[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 Bimstein, Springdale, Utah; San Juan County [[Page D 851]] 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 D. [[Page D 852]] 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.