[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 5 (Tuesday, January 10, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D28-D29]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION
Committee on Appropriations: Met for organizational purposes.
COMMITTEE ORGANIZATIONS
Committee on Commerce: Met for organizational purposes.
UNFUNDED MANDATE REFORM ACT; COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Ordered reported amended 
H.R. 5, Unfunded Mandate Reform Act of 1995.
  Prior to this action, the Committee met for organizational purposes.
COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION
Committee on International Relations: Met for organizational purposes.
BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded 
hearings on H.J. Res. 1, proposing a balanced budget amendment to the 
Constitution of the United States. Testimony was heard from 
Representatives Gephardt, Stenholm, Wise, and McCarthy; John Hamre, 
Under Secretary, Department of Defense; and public witnesses.
COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION
Committee on National Security: Met for organizational purposes.
CONTRACT WITH AMERICA
Committee on Ways and Means: Continued hearings on proposals contained 
in the Contract With America. Testimony was heard from Representatives 
Gephardt, Kennelly, McDermott, Roukema, Traficant, Pelosi, Goss, Lowey, 
Nadler, Norton, Sanders, Filner, Franks of New Jersey, Meehan, Smith of 
Michigan, Woolsey, Largent, Foley, and Souder; Donna E. Shalala, 
Secretary of Health and Human Services; and Leslie B. Samuels, 
Assistant Secretary, Tax Policy, Department of the Treasury.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION
Pemanant Select Committee on Intelligence: Met for organizational 
purposes.

Joint Meetings
CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on the Budget concluded joint hearings 
with the House Committee on the Budget to review congressional budget 
cost estimating issues, after receiving testimony from Robert D. 
Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget Office; Alan Greenspan, 
Chairman, Federal Reserve Board of Governors; Kenneth J. Kies, Chief of 
Staff, Joint Committee on Taxation; Rudy Penner, KPMG Peat Marwick, 
Henry Aaron, Brookings Institution, and Norman B. Ture, Institute for 
Research on the Economics of Taxation (IRET), all of Washington,

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D.C.; Paul A. Volcker, James D. Wolfensohn, Inc., New York, New York; 
Michael J. Boskin, Stanford University, Stanford, California; and 
Martin Feldstein, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts.