[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 70 (Wednesday, June 8, 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--DOE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related 
Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 1995 for the Department of Energy, after receiving testimony from 
Hazel R. O'Leary, Secretary of Energy.
TEENAGE PREGNANCY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education (and Related Agencies) concluded hearings to 
examine the causes and effects of the increase in teenage pregnancy, 
after receiving testimony from Ester R. Sylvester, Administrative Law 
Judge of Family Court Division, Court of Common Pleas, and Rotan Lee 
and Markita Morris, both of the Philadelphia Board of Education, all of 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Colleen Kelly Mast, Sex Respect, Inc., 
Bradley, Illinois; and Rosetta Stith, Paquin School for Expectant 
Teenage Mothers, Baltimore, Maryland.
APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction 
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995, 
after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for Air Force military 
construction programs from James F. Boatright, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of the Air Force (Installations); Maj. Gen. James E. 
McCarthy, Air Force Civil Engineer; Brig. Gen. John A. Bradley, Deputy 
Chief of Air Force Reserve; Brig. Gen. Paul A. Weaver, Jr., Deputy 
Director, Air National Guard; and Maj. Gen. Richard C. Bethruem, 
Director for Plans, Office of the Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for 
Plans and Operations; and in behalf of funds for Navy and Marine Corps 
military construction programs from Rear Adm. Jack E. Buffington, CEC, 
USN, Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command; Rear Adm. John T. 
Natter, USNR, Deputy Director of Naval Reserve; and Brig. Gen. Thomas 
A. Braaten, USMC, Director, Facilities and Service Division, Office of 
the Deputy Chief of Staff for Installations and Logistics.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Coalition Defense and 
Reinforcing Forces met in closed session and approved for full 
committee consideration those provisions which fall within the 
subcommittee's jurisdiction of proposed legislation authorizing funds 
for national defense programs.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Technology, 
Acquisition, and Industrial Base met in closed session and approved for 
full committee consideration those provisions which fall within the 
subcommittee's jurisdiction of proposed legislation authorizing funds 
for national defense programs.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Force Requirements and 
Personnel met in closed session and approved for full committee 
consideration those provisions which fall within the subcommittee's 
jurisdiction of proposed legislation authorizing funds for national 
defense programs.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Readiness and 
Infrastructure met in closed session and approved for full committee 
consideration those provisions which fall within the subcommittee's 
jurisdiction of proposed legislation authorizing funds for national 
defense programs.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Nuclear Deterrence, Arms 
Control, and Defense Intelligence met in closed session and approved 
for full committee consideration those provisions which fall within the 
subcommittee's jurisdiction of proposed legislation authorizing funds 
for national defense programs.
LOWER COLORADO RIVER
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power held hearings to examine water quality and quantity problems and 
opportunities facing the lower Colorado River area, receiving testimony 
from Senators Reid, Bryan, DeConcini, and McCain; Elizabeth Rieke, 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science; C. Laurence 
Linser, Arizona Department of Water Resources, and William L. Chase, 
Jr., both of Phoenix, Arizona; Gerald Zimmerman, Colorado River Board 
of California, Glendale; Janet Rogers, Colorado River Commission, and 
Patricia Mulroy, Las Vegas Valley Water District, both of Las Vegas, 
Nevada; John R. Wodraska, Metropolitan Water District of Southern 
California, Los Angeles; Thomas Jensen, Grand Canyon Trust, Flagstaff, 
Arizona; Dale Pontius, American Rivers, Washington, D.C.; and David 
Yardas, Environmental Defense Fund, Oakland, California.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
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.
INDIAN NATURAL RESOURCES/INDIAN HEALTH
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
following bills:
  S. 1936, authorizing funds to establish a program to assist Indian 
tribes to develop and implement integrated natural resource management 
plans, after receiving testimony from Frank Keel, Acting Director, 
Office of Trust Responsibilities, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department 
of the Interior; Duane Sherman, Hoopa Valley Tribal Council, Hoopa, 
California; Gene Joseph, Colville Business Council, Nespelem, 
Washington; Bill Northover, Inter-Tribal Geographic Information Systems 
Council, Pendleton, Oregon; and Debra Prybyla, World Wildlife Fund, 
Washington, D.C.; and
  S. 2067, to establish the position of Assistant Secretary of Health 
and Human Services for Indian Health, and to provide for the 
organizational independence of the Indian Health Service within the 
Department of Health and Human Services, after receiving testimony from 
Jo Ivey Bufford, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and Human 
Services for Health; Emory Johnson, former Assistant Surgeon General of 
the Public Health Service; Julia Davis, National Indian Health Board, 
Denver, Colorado; and Michael Begaye, Washington, D.C., on behalf of 
the Navajo Nation.