[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 84 (Tuesday, June 28, 1994)] [Daily Digest] [Page D] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov] 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.