[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 124 (Thursday, August 25, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D]
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CUBA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing on the current situation in Cuba from Lt. Gen. John J. 
Sheehan, USMC, Director of Operations, J-3, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Rear 
Adm. Luther F. Schriefer, USN, Director, Interamerican Region, Office 
of Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; 
Robert Rand Beers, Director, Global Affairs, National Security Counsel; 
Dennis Hays, Director for Cuban Affairs, Department of State; William 
S. Slattery, Executive Associate Commissioner for Field Operations, 
Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice; Rear 
Adm. Norman T. Sanders, USCG, Commandant (G-0), Office of Law 
Enforcement and Defense Operations, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters; and 
John J. Hamre, Comptroller, Department of Defense.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
CUBA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on the current situation in Cuba from Alexander 
Watson, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs; Morton 
Halperin, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for 
Democracy, National Security Council; and Richard Newcomb, Director, 
Office of Foreign Assets Control and Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary 
of the Treasury for Enforcement.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Michael D. Hawkins, of Arizona, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit; Napoleon A. Jones, to be United 
States District Judge for the Southern District of California; John 
Corbett O'Meara, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
District of Michigan; Barrington D. Parker, Jr., to be United States 
District Judge for the Southern District of New York; Robert J. Timlin, 
to be United States District Judge for the Central District of 
California; John W. Caldwell, to be United States Marshal for the 
Southern District of Georgia; Roy Allen Smith, to be United States 
Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio; David William Troutman, to 
be United States Marshal for the Northern District of Ohio; Becky Jane 
Wallace, to be United States Marshal for the Middle District of North 
Carolina; Dennis H. Blome, to be United States Marshal for the Northern 
District of Iowa; Jan M. Chaiken, of Massachusetts, to be Director of 
the Bureau of Justice Statistics; Laurie O. Robinson, of the District 
of Columbia, to be an Assistant Attorney General; Jeremy Travis, of New 
York, to be Director of the National Institute of Justice; Nancy E. 
Gist, of Massachusetts, to be Director of the Bureau of Justice 
Assistance, all of the Department of Justice.
  Also, committee concluded hearings on the nominations of R. Samuel 
Paz, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of 
California; Stanwood R. Duval Jr., to be United States District Judge 
for the Eastern District of Louisiana; and John Gleeson, to be United 
States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Paz 
was introduced by Senator Boxer; Mr. Duval was introduced by Senator 
Breaux and Representative Tauzin; and Mr. Gleeson was introduced by 
Senator Moynihan.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee approved for reporting the 
nominations of Harold A. Monteau, of Montana, to be Chairman, 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.