[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 83 (Thursday, May 18, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D628-D630]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for foreign 
assistance programs of the Department of State, receiving testimony 
from Warren Christopher, Secretary of State.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--NIH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education and Related Agencies concluded hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the National 
Institutes of Health [NIH], after receiving testimony from Harold 
Varmus, Director, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health 
and Human Services.
APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY/FEC
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal 
Service, and General Government concluded hearings on proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 1996, after receiving testimony in behalf of 
funds for their respective activities from Robert E. Rubin, Secretary 
of the Treasury; and Danny L. McDonald, Chairman, and Lee Ann Elliot 
and John W. McGarry, both Commissioners, all of the Federal Election 
Commission.
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 Marine Corps modernization programs and 
current operations, receiving testimony from Gen. Carl E. Mundy, Jr., 
USMC, Commandant, United States Marine Corps.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces 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 bomber force issues, receiving testimony from Paul 
G. Kaminski, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology; 
and Gen. John M. Loh, USAF, Commander, Air Combat Command.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to review management issues with regard to the 
Tongass National Forest in Alaska and the implementation of the Tongass 
Timber Reform Act (P.L. 101-626), after receiving testimony from 
Senator Stevens; James R. Lyons, Under Secretary of Agriculture for 
Natural Resources and the Environment; Alaska State Representative W.K. 
Williams, Mayor Alaire Stanton, Ralph D. Lewis, Ketchikan Pulp Company, 
Cliff Skillings, on behalf of the Alaska Lumbermen's Association, and 
Ernesta Ballard, on behalf of the Alaska Forest Association, all of 
Ketchikan, Alaska; John C. Wisenbaugh, Tenakee Springs City Council, 
Tenakee Springs, Alaska; Gary L. Paxton, City and Borough of Sitka, 
Florian Sever, and Franklin C. Roppel, Alaska Pulp Corporation, all of 
Sitka, Alaska; James S. Calvin, McDowell Group, Inc., and Bart Koehler, 
Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, both of Juneau, Alaska; Julie 
Fox Gorte, Wilderness Society, Washington, D.C.; Victor M. Sher, Sierra 
Club Legal Defense Fund, San Francisco, California; George Leonard, 
Vienna, Virginia; James Mackovjak, Gustavus, Alaska; and Bill Byford, 
Wrangell, Alaska.
HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT EXTENSIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy 
Production and Regulation concluded hearings on S. 283, S. 468, S. 543, 
S. 547, S. 549 (pending on Senate Calendar), S. 552, S. 595, S. 611, 
and S. 801, bills to extend the deadlines applicable to certain 
hydroelectric projects under the Federal Power Act, after receiving 
testimony from Elizabeth A. Moler, Chair, Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, Department of Energy.
  Testimony was also received on S. 552 (listed above) from Arthur K. 
Neill, Montana Power Company, Butte; and Theodore Antionoli, Missoula, 
Montana.
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TAX REFORM: FLAT TAX
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on proposals to 
replace current income tax procedures with a flat rate tax, including 
S. 488, to impose a flat tax only on the earned income of individuals 
and the business taxable income of corporations, receiving testimony 
from Senator Specter; Representative Armey; Michael J. Graetz, Yale 
University, New Haven, Connecticut; Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Boston 
University, Boston, Massachusetts; Sheldon D. Pollack, University of 
Delaware, Newark; and Alvin Rabushka, Stanford University, Stanford, 
California.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EXECUTIVE BRANCH REORGANIZATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee continued hearings to 
examine proposals to reorganize the Executive Branch of the Federal 
Government, receiving testimony from Senators Faircloth and Abraham; 
Representatives Walker, Gunderson, Klug, and Brownback; Donald F. 
Kettl, University of Wisconsin, Madison; and Murray Comarow, on behalf 
of former President Nixon's Advisory Council on Executive Organization 
(Ash Council), Jeffrey A. Eisenach, Progress and Freedom Foundation, 
and Scott A. Hodge, Heritage Foundation, all of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 419, to grant the consent of Congress to the Texas Low-Level 
Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact;
  S. 677, to repeal a redundant venue provision of the Federal judicial 
code; and
  The nominations of Mary Beck Briscoe, of Kansas, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, Susan Y. Illston, to be United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of California, John 
Garvan Murtha, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Vermont, George A. O'Toole, Jr., to be United States District Judge for 
the District of Massachusetts, Patrick M. Ryan, to be United States 
Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, George K. McKinney, to 
be United States Marshal for the District of Maryland, and Rose Ochi, 
of California, to be an Associate Director for National Drug Control 
Policy.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine management guidelines for the future of the Smithsonian 
Institution, after receiving testimony from Representative Sam Johnson, 
on behalf of the Board of Regents, Smithsonian Institution; Ira Michael 
Heyman, Secretary, and Tom Crouch, Chairman, Aeronautics Department of 
the National Air and Space Museum, both of the Smithsonian Institution; 
Edward T. Linenthal, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh; and Maxine F. 
Singer, Carnegie Institute of Washington, Washington, D.C., on behalf 
of the Commission on the Future of the Smithsonian Institution.
SBA BUSINESS LOAN PROGRAM
Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings to examine Small 
Business Administration's implementation of their 7(a) Guaranty 
Business Loan Program, receiving testimony from Philip Lader, 
Administrator, Small Business Administration; John J. Canning, 
Morristown, New Jersey, on behalf of AT&T Capital Corporation and AT&T 
Small Business Lending Corporation; Gary V. Hoyer, Princeton Capital 
Finance Company, Princeton, New Jersey; Michael Gallagher, Wells Fargo 
Bank, San Jose, California; Anthony R. Wilkinson, National Association 
of Government Guaranteed Lenders, Inc., Stillwater, Oklahoma; Joe W. 
Scallorns, Farmers and Traders Bank, California, Missouri; and Lyle 
Frederickson, Bank One, Phoenix, Arizona.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS REORGANIZATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings to 
review certain recommendations on the reorganization of the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs, receiving testimony from Stanley Speaks, Area Director 
(Portland, Oregon), Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the 
Interior; Kenneth Smith, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs 
Reservation, Warm Springs, Oregon, former Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior for Indian Affairs; Eddie F. Brown, Tohono O'odham Nation, 
Sells, Arizona, former Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian 
Affairs, and Wendell Chino, Mescalero Apache Tribe, Mescalero, New 
Mexico, both on behalf of the Joint Tribal/Bureau of Indian Affairs/
Department of the Interior Task Force; Phillip Martin, Mississippi Band 
of Choctaw Indians, Philadelphia, Mississippi; A. Brian Wallace, Washoe 
Tribe of Nevada, Gardnerville; and Edward Thomas, Central Council 
Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, Juneau.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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Joint Meetings
ECONOMICALLY TARGETED INVESTMENTS
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
issues relating to the funding of certain social and political projects 
known as economically targeted investments, after receiving testimony 
from Olena Berg, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Pension and Welfare 
Benefits; former Representative Beau Boulter, on behalf of the United 
Seniors Association; John Langbein, Yale University Law School, New 
Haven, Connecticut; Charles Rounds, Suffolk University Law School, 
Boston, Massachusetts; Ian Lanoff, Bredhoff & Kaiser, and Daniel J. 
Schulder, National Council of Senior Citizens, both of Washington, 
D.C.; Wayne Marr, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina; Edward 
Zelinsky, Yeshiva University Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, Manhattan, 
New York; James Z. Pugash, Hearthstone Advisors, San Francisco, 
California; and Kimberly Schuld, Seniors Coalition, Fairfax, Virginia.