[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 69 (Tuesday, June 7, 1994)]
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                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                    Week of June 8 through 11, 1994

                             Senate Chamber

  On Wednesday, Senate will continue consideration of S. 1587, Federal 
Acquisition Streamlining Act, and upon its disposition, Senate will 
consider S. 1491, Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act.
  During the balance of the week, Senate may consider S. 2093, Water 
Pollution Prevention and Control Act, S. 55, Workplace Fairness Act, 
appropriation bills and conference reports, when available, and any 
cleared executive and legislative business.
  (Senate will recess from 12:30 p.m. until 2:15 p.m., on Wednesday, 
June 8, for party conferences.)


                           Senate Committees

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, June 9, to hold 
hearings to examine issues relating to rural health care, 2:30 p.m., 
SD-628.
  June 10, Subcommittee on Nutrition and Investigations, to hold 
hearings on S. 1614, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1998 for 
programs of the Child Nutrition Act and the National School Lunch 
Act, 9:30 a.m., SR-332.
  Committee on Appropriations, June 8, Subcommittee on Labor, Health 
and Human Services, and Education, to resume hearings on issues 
relating to teenage pregnancy, 9:30 a.m., SD-192.
  June 8, Subcommittee on Interior, to hold hearings proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of Energy, 10 
a.m., S-128, Capitol.
  June 8, Subcommittee on Military Construction, to hold hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the Air Force, 
Navy, and Marine Corps, 10:30 a.m., SD-138.
  Committee on Armed Services, June 8, Subcommittee on Force 
Requirements and Personnel, closed business meeting, to mark up 
those provisions which fall within the subcommittee's jurisdiction 
of a proposed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
1995, 9:30 a.m., SR-222.
  June 8, Subcommittee on Coalition Defense and Reinforcing Forces, 
closed business meeting, to mark up those provisions which fall 
within the subcommittee's jurisdiction of a proposed National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995, 11 a.m., SR-232A.
  June 8, Subcommittee on Nuclear Deterrence, Arms Control, and 
Defense Intelligence, closed business meeting, to mark up those 
provisions which fall within the subcommittee's jurisdiction of a 
proposed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995, 
2:30 p.m., SR-222.
  June 8, Subcommittee on Military Readiness and Defense 
Infrastructure, closed business meeting, to mark up those provisions 
which fall within the subcommittee's jurisdiction of a proposed 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995, 4 p.m., SR-
232A.
  June 8, Subcommittee on Defense Technology, Acquisition, and 
Industrial Base, closed business meeting, to mark up those 
provisions which fall within the subcommittee's jurisdiction of a 
proposed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995, 6 
p.m., SR-222.
  June 9, Full Committee, closed business meeting, to mark up a 
proposed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995, S. 
2082, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1995 for the 
intelligence activities of the United States Government, and other 
pending legislation, 8:30 a.m., SR-222.
  June 9, Full Committee, to continue closed markup of a proposed 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995, S. 2082, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1995 for the intelligence 
activities of the United States Government, and other pending 
legislation, 2 p.m., SR-222.
  June 10, Full Committee, to continue closed markup of a proposed 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995, S. 2082, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1995 for the intelligence 
activities of the United States Government, and other pending 
legislation, 9 a.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, June 8, Subcommittee on 
Water and Power, to hold hearings to examine water quality and 
quantity problems and opportunities facing the lower Colorado River 
area, 1:30 p.m., SD-366.
  June 9, Subcommittee on Water and Power, to continue hearings on 
water quality and quantity problems and opportunities facing the 
lower Colorado River area, 10:15 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Finance, June 10, Subcommittee on Health for Families 
and the Uninsured, to hold hearings to examine health care for early 
retirees, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations, June 9, to resume 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), 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on the Judiciary, June 9, Subcommittee on Courts and 
Administrative Practice, to hold hearings to examine the effect of 
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's proposed guidelines on 
harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, 
age or disability and the effect of these guidelines on the 
expression of religion in the workplace, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Labor and Human Resources, June 8 and 9, business 
meeting, to continue markup of proposed legislation to provide for 
health care security, Wednesday at 8 a.m., Wednesday at 2 p.m., 
Wednesday at 7 p.m. and Thursday at 8 a.m., SH-216.
  June 9, Full Committee, business meeting, to continue markup of 
proposed legislation to provide for health care security, and S. 
1513, authorizing funds for programs of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act, 2 p.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Rules and Administration, June 9, business meeting, 
to mark up S. 1824, Legislative Reorganization Act, H.R. 877, 
Smithsonian National African American Museum, an original bill 
authorizing appropriations for fiscal year 1995 for the Federal 
Election Commission, S. Res. 196, printing resolution for Aging 
Committee, an original resolution authorizing the purchase of 1995 
wall calendars, H. Con. Res. 222, authorizing acceptance and 
placement of a bust in the Capitol, and other legislative business, 
9:30 a.m., SR-301.
  Committee on Veterans Affairs, June 9, business meeting, to 
consider mark up pending legislation, 2:30 p.m., SR-418.
  Committee on Indian Affairs, June 8, to hold hearings on S. 1936, 
to provide for the integrated management of Indian resources, and S. 
2067, to establish an Assistant Secretary for Indian Health, and to 
provide for the organizational independence of the Indian Health 
Service within the Department of Health and Human Services, 2:30 
a.m., SR-485.
  June 10, Full Committee, to hold oversight hearings on activities 
of off-reservation boarding schools, 9:30 a.m., SR-485.


                             House Chamber

  Wednesday, and the Balance of the Week, Complete consideration of 
H.R. 4301, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995.
  Consideration of H.R. 4539, Treasury, Postal and Certain 
Independent Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1995 
(subject to a rule being granted).
  Consideration of conference report on S. 24, Independent Counsel 
Reauthorization Act (subject to a rule being granted).
  Complete consideration of H.R. 518, California Desert Protection 
Act.

  Note.--Conference reports may be brought up at any time. Any 
further program will be announced later.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Agriculture, June 8, to consider legislation to 
implement the agricultural provisions of the Uruguay Round GATT 
Agreement, 3 p.m., 1300 Longworth.
  June 8, Subcommittee on Livestock, to consider H.R. 4235, Dairy 
Producer Market Stabilization and Export Development Act of 1994, 10 
a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  June 9, full Committee, hearing to review rural implications of 
health care reform, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  June 9, Subcommittee on Department Operations and Nutrition, 
hearing on Commodity Letter of Credit provisions of H.R. 8, Healthy 
Meals for Healthy Americans Act of 1994, 2 p.m., 1300 Longworth.
  June 9, Subcommittee on Foreign Agriculture and Hunger, hearing to 
review alternative crops and their potential to feed the world, 9:30 
a.m., 1302 Longworth.
  June 9, Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Natural Resources and 
the Subcommittee on Environment, Credit, and Rural Development, 
joint hearing to review the Administration's crop insurance program, 
1:30 p.m., 1302 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, June 8, Subcommittee on Commerce, 
Justice, State, and Judiciary, to mark up fiscal year 1995 
appropriations, 2 p.m., H-310 Capitol.
  June 10, Subcommittee on District of Columbia, on Economic 
Development and Regulations, and Public Education System, 10 a.m., 
H-301 Capitol.
  Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, June 8, 
Subcommittee on International Development, Finance, Trade and 
Monetary Policy, hearing on a proposal to authorize the Export-
Import Bank to provide financing for the export of nonlethal defense 
articles and services used primarily for civilian purposes, 2:30 
p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  June 9, Subcommittee on Consumer Credit and Insurance, hearing on 
Trends in Consumer Credit Availability, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, June 8, hearing to discuss the Income 
Structure in America Today, 10 a.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Education and Labor, June 8, Subcommittee on 
Postsecondary Education and Training, hearing on H.R. 4050, 
Reemployment Act of 1994, 9:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  June 9, Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations, to continue 
markup of H.R. 3960, American Health Security Act, 9:30 a.m., 2175 
Rayburn.
  June 10, full Committee, to mark up H.R. 3600, Health Security 
Act, 9:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, June 8, Subcommittee on Energy 
and Power, hearing on H.R. 3546, Propane Education and Research Act, 
10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  June 10, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, oversight 
hearing on the implementation of the ``Children's Television Act of 
1990,'' 9:30 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, June 8, hearing on United States 
Policy Toward Haiti, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  June 8, Subcommittee on Africa, hearing on Conflict Resolution in 
Africa: Recent Developments and to mark up the African Conflict 
Resolution Act, 2 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  June 9, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, hearing on 
Developments in North Korea, 1 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  June 9, Subcommittee on International Security, International 
Organizations and Human Rights, to continue hearings on Challenges 
to U.S. Security in the 1990's: Part 3, 11 a.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, June 8, Subcommittee 
on Environment and Natural Resources, hearing on H.R. 4308, North 
American Wetlands Conservation Act, 11 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Natural Resources, June 8, Subcommittee on National 
Parks, Forests, and Public Lands, hearing on the following bills: 
H.R. 4364, to direct the Secretary of Transportation to transfer 
administrative jurisdiction over certain lands for inclusion in the 
Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreation Area; H.R. 3953, to 
authorize Escambia County, Florida, to convey certain lands in 
Florida to a political subdivision of the State of Florida; H.R. 
2926, and S. 1402, Twin Fall County Landfill Act of 1993; and S. 
859, to reduce the restrictions on lands conveyed by deed under the 
Act of June 8, 1926, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  June 10, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public 
Lands, hearing on H.R. 4533, to promote entrepreneurial management 
of the National Park Service, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  June 10, Subcommittee on Native American Affairs, hearing on the 
following bills: H.R. 4230, American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 
1994; and H.R. 4155, American Indian Religious Freedom Act 
Amendments of 1994, 9:30 a.m., 1310 Longworth.
  Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, June 8, to continue 
oversight hearings on the U.S. Postal Service, 1:30 p.m., 311 
Cannon.
  June 9, Subcommittee on Census, Statistics and Postal Personnel, 
hearing on the GAO report on Census Bureau Management: Financial 
Systems, 1 p.m., 311 Cannon.
  June 9, Subcommittee on Compensation and Employee Benefits, to 
mark up the following bills: H.R. 3297, to amend title XII, United 
States Code, to extend the treatment currently afforded to Federal 
judges under the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance program to 
certain other judicial officials; H.R. 512, FEGLI Living Benefits 
Act; H.R. 3246, to provide that provisions of chapters 83 and 84 of 
title 5, United States Code, relating to reemployed annuitants shall 
not apply with respect to postal retirees who are reemployed on a 
temporary basis, to serve as rural letter carriers or rural 
postmasters; H.R. 3499, to amend the Defense Department Overseas 
Teachers Pay and Personnel Practices Act; and H.R. 4361, Federal 
Employees Family Friendly Leave Act, 2 p.m., 304 Cannon.
  Committee on Public Works and Transportation, June 9, Subcommittee 
on Surface Transportation and the Subcommittee on Transportation and 
Hazardous Materials of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, joint 
hearing to review the General Functions of the ICC, 1:30 p.m., 2167 
Rayburn.
  June 9, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, hearing 
on H.R. 3800, Superfund Reform Act of 1994, and issues related to 
the reauthorization of the Federal Superfund Program, 9:30 a.m., 
2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, June 8, to consider H.R. 4539, making 
appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal 
Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain 
Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, 
2:30 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  June 9, to consider H.R. 4506, making appropriations for energy 
and water development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, 
10 a.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, June 9, Subcommittee 
on Technology, Environment and Aviation, hearing on Urban Land 
Reclamation: Reuse and Development of Industrial Sites, 9:30 a.m., 
2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, June 9, hearing to examine the status 
of United States-Canadian trade relations and whether operations 
under the Free Trade Agreement and now NAFTA have provided greater 
trade opportunities for small business, 9:30 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, June 9, Subcommittee on 
Compensation, Pension, and Insurance, hearing on H.R. 4386, 
Veterans' Persian Gulf War Benefits Act, 9:30 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, June 9, to continue markup of health 
care reform legislation, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  June 10, full Committee, hearing on the World Trade Organization, 
10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: June 10, 
briefing on crime and corruption in Russia, 10:30 a.m., 2212 Rayburn 
Building.
       *These figures include all measures reported, even if there 
     was no accompanying report. A total of 65 reports has been 
     filed in the Senate; a total of 121 reports has been filed in 
     the House.
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                    Resume of Congressional Activity

            SECOND SESSION OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRD CONGRESS


    The first table gives a comprehensive resume of all legislative 
business transacted by the Senate and House.
    The second table accounts for all nominations submitted to the 
Senate by the President for Senate confirmation.

                      DATA ON LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY


                    January 25 through May 31, 1994

                                                                 STotal
     Days in session..............................................
     Time in session.................................363 hrs., 1..
     Congressional Record:
         Pages of proceedings...............................10,612
         Extensions of Remarks...............................1,125
     Public bills enacted into law..............................54
     Private bills enacted into law..............................1
     Bills in conference..........................................
     Measures passed, total....................................299
         Senate bills.............................................
         House bills..............................................
         Senate joint resolutions.................................
         House joint resolutions..................................
         Senate concurrent resolutions............................
         House concurrent resolutions.............................
         Simple resolutions.......................................
     Measures reported, total.................................*186
         Senate bills.............................................
         House bills..............................................
         Senate joint resolutions.................................
         House joint resolutions..................................
         Senate concurrent resolutions............................
         House concurrent resolutions.............................
         Simple resolutions.......................................
     Special reports..............................................
     Conference reports...........................................
     Measures pending on calendar..............................1..
     Measures introduced, total..............................1,533
         Bills.................................................8..
         Joint resolutions........................................
         Concurrent resolutions...................................
         Simple resolutions....................................1..
     Quorum calls.................................................
     Yea-and-nay votes.........................................1..
     Recorded votes............................................1..
     Bills vetoed.................................................
     Vetoes overridden............................................
                  DISPOSITION OF EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS


                    January 25 through May 31, 1994

     Civilian nominations, totaling 397, (including 172 
       nominations carried over from the first session), 
       disposed of as follows:

         Confirmed..........................................260...
         Unconfirmed........................................137...

     Civilian nominations (FS, PHS, CG, NOAA), totaling 1,655 
       (including 38 nominations carried over from the first 
       session), disposed of as follows:

         Confirmed........................................1,435...
         Unconfirmed........................................220...

     Air Force nominations, totaling 6,880 (including 4 
       nominations carried over from the first session), 
       disposed of as follows:

         Confirmed........................................6,698...
         Unconfirmed........................................182...

     Army nominations, totaling 5,705 (including 1,686 carried 
       over from the first session), disposed of as follows:

         Confirmed........................................5,686...
         Unconfirmed.........................................19...

     Navy nominations, totaling 6,956 (including 657 
       nominations carried over from the first session), 
       disposed of as follows:

         Confirmed........................................5,725...
         Unconfirmed......................................1,231...

     Marine Corps nominations, totaling 1,322 (including 15 
       nominations carried over from the first session), 
       disposed of as follows:

         Confirmed........................................1,269...
         Unconfirmed.........................................53...

                                Summary
     Total nominations carried over from first session....2,572
     Total nominations received this session.............20,343
     Total confirmed.....................................21,073
     Total unconfirmed....................................1,842