on S. 1945, to authorize funds for fiscal year 1995 for 
certain maritime programs of the Department of Transportation, 
receiving testimony from Federico Pena, Secretary, and Albert J. 
Herberger, Administrator, Maritime Administration, both of the 
Department of Transportation.
  Hearings continue on Wednesday, May 4.
CLEAN AIR ACT RULE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: On Friday, April 22, 
Committee concluded hearings to examine the Administration's compromise 
with Venezuela regarding changing the final reformulated gasoline rule, 
after receiving testimony from Mary D. Nichols, Assistant 
Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, Environmental Protection 
Agency; Edward A. Casey, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Inter-American 
Affairs, Department of State; Ira Shapiro, General Counsel, Office of 
the United States Trade Representative; and John A. Riggs, Principal 
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Planning, and Program 
Evaluation, Department of Energy.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: On Friday, April 22, Committee 
concluded hearings on the nominations of Ryan Clark Crocker, of 
Washington, to be Ambassador to the State of Kuwait, and Edward S. 
Walker, Jr., of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Arab Republic of 
Egypt, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: On Friday, April 22, Committee concluded 
hearings on the nomination of Michael R. Bromwich, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Inspector General, Department of Justice, after the 
nominee, who was introduced by District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor 
Holmes Norton, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.