[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 75 (Wednesday, June 15, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D]
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--D.C. COURTS AND BOARD OF EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia 
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 
for the government of the District of Columbia, after receiving 
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from 
Annice Wagner, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals, Eugene N. Hamilton, Chief 
Judge, Superior Court, and Ulysses Hammond, Executive Director, Courts, 
and Linda Moody, President, and Franklin L. Smith, Superintendent of 
Schools, both of the Board of Education, all of the District of 
Columbia.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Adm. Charles R. Larson, USN, to retire in grade.
FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK SYSTEM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held 
hearings to examine the future direction of the Federal Home Loan Bank 
System and proposals to modernize its functions, focusing on a recent 
study by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, receiving 
testimony from Frank N. Newman, Under Secretary of the Treasury for 
Domestic Finance; Nicolas P. Retsinas, Assistant Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development for Housing; Michael T. Crowley, Jr., Mutual 
Savings Bank, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on behalf of the Federal Home Loan 
Banks Stockholder Study Committee; Mary Lee Widener, Federal Home Loan 
Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California; and Alfred A. 
Dellibovi, Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, New York, New York.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--NOAA
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce, after 
receiving testimony from D. James Baker, Under Secretary of Commerce 
for Oceans and Atmosphere; Jan Dill, Oceanic Institute, Honolulu, 
Hawaii; Rob Garrison, Nantucket Research and Education Foundation, 
Nantucket, Massachusetts; Paul A. Sandifer, South Carolina Department 
of Natural Resources, Charleston; and Eric Hallerman, Virginia 
Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  H.R. 1348, to establish the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley 
National Heritage Corridor in the State of Connecticut, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1897, to expand the boundary of the Santa Fe National Forest in 
New Mexico, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 1919, to improve water quality within the Rio Puerco watershed and 
to help restore the ecological health of the Rio Grande through the 
cooperative identification and implementation of best management 
practices which are consistent with the ecological, geological, 
cultural, sociological, and economic conditions in the region, with 
amendments.
AUTHORIZATION--ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Water, 
Fisheries and Wildlife held hearings on proposed legislation 
authorizing funds for programs of the Endangered Species Act, focusing 
on the science and history of endangered species conservation, 
receiving testimony from former Senator McClure, on behalf of the 
National Endangered Species Act Reform Coalition; Bruce Babbitt, 
Secretary of the Interior; Douglas K. Hall, Assistant Secretary of 
Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere; Edward O. Wilson, Harvard 
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Michael J. Bean, 
Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the nomination of 
Valerie Lau, of California, to be Inspector General, Department of the 
Treasury, where the nominee testified and answered questions in her own 
behalf.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
RETIREMENT PROTECTION ACT
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on S. 1780, to improve 
and strengthen certain provisions of the Employee Retirement Income 
Security Act (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code relating to pension 
plan funding, compliance, premiums, and participant protection and 
services, receiving testimony from Senator Jeffords; Robert B. Reich, 
Secretary of Labor; Leslie B. Samuels, Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury for Tax Policy; Martin Slate, Executive Director, Pension 
Benefit Guaranty Corporation; Curtis H. Barnette, Bethlehem Steel 
Corporation, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Pension Issues 
Coalition; David G. Hirschland, United Automobile, Aerospace and 
Agricultural Implement Workers of America, Detroit, Michigan; Chester 
S. Labedz, Jr., Textron Inc., Wilmington, Massachusetts, on behalf of 
the ERISA Industry Committee; Robert M. Spira, Leaseway Transportation 
Corporation, Beachwood, Ohio, on behalf of the Multiemployer Pension 
Plan Solvency Coalition; and Paula A. Calimafde, Small Business Council 
of America, Bethesda, Maryland.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NORTH KOREA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on the current status of nuclear activities in North 
Korea from Robert L. Gallucci, Assistant Secretary of State for 
Politico-Military Affairs; Adm. (Select) Charles W. Moore, Deputy 
Director for Current Operations, Joint Staff; and Doug MacEachin, 
Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic 
Policy, Trade, Oceans and Environment approved for full committee 
consideration an original bill authorizing funds for fiscal years 1995 
and 1996 to establish more effective foreign assistance programs, and 
to adapt the programs to the needs of the post-Cold War era.
ARMS EXPORT LICENSING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, 
Post Office, and Civil Service held hearings to examine the 
effectiveness of the arms export licensing screening and compliance 
procedures at the Departments of State and Commerce, receiving 
testimony from James F. Wiggins, Associate Director, Acquisition 
Policy, Technology, and Competitiveness Issues, National Security and 
International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; William A. 
Reinsch, Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration; and 
Thomas E. McNamara, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Political-
Military Affairs, Department of State.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
IMMIGRATION REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on proposals to 
reform United States immigration policy, receiving testimony from 
Senators Reid, Bryan, Roth, and Hutchison; Janet Reno, Attorney 
General, and Doris Meissner, Commissioner of Immigration and 
Naturalization, both of the Department of Justice; and David Hobbs, 
Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
LINE ITEM VETO
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded 
hearings to examine whether the President of the United States' role in 
the legislative process includes the authority to veto individual parts 
or items of a measure, including individual line items in an 
appropriation measure, and a related measure, S. Res. 195, after 
receiving testimony from Senators Specter and Thurmond; Walter 
Dellinger, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, 
Department of Justice; Charles J. Cooper, Shaw, Pittman, Potts & 
Trowbridge, Washington, D.C.; Ronald D. Rotunda, University of Illinois 
College of Law, Champaign; Robert J. Spitzer, State University of New 
York, Cortland; and J. Gregory Sidak, American Enterprise Institute for 
Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 1513, authorizing funds for programs of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  H.R. 6, authorizing funds for programs of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965; and
  The nomination of Bonnie O'Day, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of 
the National Council on Disability.
INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION CONTRACT REFORM ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2036, 
to specify the terms of contracts entered into by the United States and 
Indian tribal organizations under the Indian Self-Determination and 
Education Assistance Act (P.L. 93-638), after receiving testimony from 
Ada E. Deer, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, Hilda Manuel, 
Acting Director, Office of Tribal Services, and James Thomas, Chief, 
Division of Self-Determination Services, all of the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs, Department of the Interior; Michel Lincoln, Deputy Director, 
and Douglas Black, Associate Director, Office of Tribal Activities, 
both of the Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human 
Services; Phillip Martin, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, 
Philadelphia; Edward K. Thomas, Central Council of the Tlingit and 
Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, Juneau; Britt E. Clapham, II, Navajo 
Nation Department of Justice, Navajo Nation, Arizona; Carol Evans, 
Spokane Tribe of Indians, Wellpinit, Washington; Lloyd Benton Miller, 
Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Miller, Munson & Clocksin, Anchorage, 
Alaska; and Barbara Karshmer, Alexander & Karshmer, Washington, D.C.