[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 118 (Thursday, July 20, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D889-D891]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 1004, to authorize funds for the United States Coast Guard, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1048, to authorize funds for certain programs of the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute. (As approved by the Committee, the amendment 
authorizes $13.8 billion for fiscal year 1996.);
  An original bill authorizing funds for Amtrak and for local rail 
revitalization programs;
  S. 187, to provide for the safety of journeymen boxers;
  S. 981, to preserve Congressional involvement with regard to Federal 
regulations on truck trailer length issues pursuant to the North 
American Free Trade Agreement;
  S. 583, to issue a certificate of documentation and coastwise trade 
endorsement for the vessels Resolution and Perseverance;
  S. 653, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel Aura;
  S. 654, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel 
Sunrise;
  S. 655, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel 
Marantha;
  S. 656, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel 
Quietly;
  S. 680, to issue a certificate of documentation and coastwise trade 
endorsement for the vessel Yes Dear;
  S. 739, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel Sisu;
  S. 763, to issue a certificate of documentation and coastwise trade 
endorsement for the vessel Evening Star;
  S. 802, to issue a certificate of documentation and coastwise trade 
endorsement for the vessel Royal Affaire;
  S. 808, to extend the deadline for the conversion of the vessel M/V 
Twin Drill;
  S. 826, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel Prime 
Time;
  S. 869, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel 
Dragonessa;
  S. 889, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel Wolf 
Gang II;
  S. 911, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade of the United States 
for the vessel Sea Mistress;
  S. 975, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel Jajo;
  S. 1016, to issue a certificate of documentation with the appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel Magic 
Carpet;
  S. 1017, to issue a certificate of documentation with the appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel 
Chrissy;
  S. 1040, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel 
Onrust;
  S. 1041, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel 
Explorer;
  S. 1046, to issue certificates of documentation with appropriate 
endorsements for employment in the coastwise trade of the United States 
for fourteen former U.S. Army hovercrafts;
  S. 1047, to issue certificates of documentation and coastwise trade 
endorsements for the vessels Enchanted Isles and Enchanted Seas; and
  The nominations of Roberta L. Gross, of the District of Columbia, to 
be Inspector General, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 
Vera Alexander, of Alaska, to be a Member of the Marine Mammal 
Commission, and Robert Clarke Brown, of New York, to be a Member of the 
Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.
  Also, committee began markup of S. 387, to encourage enhanced State 
and Federal efforts to reduce traffic deaths and injuries and improve 
traffic safety among high-risk drivers, but did not complete 
consideration thereon, and recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Drinking 
Water, Fisheries and Wildlife resumed hearings on proposed legislation 
authorizing funds for programs of the Endangered Species Act, focusing 
on the recovery, delisting and downlisting provisions and the 
international effects of the Endangered Species Act, receiving 
testimony from Mollie Beattie, Director, United States Fish and 
Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior; 

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Rolland A. Schmitten, Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration, Department of Commerce; Allan L. Egbert, Florida Game 
and Freshwater Fish Commission, Tallahassee, on behalf of the 
International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies; J. Michael 
Scott, National Biological Service, Moscow, Idaho; Robert J. Taylor, 
California Forestry Association, and John A. Lambeth, Hodgson Company, 
on behalf of the Fairy Shrimp Study Group, both of Sacramento, 
California; David Langhorst, Idaho Wildlife Federation, Ketchum, on 
behalf of the National Wildlife Federation; Robert J. Wiese, American 
Zoo and Aquarium Association, Bethesda, Maryland; Jeff Cilek, Peregrine 
Fund, Boise, Idaho; John W. Grandy, Humane Society of the United 
States, and Ginette Hemley, World Wildlife Fund, both of Washington, 
D.C.; Gerhardus J. Hanekom, Ministry of Environment and Tourism, 
Republic of Namibia; and Stephen Kasere, South African National Parks 
Board, Republic of South Africa, on behalf of the CAMPFIRE Association 
of Zimbabwe.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MEDICARE
Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings to examine Medicare 
payment policies, focusing on Medicare services' rapid growth in 
spending, including home health care, skilled nursing, rehabilitation 
hospitals and clinical laboratories, receiving testimony from Kenneth 
W. Aitchison, Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, Inc., West Orange, 
New Jersey, on behalf of the American Rehabilitation Association; 
Phillip I. Hoffman, Outreach Health Services, Austin, Texas, on behalf 
of the Home Health Services and Staffing Association; and David N. 
Sundwall, American Clinical Laboratory Association, and Paul Willging, 
American Health Care Association, both of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTERNATIONAL POPULATION STABILIZATION
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy 
held hearings on certain provisions of S. 1029, to establish and 
strengthen policies and programs for the early stabilization of world 
population through the global expansion of reproductive choice, 
receiving testimony from Representatives Beilenson and Morella; Dawn 
Liberi, Associate Assistant Administrator, Center for Population, 
Health and Nutrition, Agency for International Development; Jose Gomez 
de Leon Cruces, National Population Council, Republic of Mexico; 
Victoria Markell, Population Action International, and Sheldon Richman, 
Cato Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; and Mercedes Wilson, Family 
of the Americas, Dunkirk, Maryland.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of David W. Burke, of New York, Tom C. Korologos, of 
Virginia, Bette Bao Lord, of New York, Edward E. Kaufman, of Delaware, 
Alberto J. Mora, of Florida, Cheryl F. Halpern, of New Jersey, Marc B. 
Nathanson, of California, and Carl Spielvogel, of New York, each to be 
a Member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NIGERIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs held 
hearings to examine the current situation in Nigeria, receiving 
testimony from George E. Moose, Assistant Secretary of State for 
African Affairs; Jane Becker, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of 
State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Peter 
Lewis, American University, and Randall Robinson, TransAfrica, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch, New York, New 
York.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  The nomination of James L. Dennis, of Louisiana, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit;
  S.J. Res. 31, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the 
United States to grant Congress and the States the power to prohibit 
the physical desecration of the flag of the United States; and
  S. Res. 103, to proclaim the week of October 15 through October 21, 
1995, as National Character Counts Week.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 673, to establish a youth development grant program, with 
amendments;
  S. 1044, to amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to 
consolidate and reauthorize provisions relating to health centers, with 
amendments; and
  The nominations of Mary S. Furlong, of California, to be a Member of 
the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, Richard 
J. Stern, of Illinois, to be a Member of the National Council on the 
Arts, National Foundation on the Arts and 

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the Humanities, and Lynne C. Waihee, of Hawaii, to be a Member of the 
National Institute for Literacy Advisory Board.
AUTHORIZATION--NATIONAL ORGAN TRANSPLANT ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on 
proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the National 
Organ Transplant Act, and to examine the Federal Government's role in 
the oversight and funding of solid organ and unrelated donor marrow 
transplantation, after receiving testimony from Representatives Bill 
Young and Tony Hall; Ciro V. Sumaya, Administrator, Health Resources 
and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Department of 
Health and Human Services; Margaret D. Allen, University of Washington 
Hospital, on behalf of the United Network for Organ Sharing, and 
Frederick R. Applebaum, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, both of 
Seattle, Washington; Charles F. Shield, III, Wichita Surgical 
Specialists, Wichita, Kansas, on behalf of the National Organ 
Procurement and Transplantation Network; Dean F. Kappel, Mid-America 
Transplant Association, St. Louis, Missouri, on behalf of the 
Association of Organ Procurement Organizations; John J. Fung, 
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 
Craig J. Irwin, National Transplant Action, Washington, D.C.; Craig 
W.S. Howe, National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Joan 
A. Keller, American Bone Marrow Donor Registry, Mandeville, Louisiana; 
and Samuel Gross, University of Florida, Winter Park, on behalf of the 
Leukemia Society of America, Inc.
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 testimony from Sergeant 
Cheryl A. Braun, Detective John Rolla, and Major Robert Hines, all of 
the United States Park Police, National Park Service, Department of the 
Interior.
  Hearings continue on Tuesday, July 25.