[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 64 (Friday, May 20, 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--VA/HUD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
1995 for programs of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing 
and Urban Development and independent agencies, receiving testimony 
from numerous public witnesses.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 26.
MEDICAL DEVICE MATERIALS LIABILITY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Regulation and 
Government Information concluded hearings to examine the impact of 
supplier liability on the manufacture and development of life-saving 
medical devices, diagnostic products, and health care information 
systems, after receiving testimony from Paul Citron, Medtronic, Inc., 
Minneapolis, Minnesota; Eleanor Gackstatter, Meadox Medicals, Inc., 
Oakland, New Jersey; Katherine F. Knox, Dupont Company, Wilmington, 
Delaware; James S. Benson, Health Industry Manufacturers Association, 
and M. Kristen Rand, on behalf of Consumers Union, Consumer Federation 
of America, and Public Citizen's Congress Watch, both of Washington, 
D.C.; J. Donald Hill, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, 
and Bernard N. Stulberg, Cleveland Center for Joint Reconstruction, 
Cleveland, Ohio, both on behalf of the Biomaterials Availability 
Coalition; Pierre M. Galletti, Brown University, Providence, Rhode 
Island, on behalf of the American Institute for Medical and Biological 
Engineering; Mark Reily, Houston, Texas; and Peggy A. Phillips, Falls 
Church, Virginia.