[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 137 (Tuesday, September 27, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D]
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to 
consider pending military nominations, but made no announcements, and 
recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  S. 2257, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1995-1997 for programs of 
the Economic Development Administration, Department of Commerce, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 4598, to make certain technical corrections to maps relating to 
the Coastal Barrier Resources System, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute;
  H.R. 3300, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1998 for fish and 
wildlife conservation and natural resources management programs on 
military installations;
  S. 2395, to designate the United States Federal Building and 
Courthouse in Detroit, Michigan, as the ``Theodore Levin Federal 
Building and Courthouse'', with amendments; and
  H.R. 4543, to designate the United States courthouse to be 
constructed at 907 Richland Street in Columbia, South Carolina, as the 
``Matthew J. Perry, Jr. United States Courthouse''.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
on the nominations of Frederic J. Hansen, of Oregon, to be Deputy 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (pending receipt 
by the Senate); Kenneth Burton, of Virginia, David Michael Rappoport, 
of Arizona, and Anne J. Udall, of North Carolina, each to be a Member 
of the Board of Trustees of the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and 
Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation; and Paul L. 
Hill Jr., of West Virginia, to be Chairperson, and Devra Lee Davis, of 
the District of Columbia, and Gerald V. Poje, of Virginia, each to be a 
Member, all of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf. Mr. Hansen was introduced by Senator Hatfield and Carol M. 
Browner, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency. Testimony was 
also received on the nominations of Messrs. Hill and Poje and Ms. Davis 
from Joycelyn Elders, Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, 
Department of Health and Human Services.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Jerome G. Cooper, of Alabama, to be Ambassador to 
Jamaica; Robert E. Service, of California, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Paraguay; Peter Jon de Vos, of Florida, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Costa Rica; and Gabriel Guerra-Mondragon, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Chile, after 
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. 
Cooper was introduced by Senator Heflin, and Mr. Guerra-Mondragon was 
introduced by Senator Breaux.
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against 
Women adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 18, 
1979, and signed on behalf of the United States on July 17, 1980 (Ex. 
R, 96th Cong., 2nd Sess.), after receiving testimony from Jamison S. 
Borek, Deputy Legal Adviser, Department of State; Cecelia Acevedo 
Royals, National Institute of Womanhood, Chevy Chase, Maryland; and 
Jonathan Band, Morrison and Foerster, on behalf of B'nai B'rith Women, 
Robert F. Drinan, Georgetown University Law Center, on behalf of the 
American Bar Association, and Gay J. McDougall, International Human 
Rights Law Group, all of Washington, D.C.
TAIWAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs held hearings to examine United States policy toward Taiwan and 
the Administration's future outlook, receiving testimony from Winston 
Lord, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; 
James Lilley, American Enterprise Institute, David N. Laux, USA-ROC 
Economic Council, and Ralph N. Clough, Johns Hopkins University, all of 
Washington, D.C.; and Hungdah Chiu, University of Maryland School of 
Law, Baltimore.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Alice M. Rivlin, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget, after the nominee, who 
was introduced by Senator Levin, testified and answered questions in 
her own behalf.