[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 84 (Tuesday, June 28, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported, with 
amendments, H.R. 4602, making appropriations for the Department of the 
Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
1995.
APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior approved for 
full committee consideration, with amendments, H.R. 4602, making 
appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995.
DOE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy 
Research and Development held hearings on S. 2104, authorizing funds to 
establish the National Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator 
Fellowship Program within the National Laboratories of the Department 
of Energy, receiving testimony from Terry Cornwell Rumsey, Director, 
Office of Science Education and Technical Information, and James A. 
Tegnelia, Executive Vice President and Deputy Director, Sandia National 
Laboratories, both of the Department of Energy; and John M. Fowler, 
Triangle Coalition for Science and Technology Education, College Park, 
Maryland.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
WATER AND POWER PROJECTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded hearings on S. 1786, to authorize funds for the Belle 
Fourche Irrigation Project in South Dakota; S. 1988, to authorize the 
transfer of a certain loan contract to the Upper Yampa Water 
Conservancy District in Colorado for the Stagecoach Reservoir Project; 
S. 2066, to expand the Mni Wiconi Rural Water Supply Project in South 
Dakota; S. 2068, to authorize the construction of the Lewis and Clark 
Rural Water System in South Dakota; S. 2124, to provide for private 
development of power at the Mancos Water Project in Colorado; and S. 
2213, to assist the Central Utah Water Conservancy District in 
implementing its water conservation programs, after receiving testimony 
from Senators Daschle and Pressler; Daniel P. Beard, Commissioner, 
Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Duane Odle, Belle 
Fourche Irrigation District, Newell, South Dakota; John R. Fetcher, 
Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District, Steamboat Springs, Colorado; 
Paul Little, Oglala Sioux Rural Water Supply System, Pine Ridge, South 
Dakota; Gary Hanson, Lewis and Clark Rural Water System, Inc., Sioux 
Falls, South Dakota; and Gary Kennedy, Mancos Water Conservancy 
District, Mancos, Colorado.
SUPERFUND REFORM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings on 
S. 1834, authorizing funds for programs of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund), 
receiving testimony from Lloyd Bentsen, Secretary of the Treasury; 
Carol M. Browner, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; 
Minnesota Assistant Attorney General Alan C. Williams, St. Paul; 
Richard A. Barth, Ciba-Geigy Corporation, Ardsley, New York; William 
Roberts, Environmental Defense Fund, and Velma Smith, Friends of the 
Earth, both of Washington, D.C.; Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., National 
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Baltimore, 
Maryland, on behalf of the Alliance for a Superfund Action Partnership; 
Stephen Ramsey, General Electric Corporation, Fairfield, Connecticut; 
and Florence T. Robinson, North Baton Rouge Environmental Association, 
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FISHING VESSELS TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
Agreement to Promote Compliance with International Conservation and 
Management Measures by Fishing Vessels on the High Seas, which was 
adopted at Rome by consensus by the Conference of the United Nations 
Food and Agriculture Organization on November 24, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 
103-24), after receiving testimony from David A. Colson, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans.
HAITI
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and 
Peace Corps Affairs concluded hearings to examine the human rights 
situation in Haiti and its implications for the international community 
and for United States policy, after receiving testimony from Senator 
Graham; William H. Gray III, Special Adviser to the President and 
Secretary of State on Haiti; John Shattuck, Assistant Secretary for 
Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, and Brunson McKinley, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, 
both of the Department of State; Frederick C. Smith, Principal Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; R. 
Richard Newcomb, Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department 
of the Treasury; Mark L. Schneider, Assistant Administrator for Latin 
America and the Caribbean, Agency for International Development; Donald 
E. Schulz, Associate Professor of National Security Affairs, Strategic 
Studies Institute, U.S. Army National War College (Carlisle Barracks, 
Pennsylvania); Michael D. Barnes, Hogan and Hartson, on behalf of the 
Government of the Republic of Haiti, and Ian Martin, Carnegie Endowment 
for International Peace, both of Washington, D.C.; and Bill O'Neill, 
National Coalition for Haitian Refugees, New York, New York.
DELINQUENT CRIMINAL DEBT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine 
Federal criminal debt collection efforts, focusing on the amount of 
outstanding criminal debt, the status of the National Fine Center, and 
the nature and operation of criminal and civil forfeiture laws, 
receiving testimony from Henry R. Wray, Director, Administration of 
Justice Issues, and Steven C. Martin, Senior Evaluator, both of the 
General Government Division, and Jan B. Montgomery, Assistant General 
Counsel, all of the General Accounting Office; Richard A. Ames, 
Assistant Director, Office for Finance and Budget and Chief Financial 
Officer, Administrative Office of the United States Courts; Gerald M. 
Stern, Special Counsel for Financial Institution Fraud, Office of the 
Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice; and David Beatty, 
National Victim Center, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HATE CRIME STATISTICS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded 
oversight hearings on the implementation and progress of the Hate Crime 
Statistics Act (P.L. 101-275), focusing on law enforcement 
participation in the national hate crime data collection project, a 
component of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, after receiving 
testimony from Stephen L. Pomerantz, Assistant Director for Criminal 
Justice Information Services Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 
Department of Justice; Mayor DeeDee Corradini, Salt Lake City, Utah, on 
behalf of the United States Conference of Mayors; North Carolina Deputy 
Attorney General Phillip J. Lyons, Raleigh; Sara Bullard, Southern 
Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, Alabama; Vivian Gussin Paley, 
University of Chicago Laboratory School, Chicago, Illinois; Robert 
Machleder, Anti-Defamation League, New York, New York; and Steven 
Spielberg, Los Angeles, California.
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 Thursday, June 30.