[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 34 (Thursday, February 23, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D230]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
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. Joseph W. Ashy, USAF, Commander 
in Chief, United States Space Command; Adm. Henry G. Chiles, Jr., USN, 
Commander in Chief, United States Strategic Command; Gen. Robert L. 
Rutherford, USAF, Commander in Chief, United States Transportation 
Command; and Gen. Wayne A. Downing, USA, Commander in Chief, United 
States Special Operations Command.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HHS BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings on the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1996 for the 
Department of Health and Human Services, after receiving testimony from 
Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services.
NATIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure concluded hearings on S. 440, to 
provide for the designation of the National Highway System, and to 
examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1996 
for the Department of Transportation's Federal-aid highway program, 
after receiving testimony from Mortimer L. Downey, Deputy Secretary, 
Rodney E. Slater, Administrator, Federal Highway Administration; 
Ricardo Martinez, Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety 
Administration; and Gordon J. Linton, Administrator, Federal Transit 
Administration, all of the Department of Transportation; Harry W. 
Blunt, Jr., Concord Coach Lines, Inc., Concord, New Hampshire; Hank 
Dittmar, Surface Transportation Policy Project, Washington, D.C.; and 
Robert E. Martinez, Virginia Department of Transportation, Richmond, 
and Francis B. Francois, Washington, D.C., both on behalf of the 
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.
LINE-ITEM VETO
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 
4, to grant the power to the President to reduce budget authority, and 
S. 14, to amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 
1974 to provide for the expedited consideration of certain proposed 
cancellations of budget items, after receiving testimony from Senator 
Bradley; Representative Blute; Louis Fisher, Senior Specialist in 
Separation of Powers, Congressional Research Service, Library of 
Congress; and Allen Schick, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Sandra L. Lynch, of Massachusetts, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the First Circuit; Lacy H. Thornburg, to be United 
States District Judge for the Western District of North Carolina; 
Sidney H. Stein, to be United States District Judge for the Southern 
District of New York; and Thadd Heartfield and David Folsom, each to be 
a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas.
ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts 
and Humanities held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds 
for programs of the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act 
of 1965, focusing on the National Endowment for the Arts, receiving 
testimony from Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr., Charleston, South Carolina; 
Christopher Reeve, Creative Coalition, Bedford, New York; George White, 
Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, New York, New York; John D. Ong, BF 
Goodrich Company, Cleveland, Ohio; Harold M. Williams, J. Paul Getty 
Trust, Santa Monica, California; Richard S. Gurin, Binney and Smith 
Inc., Easton, Pennsylvania; Dean Amhaus, Wisconsin Arts Board, Madison; 
Leonard Garment, Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander and Ferdon, on behalf of 
the Independent Commission on the Arts, and Laurence Jarvik, Center for 
the Study of Popular Culture, both of Washington, D.C.; and Charles T. 
Clotfelter, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
  Hearings will continue on Thursday, March 2.