[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 95 (Wednesday, July 20, 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--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported, with 
amendments, H.R. 4606, making appropriations for fiscal year 1995 for 
the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and 
related agencies.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies approved for full 
committee consideration, with amendments, H.R. 4606, making 
appropriations for fiscal year 1995 for the Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies.
MONETARY POLICY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine recent economic developments and the Federal 
Reserve's conduct of monetary policy, after receiving testimony from 
Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 
System.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  The nominations of Patricia Fry Godley, of Texas, to be Assistant 
Secretary for Fossil Energy, and Joseph F. Vivona, of New Jersey, to be 
Chief Financial Officer, both of the Department of Energy;
  S. 2251, authorizing funds for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and 
United States participation in the International Energy Agency, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  An original bill to provide for extensions of time limitations for 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued hydroelectric 
licenses and to exempt certain hydroelectric projects from FERC 
jurisdiction; and
  An original bill to provide for the sale of certain hydroelectric 
facilities administered by the Alaska Power Administration of the 
Department of Energy.
FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings to 
examine proposed reforms to current Federal, State and local policies 
on floodplain management and flood control, focusing on the Midwest 
floods of 1993 and current flooding conditions in Georgia, receiving 
testimony from Senators Nunn and Coverdell; Brig. Gen. Gerald E. 
Galloway, Jr., Exective Director, Interagency Floodplain Management 
Review Committee, Administration's Floodplain Management Task Force; 
Doug Plascencia, Association of State Floodplain Managers, Richmond, 
Virginia; John Robb, Upper Mississippi Flood Control Association, 
Gladstone, Illinois; Timothy Searchinger, New York, New York, on behalf 
of the Environmental Defense Fund and American Rivers; Raymond D. 
Evans, Missouri Department of Conservation, Jefferson City; Bruce 
Mountain, Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, Des Moines; and Alexander 
House, Payson, Illinois.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, 
Post Office, and Civil Service concluded hearings to examine the role 
of the Federal Government in the child support enforcement program, 
focusing on the child support provisions of the proposed Work and 
Responsibility Act (President's welfare reform initiative), and the 
implementation of the Government Performance and Results Act (P.L. 103-
62), after receiving testimony from Mary Jo Bane, Assistant Secretary, 
and Judge David Ross, Deputy Director, both of the Office of Child 
Support Enforcement, Administration for Children and Families, 
Department of Health and Human Services; Joseph F. Delfico, Director, 
Income Security Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division, 
General Accounting Office; Judy Jones Jordan, Arkansas Office of Child 
Support Enforcement, Little Rock; Pat Addison, Virginia Department of 
Social Services' Division of Child Support Enforcement, Richmond; and 
Nancy Ebb, Children's Defense Fund, Washington, D.C.