[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 106 (Thursday, August 4, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
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 Thomas F. McLarty, Counselor to the President; 
Margaret Williams, Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the 
First Lady; Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of Staff to the President; 
George Stephanopoulos, Senior Advisor to the President for Policy and 
Strategy; John Podesta, Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary; 
Bruce Lindsey, Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor; and 
Bernard Nussbaum, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, New York, 
former Counsel to the President.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of Harold Jennings Creel, Jr., of Virginia, 
and Delmond J.H. Won, of Hawaii, each to be a Federal Maritime 
Commissioner, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf. Mr. Won was introduced by Senator Inouye.
PUBLIC LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public 
Lands, National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on S. 2078, to 
designate the Old Spanish Trail and the Northern Branch of the Old 
Spanish Trail for potential inclusion into the National Trails System; 
H.R. 1716, to establish Rocky Mountain National Park and to provide for 
the protection of certain lands in Rocky Mountain National Park and 
along North St. Vrain Creek; S. 399 and H.R. 457, bills to provide for 
the conveyance of lands to certain individuals in Butte County, 
California; S. 1998, to provide for the acquisition of certain lands 
formerly occupied by the Franklin D. Roosevelt family; S. 2001, to 
improve the administration of the Women's Rights National Historical 
Park in the State of New York; S. 2033, to provide for the exchange of 
certain lands within the State of Montana; H.R. 2620, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain lands in California 
through an exchange pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and Management 
Act of 1976; and S. 2249, to revise certain restrictions contained in 
the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in order to authorize the Cook 
Inlet Regional Corporation the ability to offer to its shareholders a 
repurchase of corporation stock, after receiving testimony from 
Senators Baucus and Burns; Representative Skaggs; Mark A. Reimers, 
Deputy Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Ray Brady, 
Chief, Division of Lands, Bureau of Land Management, and John Reynolds, 
Deputy Director, National Park Service, both of the Department of the 
Interior; Michael Atwood, Brand S Lumber Company, Livingston, Montana; 
Roy Huhndorf, Cook Inlet Region, Inc., and Julie Kitka, Alaska 
Federation of Natives, both of Anchorage, Alaska; and Geoffrey C. Ward, 
New York, New York.
INDIAN WATER AND POWER PROGRAMS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded joint hearings with the Committee on Indian Affairs on 
the following bills:
  S. 2259, to provide for the settlement of the claims of the 
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation concerning their 
contribution to the production of hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam, 
after receiving testimony from Ada E. Deer, Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior for Indian Affairs; Peter R. Steenland, Jr., Appellate Section 
Chief, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of 
Justice; Jack Robertson, Deputy Administrator, Bonneville Power 
Administration, Department of Energy; Eddie Palmanteer, Confederated 
Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Nespelem, Washington; Warren 
Seyler, Spokane Tribe of Indians, Wellpinit, Washington; and
  S. 2236, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to enter into 
negotiations concerning the Nueces River project in Texas, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Hutchison; Daniel P. Beard, 
Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; and 
Mayor Mary Rhodes, Corpus Christi, Texas; and
  S. 2319, to authorize additional measures to carry out the control of 
salinity upstream of Imperial Dam in a cost-effective manner, after 
receiving testimony from Mr. Beard (listed above); and Jack A. Barnett, 
Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Forum, Bountiful, Utah.
MIDDLE EAST
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on the Middle East peace process from Robert H. 
Pelletreau, Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs, and Dennis B. 
Ross, Special Middle East Coordinator, both of the Department of State.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine 
the issue of full voting representation in Congress for the residents 
of the District of Columbia, receiving testimony from Senator Simon; 
Representative Regula; former Senator Mathias; District of Columbia 
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton; Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly, Kevin P. 
Chavous, Council of the District of Columbia, Jamin B. Raskin, American 
University, Jesse L. Jackson, Florence H. Pendleton, and Courts 
Oulahan, all of Washington, D.C.; and Alan Lessoff, Texas A&M 
University, Corpus Christi.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Jose A. Cabranes, of Connecticut, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit; Mark W. Bennett, to be United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of Iowa; Paul D. 
Borman, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of 
Michigan; Rosemary S. Pooler, to be United States District Judge for 
the Northern District of New York; Blanche M. Manning, to be United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois; and Harold 
Baer, Jr., Denny Chin, Denise Cote, Lewis A. Kaplan, and John G. 
Koeltl, each to be a United States District Judge for the Southern 
District of New York.
RETROACTIVE TAXATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded 
hearings on S.J. Res. 120, proposing an amendment to the Constitution 
prohibiting the imposition of retroactive taxes on the American people, 
after receiving testimony from Senator Coverdell; and Roger Pilon, Cato 
Institute; Joseph E. Schmitz, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker; Ronald 
A. Pearlman, Covington & Burling; and Mortimer M. Caplin, Caplin & 
Drysdale, all of Washington, D.C.
INTERNATIONAL ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and 
Business Rights held hearings on S. 2297, to grant to the Attorney 
General of the United States and the Federal Trade Commission the 
authority to negotiate mutual legal assistance agreements with foreign 
antitrust agencies to obtain evidence of antitrust violations that can 
only be found abroad, receiving testimony from Anne Bingaman, Assistant 
Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; Michael D. 
Mann, Director, Office of International Affairs, Securities and 
Exchange Commission; James Rill, Collier, Shannon, Rill & Scott, and 
Mark Weinstein, Viacom Inc., both of Washington, D.C.; Alan Silberman, 
American Bar Association, Chicago, Illinois; and Richard B. Rogers, 
Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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 Wednesday, August 10.