[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 39 (Thursday, March 2, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D274-D275]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported, with 
amendments, H.R. 889, making emergency supplemental appropriations and 
rescissions to preserve and enhance the military readiness of the 
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995.
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related 
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
1996 for the Department of Transportation, receiving testimony from 
Federico Pena, Secretary of Transportation.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 9.
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, receiving testimony 
from Shelia E. Widnall, Secretary of the Air Force; and Gen. Ronald R. 
Fogleman, USAF, Chief of Air Force Staff.
  Committee will meet again on Tuesday, March 7.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Sheila Cheston, of the District of Columbia, to be 
General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force; Herschelle 
Challenor, of Georgia, to be a Member of the National Security 
Education Board, Department of Defense; and Josue Robles, Jr., of 
Texas, to be a Member of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment 
Commission.
SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs:Subcommittee on 
Securities held hearings on proposals to reform the process of 
securities litigation, including S. 240, receiving testimony from 
Senators Dodd and Domenici; Marc E. Lackritz, Securities Industry 
Association, J. Carter Beese, Jr., Center for Strategic and 
International Studies, and Nell Minow, LENS Inc., all of Washington, 
D.C.; James F. Morgan, Morgan, Holland Ventures Corporation, Boston, 
Massachusetts, on behalf of the National Venture Capital Association; 
George Sollman, Centigram Communications Corporation, San Jose, 
California, on behalf of the American Electronics Association; and 
Christopher J. Murphy III, 1st Source Corporation, South Bend, Indiana, 
on behalf of the Association of Publicly Traded Companies.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation:Committee held 
hearings to examine United States telecommunications policy reform 
issues, receiving testimony from Anne K. Bingaman, Assistant Attorney 
General for Antitrust, Department of Justice; Larry Irving, Assistant 
Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information; Kenneth 
Gordon, Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, and Lee L. 
Selwyn, Economics and Technology, Inc., both of Boston, Massachusetts; 
Peter W. Huber, Manhattan Institute, Bethesda, Maryland; George Gilder, 
Discovery Institute, Tyringham, Massachusetts; Clay T. Whitehead, Clay 
Whitehead Associates, McLean, Virginia; Henry Geller, Markle 
Foundation, Washington, D.C.; and John W. Mayo, University of 
Tennessee, Knoxville.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings on 
proposals to revise certain provisions of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act 
of 1982 to provide for the safe disposal of high-level nuclear waste, 
including S. 167, S. 429, S. 443, and S. 473, receiving testimony from 
Senator Bryan; Hazel R. O'Leary, Secretary of Energy; Nevada Governor 
Bob Miller, and Nevada State Senator Raymond D. Rawson, both of Carson 
City; Mayor Kevin Phillips, Caliente, Nevada; Cameron McRae, Nye County 
Board of Commissioners, Tonopah, Nevada; Kris Sanda, Minnesota 
Department of Public Service, St. Paul, on behalf of the Nuclear Waste 
Strategy Coalition; Emmit George, Iowa Public Service Commission, Des 
Moines, on behalf of the National Association of Regulatory Utility 
Commissioners; Samuel K. Skinner, Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago, 
Illinois, on behalf of the Nuclear Energy Institute; and Bill Magavern, 
Public Citizen, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ENDANGERED SPECIES
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Drinking 
Water, Fisheries and Wildlife held oversight hearings on the 
implementation of Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act by the Forest 
Service and the National Marine Fisheries [[Page D275]] Service, 
receiving testimony from James R. Lyons, Under Secretary for Natural 
Resources and Environment, and Jack Ward Thomas, Chief, Forest Service, 
both of the Department of Agriculture; and Douglas K. Hall, Assistant 
Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, and Rolland A. Schmitten, 
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, both of the Department of 
Commerce.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 7.
MIDDLE INCOME TAX CREDIT
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine proposals to 
reduce taxes for middle-income Americans, focusing on a $500-per-child 
tax credit, a reduction in the marriage penalty, and a deduction for 
education and job training expenses, receiving testimony from Gary L. 
Bauer, Family Research Council, C. Fred Bergsten, Competitiveness 
Policy Council, Daniel J. Mitchell, The Heritage Foundation, and Robert 
J. Shapiro, Progressive Policy Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; and 
Deborah H. Schenk, New York University Law School, New York.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
IRAN AND IRAQ
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South 
Asian Affairs held hearings to examine United States policy towards 
Iran and Iraq, receiving testimony from Senator McCain; Joseph S. Nye, 
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; 
Robert H. Pelletreau, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern 
Affairs; Anthony H. Cordesman, Georgetown University, James Placke, 
Cambridge Energy Research Associates, and Graham Fuller, Rand 
Corporation, all of Washington, D.C.; and Daniel Pipes, Middle East 
Quarterly, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 7.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered reported the 
following bills:
  S. 4, to grant the power to the President to reduce budget authority, 
without recommendation; 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, without recommendation, with an 
amendment.
AUTHORIZATION--ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts 
and Humanities concluded 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 
Humanities, after receiving testimony from Sheldon Hackney, Chairman, 
National Endowment for the Humanities, National Foundation on the Arts 
and the Humanities; Victor R. Swenson, Vermont Council on the 
Humanities, Hyde Park; David A. Berry, Essex County College, Newark, 
New Jersey, on behalf of the Community College Humanities Association; 
Alberta Arthurs, Rockefeller Foundation, and Barry R. Gross, National 
Association of Scholars, both of New York, New York; and Walter Berns, 
American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.
FEDERAL DISABILITY PROGRAMS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
growth in the Supplemental Security Income and Social Security 
disability programs and the disincentives toward work and self-
sufficiency that exist in the Federal disability programs, after 
receiving testimony from Jane L. Ross, Director, Income Security 
Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division, General 
Accounting Office; Mary Jane Owen, National Catholic Office for Persons 
with Disabilities, Carolyn Weaver, American Enterprise Institute, 
Gerben DeJong, Georgetown University School of Medicine, and Edward 
Eckenhoff, National Rehabilitation Hospital, all of Washington, D.C.; 
Sally Satel, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; Ann DeWitt, Maine 
Disability Determination Services, Augusta; and Bob Cote, Denver, 
Colorado.