[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 134 (Thursday, September 22, 1994)]
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NUCLEAR POSTURE REVIEW
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing of results of the Nuclear Posture Review from John M. 
Deutch, Deputy Secretary of Defense; and Adm. William A. Owens, USN, 
Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Frederick F.Y. Pang, of Hawaii, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Defense, Paul G. Kaminski, of Virginia, to be Under 
Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology, and 3,367 military 
nominations.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Robert C. Larson, of Michigan, to 
be a Member of the Thrift Depositor Protection Oversight Board, 
Resolution Trust Corporation, and Alan A. Diamonstein, of Virginia, to 
be Member of the Board of Directors of the National Corporation for 
Housing Partnerships.
U.S. BANKING SYSTEM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the condition of the United States banking system, 
focusing on changes and innovations being made in financial markets 
worldwide, the increased role of nonbank competitors, and the long term 
interest, after receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, 
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Andrew C. Hove, Jr., 
Acting Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Eugene A. 
Ludwig, Comptroller of the Currency; Jonathan L. Fiechter, Acting 
Director, Office of Thrift Supervision, Department of the Treasury; and 
Norman E. D'Amours, Chairman, National Credit Union Administration.
PROFESSIONAL BOXING SAFETY ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on S. 1991, to provide for the safety and welfare of 
professional boxers, after receiving testimony from Senator Roth; John 
H. Holladay, Jr., South Carolina Athletic Commission, Columbia; and 
Mark Ratner, Nevada State Athletic Commission, and Flip Homansky, both 
of Las Vegas, Nevada.
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS IMMIGRATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Mineral 
Resources Development and Production concluded hearings to examine 
immigration into the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 
focusing on the increase in the number of non-resident aliens present 
in the Commonwealth and the lack of an efficient monitoring system to 
track their entry, after receiving testimony from Allen P. Stayman, 
Acting Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Territorial and 
International Affairs; John R. Fraser, Deputy Administrator, Wage and 
Hour Division, Employment Standards Administration, Department of 
Labor; Paul Virtue, Deputy General Counsel, Immigration and 
Naturalization Service, Department of Justice; and Northern Mariana 
Islands Governor Froilan C. Tenorio, Saipan.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  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);
  The Agreement to Promote Compliance with International Conservation 
and Management Measures by Fishing Vessels on the High Seas which was 
adopted at Rome by consensus by the Conference of the United Nations 
Food and Agriculture Organization on November 24, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 
103-24);
  S. Con. Res. 74, concerning the ban on the use of passports in 
Lebanon;
  S. 2438, to extend the authorities of the Overseas Private Investment 
Corporation through fiscal year 1995;
  S. 1225, to authorize and encourage the President to conclude an 
agreement with Mexico to establish a United States-Mexico Border Health 
Commission; and
  The nominations of Charles E. Redman, of Florida, to be Ambassador to 
the Federal Republic of Germany, Marc Grossman, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey, Alfred H. Moses, of Virginia, to 
be Ambassador to Romania, Kenneth Spencer Yalowitz, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Belarus, and Hazel Rollins O'Leary, of 
Minnesota, to be Representative of the United States, and Ivan Selin, 
of the District of Columbia, Nelson F. Sievering, Jr., of Maryland, and 
John B. Ritch III, of the District of Columbia, each to be an Alternate 
Representative of the United States, all to the Thirty-Eighth Session 
of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 2272, to amend chapter 28 of title 35, United States Code, to 
provide a defense to patent infringement based on prior use by certain 
persons, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2341, to amend chapter 30 of title 35, United States Code, to 
afford third parties an opportunity for greater participation in 
reexamination proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark 
Office, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S.J. Res. 205, granting the consent of Congress to the compact to 
provide for joint natural resource management and enforcement of laws 
and regulations pertaining to natural resources and boating at the 
Jennings Randolph Lake project lying in Garrett County, Maryland and 
Mineral County, West Virginia, entered into between the States of West 
Virginia and Maryland;
  S. 2403, to grant the consent of Congress to the Kansas and Missouri 
Metropolitan Culture District Compact; and
  The nominations of William C. Bryson, of Maryland, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit, Sarah S. Vance and 
Stanwood R. Duval, Jr., each to be a United States District Judge for 
the Eastern District of Louisiana, Salvador E. Casellas and Daniel R. 
Dominguez, each to be a United States District Judge for the District 
of Puerto Rico, John Gleeson, Frederic Block, and Allyne R. Ross, each 
to be a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New 
York, Robert N. Chatigny and Dominic J. Squatrito, each to be a United 
States District Judge for the District of Connecticut, Shira A. 
Scheindlin, to be United States District Judge for the Southern 
District of New York, Norris Batiste, Jr., to be United States Marshal 
for the Eastern District of Texas, Edward Joseph Kelly, Jr., to be 
United States Marshal for the Northern District of New York, Walter 
Dennis Sokolowski, to be United States Marshal for the Middle District 
of Pennsylvania, Ronald Joseph Boudreaux, to be United States Marshal 
for the Middle District of Louisiana, John David Crews, Jr., to be 
United States Marshal for the Northern District of Mississippi, John 
Michael Bradford, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District 
of Texas, Thomasina V. Rogers, of Maryland, to be Chairman of the 
Administrative Conference of the United States, and Delissa A. Ridway, 
of the District of Columbia, to be Chairman, and John R. Lacey, of 
Connecticut, to be a Member, each of the Foreign Claims Settlement 
Commission of the United States, Lois Jane Schiffer, of the District of 
Columbia, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Aileen Catherine Adams, 
of California, to be Director of the Office for Victims of Crime, and 
Michael Johnston Gains, of Arkansas, to be a Commissioner of the United 
States Parole Commission, all of the Department of Justice.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative 
Practice approved for full committee consideration the following 
measures:
  S. 825, to permit a foreign state to be subject to the jurisdiction 
of Federal or State courts in any case involving an act of 
international terrorism, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 1422, to confer jurisdiction upon the United States Court of 
Federal Claims with respect to certain land claims of the Pueblo of 
Isleta Indian Tribe of New Mexico, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  H.R. 808, for the relief of James B. Stanley;
  H.R. 810, for the relief of Elizabeth M. Hill;
  S. Res. 136, to refer S. 1325 entitled ``A bill for the relief of 
Horace Martin,'' to the Chief Judge of the United States Claims Court 
for a report thereon, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. Res. 223, to refer S. 2188, a bill entitled ``A bill for the 
relief of the Pottawatomi Nation in Canada for the proportionate share 
of tribal funds and annuities under treaties between the Pottawatomi 
Nation and the United States, to the Chief Judge of the United States 
Court of Federal Claims for a report on the bill;
  S. Res. 258, to refer S. 974 entitled ``A bill for the relief of 
Richard Kanehl of Mobile, Alabama,'' to the Chief Judge of the United 
States Court of Federal Claims for a report thereon; and
  S. 927, for the relief of Wade Bomar, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute.
  Also, subcommittee began consideration of S. 890, for the relief of 
Matt Clawson, but did not take final action thereon, and recessed 
subject to call.
COMMISSION ON TIME AND LEARNING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts 
and Humanities concluded hearings to examine the recommendations and 
findings of the Commission on Time and Learning as contained in their 
recent report, ``Prisoners of Time'', which addresses the school year 
length and curriculum for our Nation's schools, after receiving 
testimony from Milton Goldberg, Executive Director, and Denis P. Doyle, 
Member, both of the National Education Commission on Time and Learning; 
Robert L. Wehling, Procter and Gamble Company, Cincinnati, Ohio; Robert 
R. Spillane, Fairfax County Public Schools, Fairfax County, Virginia; 
Donna Hardy, New Stanley Elementary School, Kansas City, Kansas; Anna 
Marie Ulibarri, Emerson Elementary School, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 
Iris M. Carl, Houston, Texas, on behalf of the National Council of 
Teachers of Mathematics; Norman Higgins, Piscataquis Community High 
School, Guilford, Maine; and Paul R. Lehman, University of Michigan, 
Ann Arbor.