[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 59 (Friday, May 13, 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)
GLOBAL LANDMINE CRISIS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations 
concluded hearings to examine the global threat of landmine 
proliferation, focusing on certain demining initiatives and United 
States policy on landmine problems, after receiving testimony from 
Representative Evans; Thomas McNamara, Principal Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of State for Political and Military Affairs; Frederick Downs, 
Director, Division of Prosthetics and Sensory Aids, Department of 
Veterans Affairs; Sadako Ogata, United Nations High Commissioner for 
Refugees, Patrick Blagden, United Nations Demining Program, and James 
Grant, United Nations Children's Fund, all of New York, New York; and 
Kenneth Rutherford, International Rescue Committee, Robert Muller, 
Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, and Kenneth Anderson, Human 
Rights Watch Arms Project, all of Washington, D.C.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 17, 1994.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education [and Related Agencies] concluded hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for certain programs of 
the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, 
focusing on waste, fraud, and abuse issues, after receiving testimony 
from Charles C. Masten, Acting Inspector General, Department of Labor; 
James B. Thomas, Jr., Inspector General, Department of Education; and 
Michael F. Mangano, Deputy Inspector General, and Shirley S. Chater, 
Commissioner, Social Security Administration, both of the Department of 
Health and Human Services.
CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on the 
Convention on the Prohibition of Development, Production, Stockpiling 
and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, opened for 
signature and signed by the United States at Paris on January 13, 1993 
(Treaty Doc. 103-21), receiving testimony from Walter B. Slocombe, 
Deputy Under Secretary for Policy, and Harold P. Smith, Jr., Assistant 
to the Secretary for Atomic Energy, both of the Department of Defense; 
and Maj. Gen. David W. McIlvoy, USAF, Deputy Director for International 
Negotiations, Directorate for Strategic Plans and Policy (J-5), Joint 
Chiefs of Staff.
  Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 17.