[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 104 (Tuesday, August 2, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D]
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of William T. Coleman III, of Michigan, to be General 
Counsel of the Department of the Army.
  Also, committee met in closed session to further discuss issues 
relating to the conference with the House of Representatives on S. 
2182, National Defense Authorization Act, 1995.
WHITEWATER MATTERS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued 
hearings to examine certain legal issues with regard to the Whitewater 
Development Company, Inc., and Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, 
receiving testimony from Roger Altman, Deputy Secretary; Joshua 
Steiner, Chief of Staff to the Secretary; Dennis Foreman, Deputy 
General Counsel; Benjamin Nye, Special Assistant to the Deputy 
Secretary; and Jack DeVore, former Assistant Secretary for Public 
Affairs, all of the Department of the Treasury.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
PUBLIC LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public 
Lands, National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 1222, to 
revise the boundaries of the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage 
Corridor in Massachusetts and Rhode Island; S. 1342, to establish in 
the Department of the Interior the Essex Heritage District Commission; 
S. 1726, to provide for a competition to select the architectural plans 
for a museum to be built on the East Saint Louis portion of the 
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial; S. 1818, to establish the Ohio 
and Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor in the State of Ohio as an 
affiliated area of the National Park System; S. 1871, to establish the 
Whaling National Historical Park in New Bedford, Massachusetts; S. 
2064, to expand the boundary of the Weir Farm National Historic Site in 
the State of Connecticut; S. 2234, to provide for a two year extension 
for the Mississippi River Corridor Study Commission; and S. 2303, to 
provide for the exchange of lands within Gates of the Arctic National 
Park and Preserve in Alaska, after receiving testimony from Senators 
Pell, Chafee, Simon, Kennedy, and Kerry; George T. Frampton, Jr., 
Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, and Dennis P. 
Galvin, Associate Director for Planning and Development, National Park 
Service, both of the Department of the Interior; Louise Redding, 
Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Commission, 
Uxbridge, Massachusetts; Thomas M. Leonard, Essex Heritage Ad Hoc 
Commission, Salem, Massachusetts; Earl Lazerson, Southwestern Illinois 
Development Authority, East Saint Louis; Tom Yablonsky, Greater 
Cleveland Growth Association, Cleveland, Ohio; Anne Brengle, New 
Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts; and Riley Morry, 
Nunamiut Corporation, Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska.
URUGUAY ROUND
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original 
bill to implement the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following bills:
  S. 560, authorizing funds to encourage Federal agencies to reduce the 
burden of Federal paperwork on the public, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 1779, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 401 South Washington Street in Chillicothe, 
Missouri, as the ``Jerry L. Litton United States Post Office 
Building,'' with amendments;
  H.R. 3285, to redesignate the postal facility located at 1401 West 
Fort Street, Detroit, Michigan, as the George W. Young Post Office,'' 
with amendments;
  H.R. 3197, to redesignate the Post Office building located at 13th 
and Rockland Streets, in Reading, Pennsylvania, as the ``Gus Yatron 
Federal Postal Facility'';
  H.R. 4190, to redesignate the United States Post Office located at 
41-42 Norre Gade in Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands, as the ``Alvaro de 
Lugo United States Post Office,'' with an amendment;
  S. 2156, to provide for the elimination and modification of reports 
by Federal departments and agencies to the Congress, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2023, to provide for the transfer of Wrangell Institute in Alaska 
to the General Services Administration;
  S. 2218, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1995 and 1996 for the 
Federal Emergency Food and Shelter Program; and
  H.R. 4569, to extend for one year and to make certain technical 
corrections to the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records 
Collection Act of 1992, with amendments.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on intelligence matters from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee will meet again on Thursday, August 4.