[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 112 (Friday, August 12, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D]
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Jose M. Amador, of Texas, to be 
an Assistant Secretary, and Roger C. Viadero, of Virginia, to be 
Inspector General, each of the Department of Agriculture.
MEAT AND POULTRY INSPECTION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on 
Agricultural Research, Conservation, Forestry and General Legislation 
held hearings to review the Administration's proposed legislation on 
meat and poultry inspection, receiving testimony from Patricia Jensen, 
Acting Assistant Secretary, and Alex Thierman, Acting Deputy Assistant 
Secretary, both for Marketing and Inspection Services, and Dan Laster, 
Director, U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, Agricultural Research 
Service (Clay Center, Nebraska), all of the Department of Agriculture.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business meetings:
  The nominations of Robert James Huggett, of Virginia, to be Assistant 
Administrator for Research and Development, and William A. Nitze, of 
the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Administrator for 
International Affairs, both of the Environmental Protection Agency; Kay 
Collett Goss, of Arkansas, to be an Associate Director, Preparedness, 
Exercise and Training Directorate, Federal Emergency Management Agency; 
and Bill Anoatubby of Oklahoma, Terrence L. Bracy of Virginia, Matt 
James of California, and Norma Udall of Virginia, each to be a Member 
of the Board of Trustees of the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and 
Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation;
  S. 1887, to provide for the designation of the National Highway 
System;
  H.R. 3664, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the 
State of Minnesota the New London National Fish Hatchery production 
facility, with an amendment. (As approved by the committee, the 
amendment contains the text of H.R. 4253, to require the Secretary of 
the Interior to convey the Corning National Fish Hatchery to the State 
of Arkansas.);
  H.R. 4647, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the 
City of Imperial Beach, California, approximately 1 acre of land in the 
Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge;
  H.R. 3679, to authorize funds to expand implementation of the Junior 
Duck Stamp Conservation Program conducted by the United States Fish and 
Wildlife Service;
  S. 2073, to designate the United States courthouse that is scheduled 
to be constructed in Concord, New Hampshire, as the ``Warren B. Rudman 
United States Courthouse'';
  H.R. 4576, to designate the Federal building located at the northeast 
corner of the intersection of 14th Street and Independence Avenue, 
Southwest, in Washington, D.C., as the ``Jamie L. Whitten Federal 
Building'';
  H.R. 4577, to designate the Federal building and United States 
courthouse located at 242 East Main Street in Bowling Green, Kentucky, 
as the ``William H. Natcher Federal Building and United States 
Courthouse''; and
  H.R. 4790, to designate the United States courthouse under 
construction in St. Louis, Missouri, as the ``Thomas F. Eagleton United 
States Courthouse.''
U.S. EMBASSY IN MOSCOW
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics 
and International Operations met in closed session to receive a 
briefing on the United States Embassy in Moscow from Patrick Francis 
Kennedy, Assistant Secretary of State for Administration.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.