[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 102 (Wednesday, June 21, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D767-D768]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: On Tuesday, June 20, Subcommittee on 
Defense held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 
for the Department of Defense, focusing on counternarcotics programs, 
receiving testimony from Brian Sheridan, [[Page D 768]] Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Drug Enforcement Policy and Support); 
and Rear Adm. Norman T. Saunders, Chief of Coast Guard Office of Law 
Enforcement and Defense Operations.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 27.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Vincent Reed Ryan, Jr., of Texas, to be a Member of the 
Board of Directors of the Panama Canal Commission, and 2,906 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
  Also, committee met to discuss procedural issues relating to the 
markup of the proposed defense authorization request for fiscal year 
1996 and the future years defense program.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 143, to consolidate Federal employment training programs and 
create a new process and structure for funding the programs, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 919, to modify and to authorize funds for programs of the Child 
Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act; and
  The nominations of Edmundo A. Gonzales, of Colorado, to be Chief 
Financial Officer, Department of Labor, John D. Kemp, of the District 
of Columbia, to be a Member of the National Council on Disability, and 
Clifford Gregory Stewart, of New Jersey, to be General Counsel, Equal 
Employment Opportunity Commission.
OSHA REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held oversight 
hearings on activities of the Occupational Safety and Health 
Administration (OSHA), focusing on proposals to reform OSHA regulations 
to improve workplace safety, receiving testimony from Duane Guy, Kansas 
Department of Human Resources, and Patrick E. Bush, Western Resources, 
Inc., both of Topeka, Kansas; James C. Andrews, Jr., Dow Chemical 
Company, Freeport, Texas, on behalf of the Voluntary Protection 
Programs Participants' Association; Joseph A. Kinney, Monroe, North 
Carolina, on behalf of the National Safe Workplace Institute; Vernon E. 
Rose, University of Alabama, Birmingham, on behalf of the American 
Industrial Hygiene Association; Ray Montaigne, Capitol Heights, 
Maryland; and Ron Hayes, Fair Hope, Alabama.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATION/ACTIVITIES OF THE DCI
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nomination of George J. Tenet, of Maryland, to be Deputy Director 
of Central Intelligence.
  Also, committee concluded hearings to review the authorities and 
activities involving the Director of Central Intelligence, after 
receiving testimony from John M. Deutch, Director, Central Intelligence 
Agency.