[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 132 (Tuesday, September 20, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D]
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DOD FUTURE YEARS PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to review the 
Department of Defense future years defense program, receiving testimony 
from John M. Deutch, Deputy Secretary, and John J. Hamre, Comptroller, 
both of the Department of Defense.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ILO CONVENTION TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
Convention (No. 150) Concerning Labor Administration Role, Functions 
and Organization, adopted by the International Labor Conference at its 
64th Session in Geneva on June 7, 1978 (Treaty Doc. 103-26), after 
receiving testimony from Robert B. Reich, Secretary of Labor; and 
Thomas R. Donahue, AFL-CIO, and Edward Potter, United States Council 
for International Business, both of Washington, DC.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  H.R. 4822, to make certain laws applicable to the legislative branch 
of the Federal Government, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  H.R. 512, to provide that a Federal employee enrolled in the Federal 
Employees Group Life Insurance Program who has been diagnosed as 
terminally ill may elect to receive a lump-sum payment of their basic 
insurance amount, as adjusted actuarially under regulations of the 
Office of Personnel Management;
  H.R. 2194, for the relief of Merrill Lannen;
  H.R. 3499, to establish a voluntary leave bank program for Department 
of Defense overseas teachers, and to provide three additional days of 
leave for such teachers who are employed in a supervisory position or 
higher;
  H.R. 3839, to designate the United States Post Office located at 220 
South 40th Avenue in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as the ``Roy M. Wheat 
Post Office'';
  H.R. 4596, to designate the building located at 2200 North Highway 67 
in Florissant, Missouri, for the period of time during which it houses 
operations of the United States Postal Service, as the ``John L. 
Lawler, Jr., Post Office''; and
  H.R. 4191, to designate the United States Post Office located at 9630 
Estate Thomas in Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands, as the ``Aubrey C. 
Ottley United States Post Office''.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Harvey G. Ryland, of Florida, to be Deputy Director of 
the Federal Emergency Management Agency, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Senators Graham and Mathews, testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
U.S. TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, 
and Monopolies concluded hearings on certain provisions of S. 1822, to 
foster the further development of the Nation's telecommunications 
infrastructure and protection of the public interest (pending on Senate 
Calendar), focusing on consumer choice and purchasing options for 
telecommunications equipment and the protection of intellectual 
property rights, after receiving testimony from Anne K. Bingaman, 
Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; 
Larry Irving, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and 
Information; Sharon L. Nelson, Washington Utilities and Transportation 
Commission, Olympia, on behalf of the National Association of 
Regulatory Utility Commissioners; and Ronald J. Binz, Colorado Office 
of Consumer Counsel, Denver, on behalf of the National Association of 
State Utility Consumer Advocates.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on intelligence matters from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.