[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 61 (Monday, April 3, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D463-D464]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--IRS/OPM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, 
and General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 1996, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their 
respective activities from Margaret Richardson, Commissioner, and Larry 
Westfall, Director, Office of Tax Systems Modernization, both of the 
Internal Revenue Service; and James King, Director, Office of Personnel 
Management.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 4.
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development held hearings on the nuclear weapons implications of the 
Administration's proposal to close Kirtland Air Force Base in New 
Mexico, receiving testimony from Vic Reis, Assistant Secretary for 
Defense Programs, and Al Narath and Bruce Twining, both of Sandia 
National Laboratories (Albuquerque, New Mexico), all of the Department 
of Energy; and Maj. Gen. Kenneth L. Hagemann, USAF, Director, Defense 
Nuclear Agency, Department of Defense.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
PRODUCT LIABILITY FAIRNESS ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and Tourism held hearings on S. 
565, to regulate interstate commerce by providing for a uniform product 
liability law, receiving testimony from Senators Lieberman and Boxer; 
Illinois State Senator Kirk Dillard, Springfield, on behalf of the 
American Legislative Exchange Council; Rhode Island State 
Representative Jeffrey Teitz, Providence, on behalf of the National 
Conference of State Legislators; Stanley G. Feldman, Chief justice, 
Arizona State Supreme Court, Phoenix, on behalf of the Conference of 
Chief Justices; and James L. Martin, National Governors Association, 
William Fry, HALT, Robert Hunter, Consumer Federation of America, 
Victor E. Scwartz, Crowell and Moring, on behalf of the Product 
Liability Coordinating Committee, and Larry Stewart, Association of the 
Trial Lawyers of America, all of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings continue tomorrow. [[Page D464]] 
RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION TAX CREDIT
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight held 
hearings to examine whether the research and experimentation tax credit 
(enacted in 1981) should be made a permanent part of the Tax Code, 
restructured, or allowed to expire after the current June 30, 1995, 
expiration date, receiving testimony from Natwar M. Gandhi, Associate 
Director, Tax Polity and Administration Issues, General Government 
Division, General Accounting Office; Linden C. Smith, KPMG Peat Marwick 
LLP, Martin A. Sullivan, American Enterprise Institute, and Donald C. 
Alexander, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld, on behalf of the 
Pharmaceutical Research Manufacturers Association, all of Washington, 
D.C.; Paul Cherecwich, Jr., Thiokol Corporation, Ogden, Utah, on behalf 
of the Aerospace Industries Association; Marty Glick, Genentech, Inc., 
San Francisco, California, on behalf of the R&D/Section 861 Coalition; 
Robert S. Gregg, Sequent Computer Systems, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon, on 
behalf of the American Electronics Association; and Cliff Simpson, 
Novell, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah, on behalf of the Working Group on 
Research and Development.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.