[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
FOREIGN OPERATIONS APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export 
Financing and Related Agencies held a hearing on Former Soviet Union 
and Eastern Europe. Testimony was heard from Strobe Talbott, Deputy 
Secretary, Department of State.
INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior continued 
appropriation hearings. Testimony was heard from Members of Congress.
D.C. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC AND ASSISTED HOUSING
Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing and Community Development held a hearing on D.C. Department of 
Public and Assisted Housing. Testimony was heard from the following 
officials of the Department of Housing and Urban Development: Joseph 
Shuldiner, Assistant Secretary, Public and Indian Housing; and Susan 
Gaffney, Inspector General; and public witnesses.
OVERSIGHT
Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Telecommunications 
and Finance held an oversight hearing on derivative financial markets. 
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.
  Hearings continue May 19.
OVERSIGHT
Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Security, 
International Organizations and Human Rights concluded oversight 
hearings on the State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights 
Practices for 1993 and U.S. Human Rights Policy: Part 2. Testimony was 
heard from public witnesses.
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF BRAZIL
Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere 
Affairs held a hearing on Indigenous Peoples and the Natural 
Environment of Brazil. Testimony was heard from John Shattuck, 
Assistant Secretary, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Department 
of State; Thomas E. Lovejoy, Assistant Secretary, External Affairs and 
the Environment, Smithsonian Institution; and public witnesses.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National Parks, 
Forests, and Public Lands held a hearing on the following bills: H.R. 
3433, to provide for the management of portions of the Presidio under 
the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior; and H.R. 4078, to 
amend the Act establishing the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. 
Testimony was heard from Representative Pelosi; Roger Kennedy, 
Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Paul 
Johnson, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Installations and Housing, 
Department of the Army; Frank Jordan, Mayor, San Francisco, California; 
and public witnesses.
HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAM
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology: Subcommittee on Science 
held a hearing on High Performance Computing and Communications 
Programs. Testimony was heard from Donald Lindberg, Director, High 
Performance Computing and Communications Coordinating Office, and 
Chairman, National Science and Technology Council High Performance 
Computing and Communications Subcommittee, National Library of 
Medicine, Department of Health and Human Services; Melvyn Ciment, 
Acting Assistant Director, Computer and Information Science and 
Engineering Directorate, NSF; Lee B. Holcomb, Director, High 
Performance Computing and Communications Office, NASA; David Nelson, 
Associate Director, Energy Research, Department of Energy; and John C. 
Toole, Acting Director, Computing Systems Technology Office, Advanced 
Research Projects Agency, Department of Defense.