[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 47 (Tuesday, April 26, 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--JUSTICE
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 Justice, receiving testimony in behalf 
of funds for their respective activities from Kathleen Kennedy 
Townsend, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Justice Programs, and 
Doris Meissner, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, 
both of the Department of Justice.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 28.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for defense 
intelligence related programs, receiving testimony from Leo Hazelwood, 
Executive Director, Central Intelligence Agency; and Adm. John M. 
McConnell, USN, Director, National Security Agency; Gen. James R. 
Clapper, Jr., USAF, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency; Jimmy Hill, 
Executive Director, National Reconnaissance Office; and Keith Hall, 
Director, Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities, all of the 
Department of Defense.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
SALMON RECOVERY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development held hearings to examine efforts to recover threatened and 
endangered salmon species in the Columbia River Basin, focusing on the 
final recommendations by the Snake River Recovery Team, receiving 
testimony from Senators Baucus, Craig, and Murray; Douglas K. Hall, 
Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, and Rolland A. 
Schmitten, Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 
both of the Department of Commerce; R. Ted Bottiger, Tacoma, 
Washington, and Jay Webb, Boise, Idaho, both on behalf of the Northwest 
Power Planning Council; and Donald E. Bevan and James A. Crutchfield, 
both of the University of Washington, Seattle, and Peter C. Klingeman, 
Oregon State University, Corvallis, all on behalf of the Snake River 
Salmon Recovery Team.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for foreign 
assistance programs, focusing on United States assistance to the former 
Soviet Union, receiving testimony from James Collins, Senior 
Coordinator for the New Independent States, Department of State.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, May 13.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1587, to revise and streamline the acquisition laws of the Federal 
Government; and
  The nominations of Roger Hilsman, of New York, Robert N. Shamansky, 
of Ohio, and Stanley K. Sheinbaum, of California, each to be a Member 
of the National Security Education Board, Department of Defense.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Nuclear Deterrence, Arms 
Control and Defense Intelligence resumed hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995 and the future years 
defense plan, focusing on the chemical demilitarization program, 
receiving testimony from Robert M. Walker, Assistant Secretary of the 
Army for Installations, Logistics, and Environment; David R. Warren, 
Associate Director, National Security and International Affairs 
Division, General Accounting Office; Carl R. Peterson, Chairman, 
Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile 
Disposal Program, National Research Council; and Brig. Gen. Walter L. 
Busbee, USA, Commander and Director, Chemical Materiel Destruction 
Agency, United States Army.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 28.
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, focusing on 
C-17 settlement and strategic mobility issues, receiving testimony from 
John M. Deutch, Deputy Secretary of Defense.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 3.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS PROGRAM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water 
Resources, Transportation, Public Buildings, and Economic Development 
concluded hearings on S. 1760, to improve the General Services 
Administration (GSA) process of constructing, altering, purchasing, and 
acquiring public buildings, and to review GSA's fiscal year 1995 public 
buildings program, after receiving testimony from Julia Stasch, Deputy 
Administrator, General Services Administration; P. Gerald Thacker, 
Assistant Director, Facilities, Security and Administrative Services, 
Administrative Office of the United States Courts; and former 
Representative Elliott H. Levitas, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the 
Public Properties Policy Association.
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on health care reform 
issues, focusing on the tax treatment of employer-based health 
insurance, receiving testimony from Rosemary D. Marcuss, Assistant 
Director for Tax Analysis, Congressional Budget Office; Alan J. 
Auerbach, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Peggy Connerton, 
AFL-CIO, and Carr Ferguson, American Bar Association, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and J. Patrick Rooney, Golden Rule Insurance Company, 
Lawrenceville, Illinois.
  Committee will meet again on Thursday, April 28.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following bills:
  S. 1587, to revise and streamline the acquisition laws of the Federal 
Government, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1935, to prohibit lobbyists and their clients from providing to 
Legislative Branch officials certain gifts, meals, entertainment, 
reimbursements, or loans and to place limits on and require disclosure 
by lobbyists of certain expenditures, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute; and
  S. 622, to authorize funds for the United States Office of Special 
Counsel, and the Merit Systems Protection Board, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute.
CRIME PREVENTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine certain 
Federal and local crime prevention strategies for children who are at a 
greater risk of being abused, receiving testimony from Senators Dodd, 
Domenici, Stevens, and Danforth; Janet Reno, Attorney General, 
Department of Justice; Geoffrey Canada, Patricia Miller, and Kevin 
Pringle, all of the Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families, New 
York, New York; Leticia Medina, Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc., 
Salt Lake City, Utah; Juan Sanchez and Victor Lara, both of the 
Southwest Key Program, Houston, Texas; Skip Robinson, Club in Hillside 
Public Housing Project, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Kelly Zimmerman, Ohio 
Boys and Girls Club, Orrville.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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 
foreign education in elementary schools, receiving testimony from 
Jeffrey Munks, AT&T Language Line, Monterey, California; Myriam Met, 
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York, New 
York; Rashid Khalidi, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Noel 
Kreicker, International Orientation Resources, Northbrook, Illinois; 
Donna Christian, National Center for Research on Cultural Diversity, 
Washington, D.C.; Martha Abbott, Fairfax County Public Schools, 
Fairfax, Virginia; and Christine Brown, Glastonbury Public Schools, 
Glastonbury, Connecticut.
  Hearings continue on Thursday, April 28.
INDIAN FISH AND WILDLIFE RESOURCES
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 1526, authorizing funds 
to protect and enhance Indian fish and wildlife resources.
INDIAN GAMING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee resumed hearings to examine 
Federal and State government regulation of Indian gaming activities, 
receiving testimony from Gaiashkibos, National Congress of American 
Indians, and Rick Hill, National Indian Gaming Association, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Myron Ellis, Minnesota Indian Gaming Association, 
Minneapolis; Alvino Lucero, Isleta Pueblo, Isleta, New Mexico; Ken 
Meshiguad, Hannahville Indian Community Council, Wilson, Michigan; 
Henry Cagey, Lummi Nation, Bellingham, Washington; Debra Doxator, 
Oneida Tribal Council, Oneida, Wisconsin; Jo Ann Jones, Wisconsin 
Winnebago Business Committee, Black River Falls; Dan Tucker, Sycuan 
Business Committee, El Cajon, California; Steve Montoya, Sandia Pueblo, 
Bernalillo, New Mexico; and Jacob Viarrial, Pojoaque Pueblo, Pojoaque, 
New Mexico.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported 
an original bill authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995 for 
intelligence programs.