[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 82 (Friday, June 24, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Ordered reported the District of Columbia 
appropriation for fiscal year 1995.
AUTHORIZE EXPORT-IMPORT BANK TO PROVIDE FINANCING FOR EXPORT OF 
NONLETHAL DEFENSE ARTICLES
Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Development: Subcommittee on 
International Development, Finance, Trade and Monetary Policy approved 
for full Committee action as amended H.R. 4455, to authorize the 
Export-Import Bank of the United States to provide financing for the 
export of nonlethal defense articles and defense services the primary 
end use of which will be for civilian purposes.
SUPERFUND REFORM ISSUES
Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Environment, 
Energy, and Natural Resources held a hearing on Superfund Reform 
Issues. Testimony was heard from Keith O. Fultz, Assistant Comptroller 
General, Resources, Community and Economic Development Division, GAO; 
and Carol M. Browner, Administrator, EPA.
SMALL BUSINESS LEGISLATION
Committee on Small Business: Ordered reported as amended H.R. 4322, to 
amend the Small Business Act to increase the authorization for the 
development company program.
  The Committee also began markup of H.R. 4263, Small Business and 
Minority Small Business Procurement Opportunities Act of 1994.
  Will continue June 29.
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Ways and Means: Continued markup of health care reform 
legislation.
  Will continue tomorrow.

Joint Meetings
TECHNICAL INNOVATION IN HEALTH CARE
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine 
competitiveness and regulatory issues facing the biotechnology and 
medical device industries and their potential for growth in overseas 
and domestic markets, focusing on how the Federal Government can assist 
the private sector in order to fund research opportunities, provide 
advanced training to expert scientists, and support technological 
progress, receiving testimony from M.R.C. Greenwood, Associate Director 
for Science, Office of Science and Technology Policy; Roger C. Herdman, 
Director, Office of Technology Assessment; Daryl A. Chamblee, Acting 
Deputy Director for Science Policy and Technology Transfer, National 
Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; L. Scott 
Cram, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico; Richard 
M. Levy, Varian Associates, Inc., Palo Alto, California; M. James 
Barrett, Genetic Therapy, Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, on behalf of 
the Biotechnology Industry Organization; Ben Holmes, Hewlett-Packard 
Company, Andover, Massachusetts; Rachel Scherer, Dain Bosworth, Inc., 
Minneapolis, Minnesota; Alan H. Magazine, Health Industry Manufacturers 
Association, Washington, D.C.; and Robert C. DeHaven, American 
Electronics Association, Arlington, Virginia.
  Also, committee approved the election of Representative Mfume to be 
Chairman until January, 1995.
  Committee recessed subject to call.