[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 109 (Tuesday, August 9, 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)
CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing on the chemical weapons threat and ability of the 
intelligence community to verify and monitor the Chemical Weapons 
Convention from officials of the intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
PATENT REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and 
Trademarks concluded hearings on S. 2272, to provide inventors with a 
prior user right as a defense to patent infringement based on prior use 
by certain persons, and S. 2341, to afford third parties an opportunity 
for greater participation in reexamination proceedings before the 
United States Patent and Trademark Office, after receiving testimony 
from Bruce A. Lehman, Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner 
of Patents and Trademarks; William D. Budinger, Rodel, Inc., Newark, 
Delaware; Donald Banner, American Bar Association, and Roger S. Smith, 
Intellectual Property Owners, both of Washington, D.C.; and Gary L. 
Griswold, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Arlington, 
Virginia.
MINORITY SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
certain recommendations to improve programs that provide business 
development assistance to small, minority enterprises, focusing on the 
Small Business Administration's proposed minority enterprise 
development program and proposed legislation to provide effective 
Federal minority business development programs, after receiving 
testimony from Cassandra M. Pulley, Deputy Administrator, Small 
Business Administration; Richard T. Chenk, ECI Systems and Engineering 
Company, Virginia Beach, Virginia; Nancy Archuleta, MEVATEC, Inc., 
Huntsville, Alabama, representing the Latin American Management 
Association; Leroy Jones, Trans-Management Systems Corporation, 
Washington, D.C., representing the Black Presidents' Roundtable 
Association; Fernando V. Galaviz, Centech Group, Inc., representing the 
National Federation of 8(a) Companies, and Aleta R. Wilson, Technology 
Services, Inc., representing the National Association of Minority 
Business, both of Arlington, Virginia; and Stewart R. Little, 
Diversified Business Technologies, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico, 
representing the National Indian Business Association.
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 tomorrow.