[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 60 (Friday, March 31, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D454-D455]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1995 FARM BILL--AGRICULTURAL CREDIT
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed 
hearings on proposed legislation to strengthen and improve United 
States agricultural [[Page D455]] programs, focusing on current and 
future credit concerns of rural America and the Farmers Home 
Administration's management of its direct and guaranteed farm loan 
programs and of farm properties obtained as a result of defaults on 
Federal loans, receiving testimony from Eugene Moos, Under Secretary 
for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services; Maureen Kennedy, 
Administrator, Rural Housing and Community Development Division; Grant 
B. Buntrock, Acting Administrator, Consolidated Farm Services Agency; 
and Lou Anne Kling, Deputy Administrator for Farm Credit, all of the 
Department of Agriculture; John W. Harman, Director, Food and 
Agriculture Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development 
Division, and Andrew Finkel and Robert Robertson, both Evaluators, all 
of the General Accounting Office; Jerold L. Harris, Farm Credit Bank of 
Wichita, Wichita, Kansas; Darcy L. Myers, Norwest Bank, Denver, 
Colorado, on behalf of the American Bankers Association; Mark 
Drabenstott, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Kansas City, 
Missouri; John R. Price, Chemical Bank, New York, New York; Eric P. 
Thor, Arizona State University, Tempe; and Nancy L. Thompson, Center 
for Rural Affairs, Walthill, Nebraska.
  Committee will meet again on Tuesday, April 4.
APPROPRIATIONS--VA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
1996 for the Department of Veterans Affairs, receiving testimony from 
Jesse Brown, Secretary of Veterans Affairs; and Russell Mank, Paralyzed 
Veterans of America, Rick Surratt, Disabled American Veterans, James 
Magill, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Carroll Williams, American 
Legion, all of Washington, D.C.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 5.