[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 68 (Wednesday, April 26, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D515-D516]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of 
Energy, focusing on energy conservation programs, receiving testimony 
from Christine A. Irvin, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy 
Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
  Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
FEDERAL FOREST MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management resumed oversight hearings to review Federal 
forest management issues, focusing on the coordination of and conflicts 
between Federal forest management and general environmental statutes, 
receiving testimony [[Page D516]] from Jack Ward Thomas, Chief, and 
Gray Reynolds, Deputy Chief, both of the Forest Service, Department of 
Agriculture; George T. Frampton, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior for Fish, Wildlife, and Parks; Rolland Schmitten, Director, 
National Marine Fisheries Service; Dinah Bear, General Counsel, Council 
on Environmental Quality; Robert H. Wayland, III, Director, Office of 
Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds, Environmental Protection Agency; 
William R. Murray, American Forest and Paper Association, and Mike 
Pieti, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Tom Geary, Idaho Farm Bureau Federation, Burley, on 
behalf of the American Farm Bureau Federation; Nathaniel Lawrence, 
Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, California; Douglas 
L. Honnold, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Inc., Bozeman, Montana; 
Glen Spain, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, 
Eugene, Oregon; Olivia Falconer James, The River Company, Sun Valley, 
Idaho; Sue Kupillas, Jackson County, Oregon; and Jerry Rust, Lane 
County, Oregon.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the implementation of 
the Child Welfare and Adoption Assistance Act (P.L. 96-272), and 
related provisions of H.R. 4, Personal Responsibility Act of 1995, 
receiving testimony from Peter M. DiBari, Child and Family Services of 
Newport County, Newport, Rhode Island; Peter Digre, Los Angeles County 
Department of Children and Family Services, Los Angeles, California; 
Wade F. Horn, National Fatherhood Initiative, Gaithersburg, Maryland; 
and Ernestine Moore, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.
  Committee will meet again tomorrow.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded hearings, in open 
and closed session, on the nomination of John M. Deutch, of 
Massachusetts, to be Director of Central Intelligence, after the 
nominee, who was introduced by Senators Domenici, Kerry, and Kennedy, 
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.