[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 63 (Wednesday, April 5, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D480-D483]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--NASA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
1996 for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 
[[Page D481]] receiving testimony from Daniel S. Goldin, Administrator, 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 3.
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 Floyd P. Horn, Acting Under Secretary, Research, Education, and 
Economics; R. D. Plowman, Administrator, Agricultural Research Service; 
William Carlson, Acting Administrator, Cooperative State Research, 
Education, and Extension Service, John C. Dunmore, Acting 
Administrator, Economic Research Service; Donald Bay, Administrator, 
National Agricultural Statistics Service; and Michael L. Young, 
Director, Budget Control and Analysis Division, all of the Department 
of Agriculture.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 26.
APPROPRIATIONS--INS/BUREAU OF PRISONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and the Judiciary held hearing on proposed budget estimates for the 
Department of Justice, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their 
respective activities from Doris Meissner, Commissioner, Immigration 
and Naturalization Service, and Kathleen Hawk, Director, Federal Bureau 
of Prisons, both of the Department of Justice.
  Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--FAA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the 
Federal Aviation Administration, receiving testimony from David Russell 
Hinson, Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of 
Transportation.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 27.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel resumed hearings 
on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for the 
Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on 
the Department of Defense Quality of Life Programs, receiving testimony 
from Frederick F.Y. Pang, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force 
Management Policy; Gen. John H. Tilelli, Jr., USA, Vice Chief of Army 
Staff; Adm. Stanley R. Arthur, USN, Vice Chief of Naval Operations; Lt. 
Gen. Billy J. Boles, USAF, Vice Commander, Air Education and Training 
Command, U.S. Air Force; Gen. Richard D. Hearney, USMC, Assistant 
Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps; and Col. Paul W. Aracari, USAF (Ret.), 
and Lt. Commander Virginia M. Torsch, USNR, both of The Retired 
Officers Association, Sgt. Maj. Michael F. Quellette, USA (Ret.), The 
Non-Commissioned Officers Association, and Sydney T. Hickey, National 
Military Family Association, all of Alexandria, Virginia.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NATO
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland Forces held 
hearings on the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization 
(NATO), receiving testimony from Walter B. Slocombe, Under Secretary of 
Defense for Policy; Lt. Gen. Wesley K. Clark, USA, Director for 
Strategic Plans and Policy (J-5), Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; 
and Richard Holbrooke, Assistant Secretary of State for European and 
Canadian Affairs.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL FOREST MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forest and 
Public Land Management resumed oversight hearings to review Federal 
forest management issues, focusing on the status of national forest 
plan revisions and the Administration's development of ecoregion-based 
biological assessments, receiving testimony from Jack Ward Thomas, 
Chief, Gray Reynolds, Deputy Chief, National Forest System; Jim Perry, 
Office of General Counsel; Chris Risbrudt, Acting Director, Ecosystem 
Management; Jeff Blackwood and Steven Mealey, Directors, Interior 
Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project; Forrest Carpenter, 
Director, Southern Appalachian Assessment; and James Space, Director, 
Sierra Nevada Assessment, all of the Forest Service, Department of 
Agriculture; Mark Rasmussen, Timber Data Company, Eugene, Oregon; 
Michael Anderson, Seattle, Washington, and Louis Blumberg, San 
Francisco, California, both of The Wilderness Society; Jeff Kessler, 
Biodiversity Associates, Laramie, Wyoming; James C. Geisinger, 
Northwest Forestry Association, and Rick Brown, National Wildlife 
Federation, both of Portland, Oregon; Bill Snyder, Fibreboard 
Corporation, Standard, California; Dave Van De Graaff, Boise Cascade 
Corporation, Emmett, Idaho; Jack Swanner, T & S Hardwoods, Sylva, North 
Carolina; and James E. Loesel, Southern Appalachia Forest Coalition, 
Roanoke, Virginia.
  Hearings will continue on Wednesday, April 26.

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SUPERFUND REFORM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, 
Waste Control, and Risk Assessment resumed oversight hearings on the 
implementation of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act (P.L. 102-426), focusing on Superfund 
cleanup standards, receiving testimony from Elliott P. Laws, Assistant 
Administrator, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, 
Environmental Protection Agency; Curtis C. Travis, Oak Ridge National 
Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Steven J. Milloy, National 
Environmental Policy Institute, and Linda E. Greer, Natural Resources 
Defense Council, both of Washington, D.C.; Philip J. O'Brien, New 
Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, Concord; Milton 
Russell, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Michael S. Parr, DuPont 
Company, Wilmington, Delaware, on behalf of the Chemical Manufacturers 
Association; Richard A. Brown, Groundwater Technology, Inc., Trenton, 
New Jersey, on behalf of the Biotechnology Industry Organization and 
Groundwater Technology, Inc.; Robert W. Frantz, General Electric 
Company, Fairfield, Connecticut; Paul A. Miskimin, Jacobs Engineering 
Group Inc., Pasadena, California; and Marcia E. Williams, Williams and 
Vanino, Inc., Los Angeles, California.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
TAX REFORM: FLAT TAX
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to discuss issues 
relating to flat tax rate proposals, receiving testimony from Senators 
Mack and Shelby; Alan J. Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley; 
Bruce Bartlett, National Center for Policy Analysis, Alexandria, 
Virginia; and Joel B. Slemrod, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee continued hearings to 
examine tax refund fraud, focusing on the earned income tax credit and 
the Internal Revenue Service's efforts to detect and prevent erroneous 
claims, receiving testimony from Senator Nickles; Leslie B. Samuels, 
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Ismael Gonzalez, 
New York, New York, former Special Assistant United States Attorney; 
Deborah Walker, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, 
Marvin H. Kosters, American Enterprise Institute, and Robert 
Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, all of Washington, 
D.C.; George K. Yin, University of Virginia School of Law, 
Charlottesville; John Karl Scholz, University of Wisconsin, Madison; 
and Donald R. Huston, Dover, Delaware.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Maxine M. Chesney, to be United States District Judge 
for the Northern District of California; Curtis L. Collier, to be 
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee; 
Eldon E. Fallon, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
District of Louisiana; Joseph Robert Goodwin, to be United States 
District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia; and Joe 
Bradley Pigott, to be United States Attorney for the Southern District 
of Mississippi.
  Also, committee began markup of S. 343, to reform the Federal 
regulatory process, but did not complete action thereon, and will 
continue tomorrow.
BASEBALL ANTITRUST REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, 
and Competition approved for full committee consideration S. 627, to 
require the general application of the antitrust laws to major league 
baseball.
FDA
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to 
examine activities of the Food and Drug Administration, focusing on the 
challenges and opportunities facing the pharmaceutical, biotech, 
medical device, and food industries, and FDA's regulation of these 
industries, receiving testimony from Charles C. Edwards, Scripps 
Research Institute, La Jolla, California, former Commissioner, Food and 
Drug Administration; Mark Novitch, George Washington University Medical 
Center, Washington, D.C., former Acting Commissioner, Food and Drug 
Administration; Edward M. Scolnick, Merck and Company, Inc., West 
Point, Pennsylvania; George B. Rathmann, ICOS Corporation, Bothell, 
Washington; David M. Steinhaus, Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas 
City, Missouri; and Michael W. Pariza, University of Wisconsin, 
Madison.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
INDIAN WELFARE
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to 
discuss Federal funding to Indian tribal governments for welfare and 
social service programs, after receiving testimony from Mary Jo Bane, 
Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, and George F. Grob, 
Deputy Inspector General for Evaluation and Inspections, both of the 
Department of Health and Human Services; New Mexico State 
Representative Nick Salazar, Santa Fe; Bobby Whitefeather, Red Lake 
Band of Chippewa Indians, [[Page D483]] Red Lake, Minnesota; Beltrami 
County Commissioner Richard P. Florhaug, Bemidji, Minnesota; Harry D. 
Early, All Indian Pueblo Council, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico; Mark 
Mercier, Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, Grand Ronde, Oregon; 
Joan Rebar, Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri, Reserve, Kansas, on behalf 
of the United Tribes of Kansas and Southeast Nebraska and the Native 
American Family Services; Thomas E. Atcitty, Navajo Nation, Window 
Rock, Arizona; and Merle Boyd, Sac and Fox Nation, Stroud, Oklahoma.
GUATEMALA
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held hearings to examine 
United States policy in Guatemala, focusing on allegations of United 
States involvement in the murders of two individuals in Guatemala, 
receiving testimony from Alexander F. Watson, Assistant Secretary of 
State for Inter-American Affairs; Adm. William O. Studeman, Acting 
Director of Central Intelligence; Col. Allen C. Cornell, USA (Ret.), 
former United States Defense Attache in Guatemala; and Carole DeVine 
and Jennifer Harbury, widows of slain individuals.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.