[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 48 (Wednesday, March 15, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D355-D357]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FDA, AND RELATED AGENCIES 
APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 
continued appropriation hearings. Testimony was heard from Members of 
Congress and public witnesses. [[Page D356]] 
COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE AND JUDICIARY APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State 
and the Judiciary, and Related Agencies held a hearing on Commerce 
Department Technology Programs. Testimony was heard from the following 
officials of the Department of Commerce: Mary Good, Under Secretary, 
Technology; Arati Prabhakar, Director, National Institute of Standards 
and Technology; and Bruce A. Lehman, Assistant Secretary and 
Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks.
ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development met in executive session to hold a hearing on Atomic Energy 
Defense Activities. Testimony was heard from Harold Smith, Assistant to 
the Secretary (Atomic Energy), Department of Defense; and the following 
officials of the Department of Energy: Victor H. Reis, Assistant 
Secretary, Defense Programs; Kenneth E. Baker, Acting Director, Office 
of Nonproliferation and National Security; Adm. Bruce Demars, USN, 
Deputy Assistant Director, Naval Reactors; Gregory P. Rudy, Acting 
Director, Office of Fissile Materials Disposition; and Robert W. 
DeGrasse, Jr., Director, Office of Worker and Community Transition.
FOREIGN OPERATIONS APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export 
Financing, and Related Agencies held a hearing on the United Nations/
Madeleine Albright. Testimony was heard from the following officials of 
the Department of State: Ambassador Madeleine K. Albright, Permanent 
Representative to the United Nations; and Douglas J. Bennet, Assistant 
Secretary, International Organization Affairs.
LABOR--HHS--EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education and Related Agencies held a hearing on the National 
Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the National Institute of Dental 
Research. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the 
Department of Health and Human Services: Claude J. M. Lenfant, 
Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; and Dushanka 
Kleinman, Acting Director and Deputy Director, National Institute of 
Dental Research.
NATIONAL SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on National Security held a 
hearing on Fiscal Year 1996/1997 Army Budget Overview, and on Army 
Acquisition Programs. Testimony was heard from the following officials 
of the Department of the Army: Togo D. West, Jr., Secretary; Gen. 
Gordon R. Sullivan, USA, Chief of Staff; Gilbert F. Decker, Assistant 
Secretary (Research, Development and Acquisition); Lt. Gen. Otto J. 
Guenther, USA, Director, Information Systems for C4, Office of the 
Assistant Secretary (RDA); Maj. Gen. Ronald V. Hite, USA, Deputy for 
Systems Management, Office of the Assistant Secretary (RDA); and Maj. 
Gen. Edward G. Anderson III, USA Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, 
Operations and Plans for Force Development.
TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, and 
Related Agencies held a hearing on Air Traffic Control Privatization. 
Testimony was heard from Representative Oberstar; the following 
officials of the Department of Transportation; Federico Pena, 
Secretary; and David R. Hinson, Administrator, FAA; Kenneth M. Mead, 
Director, Transportation Issues, GAO; and public witnesses.
FINANCIAL SERVICES COMPETITIVENESS ACT
Committee on Banking and Financial Services: Continued hearings on the 
following: H.R. 1062, Financial Services Competitiveness Act of 1995; 
Glass-Steagall Reform; and related issues. Testimony was heard from 
Arthur Levitt, Jr., Chairman, SEC; and James L. Bothwell, Director, 
Financial Institutions and Markets Issues, General Government Division, 
GAO.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Commerce: Ordered reported the following bills: H.R. 1218, 
to extend the authority of the Federal Communications Commission to use 
competitive bidding in granting licenses and permits; H.R. 1217, 
Medicare Parts B and C Administration Budget Savings Extension Act of 
1995; and H.R. 1216, amended, USEC Privatization Act.
AGE DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT AMENDMENTS
Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities: Ordered reported 
H.R. 849, Age Discrimination in Employment Amendments of 1995.
FEDERAL RETIREMENT REFORM ACT
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Began consideration of 
H.R. 1185, Federal Retirement Reform Act of 1995.
  Committee recessed subject to call. [[Page D357]] 
HAAS VERSUS BASS DISMISSED
Committee on House Oversight: Task Force on Contested Election assigned 
to the Second Congressional District of New Hampshire met and approved 
a motion to dismiss Joseph Haas v. Charles Bass case.
NORTHERN IRELAND
Committee on International Relations: Held a hearing on Northern 
Ireland. Testimony was heard from Representatives Manton, King, Neal, 
Walsh, and Kennedy of Massachusetts; Richard Holbrooke, Assistant 
Secretary, European and Canadian Affairs, Department of State; Alan G. 
Hevesi, Comptroller, City of New York; and public witnesses.
HOUSING FOR OLDER PERSONS ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution approved 
for full Committee action H.R. 660, Housing for Older Persons Act of 
1995.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION; PROLIFERATION THREAT
Committee on National Security: Subcommittee on Military Procurement 
and the Subcommittee on Research and Development continued joint 
hearings on fiscal year 1996 national defense authorization request, 
with emphasis on ballistic missile defense. Testimony was heard from 
Kathleen Bailey, Senior Fellow, Center for Security and Technology 
Studies, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; and public witnesses.
  The Subcommittees also met in executive session to receive a 
classified briefing on the proliferation threat. The Subcommittee was 
briefed by the following officials of the CIA: Gordon Oehler, Director, 
Nonproliferation Center; David Ossias, National Intelligence Officer, 
Strategic Programs; and James Meditz, Chief, Strategic Systems 
Division, Office of Science and Weapons Research; and Chuck Munson, 
Deputy Defense Intelligence Officer, Acquisition Support, 
Counterproliferation, and Arms Control, Defense Intelligence Agency, 
Department of Defense.
ALASKA POWER ADMINISTRATION SALE ACT
Committee on Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources held 
a hearing on H.R. 1122, Alaska Power Administration Sale Act. Testimony 
was heard form John Riggs, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office 
of Policy, Planning and Program Evaluation, Department of Energy; 
Dennis McCrohan, Deputy Director, Department of Industrial Development 
and Export Authority, State of Alaska; and a public witness.
CONFERENCE REPORT--UNFUNDED MANDATE REFORM ACT
Committee on Rules: Granted, by a voice vote, a rule waiving clause 3 
of rule XXVIII (prohibiting conference reports from exceeding the scope 
of legislation committed to conference) against the conference report 
to accompany S. 1, Unfunded Mandate Reform Act of 1995. Testimony was 
heard from Representatives Dreier and Portman.
TERM LIMITS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
Committee on Rules: Granted, by a recorded vote of 9 to 3, a modified 
closed rule providing for 3 hours of debate on H.J. Res. 73, 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 the House of 
Representatives. The rule makes in order only those amendments in the 
nature of a substitute printed in the report of the Committee on Rules. 
The rule provides that the amendments are considered as read, may only 
be considered in the order specified, may only be offered by the Member 
specified, are debatable for 1 hour equally divided between the 
proponent and an opponent, and may be offered notwithstanding the 
adoption of a previous amendment. The rule provides that if more than 
one amendment is adopted, the amendment adopted receiving the most 
affirmative votes is considered as adopted and reported to the House; 
in the case of a tie, the last such amendment adopted is reported. 
Finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit, with or without 
instructions.

Joint Meetings
IFES/FREE TRADE UNIONS--FORMER SOVIET UNION
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Commission met to 
receive a briefing on activities of the International Foundation for 
Electoral Systems (IFES) from Juliana Geran Pilon, Gwenn Hofmann, Linda 
Edgeworth, Hank Valentino, Daniel Blessington, and Catherine Barnes, 
all on behalf of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, 
Washington, D.C.
  Also, Commission met to receive a briefing on free trade unions with 
regard to the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union from 
Semyon Karikov, Association of Free Trade Unions of Ukrainian Railway 
Workers; and Gennady Nikitin, Association of Independent Trade Unions 
of Kentau, Kazakhstan.
  Commission recessed subject to call.