[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 98 (Thursday, June 15, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D740-D742]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
FARM BILL--RICE, WHEAT AND OILSEED TITLES
Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities 
continued hearings on the Farm Bill--Rice, Wheat, and Oilseed Titles. 
Testimony was heard from Representative Lincoln; and public witnesses.
LEGISLATIVE AND FOREIGN OPERATIONS, EXPORT FINANCING AND RELATED 
PROGRAMS APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Ordered reported the following 
appropriation bills for fiscal year 1996: Legislative; and the Foreign 
Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs.
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS REGULATORY RELIEF ACT
Committee on Banking and Financial Services: Subcommittee on Financial 
Institutions and Consumer Credit approved for full Committee action 
amended H.R. 1362, Financial Institutions Regulatory Relief Act of 
1995.
SUPERFUND REAUTHORIZATION
Committee on Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Hazardous 
Materials continued hearings on the reauthorization of the Superfund 
program. Testimony was heard from Senator Inhofe; Representatives 
Regula and Visclosky; Tim Fields, Administrator, EPA; Becky Norton 
Dunloop, Secretary of Natural Resources, State of Virginia; Nick 
DiPasquale, Division Director for Air and Waste Management, Department 
of Natural Resources, State of Delaware; Jim Strock, Secretary, 
Environmental Protection Agency, State of California; Cindy Hafner, 
Supervising Attorney, Division of Emergency and Remedial Response, 
Environmental Protection Agency, State of Ohio; Gail Norton, Attorney 
General, State of Colorado; and public witnesses.
  Hearings continue June 20.
TRANSFORMATION OF MEDICAID PROGRAM
Committee on Commerce: Subcommittee on Health and the Environment 
continued hearings on the Transformation of the Medicaid program. 
Testimony was heard from Kwai-Cheung-Chan, Director, Division of 
Program, Evaluation and Methodology, GAO; David Satcher, M.D., 
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of 
Health and Human Services; Elin Gursky, M.D., Senior Assistant 
Commissioner of Health, Department of Health, [[Page D741]] State of 
New Jersey; David R. Smith, M.D., Commissioner, Department of Health, 
State of Texas; and public witnesses.
ECONOMICALLY TARGETED INVESTMENTS
Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities: Subcommittee on 
Employer-Employee Relations held a hearing on H.R. 1594, to place 
restrictions on the promotion by the Department of Labor and other 
Federal agencies and instrumentalities of economically targeted 
investments in connection with employee benefit plans. Testimony was 
heard from Representative Saxton; Olena Berg, Assistant Secretary, 
Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration, Department of Labor; and 
public witnesses.
OPM OVERSIGHT: CONTRACTING FEDERAL INVESTIGATIONS
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Subcommittee on Civil 
Service concluded hearings on OPM Oversight: Contracting Federal 
Investigations. Testimony was heard from James B. King, Director, OPM; 
G. Edward DeSeve, Controller, OMB; Timothy P. Bowling, Associate 
Director, Federal Human Resources Management Issues, GAO; and public 
witnesses.
OVERSIGHT
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Subcommittee on Human 
Resources and Intergovernmental Relations held an oversight hearing on 
Anti-Fraud and Abuse Enforcement in Medicare/Medicaid programs. 
Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department of 
Health and Human Services: Bruce Vladeck, Administrator, Health Care 
Financing Administration; and June Gibbs Brown, Inspector General; 
Gerald Stern, Special Counsel, Financial Institution Fraud, Department 
of Justice; Jonathan Ratner, Assistance Director, Health Financial 
Issues, GAO; Rufus Noble, Inspector General, Agency for Health Care 
Administration, State of Florida; and a public witness.
COMPREHENSIVE ANTITERRORISM ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Continued markup of H.R. 1710, 
Comprehensive Antiterrorism Act of 1995.
  Will continue tomorrow.
OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Commercial and 
Administrative Law continued oversight hearings on the reauthorization 
of Legal Services Corporation. Testimony was heard from Representative 
Taylor of North Carolina; and public witnesses.
  Hearings continue June 22.
OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution held an 
oversight hearing on partial-birth abortions. Testimony was heard from 
public witnesses.
OVERSIGHT
Committee on Resources: Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans 
held an oversight hearing on the NOAA's Ocean and Coastal Programs. 
Testimony was heard from D. James Baker, Under Secretary, Oceans and 
Atmosphere, Department of Commerce; and public witnesses.
CENTRAL UTAH PROJECT COMPLETION ACT
Committee on Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources held 
a hearing on H.R. 1823, to amend the Central Utah Project Completion 
Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to allow for prepayment of 
repayment contracts between the United States and the Central Utah 
Water Conservancy District dated December 28, 1965, and November 26, 
1965. Testimony was heard from Representative Hansen; and Roger 
Patterson, Regional Director, Mid-Pacific Region, Bureau of 
Reclamation, Department of the Interior.
OVERSIGHT
Committee on Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources held 
an oversight hearing on possible transfer of Reclamation facilities out 
of Federal Control. Testimony was heard from Representative Laughlin; 
Roger Patterson, Regional Director, Mid-Pacific Region, Bureau of 
Reclamation, Department of the Interior; and public witnesses.
ABOLISH CONSENT CALENDAR--ESTABLISH CORRECTIONS CALENDAR
Committee on Rules: Ordered reported, by a record vote of 9 to 4, a new 
privileged resolution consisting of the text of H. Res. 161, as amended 
by the Committee, amending clause 4 of House Rule XIII, by abolishing 
the Consent Calendar and establishing a new Corrections Calendar. H. 
Res. 161 was laid upon the table.
LINE-ITEM VETO
Committee on Rules: Pursuant to clause 1 of House Rule XX, the 
Committee, by a voice vote, adopted a motion authorizing the Chairman 
to offer such motions as may be necessary in the House to go to 
conference with the Senate on S. 4, relating to the line-item veto (or 
a similar House bill).
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MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Rules: Granted, by a voice vote, an open rule providing 1 
hour of debate on H.R. 1817, making appropriations for military 
construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the 
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996. 
The rule waives clause 2 (prohibiting unauthorized and legislative 
provisions) and clause 6 (prohibiting reappropriations) of rule XXI 
against provision of the bill.
  The rule authorizes the Chair to accord priority in recognition to 
Members who have preprinted their amendments in the Congressional 
Record. The rule provides one motion to recommit. Finally, the rule 
provides that the spending and credit allocations to the Committee on 
Appropriations contained in the House passed budget resolution shall 
apply for Budget Act enforcement purposes until final adoption of a 
budget resolution. Testimony was heard from Representatives Vucanovich, 
Hefner, Brewster, and Harman.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIAL SERVICES 
AUTHORIZATION ACT; ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ADMINISTRATION ACT
Committee on Science: Subcommittee on Technology approved for full 
Committee action the following measures: the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology Industrial Services Authorization Act of 1995; 
and the Advanced Technology Administration Act of 1995.
OSHA'S FALL PROTECTION STANDARD
Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Regulation and Paperwork 
held a hearing on OSHA's Fall Protection Standard. Testimony was heard 
from Joseph A. Dear, Assistant Secretary and Director, Occupational 
Safety and Health Administration, Department of Labor; and public 
witnesses.
COMMITTEE BUSINESS
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct: Met in executive session to 
consider pending business.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Subcommittee on Public 
Buildings and Economic Development held a hearing on the following 
bills: H.R. 395, to designate the U.S. courthouse and Federal building 
to be constructed at the southeastern corner of Liberty and South 
Virginia Streets in Reno, NV, as the ``Bruce R. Thompson United States 
Courthouse and Federal Building;'' H.R. 840, to designate the Federal 
building and U.S. courthouse located at 215 South Evans Street in 
Greenville, NC, as the ``Walter B. Jones Federal Building and United 
States Courthouse;'' H.R. 869, to designate the Federal building and 
U.S. courthouse located at 125 Market Street in Youngstown, OH, as the 
``Thomas D. Lambros Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse;'' H.R. 965, 
to designate the Federal building located at 600 Martin Luther King, 
Jr. Place in Louisville, KY, as the ``Romano L. Mazzoli Federal 
Building;'' H.R. 255, to designate the Federal Justice Building in 
Miami, FL, as the ``James Lawrence King Federal Justice Building;'' 
H.R. 1804, to designate the U.S. Post Office-Courthouse located at 
South 6th and Rogers Avenue, Fort Smith, AR, as the ``Judge Isaac C. 
Parker Federal Building;'' H.R. 309, Hopewell Township Investment Act 
of 1995. Testimony was heard from Representatives Vucanovich, Hastings 
of Florida, Traficant, Hutchinson and Klink.
VETERANS LEGISLATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Ordered reported the following bills: 
H.R. 1384, to amend title 38, United States Code, to exempt certain 
full-time health-care professionals of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs from restriction on remunerated outside professional 
activities; H.R. 1536, to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend 
for 2 years an expiring authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
with respect to determination of locality salaries for certain nurse 
anesthetist positions in the Department of Veterans Affairs; and H.R. 
1565, amended, to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend through 
December 31, 1997, the period during which the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs is authorized to provide priority health care to certain 
veterans exposed to Agent Orange, ionizing radiation or environmental 
hazards.
EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT
Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Oversight and the 
Subcommittee on Human Resources held a joint hearing on the Earned 
Income Tax Credit. Testimony was heard from Representatives Petri and 
Hutchinson; from the following officials of the Department of the 
Treasury: Leslie B. Samuels, Assistant Secretary, Tax Policy; and 
Margaret Milner Richardson, Commission, IRS; Joseph A. Antolin, Deputy 
Director, Department of Public Aid, State of Illinois; and public 
witnesses.
TERRORISM
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on Human 
Intelligence, Analysis, and Counterintelligence met in executive 
session to hold a hearing on Terrorism. Testimony was heard from 
departmental witnesses.