[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 49 (Thursday, March 16, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D363-D365]
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 taxpayers' stake in Federal 
farm policy, receiving testimony from Senators Domenici and Dorgan; 
Representative Dooley; Eileen M. Manfredi, Principal Analyst, Budget 
Analysis Division, Congressional Budget Office; John W. Harman, 
Director, Food and Agriculture Issues, Resources, Community, and 
Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office; Kenneth A. 
Cook, Environmental Working Group, Martha H. Phillips, Concord 
Coalition, and Donald Spickler, Washington County Conservation 
District, on behalf of the National Association of Conservation 
Districts, all of Washington, D.C.; and Vance Ehmke, Kansas Association 
of Wheat Growers, Healy.
  Hearings continue on Friday, March 31.
APPROPRIATIONS--FBI/DEA
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 Justice, receiving 
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Louis 
J. Freeh, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Thomas S. 
Constantine, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration, both of 
the Department of Justice.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 29.
APPROPRIATIONS--EDUCATION
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 
[[Page D364]] Education, receiving testimony from Richard W. Riley, 
Secretary of Education.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 28.
APPROPRIATIONS--FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related 
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
1996 for the Federal Highway Administration, receiving testimony from 
Rodney E. Slater, Administrator, and Jane Garvey, Deputy Administrator, 
both of the Federal Highway Administration, Department of 
Transportation.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 23.
APPROPRIATIONS--FEMA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
1996 for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, receiving testimony 
from James Lee Witt, Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency; 
Judy A. England-Joseph, Director, Housing and Community Development 
Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, 
General Accounting Office; Keith Bea, Specialist in American National 
Government, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; and 
James L. Blum, Deputy Director, Congressional Budget Office.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 24.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel held hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of 
Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on manpower, 
personnel, and compensation programs, receiving testimony from Senator 
Boxer; Frederick F.Y. Pang, Assistant Secretary of Defense; Lt. Gen. 
Theodore G. Stroup, Jr., USA, Deputy Chief of Army Staff for Personnel; 
Lt. Gen. George R. Christmas, USMC, Deputy Chief of Marine Corps Staff 
for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; Lt. Gen. Billy J. Bowles, USAF, 
Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for Personnel; Vice Adm. Frank L. 
Bowman, USN, Chief of Naval Personnel; and Cindy Williams, Assistant 
Director, National Security Division, and Dick Fernandez, Analyst, both 
of the Congressional Budget Office.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 23.
TRADE SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings on S. 277, to impose comprehensive economic sanctions against 
Iran, after receiving testimony from Peter Tarnoff, Under Secretary of 
State for Political Affairs; Patrick L. Clawson, Senior Fellow, 
Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, 
Department of Defense; Kenneth R. Timmerman, Middle East Data Project, 
Inc., Kensington, Maryland; John H. Lichtblau, Petroleum Industry 
Research Foundation, Inc., New York, New York; and J. Michael Stinson, 
Conoco Inc., Houston, Texas.
NORTH KOREA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs met in closed session to receive a briefing on recent 
developments on the implementation of the Agreed Framework with North 
Korea from Robert L. Gallucci, Ambassador at Large; and officials of 
the intelligence community.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  The nominations of Karen Nelson Moore, of Ohio, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit; Janet Bond Arterton, to be United 
States District Judge for the District of Connecticut; Willis B. Hunt 
Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of 
Georgia; Charles B. Kornmann, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of South Dakota; J. Don Foster, to be United States 
Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama; and Martin James Burke, 
to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of New York;
  S. 464, to make the reporting deadlines for studies conducted in 
Federal court demonstration districts consistent with the deadlines for 
pilot districts;
  S. 532, to clarify the rules governing venue; and
  S. 533, to clarify the rules governing removal of cases to Federal 
court.
  Also, committee reconsidered their action of February 9, when the 
committee ordered favorably reported, with amendments, S.J. Res. 21, 
proposing a constitutional amendment to limit congressional terms, and 
agreed to report the resolution instead with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute.
[[Page D365]] ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded oversight 
hearings to examine activities of the Office of the Architect of the 
Capitol, focusing on its funding authority for new projects, after 
receiving testimony from William L. Ensign, Assistant Architect of the 
Capitol; J. Raymond Carroll, Director of Engineering; and Emanuele 
Crupi, Budget Officer, all of the Office of the Architect of the 
Capitol.