[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 62 (Wednesday, May 18, 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)
CHILDHOOD IMMUNIZATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies concluded hearings on the 
status and future goals of the Administration's Childhood Immunization 
Initiative to improve the quality and quantity of vaccination delivery 
services, focusing on immunization coverage rates and disease 
incidence, after receiving testimony from David Satcher, Director, and 
Walter A. Orenstein, Director, National Immunization Program, both of 
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health 
and Human Services; F.E. Thompson, Jr., Mississippi State Department of 
Health, Jackson; David L. Wood, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los 
Angeles, California; Allan M. Arbeter, Albert Einstein Medical Center, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Daryl C. Plevy, Maryland Department of 
Human Resources, Baltimore; and Paul Stehr-Green, Auburn, Washington.
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 relating to competition for local 
telephone service and universal service, receiving testimony from Lisa 
Rosenblum, New York State Public Service Commission, Albany; Steven 
Hamlen, United Utilities, Inc., and Dana Tindall, General 
Communications, Inc., both of Anchorage, Alaska; Richard C. Green, Jr., 
UTILICORP United, Kansas City, Missouri; Brian L. Roberts, Comcast 
Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Frank Hilsabeck, Lincoln 
Telephone, Lincoln, Nebraska; Eli Noam, Columbia University Business 
School, New York, New York; Gary E. Lasher, Eastern TeleLogic, Inc., 
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania; and Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of 
America, Roy Neel, United States Telephone Association, James G. 
Cullen, Bell Atlantic Corporation, Margot Smiley-Humphrey, Koteen and 
Naftalin, on behalf of the National Rural Telecom Association, and 
Thomas E. Wheeler, Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, 
all of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 24.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  S. 1033, to establish the Shenandoah Valley National Battlefields and 
Commission in the Commonwealth of Virginia, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 1233, to resolve the status of certain lands in Arizona that are 
subject to a claim as a grant of public lands for railroad purposes, 
with amendments; and
  S. 1980, to establish the Cane River Creole National Historical Park 
and the Cane River National Heritage Area in Louisiana, with 
amendments.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Jan Piercy, of Illinois, to be United States Executive 
Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 
Sally A. Shelton, of Texas, to be an Assistant Administrator of the 
Agency for International Development, and Timothy A. Chorba, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf. Ms. Piercy and Ms. Shelton were introduced by Senator Simon.
HEALTH REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee began markup of 
proposed legislation to ensure individual and family security through 
health care coverage for all Americans in a manner that contains the 
rate of growth in health care costs and promotes responsible health 
insurance practices, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet 
again tomorrow.