[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 56 (Tuesday, May 10, 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--FDA/CFTC/FCAB
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 1995, receiving testimony in behalf of funds 
for their respective activities from David A. Kessler, Commissioner, 
Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; 
Barbara Pedersen Holum, Acting Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading 
Commission; and Billy Ross Brown, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, 
and Gary C. Byrne, Member, both of the Farm Credit Administration 
Board.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
1995 for the Army Corps of Engineers, receiving testimony from John H. 
Zirschky, Acting Assistant Secretary (Civil Works); Lt. Gen. Arthur E. 
Williams, USA, Chief, Corps of Engineers; Maj. Gen. Stanley G. Genega, 
USA, Director of Civil Works; and Don B. Cluff, Chief, Programs 
Division, Directorate of Civil Works, all of the Department of the 
Army.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--GPO/GAO
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch 
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995, 
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities 
from Michael F. DiMario, Public Printer, Government Printing Office; 
and Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 12.
AUTHORIZATION-DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Force Requirements and 
Personnel resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
1995 for the Department of Defense and the future years defense 
program, focusing on Reserve component manpower, personnel, and 
compensation issues, receiving testimony from Deborah R. Lee, Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs; Maj. Gen. Raymond F. Rees, 
USA, Acting Chief, National Guard Bureau; Maj. Gen. John R. D'Araujo, 
Jr., USA, Director, Army National Guard; Brig. Gen. Select Paul Weaver, 
USAF, Deputy Director, Air National Guard; Rear Adm. Thomas F. Hall, 
USN, Director, Naval Reserve; Maj. Gen. Max Baratz, USA, Acting Chief, 
Army Reserve; Brig. Gen. Stephen R. Berkheiser, USMC, Assistant Deputy 
Chief of Staff, Manpower and Reserve Affairs, United States Marine 
Corps; Brig. Gen. John Bradley, USAF, Deputy Chief, Air Force Reserve; 
Rear Adm. Gregory A. Penington, USCG, Chief, Office for Personnel and 
Readiness, United States Coast Guard; and Col. Bradley MacDonald, 
USMCR, Marine Corps Reserve Officers Association, Rear Adm. Phillip W. 
Smith, USN (Ret.) and Rear Adm. James E. Forrest, USN (Ret.), both of 
the Naval Reserve Association, and Master Chief Petty Officer Larry 
Rhea, USNR, (Ret.), Non Commissioned Officers Association, all of 
Alexandria, Virginia; and Maj. Gen. James Guest, USA (Ret.), Army 
Reserve Association, Maj. Gen. Roger W. Sandler, USA (Ret.), Reserve 
Officers Association, Maj. Gen. Ansel Stroud, USA (Ret.), Adjutants 
General Association, and Maj. Gen. Robert Enselin, USA (Ret.), National 
Guard Association, all of Washington, D.C.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of Susan Ness, of Maryland, and Rachelle B. 
Chong, of California, each to be a Member of the Federal Communications 
Commission, and Alan Sagner, of New Jersey, to be a Member of the Board 
of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Ms. 
Chong was introduced by Representatives Mineta and Matsui, Ms. Ness was 
introduced by Senator Mikulski, and Mr. Sagner was introduced by 
Senator Lautenberg.
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine the implementation of the Administration's climate change 
action plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and related 
provisions contained in the Energy Policy Act of 1992, after receiving 
testimony from Hazel R. O'Leary, Secretary of Energy; Robert Sussman, 
Deputy Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Rafe Pomerance, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for environment and Development; 
Larry L. Bean, Iowa Department of Energy, Des Moines, on behalf of the 
National Association of State Energy Officials; Dale E. Heydlauff, 
American Electric Power Service Corporation, Columbus, Ohio, on behalf 
of the Edison Electric Institute; and Daniel A. Lashof, Natural 
Resources Defense Council, on behalf of the American Council for an 
Energy-Efficient Economy; and Jerry Jasinowski, National Association of 
Manufacturers, on behalf of the Global Climate Coalition, both of 
Washington, D.C.
TEXAS COLONIAS WATER SUPPLY NEEDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded oversight hearings to examine the potential role of 
Federal reclamation projects in meeting the water supply and wastewater 
treatment needs of certain rural, unincorporated subdivisions located 
along the United States/Mexico international boundary, known as the 
Colonias, in Texas, after receiving testimony from Senator Hutchison; 
Representative Coleman; Charles Calhoun, Acting Regional Director, 
Upper Colorado Region, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the 
Interior; Michael B. Cook, Director, Office of Wastewater Enforcement 
and Compliance, Environmental Protection Agency; Andrea Abel, Austin, 
Texas, on behalf of the Governor of Texas; Elaine M. Barron, Texas 
Water Development Board, Sister Maribeth Larkin, El Paso Interreligious 
Sponsoring Organization, Edmund G. Archuleta, El Paso Water Utilities 
Public Service Board, and Darcy Alan Frownfelter, El Paso County Lower 
Valley Water District Authority, all of El Paso, Texas; and Teodora 
Trujillo, Socorro, Texas.
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine health care 
reform issues, focusing on mental illness, deinstitutionalization and 
medications, receiving testimony from Senators Domenici and Wellstone; 
Richard C. Surles, New York Commission of Mental Health, Albany; E. 
Fuller Torrey, St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C., on behalf of 
the National Institute of Mental Health Neuroscience Center; Charles P. 
O'Brien, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, on behalf of the 
Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center; and David F. 
Musto, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
  Committee will meet again on Thursday, May 12.
HEALTH CARE REFORM AND FEHBP
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine 
the impact of national health care reform on the Federal Employees 
Health Benefits Program (FEHBP), receiving testimony from Senator 
Kennedy; James B. King, Director, and Curtis J. Smith, Associate 
Director for Retirement and Insurance Group, both of the Office of 
Personnel Management; and Brian DeWyngaert, American Federation of 
Government Employees, AFL-CIO; Robert Tobias, National Treasury 
Employees Union; William Burrus, American Postal Workers Union; Robert 
Vincenzi, National Association of Letter Carriers; Al James Golato, 
National Association of Retired Federal Employees; Harry Cain, Blue 
Cross and Blue Shield Association; Alphonso O'Neil-White, Group Health 
Association of America, and Richard G. Miles, Government Employees 
Hospital Association, all of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CHILD SAFETY
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, 
Family, Drugs and Alcoholism concluded hearings to examine State and 
local efforts to identify and prevent the leading causes of injuries to 
children, after receiving testimony from C. Everett Koop, former 
Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, on behalf of the National 
Safe Kids Campaign; Mark Rosenberg, Director, National Center for 
Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services; Helen Halpin 
Schauffler, University of California School of Public Health, Berkeley; 
Ted R. Miller, National Public Services Research Institute, Landover, 
Maryland; Tonia Ortiz, Latin American Youth Center, Washington, D.C.; 
Heather Giambo, Greenwich, Connecticut; Marcus Young, Kansas City, 
Missouri; Jena Grosser, Elkhart, Indiana; and Zachary Nuse, Johnston, 
Vermont.
CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Disability 
Policy concluded hearings on proposed legislation to provide 
competitive grants to States to develop or enhance statewide systems of 
family support for families of children with disabilities, after 
receiving testimony from Allan Bergman, United Cerebral Palsy 
Associations, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Children's and 
Families' Task Force of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities; 
Don Shumway, New Hampshire Division of Mental Health and Developmental 
Disabilities, Concord; David Novak, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Sue Swenson, 
Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Cathy Ficker-Terrill, Elmhurst, Illinois.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee will meet again on Thursday, May 12.