[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 57 (Wednesday, May 11, 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)
CROP INSURANCE REFORM
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held 
hearings on S. 2095, to reform the Federal crop insurance program, 
receiving testimony from Kenneth D. Ackerman, Manager, Federal Crop 
Insurance Corporation, and Dallas R. Smith, Deputy Under Secretary for 
International Affairs and Commodity Programs, both of the Department of 
Agriculture.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--PARK SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the National Park 
Service, Department of the Interior, receiving testimony from George T. 
Frampton, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, and 
Roger G. Kennedy, Director, National Park Service, both of the 
Department of the Interior.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 25.
APPROPRIATIONS--GSA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, 
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 1995 for the General Services Administration, focusing on 
the Federal Buildings Program, receiving testimony from Roger W. 
Johnson, Administrator, General Services Administration.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Technology, 
Acquisition, and Industrial Base 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 
Technology Reinvestment Program, receiving testimony from John M. 
Deutch, Deputy Secretary of Defense.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
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 and the future years defense program, focusing on the 
ballistic missile defense program, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. 
Malcolm R. O'Neill, USA, Director, Ballistic Missile Defense 
Organization; Brooks E. Shelton, Deputy Director, Non-Nuclear Arms 
Control Policy; and Rear Adm. J. Tim Hood, USN, Program Executive 
Officer for Theater Air Defense, all of the Department of Defense.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
HOMEOWNERS INSURANCE DISCRIMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held 
hearings to examine the extent of discrimination in the homeowners 
insurance industry, and Federal efforts to ensure fair housing 
enforcement, receiving testimony from Representatives Kennedy and 
Cardiss Collins; Deval L. Patrick, Assistant Attorney General, Civil 
Rights Division, Department of Justice; Roberta Achtenberg, Assistant 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Fair Housing and Equal 
Opportunity; Texas State Insurance Commissioner Robert Hunter, Austin; 
William Tisdale, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on behalf of the National Fair 
Housing Alliance; and Lynn M. Schubert, American Insurance Association, 
and Charles Kamasaki, National Council of La Raza, both of 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 provisions that permit the electric, gas, 
water and steam utilities to provide telecommunications services, 
receiving testimony from Lawrence M. Gressette, Jr., SCANA Corporation, 
Columbia, South Carolina; William Ray, Glasgow Electric Plant Board, 
Glasgow, Kentucky; Paul DeNicola, Southern Company Services, Inc., 
Atlanta, Georgia; and Martha Hogerty, Missouri Office of Public 
Counsel, Jefferson City, on behalf of the National Association of State 
Utilities Consumer Advocates.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 150, to provide technical and financial assistance for the 
protection, preservation, and interpretation of Taliesin in Wisconsin, 
the home and workshop of the late architect Frank Lloyd Wright, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 761, to revise certain provisions of the Federal Payment in Lieu 
of Taxes Act of 1976 to include unorganized boroughs in Alaska within 
the definition of ``unit of general local government,''with an 
amendment;
  H.R. 1183, to validate conveyance of certain lands in the State of 
California that form part of the right-of-way granted by the United 
States to the Central Pacific Railway Company;
  H.R. 2815, to designate a portion of the Farmington River in 
Connecticut as a component of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System, with 
amendments;
  S. 316, to expand the boundaries of the Saguaro National Monument in 
Arizona, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 472, to improve the administration and management of public lands, 
National Forests, units of the National Park System, and related areas 
by improving the availability of affordable, quality housing for 
certain agency employees, with amendments;
  S. 1703, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire land 
to expand the boundaries of the Piscataway National Park in Maryland, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1170, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to lease Naval 
oil shale reserve lands in Garfield County, Colorado, for oil and gas 
exploration, development, and production, with amendments; and
  H.R. 2921, to authorize funds for the preservation and restoration of 
historic buildings at historically black colleges and universities, 
with amendments.
EFFECTS OF SECOND-HAND SMOKE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air 
and Nuclear Regulation concluded hearings to examine the possible 
health effects from the exposure to environmental tobacco smoke to non-
smokers, and a related measure S. 1680, proposed Smoke Free Environment 
Act, after receiving testimony from Carl M. Browner, Administrator, 
Environmental Protection Agency; M. Joycelyn Elders, Surgeon General, 
Public Health Service; and William Blott, Chief, Bio Statistics Branch, 
Division of Cancer Etiology, National Cancer Institute, both of the 
Department of Health and Human Services; Jane Gravelle, Senior 
Specialist in Economic Policy, and Dennis Zimmerman, Specialist in 
Public Finance, both of the Congressional Research Service, Library of 
Congress; Christopher Coggins, R.J. Reynolds, Winston Salem, North 
Carolina; and Aubrey Taylor, University of Southern Alabama School of 
Medicine, Mobile, on behalf of the American Lung Association.
INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF RACIAL 
DISCRIMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial 
Discrimination signed on behalf of the United States on September 28, 
1966 (Ex. C. 95th Congress, 2nd Session), after receiving testimony 
from John Shattuck, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and 
Labor, and Conrad K. Harper, Legal Adviser, both of the Department of 
State; Deval L. Patrick, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights 
Division, Department of Justice; Robert F. Drinan, Georgetown 
University Law Center, on behalf of the American Bar Association; 
William T. Lake, Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, on behalf of the 
International Human Rights Law Group; and Wade Henderson, National 
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, all of Washington, 
D.C.; and Robert C. Henderson, Wilmette, Illinois, on behalf of the 
National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 1981, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1995, 1996, and 1997 for 
programs of the Orphan Drug Act;
  S. 784, to strengthen Federal standards with respect to dietary 
supplements, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Marca Bristo, of Illinois, and Kate Pew Wolters, 
of Michigan, each to be a Member of the National Council on Disability, 
and Patricia Ann Brown, of New York, Ira Ronald Feldman, of New York, 
Barbara Wallace Grossman, of Massachusetts, and Leo J. O'Donovan, of 
the District of Columbia, each to be a Member of the National Council 
on the Arts, and Fred W. Garcia, of Colorado, to be Deputy Director for 
Demand Reduction, Office of National Drug Control Policy.