[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 81 (Tuesday, May 16, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D610-D611]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of Karl N. Stauber, of Minnesota, to be 
Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics, 
and Eugene Branstool, of Ohio, to be a Member of the Board of Directors 
of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Stauber was 
introduced by Senator Wellstone.
1995 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed 
hearings on proposed legislation to strengthen and improve United 
States agricultural programs, focusing on rural development and farm 
credit programs, including S. 805, to improve Federal rural 
electrification and rural development programs administered by the 
Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony from Senator Simpson; 
Daniel R. Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture; Bill McQuillan, City 
National Bank, Greeley, Nebraska, on behalf of the Independent Bankers 
Association of America; C.T. Fredrickson, AgriBank, FCB, St. Paul, 
Minnesota; David Freshwater, University of Kentucky, Lexington; Enrique 
Irizarry, Jr., GAM Service Corporation, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Bill 
Christison, Missouri Rural Crisis Center, Chillicothe, on behalf of the 
National Family Farm Coalition; Michael H. Core, Indiana Statewide 
Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives, Inc., Indianapolis; Joe 
Palmer, Georgia Rural Water Association, Albany, on behalf of the 
National Rural Water Association; Aaron J. Harp, University of Idaho, 
Moscow; Dwight L. Casey, National Alliance for Fair Competition, 
Alexandria, [[Page D611]] Virginia; L. Roger Johnson, North Dakota 
Agricultural Mediation Service, Bismarck; and Ron Phillips, Coastal 
Enterprises, Inc., Wiscasset, Maine.
  Committee will meet again on Tuesday, May 23.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness resumed hearings 
on S. 727, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for military 
activities of the Department of Defense and the future years defense 
program, focusing on Department of Defense financial management, 
receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the 
United States, David M. Connor, Director for Defense Audit Issues, 
Accounting and Information Management Division, Jack L. Brock, Jr., 
Director for IRM-NSIAD Issues, Accounting and Information Management 
Division, and David E. Cooper, Director for Acquisition Policy, 
Technology and Competitiveness Issues, National Security and 
International Affairs Division, all of the General Accounting Office; 
and John J. Hamre, Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer, and Richard 
F. Kervey, Director, Defense Finance and Accounting Service, both of 
the Department of Defense.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower resumed hearings 
on S. 727, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for military 
activities of the Department of Defense and the future years defense 
program, focusing on the requirements for continued production of 
nuclear submarines, submarine industrial base issues, procurement 
strategy, and associated funding, receiving testimony from Nora 
Slatkin, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and 
Acquisition; Vice Adm. T. Joseph Lopez, Deputy Chief of Naval 
Operations, Warfare Requirements and Assessments; Adm. Bruce DeMars, 
Director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion; Richard Davis, Director, National 
Security Analysis, National Security and International Affairs 
Division, General Accounting Office; Ronald O'Rourke, Specialist in 
National Defense, Congressional Research Service; Cindy Williams, 
Assistant Director, National Security Division, Congressional Budget 
Office; William Fricks, Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock, Newport 
News, Virginia; and James E. Turner, Jr., General Dynamics Corporation, 
Groton, Connecticut.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 18.
NASA SPACE SHUTTLE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine the status 
of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's space shuttle 
and reusable launch vehicle programs, after receiving testimony from 
Representative Rohrabacher; J. Wayne Littles, Associate Administrator 
for Office of Space Flight, John Mansfield, Associate Administrator for 
Space Access and Technology, and Paul Johnstone, Deputy Chairman, 
Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, all of the National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration; and Jerry Grey, American Institute of Aeronautics 
and Astronautics, and John Logsdon, George Washington University, both 
of Washington, D.C.
NRC LICENSING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to 
review Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing activities with regard to the 
Department of Energy's civilian nuclear waste disposal program and other 
related matters within the jurisdiction of the Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, after receiving testimony from Ivan Selin, Chairman, Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission.
MEDICARE
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on the fiscal solvency of 
Medicare and the status of the program's delivery of health care services, 
focusing on methods to preserve and improve the Medicare program, receiving 
testimony from Stuart M. Butler, Heritage Foundation, Roland King, Ernst & 
Young, and Robert D. Reischauer, Brookings Institution, all of Washington, 
D.C.; and John W. Rowe, Mount Sinai Hospital School of Medicine, New York, 
New York.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES EDUCATION ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Disability Policy 
resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of 
the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, receiving testimony from G. 
Reid Lyon, Director, Human Learning and Behavior Branch, Center for Research 
for Mothers and Children, National Institutes of Health, Department of 
Health and Human Services; Stevan A. Kukic, Utah State Office of Education, 
Salt Lake City; Hal Hayden, Kentucky Department of Education, Frankfort; 
James E. Ysseldyke, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Charlene Green, 
Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, Illinois; Brian A. McNulty, Colorado 
Department of Education, Denver; Laurie Collins, Winston Salem, North 
Carolina, on behalf of the Interagency Coordinating Council in North 
Carolina; and Gen Nochta, Lexington, Kentucky.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.