[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 71 (Thursday, June 9, 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)
RURAL HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held 
hearings to examine the status of health care services in rural 
America, receiving testimony from Representative Long; Jeffrey Human, 
Director, Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services 
Administration, and Robert Van Hook, Executive Officer, Health Care 
Reform, Office of the Secretary, both of the Department of Health and 
Human Services; David A.V. Reynolds, Northern Counties Health Care, 
Inc., St. Johnsbury, Vermont; Gale N. Walker, St. Benedict Health 
Center, Parkston, South Dakota; Sam Cordes, University of Missouri, 
Columbia; Lynn H. Clothier, Indiana Health Centers, Inc., Indianapolis; 
and Robert E. Boyer, Wichita, Kansas.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to mark up 
proposed legislation authorizing funds for national defense programs, 
but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
LOWER COLORADO RIVER
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded hearings to examine water quality and quantity problems 
and opportunities facing the Lower Colorado River area, after receiving 
testimony from Stewart Udall, Santa Fe, New Mexico, former Secretary of 
the Interior; Thomas C. Clark, Central Arizona Water Conservation 
District, and David Iwanski, Agribusiness Council of Arizona, both of 
Phoenix; Charles L. Shreves, Imperial Irrigation District, Imperial, 
California; Rodney J. Clark, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, 
Los Angeles, California; George Arthur, Navajo Nation, Window Rock, 
Arizona, on behalf of the Colorado River Basin Tribes Partnership; Dana 
Norris, Gila River Indian Community, Sacaton, Arizona; Daniel Eddy, 
Jr., Colorado River Indian Tribes, Parker, Arizona; David H. Getches, 
University of Colorado School of Law, Boulder; Gary D. Weatherford, 
Payne, Thompson, Walker & Taaffe, San Francisco, California; and Don 
Christiansen, Western Urban Water Coalition, Orem, Utah.
CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed 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), receiving testimony from Amoretta M. Hoeber, 
Arlington, Virginia, former Deputy Under Secretary of the United States 
Army; Ronald F. Lehman, former Director, U.S. Arms Control and 
Disarmament Agency, and Kathleen C. Bailey, former Assistant Director, 
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, both of the Lawrence 
Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; Will D. 
Carpenter, Agridyne, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah, on behalf of the 
Chemical Manufacturers Association; Matthew Meselson, Harvard 
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Michael L. Moodie, Chemical and 
Biological Arms Control Institute, Alexandria, Virginia; and Frank J. 
Gaffney, Jr., Center for Security Policy, and Amy E. Smithson, Henry L. 
Stimson Center, both of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
RELIGION IN THE WORKPLACE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative 
Practice concluded 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, after receiving testimony from 
Representative McKeon; Douglas A. Gallegos, Executive Director, 
Elizabeth M. Thornton, Acting Legal Counsel, Dianna B. Johnston, 
Associate Legal Counsel, all of the United States Equal Employment 
Opportunity Commission; Dudley C. Rochelle, Spanos & Rochelle, and Dan 
T. Cathy, Chick-fil-A, Inc., both of Atlanta, Georgia; Douglas Laycock, 
University of Texas School of Law, Austin; and Robert S. Peck, American 
Civil Liberties Union, Michael K. Whitehead, Southern Baptist 
Convention, Marc D. Stern, American Jewish Congress, and Louis P. 
Sheldon, Traditional Values Coalition, all of Washington, D.C.
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported an original bill 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.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  S. 1824, to improve the operations of the legislative branch of the 
Federal Government, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 877, to authorize the establishment of the National African 
American Museum within the Smithsonian Institution, with an amendment;
  An original bill to authorize funds for fiscal year 1995 for the 
Federal Election Commission;
  An original resolution to exempt Members whose election is 
uncontested from the 60-day moratorium on the use of the Senate 
Recording Studio and the frank for mass mail;
  S. Res. 196, to authorize the printing of additional copies of a 
Senate Report entitled, ``Developments in Aging: 1993'';
  An original resolution to authorize the purchase of 104,000 1995 
United States Capitol Historical Society wall calendars for the use of 
the Senate; and
  H. Con. Res. 222, to authorize the placement of a bust of Raoul 
Wallenberg in the United States Capitol.
AUTHORIZATION--VA MEDICAL FACILITY CONSTRUCTION/GI BILL OF RIGHTS-50TH 
ANNIVERSARY
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995 for major 
medical facility construction projects of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs; and
  An original joint resolution commemorating June 22, 1994, as the 50th 
anniversary of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944.