[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 117 (Wednesday, July 19, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D878-D879]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported, with 
amendments, H.R. 1817, making appropriations for military construction, 
family housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of 
Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996.
LIVESTOCK GRAZING ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 852, to 
modify the requirements applicable to the management of livestock 
grazing on public lands and to establish a grazing fee formula that 
will bring a fair return to the Federal Government.
WETLANDS REGULATORY REFORM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety held oversight hearings 
on the implementation of Section 404 (to provide regulatory protection 
for wetlands) of S. 851, to reform the Section 404 wetlands permitting 
program under the Clean Water Act to focus Federal regulatory authority 
on functioning wetlands and to ensure that citizens can obtain permits 
within a reasonable period of time, receiving testimony from Senators 
Murkowski, Johnston, and Pressler; Representative Gilchrest; John 
Zirschky, Acting Assistant Secretary 

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of the Army for Civil Works; Robert Perciasepe, Assistant Administrator 
for Water, Environmental Protection Agency; Margaret Ann Reigle, 
Fairness to Land Owners Committee, Cambridge, Maryland; Carl Loop, 
Florida Farm Bureau Federation, Gainesville, on behalf of the American 
Farm Bureau Federation and the National Cattlemen's Association; Glen 
Spain, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, Eugene, 
Oregon; Derb S. Carter, Jr., Southern Environmental Law Center, Chapel 
Hill, North Carolina; Donald F. McKenzie, Wildlife Management 
Institute, Washington, D.C.; Dallas Harris and Charlie Hollis, both of 
Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina; Flora Heckert, Virginia Beach, 
Virginia; Nan Robbins, Paris, Tennessee; Charles Jowaiszas, Waretown, 
New Jersey; John Pai White, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Jack McHugh, Ocean 
County, New Jersey; Joe L. Carter, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; 
Bernard N. Goode, Burke, Virginia; and William Spencer, Clinton, North 
Carolina.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MEDICARE
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine Medicare 
payment policies, focusing on how doctors, hospitals and other 
providers are paid under Medicare, receiving testimony from Stuart H. 
Altman, Waltham, Massachusetts, on behalf of the Prospective Payment 
Assessment Commission; and Gail R. Wilensky, Physician Payment Review 
Commission, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Frances D. Cook, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the 
Sultanate of Oman, Richard Henry Jones, of Nebraska, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Lebanon, and Thomas W. Simons, Jr., of the District 
of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
CRIMINAL DEBT COLLECTION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to assess 
the quality of Federal criminal debt collection procedures, focusing on 
the Administrative Office of the United States Courts' efforts to 
centralize criminal debt accounting and reporting within the National 
Fine Center, receiving testimony from Linda D. Koontz, Associate 
Director, Information Resources Management, General Government Issues, 
Accounting and Information Management Division, General Accounting 
Office; Richard A. Ames, Assistant Director for Finance and Budget and 
Chief Financial Officer, Administrative Office of the United States 
Courts; Gerald M. Stern, Special Counsel for Financial Institution 
Fraud, Office of the Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice; M. 
Kenneth Bien, Andersen Consulting, Sacramento, California; Michael 
Insco, Margate Systems, Inc., St. Joseph, Missouri; and David Beatty, 
National Victim Center, Arlington, Virginia.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 856, to 
improve and to authorize funds for programs of the National Foundation 
on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, the Museum Services Act, 
and the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act.
  Also, committee began markup of S. 673, to establish a youth 
development grant program, but did not complete action thereon, and 
will meet again tomorrow.
WHITEWATER MATTERS
Special Committee to Investigate the Whitewater Development Corporation 
and Related Matters: Committee continued hearings to examine issues 
relative to the President's involvement with the Whitewater Development 
Corporation, focusing on certain events following the death of Deputy 
White House Counsel Vincent Foster, receiving further testimony from 
Webster Hubbell, former Associate Attorney General.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.