[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 42 (Tuesday, March 7, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D299-D300]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--COMMERCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
the Judiciary and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of Commerce, 
receiving testimony from Ronald H. Brown, Secretary of Commerce.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 15.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed 
budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of Labor, 
receiving testimony from Robert B. Reich, Secretary of Labor.
  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 John H. Dalton, Secretary of the Navy; Adm. Jeremy M. Boorda, USN, 
Chief of Naval Operations; and Gen. Carl E. Mundy, Jr., USMC, 
Commandant of the Marine Corps.
  Committee will meet again on Thursday, March 9.
PRIVATIZATION
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
impact and role of the private sector in providing services to the 
Federal Government, focusing on how the budget process has been a 
barrier to privatization, after receiving testimony from Jack Kemp, 
Empower America, and Richard C. Breeden, Coopers and Lybrand, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Ralph L. Stanley, United Infrastructure Company, 
Chicago, Illinois; Robert W. Poole, Jr., Reason Foundation, Los 
Angeles, California; and Donald F. Kettl, University of Wisconsin, 
Madison.
ENDANGERED SPECIES MORATORIUM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Drinking 
Water, Fisheries and Wildlife concluded hearings on S. 191, S. 503, and 
other related proposals to institute a moratorium on certain activities 
under authority of the Endangered Species Act, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Hutchison; Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the 
Interior; David Wilcove, on behalf of the Environmental Defense Fund 
and the Society for Conservation Biology, and William J. Snape III, 
Defenders of Wildlife, both of Washington, D.C.; Robert E. Gordon, Jr., 
National Wilderness Institute, Alexandria, Virginia; Rick Perry, Texas 
Department of Agriculture, Austin; James A. Kraft, Plum Creek Timber 
Company, [[Page D300]] Seattle, Washington; and Kenneth W. Peterson, 
Kern County, California.
TAX CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
application of Internal Revenue Code section 1071 under the Federal 
Communication Commission's (FCC) tax certificate program, after 
receiving testimony from William E. Kennard, General Counsel, Federal 
Communications Commission; Leslie B. Samuels, Assistant Secretary of 
the Treasury for Tax Policy; Raul Alarcon, Jr., Spanish Broadcasting 
System, Inc., W. Don Cornwell, Granite Broadcasting Corporation, and 
Philippe P. Dauman, Viacom Inc., all of New York, New York; Tyrone 
Brown, Wiley, Rein and Fielding, Michael J. Horowitz, Hudson Institute, 
and Robert L. Johnson, Black Entertainment Television Holdings, Inc., 
all of Washington, D.C.; Bruce E. Fein, World Intelligence Review, and 
former General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission, Great 
Falls, Virginia; Frank Washington, Mitgo Corporation, Sacramento, 
California; and Roy M. Huhndorf, Cook Inlet Region Inc., Anchorage, 
Alaska.
CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain 
Conventional Weapons, and two accompanying Protocols on Non-Detectable 
Fragments (Protocol I) and on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use 
of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices (Protocol II) (Treaty Doc. 103-
25), after receiving testimony from Michael J. Matheson, Principal 
Deputy Legal Adviser, Department of State; and Maj. Gen. Michael J. 
Byron, USMC, Vice Director for Strategic Plans and Policy, Joint Chiefs 
of Staff.
SOUTH ASIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South 
Asian Affairs concluded hearings to examine United States policy 
towards South Asia, after receiving testimony from Hazel R. O'Leary, 
Secretary of Energy; Jeffrey E. Garten, Under Secretary of Commerce for 
International Trade; Robin L. Raphel, Assistant Secretary of State for 
South Asian Affairs; Margaret Carpenter, Assistant Administrator for 
Asia and the Near East, Agency for International Development; Clayton 
A. Williams, Litton Applied Technologies, San Jose, California; Jagdish 
Bhagwati, Columbia University, New York, New York; Rebecca P. Mark, 
Enron Development Corporation, Houston, Texas; and H. Laird Walker, 
U.S. West, Denver, Colorado.
REGULATORY TRANSITION ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee began markup of S. 219, to 
ensure economy and efficiency of Federal Government operations by 
establishing a moratorium on regulatory rulemaking actions, but did not 
complete action thereon, and will resume on Thursday, March 9.
EXCLUSIONARY RULE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on proposals 
to eliminate the exclusionary rule and to alter the remedy for 
unreasonable searches under the Fourth Amendment, and to ensure that 
voluntary confessions are brought before juries, including Title V 
(Federal Criminal Procedure Reform) of S. 3, Violent Crime Control and 
Law Enforcement Improvement Act of 1995, after receiving testimony from 
Ralph Adam Fine, Circuit Judge, Wisconsin Court of Appeals, and E. 
Michael McCann, on behalf of the American Bar Association, both of 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Akhil R. Amar, Yale University Law School, New 
Haven, Connecticut; William Gangi, St. John's University, Jamaica, New 
York; Paul J. Larkin, Jr., King & Spalding, Washington, D.C.; Joseph D. 
Grano, Wayne State University Law School, Detroit, Michigan; Paul G. 
Cassell, University of Utah College of Law, Salt Lake City; Carol S. 
Steiker, Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 
Thomas Y. Davies, University of Tennessee College of Law, Knoxville.
AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to 
examine the challenges that American Indian youth face in today's 
society, focusing on the Federal response, after receiving testimony 
from Ada E. Deer, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian 
Affairs; Michael H. Trujillo, Director, Indian Health Service, 
Department of Health and Human Services; Josephine Nieves, Associate 
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training; Herbert 
Becker, Director, Office of Tribal Justice, Department of Justice; and 
Dominic Nessi, Director, Office of Native American Programs, Department 
of Housing and Urban Development.