[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 19 (Tuesday, January 31, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D113-D114]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Eleanor Hill, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, 
Department of Defense, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator 
Roth, testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
NATIONAL SECURITY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing on the smuggling of nuclear material and the role of 
international crime organizations, and on the proliferation of cruise 
and ballistic missiles from Gordon Oehler, Director, Non-Proliferation 
Center, Robert Hachey, Liaison Officer, Office of Congressional 
Affairs, and Steve Kappas, Chief of Proliferation Group, Central 
Eurasia Division, all of the Central Intelligence Agency; and Dee 
Bumbers, Senior Intelligence Officer, Non- Proliferation/Arms Control 
Division, George Stevens, Senior Intelligence Officer, Non-
Proliferation Branch, and Daniel Spohn, Defense Intelligence Officer, 
Strategic Programs, Research and Development and Proliferation, all of 
the Defense Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
MEXICO ECONOMY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the economic situation in Mexico and United States 
efforts to stabilize the peso, after receiving testimony from Senator 
Brown; Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal 
Reserve System; Jeffrey R. Shafer, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury 
for International Affairs; L. William Seidman, Commercial Mortgage 
Asset Corp., Washington, D.C.; Guillermo A. Calvo, University of 
Maryland, College Park; David C. Mulford, CS First Boston Inc., London, 
England; Rudi Dornbusch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Cambridge; and Ross Perot, Dallas, Texas. [[Page D114]] 
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space held oversight hearings on the 
implementation of the Department of Commerce science and technology 
programs, receiving testimony from Ronald H. Brown, Secretary of 
Commerce, Mary Lowe Good, Under Secretary for Technology Policy, D. 
James Baker, Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, and Arati 
Prabhakar, Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
all of the Department of Commerce.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
U.S. SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the factors 
that affect savings in the United States economy and the importance of 
savings on economic growth and productivity, receiving testimony from 
Gail Makinen, Specialist in Economic Policy, Congressional Research 
Service, Library of Congress; Robert Risner, Northwestern University, 
Evanston, Illinois; and Dale Jorgenson, Harvard University, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts.
  Committee will meet again on Thursday, February 2.
START II TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
Treaty Between the United States and the Russian Federation on Further 
Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (the START II 
Treaty) signed at Moscow on January 3, 1993, including the following 
documents, which are integral parts thereof: the Elimination and 
Conversion Protocol, the Exhibitions and Inspections Protocol, and the 
Memorandum of Attribution (Treaty Doc. 103-1), after receiving 
testimony from Warren Christopher, Secretary of State; Linton F. 
Brooks, Chief Negotiator for the United States to the START II 
Negotiations; and John D. Holum, Director, United States Arms Control 
and Disarmament Agency.
BANKING LAW REFORM: D'OENCH DUHME DOCTRINE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management and the District of Columbia held oversight 
hearings to examine the use by the Federal Deposit Insurance 
Corporation and the Resolution Trust Corporation of the D'Oench Duhme 
doctrine to prevent citizens from seeking redress for legitimate claims 
against failed banks, receiving testimony from William M. Dudley, Vice 
President (Atlanta, Georgia), and Mark Hileman, Counsel, both of the 
Resolution Trust Corporation; John F. Bovenzi, Director, Division of 
Depositor and Asset Services, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; 
Michael P. Malloy, Fordham University School of Law, Bronx, New York; 
J. Michael Echevarria, Southwestern University School of Law, Los 
Angeles, California; David S. Hess, Citizens and Business for D'Oench 
Duhme Reform, Arlington, Virginia; Michael C. McLaughlin, Lane & 
Altman, Boston, Massachusetts; and Rhetta B. Sweeney, Hamilton, 
Massachusetts.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.