[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 110 (Wednesday, August 10, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D]
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Walter B. Slocombe, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Under Secretary for Policy, Jan Lodal, of Virginia, to be Deputy Under 
Secretary for Policy, Joseph Nye, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant 
Secretary for International Security Affairs, Sandra K. Stuart, of 
North Carolina, to be Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, 
Judith A. Miller, of Ohio, to be General Counsel, and Philip Edward 
Coyle, III, of the District of Columbia, to be Director of Operational 
Test and Evaluation, all of the Department of Defense, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Richard Holbrooke, of New York, to be Assistant 
Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs, Eileen A. Malloy, 
of Connecticut, to be Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic, and James W. 
Swihart, Jr., of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Lithuania, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf. Mr. Holbrooke was introduced by Senators Moynihan and 
Lugar.
AUTHORIZATION--SBA
Committee on Small Business: Committee ordered favorably reported, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 2060, authorizing funds 
for fiscal years 1995 through 1997 for programs of the Small Business 
Administration.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  S. 2329, to provide for the settlement of certain Mohegan Indian land 
claims within the State of Connecticut, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute;
  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;
  S. 2150, authorizing funds to establish an assisted housing program 
for Native Hawaiians, and to create within the Department of the 
Treasury a Native Hawaiian Housing Loan Guarantee Fund, with 
amendments;
  H.R. 4228, to extend Federal recognition to the United Auburn Indian 
Community of the Auburn Rancheria of California;
  S. 2036, to specify the terms of contracts entered into by the United 
States and Indian tribal organizations under the Indian Self-
Determination and Education Assistance Act (P.L. 93-638), with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 2269, to protect Native American cultures and to guarantee the 
free exercise of religion by Native Americans, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Harold A. Monteau, of Montana, to be Chairman of the 
National Indian Gaming Commission, Department of the Interior, and Gary 
Niles Kimble, of Montana, to be Commissioner of the Administration for 
Native Americans, Department of Health and Human Services, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. 
Monteau was introduced by Senator Baucus, and Mr. Kimble was introduced 
by Senator Baucus and Representative Furse. Testimony was also received 
on the nomination of Mr. Monteau from John Sunchild, Sr., Chippewa Cree 
Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, Box Elder, Montana, and on the 
nomination of Mr. Kimble from Lorraine Edmo, National Indian Education 
Association, Washington, D.C.
NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE OFFICE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held hearings to examine 
the process utilized by the National Reconnaissance Office to notify 
Congress in securing the funding and initiate construction of its new 
complex in Chantilly, Virginia, receiving testimony from R. James 
Woolsey, Director of Central Intelligence; John M. Deutch, Deputy 
Secretary of Defense; and Jeffrey Harris, Director, Jimmie Hill, Deputy 
Director, and Roger Marsh, Project Manager, Westfield Project, all of 
the National Reconnaissance Office.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.