[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 52 (Wednesday, May 4, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D]
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Readiness and 
Defense Infrastructure resumed hearings on proposed legislation 
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of Defense 
and the future years defense program, focusing on DOD environmental 
programs and the implementation of the Base Closure Acts, receiving 
testimony from Neil M. Singer, Acting Assistant Director, and Gary 
Wayne Glass, Principal Analyst, both of the National Security Division, 
Congressional Budget Office; Sherri Wasserman Goodman, Deputy Under 
Secretary of Defense (Environmental Security); Jan B. Reitman, Staff 
Director, Environment and Safety, Defense Logistics Agency, Department 
of Defense; Cheryl A. Kandaras, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of 
the Navy (Installations and Environment); Lewis D. Walker, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of the Army (Environment, Safety and Occupational 
Health); Alan P. Babbitt, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force 
(Environment, Safety and Occupational Health); Robert E. Bayer, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Economic Reinvestment and BRAC); Rear 
Adm. Patrick W. Drennon, Director, Shore Activities Division, Chief of 
Naval Operations; Paul W. Johnson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the 
Army (Installations and Housing); and Alan K. Olsen, Director, Air 
Force Base Conversion Agency.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
HOMEBUILDING INDUSTRY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing and Urban Affairs held hearings to examine the effect of rising 
interest rates on the homebuilding industry, receiving testimony from 
Thomas N. Thompson, Owensboro, Kentucky, and Kent W. Colton, 
Washington, D.C., both on behalf of the National Association of Home 
Builders; and John S. Satagaj, Small Business Legislative Council, 
Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee resumed 
hearings on S. 1822, to safeguard and protect the public interest while 
permitting the growth and development of new communications 
technologies, focusing on those provisions which permit telephone 
companies to provide cable service, receiving testimony from Richard D. 
McCormick, U. S. WEST, Inc., Englewood, Colorado; Decker Anstrom, 
National Cable Television Association, Edward O. Fritts, National 
Association of Broadcasters, and Jeffrey Chester, Center for Media 
Education, all of Washington, D.C.; Richard D'Antonio, Bentleyville 
Telephone Company, Bentleyville, Pennsylvania; and Donna Halstead, 
Dallas City Council, Dallas, Texas.
  Hearings continue on Thursday, May 12.
AUTHORIZATION--MARITIME ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Merchant Marine held hearings on S. 1945, authorizing funds for fiscal 
year 1995 for certain maritime programs of the Department of 
Transportation, focusing on title II, to establish a maritime security 
program to provide assistance to United States flag vessels operating 
in foreign trade, receiving testimony from John W. Snow, CSX 
Corporation, Richmond, Virginia; John Lillie, American President 
Companies, LTD., Talmage E. Simpkins, AFL-CIO Maritime Committee, Joel 
Bem, District 1-MEBA, John T. Estes, International Council of Cruise 
Lines, and Moya Phelleps, Coal Exporters Association, all of 
Washington, D.C.; William P. Verdon, Crowley Maritime Corporation, 
Oakland, California; Erik F. Johnsen, Central Gulf Lines, Inc., New 
Orleans, Louisiana; Philip J. Shapiro, Liberty Maritime Corporation, 
Lake Success, New York; Richard F. Gronda, Farrell Lines, Inc., New 
York, New York; Michael Sacco, Seafarers International Union of North 
America, Camp Springs, Maryland; Capt. Timothy A. Brown, International 
Organization of Masters, Mates, and Pilots, Linthicum Heights, 
Maryland; Michael McKay, American Maritime Officers, Dania, Florida; 
and John Stocker, Shipbuilders Council of America, Arlington, Virginia.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine health care 
reform issues, focusing on S. 1579, to contain health care costs and 
improve access to health care through accountable health plans and 
managed competition, receiving testimony from Robert D. Reischauer, 
Director, Congressional Budget Office.
  Committee will meet again tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nominations of Sam W. Brown, Jr., of California, for the rank of 
Ambassador during his tenure of service as Head of Delegation to the 
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Derek Shearer, of 
California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Finland, William J. 
Crowe, Jr., of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the United Kingdom of 
Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 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, Edward W. 
Gnehm, Jr., of Georgia, to be the United States Deputy Representative 
to the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, Arvonne S. Fraser, 
of Minnesota, for the rank of Ambassador during her tenure of service 
as the United States Representative on the Commission on the Status of 
Women of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, John P. 
Loiello, of the District of Columbia, to be an Associate Director for 
Educational and Cultural Affairs, and Henry Howard, Jr., of Virginia, 
to be an Associate Director for Management, both of the United States 
Information Agency, Charles H. Twining, of Maryland, to be Ambassador 
to Cambodia, Ryan Clark Crocker, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the 
State of Kuwait, Edward S. Walker, Jr., of Maryland, to be Ambassador 
to the Arab Republic of Egypt, Peter R. Chaveas, of Pennsylvania, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Malawi, Edmund T. DeJarnette, Jr., of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Angola, Irvin Hicks, of 
Maryland, to be Ambassador to Ethiopia, Robert Krueger, of Texas, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi, Johnny Young, of Pennsylvania, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Togo, 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, Donna Jean Hrinak, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Dominican Republic, Marion M. Dawson, of Connecticut, and Willie Grace 
Campbell, of California, both to be Members of the Board of Directors 
of the African Development Foundation, Charles H. Dolan, Jr., of 
Virginia, to be a Member of the United States Advisory Commission on 
Public Diplomacy, Mark L. Schneider, of California, to be a Member of 
the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Foundation, Simon Ferro, 
of Florida, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas 
Private Investment Corporation, and Foreign Service Officers' promotion 
lists dated March 16, 1994 and March 25, 1994.
CHINA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs held hearings to examine United States policy toward China, 
receiving testimony from Winston Lord, Assistant Secretary of State for 
East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Gerrit W. Gong, Center for Strategic 
and International Studies, and Mike Jendrzejczyk, Human Rights Watch/
Asia, both of Washington, D.C.; Jeffrey Hopkins, University of 
Virginia, Charlottesville; and Robert Kapp, United States-China 
Business Council, Chevy Chase, Maryland.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL COURTHOUSE CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine 
the status of the Judiciary's response to General Accounting Office 
recommendations for improving the Judiciary's long-range space planning 
process, focusing on the Judiciary's courthouse construction program, 
receiving testimony from Scott O. Wright, Senior United States District 
Judge for the Western District of Missouri; Charles I. Patton, 
Associate Director, and Frances P. Clark, Assistant Director, both of 
Federal Management Issues, General Government Division, General 
Accounting Office; Julia Stasch, Deputy Administrator, General Services 
Administration; P. Gerald Thacker, Assistant Director for Facilities, 
Security, and Administrative Services, Administrative Office of the 
United States Courts; Thomas G. Pinkerton, Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, 
Inc., St. Louis, Missouri; and Norman G. Delbridge, Jr., J.A. Jones 
Construction Company, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INDIAN EDUCATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the Indian 
education provisions of S. 1513 and H.R. 6, bills authorizing funds for 
programs of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, after 
receiving testimony from John Tippeconnic, Director, Office of Indian 
Education Programs, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the 
Interior; Thomas W. Payzant, Assistant Secretary of Education for 
Elementary and Secondary Education; Eugene Garcia, Director, Office of 
Bilingual Education and Minority Language Affairs, Department of 
Education; Phil Baird, National Indian Education Association, and 
Robert K. Chiago, National Advisory Council on Indian Education, both 
of Washington, D.C.; Carmen Cornelius Taylor, National Indian School 
Board Association, Poulson, Montana; Lorena Zah Bahe, Association of 
Navajo Community Controlled School Boards, and Leonard N. Begaye, 
Navajo Area School Board Association, both of Window Rock, Arizona; and 
Roger Bordeaux, Association of Community Tribal Schools Inc., Agency 
Village, South Dakota.