[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 93 (Thursday, June 8, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D701-D703]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for military 
construction programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their 
respective activities from Robert M. Walker, Assistant Secretary of the 
Army for Logistics and Environment, Bruce M. Carnes, Deputy Director 
for Resource Management, Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Maj. 
Gen. G.K. Anderson, USAF, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health 
Services, Operations, and Readiness; Brig. Gen. Harold E. Burch, USA, 
Executive Director, Distribution, Defense Logistics Agency, and Millard 
Carr, Director, Energy and Engineering, Office of Deputy Assistant 
Secretary for Installations, all of the Department of Defense.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
BOSNIA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings to examine 
recent developments in Bosnia and United States policy toward the 
conflict in the region, receiving testimony from Alexander M. Haig, 
Jr., Washington, D.C., former Secretary of State.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FINANCIAL SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to examine the status of the financial services 
negotiations under the newly created World Trade Organization and 
market access barriers to United States securities firms, after 
receiving testimony from Robert E. Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury; 
Michael Kantor, United States Trade Representative; James F. Gwaltney, 
Ford Financial Services Group, Dearborn, Michigan, on behalf of the 
Coalition of Service Industries, Inc.; and Carl A. Modecki, National 
Association of Insurance Brokers, F. William Hawley, Citicorp/Citibank, 
on behalf of the Bankers' Association for Foreign Trade, Paul Stevens, 
Investment Company Institute, and Steve Judge, Securities Industry 
Association, all of Washington, D.C.
FOREST MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management resumed oversight hearings on Federal forest 
management issues, focusing on the Department of Agriculture's proposal 
to reorganize the Forest Service, the Forest Service proposal to revise 
the regulations governing the development of national forest plans 
under the National Forest Management Act of 1976, and H.R. 529, to 
authorize the exchange of National Forest System lands in the Targhee 
National Forest in Idaho for non-Federal lands within the forest in 
Wyoming, receiving testimony from Jack Ward Thomas, Chief, Forest 
Service, Department of Agriculture; R. Max Peterson, Leesburg, 
Virginia, former [[Page D702]] Chief, Forest Service; Mitch Friedman, 
Northwest Ecosystem Alliance, Bellingham, Washington; Michael Medberry, 
Western Ancient Forest Campaign, and James R. Woehr, Wildlife 
Management Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Dan Tomascheski, 
Sierra-Pacific Industries, Anderson, California; Charles H. Burley, 
Northwest Forestry Association, Bend, Oregon; and Donald Leal, 
Political Economy Research Center, Bozeman, Montana.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Ira S. Shapiro, of Maryland, for the rank of Ambassador 
during his tenure of service as Senior Counsel and Negotiator in the 
Office of the United States Trade Representative, John D. Hawke, Jr., 
of New York, to be Under Secretary, and Linda L. Robertson, of 
Oklahoma, to be a Deputy Under Secretary, both of the Department of the 
Treasury, and Stephen G. Kellison, of Texas, and Marilyn Moon, of 
Maryland, each to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Federal 
Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability 
Insurance Trust Fund.
  Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the 
aforementioned nominations, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the scope and 
purpose of the earned income tax credit, and proposals to modify and 
improve the EITC, receiving testimony from Leslie B. Samuels, Assistant 
Secretary for Tax Policy, and Margaret Milner Richardson, Commissioner, 
Internal Revenue Service, both of the Department of the Treasury; Lynda 
D. Willis, Associate Director, Tax Policy and Administration Issues, 
General Government Division, General Accounting Office; Robert 
Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Marvin H. Kosters, 
American Enterprise Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; and George K. 
Yin, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BOSNIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the 
United States overall goals and diplomatic strategy in Bosnia, 
receiving testimony from Peter Tarnoff, Under Secretary of State for 
Political Affairs; Walter B. Slocombe, Under Secretary of Defense for 
Policy; and Lt. Gen. Wesley K. Clark, Director, Plans and Policy (J-5), 
Joint Chiefs of Staff.
  Committee will meet again tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration approved for 
full committee consideration S. 457, to update references in the 
classification of children for purposes of United States immigration 
laws.
  Also, subcommittee began consideration of S. 269, to increase control 
over immigration to the United States by increasing border patrol and 
investigator personnel, improving the verification system for employer 
sanctions, increasing penalties for alien smuggling and for document 
fraud, reforming asylum, exclusion, and deportation law and procedures, 
instituting a land border user fee, and to reduce the use of welfare by 
aliens, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on 
Wednesday, June 14.
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY BLOCK GRANT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on 
S. 673, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1996 through 1998 to 
establish a youth development grant program, after receiving testimony 
from Philip Coltoff, Children's Aid Society, and Anthony P. Conza, 
Blimpie International, Inc., representing the Boys and Girls Clubs of 
America, both of New York, New York; Michael J. McClelland, Hardware 
Wholesalers, Inc., Fort Wayne, Indiana, representing the Big Brothers/
Big Sisters of America; Michael L. Green, EverGreen Capital Management, 
Omaha, Nebraska, representing the Camp Fire Boys and Girls; Randy 
Johnson, Minneapolis, Minnesota, representing the National Association 
of Counties and the Local Collaboration on Children and Youth; William 
F. Wetzel, YMCA of Metropolitan Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee; 
John A. Johnson, New York State Division for Youth, Rensselaer; and 
Beverly Watts Davis, San Antonio Fighting Back, San Antonio, Texas.
VA REGULATIONS
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
recent court decisions affecting Department of Veterans Affairs' 
regulations regarding veterans' benefits, focusing on Gardner v. Brown, 
115 S. Ct. 552 (1994), and Davenport v. Brown, 7 Vet. App. 476 (1995), 
after receiving testimony from Mary Lou Keener, General Counsel, 
Department of Veterans Affairs, who was accompanied by several of her 
associates.
NATIVE AMERICAN FINANCIAL SERVICES ORGANIZATION ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 436, to 
improve the economic conditions and supply of housing in Native 
American communities by creating the Native American Financial Services 
[[Page D703]] Organization, receiving testimony from Joseph Shuldiner, 
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, Dom Nessi, Director, 
Office of Native American Programs, and Michael A. Stegman, Assistant 
Secretary for Policy Development and Research, all of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development; Michael Mail, Quinault Indian Nation, 
Taholah, Washington; John SunChild Sr., Chippewa Cree Tribal Council, 
Box Elder, Montana; Jacqueline L. Johnson, Tlingit-Haida Indian Housing 
Authority, Juneau, Alaska, on behalf of the National American Indian 
Housing Council; Robert Gauthier, Salish-Kootenai Housing Authority, 
Pablo, Montana, on behalf of the National Commission on American 
Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Housing; and Joel R. 
Thompson, Cherokee Nation Housing Authority, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: On Wednesday, June 7, committee held 
closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from 
officials of the intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.