[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 51 (Tuesday, May 3, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D]
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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 Ellen W. Haas, Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Services, 
Bill Ludwig, Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service, and Lawrence 
Wachs, Associate Director, Budget and Program Analysis, all of the 
Department of Agriculture.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 10.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Coalition Defense and 
Reinforcing Forces resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 1995 for the Department of Defense, and the future years 
defense program, focusing on the Army investment strategy, receiving 
testimony from Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, USA, Chief of Staff, George T. 
Singley, III, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, 
Maj. Gen. Jay M. Garner, USA, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for 
Operations and Plans for Force Development, and Maj. Gen. Ronald V. 
Hite, USA, Deputy for System Management, Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Research, Development and Acquisition, all of the 
Department of the Army; Sgt. Bret Richardson, D Co. 2/29 Infantry 
Regiment, Fort Benning, Georgia; and Specialist Paula Drake, ACE 124 
Military Intelligence Battalion, 24th Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, 
Georgia.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 5.
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 for the Department 
of Defense, focusing on the Department of Energy's weapons and 
materials support and other defense programs, receiving testimony from 
Charles B. Curtis, Under Secretary, Victor H. Reis, Assistant Secretary 
for Defense Programs, John G. Keliher, Director, Office of Intelligence 
and National Security, Siegfried S. Hecker, Director, Los Alamos 
National Laboratory, C. Bruce Tarter, Acting Director, Lawrence 
Livermore National Laboratory, and C. Paul Robinson, Vice President of 
Laboratory Development, Sandia National Laboratory, all of the 
Department of Energy.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 5.
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 program, focusing on the Navy investment strategy, 
receiving testimony from John H. Dalton, Secretary of the Navy; Andrew 
F. Krepinevich, Director, Defense Budget Project, Department of 
Defense; and Rear Adm. Phillip A. Dur, USN, Director, Naval Strategy 
and Policy.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
COMMUNITY INVESTMENT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing and Urban Affairs concluded hearings on S. 2049, to reduce 
homelessness, reform public housing, expand and preserve affordable 
housing and home ownership, ensure fair housing for all, and empower 
communities, after receiving testimony from Albert Eisenberg, Arlington 
Virginia County Board, Arlington, Virginia, on behalf of the National 
Conference of Mayors, the National League of Cities, and the National 
Association of Counties; Richard G. Grose, Missouri Housing Development 
Commission, Kansas City, Missouri, on behalf of the National Council of 
State Housing Agencies; Marina Carrott, Chicago Department of Housing, 
Chicago, Illinois; Ricardo Diaz, Milwaukee Public Housing Authority, 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on behalf of the Council of Large Public Housing 
Authorities; F. Barton Harvey, III, The Enterprise Foundation, 
Columbia, Maryland; Cushing N. Dolbeare; National Low Income Housing 
Coalition, Washington, D.C.; and Sandy Beddor, Family Tree Inc., Wheat 
Ridge, Colorado.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of Rear Adm. Robert E. Kramek, USCG, to be 
Commandant, and Rear Adm. Arthur E. Henn, USCG, to be Vice Commandant, 
both of the United States Coast Guard, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Kramek was introduced by 
Senator Stevens.
AUTHORIZATION--COAST GUARD
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the United 
States Coast Guard, after receiving testimony from Adm. J. William 
Kime, Commandant, United States Coast Guard, Department of 
Transportation.
BORON--NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine the progress of the Department of Energy's program to 
develop boron-neutron capture therapy (BNCT) as an effective treatment 
of brain cancer, after receiving testimony from Martha A. Krebs, 
Director, Office of Energy Research, Department of Energy; Murray M. 
Lumpkin, Acting Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food 
and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; 
Richard J. Wiersema, National Center for BNCT Measurement and 
Development, and Francis F. Paul, Idaho Brain Tumor Center, both of 
Idaho Falls, Idaho; Arthur A. Nelson, Jr., Idaho State University, 
Pocatello, on behalf of the Boron Neutron Cancer Therapy University 
Consortium, Inc.; Hywel Madoc-Jones, Tufts University School of 
Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; Darrel D. Joel, Brookhaven National 
Laboratory, Upton, New York; Ron J. Twilegar, Neutron Technology 
Incorporated, Boise, Idaho; and Michael H. Werner, Rock Springs, 
Wyoming.
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine health care 
reform issues, focusing on the classification of workers as employees 
or independent contractors, and the self-employment tax treatment of 
partners and corporation shareholders, receiving testimony from Leslie 
B. Samuels, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; 
Patricia A. Bellows, H.D. Vest Financial Services, Irving, Texas, on 
behalf of the Independent Contractor Association of America, Inc.; 
Robert A. Georgine, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C.; Myron Hulen, Colorado 
State University, Fort Collins; Robert J. Miranda, R.J. Miranda and 
Company, Santa Ana, California, on behalf of the Hispanic Business CEO 
Roundtable; and David E. Scherb, PepsiCo, Inc., Purchase, New York.
  Committee will meet again on Thursday, May 5.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Melvyn Levitsky, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the 
Federative Republic of Brazil, Myles Robert Rene Frechette, of 
Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Colombia, and Donna Jean 
Hrinak, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, after 
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
ABM TREATY MODIFICATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings to examine 
the Administration's proposal to seek modification of the 1972 Anti-
Ballistic Missile Treaty (Exec. L, 92d Congress, 2d Session), receiving 
testimony from Brad Hathaway, Associate Director for Systems 
Development and Production Issues, National Security and International 
Affairs, General Accounting Office; Steven A. Hildreth, Specialist in 
National Defense, Foreign Affairs, and National Defense Division, 
Congressional Research Service; Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr., Arms Control 
Association, former Deputy Director, United States Arms Control and 
Disarmament Agency, and John B. Rhinelander, Shaw, Pittman, Potts and 
Trowbridge, both of Washington, D.C.; Sidney N. Graybeal, Science 
Applications International Corporation, McLean, Virginia; and George N. 
Lewis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HAITI
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on United States policy toward Haiti from Strobe 
Talbott, Deputy Secretary of State; and Samuel Berger, Deputy Assistant 
to the President for National Security Affairs.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine 
the future of telecommunications in the Federal Government, receiving 
testimony from Jack L. Brock, Director, Information Resources 
Management/Policies Issues Group, and Deborah A. Davis, Senior 
Evaluator, both of the Accounting and Information Management Division, 
and Frank Deffer, Assistant Director, National Security and 
International Affairs Division, all of the General Accounting Office; 
Gen. Emmett Paige, Jr. (Ret), Assistant Secretary of Defense for 
Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (C31), and Lt. Gen. 
Alonzo E. Short, Jr., USA, Director, Defense Information Systems 
Agency, both of the Department of Defense; and Robert J. Woods, 
Associate Administrator, Office of FTS-2000, General Services 
Administration.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CLIPPER CHIP KEY ESCROW ENCRYPTION PROGRAM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology and the Law 
concluded open and closed hearings to examine telecommunications 
privacy and security issues as related to the implementation of the 
Administration's key escrow encryption program, which would enable the 
Government to decode any telephone, fax or computer communication that 
is encrypted with a ``Clipper Chip'' computer chip, after receiving 
testimony from Jo Ann Harris, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal 
Division, Department of Justice; Raymond G. Kammer, Deputy Director, 
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce; 
Vice Adm. John M. McConnell, USN, Director, National Security Agency, 
Department of Defense; Whitfield Diffie, Sun Microsystems, Inc., 
Mountain View, California, on behalf of the Digital Privacy and 
Security Working Group; and Stephen T. Walker, Trusted Information 
Systems, Inc., Glenwood, Maryland.
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY ENHANCEMENTS
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held hearings on S. 1866, 
S. 1869, S. 1890, and S. 1948, bills to improve the counterintelligence 
and security posture of the United States intelligence community and to 
enhance the investigative authority of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation in counterintelligence matters, receiving testimony from 
Senators Boren and Cohen; Jamie S. Gorelick, Deputy Attorney General, 
and Louis J. Freeh, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, both of 
the Department of Justice; R. James Woolsey, Director, Central 
Intelligence Agency; Robert J. Kohler, TRW, Inc., Redondo Beach, 
California; and Kate Martin, ACLU, and David D. Whipple, Association of 
Former Intelligence Officers, both of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.