[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 37 (Tuesday, February 28, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D257-D260]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty 
Crops approved for full Committee action H.R. 618, to extend the 
authorization for appropriations for the Commodity Futures Trading 
Commission through fiscal year 2000.
  Prior to this action, the Subcommittee held a hearing on this 
measure. Testimony was heard from Mary Schapiro, Chairman, Commodity 
Futures Trading Commission; and public witnesses. [[Page D258]] 
AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FDA, AND RELATED AGENCIES 
APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies held a 
hearing on the Agricultural Research Service and the Economic Research 
Service. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the USDA: 
Floyd P. Horn, Acting Under Secretary, Research, Education and 
Economics; R. Dean Plowman, Administrator, Agricultural Research 
Service; and John C. Dunmore, Acting Administrator, Economic Research 
Service.
ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development held a hearing on Corps of Engineers: Remaining Items, 
Appalachian Regional Commission, and on the TVA. Testimony was heard 
from Maj. Gen. Stanley G. Genega, USA, Director of Civil Works, Corps 
of Engineers, Department of the Army; the following officials of the 
Appalachian Regional Commission; Jesse L. White, Jr., Federal Co-
Chairman; and Brereton Jones, Governor, State of Kentucky and 
CoChairman; and the following officials of the TVA: Craven Crowell, 
Chairman; Williams A. Kennoy and Johnny Hayes, both Directors.
FOREIGN OPERATIONS APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export 
Financing, and Related Agencies held a hearing on the Secretary of the 
Treasury. Testimony was heard from Robert E. Rubin, Secretary of the 
Treasury.
INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related 
Agencies held a hearing on Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation, 
and on Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts 
Development. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the 
Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation; Christopher J. Bavasi, 
Executive Director; Michael J. McAlister, Deputy Executive Director; 
and Paul Pessler, Legal Counsel; and Perry Gene Horst, President, 
Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts 
Development.
LABOR--HHS--EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education and Related Agencies held a hearing on the Nobel 
Laureates Biomedical Research Panel. Testimony was heard from a panel 
of Nobel Laureates.
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS
Committees on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction 
held a hearing on Army Military Construction. Testimony was heard from 
Robert M. Walker, Assistant Secretary, Army (Installations, Logistics 
and Environment), Department of Defense.
NATIONAL SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on National Security held a 
hearing on Military Quality of Life Issues. Testimony was heard from 
the following officials of the Department of Defense: Sgt. Maj. Richard 
A. Kidd, USA; Master Chief PO John Hagan, USN; and Chief M. Sgt. David 
J. Campanale, USAF.
  The Subcommittee also met in executive session to hold a hearing on 
the U.S. Transportation Command. Testimony was heard from Gen. Robert 
L. Rutherford, USAF, Commander in Chief, U.S. Transportation Command.
TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, and 
Related Agencies held a hearing on the Coast Guard. Testimony was heard 
from Adm. Robert E. Kramek, USCG, Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, 
Department of Transportation.
TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, 
and General Government held a hearing on the U.S. Postal Service/GAO, 
U.S. Mint, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and on the Bureau of 
Public Debt. Testimony was heard from J. William Gadsby, Director, GAO; 
Marvin Runyon, Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer, U.S. 
Postal Service; the following officials of the Department of the 
Treasury: Philip N. Diehl, Director, U.S. Mint; Peter H. Daly, 
Director, Bureau of Engraving and Printing; and Richard L. Gregg, 
Commissioner, Bureau of the Public Debt.
VA, HUD, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Veterans' Affairs and 
Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies held a hearing 
on the Selective Service System and on the Neighborhood Reinvestment 
Corporation. Testimony was heard from Gil Coronado, Executive Director, 
Selective Service System; and George Knight, Director, Neighborhood 
Reinvestment Corporation. [[Page D259]] 
FINANCIAL SERVICES COMPETITIVENESS ACT AND RELATED ISSUES
Committee on Banking and Financial Service: Held a hearing on the 
following: H.R. 18, Financial Services Competitiveness Act of 1995, 
Glass-Steagall Reform; and related issues. Testimony was heard from 
Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System; 
Ricki Tigert Helfer, Chairman, FDIC; and the following officials of the 
Department of the Treasury: Eugene A. Ludwig, Comptroller of the 
Currency; and Jonathan L. Fiechter, Acting Director, OTS.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
VIRTUES OF PRIVATIZATION
Committee on the Budget: Held a hearing on Could a Free Market Work 
Here? The Virtues of Privatization. Testimony was heard from 
Representative Klug.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
SIMPLIFYING AND STREAMLINING THE FEDERAL PROCUREMENT PROCESS
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Subcommittee on 
Government Management, Information and Technology held a hearing on 
Simplifying and Streamlining the Federal Procurement Process. Testimony 
was heard from Steven Kelman, Administrator, Federal Procurement 
Policy, OMB; Colleen A. Preston, Deputy Under Secretary, Acquisition 
Reform, Department of Defense; Robert P. Murphy, Deputy General 
Counsel, GAO; and public witnesses.
COMMITTEE FUNDING
Committee on House Oversight: Met to consider funding requests for the 
following Committees: House Oversight; Ways and Means; Agriculture; 
Commerce; National Security; Rules; Transportation and Infrastructure; 
International Relations; Government Reform and Oversight; and Veterans 
Affairs.
TERM LIMITS
Committee on the Judiciary: Ordered reported amended, without 
recommendation, H.J. Res. 2, proposing an amendment to the Constitution 
of the United States with respect to the number of terms of office of 
Members of the Senate and House of Representatives.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on National Security: Continued hearings on fiscal year 1996 
national defense authorization. Testimony was heard from the following 
officials of the Department of Defense: Adm. Richard C. Macke, USN, 
Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command; and Gen. Gary E. Luck, USA, 
Commander in Chief, U.S. Forces Korea.
  Hearings continue March 2.
PRIVATE PROTECTION ACT
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a modified open rule 
providing for one hour of general debate on H.R. 925, Private Property 
Protection Act of 1995. The rule waives section 302(f) of the Budget 
Act (prohibiting consideration of legislation providing budget 
authority or outlays in excess of a committee's allocation) against 
consideration of the bill. The rule waives section 308(a) of the Budget 
Act (requiring a CBO cost estimate in the committee report on a 
legislation containing new budget authority, new spending authority, 
new credit authority, or a change in revenues) against consideration of 
the bill. The rule waives section 311(a) of the Budget Act (prohibiting 
consideration of legislation or an amendment that would cause the total 
level of new budget authority or outlays in the most recent budget 
resolution to be exceeded, or would cause revenues to be less) against 
consideration of the bill. The rule waives section 401(b) of the Budget 
Act (prohibiting consideration of legislation providing new entitlement 
authority which becomes effective in the fiscal year which ends in the 
calendar year the bill is reported) against consideration of the bill. 
The rule provides a 12 hour time limit on the amending process. The 
rule makes in order the Judiciary Committee amendment in the nature of 
a substitute as an original bill for the purpose of amendment which 
shall be considered as read. Clause 7, rule XVI (germaneness) is waived 
against the committee substitute. Clause 5(a), rule XXI (prohibiting 
appropriations in a legislative bill) is waived against the committee 
substitute. The rule waives section 302(f) of the Budget Act 
(prohibiting consideration of legislation providing budget authority or 
outlays in excess of a committee's allocation) against the committee 
substitute. The rule waives section 311(a) of the Budget Act 
(prohibiting consideration of legislation or an amendment that would 
cause the total level of new budget authority or outlays in the most 
recent budget resolution to be exceeded, or would cause revenues to be 
less) against the committee substitute. Section 401(b) of the Budget 
Act (prohibiting consideration of legislation providing new entitlement 
authority which becomes effective in the fiscal year which ends in the 
calendar year the bill is reported) is waived against the committee 
substitute. No amendment to the committee substitute will be in order 
unless it is pre-printed in the Congressional Record before the 
beginning of consideration of the bill for amendment. Pre-printed 
amendments shall be considered as read. Clause 5(a), rule 
[[Page D260]] XXI (prohibiting appropriations in a legislative bill) is 
waived against the amendment printed in the report of the Committee on 
Rules to be offered by Representative Canady or a designee. It will 
first be in order to consider as an amendment to the Canady amendment, 
an amendment to be offered by Representative Tauzin or his designee 
printed in the report accompanying this resolution. The rule provides 
one motion to recommit with or without instructions. Section 2 of the 
rule provides that after passage of H.R. 925, it will be in order to 
consider in the House H.R. 9, and all points of order against the bill 
and its consideration are waived. It will then be in order to move to 
strike out all after section 1 of the bill, and insert a text composed 
of four regulatory bills as passed by the House: (1) H.R. 830, (2) H.R. 
925, (3) H.R. 926, and (4) H.R. 1022. All points of order against the 
motion are waived. Provides one motion to recommit with or without 
instructions. Testimony was heard from Representatives Canady, 
Gilchrest, Conyers, Tauzin, Wyden, and Farr.
SBA OVERALL REVIEW
Committee on Small Business: Held a hearing on Overall Review of the 
SBA and Its Programs. Testimony was heard from the following former 
Administrators of the SBA: Eugene F. Foley, Vernon Weaver, and James 
Sanders; and a public witness.
COMMITTEE BUSINESS
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct: Met in executive session to 
consider pending business.
IMPROVE THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM AND ANCILLARY ISSUES RELATING TO 
HIGHWAY AND TRANSIT PROGRAMS
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Subcommittee on Surface 
Transportation continued hearings on legislation to Improve the 
National Highway System and Ancillary Issues Relating to Highway and 
Transit Programs. Testimony was heard from Larry Reuter, General 
Manager, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; and public 
witnesses.
  Hearing continues tomorrow.
WELFARE REFORM
Committee on Ways and Means: Began consideration of welfare reform 
legislation.
  Will continue tomorrow.
COLLECTION OVERVIEW
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Met in executive session to 
hold a hearing on Collection Overview. Testimony was heard from 
departmental witnesses.