[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 113 (Thursday, July 13, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D850-D852]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BOSNIA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing on certain issues relating to the recent F-16 shoot-down in 
Bosnia from Walter B. Slocombe, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; 
and Maj. Gen. Patrick M. Hughes, USA, Director for Intelligence (J-2), 
and Rear Adm. Charles W. Moore, Jr., USN, Deputy Director for Current 
Operations (J-33), both of the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
UNITED STATES ONE DOLLAR COIN ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings on S. 874, to provide for the minting and circulation of one 
dollar coins, after receiving testimony from Edward W. Kelley, Jr., 
Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Philip N. 
Diehl, Director, United States Mint, Department of the Treasury; L. Nye 
Stevens, Director, Federal Management and Workforce Issues, General 
Government Division, General Accounting Office; James L. Blum, Deputy 
Director, Congressional Budget Office; Robert J. Leuver, Numismatic 
Association, Colorado Springs, Colorado, former Director, Bureau of 
Engraving and Printing, on behalf of the Coin Coalition; David J. 
Ryder, Ryder Company, former Director, United States Mint, on behalf of 
Save the Greenback, and Linda F. Golodner, National Consumers League, 
both of Washington, D.C.; William Buetow, Chicago Transit Authority, 
Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the American Public Transit 
Association; Tommy E. Looper, Anchor Bank, Myrtle Beach, South 
Carolina, on behalf of the American Bankers Association; and R. David 
Clayton, Automatic Food Service, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee, on behalf 
of the National Automatic Merchandising Association.
UTAH WILDERNESS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 884, to designate 
certain public lands in the State of Utah as wilderness, after 
receiving testimony from Senators Hatch and Bennett; Representatives 
Hansen, Orton, and Waldholtz; Sylvia Baca, Deputy Assistant Secretary 
of the Interior for Land and Minerals Management; Mayor Phillip 
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Commissioner Bill Redd, and James Parker, on behalf of the Utah State 
Bureau of Land Management Office, both of Monticello, Utah; Ted 
Stewart, Utah State Department of Natural Resources, Robert Morgan, 
Utah State Water Department, John A. Harja, Utah State School and 
Institution Trust Lands Administration, George Nickas, Utah Wilderness 
Association, Ray Wheeler, Utah Wilderness Coalition, William B. Smart, 
Desert News, on behalf of the Grand Canyon Trust, and Terry Tempest 
Williams, Utah Museum of Natural History, all of Salt Lake City, Utah; 
and Paul R. Frischknecht, Manti, Utah, on behalf of the Utah Wool 
Growers Association.
AUTHORIZATION--ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Drinking 
Water, Fisheries, and Wildlife held hearings on proposed legislation 
authorizing funds for programs of the Endangered Species Act, receiving 
testimony from Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior; Douglas K. 
Hall, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere; 
Montana State Representative Emily Swanson, Bozeman; Montana State 
Representative Dick Knox, Winifred; Michael T. Clegg, University of 
California, Riverside, on behalf of the National Research Council's 
Committee on Scientific Issues in the Endangered Species Act; Jane 
Lubchenco, Oregon State University, Corvallis; Stuart L. Pimm, 
University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Mark L. Plummer, Discovery 
Institute, Seattle, Washington; Wm. Robert Irvin, Center for Marine 
Conservation, Washington, D.C.; David F. Mazour, Central Nebraska 
Public Power and Irrigation District, Holdrege, on behalf of the 
National Endangered Species Act Reform Coalition; Judy DeHose, White 
Mountain Apache Tribe, Whiteriver, Arizona; John A. Harja, Salt Lake 
City, Utah, on behalf of the Western Governors' Association; David R. 
Schmidt, Linn County, Oregon, on behalf of the National Association of 
Counties; and Gregg Easterbrook, Arlington, Virginia.
  Hearings continue on Thursday, July 20.
GSA PUBLIC BUILDINGS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure concluded hearings on S. 1005, to 
improve the process of constructing, altering, purchasing, and 
acquiring public buildings, and on pending Government Services 
Administration building prospectuses and public buildings cost-savings 
initiatives, after receiving testimony from Roger W. Johnson, 
Administrator, General Services Administration; J. William Gadsby, 
Director, Government Business Operations Issues, General Government 
Division, General Accounting Office; and Robert C. Broomfield, 
Chairman, Judicial Conference Committee on Security, Space and 
Facilities.
MEDICAID
Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings to examine ways to 
control the cost of the Medicaid program, focusing on Medicaid 
beneficiaries and provider groups, receiving testimony from Sheldon L. 
Goldberg, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, 
Gregg Haifley, Children's Defense Fund, on behalf of the Maternal and 
Child Health Coalition, Stephen McConnell, Alzheimer's Association, and 
Kathleen H. McGinley, The Arc, on behalf of the Consortium for Citizens 
with Disabilities, all of Washington, D.C.; Clyde W. Oden, Jr., Watts 
Health Foundation, Inc., Inglewood, California, on behalf of the Group 
Health Association of America; and Bruce Siegel, New York City Health 
and Hospitals Corporation, New York, New York.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
U.S. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
United States national goals and objectives in international relations 
in the year 2000 and beyond, after receiving testimony from Henry A. 
Kissinger, Kissinger Associates, New York, New York.
UNITED STATES ASSISTANCE IN GAZA/JERICHO
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South 
Asian Affairs concluded hearings to examine economic development and 
United States assistance in Gaza and Jericho, after receiving testimony 
from Margaret Carpenter, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Asia and 
the Near East, Agency for International Development; Richard A. Roth, 
Director, Office of Israel and Arab-Israeli Affairs, Department of 
State; Christopher Finn, Executive Vice President, Overseas Private 
Investment Corporation; James Zogby, Arab American Institute, Mal 
Levine, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and Leo Kramer, Kramer Associates, 
Inc., all of Washington, D.C.; Ziad Karram, G.R.d'G., Fairfax, 
Virginia; and B.J. Bucheit, Jr., Bucheit International Ltd., Boardman, 
Ohio.
FDA EXPORT REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Aging concluded 
hearings on S. 593, to allow the free export of drugs and medical 
devices not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in the 
United States to member countries of the World Trade Organization, if 
certain safeguards are satisfied, after receiving testimony from Arthur 
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Collins, Jr., Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota; Thomas C. 
Thompson, Quest Medical, Inc., Dallas, Texas, on behalf of the Medical 
Device Manufacturers Association; Stephen L. Ferguson, Cook Group, 
Inc., Bloomington, Indiana; Mark B. Knudson, Medical Innovation 
Partners, Minnetonka, Minnesota; John C. Petricciani, Genetics 
Institute, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts; Richard T. Dean, Diatech, 
Inc., Londonderry, New Hampshire; and Michael L. King, Merck and 
Company, Inc., White House Station, New Jersey.
SMALL BUSINESS LENDING ENHANCEMENT ACT
Committee on Small Business: Committee ordered favorably reported, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 895, to revise the Small 
Business Act to reduce the level of participation by the Small Business 
Administration in certain loans guaranteed by the SBA.
SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT COMPANY PROGRAM
Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings to examine the 
future of the Small Business Investment Company Program of the Small 
Business Administration, receiving testimony from Cassandra M. Pulley, 
Deputy Administrator, Small Business Administration; Gerald H. Johnson, 
Williams Brothers Lumber Company, Duluth, Georgia; Ronald J. 
Manganiello, Hanger Orthopedic Group, Inc., New Canaan, Connecticut; 
Ronald L. Thompson, Midwest Stamping Company, Bowling Green, Ohio; 
Patricia M. Cloherty, Patricof and Company Ventures, Inc., New York, 
New York, on behalf of the National Venture Capital Association and the 
SBIC Reinvention Council; and William F. Dunbar, National Association 
of Small Business Investment Companies, Alexandria, Virginia.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INDIAN FEDERAL RECOGNITION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 479, to 
provide for administrative procedures to extend Federal recognition to 
certain Indian groups, receiving testimony from Michael Anderson, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; 
Gaiashkibos, National Congress of American Indians, and Richard 
Dauphinais, Native American Rights Fund, both of Washington, D.C.; 
Frances G. Charles, Lower Elwha Tribal Council, Port Angeles, 
Washington; Dena Ammon Magdaleno, Advisory Council on California Indian 
Policy, Sacramento; Arlinda Locklear, Jefferson, Maryland; and 
Christine Grabowski, New York, New York.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.