[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 89 (Friday, May 26, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D674-D675]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--OTA/GAO
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch 
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996, 
after receiving testimony in behalf of the Office of Technology 
Assessment from Senators Hatch, Grassley, and Kennedy, each a Member of 
the Board, and Roger C. Herdman, Director, all of OTA; and in behalf of 
the General Accounting Office from Senator Glenn; and Charles A. 
Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States, GAO.
SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Thursday, May 25, 
committee ordered favorably reported, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute, S. 240, to establish a filing deadline and to provide 
certain safeguards to ensure that the interest of investors are well 
protected under the implied private action provisions of the Securities 
Exchange Act of 1934.
WELFARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute, H.R. 4, to control welfare 
spending and reduce welfare dependence by requiring States to encourage 
job placement measures, to provide for a job voucher program through 
the use of private profit and nonprofit organizations, to eliminate 
certain Federal requirements to give States additional flexibility in 
operating their Job Opportunities and Basic Skill Training Program 
(JOBS), and to establish a temporary family assistance grant under 
which States can provide assistance to needy families with minor 
children.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  The nomination of Henry W. Foster Jr., of Tennessee, to be Medical 
Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, subject to 
qualifications therefor as provided by law and regulations, and to be 
Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, Department of Health and 
Human Services; and
  S. 850, authorizing funds for programs of the Child Care and 
Development Block Grant Act.