[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 117 (Thursday, August 18, 1994)]
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings to examine the 
military implications of the Chemical Weapons Convention (Treaty Doc. 
103-21), receiving testimony from Michael L. Moodie, Chemical and 
Biological Arms Control Institute, Amy E. Smithson, Henry L. Stimson 
Center, and Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., Center for Security Policy, all of 
Washington D.C.; and Kathleen C. Bailey, University of California 
(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Livermore.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. 1329, to provide an investigation of the whereabouts of the United 
States citizens and others who have been missing from Cyprus since 
1974;
  H. Con. Res. 215, honoring James Norman Hall and recognizing his 
outstanding contributions to the United States and the South Pacific; 
and
  The nominations of Phyllis E. Oakley, of Louisiana, to be Assistant 
Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration; Richard L. 
Greene, of Maryland, to be Chief Financial Officer, Department of 
State; Curtis Warren Kamman, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Bolivia; Dorothy Myers Sampas, of 
Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania; E. 
Michael Southwick, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Uganda; Carl Burton Stokes, of Ohio, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Seychelles; Brady Anderson, of Arkansas, to be Ambassador to the 
United Republic of Tanzania; Ralph Earle II, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Deputy Director of the United States Arms Control and 
Disarmament Agency; 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; James W. 
Swihart, Jr., of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Lithuania; Robert L. Gallucci, of Virginia, to be Ambassador at Large; 
Neil H. Offen, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the Board 
of Directors of the Inter-American Foundation, and a Foreign Service 
Officers' Appointments list, received in the Senate on July 27, 1994.
  Also, committee began consideration of an original bill to promote 
conflict resolution in Africa, but did not complete action thereon, and 
recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably 
reported, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 1697, to 
improve the ability of the Federal Government to prepare for and 
respond to major disasters.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Lois Jane Schiffer, of the District of Columbia, to be 
an Assistant Attorney General, Division of Environment and Natural 
Resources; Nancy E. Gist, of Massachusetts, to be Director, Bureau of 
Justice Assistance; Laurie O. Robinson, of the District of Columbia, to 
be Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs; Jan M. 
Chaiken, of Massachusetts, to be Director, Bureau of Justice 
Statistics; and Jeremy Travis, of New York, to be Director, National 
Institute of Justice, all of the Department of Justice, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Ms. 
Schiffer and Ms. Robinson were introduced by District of Columbia 
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Ms. Gist was introduced by Senator 
Moseley-Braun, Mr. Chaiken was introduced by Representative Markey, and 
Mr. Travis was introduced by Senator D'Amato.