[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 86 (Tuesday, May 23, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D648-D650]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1995 FARM BILL: FOOD ASSISTANCE
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed 
hearings on proposed legislation to strengthen and improve United 
States agricultural programs, focusing on the Department of Agriculture 
food and nutrition assistance programs, receiving testimony from 
Representative Cunningham; Dan Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture; 
Ellen W. Haas, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food and Consumer 
Services; Robert A. Robinson, Associate Director, Food and Agriculture 
Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, 
General Accounting Office; Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, Des Moines; 
Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, Tallahassee; Gerald H. Miller, Michigan 
Department of Social Services, Lansing; J. Jean Rogers, Wisconsin 
Department of Health and Social Services, Madison; Robert Greenstein, 
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Timothy M. Hammonds, Food 
Marketing Institute, and Robert J. Fersh, Food Research and Action 
Center, all of Washington, D.C.; M. Anne Hill, City University of New 
York, Flushing; Linda Locke, Louisville, Kentucky, on behalf of the 
National Child and Adult Care Food Program Sponsors Forum; Vivian 
Pilant, South Carolina Department of Education, Columbia, on behalf of 
the American School Food Service Association; and James Richard, 
Alabama Department of Public Health, Montgomery, on behalf of the 
National Association of WIC Directors.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for financial management 
programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony from John J. 
Hamre, Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller); and Charles Bowsher, 
Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting Office.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 6.
APPROPRIATIONS--DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia 
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the 
government of the District of Columbia, focusing on the District of 
Columbia public school system, receiving testimony from Michael Feuer, 
Director, Board on Testing and Assessment, National Research Council; 
Wilma Harvey, President, District of Columbia Board of Education, and 
Franklin Smith, Superintendent, District of Columbia Public Schools, 
both of the Government of the District of Columbia; and Daniel Koretz, 
Urban Institute, Carrie Thornhill, on behalf of the Committee on Public 
Education, Delabian Rice-Thurston, Parents United for the D.C. Public 
Schools, and Thriftone B. Jones, D.C. Congress of Parents and Teachers, 
all of Washington, D.C.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

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APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for foreign 
assistance programs, receiving testimony from Lynn Davis, Under 
Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs, and John 
Shattuck, Assistant Secretary for Human Rights, both of the Department 
of State; Lt. Gen. Thomas Rhame, Director, Defense Security Assistance 
Agency, Department of Defense; and Lawrence J. Korb, Brookings 
Institution, Holly J. Burkhalter, Human Rights Watch, William Hartung, 
World Policy Institute, and Lora Lumpe, Federation of American 
Scientists, all of Washington, D.C.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 2,020 
military nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
NASA SPACE STATION PROGRAM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings on the state and 
performance of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration space 
station program, after receiving testimony from J. Wayne Littles, 
Associate Administrator, Office of Space Flight, Harry Holloway, 
Associate Administrator, Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and 
Applications, and Randy Brinkley, Space Station Program Manager 
(Houston, Texas), all of the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration; Marcia Smith, Space Policy Analyst, Congressional 
Research Service, Library of Congress; Lori B. Garver, National Space 
Society, and Alexander McPherson, Association of American Universities, 
both of Washington, D.C.; and Tom Rogers, Space Transportation 
Association, Arlington, Virginia.
RECLAMATION FACILITIES TRANSFER ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management held hearings on S. 620, to direct the Secretary 
of the Interior to convey, upon request, certain property in Federal 
reclamation projects to beneficiaries of the projects and to set forth 
a distribution scheme for revenues from reclamation project lands, 
receiving testimony from Daniel P. Beard, Commissioner, Bureau of 
Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Roger Ling, Ling, Nielsen and 
Robinson, Rupert, Idaho; Thomas F. Donnelly, National Water Resources 
Association, Arlington, Virginia; Tom W. Davis, Carlsbad Irrigation 
District, Carlsbad, New Mexico; Gary Esslinger, Elephant Butte 
Irrigation District, and Steven L. Hernandez, Hubert & Hernandez, on 
behalf of the Elephant Butte Irrigation District and the Carlsbad 
Irrigation District, both of Las Cruces, New Mexico; and Kenneth 
Nelson, Courtland, Kansas, on behalf of the Irrigation Projects 
Reauthorization Council of Kansas and Nebraska.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
WOLVES IN YELLOWSTONE PARK
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Parks, 
Historic Preservation and Recreation concluded oversight hearings on 
the Department of the Interior's programs, policies and budget 
implications on the reintroduction of wolves in and around Yellowstone 
National Park, after receiving testimony from George T. Frampton, Jr., 
Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, and Mollie H. 
Beattie, Director, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, both of the 
Department of the Interior; Robert M. Ferris, Defenders of Wildlife, 
John Kostyack, National Wildlife Federation, William G. Myers, III, 
Public Lands Council, on behalf of the National Cattlemen's 
Association, Philip H. Voorhees, on behalf of the National Parks and 
Conservation Association, and Jon Doggett, American Farm Bureau 
Federation, all of Washington, D.C.; and Elaine Allestad, Big Timber, 
Montana, on behalf of the Montana Wool Growers Association and the 
American Sheep Industry Association.
AUTHORIZATION--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee began markup of proposed 
legislation to authorize reduced levels of appropriations for foreign 
assistance programs for fiscal years 1996 and 1997, but did not 
complete action thereon, and will continue tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Robert F. Rider, of Delaware, and S. David Fineman, of 
Pennsylvania, each to be a Governor of the United States Postal 
Service, G. Edward DeSeve, of Pennsylvania, to be Controller, Office of 
Federal Financial Management, Office of Management and Budget, and John 
W. Carlin, of Kansas, to be Archivist of the United States, National 
Archives and Records Administration, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Fineman was introduced by 
Senator Specter and Representatives Borski and Fattah, Mr. DeSeve was 
introduced by Representative Borski, and Mr. Carlin was introduced by 
Senator Dole. Testimony was also received on the nomination of Mr. 
Carlin from Gaddis Smith, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, on 
behalf of [[Page D650]] the Organization of American Historians and the 
American Historical Association; Susan E. Davis, State Historical 
Society of Wisconsin, Madison, on behalf of the Society of American 
Archivists; Howard P. Lowell, Delaware State Archives, Dover, on behalf 
of the National Association of Government Archives and Records 
Administrators; and Martha Joynt Kumar, Towson State University, 
Towson, Maryland, on behalf of the Presidency Research Group.
EEOC
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded oversight 
hearings on the state of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 
focusing on EEOC's charge processing system and case backlog, after 
receiving testimony from Linda G. Morra, Director, Education and 
Employment Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division, 
General Accounting Office; Gilbert F. Casellas, Chairman, Equal 
Employment Opportunity Commission; Donald R. Livingston, Akin, Gump, 
Strauss, Hauer & Feld, and Stephen E. Tallent, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, 
both of Washington, D.C.; James A. Quirk, Computer Sciences Raytheon, 
Cocoa Beach, Florida, on behalf of the Society for Human Resource 
Management; and Nancy Kreiter, Women Employed Institute, Chicago, 
Illinois.