[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 72 (Wednesday, May 3, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D543-D544]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
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 from Daniel R. Glickman, Secretary, Richard E. 
Rominger, Deputy Secretary, and Stephen B. Dewhurst, Budget Officer, 
all of the Department of Agriculture.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 10.
PEACE OPERATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland Forces held 
hearings to examine peace operations, receiving testimony from Edward 
L. Warner, III, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and 
Requirements; Lt. Gen. Wesley K. Clark, USA, Director for Strategic 
Plans and Policy (J-5), Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Lt. Gen. 
Anthony C. Zinni, USMC, Commanding General, 1st Marine Expeditionary 
Force; Gen. Joseph P. Hoar, USMC (Ret.), Delmar, California; and Jeane 
J. Kirkpatrick, American Enterprise Institute, Jonathan Dean, Union of 
Concerned Scientists, and John R. Bolton, National Policy Forum, all of 
Washington, D.C.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGULATORY PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Financial Institutions and Regulatory Relief concluded hearings on S. 
650, to increase the amount of credit available to fuel local, 
regional, and national economic growth by reducing the regulatory 
burden imposed upon financial institutions, after receiving testimony 
from Henry G. Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; 
James M. Culberson, Jr., First National Bank and Trust Company, 
Ashboro, North Carolina, on behalf of the American Bankers Association; 
Richard L. Mount, Saratoga National Bank, Saratoga, California, on 
behalf of the Independent Bankers Association of America; Billy Don 
Anderson, Valley Federal Savings Bank, Sheffield, Alabama, on behalf of 
the America's Community Bankers; Ralph Rohner, Catholic University 
School of Law, on behalf of the Consumer Bankers Association, Michelle 
Meier, Consumers Union, on behalf of the Consumer Federation of America 
and the U.S. Public Interest Group, Frances B. Smith, Consumer Alert, 
Irvin Henderson, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Allen 
[[Page D544]] J. Fishbein, Center for Community Change, Catherine P. 
Bessant, NationsBank, and Benson F. Roberts, Local Initiatives Support 
Corporation, all of Washington, D.C.; Warren R. Lyons, Textron, Inc., 
Irvine, California, on behalf of the American Financial Services 
Association; Gale Cincotta, National Training and Information Center 
and National People's Action, and John P. Davey, Draper and Kramer, 
Inc., on behalf of the Mortgage Bankers Associations, both of Chicago, 
Illinois; Tess Canja, American Association of Retired Persons, Port 
Charlotte, Florida; and George Butts, Association of Community 
Organizations for Reform Now, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
MEDICARE SOLVENCY
Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings to examine solvency in the 
Medicare program, focusing on proposals to reform the Medicare system in an 
effort to ensure future health care benefits for the elderly, receiving 
testimony from David M. Walker and Stanford G. Ross, each a Public Trustee, 
Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees, Baltimore, Maryland; Roland 
E. (Guy) King, Ernst and Young, and William L. Roper, The Prudential 
Insurance Company of America, Inc., both a former Chief Actuary, Health Care 
Financing Administration, and Deborah Steelman, Law Offices of Deborah 
Steelman, former Associate Director for Human Resources, Office of 
Management and Budget, all of Washington, D.C.; and Karen Davis, The 
Commonwealth Fund, New York, New York.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
NATIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM DESIGNATION ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Transportation 
and Infrastructure approved for full committee consideration, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 440, to provide for the 
designation of the National Highway System.
ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the effectiveness 
of the alternative minimum tax within the current Federal income tax system, 
receiving testimony from Leslie B. Samuels, Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury for Tax Policy; Andrew B. Lyon, Brookings Institution, and Robert 
S. McIntyre, Citizens for Tax Justice, both of Washington, D.C.; George A. 
Plesko, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts; and Thomas J. Usher, 
USX Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the National 
Association of Manufacturers.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATO ENLARGEMENT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs concluded 
hearings to examine proposals to expand the membership of the North Atlantic 
Treaty Organization (NATO), focusing on security to current members and how 
an enlarged NATO would be perceived by allies and Russia, after receiving 
testimony from Ronald Asmus, The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California; 
Paula J. Dobriansky, Hunton and Williams, Richard R. Burt, International 
Equity Partners, and Dimitri K. Simes, Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom, 
all of Washington, D.C.; and Jack F. Matlock, Jr., Columbia University, New 
York, New York.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS ANTITRUST
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and 
Competition concluded hearings to examine antitrust issues as contained in 
proposals to reform the telecommunications industry, focusing on provisions 
of S. 652, to provide for a pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy 
framework designed to accelerate rapidly private sector deployment of 
advanced telecommunications and information technologies and services to all 
Americans by opening all telecommunications markets to competition, and S. 
664, to ensure the competitive availability of consumer electronics devices 
affording access to telecommunications system services, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Cohen; Anne K. Bingaman, Assistant Attorney General, 
Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; Larry Irving, Assistant Secretary 
of Commerce for Communications and Information; Howard H. Baker, Baker, 
Donelson, Bearman and Caldwell, on behalf of the Competitive Long Distance 
Coalition, Decker Anstrom, National Cable Television Association, and Peter 
W. Huber, Kellogg, Huber and Hansen, all of Washington, D.C.; Lawrence A. 
Sullivan, Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles, California; 
Royce J. Holland, MFS Communications Company, Inc., Oakbrook Terrace, 
Illinois; James R. Young, Bell Atlantic Corporation, Arlington, Virginia; 
and Richard Cowart, Vermont Public Service Board, Montpelier, on behalf of 
the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.
NOMINATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Henry W. Foster, Jr., of Tennessee, to be Medical Director in 
the Regular Corps, and Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, 
Department of Health and Human Services, after the nominee further testified 
and answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of John M. Deutch, of Massachusetts, to be Director of Central 
Intelligence.