[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 53 (Wednesday, March 22, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D391-D392]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of Agriculture, 
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities 
from James R. Lyons, Under Secretary for Natural Resources and 
Environment, and Paul W. Johnson, Chief, Natural Resources Conservation 
Service, both of the Department of Agriculture.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 29.
SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Securities concluded hearings on proposals to reform the process of 
securities litigation, including related provisions of S. 240 and H.R. 
1058, after receiving testimony from Mark J. Griffin, Utah Department 
of Commerce, Salt Lake City, on behalf of the North American Securities 
Administrators Association, Inc.; Sheldon H. Elsen, Association of the 
Bar of the City of New York, New York; David Guin, Ritchie and Rediker, 
Birmingham, Alabama, on behalf of the National Association of 
Securities and Commercial Law Attorneys; Bartlett Naylor, International 
Brotherhood of Teamsters (AFL-CIO), Washington, D.C.; and Joan R. 
Gallo, San Jose, California.
NUCLEAR WASTE CLEANUP
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings to 
examine the Department of Energy environmental management programs, 
focusing on waste management and cleanup activities at the Hanford 
nuclear reservation site in the State of Washington, receiving 
testimony from Senators Gorton and Murray; Thomas P. Grumbly, Assistant 
Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management; and Steven M. Blush 
and Thomas H. Heitman, both of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
REGULATORY REFORM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings to 
examine the impact of regulatory reform proposals on environmental law, 
receiving testimony from Steven Kaplan, General Counsel, Department of 
Transportation; Carol M. Browner, Administrator, Environmental 
Protection Agency; John R. Schmidt, Associate Attorney General, 
Department of Justice; Sally Katzen, Administrator, Office of 
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; 
Tom Looby, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, 
Denver, on behalf of the Environmental Council of the States; Thomas O. 
McGarity, University of Texas School of Law, Austin; Cass R. Sunstein, 
University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois; John D. Graham, 
Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, 
Boston, Massachusetts; and Michael E. Baroody, National Association of 
Manufacturers, on behalf of the Alliance for Reasonable Regulation, and 
George C. Freeman, Jr. and [[Page D392]] Philip J. Harter, both of the 
American Bar Association, all of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL DISABILITY PROGRAMS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy 
held hearings to examine the growth and escalating costs of the Social 
Security Disability Insurance and the Supplemental Security Income 
disability programs, receiving testimony from Senators Cohen and 
Santorum; Shirley S. Chater, Commissioner, Social Security 
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; David Koitz, 
Specialist in Retirement and Social Policy, Congressional Research 
Service, Library of Congress; and James Slattery, National Commission 
on Childhood Disability, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  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 of State for 
Burdensharing, all of the Department of State; Gloria Rose Ott, of 
California, Harvey Sigelbaum, of New York, George J. Kourpias, of 
Maryland, and John Chrystal, of Iowa, each to be a Member of the Board 
of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, United 
States International Development Cooperation Agency, and routine lists 
in the Foreign Service;
  S. 384, to direct the President to submit reports to certain 
congressional committees concerning United States support for Mexico 
during its debt crisis, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. Con. Res. 3, relative to Taiwan and the United Nations;
  S.J. Res. 29, expressing the sense of Congress with respect to 
dialogue on the North-South Korean Peninsula and the United States-
North Korea Agreed Framework;
  S. Con. Res. 9, expressing the sense of the Congress regarding a 
private visit by President Lee Teng-hui of the Republic of China on 
Taiwan to the United States; and
  The Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain 
Conventional Weapons Which May Be Excessively Injurious or To Have 
Indiscriminate Effects 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), with certain conditions.
  Also, committee began consideration of S. Con. Res. 6, to express the 
sense of the Senate that the Secretary of the Treasury should submit 
monthly reports to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 
of the Senate and the Committee on Banking and Financial Services of 
the House of Representatives concerning compliance by the Government of 
Mexico regarding certain loans, loan guarantees, and other assistance 
made by the United States to the Government of Mexico, but did not take 
final action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--INDIAN PROGRAMS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
following bills:
  S. 510, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1999 for the Native 
American Social and Economic Development Strategies Grant Program 
administered by the Administration for Native Americans, Department of 
Health and Human Services, after receiving testimony from Gary Niles 
Kimble, Commissioner, Administration for Native Americans, 
Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and 
Human Services; and A. David Lester, Council of Energy Resource Tribes, 
Denver, Colorado; and
  S. 441, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1997 for programs of 
the Indian Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Act, after 
receiving testimony from W. Craig Vanderwagen, Director, Division of 
Clinical and Preventive Services, Indian Health Service, Department of 
Health and Human Services; Ada E. Deer, Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior for Indian Affairs; Herbert Becker, Director, Office of Tribal 
Justice, Department of Justice; Anita Schacht, Hopi Child Sexual Abuse 
Project, Kykotsmovi, Arizona; and Laurel Keenan, Bay Mills Indian 
Community, Brimley, Michigan.