[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 76 (Thursday, June 16, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN OPERATIONS/TREASURY
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  H.R. 4426, making appropriations for fiscal year 1995 for foreign 
operations, export financing, and related programs, with amendments; 
and
  H.R. 4539, making appropriations for fiscal year 1995 for the 
Department of the Treasury, the United States Postal Service, the 
Executive Office of the President, and certain independent agencies, 
with amendments.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN OPERATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations 
approved for full committee consideration, with amendments, H.R. 4426, 
making appropriations for fiscal year 1995 for foreign operations, 
export financing, and related programs.
APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal 
Service, and General Government approved for full committee 
consideration, with amendments, H.R. 4539, making appropriations for 
fiscal year 1995 for the Department of the Treasury, the United States 
Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain 
independent agencies.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Gen. J. H. Binford Peay III, USA, for reappointment to 
the grade of general and to be Commander in Chief, United States 
Central Command; Vice Adm. William J. Flanagan, Jr., USN, for 
appointment to the grade of admiral and to be Commander in Chief, 
United States Atlantic Fleet; Maj. Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, USMC, for 
appointment to the grade of lieutenant general and to be Commanding 
General, I Marine Expeditionary Force; and Maj. Gen. Paul E. Stein, 
USAF, for appointment to the grade of lieutenant general and to be 
Superintendent, United States Air Force Academy, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
URUGUAY ROUND
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the impact of the Uruguay Round agreement on United 
States commerce, after receiving testimony from Michael Kantor, United 
States Trade Representative.
HAWAIIAN HOMES RECOVERY ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 2174, to establish a process to restore or replace Hawaiian 
Homelands taken by the Federal Government during Hawaii's territorial 
period, and to provide compensation for lost use of such lands, after 
receiving testimony from I. Michael Heyman, Counsellor to Secretary of 
the Interior and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Policy; 
Norma Wong, Office of the Governor of Hawaii, Hoaliku L. Drake, 
Hawaiian Homes Commission, and Carl C. Christensen, Native Hawaiian 
Legal Corporation, all of Honolulu; Kamaki A. Kanahele III, State 
Council of Hawaiian Homestead Associations, Wai'anae; Henry Kauhi, Hui 
Kako'o, Kahului, Hawaii; and Mahealani Cypher, The Gibson Foundation, 
Hilo, Hawaii.
CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed closed 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 Doug 
MacEachin, Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central Intelligence 
Agency.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following bills:
  S. 993, to end the practice of imposing unfunded Federal mandates on 
States and local governments and to ensure that the Federal Government 
pays the costs incurred by those governments in complying with certain 
requirements under Federal statutes and regulations, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute. (As approved by the committee, the 
amendment incorporates provisions of S. 1604.); and
  S. 1413, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1995 through 2002 for the 
Office of Government Ethics, with amendments.
AUTHORIZATION--COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for activities of 
the United States Commission on Civil Rights, after receiving testimony 
from Mary Frances Berry, Chairperson, and Carl A. Anderson, 
Commissioner, both of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  An original resolution (S. Res. 227) to improve the operations of the 
United States Senate; and
  An original resolution (S. Res. 228) to improve United States Senate 
floor procedures.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee will meet again on Tuesday, June 21.