[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 64 (Thursday, April 6, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D494-D495]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--NOAA/NIST
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
the Judiciary (and Related Agencies) held hearings on proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
receiving testimony from D. James Baker, Under Secretary for Oceans and 
Atmosphere, Mary Lowe Good, Under Secretary for Technology, and Arati 
Prabhakar, Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
all of the Department of Commerce.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 26.
APPROPRIATIONS--NAVY/MARINE CORPS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for Navy and Marine 
Corps programs, receiving testimony from John H. Dalton, Secretary of 
the Navy; Adm. Jeremy M. Boorda, Chief of Naval Operations; and Gen. 
Carl E. Mundy, Jr., USMC, Commandant.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 2.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Acquisition and Technology 
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 implementation of acquisition management 
reform, receiving testimony from Colleen Preston, Deputy Under 
Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Reform; Robert Murphy, General 
Counsel, General Accounting Office; and Peter DeMayo, Lockheed-Martin 
Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Securities resumed hearings on proposals to reform the process of 
securities litigation, including related provisions of S. 240 and H.R. 
1058, receiving testimony from Senator Mikulski; Arthur Levitt, Jr., 
Chairman, Richard C. Breeden, former Chairman, and Charles Cox, former 
Commissioner and former Acting Chairman, all of the Securities and 
Exchange Commission.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 565, to regulate interstate commerce by providing for a uniform 
product liability law, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 
and
  The nomination of Charles Taylor Manatt, of the District of Columbia, 
to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Communications 
Satellite Corporation.
NATIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure concluded hearings on S. 440, to 
providing for the designation of the National Highway System, focusing 
on issues related to the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge and the 
innovative financing of transportation facilities, after receiving 
testimony from Jane F. Garvey, Deputy Administrator, Federal Highway 
Administration, Department of Transportation; Jack F. Herrity, 
Interstate Transportation Study Commission, Fairfax, Virginia; Ann C. 
Stern, Financial Guaranty Insurance Corporation, New York, New York; 
Ralph L. Stanley, United Infrastructure Company, Chicago, Illinois; and 
Daniel V. Flanagan, Jr., Infrastructure Investment Commission, 
Arlington, Virginia.
CONSUMER PRICE INDEX
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine the use of 
the Consumer Price Index as an indicator of inflation and changes in 
the cost of living, receiving testimony from Walter Erwin Diewert, 
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Dale W. Jorgenson, 
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Ariel Pakes, Yale 
University, New Haven, Connecticut; and Joel Popkin, Joel Popkin and 
Company, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
REGULATORY REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee continued in evening session to 
mark up S. 343, to reform the Federal regulatory process.
PROPERTY RIGHTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 605, to 
establish a uniform and more efficient Federal process for protecting 
property owners' rights guaranteed by the fifth amendment, receiving 
testimony from Senator Gramm; John R. Schmidt, Associate Attorney 
General, Department of Justice; Loren A. Smith, Chief Judge, United 
States Court of Federal Claims; Raymond B. Ludwiszewski, Gibson, Dunn & 
Crutcher, former General Counsel, Environmental Protection Agency, 
Nancie G. Marzulla, Defenders of Property Rights, and Roger Marzulla, 
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, all of Washington, D.C.; Carol M. 
Rose, Yale University Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; Nellie 
Edwards, Provo, Utah; and John J. Chaconas, St. Amant, Louisiana.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee began markup of S. 
454, to reform the health care liability system and improve health care 
quality through the establishment of quality assurance programs, but 
did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
FDA
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee continued 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 David A. Kessler, Commissioner, 
Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Dennis M. Duffy, of Pennsylvania, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Policy and Planning.