[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 37 (Tuesday, February 28, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D255-D256]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL LABORATORIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development concluded joint hearings with the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources' Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development to 
review the findings of the Task Force on Alternative Futures for the 
Department of Energy National Laboratories, focusing on its 
recommendation to reform the system of governance imposed upon the 
laboratories by the Department of Energy and Congress, after receiving 
testimony from Hazel R. O'Leary, Secretary of Energy; and Robert W. 
Galvin, Motorola Inc., Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Task Force on 
Alternative Futures for the Department of Energy National Laboratories.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Sheila Cheston, of the District of Columbia, to be 
General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force, and Josue Robles, 
Jr., of Texas, to be a Member of the Defense Base Closure and 
Realignment Commission, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
CORPORATE CREDIT UNION SYSTEM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held 
oversight hearings on the status of the corporate credit union system, 
receiving testimony from Norman E. D'Amours, Chairman, National Credit 
Union Administration; Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the 
United States, General Accounting Office; James R. Bell, President, 
U.S. Central Credit Union; Harold A. Black, University of Tennessee, 
Knoxville; Edward J. Fox, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mid-
Atlantic Corporate Federal Credit Union; and Richard M. Johnson, 
President and Chief Executive Officer, WesCorp Federal Credit Union.
  Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 8.
MEDICARE SYSTEM
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine how the 
Medicare program has operated after its establishment in 1965, and how 
the Medicare system can control expenditures while continuing to 
provide health care to the elderly, receiving testimony from Bruce C. 
Vladeck, Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration, 
Department of [[Page D256]] Health and Human Services; Karen Davis, The 
Commonwealth Fund, New York, New York; and Gail R. Wilensky, Project 
HOPE, Bethesda, Maryland.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nominations of Johnnie Carson, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Zimbabwe; Herman E. Gallegos of California, Lee C. Howley 
of Ohio, and Isabelle Leeds of New York, each to be an Alternate United 
States Representative to the 49th Session of the General Assembly of 
the United Nations; Jeanette W. Hyde, of North Carolina, to serve 
concurrently as Ambassador to Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, 
and Grenada; Bismarck Myrick, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Kingdom of Lesotho; Robert E. Rubin, of New York, to be U.S. Governor 
of the International Monetary Fund, U.S. Governor of the International 
Bank for Reconstruction and Development, U.S. Governor of the Inter-
American Development Bank, U.S. Governor of the African Development 
Bank, U.S. Governor of the Asian Development Bank, U.S. Governor of the 
African Development Fund, and U.S. Governor of the European Bank for 
Reconstruction and Development; and Frank G. Wisner, of the District of 
Columbia, for the rank of Career Ambassador in recognition of 
especially distinguished service over a sustained period.
START II TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held open and closed 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), receiving testimony from 
Douglas MacEachan, Deputy Director of Intelligence, Central 
Intelligence Agency; and other officials of the intelligence community.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
WELFARE REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to 
examine proposals to reform the welfare system, focusing on programs 
for children and their families, receiving testimony from William 
Waldman, New Jersey Department of Human Services, Trenton; Lawrence E. 
Townsend, Jr., Riverside County Department of Public Social Services, 
Riverside, California; Sara McLanahan, Princeton University, Princeton, 
New Jersey; Judith M. Gueron, Manpower Demonstration Research 
Corporation, New York, New York; Sarah Cardwell Shuptrine, Sarah 
Shuptrine and Associates, Columbia, South Carolina, on behalf of the 
Southern Institute on Children and Families; Janet Schalansky, Kansas 
Department of Social and Rehabilitative Services, and Gladys Marisette, 
both of Topeka, Kansas; and Kevin Phillips, Bethesda, Maryland.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.