[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 66 (Tuesday, May 24, 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)
USDA MEAT INSPECTION POLICY
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on 
Agricultural Research, Conservation, Forestry and General Legislation 
held hearings to examine Department of Agriculture activities to 
improve the meat and poultry inspection system, focusing on the impact 
of the E. coli outbreak, receiving testimony from Patricia Jensen, 
Acting Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Inspection 
Services; John W. Harman, Director, Food and Agriculture Issues, 
Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, General 
Accounting Office; J. Patrick Boyle, American Meat Institute, 
Arlington, Virginia; and Carol Tucker Foreman, Foreman and Heiderpriem, 
Inc., on behalf of the Safe Food Coalition, and Gary Wilson, National 
Cattlemen's Association, both of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of 
Defense, focusing on strategic programs, receiving testimony from Adm. 
Henry G. Chiles, Jr., USN, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Strategic Command; 
and Lt. Gen. Malcolm O'Neill, USA, Director, Ballistic Missile Defense 
Organization, Department of Defense.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations 
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 
for foreign assistance programs, focusing on export promotion, after 
receiving testimony from Ruth R. Harkin, President, Overseas Private 
Investment Corporation, Terrence J. Brown, Officer in Charge for 
Guatemala/Guatemala City, Agency for International Development, and J. 
Joseph Grandmaison, Director, Trade and Development Agency, all of the 
United States International Development Cooperation Agency; and Kenneth 
D. Brody, President, Export-Import Bank of the United States.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met to discuss procedural issues 
relating to the markup of proposed legislation authorizing funds for 
certain national defense programs.
  Committee will meet again on Thursday, May 26.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  An original bill to improve the administration of export controls;
  S. 1952, to authorize the minting of coins to commemorate the 175th 
anniversary of the founding of the United States Botanic Garden, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Alan S. Blinder, of New Jersey, to be a Member and 
Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; 
Steven Mark Hart Wallman, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Securities 
and Exchange Commission; and Philip N. Diehl, of Texas, to be Director 
of the Mint, Department of the Treasury.
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 public interest considerations, receiving 
testimony from Paul W. Schroeder, American Council of the Blind, Mark 
Goldfarb, Gallaudet University, Robert Peck, American Civil Liberties 
Union, Anthony L. Pharr, United Church of Christ, and James L. Winston, 
National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters, all of Washington, 
D.C.; Margaret R. Pfanstiehl, Metropolitan Washington Ear, Silver 
Spring, Maryland; and Susan Hadden, Alliance for Public Technology, 
Austin, Texas.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine the role of greenhouse gases in global warming and the 
implementation of the Administration's climate change action plan for 
reducing greenhouse gas emissions, after receiving testimony from 
Robert T. Watson, Associate Director for Environment, Office of Science 
and Technology Policy; Jerry D. Mahlman, Director, Geophysical Fluid 
Dynamics Laboratory (Princeton, New Jersey), National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; Judith Lean, 
Research Physicist, E.O. Hulburt Center for Space Research, Naval 
Research Laboratory; Richard S. Lindzen, Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, and Sallie Baliunas, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for 
Astrophysics, both of Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Stephen E. 
Schwartz, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York.
ENERGY SUPPLY SECURITY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 2032, to ensure that insular areas of the United States have 
guaranteed access to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve during an oil 
supply disruption, and proposed legislation authorizing funds for 
fiscal years 1995-1999 for programs of the Energy Policy and 
Conservation Act, receiving testimony from John A. Riggs, Principal 
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for Policy Planning and Program 
Evaluation; Mufi Hannemann and Tak Yoshihara, both of the Hawaii 
Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, and Harwood 
D. Williamson, Hawaiian Electric Company, all of Honolulu.
SOCIAL SECURITY RETIREMENT EARNINGS TEST
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine how the 
current Social Security retirement earnings test is working and its 
impact on beneficiaries, focusing on whether to eliminate or modify the 
test, receiving testimony from Senator McCain; Representative Hastert; 
Shirley S. Chater, Commissioner of Social Security, Department of 
Health and Human Services; Robert M. Ball, former Commissioner of 
Social Security, Max Richtman, National Committee to Preserve Social 
Security and Medicare, and C. Eugene Steuerle, The Urban Institute, all 
of Washington, D.C.; and Joseph S. Perkins, American Association of 
Retired Persons, Danvers, Massachusetts.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Frank G. Wisner, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of India, after the nominee testified and 
answered further questions in his own behalf.
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative 
Practice concluded hearings to examine reforms to the medical 
malpractice system as contained in the proposed Health Security Act, 
after receiving testimony from Cynthia C. Lebow, Senior Counsel for 
Policy, Civil Division, Department of Justice; Philip H. Corboy, 
Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the American Bar Association; Paul B. 
Ginsburg, Physician Payment Review Commission, and John H. Niles, 
Columbia Hospital For Women, on behalf of the Health Care Liability 
Alliance, and Victor E. Schwartz, Crowell & Moring, all of Washington, 
D.C.; and Laura Wittkin, Center for Patients' Rights, New York, New 
York.
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed 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.
AUTHORIZATION--INDIAN CHILD PROTECTION AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2075, 
to authorize funds for and strengthen programs of the Indian Child 
Protection and Family Violence Prevention Act, and provisions of S. 
2074, to increase the special assessment for felonies and improve the 
enforcement of sentences imposing criminal fines, after receiving 
testimony from Michael H. Trujillo, Director, Indian Health Service, 
Department of Health and Human Services; Walter R. Mills, Acting Deputy 
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; Howard B. 
Apple, Unit Chief, Interstate Theft/Government Reservation Crimes Unit, 
Violent Crimes and Major Offenders Section, Criminal Investigative 
Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; 
Ferrell Secakuku, Hopi Tribe, Kykotsmovi, Arizona; Cecil Antone, Gila 
River Indian Community, Sacaton, Arizona; Pamela Iron, Cherokee Nation 
of Oklahoma, Tahlequah; and Genevieve Jackson, Navajo Nation Council, 
Window Rock, Arizona.
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY ENHANCEMENTS ACT
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported, 
with amendments, S. 2056, to revise the National Security Act of 1947 
to improve the counterintelligence and security posture of the United 
States.