[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 133 (Wednesday, September 21, 1994)]
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to 
consider certain pending nominations, but made no announcements, and 
recessed subject to call.
U.S. COMPETITIVENESS POLICY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine United States global marketplace competitiveness, 
focusing on the Department of Commerce's Second Annual Report on the 
International Competitiveness of the United States, after receiving 
testimony from Ronald H. Brown, Secretary of Commerce.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of Thomas R. Carper, of Delaware, and 
Celeste Pinto McLain, of California, each to be a Member of the Amtrak 
Board of Directors, after the nominees testified and answered questions 
in their own behalf. Mr. Carper was introduced by Senator Biden, and 
Ms. McLain was introduced by Senator Feinstein and Thomas Downs, 
President, National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak).
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  S. 338, to amend the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act to clarify the 
Federal standards governing the termination and nonrenewal of 
franchises and franchise relationships for the sale of motor fuel, with 
an amendment;
  S. 855, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to consolidate the 
surface and subsurface estates of certain lands within three 
conservation system units on the Alaska Peninsula, with amendments;
  H.R. 3498, to establish the Great Falls Historic District, with 
amendments;
  H.R. 3252, to provide for the conservation, management, or study of 
certain rivers, parks, trails, and historic sites, with amendments;
  H.R. 1137, to amend the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 (30 U.S.C. 1001-
1027), with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 112, to establish the Hudson River Artists National Historical 
Park in the State of New York, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 1324, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to exchange 
certain lands in the Columbia Basin in the State of Washington, with 
amendments;
  S. 1639, to provide for the management of portions of the Presidio 
under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1683, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide for 
the acquisition of the Sterling Forest in the New York/New Jersey 
Highlands Region of New York, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 1988, to authorize the transfer of a certain loan contract to the 
Upper Yampa Water Conservancy Project, with an amendment;
  S. 2124, to provide for the private development of power at the 
Mancos Project;
  H.R. 3708, to reform the operation, maintenance, and development of 
the Steamtown National Historic Site, with amendments;
  S. 2213, to make applicable the provisions of the Act commonly known 
as the ``Warren Act'' to the Central Utah Project, Utah, with an 
amendment;
  S. 1786, to increase the authorization of the appropriations for the 
Belle Fourche Irrigation Project, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 2066, to expand the Mni Wiconi Rural Water Supply Project, with an 
amendment;
  S. 2253, to modify the Mountain Park Project in Oklahoma, with an 
amendment;
  S. 2266, to amend the Recreation Management Act of 1992, with an 
amendment;
  S. 2234, to amend the Mississippi River Corridor Study Commission Act 
of 1989 to extend the term of the commission established under the Act;
  S. 471, to establish a new area study process for proposed additions 
to the National Park Service, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 2121, to promote entrepreneurial management of the National Park 
Service, with amendments;
  S. 2319, to amend the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act to 
authorize additional measures to carry out the control of salinity 
upstream of Imperial Dam in a cost-effective manner, with an amendment;
  S. 2249, to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, with 
amendments;
  S. 2303, to provide for the exchange of lands within Gates of the 
Arctic National Park and Preserve, with amendments;
  H.R. 2620, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire 
certain lands in California through an exchange pursuant to the Federal 
Land Policy and Management Act of 1976;
  H.R. 1716, to amend the Act of January 26, 1915, establishing the 
Rocky Mountain National Park, to provide for the protection of certain 
lands in Rocky Mountain National Park and along North St. Vrain Creek;
  S. 2001, to improve the administration of the Women's Rights National 
Historical Park in the State of New York, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 1998, to provide for the acquisition of certain lands formerly 
occupied by the Franklin D. Roosevelt family, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 2078, to designate the Old Spanish Trail and the Northern Branch 
of the Old Spanish Trail for potential inclusion into the National 
Trails System;
  S. 1222, to revise the boundaries of the Blackstone River Valley 
National Heritage Corridor in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, with 
amendments;
  S. 1726, to provide for a competition to select the architectural 
plans for a museum to be built on the East Saint Louis portion of the 
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute;
  S. 2064, to expand the boundary of the Weir Farm National Historic 
Site in the State of Connecticut, with amendments;
  H.R. 457, to provide for the conveyance of lands to certain 
individuals in Butte County, California;
  S.J. Res. 217, to approve the location of a World War II Memorial;
  H.R. 3050, to expand the boundaries of the Red Rock Canyon National 
Conservation Area;
  S. 2174, to provide for the administration of the Hawaiian Homes 
Commission Act, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 2424, to expand the boundaries of the Stones River National 
Battlefield in Tennessee.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Marc Grossman, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Turkey; Alfred H. Moses, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to 
Romania; Charles E. Redman, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Federal 
Republic of Germany; and Kenneth Spencer Yalowitz, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Belarus, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
EUROPEAN NATIONALISM
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs 
concluded hearings to examine new nationalism in Europe, focusing on 
the countries of Yugoslavia, Italy, Germany, and Russia, after 
receiving testimony from Warren Zimmermann, Rand Corp., Great Falls, 
Virginia, former Ambassador to Yugoslavia; Norman Birnbaum, Georgetown 
University Law Center, Washington, D.C.; Edwina Campbell, Eagle 
Research Group, Arlington, Virginia; and Nicolai Petro, University of 
Rhode Island, Kingston.
IRAQ CLAIMS ACT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic 
Policy, Trade, Oceans and Environment concluded hearings on S. 1401 and 
H.R. 3221, bills to provide for the adjudication of certain claims 
against Iraq, and other related matters, after receiving testimony from 
R. Richard Newcomb, Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control, 
Department of the Treasury; Michael J. Matheson, Principal Deputy Legal 
Advisor, Department of State; L. Thomas Block, Chemical Banking 
Corporation, New York, New York, on behalf of the Bankers' Association 
for Foreign Trade; Joseph A. Violante, Disabled American Veterans, 
Washington, D.C.; and Thomas C. Parrish, Monk-Austin International, 
Inc., Farmville, North Carolina.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of David S. Tatel, of Maryland, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit; Robert J. Cindrich, to be 
United States District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania; 
David H. Coar, to be United States District Judge for the Northern 
District of Illinois; David F. Hamilton, to be United States District 
Judge for the Southern District of Indiana; Catherine D. Perry, to be 
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri; and 
Paul E. Riley, to be United States District Judge for the Southern 
District of Illinois, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Tatel was introduced by Senators 
Sarbanes and Mikulski and Representative Morella, Mr. Cindrich was 
introduced by Senators Specter and Wofford, Mr. Coar was introduced by 
Senator Moseley-Braun, Mr. Riley was introduced by Senator Moseley-
Braun and Representative Durbin, Mr. Hamilton was introduced by 
Senators Lugar and Coats and Representative Jacobs, and Ms. Perry was 
introduced by Senators Danforth and Bond and Representative Gephardt. 
Testimony was also received from William E. Willis and Robert P. 
Watkins, both of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on the 
Federal Judiciary, Washington, D.C.
INTERNATIONAL CHILD LABOR
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor concluded 
hearings to examine strategies to reduce the growing international 
problem of child labor abuses, focusing on proposed legislation to 
strengthen protections for migrant farmworkers and other child 
laborers, and proposed legislation to ban the importation of goods made 
by children, after receiving testimony from Joaquin F. Otero, Deputy 
Under Secretary of Labor for International Affairs; Pharis J. Harvey, 
International Labor Rights Education and Research Fund, Washington, 
D.C.; Neil Kearney, International Textile, Garment, and Leather Workers 
Federation, Brussels, Belgium; Guido Bertolaso, United Nations 
Children's Fund (UNICEF), and Charles Kernaghan, National Labor 
Committee for Worker and Human Rights in Central America, both of New 
York, New York; Kailash Satyarthi, South Asian Coalition on Child 
Servitude, New Delhi, India; Nazma Akther, Asian-American Free Labor 
Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Lesly Margoth Rodriguez Solorzano, San 
Pedro Sula, Honduras; Roberto Carlos Guimaraes, Igrejinha, Brazil; and 
Alfonso, Los Angeles, California.