[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 111 (Tuesday, July 11, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D835-D836]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
FOOD STAMP FLEXIBILITY AND COMMODITY DISTRIBUTION CONSOLIDATION ACT
Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Department Operations, 
Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture approved for full Committee action 
amended H.R. 1997, Food Stamp Flexibility and Commodity Distribution 
Consolidation Act of 1995.
BUDGET ALLOCATIONS; TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT 
APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Approved a revised section 602(b) budget 
allocation report.
  The Committee also began markup of the Treasury, Postal Service, and 
General Government appropriations for fiscal year 1996.
  Will continue tomorrow.
LABOR--HHS--EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education began markup of appropriations for Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education for fiscal year 1996.
NATIONAL SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on National Security began 
markup of appropriations for National Security for fiscal year 1996.
  Will continue tomorrow.
CORRECTIONS DAY LEGISLATION
Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities: Subcommittee on 
Workforce Protections held a hearing on the following Corrections Day 
bills: H.R. 1114, to authorize minors who are under the child labor 
provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and who are under 18 
years of age to load materials into balers and compactors; H.R. 1225, 
to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt employees who 
perform certain court reporting duties from the compensatory time 
requirements applicable to certain public agencies; and H.R. 1783, to 
require a change in regulation under the Occupational Safety and Health 
Act of 1970. Testimony was heard from Representatives Ewing, Combest 
and Vucanovich; and public witnesses.
LOCK BOX DEFICIT PROPOSALS
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Subcommittee on 
Government Management, Information, and Technology, Committee on the 
Budget and the Subcommittee on Legislation and Budget Process of the 
Committee on Rules held a joint hearing on Lock Box Deficit Proposals. 
Testimony was heard from Representatives Brewster, Crapo, Harman, 
Royce, Zimmer and Foley; Alice M. Rivlin, Director, OMB; and James L. 
Blum, Deputy Director, CBO.
BUDGET AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION--ANNUAL SHAREHOLDERS REPORT
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Subcommittee on 
Government Management, Information, and Technology held a hearing on 
Budget and Financial Information--Annual Shareholders Report: How Does 
the Citizen Know What is Going On? Testimony was heard from the 
following officials of the GAO: Gene L. Dodaro, Assistant Comptroller 
General, Accounting and Information Management Division; Donald Chapin, 
Chief Accountant; and Paul L. Posner, Director, Budget Issues, 
Accounting and Information Management Division; Edward DeSeve, 
Controller, Office of Federal Financial Management, OMB; and public 
witnesses.
CUBAN LIBERTY AND DEMOCRATIC SOLIDARITY ACT
Committee on International Relations: Ordered reported amended H.R. 
927, Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act of 1995.

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SHOOTDOWN OF UNITED STATES F-16 OVER FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
Committee on National Security: Held a hearing on the Department of 
Defense review of the shootdown of a United States F-16 over the former 
Yugoslavia. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the 
Department of Defense: Gen. John M. Shalikashvilli, USA, Chairman, 
Joint Chiefs of Staff; and RAdm. C. W. Moore, Jr., USN, Director, 
Operations (Current Operations), The Joint Staff.
LIVESTOCK GRAZING ACT
Committee on Resources: Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and 
Lands held a hearing on H.R. 1713, Livestock Grazing Act. Testimony was 
heard from Representatives Skeen and Herger; Jack Ward Thomas, Chief, 
Forest Service, USDA; Mike Dombeck, Acting Director, Bureau of Land 
Management, Department of the Interior; and public witnesses.
INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, an open rule providing 1 
hour of debate on H.R. 1977, making appropriations for the Department 
of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1996. The rule waives the following sections of the 
Budget Act: section 302(f) (prohibiting consideration of a measure 
containing new entitlement authority which exceeds a committee's 
allocation); section 306 (prohibiting matters within the jurisdiction 
of the Budget Committee in a measure not reported by it); and section 
308(a) (prohibiting the consideration of a measure containing new 
entitlement authority if the report does not contain a CBO estimate on 
such entitlement authority).
  Further, the rule waives clause 2 (prohibiting unauthorized 
appropriations and legislative provisions) and clause 6 (prohibiting 
reappropriations in an appropriations bill) of rule XXI against 
provisions in the bill. The rule provides that the bill shall be read 
by title rather than by paragraph for amendment and that each title 
shall be considered as read.
  The rule provides for the automatic adoption of an amendment printed 
in section 2 of the rule (striking a directed scorekeeping provision at 
57, line 21 through page 58, line 2; and changing a mandatory salary 
provision into a discretionary provision at page 75, line 24).
  The rule waives all points of order against the amendment printed in 
section 3 of the rule (striking two provisos at page 57, line 11 
through line 21, relating to the sale of oil from the Strategic 
Petroleum Reserve), if offered by Rep. Schaefer of Colorado or Rep. 
Tauzin of Louisiana.
  The rule permits the Chair to accord priority in recognition to 
Members who have pre-printed their amendments in the Congressional 
Record. The rule waives clause 2(e) of rule XXI (prohibiting non-
emergency amendments to be offered to a bill containing an emergency 
designation under the Budget Act) against amendments to the bill. 
Finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit, with or without 
instructions.
  Testimony was heard from Representatives Regula, Nethercutt, Young of 
Alaska, Schaefer, Gallegly, Weldon, Zimmer, Largent, Souder, Coburn, 
Dicks, Dingell, Rahall, Tauzin, Brewster, Harman, and Underwood.
SUPERFUND--OIL POLLUTION ACT
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Subcommittee on Water 
Resources and Environment and the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and 
Maritime Transportation held a joint hearing on the following: Natural 
Resources Damages Under The Comprehensive and Liability Act of 1990 
(Superfund); and the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. Testimony was heard 
from Douglas Hall, Assistant Secretary, Oceans and Atmosphere, NOAA, 
Department of Commerce; Robert P. Davison, Deputy Assistant Secretary, 
Fish and Wildlife and Parks, Department of the Interior; Lois Schiffer, 
Assistant Attorney General, Natural Resources Division, Department of 
Justice; and public witnesses.
MISCELLANEOUS TAX REFORMS
Committee on Ways and Means: Held a hearing on miscellaneous tax 
reforms. Testimony was heard from Representatives Kennelly, Levin, 
Houghton, Goodling, Frank of Massachusetts, Johnson of South Dakota, 
and Blute; and public witnesses.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
RULES OF ORIGIN
Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Trade held a hearing on 
Rules of Origin. Testimony was heard from Jeffrey M. Lang, Deputy U.S. 
Trade Representative; from the following officials of the Department of 
the Treasury: John Simpson, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Regulatory 
Tariff and Trade Enforcement; and Samuel H. Banks, Assistant 
Commissioner, Office of Field Operations, U.S. Customs Service; and 
public witnesses.