[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 97 (Friday, July 22, 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)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of Janet L. Yellen, of California, to be a 
Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and 
Julie D. Belaga, of Connecticut, to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Ms. 
Yellen was introduced by Senator Boxer, and Ms. Belaga was introduced 
by Senators Dodd and Lieberman and Representative Shays.
MULTISTATE UTILITY COMPANY CONSUMER PROTECTION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 544, to 
transfer from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission the power to review and disallow 
the costs associated with transactions of a public utility holding 
company and an affiliated company, for purposes of determining a just 
and reasonable rate for consumers.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Robert A. Pastor, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Panama, and Curtis Warren Kamman, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Bolivia, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. 
Pastor was introduced by Senators Nunn and Coverdell.
HEALTH CARE COVERAGE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine the disparity in health care coverage for American and foreign 
employees of certain multinational corporations, after receiving 
testimony from Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Cambridge, on behalf of the National Bureau of Economic Research; David 
R. Henderson, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; William P. 
Fisher, National Restaurant Association, and Robert Chlopak, Chlopak, 
Leonard, Schechter and Associates, Inc., both of Washington, D.C.; 
Allan S. Huston, Pizza Hut, Inc., Wichita, Kansas; Deborah Accuardi, 
Accuardi's Old Town Pizza, Portland, Oregon; and Nellie Kincer, and 
Brenda and James Newman, all of Whitesburg, Kentucky.
MEDICAL TREATMENT ACCESS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Disability 
Policy concluded hearings on S. 2140, to permit an individual to be 
treated by a health care practitioner with any method of medical 
treatment such individual requests, after receiving testimony from Mary 
K. Pendergast, Deputy Commissioner and Senior Advisor to the 
Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and 
Human Services; Spencer Cox, Community Research Initiative on AIDS, New 
York, New York; Robert J. Carolla, Consumers Union, Washington, D.C.; 
Alexander G. Schauss, Tacoma, Washington, and Joan Priestley, Los 
Angeles, California, both on behalf of Citizens for Health; Jurgen 
Schurholz, German Commission on Anthroposophic Medicine (Federal Health 
Agency), Berlin; Michael Janson, American Preventive Medical 
Association, Cambridge; Michaela Murphy Odone, Fairfax, Virginia; 
Vernon Morin, Greenfield, New Jersey; and Berkley Bedell, Spirit Lake, 
Iowa.