[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 81 (Thursday, June 23, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER/AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  H.R. 4506, making appropriations for energy and water development for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, with amendments; and
  H.R. 4554, making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, 
Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, with amendments.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development approved for full committee consideration, with amendments, 
H.R. 4506, making appropriations for energy and water development for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995.
ARMS EMBARGO/BOSNIA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the impact of lifting the United Nations Security Council arms embargo 
on the Government of Bosnia Herzegovina, after receiving testimony from 
Anders Troldborg, Deputy Minister of Defense, Denmark; Jean Claude 
Mallet, Director of Strategic Policy, Ministry of Defense, France; Gen. 
Martinez Esparza, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Gen. 
Luis Feliu, former Deputy Commander of Forces in Bosnia Herzegovina, 
both of the Ministry of Defense, Spain; and Maj. Gen. Rupert Smith, 
Director of Strategic Policy, Ministry of Defense, United Kingdom.
  Also, committee concluded hearings to examine the impact of a 
unilateral United States lifting of the arms embargo on the Government 
of Bosnia Herzegovina, after receiving testimony from Strobe Talbott, 
Deputy Secretary of State; John M. Deutch, Deputy Secretary of Defense; 
Lt. Gen. Michael Ryan, Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint 
Chiefs of Staff; Max M. Kampelman, former United States Ambassador to 
the START II Negotiations; Richard Perle, former Assistant Secretary of 
Defense for International Security Policy; Hodding Carter, former 
Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and former Spokesman 
for the Department of State.
WATER PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded oversight hearings on the Federal and State 
implementation of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act of 1992, 
focusing on the water supply needs in the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-
San Joaquin Delta (Bay-Delta), after receiving testimony from Senator 
Feinstein; Representatives Fazio, Lehman, and Dooley; Elizabeth Anne 
Moler, Chair, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Elizabeth Ann 
Reike, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science; 
Douglas P. Wheeler, The Resources Agency of California, and Stuart L. 
Somach, De Cuir & Somach, both of Sacramento; Thomas J. Graff, 
Environmental Defense Fund, and Barry Nelson, Share the Water, both of 
Oakland, California; Jean P. Sagouspe, Central Valley Project Water 
Association, Los Banos, California; John R. Wodraska, Metropolitan 
Water District of Southern California, Los Angeles; Anson B. Moran, San 
Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, California; and 
Roger A. Fontes, Northern California Power Agency, Roseville.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  An original bill to give States the authority to regulate shipments 
of garbage between States;
  S. 823, authorizing funds to improve the management of the National 
Wildlife Refuge System, with amendments;
  S. 1162, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1994 and 1995 for the 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 1165, to provide judicial review of petitions submitted to the 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission requesting that the NRC take enforcement 
action against NRC licensees regarding safety problems or regulatory 
violations, with amendments;
  H.R. 3567, to transfer operating responsibilities to the Board of 
Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1857, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1995 through 2000 for 
programs of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, with 
amendments;
  S. 617, authorizing funds for research into the desalinization of 
water and water reuse and a program for States, cities, or any 
qualifying agency which desires to own and operate a desalinization of 
water reuse facility to develop such facilities;
  H.R. 2457, authorizing funds for the Secretary of the Interior to 
conduct a winter run Chinook salmon captive broodstock program in the 
Sacramento River;
  S. 2185, to require the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer to the 
Administrator of General Services the Old United States Mint in San 
Francisco;
  S. 1555, to clarify the treatment of the Federal participation 
agreement for the Centennial Bridge, Rock Island, Illinois;
  H.R. 1346, to redesignate the Federal building located on St. Croix, 
Virgin Islands, as the ``Almeric L. Christian Federal Building'';
  H.R. 3770, to designate the United States courthouse located at 940 
Front Street in San Diego, California, and the Federal building 
attached to the courthouse as the ``Edward J. Schwartz Courthouse and 
Federal Building'';
  H.R. 3840, to designate the Federal building and United States 
courthouse located at 100 East Houston Street in Marshall, Texas, as 
the ``Sam B. Hall, Jr. Federal Building and United States Courthouse'';
  H.R. 2532, to designate the Federal building and United States 
courthouse in Lubbock, Texas, as the ``George H. Mahon Federal Building 
and United States Courthouse''; and
  S. 1674, to limit the authority of the Secretary of the Army to 
acquire land adjacent to Abiquiu Dam in New Mexico.
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 Gen. John M. 
Shalikashvili, USA, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; R. James Woolsey, 
Director of Central Intelligence; and John D. Holum, Director, United 
States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Jeffrey Rush Jr., of Virginia, to be Inspector General, 
Agency for International Development, after the nominee testified and 
answered questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  The nomination of Jerry J. Enomoto, to be United States Marshal for 
the Eastern District of California;
  S.J. Res. 153, to designate the week of November 21 through 27, 1993, 
and the week of November 20 through 26, 1994, as ``National Family 
Caregivers Week'';
  S.J. Res. 172, to designate May 30, 1994 through June 6, 1994, as a 
``Time for the National Observance of the Fiftieth Anniversary of World 
War II'';
  S.J. Res. 178, to proclaim the week of October 16 through 22, 1994, 
as ``National Character Counts Week'';
  S.J. Res. 187, to designate July 16 through July 24, 1994, as 
``National Apollo Anniversary Observance'';
  H.R. 572, for the relief of Melissa Johnson; and
  S. 2069, to grant consent of Congress to the Northeast Interstate 
Dairy Compact, with an amendment.
  Also, committee failed to approve for reporting S. 500, to provide 
that professional baseball teams and leagues composed of such teams 
shall be subject to antitrust laws.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on 
the nominations of Lee Ann Elliott, of Virginia, and Danny Lee 
McDonald, of Oklahoma, each to be a Member of the Federal Election 
Commission, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf. Testimony was also received from Elizabeth Hedlund, 
Center for Responsive Politics, Washington, D.C.
OFFICE OF THE ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded oversight 
hearings on the operations of the Office of the Architect of the 
Capitol, after receiving testimony from Senator Mikulski; and George M. 
White, Architect of the Capitol.