[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 122 (Wednesday, July 26, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D928-D931]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
DEBT ISSUANCE AND INVESTMENT PRACTICES ON STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
Committee on Banking and Financial Services: Subcommittee on Capital 
Markets held a hearing on Debt Issuance and Investment Practices on 
State and Local Governments. Testimony was heard from Representative 
Cox of California; Paul S. Maco, Director, Office of Municipal Finance, 
SEC; the following officials of the State of California: Matt Fong, 
Treasurer; and Kurt Sjoberg, Auditor; and public witnesses.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
TRANSFORMATION OF THE MEDICAID PROGRAM
Committee on Commerce: Subcommittee on Health and Environment continued 
hearings on the Transformation of the Medicaid Program. Testimony was 
heard from Bruce Vladeck, Administrator, Health Care Financing 
Administration, Department of 

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Health and Human Services; Fife Symington, Governor, State of Arizona; 
Charles Condon, Attorney General, State of South Carolina; Kay C. 
James, Secretary, Health and Human Services, State of Virginia; Michael 
D. McKinney, M.D., Commissioner, Department of Health and Human 
Services, State of Texas; Robert Corker, Commissioner, Department of 
Finance and Administration, State of Tennessee; Jean Thorne, Director, 
Office of Medical Assistance, State of Oregon; and public witnesses.
  Hearings continue August 1.
OPM PRIVATIZATION INITIATIVES
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Subcommittee on Civil 
Service held a hearing on OPM Privatization Initiatives: Contracting 
Out Training. Testimony was heard from Representative Klug; James B. 
King, Director, OPM; Philip H. Hudson, Director, Graduate School, USDA; 
and public witnesses.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CONVENTION CENTER AND SPORTS ARENA AUTHORIZATION 
ACT
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Subcommittee on District 
of Columbia approved for full Committee action H.R. 2108, District of 
Columbia Convention Center and Sports Arena Authorization Act of 1995.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on International Relations: Ordered reported the following 
measures: H. Res. 181, encouraging the peace process in Sri Lanka; and 
H. Con. Res. 80, amended, 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 Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls.
REORGANIZATION OF THE FEDERAL ADMINISTRATIVE JUDICIARY ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Commercial and 
Administrative Law held a hearing on H.R. 1802, Reorganization of the 
Federal Administrative Judiciary Act. Testimony was heard from Senator 
Heflin; Representatives Bevill, Frank of Massachusetts and Kanjorski; 
John W. Hardwicke, Chief Administrative Law Judge, Office of Hearings 
and Appeals, State of Maryland; and public witnesses.
OVERSIGHT--WACO
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and the Subcommittee 
on National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice 
continued oversight hearings on Federal Law Enforcement Actions in 
Relation to the Branch Davidian Compound in Waco, Texas. Testimony was 
heard from the following officials of the Department of Justice: Jim 
Cavanaugh, Special Agent, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; Pete 
Smerick, former Criminal Investigative Analyst, Byron Sage, SSRA in 
Austin, Gary Noesner, SSA in Quantico and Jeffrey Jamar, former SAC in 
San Antonio, all with the FBI; Hays Parks, Treaty Specialist, 
Department of Defense; and public witnesses.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
DEFENSE BASE CLOSURE ACT
Committee on National Security: Agreed to adversely report H.J. Res. 
102, disapproving the recommendations of the Defense Base Closure and 
Realignment Commission.
CYBERPORN: PROTECTION OF OUR CHILDREN FROM THE BACK ALLEY OF INTERNET
Committee on Science: Subcommittee on Basic Research and Subcommittee 
on Technology held a joint hearing on Cyberporn: Protecting Our 
Children From the Back Alleys of the Internet. Testimony was heard from 
Kevin Manson, Legal Division, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, 
Department of the Treasury; and public witnesses.
OSHA REFORM
Committee on Small Business: Held a hearing on OSHA Reform. Testimony 
was heard from Representative Norwood; Joseph A. Dear, Assistant 
Secretary, Occupational Safety and Health, Department of Labor; and 
public witnesses.
CLARIFYING THE STATUS OF INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS
Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Taxation and Finance held 
a hearing on the need to clarify the status of independent contractors. 
Testimony was heard from Representatives Christensen and Kim; and 
public witnesses.
  Hearings continue August 2.
ETHICS INVESTIGATION
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct: Met in executive session to 
continue to take testimony regarding the ethics investigation of 
Speaker Gingrich. Testimony was heard from Jack Romanos, President, 
Simon and Schuster Consumer Group; Peggy Binzel, Vice President, 
Government Relations, News Corporation; Preston Padden, President, 
Network Distribution, Fox Broadcasting Co.; and Jack McKeown, Senior 
Vice President and Publisher, Adult Trade Division, Harper/Collins 
Publishers, Inc.
  Will continue tomorrow.
  
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O'GRADY SHOOTDOWN
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Met in executive session to 
receive a briefing on the O'Grady Shootdown. The Committee was briefed 
by departmental witnesses.
CHINA PROLIFERATION
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Met in executive session to 
receive a briefing on China Proliferation. The Committee was briefed by 
departmental witnesses.
                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                             JULY 27, 1995

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education, to hold hearings to examine family 
planning issues, 9:30 a.m., SD-138.
  Full Committee, business meeting, to mark up H.R. 1905, making 
appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1996, and H.R. 2020, making appropriations for 
the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the 
Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, 3 p.m., SD-192.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, to hold 
hearings on proposed legislation to reform the Federal 
Communications Commission procedures in their use of auctions for 
the allocation of radio spectrum frequencies for commercial use, 
9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to hold hearings on the 
nomination of John Raymond Garamendi, of California, to be Deputy 
Secretary of the Interior, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Finance, to hold hearings on the Federal Medicaid 
matching formula, 9:30 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs, to resume hearings on S. 929, 
to abolish the Department of Commerce, 9:30 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary, business meeting, to consider pending 
calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine prison reform, 
focusing on enhancing the effectiveness of incarceration, 10 a.m., 
SD-106.
  Committee on Labor and Human Resources, to hold hearings on 
proposed legislation to authorize funds for programs of the 
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Act, 9:30 a.m., SD-430.
  Special Committee To Investigate Whitewater Development 
Corporation and Related Matters, to continue 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, 9:30 a.m., SH-
216.


                                 NOTICE

  For a listing of Senate Committee Meetings scheduled ahead, see page 
E1520 in today's Record.
                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Resource Conservation, 
Research, and Forestry, hearing to review farm credit regulation and 
to mark up H.R. 2029, Farm Credit System Regulatory Relief Act of 
1995, 9:30 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on the District of 
Columbia, on D.C. Finances, 10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, Subcommittee on 
Capital Markets, to continue hearings on Debt Issuance and 
Investment Practices on State and Local Governments, 10 a.m., 2128 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities, Subcommittee 
on Workforce Protections, to continue hearings on H.R. 1834, Safety 
and Health Improvement and Regulatory Reform Act of 1995, 9:30 a.m., 
2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, to mark up the 
following bills: H.R. 1670, Federal Acquisition Reform Act; and H.R. 
2108, District of Columbia Convention Center and Sports Arena 
Authorization Act of 1995, 1:30 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and 
Criminal Justice and the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on 
the Judiciary, to continue oversight hearings on Federal Law 
Enforcement Actions in Relation to the Branch Davidian Compound in 
Waco, Texas, 9 a.m. 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Asia and the 
Pacific, hearing on Hong Kong After 1997, 10 a.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, hearing 
on Comprehensive Plan of Action for Southeast Asian Refugees, 10 
a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and 
Administrative Law, to continue hearings on the Reauthorization of 
the Legal Services Corporation, 10 a.m. 2226 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, to mark up the 
following bills: H.R. 1734, National Film Preservation Act of 1995; 
H.R. 1270, Madrid Protocol Implementation Act; H.R. 1295, Federal 
Trademark Dilution Act of 1995; H.R. 632, to enhance fairness in 
compensating owners of patents used by the United States; and H.R. 
1506, Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act of 1995, 10 
a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral 
Resources, oversight hearing on the management alternatives of Outer 
Continental Shelf oil and gas resources, including the 
Administration's proposals to (1) sell the royalty stream, and (2) 
transfer of the Minerals Management Service to another Federal 
agency, 2 p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans, hearing to 
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Resources Act and to consider H.R. 1741, to provide for the conveyance 
of the C.S.S. Hubley to the State of South Carolina, 10 a.m., 1334 
Longworth.
  Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Lands, hearing on H.R. 
2081, to recognize the validity of rights-of-way granted under 
section 2477 of the Revised Statutes, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, executive to continue 
to take testimony regarding the ethics investigation of Speaker 
Gingrich, 10 a.m., and 2 p.m., HT-2M Capitol.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to mark up H.R. 
2017, District of Columbia Emergency Highway Relief Act, 5 p.m., 
2167 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Aviation, hearing on reasons for, and reporting 
of, Airline Flight Delays, 9:30 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Economic Development, hearing 
on the GSA Leasing Program, 11 a.m., 2253 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health and the 
Subcommittee on Health and Environment of the Committee on Commerce, 
joint hearing on Standards for Health Plans Providing Coverage in 
the Medicare Program, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to continue hearings 
on IC21, 9 a.m., Rayburn.