[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 52 (Tuesday, March 21, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D382-D383]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nomination of Daniel Robert Glickman, of Kansas, to be 
Secretary of Agriculture, after the nominee, who was introduced by 
Senators Dole and Kassebaum, and Representative Roberts, testified and 
answered questions in his own behalf.
MILITARY READINESS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness held hearings to 
examine a report on military capabilities and readiness, receiving 
testimony from Gen. Alfred M. Gray, USMC (Ret.); Adm. Carlisle A.H. 
Trost, USN (Ret.); and Gen. Robert W. RisCassi, USA (Ret.).
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN COMMERCIAL SERVICE
Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
International Finance concluded oversight hearings on the operation of 
the United States and Foreign Commercial Service, focusing on proposals 
to reorganize and to transfer the United States and Foreign Commercial 
Service from the Department of Commerce to the Department of State, 
after receiving testimony from former Representative Bill Frenzel; 
Jeffrey E. Garten, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade; 
Paul T. Walters, Regional Director, United States and Foreign 
Commercial Service (King of Prussia, Pennsylvania), Department of 
Commerce; J. Michael Farren, Xerox Corporation, former Under Secretary 
of Commerce for International Trade, John V.E. Hardy, Jr., Brown & 
Root, Inc., on behalf of the National Association of Manufacturers, and 
William Bodde, Jr., Pacific Basin Economic Council, all of Washington, 
D.C.; Lawrence J. MacBean, Century Furniture Industries, Hickory, North 
Carolina, on behalf of the North Carolina District Export Council; and 
Thomas J. McNabb, Aquatics Unlimited, Martinez, California.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY REFORM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine telecommunications policy reform issues, focusing 
on cable rate deregulation, broadcast ownership, and foreign ownership, 
after receiving testimony from Scott Harris, International Bureau 
Chief, Federal Communications Commission; Decker Anstrom, National 
Cable Television Association, Roy Neel, United States Telephone 
Association, Bradley C. Stillman, Consumer Federation of America, 
Edward O. Fritts, National Association of Broadcasters, Preston R. 
Padden, Fox Broadcasting Company, all of Washington, D.C.; Richard A. 
Cutler, Satellite Cable Services, Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Gerald L. 
Hassell, The Bank of New York, and Eli Noam, Columbia University, both 
of New York, New York; U. Bertram Ellis, Jr., Ellis Communications, 
Inc., Atlanta, Georgia; and Jim Waterbury, KWWL-TV, Waterloo, Iowa, on 
behalf of the NBC Affiliates Association.
BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy 
Production and Regulation concluded hearings on S. 92, to provide for 
the reconstitution of outstanding repayment obligations of the 
Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration for the 
appropriated capital investments in the Federal Columbia River Power 
System, after receiving testimony from Jack Robertson, Deputy 
Administrator, Bonneville Power Administration, Department of Energy; 
and Angus Duncan, Northwest Power Planning Council, and Geoff Carr, 
Public Power Council, both of Portland, Oregon.
TAX TREATMENT OF EXPATRIATE AMERICANS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight held 
hearings on proposals to impose income tax on unrealized gains of 
United States citizens who relinquish their United States citizenship, 
receiving testimony from Jamison S. Borek, Deputy Legal Adviser, 
Department of State; Leslie B. Samuels, Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury for Tax Policy; Ellen K. Harrison, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, 
and H. David Rosenbloom, Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Marshall J. Langer, Shutts & Bowen, London, England; 
and Robert F. Turner, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PEACE POWERS ACT/NATIONAL SECURITY REVITALIZATION ACT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on S. 5, 
to clarify the war powers of Congress and the President in the post-
cold-war period, and H.R. 7, to revitalize the national security of the 
United States, after receiving testimony from Senator Dole; former 
Senator Howard Baker; Madeleine K. Albright, Permanent Representative 
of the United States to the United Nations; Lt. Col. Robin L. Higgins, 
USMC, Head, Media Branch, Public Affairs [[Page D383]] Division, 
Headquarters, United States Marine Corps; Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, 
American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., former United States 
Representative to the United Nations; and Charles W. Maynes, Foreign 
Policy, Washington, D.C.
AUTHORIZATION--SENIOR NUTRITION PROGRAMS/OLDER AMERICANS ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Aging concluded 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Older 
Americans Act, focusing on senior nutrition programs under Title III, 
after receiving testimony from Herbert W. Stupp, New York City 
Department for the Aging, New York, New York; Toby Felcher, CARE, 
Baltimore, Maryland; Debra Perou-Hermans, Rockingham Nutrition and 
Meals on Wheels Program, Brentwood, New Hampshire; Margot Clark, 
Northwest Indiana Meals on Wheels, Crown Point; and Barbara J. Harris, 
Senior Citizen Services of Greater Tarrant County, Inc., Fort Worth, 
Texas.
HEALTH CARE FRAUD
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
scope of health care fraud and Federal and State efforts to combat this 
abuse, after receiving testimony from Louis J. Freeh, Director, Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; June Gibbs Brown, 
Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services; Charles C. 
Masten, Inspector General, Department of Labor; Thomas A. Temmerman, 
California Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud, Sacramento, on behalf of the 
National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units; Bill Gradison, 
Health Insurance Association of America, and William J. Mahon, National 
Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, both of Washington, D.C.; and 
certain unidentified witnesses.