[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 29 (Tuesday, February 14, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D189-D190]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AGRICULTURE REFORM
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held 
hearings on proposed regulatory reforms to strengthen agriculture and 
agribusiness, receiving testimony from Senator Grams; Representative 
McIntosh; Lynn Goldman, Assistant Administrator, Office of Prevention, 
Pesticides, and Toxic Substances, Environmental Protection Agency; 
Bruce L. Gardner, University of Maryland, College Park; Keith W. Eckel, 
Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, Scranton, representing the American Farm 
Bureau Federation; Ross Hansen, National Association of Wheat Growers, 
Genoa, Colorado; Richard W. Kirchhoff, National Association of State 
Departments of Agriculture, and Juanita Duggan, National Food 
Processors Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Philip F. French, 
Countrymark Cooperative, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, representing the 
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives; Alec Poitevint, Southeastern 
Minerals Inc., Bainbridge, Georgia, representing the American Feed 
Industry Association; Kevin Dettler, Doland, South Dakota, representing 
the U.S. Custom Harvesters, Inc.; Terry L. Anderson, Political Economy 
Research Center, Bozeman, Montana; G. Waddy Garrett, Alliance 
Agronomics, Inc., Mechanicsville, Virginia, representing the 
Agricultural Retailers Association; Dale E. Aupperle, Decatur, 
Illinois, representing the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural 
Appraisers, Inc.; and Robert Carlson, North Dakota Farmers Union, 
Jamestown, representing the National Farmers Union.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for the Department 
of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on the 
military strategies and operational requirements of the unified 
commands, receiving testimony from Gen. George A. Joulwan, USA, 
Commander in Chief, United States European Command; Gen. J.H. Binford 
Peay III, USA, Commander in Chief, United States Central Command; and 
Gen. John J. Sheehan, USMC, Commander in Chief, United States Atlantic 
Command.
  Hearings continue on Thursday, February 16.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered reported, without 
recommendation, the following bills:
  S. 14, to provide for the expedited consideration of certain proposed 
cancellations of budget items, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute; and
  S. 4, to grant the power to the President to reduce budget authority, 
with amendments.
  Also, committee failed to order reported proposed legislation to 
create a legislative item veto by requiring separate enrollment of 
items in appropriations bills and targeted tax benefits in revenue 
bills.
AUTHORIZATION--WATER RESOURCES
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure concluded hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Water Resources 
Development Act and to examine the President's budget request for 
fiscal year 1996 for the United States Army Corps of Engineers, after 
receiving testimony from John H. Zirschky, Acting Assistant Secretary 
of the Army (Civil Works); Maj. Gen. Stanley Genega, Director of Civil 
Works, United States Army; Brig. Gen. Gerald E. Galloway, Jr., USA, 
United States Military Academy, West Point, New York; Larry King, 
Acting Director, District of Columbia Department of Public Works; Mayor 
Jeffrey Tarbert, and Robert R. Perry, Falls Church City Council, both 
of Falls Church, Virginia; Mary Margaret Whipple, Arlington County 
Board of Supervisors, Arlington, Virginia; Doug Plasencia, Association 
of State Floodplain Managers Inc., Richmond, Virginia; and Christopher 
J. Brescia, Midwest Area River Coalition 2000, St. Louis, Missouri.
STATE DEPARTMENT BUDGET/FOREIGN POLICY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1996 for the 
Department of State, and to review foreign policy issues, after 
receiving testimony from Warren M. Christopher, Secretary of State.
CRIME CONTROL REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 3 and S. 
38, measures to revise certain provisions of the Violent Crime Control 
and Law Enforcement Act (P.L. 103-322), focusing on the role of Federal 
law enforcement in addressing the nation's drug and violent crime 
problems, after receiving testimony from Louis J. Freeh, Director, 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Thomas A. Constantine, 
Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration, both of the Department 
of Justice; James Q. Wilson, University of California, Los Angeles; 
John J. DiIulio, Jr., Princeton University, Princeton, New 
[[Page D190]] Jersey; Patrick F. Fagan, Heritage Foundation, Stephen 
Moore, Cato Institute, and Donald L. Cahill, Fraternal Order of Police, 
all of Washington, D.C.; and Thomas C. Frazier, Baltimore Police 
Department, Baltimore, Maryland.
INDIAN PROGRAMS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1996 for Indian 
programs, receiving testimony from Henry G. Cisneros, Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development; Ada Deer, Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior for Indian Affairs; and Michael H. Trujillo, Director, Indian 
Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.