[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 112 (Friday, August 12, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Rules: Heard testimony from Representatives Waxman, 
Hughes, Watt, Moorhead, Bliley, Stearns, Allard, and Gekas, but no 
action was taken on Health Care Reform.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
NRO PROGRAM
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Met in executive session to 
hold a hearing on the NRO Program. Testimony was heard from Jeffrey K. 
Harris, Director, National Reconnaissance Office.

Joint Meetings
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on 
Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks concluded joint hearings with the 
House Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Intellectual 
Property and Judicial Administration on S. 2368 and H.R. 4894, bills to 
implement the intellectual property right provisions of the Uruguay 
Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, after receiving 
testimony from Representatives Bentley and Rohrabacher; Bruce A. 
Lehman, Assistant Secretary and Commissioner, Patent and Trademark 
Office, Department of Commerce; Ira Shapiro, General Counsel, Office of 
the United States Trade Representative; Christopher Schroeder, Counsel 
to the Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department 
of Justice; Eugene Volokh, University of California School of Law, Los 
Angeles; Irwin Karp, Committee for Literary Studies, New York, New 
York; Shira Perlmutter, Catholic University School of Law, Jason S. 
Berman, Recording Industry Association of America, Eric H. Smith, 
International Intellectual Property Alliance, Matthew T. Gerson, Motion 
Picture Association of America, and Gerald J. Mossinghoff, 
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, all of 
Washington, D.C.; Larry Urbanski, Fairness and Copyright Coalition, 
Orland Park, Illinois; Lita Nelsen, Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, Cambridge; Kenneth Addison, Jr., Oklahoma Inventors 
Congress, Tulsa, on behalf of the United Inventor's Association of the 
United States of America; and Robert Muir, Caterpillar, Inc., Peoria, 
Illinois, on behalf of the National Association of Manufacturers.