[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 113 (Thursday, July 13, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D854-D855]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Resource Conservation, 
Research, and Forestry held a hearing on the following: H.R. 714, 
Illinois Land Conservation Act of 1995; H.R. 701, to authorize the 
Secretary of Agriculture to convey lands to the city of Rolla, MO; and 
other similar legislation. Testimony was heard from Representatives 
Emerson, Weller and Browder; and Janice McDougle, Assistant Deputy 
Chief, National Forest System, U.S. Forest Service, USDA.
NATIONAL SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on National Security met in 
executive session and approved for full Committee action appropriations 
for National Security for fiscal year 1996.
RYAN WHITE CARE ACT AMENDMENTS
Committee on Commerce: Ordered reported amended H.R. 1872, Ryan White 
CARE Act Amendments of 1995.
EDUCATION REFORM
Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities: Subcommittee on 
Early childhood, Youth and Families continued hearings on Education 
Reform. Testimony was heard from Bruce Alberts, President, National 
Academy of Sciences; William C. Bosher, Jr., Superintendent of Public 
Instruction, State of Virginia; and public witnesses.
PENSION PROTECTION ACT
Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities: Subcommittee on 
Employer-Employee Relations approved for full Committee action amended 
H.R. 1594, Pension Protection Act of 1995.
BOSNIA SITUATION
Committee on International Relations: and the Committee on National 
Security met in executive session to receive a joint briefing on the 
Situation in Bosnia. The Committees were briefed by John Kornblum, 
Acting Assistant Secretary, European and Canadian Affairs, Department 
of State; and the following officials of the Department of Defense: 
Joseph Kruzel, Deputy Assistant Secretary, European and NATO Affairs; 
and Lt. Gen. Wesley K. Clarke, USA, Director, Strategic Plans and 
Policy, Joint Staff.
ANGOLA--PATH TOWARD DEMOCRACY
Committee on International Relations: Subcommittee on Africa held a 
hearing on The Path Toward Democracy in Angola. Testimony was heard 
from Edward Brynn, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of 
African Affairs, Department of State; and public witnesses.
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTIONS
Committee on International Relations: Subcommittee on Asia and the 
Pacific approved for full Committee action the following resolutions: 
H.Res. 158, amended, congratulating the people of Mongolia on the fifth 
anniversary of the first democratic multiparty elections held in 
Mongolia on July 29, 1990; H.Res. 81, encouraging the peace process in 
Sri Lanka; and H. Con. Res. 80, expressing the sense of Congress that 
the United States should recognize the concerns of the peoples of 
Oceania and call upon the Government of France to cease all nuclear 
testing at the Mururoa and Fangataufa atolls.
BOATING AND AVIATION OPERATION SAFETY ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Commercial and 
Administrative Law held a hearing on H.R. 234, Boating and Aviation 
Operation Safety Act of 1994. Testimony was heard from Representative 
Ehlers; Bruce A. Gilmour, Director, Boating Administration, Department 
of Natural Resources, State of Maryland; and public witnesses.
COPYRIGHT TERM EXTENSION ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual 
Property concluded hearings on H.R. 989, Copyright Term Extension Act 
of 1995. Testimony was heard from Marybeth Peters, Register of 
Copyrights, Copyright Office of the United States, Library of Congress; 
Charlene Barshefsky, Deputy U.S. Trade Representatives; Bruce Lehman, 
Assistant Secretary and Commissioner, Patents and Trademarks, Patent 
and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce; and public witnesses.
IMMIGRATION IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST ACT; PRIVATE CLAIMS BILLS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims 
began markup of H.R. 1915, Immigration in the National Interest Act of 
1995.
  The Subcommittee also considered private claims bills.
  
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CHEMICAL DEMILITARIZATION
Committee on National Security: Subcommittee on Military Procurement 
held a hearing on chemical demilitarization. Testimony was heard from 
the following officials of the Department of Defense: Gilbert F. 
Decker, Assistant Secretary, Research, Development and Acquisition, 
Department of the Army; Theodore Prociv, Deputy Assistant to the 
Secretary, Chemical/Biological Matters; and Maj. Gen. Robert D. Orton, 
USA, Project Manager, Chemical Demilitarization, Department of the 
Army; David R. Warren, Director, Defense Management and NASA Issues, 
GAO; Dennis Kwiatkowski, Deputy Associate Director, Preparedness, 
Training and Exercise, FEMA; and public witnesses.
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH ACT AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources 
approved for full Committee action amended H.R. 1743, to amend the 
Water Resources Research Act of 1984 to extend the authorizations of 
appropriations through fiscal year 2000.
BUDGET PROCESS
Committee on Rules: Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process and 
the Subcommittee on Rules and Organization of the House held a joint 
hearing on the Budget Process. Testimony was heard from June E. 
O'Neill, Director, CBO; Susan J. Irving, Associate Director, GAO; 
former Representative William E. Frenzel of Minnesota; and Stephen 
Moore, Director, Fiscal Policy Studies, CATO Institute.
INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Rules: Granted a rule providing for the further 
consideration of H.R. 1977, making appropriations for the Department of 
the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 1996, without intervening motion except: (1) amendments printed in 
the Congressional Record prior to July 14, 1995; (2) motions that the 
Committee rise if offered by the Majority Leader or his designee; and 
(3) motions that the Committee rise and report with adopted amendments 
as a preferential motion pursuant to clause 2(d) of rule XXI, provides 
that printed amendments may be offered only by the Members who caused 
them to be printed, are considered as read, are debatable for 10 
minutes each divided between the proponent and an opponent, and are not 
subject to amendment or to a demand for a division of the question; and 
authorizes the chairman of the Committee of the Whole to postpone any 
request for a recorded vote on an amendment to a later time and to 
reduce to five minutes the time for a vote on any amendment in a series 
of amendments after the vote on the first such amendment of not less 
than 15 minutes.
GRADUATE LEVEL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION
Committee on Science: Subcommittee on Basic Research held a hearing on 
Graduate Level Science and Engineering Education: An Assessment of the 
Present; a Look into the Future. Testimony was heard from Neal Lane, 
Director, NSF; Harold Varmus, M.D., Director, National Institutes of 
Health, Department of Health and Human Services; Philip Griffiths, 
Chair, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, National 
Academy of Sciences; and public witnesses.
FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY--IC21
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Met in executive session to 
hold a hearing on the Future of Technology--IC21. Testimony was heard 
from departmental witnesses.
                     COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR FRIDAY,

                             JULY 14, 1995

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, to hold hearings 
on the Mexico and the Exchange Stabilization Fund, 10 a.m., SD-106.
                                 House

  No committee meetings are scheduled.