[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 108 (Thursday, June 29, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D808-D809]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued in evening session, in 
closed session, to mark up proposed legislation authorizing funds for 
fiscal year 1996 for military activities of the Department of Defense, 
and to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 1996.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of Robert Talcott Francis II, of 
Massachusetts, and John Goglia, of Massachusetts, each to be a Member 
of the National Transportation Safety Board, and Robert Clarke Brown, 
of New York, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the 
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Brown was 
introduced by Representative Sherrod Brown.
KOMI REPUBLIC OIL SPILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources/Committee on Environment and 
Public Works: Committees concluded joint oversight hearings to examine 
the energy and environmental implications of the crude oil leaks in the 
Komi Republic of the former Soviet Union, after receiving testimony 
from Robert Huggett, Assistant Administrator for Research and 
Development, Environmental Protection Agency; Jerry A. Galt, Chief of 
Modeling and Simulations Studies Branch, Hazardous Materials Response 
and Assessment Division, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration, Department of Commerce; Patricia Fry Godley, Assistant 
Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy; Garrett W. Brass, Executive 
Director, United States Arctic Research Commission; Jacqueline Michel, 
Research Planning, and Cameron Duncan, Greenpeace International, both 
of Washington, D.C.; Richard S. Golob, World Information Systems, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Thomas C. Royer, University of Alaska, 
Fairbanks.
PRESIDIO TRUST
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Parks, 
Historic Preservation and Recreation held hearings on S. 594, to create 
a trust to manage, lease and finance the historical and cultural 
inventory of the Presidio of San Francisco, California at minimal cost 
to the Federal taxpayer, receiving testimony from Senators Boxer and 
Feinstein; Representative Pelosi; Denis P. Galvin, Associate Director, 
Professional Services, National Park Service, Department of the 
Interior; Donald W. Murphy, California Department of Parks and 
Recreation, Sacramento; Lawrance Florin, San Francisco Redevelopment 
Agency, Mary Murphy, on behalf of the Neighborhood Associations for 
Presidio Planning, Eduardo Cohen and Joel Ventresca, both on behalf of 
the Preserve the Presidio Campaign, Henry Maggenti, Friends of the 
Presidio Association, Al Stetz, Presidio Military Golf Club, Redmond F. 
Kernan, Fort Point Presidio Historical Association, James R. Harvey, 
Transamerica Corporation, Donald G. Fisher, The Gap, Inc., and Joel 
Ventresca, all of San Francisco, California; and Curtis Feeny, Stanford 
Management Company, Stanford, California.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AIR POLLUTION CONTROL
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety held oversight hearings 
on the implementation of the motor vehicle emissions inspection and 
maintenance program of the Environmental Protection Agency, receiving 
testimony from Mary D. Nichols, Assistant Administrator for Air and 
Radiation, Environmental Protection Agency; Virginia Secretary of 
Natural Resources Becky Norton Dunlop, Richmond; Thomas Getz, Colorado 
Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver; Lynn Scarlett, 
Reason Foundation, Los Angeles, California, and Douglas R. Lawson, 
Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada, both on behalf of the 
California Inspection and Maintenance Review Committee; and Michael P. 
Walsh, Arlington, Virginia.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MEDICAID
Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings to examine the 
status of the Medicaid program, focusing on overall Medicaid spending 
and an historical perspective, receiving testimony from June E. 
O'Neill, Director, Congressional Budget Office; Diane Rowland, Kaiser 
Commission on the Future of Medicaid, Washington, D.C.; and Gail R. 
Wilensky, Project HOPE, Bethesda, Maryland.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of John T. Stewart, of California, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Moldova, Michael W. Cotter, of the District of Columbia, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of Turkmenistan, A. Elizabeth Jones, of 
Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Kazakhstan, Victor 
Jackovich, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Slovenia, John 
K. Menzies, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Bosnia and 


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Herzegovina, and James E. Goodby, of the District of Columbia, for the 
rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as Principal Negotiator 
and Special Representative of the President for Nuclear Safety and 
Dismantlement, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf.
FRIENDLY FIRE INCIDENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations held hearings to examine an investigation of a United 
States Army fratricide incident during the Persian Gulf War, and an 
assessment of the adequacy of United States Army investigations 
following the incident and allegations certain Army officials hindered 
those investigations, receiving testimony from Richard C. Stiener, 
Director, Office of Special Investigations, General Accounting Office; 
Sara E. Lister, Assistant Secretary for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, 
Gen. Ronald H. Griffith, Vice Chief of Staff, Maj. Gen. Michael 
Nardotti, Judge Advocate General, and Lt. Col. John Daly, all of the 
United States Army; Bo Friesen, Fairview, Texas; Kevin Wessels, 
Burnsville, Minnesota; and Deborah Shelton and Ronald Fielder, both of 
Nashville, Tennessee.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 227, to provide an exclusive right to perform sound recordings 
publicly by means of digital transmissions, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Dianne P. Wood, of Illinois, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, Tena Campbell, to be United 
States District Judge for the District of Utah, George H. King, to be 
United States District Judge for the Central District of California, 
and Robert H. Whaley, to be United States District Judge for the 
Eastern District of Washington.
AUTHORIZATION--OLDER AMERICANS ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Aging held 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the 
Older Americans Act, receiving testimony from Julie Govert Walter, 
North Central-Flint Hills Area Agency on Aging, Manhattan, Kansas, on 
behalf of the Kansas Association of Area Agencies on Aging; Cheryll 
Schramm, Atlanta Regional Commission, Atlanta, Georgia; Neetu Dhawan-
Gray, Commission on Aging and Retirement Education, Baltimore, 
Maryland; J. Douglas Mickle, Reynolds Metals Company, Richmond, 
Virginia; and James R. Dunn, Consumers Power Company, Jackson, 
Michigan.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.