[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 67 (Wednesday, May 25, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia 
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the 
government of the District of Columbia, receiving testimony from 
District of Columbia Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly; and David A. Clarke, 
Chairman, Council of the District of Columbia.
  Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related 
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
1995 for the Department of the Interior, receiving testimony from Bruce 
Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 7.
TEENAGE PREGNANCY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings to examine 
the causes and effects of the increase in teenage pregnancy, receiving 
testimony from M. Joycelyn Elders, Surgeon General, Public Health 
Service, Department of Health and Human Services; Marion Howard, Grady 
Memorial Hospital, and Karlethia Jones, Douglass High School, both of 
Atlanta, Georgia; Darrell Green, Washington, D.C., on behalf of 
Athletes for Abstinence; Lakita Garth, Green Youth Foundation, Los 
Angeles, California; and Carol Machael, Women's Health Services, Angela 
Renee McCoy, and Colleen Morgan, all of Clinton, Iowa.
  Hearings continue on Wednesday, June 8.
APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for military 
construction programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their 
respective activities from Robert M. Walker, Assistant Secretary of the 
Army (Installations, Logistics and Environment), Brig. Gen. Robert L. 
Herndon, Director of Facilities and Housing, and Col. William T. 
Harvey, Chief, Base Realignment and Closure Office, both of the Office 
of the Assistant Chief of Army Staff for Installation Management; Brig. 
Gen. William C. Bilo, Deputy Director, Army National Guard; Brig. Gen. 
Paul C. Bergson, Deputy Chief, Army Reserve; Maj. Gen. James C. 
McCombs, USSOCOM/J-8, Director of Resources, U.S. Special Operations 
Command; Patricia Watson, Principal Director, Office of the Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Services Operations); Brig. Gen. 
Robert P. McFarlin, USA, Executive Director of Distribution, Defense 
Logistics Agency; and Robert G. Kugler, Deputy Chief, Facilities 
Management, National Security Agency.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
UNITED STATES CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE-RELATED EXPORTS TO IRAQ
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held 
hearings to examine how materials contributing to Iraq's chemical and 
biological warfare program were exported to Iraq from the United States 
and its possible connection to Persian Gulf veterans who have developed 
certain health problems, receiving testimony from Edwin Dorn, Under 
Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness; Theodore Prociv, 
Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Chemical/Biological 
Matters (Atomic Energy); John Kriese, Chief Officer for ground Forces, 
Defense Intelligence Agency; Mitchell Wallerstein, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for Counterproliferation; and Gordon Oehler, 
Director, Nonproliferation Center, Central Intelligence Agency.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on S. 1822, to safeguard and protect the public interest while 
permitting the growth and development of new communications 
technologies, focusing on education and telecommunications 
infrastructure, after receiving testimony from Senator Kerrey; Richard 
W. Riley, Secretary, and Linda Roberts, Technology Advisor to the 
Secretary, both of the Department of Education; Kenneth F. Melley, 
National Education Association, and Elaine Albright, American Library 
Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Carla Lane, U.S. Distance 
Learning Association, San Roman, California; Ervin S. Duggan and Mary 
Harley Kruter, both of the Public Broadcasting Service, Alexandria, 
Virginia; Cheryl Vedoe, Apple Computer, Campbell, California; Katherine 
Piller and Clay Ehlers, both of Lincoln High School, Lincoln, Nebraska; 
and Lee Bollman, Chapin Middle School, Chapin, South Carolina.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial 
Discrimination (Ex. C. 95th Cong. 2d Sess.), with three reservations, 
one understanding, one declaration, and one proviso;
  S. Res. 148, expressing the sense of the Senate that the United 
Nations should be encouraged to permit representatives of Taiwan to 
participate fully in its activities; and
  The nominations of Joseph R. Paolino, Jr., of Rhode Island, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Malta, Frank G. Wisner, of the District 
of Columbia, to be Ambassador to India, Timothy A. Chorba, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore, 
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 Assistant Administrator for Global Programs, 
Field Support and Research, Agency for International Development, Carol 
Jones Carmody, of Louisiana, for the rank of Minister during her tenure 
of service as United States Representative on the Council of the 
International Civil Aviation Organization, David E. Birenbaum, of the 
District of Columbia, to be the United States Representative to the 
United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform, with the rank of 
Ambassador, Maria Elena Torano, of Florida, to be a Member of the 
United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, and Harriet C. 
Babbitt, of Arizona, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the 
Inter-American Foundation.
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations held hearings to examine the nature and scope of the 
threat to the United States and international security posed by the 
growth of organized crime groups in the countries of the former Soviet 
Union, receiving testimony from Louis J. Freeh, Director, Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Mikhail Yegorov, 
Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Moscow; and Hans-Ludwig Zachert, 
German Federal Criminal Police, Bonn.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Theodore A. McKee, of Pennsylvania, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, Billy Michael Burrage, to be 
United States District Judge for the Northern, Eastern and Western 
Districts of Oklahoma, Vanessa D. Gilmore, to be United States District 
Judge for the Southern District of Texas, Terry C. Kern, to be United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma, Florence 
M. Cauthen, to be U.S. Marshal for the Middle District of Alabama, 
Joseph G. DiLeonardi, to be U.S. Marshal for the Northern District of 
Illinois, Robert B. Robertson, to be U.S. Marshal for the Eastern 
District of Oklahoma, John R. O'Connor, to be U.S. Marshall for the 
District of Connecticut, Michael A. Pizzi, to be United States Marshal 
for the Eastern District of New York, and Dallas S. Neville, to be 
United States Marshal for the Western District of Wisconsin.
HEALTH CARE FRAUD
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
Federal, State, and local efforts to combat fraud and abuse in the 
health care industry and related provisions of the proposed Health 
Security Act, after receiving testimony from Gerald M. Stern, Special 
Counsel, Health Care Fraud, and Special Counsel, Financial Institution 
Fraud, Department of Justice; Michael Mangano, Principal Deputy 
Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services; Indiana 
Attorney General Pamela Fanning Carter, Indianapolis, on behalf of the 
National Association of Attorneys General Health Care Task Force; David 
W. Waterbury, Washington State Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, Olympia, on 
behalf of the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units; 
Kevin M. Mattessich, Morrison, Mahoney and Miller, New York, New York; 
William J. Mahon, National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, 
Washington, D.C.; and Kirk B. Johnson, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of 
the American Medical Association.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Diana Gribbon Motz, of Maryland, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, Robert M. Parker, of Texas, to be 
United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, William F. Downes, 
to be United States District Judge for the District of Wyoming, Paul L. 
Friedman, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Columbia, Denise Page Hood, to be United States District Judge for the 
Eastern District of Michigan, Richard A. Paez, to be United States 
District Judge for the Central District of California, and Ricardo M. 
Urbina, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Columbia, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf. Ms. Motz was introduced by Senators Sarbanes and Mikulski, 
Mr. Parker was introduced by Senator Hutchison and Representative 
Brooks, Mr. Downes was introduced by Senator Simpson and Representative 
Wise, Messrs. Friedman and Urbina were introduced by District of 
Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Ms. Hood was introduced by 
Senator Levin and Representatives Collins and Conyers, and Mr. Paez was 
introduced by Senator Boxer.
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee continued 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.