[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 47 (Tuesday, March 14, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D343-D344]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1995 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed 
hearings on proposed legislation to strengthen and improve United 
States agricultural programs, focusing on conservation, wetlands, and 
farm policy, receiving testimony from Paul W. Johnson, Chief, and 
Warren Lee, Co-leader, National Wetlands Team, both of the Natural 
Resources Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture; Michael 
Davis, United States Army Corps of Engineers; John Laurie, Michigan 
Farm Bureau, Cass City, on behalf of the American Farm Bureau 
Federation; William W. Howard, National Wildlife Federation, 
Washington, D.C.; J. Wendell Gilliam, North Carolina State University, 
Raleigh; Otto Doering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; 
Bruce A. Babcock, Iowa State University, Ames; Donald D. Etler, Iowa 
Drainage District Association, Emmetsburg; and Charles Gunn, Jefferson, 
Iowa.
  Hearings continue on Thursday, March 16.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of 
Defense, receiving testimony from William J. Perry, Secretary of 
Defense.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 28.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY RESEARCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
1996 for energy research programs, receiving testimony from Martha 
Krebs, Director, Office of Energy Research, Department of Energy.
  Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for foreign 
assistance programs, focusing on trade, democracy, and narcotics 
matters, receiving testimony from Winston Lord, Assistant Secretary of 
State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; and Linda Morse, Deputy 
Assistant Administrator for Asia, Agency for International Development.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 28.
DOD TECHNOLOGY BASE PROGRAMS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Acquisition and Technology 
held hearings to examine the status of technology base programs of the 
Department of Defense, receiving testimony from Paul Kaminski, Under 
Secretary for Acquisition and Technology, and Anita Jones, Director of 
Defense Research and Engineering, both of the Department of Defense; 
Gilbert F. Decker, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, 
Development and Acquisition; Nora Slatkin, Assistant Secretary of the 
Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition; and Clark G. Fiester, 
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
HUD REORGANIZATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing Opportunity and Community Development concluded joint hearings 
with the Subcommittee on HUD Oversight and Structure to examine the 
budget and management activities of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development (HUD), focusing on policy reform issues, after receiving 
testimony from Judy A. England-Joseph, Director, Housing and Community 
Development Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development 
Division, General Accounting Office; Susan Gaffney, Inspector General, 
Department of Housing and Urban Development; Jacqueline Rogers, 
University of Maryland, College Park, on behalf of the National Academy 
of Public Administration; and John C. Weicher, Hudson Institute, 
Anthony Downs, Brookings Institution, and Ronald D. Utt, Heritage 
Foundation, all of Washington, D.C.
ENDANGERED SPECIES LISTINGS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Drinking 
Water, Fisheries and Wildlife approved for full committee 
consideration, with amendments, S. 503, to impose a moratorium on the 
listing of species as endangered or threatened and the designation of 
critical habitat in order to ensure that constitutionally protected 
private property rights are not infringed.
WELFARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on proposals to reform 
the national welfare system, focusing on teen parenthood, receiving 
testimony from Douglas J. Besharov, American Enterprise Institute for 
Public Policy Research, and Kristin A. Moore, Child Trends, Inc., both 
of Washington, D.C.; Robert C. Granger, Manpower Demonstration Research 
Corporation, New York, New York; and [[Page D344]] Rebecca A. Maynard, 
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Jacquelyn L. Williams-Bridgers, of Maryland, to be 
Inspector General; Philip C. Wilcox, Jr., of Maryland, for the rank of 
Ambassador during his tenure of service as Coordinator for Counter 
Terrorism; and Ray L. Caldwell, of Virginia, for the rank of Ambassador 
during his tenure of service as Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Burdensharing, all of the Department of State, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Ms. Williams-
Bridgers was introduced by Senator Sarbanes.
NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on proposed 
legislation to provide for the indefinite and unconditional extension 
of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to further the security 
interests of the United States and all the countries of the world, 
receiving testimony from Thomas Graham, Special Representative of the 
President for Arms Control, Nonproliferation and Disarmament; James R. 
Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense and former Secretary of 
Energy, and Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster, USA (Ret.), on behalf of the 
Atlantic Council of the United States, both of Washington, D.C.; and 
Kenneth L. Adelman, Institute for Contemporary Studies, former 
Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Arlington, 
Virginia.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
IMMIGRATION CONTROL
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 269 and a 
related proposal to reduce illegal immigration and control the cost of 
immigration to taxpayers, receiving testimony from Senators Kyl, 
Feinstein, Hutchison, and Bryan; Janet Reno, Attorney General; and 
Doris Meissner, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, 
both of the Department of Justice; Shirley S. Chater, Commissioner, 
Social Security Administration, Department of Health and Human 
Services; Susan Martin, Executive Director, U.S. Commission on 
Immigration Reform; Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, Tallahassee; 
Michael Fix, Urban Institute, Charles B. Keely, Georgetown University, 
Elizabeth G. Ferris, InterAction, Elisa C. Massimino, Lawyers Committee 
for Human Rights, Gregory T. Nojeim, American Civil Liberties Union, 
Daniel A. Stein, Negative Population Growth, Inc., and Cecilia Munoz, 
National Council of La Raza, all of Washington, D.C.; Lawrence H. 
Fuchs, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; David Simcox, 
Negative Population Growth, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky; and Mark J. 
Miller, University of Delaware, Newark.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
REGULATORY REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts approved for full committee consideration, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute, without recommendation, S. 
343, to reform the Federal regulatory process.
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to 
examine health care reform issues in a changing marketplace, receiving 
testimony from Leonard D. Schaeffer, Blue Cross of California, Woodland 
Hills; William S. Custer, Custer Economic Research, Washington, D.C.; 
Kathleen Angel, Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts, 
on behalf of the Corporate Health Care Coalition; Cristie Upshaw 
Travis, Memphis Business Group on Health, Memphis, Tennessee; Glenn 
Potter, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City; and James R. 
Kimmey, Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center, Saint Louis, 
Missouri.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.